Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links

Thanks as always to all the contributors of the reviews and citations linked to below, and to you readers. If I've overlooked your or someone else's post, please let me know in comments...as usual, there will probably be some additions over the course of the day.  I hope you enjoy this typically fine set (mind you, I'm taking no credit here, except for my own writings, which are pending!...)

Bill Crider: Annie Get Your Gun (1950 film) [trailer]

Brian Arnold: A Friend Indeed: The Bill Sackter Story

B.V. Lawson: Media Murder

Community Cinema (online): Solar Mamas; Shayfeen.com 

Dan Stumpf: Bride of Vengeance

Ed Gorman: The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis

Elizabeth Foxwell: Slightly Scarlet; The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Eric Peterson: Film Discoveries of 2012

Evan Lewis: This Gun for Hire

Mummenschanz cofounders offstage

George Kelley: The Henrik Ibsen Collection (BBC dvd set); Mummenschanz 

Iba Dawson: Midnight Run

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: Charley Chase short films; dvd news

Jack Seabrook: John Collier on TV: "Anniversary Gift" (Alfred Hitchcock Presents:)

Jackie Kashian: Wyatt Cenac at NYC PodFest

Jake Hinkson: Booked (the podcast)

James Reasoner: Clubhouse (tv baseball drama 2004-2005)

Jerry House: Shotgun Slade; America's Stonehenge

John Charles: A Bucket of Blood

Juri Nummelin:  Quand la ville s'eveille (aka When the City Awakes)

Kate Laity: Ida Lupino

The Loved Ones

Laura: The Falcon in Mexico; Man in the Dark

Lucy Brown: Bad Day at Black Rock

Martin Edwards: Innocent

Michael Shonk: Casablanca (1983 tv series)

Patti Abbott: The Sterile Cuckoo

Prashant Trikannad: Posse from Hell

Randy Johnson: The Third Man

Rick: The Best Rock Hudson Performances

The Vengeance of She

Rod Lott: The Loved Ones

Ron Scheer: The Wild Bunch

Scott Cupp: The Vengeance of She

Sergio Angelini: Top 10 Film Noir

Stacia Jones: Greetings

Stephen Bowie: Horton Foote on television

Vince Keenan: Nobody Else But You (aka Poupoupidou)


Yvette Banek: Charlie Chan at the Opera;
The Son of Monte Cristo

Saturday Music Club: jazz (and some jazz-pop) for winter

The Modern Jazz Quartet: "Skating in Central Park"

The Dave Brubeck Quatet: "Winter Ballad"

Winter Ballad (Album Versi
The Vince Guaraldi Trio: "Skating"

The Claude Thornhill Orchestra: "Snowfall"

Lambert, Hendricks and Ross: "Deck Us All with Boston Charlie"

The Benny Goodman Orchestra with Peggy Lee: "Winter Weather"

Magaret Whiting and Johnny Mercer: "Baby, It's Cold Outside"

3 books I almost completely forgot (two deservedly) and recently finally "found" again online...

However, all three have been haunting my memory...all made an impression, one way or another, in my early reading...

At the fine site, Vintage Scholastics, I finally found a reasonably good accounting of this anthology I read when I was eight or possibly nine, and have nearly zero memory of the contents...I barely remember the Asimov story, one of his more famous and one I'd encountered elsewhere, other than it involves, iirc, a sentient car...

For Boys Only edited by Eric Berger, 5th Scholastic paperback printing, T133,  192 pages.

DESCRIPTION:“Every story a trailblazer. Stories that shock and chill…and some that are just for laughs. Yarns of adventure and mystery…of yesterday, today, and tomorrow…of faraway places and for the girl around the corner. Read one and you’ll want to read them all!” (from the back cover)

CONTENTS:
Introduction 
The Adventure at the Toll Bridge by Howard Pease
A Good Clean-cut American Boy by Harlan Ware
First Command by Eugene Burdick
The Slip-Over Sweater  by Jesse Stuart
Caesar’s Wife’s Ear by Phyllis Bottome
Sally by Isaac Asimov
Open Sesame by Ray Harris
The Torn Invitation by Norman Katkov
High Diver by John Ashworth
As the Eagle Kills by Hal G Everts
Alone in Shark Waters by John Kruse
The Rookie Pitcher by John McKlellan

The original cover painting

Nancy Faulkner:  Witches Brew (Curtis Books, 1973)

