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Review: One Mysterious Night (1944)

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 25th 2014

It costs only a dollar—1/100th of a C-note—to gaze at a display of precious gems at the Carleton Plaza Hotel, an event that

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 23rd 2014

Though he personally considered himself foremost an actor, radio veteran Jackson Beck—born in New York City on this date in

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jul 10th 2014

During his stint at San Francisco’s KGO in the mid-1940s, John Randolph “Jack” Webb earned his initial radio bona fides as

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 26th 2014

On this date in 1904, a son was born to Alajos Löwenstein and Elvira Freischberger in an Austria-Hungarian village that is n

Posted by Ivan G. Shreve, Jr. on Jun 14th 2014

With the manpower shortage during World War II, reformed safecracker-jewel thief Horatio “Boston Blackie” Black (Chester Mo

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