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1930s
Duck Soup
King Kong
Sons Of The Desert
Bride of Frankenstein
The Raven
Gunga Din
Son Of Frankenstein
1940s
Shadow Of A Doubt
Arsenic And Old Lace
Meet Me In St Louis
Kiss Of Death
Miracle On 34th Street
The Search
The Window
1950s
Detective Story
Strangers On A Train
From Here To Eternity
On The Waterfront
Marty
Night Of The Hunter
Paths Of Glory
1960s
The Manchurian Candidate
Whatever Happened To Baby Jane
Goldfinger
A Patch Of Blue
The Good The Bad And The Ugly
Rosemary's Baby
Midnight Cowboy
1970s
The Mind Of Mr Soames
Dirty Harry
Deliverance
Sleuth
The Taking Of Pelham 123
Jaws
Taxi Driver
1980s
48 Hrs
Fanny And Alexander
Blue Velvet
Monty Python's The Meaning Of Life
Full Metal Jacket
The Untouchables
Imagine:John Lennon
1990s
Goodfellas
Misery
What About Bob
The Crying Game
The Player
The Shawshank Redemption
Ed Wood
2000s
Ghost World
Spider Man
Kill Bill Vol 1
Shattered Glass
The Chronicles Of Narnia:The Lion,The
Witch And The Wardrobe
Dear Frankie
Little Miss Sunshine
2010s
Martha Marcy May Marlene
Zero Charisma
Her
Gone Girl
Listen To Me Marlon
Once Upon A Time In Hollywood
Parasite
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My Top Ten Sidney Poitier Films
Jimmy The Gent's Favorites # 11 to 20
The Films Of The Fifties by Douglas Brode
Reviews
The Doris Day Show: Lost and Found (1970)
Lost Article
Mr. Harvey writes a lead article and Myrna has to type it up.
An OK episode for Rose Marie's Myrna character. She is putting off typing the article making Doris and Harvey very nervous. The first one she gives to Harvey has tons of mistakes. Doris tells him that she will watch over Myrna over the weekend and make sure she has it in time. We get to see Myrna's home in this one. The story finally gets going when Myrna cannot find the article. Doris asks her everywhere she went. It turns out she was at a discotheque the night before and may have left it in the powder room. The funniest scene is when they go there and Doris has to audition as a go go girl.
The Doris Day Show: The Fashion Show (1970)
Doris Models Again
Fashion designer Montagne is back for another fashion show at Today's World.
An OK episode, mostly a retread of the Season Two episode Doris The Model. Montagne again wants only Doris to be the model for his new creations. Some funny moments as he dresses Doris while she tries to take dictation from Mr. Nicholson. Johnny Haymer once again plays Montagne.
A rival designer has sent a spy to sabotage the show. Myra unknowingly lets him in since he is able to charm her. Most of the time is taken up of Doris modeling the clothes, though she does look gorgeous in them. Only the finale gown is stolen but Doris gets an idea.
Emergency!: Honest (1973)
Can't Handle The Truth
Gage becomes obsessed with truth telling.
A pretty good episode. The first rescue concerns a gas explosion in a home. It turns comedic when the slightly injured couple (Michael Lerner and Beverly Sanders, two performers who often did comedy guest roles on shows) talk about his cigar smoking. A young boy is brought choking but the doctors can't figure out why. A young man may be paralyzed from doing a high dive from an apartment building.
The final, tense rescue is a home fire and a baby and an old man. Shocking scene on a staircase. One of the stories ends tragically.
Final comedy moments at the end involve Chet talking about Gage's new girl friend.
The Doris Day Show: Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 2 (1970)
Doris' New Job
Doris' new job with Tyler has her globe trotting all over the world.