An utterly run-of-the-mill "gothic romance" of the sort that really caught fire commercially in the 1960s, including the line Terry Carr edited at Ace Books which featured actually interesting-looking titles from the likes of Joan Aiken (previously, I've run covers from other publishers' attempts to sell Northanger Abbey and Conjure Wife to supermarket gothic fans...Joanna Russ wrote what is the best essay about this kind of work I'm aware of, "Someone's Trying to Kill Me, and I Think It's My Husband").  Faulkner apparently wrote rather better children's books, as well...this one was the example I happened to pick up in a supermarket one day, in my 8yo horror-fiction-seeking missile days, and was sorely disappointed, but educated in that not everything that looked like horror fiction actually was...(Notable, perhaps, as a Curtis book in those rather bleak years for the old Curtis Publishing properties...Curtis Circulation distributed a number of fiction magazines and comics, the revived Saturday Evening Post and the Ladies Home Journal were in others' hands, and I assume the Perfect Film folks, who owned the distributing business, put out this line of paperbacks...)

The only image I found of the cover.

As I noted last week about the earlier book below:

"Managing to dig out information on such somewhat enigmatic and/or influential books on my young reading as Eric Berger's anthology For Boys Only or Emile Schurmacher's Strange Unsolved Mysteries (and further discovering that this journeyman writer had a diverse if obscure career, writing paperback originals, men's sweat magazine articles and, earlier, for Collier's, as well as for the tv series Coronado 9--and, apparently, his daughter became a sort of small-time newspaper magnate)"

Never have actually seen the sequel volume.

Schurmacher's book I read also looking for horror-content...even as a youngster, I was a skeptic about all matters supernatural, but that didn't stop me from being fascinated by all such matters in the arts, particularly the narrative arts (but also music and visuals)...the other thing that I remember clearly about Strange Unsolved Mysteries is that it was easily the most sexually explicit book I'd encountered to that point, though no doubt it would probably seem tame if I was to first encounter it today. That aspect, of course, was fascinating, as well.

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links

This week's collection of reviews and citations of the books at the links below is brought to you in part by the fans of "J. J. Connington" (with two books independently reviewed--in late innings, matched by Anthony Gilbert) and a slew of mostly too-unfamiliar titles from a range of our usual contributors and some more occasional, equally-welcome folks. If I've missed your, or someone else's, post, please let me know in comments...and, as always, thanks to all the contributors and all you readers of these. Next week, Evan Lewis will be hosting the links again at his blog Davy Crockett's Alamanack of Mystery, Adventure and the Wild West (please see his review below, among much else, including his continuing galleries of early issues of various literary--including graphic/literary--periodicals), then I will host the following week, then Evan, then me, then founder Patti Abbott (see her review link directly below) will be hosting again.


Patricia Abbott: The Church of Dead Girls by Stephen Dobyns

Sanford Allen: Restore Point: Scripts for Radio and Film and Gaia to Galaxy: Scripts for Radio by Damien Broderick

Sergio Angelini: Fallen Angel (aka Mirage) by Howard Fast (originally as by Walter Ericson)

Yvette Banek: A Civil Contract, Lady of Quality and The Convenient Marriage by Georgette Heyer 

Joe Barone: Too Bright to Hear Too Loud to See by Juliann Garey

Brian Busby: This Gun for Gloria as by Bernard Mara (Brian Moore)

Bill Crider: The Best from Manhunt, as edited by Scott and Sidney Meredith

Scott Cupp: The Alchemist by Paolo Bacigalupi

William F. Deeck: Murder at the O.P.M. by Leslie Ford; Death Thumbs a Ride by Jean Lilly

Martin Edwards: The Ha-Ha Case (aka The Brandon Case) as by J. J. Connington (Alfred Walter Stewart)

Curt Evans: Murder Comes Home by Anthony Gilbert

Jerry House: The Ghost by William D. O'Connor

Randy Johnson: About the Murder of the Circus Queen by "Anthony Abbot" (Charles Fulton Oursler)

Nick Jones: The Anti-Death League by Kingsley Amis

George Kelley: I, Robot: The Illustrated Screenplay by Harlan Ellison (from the stories of Isaac Asimov) 

Rob Kitchin: Liar Moon by Ben Pastor

B. V. Lawson: Scared to Death as by Ann Morice (Felicity Shaw)

Evan Lewis: Paperbacks, USA (aka The Book of Paperbacks) by Piet Schreuders

Steve Lewis: The Bastard's Tale by Margaret Frazer

Neer: Holocaust House by Norbert Davis

John F. Norris: The Avenging Saint (aka Knight Templar) as by Leslie Charteris (Leslie C. B. Yin)

