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intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Mayberry Mondays #39: “Palm Springs Cowboy” (12/29/69, prod. no. 0215) Before Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) sneaked out of that sleepy little North Carolina town millions of TV viewers came to know as Mayberry and relocated to Raleigh, he made five appearances on the sitcom that followed in the wake of The Andy Griffith Show (our THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #27: “ANDY Mayberry Mondays #27: “Andy’s Baby” (09/22/69, prod. no. 0205) Since this week’s Mayberry Mondays also kicks off a brand new season of Mayberry R.F.D. (the second of the series) I thought I’d shake things up a bit by working up a new logo that features a TV Guide cover with the show’s hero, city council head and poor-but-honestdirt
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEA It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Mayberry Mondays #39: “Palm Springs Cowboy” (12/29/69, prod. no. 0215) Before Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) sneaked out of that sleepy little North Carolina town millions of TV viewers came to know as Mayberry and relocated to Raleigh, he made five appearances on the sitcom that followed in the wake of The Andy Griffith Show (our THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #27: “ANDY Mayberry Mondays #27: “Andy’s Baby” (09/22/69, prod. no. 0205) Since this week’s Mayberry Mondays also kicks off a brand new season of Mayberry R.F.D. (the second of the series) I thought I’d shake things up a bit by working up a new logo that features a TV Guide cover with the show’s hero, city council head and poor-but-honestdirt
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW The flashback technique wasn’t anything new to TV by this time, but I can safely say that The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely raised it to new heights. It was necessary to use flashbacks whenever Rob and Laura would reminisce about their early courtship days (which was quite often) or the early stages of Rob’s writing careerbut the show’s writers also put the device to use whenever THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: KENNEDY FOR ME Edgar passed away in November of 1948, about a month after his last RKO two-reeler, Contest Crazy, was released to theaters.But the studio continued to release shorts from that backlog for years after that, and while it’s not possible to hit one out of the park every time at bat the “Average Man” comedies have an admirably consistent batting average in the laughs department. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY Commander Winslow also established a beachhead in comic books—originally, reprints of his newspaper adventures could be found in titles like Crackerjack Funnies and Popular Comics.But in 1943, Fawcett Publications (the home to comic book heroes like Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher) launched an official Don Winslow of the Navy title that featured all new stories as opposed to the reprinted stuff. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “CALLING ALL STATIONS…CLEAR For those of you fortunate to receive Me-TV in your households, one of TDOY’s favorite Halloween treats is going to be shown tonight on the channel at 10pm EDT: the 1948 horror comedy classic, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Faithful readers of the blog know that I unspool this movie every year on Halloween—I’m not sure when the tradition started, but it’s been going quite a while THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MY FAVORITE CLASSIC MOVIE Casablanca is my favorite movie because it’s a film that adopts so many movie genres. It’s first and foremost a romantic love story, but it’s also a rousing WW2 adventure with elements of nail-biting suspense. It’s also a musical, with the tuneful contributions of Dooley Wilson on Shine, Knock on Wood and the film’s iconic As TimeGoes By.
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “DID YOU BRING ME ANYTHING Welcome to the Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s The Dick Van Dyke Show Blogathon! It’s TDOY’s first-ever (so pleasebe gentle) and I’m pleased as Hawaiian Punch to be able to announce that so many wonderful people of the blog persuasion wanted to be a part of this fiftieth anniversary celebration to one of TV’s finest situation comedies. . Consider this the post to link to if you THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: HURRY ON DOWN TO HARDIE’S The following episode, “Stage to Nowhere” (06/24/57), is also first-rate; Hardie is escorting an outlaw (Walter Coy) to the hoosegow when their stagecoach is chased down by the man’s gang—also on board are a timid newspaper reporter (the ubiquitous Lyle Talbot) plus a woman (OTR’s Barbara Eiler) and her son (Bobby Clark), who have an THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #69: “THE I should also point out that after we come to the end of this write-up, there will be just nine more installments of Mayberry Mondays before the blog takes on The Doris Day Show in a new Thrilling Days of Yesteryear feature entitled Doris Days.Recently I asked volunteers from the TDOY faithful to vote on whether I should initially run this on Tuesdays in keeping with the sitcom’s debut on THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEA It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Very impressive, Mr. Kotter! Classic movie buffs are of course well acquainted with Dick Foran, “the matinee idol of B pictures.” Among his memorable film roles: The Petrified Forest, Black Legion, Daughters Courageous, My Little Chickadee, The House of Seven Gables, The Mummy’s Hand, Fort Apache and Donovan’s Reef (believe me—this is just the tip of the iceberg). THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN There might be lions. Or tigers. Or bears. (Oh my!) And as if on cue, our heroes hear the roar of a lion in the distance. (There might actually be a lion—the print of this serial is so dark and murky it’s kind of hard to tell.) The scene shifts to the daylight hours, where presumably after a nighttime hike, Bob, Chuck and Pamela stopfor a breather.