A good follow up episode. Tyler brings Doris to Japan for one deal. She looks great in a kimono. Next she goes to Switzerland. There is a scene on a boat of Tyler marlin fishing and Doris taking dictation, must be in the Caribbean. When Doris gets back home, Billy and Toby tell her how much they miss her. Then Tyler calls for Doris to come to Greece. There is a belly dancing scene. Then Doris gets an alarming phone call when she finds out Toby is missing. Doris has a great emotional moment when hearing that, reminding me of her in Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too Much.
The Doris Day Show: Doris Leaves Today's World: Part 1 (1970)
Tyler Returns
William Tyler, the reclusive billionaire, offers Doris a job as his personal secretary.
A good beginning to another two part episode featuring the Tyler character played by Lew Ayres. Tyler meets Doris again in the park. Nicholson has offered Doris a ten dollar a week raise.
However Tyler offers Doris a salary of $25,000 a year. Doris finally accepts. There is a memorable scene when Doris tells Nicholson the amount of that salary and it is more than what he makes. I recall this scene when first broadcast.
Doris ends up with a huge office and a male secretary of her own. Tyler gives her personal phone in a briefcase. He calls her and asks her to come to Tokyo, setting up part 2.
House of Dracula (1945)
The Worst Of The Frankenstein Sequels
A scientist, Dr. Edelmann seeks a cure for Dracula, The Wolf Man and the Frankenstein Monster.
Coming right after the entertaining and fast paced House Of Frankenstein, this one is a bit dull and disappointing.
John Carradine once again makes a good Dracula, he is seeking a cure for his vampirism.
Lon Chaney gives another fine performance as Lawrence Talbot, The Wolf Man. He comes to Edelmann for a cure also.
Edelmann gives scientific explanations for the two monsters, which is not as fun as the supernatural ones.
As in the last film there is also a hunchback, this time a beautiful nurse (Jane Adams).
Dracula puts another nurse (Martha O'Driscoll) which merely rehashes the one with Anne Gwynne in the last film, even using some of the same dialogue.
Onslow Stevens is good as Edelmann, whose blood becomes infected by Dracula, turning him into an evil Jekyll/Hyde character.
Talbot is cured of his werewolf curse, giving him a happy ending for once.
Glenn Strange is once again given barely anything to do, besides being quickly dispatched by fire in the last 5 minutes.
The Doris Day Show: Dinner for One (1970)
Restaurant Critic
Angie tells Doris business is bad at Pallucci's.
A funny episode and one that I recall when first broadcast. Two guest actors are great assets.
Doris decides to help by getting Dudley Grey a restaurant critic to come to Pallucci's. Grey is played by Robert Emhardt, famous for portraying villains in film and TV. The problem is no one knows what Grey looks like, only that he wears a carnation in his lapel.
A panhandler played by Stubby Kaye gets a dollar and a carnation from Grey. Kaye was best known as Nicely Nicely in Guys And Dolls. The panhandler is mistaken for Grey and treated royally at the restaurant while the real Grey is ignored for the funniest moments.
Emergency!: School Days (1973)
Trainee
Billy Hanks, a paramedic trainee rides with Squad 51.
A pretty good episode, mostly all serious with hardly any humor. Billy is nervous about how he can perform, he freezes once at a rescue. He is played by Kip Niven, who had some small parts in 70s movies like Magnum Force and Airport 1975. Billy also develops a nagging cough.
Veteran character actor of 1930s films Ian Wolfe plays a man injured by a falling bookcase in his home.
Dixie gets a scene talking to the ex wife of a baseball player with a skull fracture.
Michael James Wixted (The Smith Family) is a boy who is injured in a chemical explosion.
The last rescue takes place in a junkyard where a man is nearly crushed by a stack of junked cars.
The Doris Day Show: How Can I Ignore the Man Next Door? (1970)
New Neighbor
Mr. Jarvis, the fussy efficiency expert that Doris dealt with before, moves in next door to her.
