Tuesday's Overlooked Films and/or Other A/V; new links

Reign (forthcoming on the CW network)

Below, today's set of reviews and citations of audiovisual works and related matter, with the posts at the links... as always, thanks to all the contributors and to all you readers for your participation. And, as usually, there are likely to be additions to this list over the course of the day, and if I've missed your, or someone else's, post, please let me know in comments...thanks again.

Bill Crider: The Doolins of Oklahoma ...trailer

Brent McKee: US tv: CBS and the CW's new season slates

BV Lawson: Media Murder

Ed Gorman/Lee Feiffer: Five Against the House

Elizabeth Foxwell: The Long Arm (aka The Third Key)

Evan Lewis: The Laurel-Hardy Murder Case

Ida Lupino

Fred Blosser: One Foot in Hell

Iba Dawson: TCM Classic Film Fest, Part 2

Ivan G. Shreve, Jr.: The Whistler

Jack Seabrook: Alfred Hitchcock Presents: "On the Nose" (from the Henry Slesar short story)

Jackie Kashian: The Nerdstorian, et al.

Jacqueline T. Lynch: Mary Astor

Jake Hinkson: Ida Lupino

James Reasoner: Shaughnessy, the Iron Marshal

Jerry House: The Beast of Yucca Flats (film itself, at link, mildly NSFW)

Juri Nummelin: Femme Fatale (2002 film)

Kliph Nesteroff: Buddy Hackett bowling

Laura: Kismet (1955 film)

Lucy Brown: Murder on the Home Front (2013 UK tv)

Marty McKee: Vampire Circus

Max Allan Collins: 10 Memorable Spy Novel Film Adaptations

Michael Shonk: King of Diamonds (tv 1961-62)

Mystery Dave: Branded (2012 film)

Patti Abbott: Good Morning, World (1967-68 tv)  (James Reasoner's take, from 2011)

Prashant Trikannad: Ed Harris

Randy Johnson: Perfect Understanding; A Man Called Django (aka W Django)

The Killer Inside Me (2010)

Rick: The Philadelphia Experiment

Rod Lott: Double Team

Ron Scheer: The Spoilers (1942 film)

Scott Cupp: Iron Sky

Sergio Angelini: St. Ives

Stacia Jones: The Killer Inside Me (1976 and 2010) 

Television Obscurities:  It's a Man's World

Walter Albert: The Reckless Moment

Saturday Music Club: why this blog is called Sweet Freedom...

Well, because I did, for a long time with my ex, Donna Wilson, a radio show called Sweet Freedom, first on WGMU-AM at George Mason University, then at WCXS (then WEBR, now Radio Fairfax) cable radio in Fairfax County, VA, and finally so far at WPPR-FM (now basically the Prometheus Radio Project) in Philadelphia  That lasted, with interruption, for just under a decade of weekly broadcasting/cablecasting/narrowcasting.

The CBS reissue I had first.

And, of course, because I've been a libertarian socialist for essentially all my political life. (That I've been a diagnosed diabetic with a savage sweet tooth throughout most of the years I've used the title gives a bit of resonance to it, too.)

But also, and certainly not least, because of the Freedom Now Suite composed by Max Roach and Oscar Brown, Jr., and performed by various Roach groups over the years (initially on record with a band including Abbey Lincoln, Babatunde Olatunji and Coleman Hawkins), and the Sonny Rollins composition Freedom Suite.

("Socialist Jazz" is a dismissive if teasing nick-name some fellow high-school students came up with for me. Rather difficult for me, at the time nor since, to be insulted by that combo, however overdetermined it might be, even given how it was intended.)





An interview segment, essentially, below...as one commenter on the YT post notes, "Freedom Suite" was hardly the first political statement among jazz instrumentals...


I didn't remember the Rascals' album when I named the radio show, but its resonances didn't upset me, either:


The Michael McDonald song for the Running Scared soundtrack wasn't on my radar at all at the time. Nor the much earlier Uriah Heep song.

Friday's "Forgotten" Books: the links

This week's selections, at the links below, of books with insufficient attention yet given (some books never get enough)...if I've missed yours or someone else's, please let me know in comments. Patti Abbott will be compiling the list again next week, and in two weeks would like to see your review of an Elmore Leonard fiction for your Friday entry, if you're game...

