flashback42
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> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}*149*
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*149*
"I don't know what I'm doin' here! I remember I was partyin' after my well came in, and I woke up here!"
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> {quote:title=EugeniaH wrote:}{quote}*148*
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*148 one mo time*
"No, you got off at the wrong floor. The Ragensteen Bar Mitzvah is straight upstairs from here."
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♫ They sing of Yancy Derringer on every danger trail...
On riverboat, in manor house, and now and then in jail...♫
♫ They say that Yancy Derringer had ruffles at his wrist,
Brocades and silver buckles, and iron in his fist...♫
He had small pistols hidden in his hat and in other unexpected places. His sidekick "Pahoo" had a shotgun, I think a 10 gauge, that could blow limbs off trees. They also had a regular circus act with knives: The man with the knife would toss it to the man who needed it. The second man would catch it without getting hurt, then would throw, slice, etc, whatever was needed.
I guess I stretched it a bit, calling two Tarzan flicks a "series." *Yancy Derringer* was on CBS, and it was a Desilu production. Do you know the circumstances that caused the cancellation?
Edited by: flashback42 on May 25, 2012 12:23 AM
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(Dr.) Orvilla -- Joe Kirk in *Abbott and Costello Go to Mars* (1953)
...Hey, Lonesome! Where you been?
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Thanks. Luck and timing; I have had circumstances a few times to piggyback a question, as you did. Next up:
1950 TV series, very popular, 30 min episodes. Canceled, in spite of popularity and good ratings. The star had a previous series, and he had a bigscreen series that followed this cancellation. Story timing was post Civil War, and this was one of those programs that had a weapons gimmick.
Series? Reason for cancellation?
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At one point, the murder mystery is laid aside briefly while the physicists gather in a classroom to hear one of their number give the solution to a famous theorem that has lasted some six hundred years. Polite applause from a small group. It is while walking away from this meeting that they have some new case-related information turn up.
Edited by: flashback42 on May 24, 2012 5:00 PM
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Her Ladyship -- This actress is well cast. Her resume includes a number of roles with very serious impact.
Her driver / friend / confidant / servant -- Known mostly for dramatic and action roles. Military and espionage settings. Seafaring adventures also.
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Trying again, lavender; perhaps I was being too cagey for my own good. I have purchased, but have not yet read, Susan Strasberg's Marilyn and Me. Have it laid aside until I can devote some time and attention to it. Briefly, my question is: Did the conversation you describe involve Susan Strasberg and Marilyn Monroe? It sounds like it could have, but I don't have time to scan page-by-page right now.
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Thanks, Miles. I knew about the Director's Showcase story. -- As a teenager, I saw it either on first showing or on its first rerun. I was completely unaware of the Alcoa - sponsored story. Next up.
Anthology of police - related stories that ran 1970s-80s, one-hour episodes. A story about a lost child from one of the affluent neighborhoods of Los Angeles. The detective who took the report and got the case became concerned when searches proved fruitless, and the child was not found. Statistically, it is bad news in such cases for time to pass with no results.
This officer got anxious when it begin to look like the family and staff concentrated on the inconvenience to themselves, and showed little sign of worrying about the child. He started to care, because it seemed no one else did.
Series? Episode star?
Edited by: flashback42 on May 24, 2012 2:40 PM
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Gabe Kaplin in 3-character stage biopic *Groucho* (1982).
Julia Child
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The theory develops that the killer may be a physicist. Or at least that a person trained in that discipline may be the clues-dropping killer. It focuses attention on that department of the college, and some quirky eggheads turn up. One, a German-born student, gives an impression of knowing something significant to the case.
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lavender, uh, are we still dealing with Ms. Strassberg here?
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> {quote:title=lavenderblue19 wrote:}{quote}*Intruder In The Dust* ?
Correct. As a rule, William Faulkner's works have not adapted well to film. Scriptwriters tend to make changes, based on opinions about what makes a good film vs what makes a good novel or story. *Intruder in the Dust* (script) is probably more faithful to the original than any other such effort.
The final scene is LOL: The cleared defendant drops in to the office of the lawyer who represented him, to pay his bill. The lawyer doesn't want accept anything, because there never should have been a charge in the first place. The client is insistent; the lawyer says the bill is 75 cents. The client hands it over, then just stands there. Asked what he's waiting for, he says, "I want my receipt." Straight from the novel.
lavender's thread.
Edited by: flashback42 on May 23, 2012 5:53 PM
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...and she was still on Broadway as Anne Frank at the time of that 18th birthday celebration. Her description (in her autobiography Bittersweet) of the married Burton's courtship or her is quite droll.
lavenderblue's thread.
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True dat. 1940s film, sourced from a novel published in the same decade.
A calm, determined elderly woman, with a shotgun, holds off a White lynch mob that wants to get at a Black prisoner.
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The actress' father was widely famous as an innovative teacher of acting technique. Many famous and honored members of the profession had studied under him. Her mother was both and actress and a teacher of some note.
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The driver knows, as Her Ladyship does not, that his old unit commander is exploiting her, and her late husband's social contacts, for political purposes. A sporting-event evening where his boxing team is featured is roundly upstaged by the political crowd.
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*148*
"Told you! It's fourteen stations of the Cross, and seven deadly sins. You owe me a dollar."
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Thanks, finance. Had not seen that classic for a while, and had forgotten that scene. I had browsed a while among Kipling / India- related titles, wondering if there was such a sequence in one of those stories. Next up:
The segregated South. A homicide with racial overtones, a suspect in custody.
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At the local college, a Professor of Physics (PHD) finds a seeming pattern in the homicide and some deaths that follow. Notes found at each scene, all with numbers written on them, suggest that a system following a numerical progression may be involved in the selection of victims and the different methods of the killings. A brilliant star pupil of the professor (an American) becomes interested also, and the two of them are consulted by the police at each new incident, each new clue.
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Uhhhh, *Alcoa Premier Theater*, the Oct 4 1962 episode with the title Flashing Spikes. James Stewart was the star, Patrick Wayne was the young up&comer. Don Drysdale was billed as "Gomer". Harry Carey was also in the cast.
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(If this is right, I tracked it down from research. I wasn't even on this Continent for that entire year.)
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*Angel Baby* (1961)
Stolen drugs
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Gisborne, Guy -- Peter Falk in *Robin and the 7 Hoods* (1964)
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An elderly, sickly woman is killed. The first suspect is the overworked daughter who has the burden of caring for her. But a note found nearby generates another theory.
Find the Movie Star in Classic TV
in Games and Trivia
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Several days of worrisome bother and search, and then the case is solved. The boy's family have the water in their swimming pool changed. The deceptive impurities in the pool water had masked the fact that the boy had drowned in his family's pool. That was the first place they checked, of course, but the pool seemed to be empty.
Final scene: The detective, in his own home, sets a plate and a cup on the table and then sits down. Hesitation; then, safely here with no witnesses, he breaks down weeping loudly.
Series? Episode star? Episode title?
Edited by: flashback42 on May 25, 2012 12:38 AM