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to Freddie’s narration. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “CALLING ALL STATIONS…CLEAR For those of you fortunate to receive Me-TV in your households, one of TDOY’s favorite Halloween treats is going to be shown tonight on the channel at 10pm EDT: the 1948 horror comedy classic, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Faithful readers of the blog know that I unspool this movie every year on Halloween—I’m not sure when the tradition started, but it’s been going quite a while THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: ADVENTURES OF SIR GALAHAD With today’s edition of Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s Serial Saturdays, we’re ready to tuck into a brand-new cliffhanger, promising fun and frolic for audiences of all ages.I recently acquired a DVD copy of Columbia’s Adventures of Sir Galahad (Boldest Knight of the Round Table) (1949) from a collector that, while it does have a number of splices and other slightly worse-for-wear 16mm THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW The flashback technique wasn’t anything new to TV by this time, but I can safely say that The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely raised it to new heights. It was necessary to use flashbacks whenever Rob and Laura would reminisce about their early courtship days (which was quite often) or the early stages of Rob’s writing careerbut the show’s writers also put the device to use whenever THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEA It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Very impressive, Mr. Kotter! Classic movie buffs are of course well acquainted with Dick Foran, “the matinee idol of B pictures.” Among his memorable film roles: The Petrified Forest, Black Legion, Daughters Courageous, My Little Chickadee, The House of Seven Gables, The Mummy’s Hand, Fort Apache and Donovan’s Reef (believe me—this is just the tip of the iceberg). THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN There might be lions. Or tigers. Or bears. (Oh my!) And as if on cue, our heroes hear the roar of a lion in the distance. (There might actually be a lion—the print of this serial is so dark and murky it’s kind of hard to tell.) The scene shifts to the daylight hours, where presumably after a nighttime hike, Bob, Chuck and Pamela stopfor a breather.
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to Freddie’s narration. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “CALLING ALL STATIONS…CLEAR For those of you fortunate to receive Me-TV in your households, one of TDOY’s favorite Halloween treats is going to be shown tonight on the channel at 10pm EDT: the 1948 horror comedy classic, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Faithful readers of the blog know that I unspool this movie every year on Halloween—I’m not sure when the tradition started, but it’s been going quite a while THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: ADVENTURES OF SIR GALAHAD With today’s edition of Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s Serial Saturdays, we’re ready to tuck into a brand-new cliffhanger, promising fun and frolic for audiences of all ages.I recently acquired a DVD copy of Columbia’s Adventures of Sir Galahad (Boldest Knight of the Round Table) (1949) from a collector that, while it does have a number of splices and other slightly worse-for-wear 16mm THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW The flashback technique wasn’t anything new to TV by this time, but I can safely say that The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely raised it to new heights. It was necessary to use flashbacks whenever Rob and Laura would reminisce about their early courtship days (which was quite often) or the early stages of Rob’s writing careerbut the show’s writers also put the device to use whenever THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM The part of the unfortunate Mr. Michaels is played by veteran character great Arthur Space (his attempts to get away from the garrulous Howard are flat-out hysterical) who started in motion pictures in 1941 (with Riot Squad) and worked steadily in the movie and TV bidness for forty years after, his last credit being an episode of the TV series Walking Tall (based on the 1973 film of the same THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: B-WESTERN WEDNESDAY Eddie Dean and Shirley Patterson, the leading lady of Trail, made a total of four films together—apparently the studio was trying to establish a precedent by casting her in this first venture and the subsequent Driftin’ River (1946), Stars Over Texas (1946) and Black Hills (1947). Patterson started out in the picture business as a contract player at Columbia, and spent most of her time at THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE and that gentleman might have scored the radio gig in lieu of William Conrad; Howard Culver played Dillon in a 1949 Gunsmoke audition that was heavily favored with the CBS Radio brass. Unfortunately, Culver was working for Mutual doing their Straight Arrow series at the time—and his contract stipulated that he couldn’t do any other western but that one. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW The flashback technique wasn’t anything new to TV by this time, but I can safely say that The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely raised it to new heights. It was necessary to use flashbacks whenever Rob and Laura would reminisce about their early courtship days (which was quite often) or the early stages of Rob’s writing careerbut the show’s writers also put the device to use whenever THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: KENNEDY FOR ME Edgar passed away in November of 1948, about a month after his last RKO two-reeler, Contest Crazy, was released to theaters.But the studio continued to release shorts from that backlog for years after that, and while it’s not possible to hit one out of the park every time at bat the “Average Man” comedies have an admirably consistent batting average in the laughs department. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MY FAVORITE CLASSIC MOVIE Casablanca is my favorite movie because it’s a film that adopts so many movie genres. It’s first and foremost a romantic love story, but it’s also a rousing WW2 adventure with elements of nail-biting suspense. It’s also a musical, with the tuneful contributions of Dooley Wilson on Shine, Knock on Wood and the film’s iconic As TimeGoes By.
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “DID YOU BRING ME ANYTHING Welcome to the Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s The Dick Van Dyke Show Blogathon! It’s TDOY’s first-ever (so pleasebe gentle) and I’m pleased as Hawaiian Punch to be able to announce that so many wonderful people of the blog persuasion wanted to be a part of this fiftieth anniversary celebration to one of TV’s finest situation comedies. . Consider this the post to link to if you THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEA It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Mayberry Mondays #39: “Palm Springs Cowboy” (12/29/69, prod. no. 0215) Before Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) sneaked out of that sleepy little North Carolina town millions of TV viewers came to know as Mayberry and relocated to Raleigh, he made five appearances on the sitcom that followed in the wake of The Andy Griffith Show (our THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #51 Millie Swanson (Arlene Golonka), the counter girl at Boysinger’s Bakery in beautiful downtown Mayberry, is a breathtakingly attractive woman and as I have said frequently on the blog, one of the few reasons you should watch the vanilla sitcom known as Mayberry R.F.D.I am also pleased to call the actress who played Millie on the series (and in two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show) one of my THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY Commander Winslow also established a beachhead in comic books—originally, reprints of his newspaper adventures could be found in titles like Crackerjack Funnies and Popular Comics.But in 1943, Fawcett Publications (the home to comic book heroes like Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher) launched an official Don Winslow of the Navy title that featured all new stories as opposed to the reprinted stuff. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEA It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Mayberry Mondays #39: “Palm Springs Cowboy” (12/29/69, prod. no. 0215) Before Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) sneaked out of that sleepy little North Carolina town millions of TV viewers came to know as Mayberry and relocated to Raleigh, he made five appearances on the sitcom that followed in the wake of The Andy Griffith Show (our THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #51 Millie Swanson (Arlene Golonka), the counter girl at Boysinger’s Bakery in beautiful downtown Mayberry, is a breathtakingly attractive woman and as I have said frequently on the blog, one of the few reasons you should watch the vanilla sitcom known as Mayberry R.F.D.I am also pleased to call the actress who played Millie on the series (and in two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show) one of my THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY Commander Winslow also established a beachhead in comic books—originally, reprints of his newspaper adventures could be found in titles like Crackerjack Funnies and Popular Comics.But in 1943, Fawcett Publications (the home to comic book heroes like Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher) launched an official Don Winslow of the Navy title that featured all new stories as opposed to the reprinted stuff. