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Review: Boston Blackie’s Chinese Venture (1949)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Feb 25th 2015

No sooner has Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Morris) dropped off a bundle of dirty clothes to his laundryman, Char

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 16th 2015

This past Monday, January 14th, marked the 107th birthday of actor William Bendix…who graced the silver screen during the 1

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 13th 2015

Certified couch potatoes have seen today’s birthday boy guest star in a number of TV classics: Alfred Hitchcock Presents, B

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jan 1st 2015

The August 11, 1941 broadcast of CBS’ Forecast marked the first time the character of Hopalong Cassidy was offered up to ra

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 30th 2014

For Nick and Nora Charles, the famed imbibing couple created by Dashiell Hammett in the 1934 novel The Thin Man, sleuthing

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Dec 2nd 2014

The star of radio’s The Aldrich Family, Ezra Stone, may have portrayed an endearingly awkward teenager over the airwaves…bu