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Freeview (UK) #film of the day : Monkey Business (1952 92 mins.) Deftly handled comedy from genre genius director Howard Hawks : starring Cary Grant, Ginger Rogers, Charles Coburn and Marilyn Monroe. [Film 4 12.55 & +1] letterboxd.com/film/monkey-...
Monkey Business (1952)Research chemist Barnaby Fulton works on a fountain of youth pill for a chemical company. One of the labs chimps gets loose in the laboratory and mixes chemicals, but then pours the mix into the water...letterboxd.comFreeview (UK) #film of the day : John Farrow's #western Copper Canyon (1950 83 mins.) starring Ray Milland, The Wonderful Hedy Lamarr and Macdonald Carey. [5 Action 12.20] letterboxd.com/film/copper-...
Copper Canyon (1950)A group of copper miners, Southern veterans, are terrorized by local rebel-haters, led by deputy Lane Travis. The miners ask stage sharpshooter Johnny Carter to help them, under the impression that he...letterboxd.comFreeview (UK) #film of the day : Frank Darabont's interesting #horror The Mist (2007 120mins.) based on Stephen King's novel and starring Thomas Jane and Marcia Gay Harden. [BBC1 22.45 & iPlayer thereafter] letterboxd.com/film/the-mist/
The Mist (2007)After a violent storm, a dense cloud of mist envelops a small Maine town, trapping David Drayton and his five-year-old son in a local grocery store with other local residents. They soon discover that ...letterboxd.comLast nights first watch #film was the neat little British #BMovie thriller Circumstantial Evidence (1952, Daniel Birt) with Rona Anderson, Patrick Holt and John Arnatt. The police inspector is Ballard Berkeley, en route to being the Major in Fawlty Towers! letterboxd.com/film/circums...
Circumstantial Evidence (1952)Long after being deserted by her husband, Linda Harrison will soon be free to marry her lover, Michael Carteret. But when her husband suddenly reappears, he attempts to blackmail the couple with a thr...letterboxd.comFreeview (UK) #film of the day : Ridley Scott's excellent biographical crime drama American Gangster (2007 150min.) with Denzel Washington and Russell Crowe. [Ch 4 22.00 &+1] letterboxd.com/film/america...
American Gangster (2007)Loosely based on the criminal career of Frank Lucas, a gangster from La Grange, North Carolina, who smuggled heroin into the United States on American service planes returning from the Vietnam War, be...letterboxd.comLast nights first watch #film was the slightly sleazy British #horror thriller Don’t Open Till Christmas (1984) Starring and directed by Edmund Purdom; with Alan Lake, Belinda Mayne, Gerry Sundquist & Mark Jones Cameo from Kevin Lloyd (DC Lines from The Bill) letterboxd.com/film/dont-op...
Don't Open Till Christmas (1984)It's just days before Christmas in London, but not everyone is full of good cheer - as a maniac with a pathological hatred of Santa Claus stalks the streets, butchering any man that’s unlucky enough t...letterboxd.comLast nights first watch #film was the amiable British thriller The Black Rider (Wolf Rilla, 1954) with Jimmy Hanley, Rona Anderson, Leslie Dwyer (Mr Partridge in Hi de Hi!), The Great Lionel Jeffries and The Almost As Great Kenneth Connor. letterboxd.com/film/the-bla... A well earned 2 stars!
The Black Rider (1954)When young reporter and amateur biker Jerry Marsh investigates a mysterious hooded figure on a motorbike, he discovers crooks hiding out in a ruined castle with atomic sabotage on their minds...letterboxd.comFreeview (UK) #film of the day : Robert Aldrich's tough #western Ulzana's Raid (1972 96 mins.) Starring Burt Lancaster, Bruce Davison, Jorge Luke and Richard Jaeckel. Beautifully shot by Joseph Biroc and with a smart script from Alan Sharp. [Great Action 21.00] letterboxd.com/film/ulzanas...
Ulzana's Raid (1972)After fierce war chief Ulzana and a small war party jump the reservation bent on murder and terror, an inexperienced young lieutenant is assigned to track him down.letterboxd.comLast nights first watch #film was the early Nicholas Ray melodrama A Woman’s Secret (US, 1949) with Maureen O'Hara, Melvyn Douglas, the great Gloria Grahame and Jay C. Flippen & Mary Philips Great cast, good script, moody atmosphere but somehow didn't quite work. letterboxd.com/film/a-woman...
A Woman's Secret (1949)A popular singer, Marian Washburn, suddenly and unexplainably loses her voice, causing a shake-up at the club where she works. Her worried but loyal piano player, Luke Jordan, helps to promote a new, ...letterboxd.comFreeview (UK) #film of the day : Thriller Eye In The Sky (2015 102mins.) starring Helen Mirren, Alan Rickman and Aaron Paul. [BBC1 22.40 & iPlayer for 30 days] letterboxd.com/film/eye-in-...
Eye in the Sky (2015)A UK-based military officer in command of a top secret drone operation to capture terrorists in Kenya discovers the targets are planning a suicide bombing and the mission escalates from “capture” to “...letterboxd.comGilbert (O'Sullivan) – What Can I Do (UK CBS Records #vinyl 7" pre-release 45 1968) www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZXES... #sixties #pop #vocal #60sMusic #SortingMy45s
I was in the mood for a #PreposterousThriller so last nights first watch #film was Night Game (US 1989) with Roy Scheider, Karen Young & Richard Bradford. From honking sax on the opening credits to the nuts Happy Ending it ticked almost every box on the PT list. letterboxd.com/film/night-g...
Night Game (1989)A police detective tracks a serial killer who is stalking young women on a beach front after each game that a baseball pitcher wins.letterboxd.comLast nights first watch #film was the (low budget!) post-apocalypse drama Last Woman on Earth (Roger Corman, US 1960) with Betsy Jones-Moreland, Antony Carbone and Robert Towne, who also wrote the script - setting off on the path that led to writing Chinatown. letterboxd.com/film/last-wo...
Last Woman on Earth (1960)Harold Gern, a shady businessman from New York, is spending a holiday in Puerto Rico with his attractive wife Evelyn. They are joined by Martin Joyce, Harold's lawyer, who has come to discuss the late...letterboxd.comFreeview (UK) #film of the day : Classic British costume drama The Wicked Lady (1945 99 mins.) with Margaret Lockwood on brilliant form in the lead, and support from James Mason, Patricia Roc and Griffith Jones [ @talkingpicturestv.bsky.social 11.40AM] letterboxd.com/film/the-wic...
The Wicked Lady (1945)A married woman finds new thrills as a masked robber on the highways.letterboxd.com#NowPlaying Wayne Sleep – Man To Man (UK Chappell Music Limited Edition, Numbered #vinyl 12" single 1982) Signed limited edition comprising of 1000 copies : no. 824 i.ytimg.com/vi/Z2avrdElS... #eighties #superstar #pop #electropop #synth #vocal #80smusic