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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.
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.
In order to inherit his grandmother's farm, Ned Harsten plans to kill her and blame the murder on his younger brother, Frankie, who is a notorious sleep-walker.
Stars: Laurence Harvey, Susan Shaw, Trader Faulkner & Laurence Naismith.
The morning after the fire and basic training is complete. The boys are due in front of the Selection Officer to determine their future trade. Mrs. Marsh is similarly insistent that the Cpl. assesses his own career.
The Lone Ranger meets a young boy whose Christmas wish is to be re-united with his father. The Lone Ranger and Tonto go on a quest to find the boy's father and grant the boy his wish.
A British road repairman gets into a feud with the Army, gets drafted and is mistakenly parachuted into Nazi occupied France where his physical resemblance to the local German commandant triggers a hilarious chain reaction.
Reggie Wilson's Hollywood career as a film editor ended after he had an affair with his boss's wife. He then moved to England, became successful, and married the daughter of a producer. They are both working on a new film 'Eclipse'. His new life is threatened when he starts receiving intimate letters from a woman. She reminds him of a relationship they had some time ago but he genuinely has no knowledge of it. Has he a sick mind or is he the victim of an evil scheme?
The Intimate Stranger | Finger of Guilt | British crime film noir 1956
Watch Three Came Home (1950) Full Movie on The Film Detective. Three Came Home is the dramatic screen adaption of Agnes Newton Keith's war-time prison memoir. Separated from her husband, Keith (Claudette Colbert) and her young son must survive in captivity until the end of the war. The realistic and harrowing film was directed by Oscar nominee Jean Negulesco, and features former Japanese silent screen star Sessue Hayakawa as the stern camp commandant Colonel Suga. "It will shock you, disturb you, tear your heart out," wrote the NY Times' Bosley Crowther. "But it will fill you fully with a great respect for a heroic soul."
Director: Jean Negulesco
Writers: Nunnally Johnson, Agnes Newton Keith
Starring: Claudette Colbert, Patric Knowles, Florence Desmond
The club is having a Lady and the Tramp theme night: the men will be tramps, and the ladies will be ladies. Not so simple for Jacko, who comes as the lady and his mother is the tramp. Unfortunately, the police crash it because their liquor license has expired; Eddie forgot to renew it.
Travers holds back on accepting to Clarence's proposal until she is sure she can live with him. So the couple decide move to the Oxfordshire countryside and begin a trial-run. Guest starring Richard Caldicot.
Just as rock 'n' roller Jeep Jackson (Anthony Newley) reaches the top of the British music charts, the newly crowned teen idol is drafted by the British army and forced to abandon his career and begin a two-year stint in uniform.
When Jackson's scheming agent, Herbie (Sidney James), spirits the singer away from the barracks for an unauthorized recording session, the out-of-place superstar runs afoul of his ruthless superior, Sgt. Lush (William Bendix).
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.
The staff at Grace Bros are working late, but they are not alone in the building. There's a thief about. Well, two actually.
Based on Victor Herbert's popular 1903 operetta Babes in Toyland, the film was produced by Hal Roach, directed by Charley Rogers and Gus Meins, and distributed by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer.
Although the 1934 film makes use of many of the characters in the original play, as well as several of the songs, the plot is almost completely unlike that of the original stage production.
In contrast to the stage version, the film's story takes place entirely in Toyland, which is inhabited by Mother Goose (Virginia Karns) and other well-known fairy tale characters.
After being restricted to base by Binghamton, McHale and the guys mock up a damaged PT boat, to look like the 73, so that they can sneak a load of building materials to a nearby island village, to help the natives rebuild, after an air raid. But complications develop, when Admiral Rogers visits Taratupa, to investigate.
McHale's Navy is an American sitcom starring Ernest Borgnine that aired 138 half-hour episodes over four seasons, from October 11, 1962, to April 12, 1966, on the ABC television network.
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
When Ludicrus loses his seat in the senate, he decides to move the family to Rome, but Lurcio worries about who might be his next master when he finds out that they cannot afford to take him with them.
Mr Rumbold's training session for the staff conflicts with everyone's personal plans, which leads to dissent in the ranks.
Eddie, Jacko, and Arthur have a meeting to vote for the darts captain for the upcoming Christmas tournament.
Bill comes in and puts his name forward, so they decide on a drinking contest. Afterward, at home, Eddie must sleep on the couch, and he dreams they're all on a desert island; he is the dinner and Bill is the king. They win the darts match and Eddie gives the trophy to Bill.
At the club meeting, the men decide to take a trip to Majorca. The women threaten to withhold all their services if they do not take them, so off they all go.
Through a misunderstanding, Eddie spends the duration of the trip in jail.
While smuggling aristocrats out of France, Andrew and Richard are pursued by Chauvelin's agents. Andrew is shot and wounded, and Richard is forced to leave him behind. Sir Percy must return to France to find Andrew and get him out of the country, a task complicated by the fact that Percy doesn't know where Andrew is and Chauvelin has his agents out looking for Andrew, too.
The true story of airman Douglas Bader who overcame the loss of both legs in a 1931 flying accident to become a successful fighter pilot and wing leader during World War II.
Cast
Kenneth More, Muriel Pavlow, Lyndon Brook, Lee Patterson, Alexander Knox, Dorothy Alison, Michael Warre, Sydney Tafler, Howard Marion-Crawford, Michael Gough
Scotland Yard receives news, that bank notes stolen in a Royal Mint van heist have turned up in South America.
Inspector Caesar Smith, (Denis Shaw), is put on the case, and ends up in Brazil, where he learns that the stolen notes were used in the purchase of coffee beans, which leaves him trying to track down the buyer, as they were more than likely the men behind the Royal Mint robbery.
He follows the trail which leads to Europe, before ending up back in Britain at the door of possibly the guilty coffee importer/van robber.
This is a pretty well paced, and enjoyable, little film at just over an hour, in which Denis Shaw appears to be having a ball with his globetrotting, karate chopping, and coffee beans!
Maybe not a classic, but an interesting way to spend 60 odd minutes.
A tramp gets involved with a mysterious crime when he finds a wallet in the street.
Stars: Stanley Holloway, Leslie Dwyer, Reginald Tate, Meredith Edwards, Wilfrid Hyde-White, Joy Shelton Natasha Parry Sebastian Cabot
Director: Gordon Parry.
A transport strike forces the staff of Grace Brothers to spend the night at the store. Who's going to see to Mrs Slocombe's pussy?