A very funny episode, the third appearance of Bill DeWolfe as Jarvis, this is his best one so far. There is a lot of slapstick and most of it results in big laughs. The dog, Lord Nelson keeps stealing things from Jarvis. Both Doris and DeWolfe give some of their funniest reactions thus far in the series. There is also some laughs with his TV keeps switching the channel that Billy and Toby are watching in their home with the remote control. Funniest scene is when Doris has his TV repaired, in one scene Doris herself shows up the screen.
The Doris Day Show: Colonel Fairburn Takes Over (1970)
Season 2 Finale
The publisher, Colonel Fairburn arrives at the San Francisco office and takes over practically everything.
A good episode, a showcase for Edward Andrews and his comic talents. The Colonel puts Mr. Nicholson out of his office and takes Doris away from him. McLean Stevenson is also funny here, he acts around the Colonel the way he later did around generals as Henry Blake on M*A*S*H. The Colonel seems to have taken special interest in Doris, he removes his glasses substitutes an ascot for a tie. Funniest scene is when Doris takes him to a swinging discotheque. He also meets his daughter there and she has some news for him.
Emergency!: Drivers (1973)
Reckless Civilians
Gage is angered by reckless drivers who nearly cause accidents while he is on a call.
A pretty good episode with barely any humor. We see a another near collision when Gage and DeSoto race to a college where a football player has suddenly collapsed.
An unusual rescue as a young boy is stuck upside down in the hole of a tree.
Sandra Gould (Mrs Kravitz on Bewitched) has a quick cameo as an old lady complimenting the fireman.
The final rescue is a tense one of a fire in an apartment building. A man is overcome with smoke inhalation, Gage and DeSoto are helped by a pair of strangers that disappear after the rescue.
The Doris Day Show: The Office Troubleshooter (1970)
Mr. Jarvis Returns
Mr. Jarvis, the electric company employee who once shut off Doris' lights is now hired by Col. Fairburn as an efficiency expert.
An amusing episode, a showcase for Billy DeWolfe as Jarvis. Edward Andrews also returns as Fairburn. The employees are put off by the nosy Jarvis, he even bugs their phone calls and plays them for all to hear. Fairburn is fine with everything Jarvis is doing. Mr. Harvey gets the idea to spike the water cooler with vodka, since Jarvis always drinks eight glasses of water a day. Funniest scene is when Jarvis gets so drunk he goes into Fairburn's office and tells him off.
House of Frankenstein (1944)
The Best Of The Non Karloff Monster Films
A mad scientist escapes from prison and revives Dracula, The Wolf Man and The Frankenstein Monster.
After the classic trio of the first Frankenstein films, the sequels were not up to par, including this one. However this is better than the others. The first half is devoted to Dracula and the Wolf Man and the Monster take over in the second half.
This is due to a fast pace, great cast and some surprising poignancy.
Boris Karloff is back, this time as the evil mad scientist Dr. Niemann. J. Carroll Naish is excellent as Niemann's hunchback assistant Daniel.
Daniel's character is a killer but is given some sympathetic quality when he saves and falls in love with a gypsy girl Ilonka. She is played by Elena Verdugo in a spunky and energetic performance.
She is kind to Daniel but things get complicated when she falls for the sad Larry Talbot aka The Wolf Man. Lon Chaney is back in the role and he plays it excellently as always.
There is John Carradine as a quietly menacing Dracula in the first part. Anne Gwynne plays his victim and she is also effective in her brief role.
Glenn Strange plays the Monster for the first time but he is not given much to do.
A royal treat for all Universal horror fans.
The Doris Day Show: The Duke Returns (1970)
Duke's Dance Studio
Ex boxer Duke Farentino is having trouble with his new business.
A weaker episode with only a few amusing moments. Larry Storch is back as Duke but even though he is a great comic actor he is not given much to do.
Duke's dance instructors are stolen away by a competitor. Doris volunteers herself, Myrna and Mr. Harvey to fill in. There a some amusing scenes of them with customers. Doris is stuck with a fat clumsy guy played by Michael Lerner. He would later get an Oscar nomination for Barton Fink (1991). Doris starts falling asleep at work. Mr. Nicholson asks her to a dance but he needs to brush up on his steps.
