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Do you find Shelley Winters repugnant in that movie, or in general? And if the latter, why?

Battle at Bloody Beach (1961). One of the movies Fox made while they were spending all of the studio's money on the Elizabeth Burton Cleopatra, and it shows. Audie Murphy plays a man working for the US military in World War II supplying arms to Filipino rebels and evacuating any Americans he can find. He's only doing it for personal reasons: he and his new wife were in the Philippines when the Japanese attacked. He got out; she didnt, and he hasn't heard anything about her death so he just knows she's still alive and is looking for her. Sure enough, he finds her (Dolores Michaels). The only problem is, she figured he died, and has since fallen in love with the Filipino rebel (Alejandro Rey) alongside whom she's fighting. It's not bad but not particularly good. The Filipino island is ridiculously wrong-sized; the lack of people implies it's small, but the amount of time it takes to hike down to the sea implies it's huge; where would the occupied Filipinos be? It also looks like Anyplace, Southern California instead of a tropical island (IMDb lists Santa Catalina as a filming location). Gary Crosby, safe from Bing, plays Murphy's contact on the island. 6/10.

The Cobweb may be a disaster, but it's a fun disaster.

It's one of the 54568834257876207357560723 retellings of the Madame X story, so it's not a particular favorite of mine.

Eugenia: Have you seen "The Secret of Madame Blanche"?

Sure. Just replace her Givenchy wardrobe with off-the-rack stuff from the local Montgomery Ward.

She was also the villainess in a Star Trek: The Next Generation episode (I think "The Drumhead", but I can't remember offhand without looking it up on IMDb), playing a special prosecutor who basically winds up going on an overzealous witch hunt even though that was never the intention.

She was a murderess in Murder on the Orient Express, and was very unsympathetic in Autumn Sonata.

Well, she did play opposite Errol Flynn in Elizabeth and Essex

North Dallas Forty. Nick Nolte stars as an aging wide receiver on a pro football team basd on the Dallas Cowboys of the early 70s. He (and pretty much everybody else on the team) is constantly nursing injuries and taking copious amounts of prescription drugs, as well as non-prescription drugs. Nolte is also becoming a bit of a lone wolf on the team, much to the chagrin of the coaches (Charles Durning and GD Stradlin; I hope I got that name right). There are the standard tropes from football movies, such as the hard partying, the devoutly Christian player, the dumb oaf who really needs somebody to manage him, and so on and so on. It's good in parts, and Nolte is quite good, but I found it disjointed, containg several unappealing archetypes, and an absolute continuity mess. The players spend so much time doing off-field things that you wonder if they ever have time for practice. Also, it only became clear at the end that the action was all supposed to take place over the course of one week (well, Monday morning to next Tuesday, so really nine days). There's a further continuity error in that the big game toward the end of the movie is supposedly for the conference championship, but the players still have another game the next week. That having been said, it's probably a lot more realistic than any football movie that came before it. 6/10.

Corman is six years older than Osborne.

More or less awful than Dondi? I've seen both, and I think I'd have to go with Dondi for the more awful movie.

License plate numbers are an important plot point in the Bryan Forbes movie The League of Gentlemen (not to be confused with The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen). I spotted a continuity goof in Eyes Without a Face, in which the license plates switch back and forth between the professor's two cars.

I was going to guess it was Jan Murray (no relation AFAIK) who hosted Queen For a Day, but apparently Ken did host the show briefly at the beginning of the show's run on radio in 1945. Most of the run was hosted by Jack Bailey. Jan Murray hosted the original Treasure Hunt and was a celebrity panelist on a whole bunch of shows in later years.

Sayonara, actually. The white guys playing Chinese in The Inn of the Sixth Happiness are Robert Donat and Curt Jurgens. And you've got Ingrid Bergman playing British.

How many mixed-race Chinese-Flemish actresses were there in 1955?

At least that would be one less bell to answer.

They actually use Comic Sans on the DVD packaging?

Yamekraw, at 7:19 AM. A visually interesting early sound short.

Schlußakkord (1936) Tagline: "Dear God, the Nazis remade Madame X!"

Third, actually. In between, there was Satan Met a Lady.

I didn't know she was into Robert Morley.

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He was a federal agent on government assignment, wasn't he? That could get the government to go above and beyond in persuading the "streamliner" to make a stop in the middle of nowhere. More likely an anachronism. Then again, I'm one of those weirdos who, when watching a western, tries to count the number of stars on the flag at the fort to see if they got it right.

I bet Hot Spell would make a lot of viewers vamoose.