17 Jan

Close Up (1948) CRIME NOIR

 

 

Stars: Alan Baxter, Virginia Gilmore, Richard Kollmar
Director: Jack Donohue

When a Nazi war criminal is accidentally caught on film by a newsreel cameraman, he will do everything in his power to get the negative!

 

16 Jan

Sherlock Holmes (TV-1954) THE WINTHROP LEGEND

 

 

Hailed as the most faithfully filmed adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary characters. This acclaimed series stars Ronald Howard as the world-famous sleuth and H. Marion Crawford in a different portrayal of Dr. Watson than usual.

THE CASE OF THE WINTHROP LEGEND: Holmes and Watson spend the weekend at the Winthrop Manor to determine who is threatening Mr. Winthrop. Is it his brother, his blind wife, or his brother’s bride-to-be? Or is it the family curse?

 

15 Jan

Sherlock Holmes (TV-1955) THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING

 

Hailed as the most faithfully filmed adaptation of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s legendary characters. This acclaimed series stars Ronald Howard as the world-famous sleuth and H. Marion Crawford in a different portrayal of Dr. Watson than usual.

THE CASE OF THE CHRISTMAS PUDDING: When John Henry Norton is sentenced for murdering his first five wives, he threatens to kill Homes before he hangs. He also requests a Christmas pudding from Bess, wife number six. After she delivers the pudding, he makes his escape and goes after Holmes to make good on his threat.

 

14 Jan

Dick Tracy vs. Cueball (1946) MYSTERY

 

 

Stars: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Lyle Latell
Director: Gordon Douglas
Writers: Chester Gould (comic strip)

Expensive diamonds are stolen but before the thief can fence them he is strangled by ex-con Cueball, who then takes the gems and continues murdering people he believes are trying to swindle him. Dick Tracy allows his girlfriend Tess to act as a buyer for the gems but his plan backfires when she is captured by the homicidal Cueball.

 

13 Jan

Mr. Wong Phantom of Chinatown (1940) KEYE LUKE

 

 

Stars: Keye Luke, Grant Withers, Lotus Long
Director: Phil Rosen

In this prequel to the film series that starred Boris Karloff, a younger Mr. Wong, played by Keye Luke, assists the police when an Archaeologist is murdered while giving a college lecture!

 

12 Jan

Dick Tracy’s Dilemma (1947) RALPH BYRD

 

 

Stars: Ralph Byrd, Lyle Latell, Kay Christopher
Director: John Rawlins

Dick Tracy investigates the theft of a fortune of fur coats, a possible insurance swindle and several murders, all linked to a huge thug who wears a hook in place of his right hand.

 

11 Jan

Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome (1947) BORIS KARLOFF

 

Stars: Boris Karloff, Ralph Byrd, Anne Gwynne
Director: John Rawlins

Dick Tracy goes up against a villain who robs banks using a nerve gas.

 

10 Jan

Dick Tracy (1945) MYSTERY

 

Stars: Morgan Conway, Anne Jeffreys, Mike Mazurki
Director: William Berke

Dick is faced with a series of brutal murders in which the victims, all from different social and economic backgrounds, are viciously slashed to pieces. Suspects abound but Tracy, getting a clue that there will be fifteen murders in all, must find the common thread among the victims before more are killed.

 

10 Jan

Paolo Conte – Via Con Me

 

Paolo Conte is a prominent Italian multi-instrumentalist and singer-songwriter, whose most famous works often evoke his love and admiration of classical American jazz and swing. His most famous song, and arguably one of the most internationally well-known Italian songs of all time, is “Via Con Me” (translation: “Come Away with Me”), a song about romance and runaway lovers that is at once passionate and harrowingly disenchanted.

Lyrics

Via via
Vieni via di qui
Niente più ti lega a questi luoghi
Neanche questi fiori azzurri
Via via
Neanche questo tempo grigio
Pieno di musiche
E di uomini che ti son piaciuti

It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
Good luck my baby
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
I dream of you

Cips, cips
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo

Via via
Vieni via con me
Entri in questo amore buio
Non perderti per niente al mondo
Via via
Non perderti per niente al mondo
Lo spettacolo d’arte varia
Di uno innamorato di te

It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
Good luck my baby
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
I dream of you

Cips, cips
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo

Via via
Vieni via con me
Entra in questo amore buio
Pieno di uomini
Via
Entra e fatti un bagno caldo
C’è un accappatoio azzurro
Fuori piove, è un mondo freddo

Ah, it’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
Good luck my baby
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
It’s wonderful
I dream of you

Cips, cips
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo (ci-boom, ci-boom, boom)
Doo doo doo doo doo