Happy, Happy Birthday John Winston Lennon
Liverpool calling - you answer quite slowly kaleido-eyes.
Me soul you long time - it's polizzioteschi-o string cheese, some more people caught in the Deutsche, krimi style, and less calories than a gelato - serving up some low-fat giallo pudding, atmospheres r us. Some sweetass silver-lining screen gems, Spread the word around...
ON AIR NOW : Powellbergers : The Projectionist tips her hat to Powell & Pressburger. This feature originally titled
ill Met by Moonlight (probably the only feature to have the first word of the title conveyed in lower case lettering) and also known to bandy itself about as Night Ambush stars the delightfully diligent Dirk Bogarde, filmed in the Alps of Italy. Now war pictures were never this humble narrator's go-to genre - but when you get P&P power at the front lines - I say ....fix...bayonet!
The Poliziotteschi Party Hour - Italian police procedurals and hardboiled ham calzones, it's molto delizioso, all your favorite linguni and pepla stars matriculated to the genre - Colt .38 Special Squad (1976)
A Mack Sennett talkie, yes a Mack Sennett talkie. He was none too fond of the crossover , he would get there eventually, kicking and screaming albeit. I give you - Ghost Parade (1931) starring Andy Coyle and Co.
And pull your plate up, it's time for the Blaxploitation Buffet Hour and here is a latter day of the genre entries; Disco Godfather from 1979. Starring Rudy Ray Moore and Carol Speed who lived her life in the fast lane, and other assorted bitches on wheels. Ya Dig?
And a funny thing happened on the way to the Formby - a quasi-heart-rending millennial number that was directed by the very much Liverpudlian himself- David Morrissey who also scribbled the screenplay. Starring Beverly Eve - who is Morrissey's cousin and no doubt worked less than scale. 2009's Don't Worry About Me - well maybe worry a little.
A few rare shorts before our features today in TPR - Doctor Dolittle was a short-lived Depatie-Freleng animated series that graced the little boxes via NBC during their fall 1970 line-up.
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