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE The format of The Doris Day Show was that Doris ’ character of Doris Martin was a widow who had decided to take her two kids, Billy (Philip Brown) and Toby (Tod Starke), out of the city and back to the ranch of her father Buckley “Buck” Webb (Denver Pyle) just outside of San Francisco in a fictional town called Cotina. (Since Doris gets a job in Frisco in the second season and must THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: DON WINSLOW OF THE NAVY Commander Winslow also established a beachhead in comic books—originally, reprints of his newspaper adventures could be found in titles like Crackerjack Funnies and Popular Comics.But in 1943, Fawcett Publications (the home to comic book heroes like Captain Marvel and Spy Smasher) launched an official Don Winslow of the Navy title that featured all new stories as opposed to the reprinted stuff. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: "I KNOW A SNIVELING COWARD The Most Dangerous Game, a 1932 film that had the distinction of being filmed at night on the same sets as King Kong, got the Criterion nod in 2001 (though unfortunately, several unscrupulous P.D. companies started using that print for their own nefarious releases).Kino-Lorber released a remastered version of Scarlet Street in 2005, using a spiffy Library of Congress print. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE GREEN HORNET Now that we’ve all had a few days to recover from the cliffhanger atrocity that was Jungle Queen (1945), I thought I’d serve up a far better serial for our weekly taste of action and thrills here at Serial Saturdaysand because one of my childhood heroes was The Green Hornet, this 1940 Universal adaptation of the popular radio program should be just the tonic. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: B-WESTERN WEDNESDAY Eddie Dean and Shirley Patterson, the leading lady of Trail, made a total of four films together—apparently the studio was trying to establish a precedent by casting her in this first venture and the subsequent Driftin’ River (1946), Stars Over Texas (1946) and Black Hills (1947). Patterson started out in the picture business as a contract player at Columbia, and spent most of her time at THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #69: “THE I should also point out that after we come to the end of this write-up, there will be just nine more installments of Mayberry Mondays before the blog takes on The Doris Day Show in a new Thrilling Days of Yesteryear feature entitled Doris Days.Recently I asked volunteers from the TDOY faithful to vote on whether I should initially run this on Tuesdays in keeping with the sitcom’s debut on THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #27: “ANDY Since this week’s Mayberry Mondays also kicks off a brand new season of Mayberry R.F.D. (the second of the series) I thought I’d shake things up a bit by working up a new logo that features a TV Guide cover with the show’s hero, city council head and poor-but-honest dirt farmer Sam Jones (Ken Berry) and his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster).R.F.D.’s inaugural year was a huge ratings THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEATHRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR BLOGTHOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #67 One of the funniest of all the R.F.D. outings is an early first season episode entitled “The Panel Show,” in which Howard and fix-it savant Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman) are selected from those Mayberrians capable of walking erect to participate in a hard-hitting TV debate program (the subject being city life vs. country life) taped in New York. . Howard and Emmett journey to the Big Apple THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #51 Millie Swanson (Arlene Golonka), the counter girl at Boysinger’s Bakery in beautiful downtown Mayberry, is a breathtakingly attractive woman and as I have said frequently on the blog, one of the few reasons you should watch the vanilla sitcom known as Mayberry R.F.D.I am also pleased to call the actress who played Millie on the series (and in two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show) one of my THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE BLACK WIDOW (1947 The Black Widow (1947) – Chapter 1: Deadly Prophecy. Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s Serial Saturdays makes its triumphant return with The Black Widow, the most expensive chapter play produced by Republic Pictures in 1947. It’s not likely to make anyone forget Flash Gordon (1936) any time soon, but it’s one of my favorites here at TDOY THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #27: “ANDY Mayberry Mondays #27: “Andy’s Baby” (09/22/69, prod. no. 0205) Since this week’s Mayberry Mondays also kicks off a brand new season of Mayberry R.F.D. (the second of the series) I thought I’d shake things up a bit by working up a new logo that features a TV Guide cover with the show’s hero, city council head and poor-but-honestdirt