Emergency!: Musical Mania (1972)
Musical Gage
Chet teases Gage about blowing the truck's horn.
The comedy portion of the show, which usually takes place in the firehouse, has Gage trying out different musical instruments, driving everyone crazy.
A little boy is brought in by his Southern parents, Dixie has a good scene where she reprimands a nurse doing a report, ignoring the couple. Dr. Early finds the boy has ingested lead paint and is small for his age. The boy's father doesn't want experimental drugs used on him. The boy's mother is played by Kathleen Lloyd, who was in 2 memorable episodes of Room 222.
One of the more serious plots has a 15 year old schoolgirl overdosed on Seconal. Frequent Dragnet guest Virginia Gregg has a quick cameo as a teacher.
The final rescue has Gage and DeSoto freeing a man under a house that is collapsing.
The Doris Day Show: Doris Meets a Prince (1970)
The Prince
Mr. Harvey and Doris interview the Prince of Sedonia. (Cesare Danova).
A weak Season two episode. Doris tells the Prince he needs to meet the people of America. She invites him to dinner at her home. Danova was Italian but he was made the Prince of the fictional country of Sedonia. He had appeared in the cult horror film Chamber Of Horrors in 1966, which nearly became a TV series. Roy Roberts plays a government employee who is worried about the Prince at Doris' house. Roberts played Darrin's father on a few episodes of Bewitched. The Prince proposes to Doris in a very quick plot twist, it was resolved just as quickly.
The Doris Day Show: A Woman's Intuition (1970)
Cuba
Doris and Mr. Nicholson are taking a flight to Florida for an interview.
A funny episode, good guest actors. It starts with Doris having premonitions about bad things about to happen. She won't get on the plane and she and Nicholson end up on a cheapo airline. Funniest scene has Sandy Kenyon as a nervous man on the flight. Doris convinces him that he can do anything. I recall this scene when I saw it when first broadcast. The nervous guy turns out to be a hijacker and takes the plane to Cuba, he also uses a Humphrey Bogart imitation. When they get there they are met by a Cuban army officer played by Bernie Kopell, resulting in more laughs.
The Doris Day Show: Doris Hires a Millionaire: Part 2 (1970)
The Truth About Tyler
Tyler settles into his job as hired hand while guarding his real identity.
A good follow up episode. Harvey is still hitting the bars trying to find Tyler. Doris thinks her new employee may make a good human interest story for the magazine. Nicholson agrees and tells Harvey to go to the farm to write the story and take pictures. Billy and Toby see Tyler talking to his men about millions of dollars and hear them call him Tyler.
They tell Doris and Buck and they finally realize who he really is. They try to keep Harvey away but he finds out and takes a picture. Doris and Tyler have a touching moment when he leaves.
The Doris Day Show: Doris Hires a Millionaire: Part 1 (1970)
The Reclusive Billionaire
Mr. Nicholson sends Harvey out to get a photograph of William Tyler, a billionaire who stayed out the spotlight for thirty years.
Not a lot of laughs but an interesting episode. Tyler is played by Lew Ayres, a very good movie actor from the 1930s and 1940s, he was Oscar nominated for the 1948 film Johnny Belinda. His character is an obvious nod to real life billionaire Howard Hughes.
Doris meets him sleeping on a bench in the park, not realizing who he is, she thinks he is down and out and offers him a job helping out on the farm. Funny bits of Harvey using the expense account for extravagant things.
The Doris Day Show: Buck's Portrait (1970)
Buck Poses
A famous artist Amanda Merriwether is hired by Today's World to paint a portrait for a cover.
