Review: The Lineup (1958)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 3rd 2014
As San Francisco antiquities dealer Philip
Dressler (Raymond Bailey) disembarks from a cruise ship, a porter snatches one
o
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Review: After Midnight with Boston Blackie (1943)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 20th 2014
Jewel
thief “Diamond” Ed Barnaby (Walter Baldwin) has just been paroled from prison,
and his loving daughter Betty (Ann Sav
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Review: Radio City Revels (1938)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on May 9th 2014
Aspiring
songwriter Harry Miller (Jack Oakie) is long on ambition…and short on
talent. With his piano-playing partner Tedd
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Review: Boston Blackie Goes Hollywood (1942)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 23rd 2014
Though
the title of the fourth entry in Columbia’s Boston Blackie series—which
stars Chester Morris as reformed safecracker
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Happy Birthday, Hans Conried!
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 15th 2014
The
man born Hans Georg Conried, Jr. on this date in 1917 in
Baltimore, Maryland is described by author Leonard Maltin in h
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Review: Radio Stars on Parade (1945)
Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Apr 10th 2014
Effervescent
chanteuse Sally Baker (Frances Langford) is a success at a nightclub owned by
racketeer Lucky Maddox (Sheldon
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