Tuesday, January 31, 2012

Radio review - Lux - "Top o' the Morning" (1952) **

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Years before Local Hero did a similar premise for the Scots comes this tale about an Irish American who isn't really Irish but is sent ...
Monday, January 30, 2012

Radio review - Ford Theatre - "The Late Christopher Bean" (1947) ** (warning: spoilers)

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Sidney Howard originally wrote this dull satire about a lodger who dies then becomes famous as a painter and the household where he lived sq...

Movie review - "The Trials of Oscar Wilde" (1960) ****

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The movie whose financial failure helped kill Warwick Productions, but it's easily the best thing they ever did - the same goes for writ...
Sunday, January 29, 2012

Radio review - Suspense - "Consequence" (1946) ****

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James Stewart in a darker role than he usually played in screen, at least at that stage in his career: he's a harassed doctor, unhappily...

Radio review - Lux - "Stratton Story" (1950) ***

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Hollywood's favourite tormented all-American and perfect wife, James Stewart and June Allyson, are ideally cast as a farmer turned ball ...

Movie review - Doctor #5 - "Doctor in Distress" (1963) **

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Dirk Bogarde's career had thrived since he left the Doctor series but I guess we all need to renovate our houses - and he may have been ...
Saturday, January 28, 2012

Radio review - Suspense - "Mission Completed" (1949) **** (warning: spoilers)

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James Stewart is superb as the nervy, hysterical paralysed war veteran who can only blink after being tormented in a Japanese POW camp - the...