Det Jim McLeod

Baby Blue Marine Next-The Mechanic (1972) 2 with Jan Michael Vincent

My prime time schedule, the last two would fit in with TCM Underground. I chose titles with the name of the main character. 8:00 PM. Marty (1955) Dir: Delbert Mann. Ernest Borgnine, Betsy Blair. 90 min. Overweight bachelor thinks he will never find love but does despite interference from his mother and buddies. 9:45 PM Marnie (1964) Dir: Alfred Hitchcock. Tippi Hedren, Sean Connery. 129 min. A woman becomes a compulsive thief due childhood trauma. 12:15 AM Charly (1968) Dir: Ralph Nelson. Cliff Robertson, Claire Bloom. 103 min. A mentally impaired man is subject to experiments. 2:00 AM May (2002) Dir: Lucky McKee. Angela Bettis, Jeremy Sisto. 93 min. Horror film of lonely woman who decides she wants to create the perfect friend, using different body parts. 3:45 AM Willard (1971) Dir: Daniel Mann. Bruce Davison, Elsa Lanchester. 95 min. A trouble young man trains rats to do his bidding.

Maria Ouspenskaya was in The Wolf Man with Claude Rains

A 1973 TV movie of the week, I have been searching for it for 46 years and finally it's on Youtube. It's about 3 handicapped men who plan a jewel heist in a museum. 7/10 The stars are paraplegic Mike Connors, blind Kent McCord and hook handed Michael Cole. It has some suspenseful "will they pull it off?" and "will they get caught?" moments. The story doesn't really matter, the real treat is seeing private eye Joe Mannix, "Adam-12's" Officer Jim Reed and "Mod Squad" cop Pete Cochran on the other side of the law for once. I had met Kent McCord at an autograph show about 20 years ago and he had fond memories of his co stars and this film. He said he knew Mike Connors for many years and was a stunt double for him on the 1966 version of "Stagecoach". Anybody else recall this movie?

Dick Foran?

40 Carats Next-Butterflies Are Free (2 with Edward Albert)

Witness For The Prosecution Next-cynicism

I remember seeing this on network TV also. I thought the scene where Maria marries the Captain was THE END!

Suzy Parker was in Kiss Them For Me with Cary Grant

3) In the 1994 film "Ed Wood", Ed (Johnny Depp) goes to his girl friend Dolores (Sarah Jessica Parker) and tells her he just met a famous movie star and tells her to guess, she immediately says "Robert Taylor?"

The Dead Next-a John Huston acting performance

Sandra Dorne is beautiful as well, I think this is the best of the "evil dummy" films. The scene where the dummy walks and thanks the audience is chilling.

Sincerely Yours with Liberace Next-beautiful underwater scenes

Rio Bravo (1959) While I like all the stars, there is more talk than action (actually my favorite scene is the duet between Dean Martin and Ricky Nelson). The simple story of holding an outlaw in a jail cell before his gang tries to spring him did not need to be 2 hours and 20 minutes long.

Clark Gable was in Strange Cargo with Peter Lorre

Here's another one I grabbed when it became available on DVD. 7/10 I thought Whitmore was excellent as always. And a fine supporting cast as well. Some of the dialogue is surprisingly frank for 1964. Whitmore has a date with beautiful black actress Thelma Oliver who had a nude scene in "The Pawnbroker" the next year. The funniest line is when he asks a black man where is the nearest Catholic church and the nearest rest room. He answers "Whattya wanna do, pray or spray?"

I like this one, 7/10 though I read Vincent Price wrote in on the cover of his script "The Death Of Me". There is a lot to enjoy in this exploitation classic, Price brings all his professionalism to it and gives a good performance. Linda Ho is an extremely sexy and evil Dragon lady. The slow motion drug sequence must be seen to be believed and many beautiful Asian girls doing some very suggestive dancing for 1962. I had this taped on VHS before I finally found it on Warner Archive DVD.

Best Picture-Narrow Margin Actor-Gary Cooper in High Noon Actress-Shirley Booth in Come Back Little Sheba Supp Actor-Dick Powell in The Bad And The Beautiful Supp Actress-Marie Windsor in Narrow Margin

Doc Next-Kiefer Sutherland

I like Hardwicke in this, though he can't match Colin Clive's hysteria or Basil Rathbone's swagger as the Frankenstein family in the previous films. I am big Chaney Jr fan though I was disappointed with his Monster in this. He remained almost totally stone faced throughout this and does not make one audible sound (until he acquires Ygor's brain and dubbed voice). I missed the humanity Karloff brought to the role and he would laugh, scream, cry. Also, what happened to the friendship between the Monster and Ygor? In "Son Of Frankenstein" they were devoted to each other, whereas here the Monster appears to be annoyed or angry with him all the time. He even crushes him with the heavy door!

Scandal (1989) The Hit (1984) 2 with John Hurt

At first it seemed like it was going to be a light hearted mystery, but when the characters started revealing their true selves, it turned dark and nasty, I liked the twists and turns. I wasn't too bothered by the ending, another sign of the times when movies were changing.

Charles Dingle was in The Little Foxes with Carl Benton Reid

Sitting Pretty Next-David Niven

Barbara Nichols was in Sweet Smell Of Success with Susan Harrison