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Traitor

7/13/2020

When straight arrow FBI agent Roy Clayton (Guy Pearce) heads up the investigation into a dangerous international conspiracy, all clues seem to lead back to former U.S. Special Operations officer, Samir Horn (Don Cheadle). A mysterious figure with a web of connections to terrorist organizations, Horn has a knack for emerging on the scene just as a major operation goes down. Obsessed with discovering the truth, Clayton tracks Horn across the globe as the elusive ex-soldier burrows deeper and deeper into a world of shadows and intrigue.

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Don Cheadle and Guy Pearce in TRAITOR (2008)

Lamb to the Slaughter

7/2/2020

Mary Maloney (Barbara Bel Geddes) is a devoted wife and an exceptional housekeeper. One day, her husband, the police chief (Allan Lane), announces that he wants a divorce because he has met another woman. Mary is quite angry and kills him with a blow from a frozen leg of lamb. She calls the police and provides an alibi for herself with the story that she'd been out to the store when the murder took place. The investigating officer, Lieutenant Noonan (Harold J. Stone), is further frustrated when he cannot find the murder weapon.
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Barbara Bel Geddes stars as Mary Malone in Alfred Hitchock Presents: Lamb to the Slaughter (1958)

A Little Sleep

6/6/2020

A spoiled, amorous rich girl gets a lot more than she bargained for.

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: A Little Sleep

The Contest for Aaron Gold

6/3/2020

Alfred Hitchcock Presents: The Contest for Aaron Gold

During a stay at summer camp Aaron Gold (Barry Gordon) learns ceramics by instructor Bernie Samuelson (Sydney Pollack) or Uncle as instructors are called at the camp. Aaron makes a clay figure of a knight without a right arm that impresses Bernie who encourages Aaron to finish the figure before his parents visit for Parents Day. Aaron brushes off the encouragement and leaves the figure without an arm. Later, the camp director who hates the figure of the knight without a right arm worries how the camp would look if Aaron appeared to have learned nothing during his stay. He orders Bernie to finish the figure himself. Reluctantly, Bernie does so, shows the completed to figure to Aaron, which upsets Aaron. When Aaron's father arrives, both Bernie and the director have a rude awakening.

The Big Valley: The Midas Man

4/7/2020

Audra (Linda Evans) falls in love with Scott Breckenridge (Tom Tryon), a dashing San Francisco financier and friend of Jarrod’s (Richard Long) who comes to the valley during a drought.

When the Barkleys are unable to give their ranch neighbors loans because of the drought and financial crisis, Scott offers to help them out with short-term loans that Jarrod advises against because of the 90-day high interest rates. As deadline approaches and the drought unending, Audra makes an important sacrifice to reward Scott and save the ranchers from losing everything .

Audra (Linda Evans)

Scott (Tom Tryon)

A Young Joel Crothers Beta Delta Gamma pledge before Edge of Night

3/16/2020

Joel Crothers with Barbara Steele as Phyllis.

Burt Brinckerhoff Alan and Joel Crothers as Robert

Long before handsome Joel Crothers who played Dr. Miles Cavanaugh (1977-84) on The Edge of Night murder-mystery serial, Joel played Robert, an intern and son of a doctor, in Alfred Hitchcock Presents' Beta Delta Gamma written by Calvin Clements.

The Storyline: At a frat party (early 1960s) in a beach house on a Southern California beach, smart-ass top of the class perfectionist Alan (Burt Brinckerhoff) accepts a challenge to down a full pitcher of beer since Alan never loses at anything, then fights with challenger Mark (Duke Howard) who declines a beer drinking bout against Alan after all.

After a pissed and intoxicated Alan passes out, the mischievous mates decide to stage a mock violent murder scene to pull the wool over unsuspecting Alan's eyes by placing a poker in Alan's hand and Mark made up as a corpse.

Preparing the prank with Mark (Duke Howard) knocked out..

In "The Edge of Night's" Joel Crothers played the role of Dr. Miles Cavanaugh with jayne Bentzen as Nicole Travis and Holland Taylor as Miles's evil jealous wife Denise Cavanaugh who plotted to frame Miles after his affair with Nicole for Denise's own murder.

moving pictures, sf tenderloin

10/22/2019

San Francisco Tenderloin

A Woman Under the Influence

10/21/2019

Gena Rowlands as Mabel Mortensen-Longhetti

The only rules are that you do the best you can. And when you’re not doing the best you can, then you don’t like yourself. And that’s very individual with everyone.” --John Cassavetes

When Gena Rowlands, wife of director/actorJohn Cassavetes, expressed her interest in appearing in a play about the difficulties that contemporary women had to face in the early 1970s, John Cassavetes wrote a script so emotionally profound and exhausting Rowlands immediately understood it would be too much for her to perform it eight times a week. Cassavetes turned the play into a screenplay for the big screen, but A Woman Under the Influence was too much for Hollywood studios and producers to swallow. Fortunately, both for Cassavetes and for all of us in the audience, the filmmaking couple had a lot of friends who fell in love with the powerful script and who were willing to chip in and even become a part of the project. Peter Falk provided half a million dollars of his own money just so he could watch his friend’s impressive vision turn into a movie. Cassavetes himself mortgaged his house. The crew consisted of both professionals and students from the American Film Institute, where the director worked as the first filmmaker in residence. Rowlands did her own hair and makeup, Cassavetes and Rowland’s mothers were cast—the budget was very limited, but the production had heart and guts, and one hell of a talent behind the camera. . . [source]

Peter Falk as Nick Longhetti

snippets of city iii, jackson

10/11/2019

Back home city (San Francisco) movie: Jackson, best dog; Bernal Hts to downtown.

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Whatever happened to Aunt Alice?

5/11/2019

Geraldine Page as Claire Marrable

Claire Marrable (Geraldine Page) quote about Chloe the stray dog, the only one who can almost stop Claire: "Chloe is a tramp. I have not taken loving and diligent care of my garden to have it wrecked by this vagrant bitch.”

Ruth Gordon (Alice Demmock) poses as a maid for Geraldine Page (Claire Marrable) in hopes of discovering what happened to Edna Tinsley, her former housekeeper and companion, only Gordon gets more than she bargained after uncovering Page's dark secrets.

Ruth Gordon (Aunt Alice) is tough and gives Claire a good fight, but how do you top Geraldine Page as merciless over-the-top Claire Marrable?

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