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Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
The old lady in couple #3 is the clear highlight of this episode. Neither Groucho nor his cigars impress her at all, but Groucho seems genuinely tickled by her.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
COUPLE #1: Ida Taylor, who ran away from a cornfield as a young girl / Charles McLaughlin, a vaguely self-described "entrepeneur"
COUPLE #2: Oney Boren, wife of an oil man / John Granger, whose beard gets in the soup
Ida Taylor is a real hoot, especially during the quiz segment. There's a fantastically funny outtake of her in the "stag reel" for this season (originally released by Shout Factory as a bonus on one of their two great YBYL DVD sets from a decade ago). It starts 5:57 into this video if the link doesn't start where it's supposed to (just make sure you play it to the end-- it's Ida's last line that's the real killer!):
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
NOTE: The first couple of minutes of the episode are cut off.
There's a surprise appearance by someone Groucho wasn't expecting or he probably wouldn't have said some of the things he did. . .
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
Groucho Marx hosts a quiz show which features a series of compe****ive questions and a great deal of humourous conversation.
The Big Lift is a true account of the Berlin Airlift, which provided food and supplies to the Western sector of Berlin during the Soviet's blockade of Berlin. Sgt. Danny MacCullough (Montgomery Clift) and his friend Sgt. Hank Kowalski (Paul Douglas) are among the Americans called upon to risk their lives to transport supplies to the desperate citizens. The grim war is soon left behind as budding romances emerge between two women and the soldiers. Director George Seaton filmed on location with actual military personnel in minor acting roles, making The Big Lift one of the most remarkable war films of all time.
Director: George Seaton
Writer: George Seaton
Starring: Montgomery Clift, Paul Douglas, Cornell Borchers, Bruni Löbel, O.E. Hasse, Dante V. Morel
An unhappily married man begins a flirtation with a younger woman. When his wife threatens to ruin her, he decides to take action.
Starring - Charles Laughton, Ella Raines, Dean Harens, Stanley Ridges
A conservative middle aged professor engages in a relationship with a femme fatale, he's plunged into a nightmarish world of blackmail and murder.
Starring - Edward G. Robinson, Joan Bennett, Raymond M****ey, Edmund Breon
A retired mob accountant is drawn back in when his brothers, who have recently made a hit for the organization, decide to go to the authorities.
Starring - Richard Conte, Dianne Foster, Kathryn Grant
Nick and Nora Charles visit Nicks parents in Nick's hometown of Sycamore Springs. The town is a very peaceful and law-abiding one but Nick soon has a murder case on his hands.
Starring - William Powell, Myrna Loy, Lucile Watson
British spy John Preston (Michael Caine), recently demoted by his boss for a well-intentioned but unsanctioned mission, stumbles onto a covert plot by KGB agent Valeri Petrofsky (Pierce Brosnan), who is attempting to build and detonate a nuclear bomb on British soil and blame it on the Americans. With the support of the ailing MI5 director, Preston, who is still at odds with several of his superiors, attempts to uncover and thwart the plot before it's too late.
Directed by John Mackenzie
Story by Frederick Forsyth
Starring
Michael Caine
Pierce Brosnan
Ned Beatty
Ian Richardson
Joanna Cassidy
Wealthy rancher G.W. McLintock uses his power and influence in the territory to keep the peace between farmers, ranchers, land-grabbers, Indians and corrupt government officials.
Director: Andrew V. McLaglen
Writer: James Edward Grant (original screenplay)
Stars: John Wayne, Maureen O'Hara, Patrick Wayne
Full Western Movie, Full Length Cowboy Film, English: (1958)
The Bravados (original title), 1h 38min, Drama, Western.
The Bravados is a 1958 American western film (colour by DeLuxe) directed by Henry King, starring Gregory Peck and Joan Collins. The CinemaScope film was based on a novel of the same name, written by Frank O'Rourke.
A man is chasing four outlaws who killed his wife and finds them in a small town's jail but they escape to Mexico.
Director: Henry King
Writers: Philip Yordan (screenplay), Frank O'Rourke (novel)
Stars: Gregory Peck, Joan Collins, Stephen Boyd
Classic Western Movie: Garden of Evil - A trio of American adventurers stranded in rural Mexico are recruited by a beautiful woman to rescue her husband, who is trapped in a cave in Apache territory.
Garden of Evil (1954)
Director: Henry Hathaway
Writers: Frank Fenton(screenplay), Fred Freiberger(story), William Tunberg(story)
Stars: Gary Cooper, Susan Hayward, Richard Widmark
Genre: Action, Adventure, Drama, Romance, Western
Country: United States
Language: English
Release Date: 30 June 1954 (USA)
Filming Location: Uruapan, Michoacán, Mexico
Storyline:
Three Americans are headed by ship around the cape to the California gold fields when they are put ashore for several weeks in a sleepy little Mexican village. While there, they are offered the job of following a lady deep into the Indian-infested mountains of Mexico to rescue the lady's husband trapped by a cave-in at their gold mine. For the job they are promised $2000 each. While each contemplates their own chances for getting the lady and/or the gold mine, if they can survive to enjoy it.
The Upturned Glass is a 1947 British film noir psychological thriller directed by Lawrence Huntington and starring James Mason, Rosamund John and Pamela Kellino. The screenplay concerns a leading brain surgeon who murders a woman he believes to be responsible for the death of the woman he loved.
It was made at Gainsborough Pictures' Islington Studios, with sets designed by the art director Andrew Mazzei. It was made as an independent production overseen by Sydney Box, then head of Gainsborough.
Cast:
James Mason as Michael Joyce
Rosamund John as Emma Wright
Pamela Kellino as Kate Howard
Ann Stephens as Ann Wright
Morland Graham as Clay
Brefni O'Rorke as Dr. Farrell
Henry Oscar as Coroner
Jane Hylton as Miss Marsh
In 17th. century England, Jassy is believed a witch because she has sometimes visions of approaching disasters.
When Barney Hatton, an impoverished gentry whose gambling father has lost the family home, helps her anyway she will not forget and will try to help him have his property back - at any price?
Wide-eyed and poor young Leonora (Barbara Bel Geddes) weds an obsessive millionaire named Ohlrig (Robert Ryan), but the marriage is loveless. Even worse, Ohlrig seems to have manic, violent tendencies. Eventually, young Leonora escapes her unhappy life and begins working with New York City doctor Larry Quinada (James Mason), who she soon falls for. Unfortunately, Ohlrig refuses to grant his wife a divorce, and things get even darker for Leonora when she realizes she's pregnant with his child.