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Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Victory At Sea ep 04 Midway Is East (1952)
Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War IIMIDWAY IS EAST Japanese victories & the Midway Battle Japan is ascendant as it successfully invades Indonesia, Singapore and the Philippines. But the Americans draw first blood, first on the Coral Sea, and ultimately on Midway as they manage to bomb four of Japan's aircraft carriers--the same ones that participated in Pearl Harbor--making the imperial fleet retreat and giving the U.S. an incredible early victory in the pacific...
Labels: Documentary, Victory at Sea, War
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Sunday, March 29, 2009
Quatermass II - The Frenzy (1955)
Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.Labels: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Saturday, March 28, 2009
Gasbags (1941)
This wartime farce concerns the Crazy Gang who get involved in World War Two, which for them means running a fish and chips shop off a barrage balloon, floating accidentally into Germany, being interned in a concentration camp, acting as Hitler doubles and escaping.Del.icio.us|Digg|Google|Technorati|StumbleUpon|Facebook|Furl
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Friday, March 27, 2009
The Andy Griffith Show - s03e30 - Dogs, Dogs, Dogs (1963)
It's pandemonium when the courthouse is invaded by eleven stray dogs. They boys have to figure out what to do with them before a state investigator arrives to do an audit.Labels: Andy Griffith, Comedy, Family
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Wednesday, March 25, 2009
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
Seymour is a young man who works in a flower store. He manages to create a carnivorous plant that feeds on human flesh. Nobody knows about it, so Seymour and the plant become good "friends". The plant needs food to grow up, so it convinces him to start killing people.Labels: Comedy
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Dragnet - The Big Grandma (1953)
An expert check forger had written over $20,000 in bad checks.Labels: Crime, Dragnet, Drama, Mystery
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Tuesday, March 24, 2009
Victory At Sea ep 03 Sealing The Breach (1952)
Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War IISEALING THE BREACH Anti-submarine warfare, 1941-1943 With war now declared on the U.S. front, naval forces throughout the states have banded together to bring convoys of supplies across the Atlantic Ocean to our Allies in England. German U-Boats come through and manage to destroy some of ships along the way. Still, Americans are resilient...
Labels: Documentary, Victory at Sea, War
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Monday, March 23, 2009
Richard Diamond Private Detective - s02e03 - The Payoff (1958)
Diamond is hired to track down a gang of safe crackers and recover the money that they stole.Del.icio.us|Digg|Google|Technorati|StumbleUpon|Facebook|Furl
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Sunday, March 22, 2009
Quatermass II - The Coming (1955)
Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.Labels: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Saturday, March 21, 2009
The Long Shot (1939)
As part of a malevolent scheme to win Martha Sharon, the niece of his business rival, Henry Sharon, stable owner Lew Ralston plots to ruin his rival and then offer financial salvation in the form of a marriage to Martha.Labels: Drama
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Friday, March 20, 2009
Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Laughing Mummy (1955)
One of Dr. Watson's former schoolmates has an Egyptian mummy in his house that makes noise.Del.icio.us|Digg|Google|Technorati|StumbleUpon|Facebook|Furl
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Thursday, March 19, 2009
The Andy Griffith Show - s03e28 - The Rivals (1963)
When Opie feels too shy to ask classmate Karen to the movies, Thelma Lou tries to boost Opie's confidence--but destroys Barney's along the way. Can Andy realign this skewed love quadrangle?Labels: Andy Griffith, Comedy, Family
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Wednesday, March 18, 2009
Dragnet - The Big .22 Rifle for Christmas (1952)
Friday and Smith search for a missing boy. The first sign that the case is serious is when blood is found. Further probing reveals the boy's parents had purchased him a .22-caliber rifle for Christmas.Labels: Crime, Dragnet, Drama, Mystery
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Tuesday, March 17, 2009
Victory At Sea ep 02 The Pacific Boils Over (1952)
Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War IITHE PACIFIC BOILS OVER Pearl Harbor, December 7, 1941 Using Japanese footage, we see the planning, execution, and ultimately the celebration of the Asian country's attack on Pearl Harbor. There's also an explanation provided for the attack and some peaceful moments depicted among the U.S. sailors before the fateful events unfold. And out of this wreckage, the bloodied U.S. Navy fleet rises up to fight another day.