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEATHRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR BLOGTHOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #67 One of the funniest of all the R.F.D. outings is an early first season episode entitled “The Panel Show,” in which Howard and fix-it savant Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman) are selected from those Mayberrians capable of walking erect to participate in a hard-hitting TV debate program (the subject being city life vs. country life) taped in New York. . Howard and Emmett journey to the Big Apple THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #51 Millie Swanson (Arlene Golonka), the counter girl at Boysinger’s Bakery in beautiful downtown Mayberry, is a breathtakingly attractive woman and as I have said frequently on the blog, one of the few reasons you should watch the vanilla sitcom known as Mayberry R.F.D.I am also pleased to call the actress who played Millie on the series (and in two episodes of The Andy Griffith Show) one of my THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE BLACK WIDOW (1947 The Black Widow (1947) – Chapter 1: Deadly Prophecy. Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s Serial Saturdays makes its triumphant return with The Black Widow, the most expensive chapter play produced by Republic Pictures in 1947. It’s not likely to make anyone forget Flash Gordon (1936) any time soon, but it’s one of my favorites here at TDOY THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #27: “ANDY Mayberry Mondays #27: “Andy’s Baby” (09/22/69, prod. no. 0205) Since this week’s Mayberry Mondays also kicks off a brand new season of Mayberry R.F.D. (the second of the series) I thought I’d shake things up a bit by working up a new logo that features a TV Guide cover with the show’s hero, city council head and poor-but-honestdirt
THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: KENNEDY FOR ME Edgar passed away in November of 1948, about a month after his last RKO two-reeler, Contest Crazy, was released to theaters.But the studio continued to release shorts from that backlog for years after that, and while it’s not possible to hit one out of the park every time at bat the “Average Man” comedies have an admirably consistent batting average in the laughs department. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE The format of The Doris Day Show was that Doris ’ character of Doris Martin was a widow who had decided to take her two kids, Billy (Philip Brown) and Toby (Tod Starke), out of the city and back to the ranch of her father Buckley “Buck” Webb (Denver Pyle) just outside of San Francisco in a fictional town called Cotina. (Since Doris gets a job in Frisco in the second season and must THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE BLACK WIDOW (1947 Hubba hubbaand might I also sayhubba. Carol Forman was an aspiring ingénue who won a bit part in From This Day Forward (1946) after being spotted by the movie’s director, John Berry, in a theatrical company stage play. She gained a contract at RKO and appeared in films like The Falcon’s Adventure (1946) and San Quentin (1946)but her movie career really didn’t take off until she THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM The part of the unfortunate Mr. Michaels is played by veteran character great Arthur Space (his attempts to get away from the garrulous Howard are flat-out hysterical) who started in motion pictures in 1941 (with Riot Squad) and worked steadily in the movie and TV bidness for forty years after, his last credit being an episode of the TV series Walking Tall (based on the 1973 film of the same THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “CALLING ALL STATIONS…CLEAR For those of you fortunate to receive Me-TV in your households, one of TDOY’s favorite Halloween treats is going to be shown tonight on the channel at 10pm EDT: the 1948 horror comedy classic, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Faithful readers of the blog know that I unspool this movie every year on Halloween—I’m not sure when the tradition started, but it’s been going quite a while THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: B-WESTERN WEDNESDAY Eddie Dean and Shirley Patterson, the leading lady of Trail, made a total of four films together—apparently the studio was trying to establish a precedent by casting her in this first venture and the subsequent Driftin’ River (1946), Stars Over Texas (1946) and Black Hills (1947). Patterson started out in the picture business as a contract player at Columbia, and spent most of her time at THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW The flashback technique wasn’t anything new to TV by this time, but I can safely say that The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely raised it to new heights. It was necessary to use flashbacks whenever Rob and Laura would reminisce about their early courtship days (which was quite often) or the early stages of Rob’s writing careerbut the show’s writers also put the device to use whenever THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #69: “THE I should also point out that after we come to the end of this write-up, there will be just nine more installments of Mayberry Mondays before the blog takes on The Doris Day Show