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The weekly roundup of reviews, interviews, and other citations of (often, though not always) underappreciated examples of the dramatic and related arts. As always, please let me know if I've missed your or anyone else's contribution this week in comments... thanks.
Anne Billson: City of Angels (and contemporary 1998 releases/re-releases)
Anonymous: Greed; The Sessions; Private Hell 36
Bhob Stewart: "Oktapodi"
The Big Broadcast: 12 June 2016
- 7 p.m. Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar
“The Stock-In-Trade Matter” (CBS, Original airdate June 4 1961) - 7:30 p.m. Tribute to Ed Walker and Remembering D-Day
- 8 p.m. Gunsmoke
“The Margin”, episode 272 (CBS, AFRS version, Original airdate September 15, 1957) - 8:30 p.m. Burns & Allen
"George wants out of broadcasting” (NBC, Original airdate October 28, 1940) - 9 p.m. Dragnet
“The Big Handsome Bandit", episode #265/268 (NBC, Original airdate October 5, 1954) - 9:30 p.m. Jack Benny Show
“Beverly Hills Tour” (CBS origination, AFRTS rebroadcast, Original airdate September 11, 1949) - 10 p.m. Lux Radio Theater
“All My Sons” (NBC, Original airdate May 1, 1950)
B. V. Lawson: Media Murder
Col/Colman: April a/v capsule reviews
Comedy Film Nerds: Mike Schmidt; Pop Star "spoiler" discussion with Diana Rojek; Jensen Karp
Cullen Gallagher: Good Day for a Hanging
Cult TV: The Avengers: "Please Don't Feed the Animals"
Cynthia Fuchs: Presenting Princess Shaw; Me Before You
Dan Stumpf: Shack Out on 101; Devil and the Deep
David Cramner: Daredevil, season one
David Vineyard: Lisa; John Goldfarb, Please Come Home; You Know What Sailors Are?
Dean Treadway: underrated films of 1986*
Elgin Bleecker: The Big Combo and the end of film noir
Elizabeth Foxwell: Disney's Wonderful World: "The Kids Who Knew Too Much" (from Nicolas Blake's The Whisper in the Gloom); Journey's End and Velona Pilcher's The Searcher
Eric Hillis: The Girl King
George Kelley: High-Rise; A Bigger Splash
"Gilligan Newton-John": Fall Preview, 1989 US tv season; television news
How Did This Get Made?: The Boy Next Door
Iba Dawson: Kino's "educational" video packages
Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Stations West; The Seas Beneath; Basil Rathbone on radio
Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "The Crocodile Case"
Jackie Kashian: Laura House
Jackie Kashian and Laurie Kilmartin: The Jackie and Laurie Show
Jacqueline T. Lynch: No Down Payment
Jake Hinkson: The Black Cat (1934 Karloff/Lugosi suspense film)
James Clark: Everybody Wants Some
James Reasoner: Club Havana
Janet Varney: Dave Hill
Jerry House: Back Stage (Buster Keaton short); Ellen Degeneres on procrastination
John Grant: The Letter (1929 film); Painted Faces; The List
Jonathan Lewis: To Live and Die in L.A.; The Invisible Menace; Five Guns West
K. A. Laity: Upstart Crow
Karen Hannsberry: Desperate
Kelly Robinson: The Nail in the Boot
Ken Levine: UMatic and other VCRs
Kliph Nesteroff: Red Buttons
Kristina Dijan: The 400 Blows; Shoot the Piano Player; Jules et Jim; Les Cousins; Le Beau Serge; Stranger on the Third Floor; The True Story of Lynn Stuart
Laura G.: This Way Please; My Foolish Heart; Father of the Bride (1950 film); Lady Gangster; I Was Framed; William Lundigan
Lesley Gaspar: Joseph Cotten
Lindsey: Another Face; Slightly Dangerous; Music in My Heart
Lucy Brown: The Village
Martin Edwards: The Teckman Mystery; Bodies from the Library
Marty McKee: Unmasking the Idol; Heist; Made Men
Michael Shonk: George Sanders Mystery Theater (aka Mystery Writers Theater) (and the abortive Craig Rice Theater)
Mildred Perkins: Dance of the Dead
Mitchell Hadley: Sesame Street's "Monsterpiece Theater"; "A Short Vision"; TV Guide, 9 June 1956
Noel Vera: The Trial of Andres Bonifacio; The Witch
Patricia Abbott: Take Shelter
Patricia Nolan-Hall: The Winslow Boy
Paul D. Brazill: Television World Theatre: "The Government Inspector" (from the Gogol story)
Rachel Stecher: Period of Adjustment; Lady in Cement
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Rick: Revenge of the Creature; The Creature from the Black Lagoon; The Ballad of Andy Crocker
Rod Lott: Director's Commentary: Terror of Frankenstein; The Funhouse Massacre; Fists of Steel; R.O.T.O.R.
Ruth Kerr: Reel Infatuation blogathon; Rio Bravo
Salome Wilde: Gilda
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Sergio Angelini: The Clue of the Silver Key
Stacie Ponder: The Attic
Stacia Jones: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Stephen Bowie: The Invaders
Steve Lewis: Once a Thief (1965 film); Isle of Missing Men
Theresa Brown: The Paradine Case
TV Obscurities: The Loner (Rod Serling western series); Nielsen Bottom 10 tv shows, 30 November-6 December 1987
Victoria Loomes: Monster
Vienna: Ida Lupino, director; Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
Yvette Banek: Grace and Frankie
The White Bus (review)
Thanks, Todd!
ReplyDeleteYou're quite welcome, Jack, and thank you. Sorry for the oddly punctuated day that has made this so slow in finishing...
ReplyDeleteBloody hell Todd - longest roundup ever? Amazing!!!
ReplyDeleteOne of the longer ones, perhaps...certainly one that took a while to complete! Thanks for commenting as well as contributing.
ReplyDeleteThank you so much for including my blog in your lists. I appreciate it very much.
ReplyDeleteVienna ( Vienna's Classic Hollywood)
Not at all, Vienna! Thank you for such interesting posts.
ReplyDeleteTodd – Thanks for the list. Looks like I’ve got some reading, Googling and YouTubing to do.
ReplyDeleteBut don't we all, always, Elgin? Thank you, too.
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