Labels: Documentary, Victory at Sea, War
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Monday, March 16, 2009
Ring of Terror (1962)
Med student Lewis Moffitt harbours a secret fear of the dark stemming from a traumatic childhood incident involving a corpse. Nonetheless, he pretends to be unaffected during the first autopsy witnessed by his class, and generally affects an attitude of fearlessness. This, however, inspires his would-be frat brothers to conceive a particularly morbid initiation ritual -- one which will, inevitably, go horribly awry.Labels: Horror
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Sunday, March 15, 2009
Quatermass II - The Food (1955)
Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.Labels: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Saturday, March 14, 2009
Hercules and the Captive Women (1961)
Strong yet sleepy Hercules discovers that the Queen of Atlantis is plotting to take over the world with superhuman warriors.Labels: Adventure, Fantasy, Sci-Fi
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D.O.A. (1950)
Small-town accountant Frank Bigelow goes to San Francisco for a week's fun prior to settling down with fiancée Paula. After a night on the town, he wakes up with more than just a hangover; doctors tell him he's been given a "luminous toxin" with no antidote and has, at most, a week to live! Not knowing who did it or why, Bigelow embarks on a frantic odyssey to find his own murderer.Labels: Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery
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Friday, March 13, 2009
Sabaka (1954)
In India, a young elephant trainer vows revenge against the cult that killed his family and, when the local Maharajah refuses to help, sets out alone to battle his enemy.Labels: Adventure
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Thursday, March 12, 2009
Breakout From Oppression (1973)
Gordon Liu, in possibly his first ever starring roles, visits a town and meets a woman whose daughters were killed. He seeks the murderers, eventually encountering three men who he initially believes are the killers, though he learns otherwise.Labels: Action, Horror, Martial Arts
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Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Dragnet - The Big Hit-Run Killer (1954)
A truck kills an old lady and her little grandson at a crossing and drives away. The owner of the truck asserts that he let a man called Paul lend the truck for one hour, but he doesn't know the last name of this man or where he lives. The police must investigate all circumstances, but should Friday and Smith really spend lots of resources on trying to find a man they hardly believe exists at all?Labels: Crime, Dragnet, Drama, Mystery
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Tuesday, March 10, 2009
Victory At Sea ep 01 Design for War (1952)
Victory at Sea was a documentary TV series about naval warfare during World War IIDESIGN FOR WAR Battle of the Atlantic, 1939-1941 World War II comes, and Germany succeeds in invading Poland and France. But is held back by England thanks to the vital convoys, Canada and the American naval forces' initial involvement, and Lend-Lease. Still, the German submarine war increases to its crescendo thanks to new French bases.
Labels: Documentary, Victory at Sea, War
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Monday, March 9, 2009
John Wayne - McLintock! (1963)
Cattle baron George Washington McLintock (John Wayne) fights his wife, his daughter, and political land-grabbers, finally "taming" them all in this Western comedy.Labels: Comedy, Romance, Western
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Sunday, March 8, 2009
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923)
The 1923 film version of The Hunchback of Notre Dame, starring Lon Chaney as Quasimodo and Patsy Ruth Miller as Esmeralda, and directed by Wallace Worsley, is one of the more famous adaptations of Victor Hugo's novel The Hunchback of Notre Dame. The film was Universal's "Super Jewel" of 1923 and was their most successful silent film, grossing over three-million dollars. The film is most notable for the grand sets that recall 15th century Paris as well as Lon Chaney's spectacular makeup as the tortured bell-ringer of Notre Dame.Del.icio.us|Digg|Google|Technorati|StumbleUpon|Facebook|Furl
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BBC Sunday Night Theatre - Nineteen Eighty-Four (1954)
In a future authoritarian state, Winston Smith rebels by beginning an illicit love affair and plotting revolution.
When first screened by the BBC there were numerous public complaints and these led to questions being asked in the House of Commons Following remarks by the Duke of Edinburgh that he and the Queen had "thoroughly enjoyed" the broadcast, the live repeat, four days later, attracted the largest television audience since the Coronation.
Labels: Drama
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Quatermass II - The Mark (1955)
Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.Labels: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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Saturday, March 7, 2009
Cosmos: War of the Planets (1977)
Labels: Sci-Fi
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Earthworm Tractors (1936)
Joe E. Brown as Andrew H. Botts, wreaks havok on a small town after coning his way into a salesman position for the Earthworm Tractor company.Labels: Comedy
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Friday, March 6, 2009
Sherlock Holmes - The Case of the Shy Ballerina (1954)
A simple case of mistakenly switched coats suddenly turns into blackmail and then murder! When poor Watson's hat was found at the scene of the crime, even he becomes a suspect. This episode features Natalie Schaffer, best known in her role later on in television history as Mrs. Lovey Howell in Gilligan's Island.Del.icio.us|Digg|Google|Technorati|StumbleUpon|Facebook|Furl
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Wednesday, March 4, 2009
Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel (1937)
The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel is a 1937 British film directed by Hanns Schwarz and starring Barry K. Barnes, Sophie Stewart, Margaretta Scott and James Mason. It is a sequel to the 1934 film Scarlet Pimpernel based on the stories by Baroness Emmuska Orczy. France, 1794. Citizen Chauvelin lays a trap for his long-standing nemesis Sir Percy Blakeney by kidnapping his wife.
Labels: Drama
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Tuesday, March 3, 2009
Dragnet - The Big Cast (1952)
Friday begins to question Henry Ross, a suspect in a man's disappearance, which Friday believes is actually a murder.Labels: Crime, Dragnet, Drama, Mystery
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Monday, March 2, 2009
The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934)
Leslie Howard stars as Sir Percy Blakeney, a British aristocrat who rescues innocent victims of the French Revolution under the guise of The Scarlet Pimpernel while maintaining the identity of a foppish dandy by day. Even his wife, Lady Marguerite Blakeney (Merle Oberon), is unaware of Percy's heroic alter-ego as he and his band of likeminded masked men attempt to save countless people from the guillotine.Del.icio.us|Digg|Google|Technorati|StumbleUpon|Facebook|Furl
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Quatermass II - The Bolts (1955)
Several years after the previous serial took place, Professor Quatermass is trying to perfect a dangerously unstable nuclear-powered rocket engine. After a disastrous test firing in Australia, his future son-in-law, Captain John Dillon, draws the Professor's attention to a strange hollow meteorite which interrupted an Army Training exercise. Quatermass and Dillon investigate, and discover a vast government production plant which has some connection with the meteorites. After coming in contact with the noxious gas contained inside the meteorites, Dillon is taken away by the plant's security guards. When Quatermass presses this issue with an old civil service acquaintance, he learns that the plant is supposedly making synthetic food. Both men learn that this is untrue, and that the true products of the plant will threaten the world itself.Labels: Drama, Horror, Sci-Fi, Thriller
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