21 Jun

So This Is Washington (1943) LUM & ABNER

Stars: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Alan Mowbray
Director: Ray McCarey

Lum and Abner go to Washington to aid in the war effort by giving the government what they think is a good substitute for rubber–Abner’s homemade licorice.

 

 

20 Jun

Two Weeks to Live (1943) LUM & ABNER

 

Stars: Chester Lauck, Norris Goff, Franklin Pangborn
Director: Malcolm St. Clair

When Abner is mistakenly diagnosed as having only two weeks to live, his partner gets the idea that they can make a ton of money by having Abner perform all kinds of dangerous stunts.

 

19 Jun

Happy Go Lucky (1936) COMEDY

 

Stars: Phil Regan, Evelyn Venable, Jed Prouty
Director: Aubrey Scotto

A singer believes her marine pilot husband has died in the Pacific, but finds a man who looks exactly like him dancing in a night club act. Realizing it is her husband, and thinking he must have amnesia, she sets out to help him recover his memory.

 

 

18 Jun

Bulldog Drummond 1929

 

A bored WWI veteran helps out a young woman, whose uncle is being held hostage by embezzlers.

 

 

17 Jun

The Nut Farm (1935) COMEDY

 

Stars: Wallace Ford, Betty Alden, Florence Roberts
Director: Melville W. Brown

Bob and Helen decide to move to California and make a fresh start. Bob wants to buy a nut farm, but Helen dreams of being in the movies. While Bob is looking for a farm to buy, Helen is taken in by a group of swindlers who induce to take the family nest-egg and invest it in a movie with her as the star!

 

 

15 Jun

Calling Bulldog Drummond 1951

 

With a ruthless gang terrorizing London, Scotland Yard calls Hugh “Bulldog” Drummond out of retirement. With the help of detective Helen Smith, Drummond infiltrates the gang under an assumed name. He and Smith become trusted gang-members until the gang’s overlord discovers their true identities, and they are taken as prisoners.

 

 

14 Jun

Suspense (TV-1950) THE PARCEL

 

Crazy Organ: Hank Sylvern
Starring: Conrad Janis, Lee Marvin, Harold J. Stone
An errand boy is hired by a shady character to deliver a package at exactly 5PM that evening. With time to kill, he goes to a baseball game but is unaware that the package contains 20 grand from a payroll heist and that a pair of criminals know it’s in his possession. Watch for Ray Walston, best remembered for the title role in My Favorite Martian.