Friday, June 1, 2012

The Fatal Hour: Boris Karloff, Marjorie Reynolds, Grant Withers, Charles Trowbridge (1940 Movie)

The Fatal Hour is a 1940 American thriller/ crime drama film. It was directed by William Nigh, and starred Boris Karloff, Grant Withers, and Marjorie Reynolds.

The film is also known as Mr. Wong at Headquarters in the United Kingdom.

Cast:

Boris Karloff - James Lee Wong
Grant Withers - Capt. Bill Street
Marjorie Reynolds - Roberta 'Bobbie' Logan
Charles Trowbridge - John T. Forbes
Frank Puglia - Harry 'Hardway' Lockett
Craig Reynolds - Frank Belden, Jr.
Lita Chevret - Tanya Serova
Harry Strang - Det. Ballard
Hooper Atchley - Frank Belden Sr.
Jason Robards Sr. - Griswold (as Jason Robards)
Richard Loo - Jeweler
Jack Kennedy - Mike, Police Sergeant

Friday, May 25, 2012

Angel and the Badman: John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey, Bruce Cabot (1947 Movie)

Angel and the Badman is a 1947 black-and-white Western film, starring John Wayne, Gail Russell, Harry Carey and Bruce Cabot which examines the ability of a gunman to renounce violence. This film, which was the first one Wayne produced as well as starred in, was a departure for this genre at the time it was released. The film was directed by James Edward Grant, Wayne's frequent screenwriting collaborator.

Friday, May 18, 2012

Three Blondes in His Life: Jock Mahoney, Greta Thyssen, Jesse White, Elaine Edwards (1961 Movie)

Three Blondes in His Life is a 1961 American film directed by Leon Chooluck.

Cast:

Jock Mahoney as Duke Wallace
Greta Thyssen as Helen Fortner
Anthony Dexter as Charlie Walsh
Jesse White as Ed Kelly
Valerie Porter as Martha Carr
Elaine Edwards as Lois Collins

Friday, May 11, 2012

Shock: Vincent Price, Lynn Bari, Frank Latimore, Anabel Shaw, Stephen Dunne (1946 Movie)

Shock is a 1946 film noir directed by Alfred L. Werker.

The film tells the story of a psychiatrist, Dr. Cross (Vincent Price), who is treating a young woman, Janet Stewart (Anabel Shaw), who is in a coma-state, brought on when she heard loud arguing, went to her window and saw a man strike his wife with a candlestick and kill her. It also stars Lynn Bari as Dr. Cross's nurse/lover, Elaine Jordan.

Cast:

Vincent Price as Dr. Richard Cross
Lynn Bari as Elaine Jordan
Frank Latimore as Lt. Paul Stewart
Anabel Shaw as Janet Stewart
Stephen Dunne as Dr. Stevens
Reed Hadley as O'Neill
Renee Carson as Mrs. Hatfield
Charles Trowbridge as Dr. Franklin Harvey

Friday, May 4, 2012

To the Shores of Iwo Jima: WW2 in Color Documentary Film (1945)

An Academy Award nominee for Best Documentary, this 20 minute Technicolor production unfolds with graphic energy the nearly month long battle for Iwo Jima, a volcanic island lying 700 miles southeast of Japan, in which 20000 Japanese and nearly 7000 American fighting men were killed, a struggle eternalized by Joe Rosenthal's photograph of five Marines and a Navy corpsman raising a giant U.S. flag atop 550 foot high Mt. Suribachi, cinematically captured here in this well-edited effort.

Friday, April 27, 2012

Social Class in the United States of America: Social Stratification and Divisions (1957)

Shows the differences in the life experience of three male babies from three different social classes. One young man succeeds his father as president of the family manufacturing company. Another, a middle-class white-collar worker at the same company, leaves the town of his birth and moves to New York City where he becomes a respected advertising art director, thus rising in social status. A third, born into the working class, trains as a mechanic and holds an influential job at a service station. The sociological tone of the film does not mask a sobering narrative of the limitations that social class divisions inflict on all Americans.

Friday, April 20, 2012

December 7th: The Pearl Harbor Story - WW2 Propaganda Film (1943 Movie)

December 7th (1943) is a propaganda film produced by the US Navy and directed by John Ford and Gregg Toland, about the December 7, 1941 attack on Pearl Harbor, the event which sparked the Pacific War and American involvement in World War II.