Juri Nummelin: Weasels Ripped My Flesh! edited by Robert Deis, Josh Friedman and Wyatt Doyle

Patrick Ohl: The Case with Nine Solutions as by J. J. Connington (Alfred Walter Stewart)

Deb Pfeifer: A Sight for Sore Eyes and The Vault by Ruth Rendell

James Reasoner: And the Rain Came Down by S. A. Bailey

Karyn Reeves: The Department of Dead Ends by Roy Vickers

Gerard Saylor: Captains Outrageous by Joe R. Lansdale (read by Phil Gigante)

Ron Scheer: The Wind Before the Dawn by Dell H. Munger; The Drift Fence by Zane Grey; The Boss of Wind River by A. M. Chisholm

Michael Slind: The Door Between as by Ellery Queen

Kevin Tipple: Blood of My Blood by Ralph Pezzullo

"TomCat": Die in the Dark by Anthony Gilbert

Prashant Trikannad: The Hardy Boys novels as by Franklin W. Dixon (and offshoots)

James Winter: He Who Hesitates and Doll as by Ed McBain

"Wuthering Willow": Evelina by Fanny Burney

Saturday Music Club on Wednesday: some more cover versions

Girls' Generation: "Dancing Queen" (a Korean-language cover of "Mercy" by Duffy)


The Carolina Chocolate Drops: "Hit 'Em Up Style"


The Bangles: "How Is the Air Up There?" 

Susanna Hoffs, Richard Lloyd, Matthew Sweet et al.: "Cinnamon Girl"


Rainy Day: "I'll Keep It with Mine"


Lucy Wainwright Roche and the Roches: "America"

 
Miriam Makeba: "A Piece of Ground"


Richard Thompson, Judith Owen & Debra Dobkin: "Cry Me A River" 

Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V: the links

Zhang Yimou and Gong Li

Thanks as always to all the contributors of the reviews and citations linked to below, and to you readers. This is just a bit after the second anniversary of this weekly exercise, and it seems to be thriving...even if this week is heavier than usual on Not So Overlooked items...worse things can happen! If I've overlooked your or someone else's post, please let me know in comments...as usual, there will probably be some additions over the course of the day.  Thanks very much!

The Corrupt Ones

Bill Crider: The Blob (1958) 
"The Blob" song

Brian Arnold: Bizarre

BV Lawson: Media Murder

Dan Stumpf: The Corrupt Ones

Ed Gorman: Remembering Charles Beaumont; with Bob Levinson, about John Ford

Elizabeth Foxwell: The Man on the Eiffel Tower

Evan Lewis: Touch of Evil (recut)

Touch of Evil

George Kelley: The Django westerns;  Zero Dark Thirty

How Did This Get Made?: The Odd Life of Timothy Green

Iba Dawson: Searching for Sugar Man

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: the checklist;
Fort Laramie

Jackie Kashian: Ophira Eisenberg

Jake Hinkson: Films of Zhang Yimou and Gong Li

Love Monkey

James Reasoner: Love Monkey 

Jerry House: Thrilling Stories of the Railway; Zulu 

John Charles: They Might Be Giants

Juri Nummelin: The Paperboy; Django Unchained

Laura: You Can't Beat Love

"The Andersonville Trial"

Lucy Brown: The Sky's the Limit

Martin Edwards: The Girl; The Iron Lady

Marty McKee: Target Earth; Hollywood Television Theatre: "The Andersonville Trial"

Patti Abbott: What Movies Have You Walked Out On?

Prashant Trikannad: ViewMaster;
Six Days Seven Nights
 
Randy Johnson: The Circus Queen Murder; Red Light

Richard Pangburn: "Old Rivers"

The Dunwich Horror

Rick: Magnificent Obsession (1954)

Rod Lott: The Dunwich Horror: Fatal Visions

Ron Scheer: Major Dundee

Scott Cupp: The Vengeance of She

Sergio Angelini: Top 10 Film Noir

The Thirteenth Guest

Stacia Jones: Orchestra of Exiles; Bette Davis on Wagon Train

Stephen Bowie: Turkeys Away [WKRP in Cincinnati]: An Oral History

Todd Mason: Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar

Walter Albert: Fool's Paradise

Yvette Banek: The Thirteenth Guest