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Western: Frontier Gentleman “Beljoy’s Prisoner” 6/8/56 CBS, Fort Laramie “Playing Indian” 1/22/56 CBS.

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Mystery: Casey, Press Photographer “The Clue in the Clouds” 2/26/44 CBS, Philo Vance “The Case of the Girl Who Came Back” 7/26/45 NBC.

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True History: Tribute to Humphrey Bogart 1/16/57 NBC, Memoirs of the Movies “Hollywood at Home” 1959 Syndicated.

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Horror: Sealed Book “Devil Island” 4/8/45 MBS, Weird Circle “The Rope of Hair” 1944 Syndicated.

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Sitcom: My Favorite Husband 10/14/49 CBS / AFRS, Phil Harris / Alice Faye “Phil’s Birthday” 10/8/53 NBC.

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Science Fiction: X Minus One “The Haunted Corpse” 12/5/57 NBC, Dimension X “The Vital Factor” 8/1/51 NBC.

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The Maltese Falcon is a 1941 American film noir in which a San Francisco private detective deals with three unscrupulous adventurers, all seeking a jewel-encrusted falcon statuette. Written and directed by John Huston in his directorial debut, the film was based on the 1930 novel The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett and is a remake of the 1931 film of the same name. It stars Humphrey Bogart as private investigator Sam Spade, Mary Astor as his femme fatale client, and as villains Peter Lorre and Sydney Greenstreet.

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The Lives of Harry Lime, starring Orson Welles and based on the movie of the same title.

This series is a real romp for Welles fans, a Comedy/Drama full of lines to relish. I'd say Welles is obviously enjoying himself here.

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Johnny Cash: Live at San Quentin Documentary

Posted by Robert on August 21, 2024 at 7:10pm

It took Johnny Cash 12 years to record one of his live prison shows, but it wasn't easy. He was threatened against doing it, warned it would ruin his career, but Cash's instincts were dead on. He just went ahead and recorded at Folsom Prison in 1968 and never sounded so raw and alive. The live album was a huge hit, and followed by the even bigger "Johnny…

Sherlock Holmes BBC Audiodramas

Posted by Robert on August 20, 2024 at 9:06pm

In 1987 freelance writer Bert Coules approached the BBC with the proposal to dramatise Sir Arthur Conan Doyle's most famous novel, The Hound of the Baskervilles. It was given the go-ahead as a two-part serial with Roger Rees and Crawford Logan as Sherlock Holmes and John Watson.