Det Jim McLeod

I agree that the parts of it that worked were hilarious. The bizarre jaw dropping ending was changed but reinstated later.

Best- A Patch Of Blue (1965) Worst- Poor Pretty Eddie (1975) Next- Richard Harris

Blondie Goes Latin (1941) Youtube 6/10 Mr Dithers invites Blondie and family on a cruise to South America. A fun entry with some musical moments. Mr Dithers suddenly finds out Dagwood would be needed at the office so he has the leave the ship. He ends up being mistaken for the drummer with the band playing on the ship. Ruth Terry is a the band's singer and she does a good song and has great comic timing with Arthur Lake. Penny Singleton gets to show her musical talents as well and she has a very nice singing voice. Baby Dumpling even gets a to sing a fun duet with a little girl (Janet Burston). Another treat is seeing Dagwood in drag.

Camelot (1967) TCM On Demand 4/10 The Lerner and Lowe musical about the love triangle of King Arthur, Guenevere and Sir Lancelot. First time viewing for me and a big disappointment. For years I listened to the Broadway cast album with Richard Burton, Julie Andrews and Robert Goulet and loved it. I avoided seeing this film because of all the negative things I have read (Leonard Maltin gave the film *1/2 rating). Now that I have seen it I can understand why. Richard Harris is OK as Arthur but he talks and whines through the songs. Vanessa Redgrave is badly miscast as Guenevere and she clearly does not have the vocal range and doesn't even try, Marni Nixon would have helped immensely this time. I was about to praise Franco Nero's singing but I just found out he was dubbed! Other problems are the length (178 minutes) and deadly dull pacing. It seems like they were trying to do a serious historical epic like A Man For All Seasons rather than a lavish, tuneful musical. The music is toned down so it seems like an afterthought as times.

5) His first movie appearance was in Pat And Mike (1952)

2. He played professional baseball with the Brooklyn Dodgers in 1949 and the Chicago Cubs in 1951.

More Dead Than Alive (1969) an interesting western with Clint Walker and Vincent Price

10. She lived to be 92 next-Chuck Connors

That's true, he was hardly a tough guy, but I am always glad to see him show up in a film. My favorites are the helpful friend of new parents Cary Grant and Irene Dunne in Penny Serenade and the drunken judge in Ride The High Country.

The Big Trees (1952) TCM On Demand 5/10 A lumber company owner (Kirk Douglas) wants to swindle the great sequoia trees from a Quaker community. While this was not a very good film, there was some things I enjoyed. The TCM color print was dark and faded and while it's only 89 minutes long, it's dull at times. However, Douglas plays his role very well, another of his cynical heels he had become famous for. Some familiar characters actors are here- Edgar Buchanan plays a gun toting stranger who supports and then opposes the Douglas character. Alan Hale Jr is a rowdy lumberjack. Ellen Corby portrays a pregnant Quaker.

Peter's Friends (1992) Next- Sense And Sensibility (1995) two with Hugh Laurie

Especially the one in Detour (1945)

One of my favorite scenes was George Voskovec as real life psychic Peter Hurkos, he "sees" the strangler in one of his visions, it turns out to be a pathetic pervert played by William Hickey. Hurkos also tells a cop played by James Brolin about how he knows he made up a story about having car trouble.

On the set of The Dirty Dozen, director Robert Aldrich shows Telly Savalas how to stab the German woman.

Blondie Has Servant Trouble (1940) Youtube 5/10 Mr Dithers has Dagwood and family house sit a supposedly haunted mansion. The Movies! Network skipped this #6 entry in the series so I went to Youtube to view it. A black actor named Ray Turner has a role as a man the Bumsteads find at the house, it seems that he is staying there due to an initiation from a lodge. He plays it as a bug eyed coward, so maybe that's why Movie! did not show it, he has some funny moments though. They are soon joined by a creepy butler and his wife as the maid. One interesting thing about this one is there is some suspense and threats of murder that are handled quite seriously. So it's an OK entry but not as fast or as funny as previous films in the series.

Best- On The Town (1949) Worst- Viva Knievel (1977) Next-Jerry Lewis

He had his best streak from 1972 to 1975. The Godfather Scarecrow Serpico The Godfather Part II Dog Day Afternoon The 1977 flop Bobby Deerfield ended that.

I saw that about a year ago, it was very entertaining. It was interesting to know how she was treated so nicely by some famous mobsters like Al Capone and Bugsy Siegel. However she said Al Jolson was mean.

DNA evidence has recently proved he was the killer of one of the victims.

I was just about to post his 1972 to 1976 years, an impressive run of critical and box office successes, his only acting nomination* to date. The Hot Rock Jeremiah Johnson The Candidate The Way We Were The Sting* The Great Gatsby The Great Waldo Pepper Three Days Of The Condor All The President's Men

I saw Three Strangers many years ago, I did not recall much, just re watched this morning. The beginning was intriguing, the middle dragged a bit and the ending was very good. The main reason I saw it was because of Peter Lorre. Here he is given an unusual part for him, he is actually the most decent character among the three leads. He is even given a very cool name "Johnny West", much better than the "M'sieu Pig" he played in Strange Cargo (1940). I found out that his role in Strangers was actually meant for Bogart, surely the only time they would be considered for the same part.

The Miniskirt Mob (1968) Next- The Young Runaways (1968) two with Patty McCormack

I haven't seen any complaints like this

8. He wore dentures, as most of his teeth were pulled due to gum disease.

Shallow Grave (1994) Starz On Demand 9/10 Three Scottish flatmates find their new roomie dead and he left a suitcase full of cash. I saw this when first released, loved it then and still do. It was the first film directed by Danny Boyle, who later did Trainspotting and the Oscar winning Slumdog Millionaire. The three main characters are played by Kerry Fox, Christopher Eccleston and Ewan Mcgregor. They all give excellent performances but the characters are obnoxious and unlikable. Still I was drawn into the story where greed makes the trio start turning on each other. They have suspicious cops to worry about and they unknowingly have some brutal gangsters searching for the money. This has a great Hitchockian twist at the end. I highly recommend this to suspense fans.