And now a 1968 Mexican thriller - translated into English you get; The Drifter In The Rain, and when the rains come is precisely when all the pandemonium ensues (natch) in this screechero featuro , it's just Latino lunacy, this one's a real bruja-ha.
Now what on earth is Harry Field (the unflinching Peter Finch) got to hide? I am sure his place is immaculate and well -looked after, so why isn't he accepting any visitors even if they do ring first? Can you believe this film had to wait a whopping four years before being allowed to be screened in the US of A? Shelly Winters is seasoned and this one 's a bonafide goodie . directed by Alastair Reed - Something to Hide (1972,1976)
And though Lubitsch and Midas certainly had their touch, it was Matt Saxon that had all that charm; and you just try to say no to that endearing manipulator, I tell you, you won't get far. It's a delectable adaptation of Frederick Wakeman's eponymous work and my isn't the cast a keeper - Susan Hawyard and Audrey Totter and Robert Montgomery, one is spoiled for choice. And Claude Binyon, gee he had pepper scribbled the screenplay and directed too.
The Saxon Charm (1948)
Just when you thought it was safe to turn on the television - it's Schlockenspiel Theater
Don't turn around wo-ho - the cosmonaut's in town and he's cryogenic in the rain,
and Darren McGavin is here between Mike Hammer and Kolchak, he needed to pay
some bills and all. This is directed by Nicholas Webster and it will schlock you like
a hurricane. Mission Mars (1968)
Now if the Furthur Bus has missed your stop, fret not the War Bus is on its merry way and may be coming to your town. Interestingly one of our rigatoni heroes , director Ferdinando Baldi who nom de plume's himself here as 'Ted Kaplan' (hey I think that's my uncle) directs this so-called 'Namsploitation' film. And not dissimilar to Baldi's banditos in his rigatoni productions, a good portion of the actors in this are also doing their own stunts. Sure, they may glow in the dark now as a result, but you gotta admire those of us with fire in our bellies. Warbus (1986)
And now it's Talk Talkies, the early wave of sound pictures, this one comes from the very fine year of 1929, not that I know firsthand but I have in on authority it was a very good year. And you know it has to be true love when an inventor takes the rap for the crime his missus committed but with an outside world like this, he would've been better off keeping put in the calaboose. Ricardo Cortez stars and don't let the stage name fool you - he was a nice Jewish boy. The Phantom in the House (1929)
Perhaps an astute choice that this is titled Spare The Rod but it doesn't spare any intensity, if you are looking for nicey-nicey, consult Mr Chips. A Bryanston film will always strip it down to the brass tax and so they have here, in this that was considered the gateway for To Sir With Love, but that's a mite Poppinseque in retrospect. Leslie Norman who directed many a Dennis Spooner series, directeths this - from 1961.
We begin with this piping hot presentation : Theatre Theater; a segment that features televised theatrical productions that are more thought provoking than your average televised theatrical production bear. And here we have a 1984 adaptation of the acclaimed play The Dining Room and hope they had a nice and roomy changing room - there are six actors and more than fifty roles included in this number. William H. Macy and Frances Sternhagen of Up the Down Staircase fame star and exact some serious justice to the original A.R. Gurney work.