Sergio Angelini: Fuzz by "Ed McBain"

Joe Barone: Nobody's Perfect by Donald Westlake

Brian Busby: A Dum-Dum for the President by "Martin Brett"

Bill Crider: The Yggyssey by Daniel Pinkwater

Scott Cupp: Lost Girl in the Lake by Joe McKinney and Michael McCarty

William F. Deeck: Sleep No More by Sam S. Taylor

Loren Eaton: Vurt by Jeff Noon

Martin Edwards: A Question of Proof by "Nicholas Blake"

Peter Enfantino, John Scoleri & Jack Seabrook: The House of Mystery, etc.

Barry Ergang: Brass Knuckles by Frank Gruber

Curt Evans: Murder at Bermuda and Murder of the Honest Broker by Willoughby Sharp

Ed Gorman: How Like an Angel by Margaret Millar

Douglas Greene: Bodies in a Bookshop by "R. T. Campbell"

Jerry House: Sweet Genevieve by August Derleth

Randy Johnson: Once Upon A Murder by Robert J. Randisi & Kevin D. Randle

George Kelley: Murder in the Wind (aka Hurricane) by John D. MacDonald

Margot Kinberg: Breach of Promise by Perri O’Shaughnessy

Rob Kitchin: The Dance of the Seagull by Andrea Camilleri

B.V. Lawson: Exeunt Murderers by "Anthony Boucher"

Evan Lewis: Spicy Detective Stories edited by Tom Mason

Steve Lewis: The Phantom Spy (aka War for Sale) by "Max Brand"

Ed Lynskey: The Bloody Spur by Charles Einstein

Neer: Night Screams by Bill Pronzini and Barry N. Malzberg

Todd Mason: Backing into Forward by Jules Feiffer; Pogo: Through the Wild Blue Yonder by Walt Kelly

John F. Norris: Scream for Jeeves by P. H. Cannon

James Reasoner: The Bad Man of the West by George D. Hendricks

Karyn Reeves: The Fig Tree by Aubrey Menen

Gerard Saylor: Biloxi Blues by Neil Simon

Ron Scheer: A Daughter of the Snows by Jack London; Dead Man's Ranch by Matthew Mayo (not quite as by Ralph Compton)

Kerrie Smith: Comeback by Dick Francis

Prashant Trikannad: comics on Mars

from the local paper on my 13th birthday...

Stumbled across this after the work database went down tonight (at its scheduled time to do so)...The Nashua Telegraph wasn't a great paper, but it was available for my folks' perusal at breakfast, which The Boston Globe might not be, and the Manchester Union-Leader was beserkly right-wing (as rabidly so as any daily in the U.S. at the time), even as they were mildly left-leaning...somewhat to the left of the Globe, much less the Telegraph. The Loeb paper was out of the question. I note that in the summer of 1977, I would've been catching either the CBS sitcom repeats or, at least as likely, what WENH, the New Hapmshire PBS station, was pumping out on that Saturday night: The International Animation Festival at 8p, Wodehouse Playhouse at 8:30p, The Goodies at 9p (I might well've opted for All in the Family's repeat, as I was rather less a fan of The Goodies), Python at 9:30p. I don't remember catching Casqe d'Or on what Channel 11 labeled PBS Theater that night, though I was a loyal viewer of the film package. (And I haven't thought of Once Upon a Classic nor Piccadilly Circus, both PBS offers, for dogs' years...)
 
Interesting to see how much more programming aimed at minority communities was in evidence even on the commercial stations in Boston at the time than one might see now, even if it was mostly low-budget discussion programming in fringe time-periods, on the weekend...but, then, WHDH had lost a license to broadcast only a few years before in a challenge, and I suspect the corporate interests in the Hub were making damned sure they covered at least a few bases to keep it from happening to them as well...

Nashua Telegraph 1977-08-06 Page-16

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AH, WILDERNESS! by Eugene O'Neill: the Caedmon Records recording of the Theater Recording Society performance (1970)

The first performance of O'Neill I'd seen or heard.

Four, I think, lps...you stacked them on a spindle and four discs had sides 1-4, then you flipped the stack for sides 5-8.  A long afternoon with my father's 1960s Koss headphones...

Courtesy eOneill.com.

Director: Theodore Mann

Originally staged at Ford's Theatre, Washington, DC, October 12, 1969

Nat Miller - Larry Gates Essie - Geraldine Fitzgerald Arthur - Alex Wipf Richard - Tony Schwab Mildred - Lucy Saroyan Tommy - Frank Coleman, IV Sid Davis - Stefan Gierasch Lily Miller - Laurinda Barrett

David McComber - Hansford Rowe   Muriel McComber - Brenda Currin   Wint Selby - William Dolive   Belle - Peggy Pope   Nora - Camilla Ritchey   Bartender - Robert Legionaire   Salesman - Henry Calvert