in a new Thrilling Days of Yesteryear feature entitled Doris Days.Recently I asked volunteers from the TDOY faithful to vote on whether I should initially run this on Tuesdays in keeping with the sitcom’s debut on THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEATHRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR BLOGTHOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Mayberry Mondays #39: “Palm Springs Cowboy” (12/29/69, prod. no. 0215) Before Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) sneaked out of that sleepy little North Carolina town millions of TV viewers came to know as Mayberry and relocated to Raleigh, he made five appearances on the sitcom that followed in the wake of The Andy Griffith Show (our THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #67 One of the funniest of all the R.F.D. outings is an early first season episode entitled “The Panel Show,” in which Howard and fix-it savant Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman) are selected from those Mayberrians capable of walking erect to participate in a hard-hitting TV debate program (the subject being city life vs. country life) taped in New York. . Howard and Emmett journey to the Big Apple THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE BLACK WIDOW (1947 The Black Widow (1947) – Chapter 1: Deadly Prophecy. Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s Serial Saturdays makes its triumphant return with The Black Widow, the most expensive chapter play produced by Republic Pictures in 1947. It’s not likely to make anyone forget Flash Gordon (1936) any time soon, but it’s one of my favorites here at TDOY THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARABOUT THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEARI WANNA TALK ABOUT MEMOVIESTV, DVD, BLU-RAY AND MISCELLEANEATHRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR BLOGTHOSE THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), Thrilling Days of Yesteryear will officially move to its new home at WordPress. If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: JUNGLE QUEEN Maati is responsible for assassinating the judge of the Tongghili tribe, Tonga (George Reed)though Tonga’s successor Godac (Clinton Rosemond) is unaware of this fact. A mysterious “jungle queen” (Ruth Roman) known as Lothel (Tongghilese for “white butterfly”) tries to offer counsel, but Godac is a bit thick. Meanwhile, in Old THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #37: “PALM Last week on Mayberry Mondays, the whole gang (not necessarily inorder of
intelligence)—poor-but-honest-dirt-farmer-turned-city-council-head Sam Jones (Ken Berry), his idiot son Mike (Buddy Foster), twisted and evil housekeeper Beatrice “Aunt Bee” Taylor (Frances Bavier), village idiot Goober Pyle (George Lindsey), pedantic county clerk Howard Sprague (Jack Dodson), fix-it savant Emmett THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM Mayberry Mondays #39: “Palm Springs Cowboy” (12/29/69, prod. no. 0215) Before Sheriff Andy Taylor (Andy Griffith) sneaked out of that sleepy little North Carolina town millions of TV viewers came to know as Mayberry and relocated to Raleigh, he made five appearances on the sitcom that followed in the wake of The Andy Griffith Show (our THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #67 One of the funniest of all the R.F.D. outings is an early first season episode entitled “The Panel Show,” in which Howard and fix-it savant Emmett Clark (Paul Hartman) are selected from those Mayberrians capable of walking erect to participate in a hard-hitting TV debate program (the subject being city life vs. country life) taped in New York. . Howard and Emmett journey to the Big Apple THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE WILLIAM WYLER BLOGATHON The Collector is a filmic adaptation of John Fowles’ 1963 debut novel, which presents its story in a slightly different fashion than the film: the first third of the book is told from Clegg’s point of view, and the second third from Miranda’s (in the form of a diary she’s been keeping). The final third once again reverts to THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE BLACK WIDOW (1947 The Black Widow (1947) – Chapter 1: Deadly Prophecy. Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s Serial Saturdays makes its triumphant return with The Black Widow, the most expensive chapter play produced by Republic Pictures in 1947. It’s not likely to make anyone forget Flash Gordon (1936) any time soon, but it’s one of my favorites here at TDOY THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE SMELL OF GUNSMOKE The smell of gunsmoke. I bet you've never heard ol' Marshal Dillon say. Miss Kitty, have you ever thought of running away. Settlin' down, would you marry me? If I asked you twice and begged you pretty please. She'd have said yes in a New York minute. They never tied the knot. His heart wasn't in it. He just stole a kiss as he rode away. