01 Feb

The Long Count (TV-1954) FRANK LOVEJOY

 

 

The GOLDEN AGE of TELEVISION: This episode, originally from season 2 of the anthology series Four Star Playhouse, was first broadcast by CBS on March 25, 1954. Restored and edited by PizzaFLIX with recreated titles.

Stars: Frank Lovejoy, Joan Vohs, Ted de Corsia
Director: Alvin Ganzer

McGraw is back! A shady boxing promoter hires McGraw to keep Pretty Boy Mendero away from the “dolls” until his next fighting match.

 

31 Jan

The Stacked Deck (TV-1956) DICK POWELL

 

 

The GOLDEN AGE of TELEVISION: This episode, originally from season 4 of the anthology series Four Star Playhouse, was first broadcast by CBS on June 28, 1956. Restored and edited by PizzaFLIX with recreated titles.

Stars: Dick Powell, Shirley Patterson, Regis Toomey
Director: Robert Florey

Wille Dante is back! A blackmailer fresh out of prison intends to use Willie’s casino to launder his victims’ money. To ensure his cooperation, thugs hold one of his waiters hostage. But Dante has a plan to trap the blackmailer as he violates parole.

TRIVIA: Originally created by Blake Edwards for the anthology series Four Star Playhouse in 1953~1955. Eight episodes were produced by and starred Dick Powell as Willie Dante, a former card shark turned nightclub operator with a not-so-secret casino tucked in the back. The show was revisited in 1960 by producer Dick Powell as an actual TV series called “Dante,” but this time starred Howard Duff and set in San Francisco instead of Los Angeles.

 

29 Jan

Saxophone – Historia De Un Amor

 

 

Song
Historia de un amor

Artist
Nancy Nuñez

Album
Cadence Latine

 

28 Jan

One Body Too Many (1944) BELA LUGOSI

 

 

Stars: Bela Lugosi, Jack Haley, Jean Parker
Director: Frank McDonald

An insurance investigator arrives at a creepy mansion to protect a millionaire who has had death threats made against him.

 

27 Jan

The Mark of the Whistler 1944 Crime Film Noir

 

 

 

 

 

A drifter claims the money in an old bank account. Soon he finds himself the target of two men who turn out to be the sons of the man’s old partner.

 

26 Jan

Return of the Whistler 1948

 

 

 

On the eve of his marriage, a young man’s fiance disappears. He hires a private detective to help him track her down, but soon finds himself entangled in a web of lies, intrigue and murder revolving around his fiance’s dead ex-husband and his wealthy, corrupt family.

 

25 Jan

The Secret of The Whistler 1946 Crime Film Noir

 

 

 

 

An artist married to a wealthy but ill woman begins an affair with one of his models, who is after him solely for his money.

 

24 Jan

The Whistler 1944 Crime Film

 

 

Based on the old time radio show, “The Whistler” stars Richard Dix, and was directed by William Castle