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Girl On The Spot
(1946) Starring Lois
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Beautiful print and will
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A would-be nightclub entertainer finds her life
jeopardized after she inadvertently witnesses a gangland murder while
heading for an audition. Fortunately, a brave photographer is there to
save her and this crime drama ends on a happy note.
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Director: William Beaudine
Writers: George Blake, Jack Hartfield, Dorcas Cochran, Jerry Warner,
Stanley Davis
Stars: Lois Collier, Jess Barker, George Dolenz, Fuzzy Knight, Ludwig
Stossel, Richard Lane, Donald MacBride, Edward Brophy
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Songs include:
A Policeman's Lot
from "The Pirates of Penzance"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
We Sail the Ocean Blue
from "The Pirates of Penzance"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
When the Foeman Bares His Steel
from "The Pirates of Penzance"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
I'm Called Little Buttercup
from "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Now to the Banquet We Press
from "The Sorcerer"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Dance a Cachucha
from "The Gondoliers"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Sorry Her Lot
from "H.M.S. Pinafore"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Love Is a Plaintive Song
from "Patience"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Pirate King Song
from "The Pirates of Penzance"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert
Poor Wand'ring One
from "The Pirates of Penzance"
Music by Arthur Sullivan
Lyrics by W.S. Gilbert | |
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Pretty Lois Collier is a forgotten Jane Powell type
singer who is a witness to murder here and becomes the target of some
buffoonish hit men (Richard Lane and Edward Brophy) as she prepares to
star in a Broadway revival of "The Pirates of Penzance". She's
being mentored by the sweet Ludwig Stossel, a faded conductor whose
Gilbert and Sullivan company is only put on Broadway as a way of trapping
the killers. In addition to songs from "Pirates", there are
also a few tunes from "HMS Pinafore", and smart viewers will
immediately notice a resemblance between this and the finale of the 1978
comedy thriller "Foul Play" where Chevy Chase and Goldie Hawn
had to trap a killer during a performance of "The Mikado". | |
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Gilbert and Sullivan operettas were performed with
great regularity at New York's City Center up until the 1960's, but until
the 1980's revival of "The Pirates of Penzance" (updated for
modern audiences), they were not considered worthy of a fully staged
Broadway revival. | |
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The sight of Lane and Brophy in very bad drag (trying
to look like society matrons) is hysterical, especially as they hem and
haw over shooting Collier because of "how beautiful" it all
appears to be, weeping while struggling to put off shooting her. | |
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Order this rarely-seen and hard-to-find
classic today for the low price of $5.99.
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Blackout (1954)
Stars: Dane Clark,
Belinda Lee, Betty Ann Davies
Dane Clark plays a down-at-heels war vet who enters into an odd
agreement. If he'll marry a gorgeous blonde (Belinda Lee), Clark will be
paid a hefty sum of money. Unfortunately he's being set up as the fall
guy in a murder scheme. Awakening from a drunken stupor, Clark finds that
all the evidence in the murder points to him--and even he is convinced
that he's guilty. Filmed in England, Blackout is based on the Helen
Nielsen novel Murder by Proxy.
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Blackwell's Island (1939)
Stars: John Garfield,
Rosemary Lane, Dick Purcell
This gangster film is based
upon fact as it tells the tale of a determined reporter who has decided
to make sure a certain notorious gangster gets his just desserts. It
takes a long time, but eventually the reporter succeeds and the gangster
is sent up river. Unfortunately, once there, he becomes the leader of the
prisoners and, though incarcerated, is soon up to his old tricks of
trying to corrupt local politicians and the warden. The obsessed
journalist is infuriated and so gets himself sent to prison to stop the
gangster once and for all.
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Blair Witch
(2016)
Stars: James Allen
McCune, Callie Hernandez, Corbin Reid
James (James Allen McCune) discovers an online video that he believes
explains his sister's disappearance in the Black Hills Forest in
Burkittsville, MD. He and a group of friends head to the woods to search
for her, where they soon encounter unfathomable evil. Adam Wingard
(You're Next, The Guest) directed this sequel to the revolutionary 1999
horror film, The Blair Witch Project.
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Blake Of Scotland Yard (1937)
Stars: Ralph Byrd,
Herbert Rawlinson, Joan Barclay
Sir James Blake has retired
from Scotland Yard so that he can assist his niece Hope and her friend
Jerry in developing an apparatus they have invented. Sir James thinks
that their invention has the potential to prevent wars, and plans to
donate it to the League of Nations. But a gang of criminals led by the
elusive "Scorpion" steals the device, and Blake and his
associates must recover the invention and determine the identity of the
"Scorpion".
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Blazing Frontier
(1943)
Stars: Buster Crabbe, Al
St. John, Marjorie Manners
Buster Crabbe and Al St. John
(or "Our Old Pals", as they were invariably billed) star in the
PRC western Blazing Frontier. As ever, Crabbe plays Billy the Kid, aka
Billy Carson, while St. John is the daffy Fuzzy Q. Jones. This time,
Billy intervenes in a feud between the railroad company and local
settlers. Crooked land agents are busily stoking the flames of the feud,
and it's up to Billy and Fuzzy to keep things from getting out of hand.
Also known as Billy the Kid in Blazing Frontier, this 6-reel western
didn't make it to New York theatres until April of 1944, nearly eight
months after its regional release.
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Bleed (2002)
Stars: Debbie Rochon,
Danny Wolske, Allen Nabors
A naïve young girl desperate
to fit in with her new boyfriend's tightly knit crew learns that
membership may be deadly in this horror entry starring scream queen
Debbie Rochon. Upon arriving at a party with her new boyfriend, Shawn
(Danny Wolske), desperate-to-fit-in newcomer Debbie (Rochon) learns that
the friends have formed a mysterious brotherhood nicknamed "The
Murder Club." As Debbie accepts her invitation to join the mysterious
club, a murderer who seems to take the group's name to heart begins
killing off members one by one.
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