It's time for another cuppa, and here's one that is sweet enough without any extra lumps. Your adopted grandma Margaret Rutherford juts her jolly chin in Curtain Up from 1952. See the japes ensue when a collection of amateur theater hams take on their next play. Mercurial
Michael Pertwee penned this here, and Robert Morley is in the mix of this Rank ruby.
And here is a Monogram marvel, one of the first films produced in the days when the Hays had enough of the hankying and pankying, a screwball comedy that was directed by Arthur Lubin (who helmed many a Bud and Lou picksha), rife with snappy retorts and all the trimmings of the escapist fare that was intended to boost the American morale during the great Depression. A Successful Failure (1934)
Kraft Music Hall - Woody Allen Looks At 1967, and plenty of 19 year olds when he was 67 too.
All Time Greats - 1941's Tobacco Road. You'll want a front row seat to the backwoods action here. Its an all-out hillbilly hootenanny , helmed by a Tinseltown thoroughbred you may have just heard of - Mr John Ford. And this was one fine adaptation of the great white way play that ran for quite a few years. And it's Georgia on everybody's mind I'll say. Charlie Grapewin stars.
Mama Partridge out of her pear tree and in an early giallo you say? Huh? Miss Jones
was never one to rest on her laurels, she did fall asleep on Jack Cassidy many a night however. Here is Dark Purpose, it's all purpose, its from 1964
And now a little noir de vivre that was brought to you by director Jacques who was a Tourneur de force. Anne Bancroft in an effortlessly powerful performance and Brian Keith and Aldo Ray, sure, those fellas stuck around the set too, they couldn't resist the fun-size wieners. Now this was very late in the noir game, the genre was canonized the following year. Just shedding some light on.Nightfall (1957)
Oh those rebels rebels you know the one that tatter their dresses and you never know if they are of the male of female persuasion, they put you down, they say you're wrong, but
you're not really wrong, you know that same old song. But I actually did like Bowie, unlike
the million horde that wanted to cash in on the act. This Rebel Breed (1960) starring the unstoppable Rita Moreno.
The Projectionist Presents - TOONVISION Sometimes on Saturdays here in The Projection Room, whether you are 5 or 105 you will enjoy this cornucopia of cartoon delights that were curated by The Projectionist. Cataloging the tippest toppest of toonery this segment has got it all - from those good ol' days of Bray and some harmonizing with Harman and
Ising, novel Noveltoons , Lantzalot and Paul Terry's just the berries too you'll find world animation and Filmation on this station and oh, yes - some guilty treasures too.
