03 Sep

Suspense (TV-1953) THE DANCE … F. SCOTT FITZGERALD

 

Crazy Organ: Hank Sylvern
Story: F. Scott Fitzgerald
Starring: John Baragrey, Katharine Bard, June Walker

A woman recalls painful memories of the 1920s when she first danced the Charleston at a society party during a visit to the South.

 

 

02 Sep

It Is Well With My Soul

 

01 Sep

Shadows Over Shanghai (1938) DRAMA

 

Stars: James Dunn, Ralph Morgan and Robert Barrat
Director: Charles Lamont

A pilot carrying a valuable amulet is shot down over China by a ruthless Russian agent, who also wants the amulet

 

 

31 Aug

Frank Sinatra – The World We Knew

 

Lyrics :
Over and over I keep going over the world we knew
Once when you walked beside me
That inconceivable, that unbelievable world we knew
When we two were in love
And every bright neon sign turned into stars
And the sun and the moon seemed to be ours
Each road that we took turned into gold
But the dream was too much for you to hold
Now over and over I keep going over the world we knew
Days when you used to love me
And every bright neon sign turned into stars
And the sun and the moon seemed to be ours
Each road that we took, it turned into gold
But the dream was too much for you to hold
Now over and over I keep going over the world we knew
Days when you used to love me
Over and over I keep going over the world we knew

The World We Knew (Over and Over) – Frank Sinatra
From” The World We Knew , 1967
Film Scenes : Beloved Infidel , 1959 With Gregory Peck And Deborah Kerr , Directed by Henry King , Produced by Jerry Wald
Copyright©20th Century Fox Film

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

31 Aug

They Made Me a Criminal (1939) JOHN GARFIELD

 

This gritty Warner Brothers classic stars JOHN GARFIELD as a cynical prizefighter, along with Claude Rains, Ann Sheridan, and The Dead End Kids. BUSBY BERKELEY, known for his Song & Dance extravaganzas, directs his only non-musical..

 

 

30 Aug

Bryan Ferry – Slave To Love “Wild Orchid”

 

29 Aug

The Drag-Net (1936) ROD LA ROCQUE

 

Stars: Rod La Rocque, Marian Nixon, Betty Compson
Producer: Edgar Rice Burroughs
Director: Vin Moore

When a playboy takes a job as an assistant district attorney, he finds himself up against a tough crime boss and his gang.

 

 

28 Aug

Sherlock Holmes A Study In Scarlet (1933) Thriller

 

“A Study in Scarlet” (1933) is a drama film directed by Edwin L. Marin and starring Reginald Owen as Sherlock Holmes and Anna May Wong as Mrs. Pyke. The title comes from Arthur Conan Doyle’s novel of the same name, the first in the Holmes series, but the screenplay by Robert Florey was original.

Despite her billing, Anna May Wong only appears on screen for less than ten minutes. Reginald Owen had played Dr. Watson in Sherlock Holmes the previous year; Owen was one of only four actors to play both Holmes and Watson (Jeremy Brett played Watson on stage in the United States prior to adopting the mantle of Holmes on British television, Carleton Hobbs played both roles in British radio adaptations while Patrick Macnee played both roles in US television movies).

Directed by Edwin L. Marin, written by Robert Florey (screenplay) and Arthur Conan Doyle (novel’s title), starring Reginald Owen, June Clyde and Anna May Wong.

 

 

27 Aug

Sherlock Holmes and The Secret Weapon (1943)Thriller

 

Sherlock Holmes (Basil Rathbone) pretends to be a Nazi spy to aid scientist Dr. Franz Tobel (William Post Jr.) and his new invention, a bombsight, in escaping a Gestapo trap in Switzerland. Holmes and Franz fly to London, where Holmes places him under the protection of his friend, Dr. Watson (Nigel Bruce). The scientist slips away against Holmes’ instructions for a secret reunion with his fiancee, Charlotte Eberli (Kaaren Verne), and gives her an envelope containing a coded message. He tells Charlotte to give it to Holmes if anything should happen to him. Leaving Charlotte’s apartment, an attempt to abduct him by German spies is foiled by a passing London bobby.

Tobel successfully demonstrates the bombsight for Sir Reginald Bailey (Holmes Herbert) and observers from Bomber Command. Tobel, now under the protection of Inspector Lestrade (Dennis Hoey) and Scotland Yard, tells Sir Reginald that, although willing to provide the British with his bombsight, only he will know its secret and has a complex plan for its manufacture to keep the secret safe. He separates his invention into four parts and gives one to each of four Swiss scientists, known only to him, to construct separately. Soon after, Holmes receives a call from Lestrade telling him that Tobel has disappeared. Holmes goes to Charlotte’s apartment, where he receives the Tobel’s envelope. Rather than the coded message, the message inside is from Holmes’ nemesis, master criminal Professor Moriarty (Lionel Atwill).

Disguising himself as Ram Singh, one of Moriarty’s old henchmen, Holmes searches the Soho district for information. He encounters two henchmen, but is captured by Moriarty. Holmes is put into the false bottom of a sea chest, but is rescued when Watson and Lestrade observe the henchmen struggling with its unusual weight. Holmes returns to Charlotte’s apartment to search for clues to the message’s contents. He finds impressions of the message left on a notepad page by immersing it in “fluorescent salts… and then photograph(ing) it by ultraviolet light.” Holmes breaks the first three lines of a cunningly modified alphabet substitution code, which are the identities and locations of three of the scientists, but unable to break the fourth line, which has been altered as an added precaution, soon learns that Moriarty has murdered all three and stolen their parts. Meanwhile, Moriarty, also unable to break the fourth line, tortures Tobel for the name of the fourth scientist. Holmes deduces the change in the code and breaks the fourth line, identifying the scientist as Professor Frederick Hoffner (Henry Victor).

Moriarty accidentally deciphers the code. He sends agents to abduct Hoffner, who has the brilliance to put the four parts together should Tobel not recover from torture. The German agents bring the scientist, who is actually Holmes in disguise again, to Moriarty’s seemingly undetectable stronghold. Unknown to Moriarty, Holmes had the real Hoffner attach an apparatus to their car that drips luminous paint (which Watson helped prepare) at regular intervals. Holmes uses Moriarty’s vanity and pride to trick him into slowly bleeding Holmes to death “drop by drop”, to stall for time. Holmes is saved at the last minute, however, by Watson and Lestrade, who with Hoffner’s help, successfully followed the drops. Scotland Yard apprehends the spies, but Moriarty escapes. When he attempts to complete his escape through a secret passageway, he falls sixty feet to his death; Holmes has discovered the criminal’s hidden trap door and left it open.

 

26 Aug

Billy Graham: “Are You Ready to Die?”