An OK episode. The best thing about it is the unusual casting of Mabel Albertson as Amanda. She was known mostly for busybody roles as a mother-in-law or grandmother. She played Darrin's mother on Bewitched during this time. Here she plays an abstract artist. Funny scene at the beginning when Doris doesn't know who she is and twists her arm and tries to throw her out of the office. Amanda meets Buck and thinks he is perfect for the pioneer cover for the magazine. Buck at first doesn't want to but later gets into it.
The Doris Day Show: Kidnapped (1970)
Doris And The Mobster
Doris and a nervous writer (Avery Schrieber) who wrote an article exposing a mobster are kidnapped.
A pretty funny episode helped by the guest actors. Schrieber is without his mustache in this one and looks very different. The mobster, Barney Moore, is played by Bruce Gordon, who was Frank Nitti in The Untouchables TV series. Kaye Ballad plays his put upon wife. This is just a year after the cancellation of The Mothers In Law, it is her first appearance on this show, she would later become a regular in a different role. Mr. Harvey and Myrna attempt to track down the hideout, they dress up as tough looking customers.
Frankenstein Meets the Wolf Man (1943)
Clash Of The Monsters
Lawrence Talbot the Wolf Man, returns from the dead and finds the Frankenstein Monster is still alive.
The fifth film in the Universal Frankenstein series and this an entertaining one, an improvement over the last one The Ghost Of Frankenstein. It is also a direct sequel to The Wolf Man. Lon Chaney gives an excellent performance here, one of his best.
The Monster is here played by Bela Lugosi, in the last film the Monster was given the brain of Ygor, also played by Lugosi. The Monster spoke with Lugosi's voice at the end of the last one so it made sense to cast him. They filmed scenes with the Monster speaking but found them too comical so all the scenes were cut. The Monster is also played by stunt men in several scenes, including the first one where he rescued from a block of ice, closeups are shown so it is obvious that it is not Lugosi.
There are many atmospheric scenes in this one and the final fight between the two monsters is a highlight.
This one is no where near the greatness of the first 3 films with the Karloff Monster but it is an entertaining horror flick.
The Doris Day Show: The Gas Station (1970)
Leroy Returns
Leroy is now working at a gas station and worried about his wife who is having a baby at the hospital.
An OK episode. James Hampton was no longer a regular but is back for this episode. He suddenly owns gas station and has a wife, there was no indication of this on prior episodes. Doris and Myrna volunteer to mind the station when they insist that Buck take Leroy to the hospital. This gives Doris and Myrna a chance to act like Lucy and Ethel in I Love Lucy, Bob Jellison even appears here and he was in several I Love Lucy episodes. Kristina Holland, at that time playing Tina the secretary on The Courtship Of Eddie's Father, plays a cleanliness inspector.
The Doris Day Show: Today's World Catches the Measles (1970)
Measles
Toby gets the measles while Mr. Nicholson and Mr. Harvey are working at Doris's house.
An OK episode, a good guest actor. Nicholson and Harvey can't remember if they had the measles so Doris contacts their home town. Nicholson's is Bloomington IL, the same one used for McLean Stevenson's Henry Blake character in M*A*S*H. We find out Ron Harvey real name is Rudolph Valentino Harvey. They both end up quarantined. Edward Andrews appears for the first time as publisher Colonel Fairburn. He is reunited with Doris Day as he appeared with her in The Thrill Of It All, Send Me No Flowers and The Glass Bottom Boat.
The Doris Day Show: Hot Dogs (1970)
Poodle Parlor
Doris and Myrna see some dogs locked up in a hot car and break in and let them out.
An amusing episode with good guest actors This is also one that shows Doris Day's real life love for animals. Doris brings the dogs back to the office where Mr. Nicholson is having a meeting with a former Supreme Court judge, played by Jerome Cowan. He was also in Miracle On 34th Street and several Blondie movies. James Milhollin plays the fussy owner of the Poodle Parlor where the dogs are kept. Charles Lane shows up in a courtroom scene as a judge. Around this time he was in many guest roles on television, including 8 times on Bewitched.