Bongiorno and wilkommen to another Saturday in The Projection Room, it's the Projection Saloon first, so check your gatling guns at the door and jingle jangle your shiny spurs and mosey on in while the sarsaparilla is swillin' and the dancin' girls are dancin', there's a card game but the stakes are steep.
This show was created by one of my heroes and inspirations to become a film and television historian - Cleveland Amory . And though this series was acclaimed, it only secured one season in 1965. Burl Ives leads the way. O.K. Crackerby!
The award-winning ITV - Public Eye, a private masterpiece that boasted seven seasons intermittently between 1965 and 1975 starring Alfred Burke
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man (1939) The knee-slappin never ends coz Mr Dukenfield (W.C. Fields) is Larson E. Whipsnade and he will surely debunk the whole what's in a name theory. This one stars the nemesis he really didn't hate - Edgar Bergen, that was just a case of bark and not bite, and pretty much to get people to listen to Bergen's Chase and Sanborn Hour on the radio - hey they were clutching at straws and had to dosomething quick smart! Let the guffaws begin!
Jeepers Jones invites you to another night in the Speakeasy, we've got the best bathtub gin in town and how! And calling all the galavanters to get long-legged here for the Prohibition Party before the riot squads come bustin' in, hey we are on the level Mack! It's Carole Lombard as a happy hooker and Pat O'Brien as the cabbie who can't resist her caboose. From 1932 - Virtue
Now noir reached it's zenith and then some come the year 1958, but that didn't stop directors from incorporating chiaroscuro and friends. And it was the genre they just couldn't let go; as seen here in this Irving Lerner offering. But being that obstinate was understandable, it was one helluva genre. Now this picksha, she sure has the right trimmings and goes good with the shadows and all but still there just ain't nothing like the real thing - albeit, there are still things to marvel at thanks to Vince Edwards and Lyle Talbot. City of Fear (1959)
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It's shhhh time in TPR, because as you know silents is golden,golden.And this one's a cracker - and it just may have you on the title alone. It's The Flapper (1920) And here they are in all their bobbed hair and jazz lovin' sister Kate shimmyin' glory on the cusp of the Jazz Age and Fitzgerald was scribbling his first bok, oh , oh oh whattatime. Olive Thomas who was bessy mates with ma belle Mabel Normand is super on the spiffy front in this six-reel swunderfest.
And what do you get when you cross Melting Pot Cinema and a giallo film ? Well you get Melting Pot Giallo! And this isn't one of the usual suspects, it's actually from South Africa and the only giallo feature in the Afrikaans language. This terrifying thriller is titled My Brother's Sunglasses. And dems are proper Ray-Bans too, the jammy get. And it was released right smack dab in the day of hey for the genre, the atmospheric year of 1972.
And here's some ravioli on the reels, and would you believe Bosch himself directed it, uh-huh - Juan Bosch. And this one is a primo pistolero starring Anthony Steffen who was more than your average spaghetti-western bear, he was a Baron just like Chrysler - his papa was a rolling stone, I mean a Formula 1 champ and he is here in this one titled They Believed He Was No Saint. Which didn't affect his morale one bit.
