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In memory of: Valerie Harper (Blame it on Rio) Barry Coe (D-Day the Sixth of June) Max Wright (All That Jazz) Franco Columbu (Pumping Iron) Franco Zeffirelli (Romeo and Juliet)
Private Detective—Jayne Wyman is Torchy Blane in all but name in this Warner Bros programmer.
The Invisible Menace—More comedy than terror in this minor Karloff vehicle with a subplot of an army private smuggling his new bride into camp.
December 7—John Ford and Gregg Toland are critical of Japanese residents of Hawaii and their collaboration with the land of the Rising Sun prior to Pearl Harbor.
In 1929, MGM released a creaky ‘all-star’ musical revue to introduce its silent stars to a talkie audience. Other studios did the same. MGM’s was the worst.
Jumping in ahead of the deadline with five "couples"
N.B. In "The Devil & Daniel Webster" a poor rural farmer called Jeb Stone sells his soul to the devil for money. In the Australian Aboriginal film "Samson and Delilah" two teenagers fall in love and find themselves cast out of their community and living homeless under a bridge. In the BBC "Romeo and Juliet" Alan Rickman plays the provocative Tybalt to Patrick Ryecart's Romeo. "Liv and Ingmar" is a documentary about the working and private relationship of Liv Ullman and director Ingmar Bergman. Jeff Bridges undertakes a bank robbery dressed as a woman in "Thunderbolt and Lightfoot".