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: OUR NEXT SERIAL PRESENTATION Nominee #1 is a fifteen-chapter serial from Columbia entitled Jungle Raiders (1945)but I need to give you the pros and cons on this one. The major con is that Eddie Quillan, whom I loathed and despised as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Chuck Kelly in Jungle Queen (oddly enough, released the same year), is in this one as the painfully unfunny comedy relief Joe Riley. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: B-WESTERN WEDNESDAY Eddie Dean and Shirley Patterson, the leading lady of Trail, made a total of four films together—apparently the studio was trying to establish a precedent by casting her in this first venture and the subsequent Driftin’ River (1946), Stars Over Texas (1946) and Black Hills (1947). Patterson started out in the picture business as a contract player at Columbia, and spent most of her time at THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: KENNEDY FOR ME Edgar passed away in November of 1948, about a month after his last RKO two-reeler, Contest Crazy, was released to theaters.But the studio continued to release shorts from that backlog for years after that, and while it’s not possible to hit one out of the park every time at bat the “Average Man” comedies have an admirably consistent batting average in the laughs department. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #39: “PALM The part of the unfortunate Mr. Michaels is played by veteran character great Arthur Space (his attempts to get away from the garrulous Howard are flat-out hysterical) who started in motion pictures in 1941 (with Riot Squad) and worked steadily in the movie and TV bidness for forty years after, his last credit being an episode of the TV series Walking Tall (based on the 1973 film of the same THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE BLACK WIDOW (1947 Hubba hubbaand might I also sayhubba. Carol Forman was an aspiring ingénue who won a bit part in From This Day Forward (1946) after being spotted by the movie’s director, John Berry, in a theatrical company stage play. She gained a contract at RKO and appeared in films like The Falcon’s Adventure (1946) and San Quentin (1946)but her movie career really didn’t take off until she THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: WHATEVER WILL BE, WILL BE The format of The Doris Day Show was that Doris ’ character of Doris Martin was a widow who had decided to take her two kids, Billy (Philip Brown) and Toby (Tod Starke), out of the city and back to the ranch of her father Buckley “Buck” Webb (Denver Pyle) just outside of San Francisco in a fictional town called Cotina. (Since Doris gets a job in Frisco in the second season and must THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “WINNING ISN’T EVERYTHING I just wanna tell ya (in my best Bob Hope impression) the number of entries for Thrilling Days of Yesteryear’s “Inner Sanctum/Lights Out” giveaway was pretty darn impressive. Again, nothing on a Yours Truly, Johnny Dollar scale (here’s where I plug Radio Spirits’ upcoming Dollar compendium—Medium Rare Matters—the liner notes were not written by your humble narrator, but rather THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: “CALLING ALL STATIONS…CLEAR For those of you fortunate to receive Me-TV in your households, one of TDOY’s favorite Halloween treats is going to be shown tonight on the channel at 10pm EDT: the 1948 horror comedy classic, Abbott & Costello Meet Frankenstein. Faithful readers of the blog know that I unspool this movie every year on Halloween—I’m not sure when the tradition started, but it’s been going quite a while THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: GUEST REVIEW: JOHN FORD’S With the recent passing of classic film icon Shirley Temple, I got to thinking about any of her films I may have seen, but only one came to mind: Fort Apache (1948), in which she co-starred with Henry Fonda and John Wayne under the direction of John Ford. THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW The flashback technique wasn’t anything new to TV by this time, but I can safely say that The Dick Van Dyke Show definitely raised it to new heights. It was necessary to use flashbacks whenever Rob and Laura would reminisce about their early courtship days (which was quite often) or the early stages of Rob’s writing careerbut the show’s writers also put the device to use whenever THRILLING DAYS OF YESTERYEAR: MAYBERRY MONDAYS #69: “THE I should also point out that after we come to the end of this write-up, there will be just nine more installments of Mayberry Mondays before the blog takes on The Doris Day Show in a new Thrilling Days of Yesteryear feature entitled Doris Days.Recently I asked volunteers from the TDOY faithful to vote on whether I should initially run this on Tuesdays in keeping with the sitcom’s debut on SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 30, 2017 WHO’LL TURN OUT THE LIGHTS (IN YOUR WORLD TONIGHT) It’s the last day of September in 2017, and tomorrow (October 1), _Thrilling Days of Yesteryear_ will officially move to its new homeat WordPress.
