Category: Drama

2540. THE GENERAL ELECTRIC THEATRE/TV READER’S DIGEST (January 30, 1955/ November 7, 1955). CBS/ABC-TV nets. Two dramas, live and filmed from a pivotal year in the history of television. 1. […]

2546. THE BLACK KING (1932-USA). With A.B. COMETHIERE, VIVIANNE BABER, LORENZO TUCKER. Marcus Garvey once proclaimed the kinship of all black people. He raised money to organize a “Back To […]

2549. DOUBLE DEAL (1939-USA). With MONTE HAWLEY, JENI LE GON. Enter the dangerous world of the mobsters, gamblers and pretty showbiz headliners who congregate at the nightclub of mob kingpin […]

2461. PASSING CLOUDS (Spellbound) (The Spell Of Amy Nugent) (1940- England). With DEREK FARR, FELIX AYLMER. So powerful is this drama of an upper-class young man’s painful confrontation with the […]

248. STORMY WATERS (REMORQUES) (1941-france). WITH jean cabin, michele morgan, MADELEINE RENAUU, FERNAND LeDOUX. Directed by JEAN GREMILLON. When it comes to poetic movies, no country quite matches France, especially […]

2482. COUNTERBLAST (The Devil’s Plot) (1948-England). With ROBERT BEATTY, MERVYN JOHNS, NOVA PILBEAM. Directed by PAUL L. STEIN. This highly suspenseful melodrama centers on the post-war plight of a devilish […]

2483. SHERLOCK HOLMES (1954-England). Two complete syndicated TV programs. With RONALD HOWARD, H. MARION CRAWFORD. “The Case Of The Singing Violin.” A woman is about to be certified as “hopelessly […]

2486. TOWER OF TERROR (1941 -England). With WILFRED LAWSON, MICHAEL RENNIE, MOVITA. Here is a heart-stopping World War II espionage thriller that takes place at the Weslerrode Lighthouse. The mighty […]

2500. NIGHT OF EVIL (1962-USA). With LISA GAYE, WILLIAM CAMPBELL. This taut drama of tainted innocence opens with fabled syndicated gossip columnist EARL WILSON solemnly declaring that its scenario is […]

2503. SHERLOCK HOLMES (1954-England). Two complete syndicated TV programs. With RONALD HOWARD, H. MARION CRAWFORD. “The Mother Hubbard Case.” A lost child starts a case “that was to rock all […]