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Category Archives: Drama
The Hatchet Man (1932)
Talk about a stretch. Edward G.Robinson and Loretta Young lead an American cast playing Chinese characters in San Francisco’s Chinatown. Robinson makes it worth seeing. A Tong leader is killed and it’s time to avenge his death. Wong Low Get … Continue reading
The Harder They Fall (1956)
You don’t have to be a fight fan to appreciate how good this movie is. Great acting from Bogart in his last film. Rod Steiger is also at the top of his game. It’s based on the Budd Schulberg novel … Continue reading
Walk Softly,Stranger (1956)
Not one of the best. More romance than suspense and that takes away from it being a good crime movie. Chris Hale (Joseph Cotton) goes to a small Ohio town. He rents a room from Mrs.Brentman (Spring Byington). He told … Continue reading
Walk On The Wild Side (1962)
It’s not easy to buy into a movie with Lawrence Harvey doing a Texas accent, let alone Anne Baxter doing a Mexican one. It takes place in the early 1930′s in New Orleans. Harvey is looking for an old girlfriend played … Continue reading
Secrets Of A Secretary (1931)
Just an okay movie but defintely worth seeing for Claudette Colbert as a social secretary for the wealthy Mrs.Merritt,well played by Mary Boland and the performance of Georges Metaxa as a villianous gigolo. At a costume party everyone is having a … Continue reading
Payment On Demand (1951)
Bette Davis saves this soapy from drowning in its own suds. The old saying goes that behind every successful man is a woman. Another bromide states Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned. Bette as Joyce Ramsey proves both … Continue reading
12 O’Clock High (1964-67)
One of TV’s best war dramas. Robert Lansing is General Frank Savage. He commands the 918th bomber group of the U.S. Eighth Air Force based in England. Frank Overton is Major Harvey Stovall. The show is based on the 1949 … Continue reading
Ben Casey (1961-66)
From the creator of “Medic” comes this hospital drama that went for realism..at least most of the time. Vince Edwards is Dr.Ben Casey. His first boss is Dr.David Zorba played by Sam Jaffe. When he left the show Franchot Tone … Continue reading
Movin’ On (1974-76)
Dumb attempt to jump on the short lived trucker craze. Claude Akins is Sonny Pruitt and Frank Converse is his college educated partner Will Chandler. They haul cargo across the country. The opening theme is by Merle Haggard. September 30,1978 … Continue reading
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Marcus Welby,M.D. (1969-76)
Robert Young is a GP and James Brolin is is oh-so-hip assistant, Dr.Steven Kiley. He rides a motorcycle and the chicks dig him. Welby goes between kind and crusty and always has his patients best interests at heart. Elena Verdugo … Continue reading
