Are your flivvers parked and are you ready to enter the Speakeasy with The Projectionist and Jeepers Jones. Gee Whillickers we've got an on the level number here with this 19 thoity-one picksha from the RKO plant. And golly it's a swellster. It's Bachelor Apartment. And you get Irene Dunne batting her lashes here and Max Steiner is making beautiful music with
his contract too. And it's rootatoot.
Oh oh oh young girl, get out of his life, his love for you is way out of line - so you know what you better do then - I think you better run girl.
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Now the director who is also the writer of this that is surely a sleeper keeper, has gone on record to say this film is kind of sort of autobiographical. Yikes. When you realize what the subject matter is you may wonder why Mr O'Hara made such admission. Now Olivia Hussey, she is lovely with a very unfortunate surname, but what's in a surname eh ? I bring you All The Right Noises (1969) I know you thought this was about the life and times of John Cage.
And who can ask for anything more, and before they collaborated in the standalone Husbands, John Cassavetes, my hero of heroes teamed up with that other hero Mr Peter Falk. This one did the Cannes Cannes dance thought it was met with lukewarm reception, even though there is no such wrong foot putting when it comes to either one of the cast denizens. The director had some bad water with Johnny C after all was said and done, but that is unsurprising, ruffling a feather or two was one of his strongsuits.
Machine Gun McCain (1969)
And with neighbors like these, who needs friends. But golly gee, I wish I could trade these for the P.I.A. people I am adjacent to, I will tell ye that brother. But these Weavers, like the Cleavers are a gregarious bunch and if it was three in the morn and you ran out of sweet-and-low, who will greet you with a sugar bowl and a smile? It's the Friendly Neighbors (1940)directed by Nick Grind, and this would be his directorial debut.
The kick to kill kids are back and they are lightning fast, rocking it and socking it like a hurricane,
here's another golden-age chopsocky from the year 1972, Fang Shi Yu. At times this
one is referred to as The Prodigal Boxer. And sometimes the student outclasses
the teacher though, and whether he meant just to maim him or not
someone's in a decided pickle. Directed by Yang Ming Tsai
Time to top up the cuppas, it's a Cuppa and a Movie Hour, and we've got some lemon custards too. Here is some Gaumont goodness, a musical comedy from the pre-code times and when the quotas came quick. This was originally a play penned by Francis Martin Stokes
And Bessie has been cryin cockels and mussels for so long, she is ready for a Demille close-up now, but is it out of the frying pan and into the fire ? John Mills also stars.
Britannia of Billingsgate (1933)
And you say gimme more krimi- well, your wish is my command. And wouldn't you know it, tis yet another Edgar Wallace edifice to edify ya.
And here is one in glorious colour, directed by mainstay director Alfred Vohrer, but this would be the last time he would be eine helmer for the Edgar Wallace entries. A Rialto
ruby that was filmed in London like many German krimis that were dubbed into English
The Man With The Glass Eye (1969)
And hot off the projector today - the ceremonies commence with this all time cult great, from Robert Downey of the Sr. variety who's freshman film Babo 73 (1964) was a vulgar satire with a focus on American government that would broadly mark the course his erratic career would follow. Chafed Elbows (1966) prompted Jonas Mekas to make a typically polemical comparison between Downey and subversive comedian Lenny Bruce.
However, the film you are about to see here in The Projection Room today - 1969's Putney Swope and this film would garner a wide audience for the iconoclastic director.
