The Projectionist is pouring you a Cuppa And a Movie : Hell Drivers (1957). 'Ello me ol chinas - And what have we lurking there in those lorries, and just when you thought it was safe to go on the road after Clouzot's Wages of Fear - then came these tricky truckers. You best not take the high road this time. Stanley Baker, Patrick McGoohan, Sean Connery and purdy Peggy Cummins a'star. Top ups on the 'ouse
Edward Woodward dials it in proper as David Callan, the secret agent man in the four season series created by James Mitchell Callan (1967-1972) From the ghosts of ITV past
Blacklist, schmacklist, as if that could ever deter the inimitable Joseph Losey from making films again. He was mad as hell with America and wasn't gonna take it anymore and hightailed it to England where everything was coming up roses for the director. This was a standout moment and a chance for him to release films without any such Alan Smithee'ing.
Here is Time Without Pity (1957) a latter film noir that stars Michael Redgrave and friends.
Would you believe (yeah I bet you would) yet another radar evader is making its way to the TPR screen, and though this one has the Universal stamp on it, its lucky if one village remembers it. It is more idiosyncratic than their usual fare to give you a hint - and that fellar up on the league table in the cast, he has been round all the houses and back as a recurring televisual guest star and he is still very much active with three films in the post-production phase - Mr. Michael Parks. Wild Seed (1963)
And now it's time for the da-ta-da - Movie of the Week marimba, ah nothing like ABC during its golden days. You didn't have to spend a buck -two-fifty at the movie theater not when you had these to look forward to on your Monday nights. And here she is, almost before she was Pepper, but Angie was never bereft of the pepper , why she is just the salt of the earth. And Lady Dickinson had a few of these weekly movie vehicles and here is an early one, its a little bit schmaltzy and schlocky but we don't mind, do we. From 1970 and also featuring Lloyd Bridges- it's The Love War.
And you know it don't come easy with Hard Contract (1969) Oh James, James James! He's a bit of a merciless mercenary here but maybe there's a gal here that will just soften his ticker, I won't say. Some who's who action going on as well, Burgess Meredith, Rex Harrison's way too forgiving missus - not Burgess that wilting Lilli (Palmer), Patrick Magee and Karen Black too, what a free-for-all folks! S. Lee Pogotsin is the helmsman, that's a real name I assure you.