If you make it a point to stop by in an ever-so-casual fashion, you’ll notice that there’s been quite a bit of activity taking place at the blog’s new home; a little over 600 posts both old and new have already settled in and made themselves comfortable by callingdibs on the bunks.
Since switching from Salon Blogs (a venture that, in retrospect, I regret…because I have nothing to show for it, unless I want to fire up archive.org’s Wayback Machine) to Blogspot nearly a decade ago, I have to say things were pretty swell here. Oh, occasionally there would be a minor problem to iron out but such inconveniences were few and far between. To be completely honest, except for the Herculean task of transferring the content from old to new blogs, I’ve really been impressed with the look of the new WordPress _TDOY_. I like the big pictures that start off each post, something that I have developed an infinity for since I started penning the Radio Spirits blog in May of 2012. You’ll find that more than a few “classic” _TDOY_ posts have spiffy new presentations in pictures; that’s what I have been enjoying about the transfer the most. During my stay here at Blogspot, I racked up over 3,000 posts. A large percentage of those…well, I never was all that good at math but let’s just say a buttload of them were “meat by-product.” I posted a lot of personal rants, comic strips, and political cartoons back in those days…and they have not aged at all well, so I vetoed bringing them over to WordPress. They have been released into the wilds of the blogosphere or taken upstate to romp around on someone’s farm (unless the material I posted had some relevance afterward in the post). I’ve also erased many of the TV-coming-to-DVD announcements, _Coming Distractions_, and notifications of movies/TV shows on sale because, again, all of that was in the past and it’s not going to do anyone any good now (I’m betting a lot of that stuff has expired). What’s past isn’t always prologue, I suppose. I’ll be leaving a few items at the old Blogspot apartment for a while until I can figure out how I want to work them into the WordPress environs, namely the serials I did for _SERIAL SATURDAYS_ and two of the blog’s signature features, _MAYBERRY MONDAYS_ and _DORIS DAY(S)_. In the case of _MAYBERRY_, I’d like to go back and do some new screen grabs for the first season episodes seeing as I still have Season 1 of _MAYBERRY_ _R.F.D._ on DVD. (I want to go back and do screen caps for some of the older serials, too.) So, if you get an _R.F.D._ jones, you’ll need to use the key I’m leaving under the mat…if you get a Google Chrome message that reads “Don’t play in that old house or you’ll put your eye out” I don’t know what to tell you. At the WordPress blog…well, there’ll be a change or two in the works. For a time now, I’ve set aside days for certain features: _Overlooked Films on Tuesdays_, _B-Western Wednesdays_, silent movies on Thursdays, etc. I think that with the exception of _Overlooked Films _the new _TDOY_ policy will be “I’ll-write-about-this-movie-whenever-I-darn-well-please.” I’m really hoping to boost the daily/weekly/monthly/yearly content of _TDOY_ once I get settled in, and if I’m not tied into a whole “Gee, I’d like to post something about this film but it’s out-of-sync with what usually goes here” thing it’ll work out forme so much better.
With all that out of the way, let me step inside the confessional and own up to this: the post I had planned for Monday is going to be postponed for a day or two because I’m still making my way through the material; I didn’t get a doggone thing accomplished after Tuesday of last week due to deadlines for other projects and outside irritations. I’m really going to get better at a regular posting schedule, so if you’ll just hand me my ten Hail Marys I’ll be outof your hair.
Thanks for making the Blogspot _Thrilling Days of Yesteryear_ one of your usual haunts…and I hope you’ll do the same for our new homeat WordPress .
If you haven’t updated our new address on your blogroll, please do so as a solid to me. Posted by Ivan G Shreve Jrat 9:30 PM
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FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 15, 2017HOLDING PATTERN
Since I’m at the halfway point before _Thrilling Days of Yesteryear _makes its official move to the brand-spanking-new WordPress blogin October, I
thought I’d post this to let you know why _TDOY_ went silent thisweek.
I had planned to have a few reviews up but the post I penciled in for Monday got pushed to the side due to a Radio Spirits liner notes project I was trying to complete. That activity took place all weekend, the time I utilize to plan what will go up on the blog for the week. With my RS assignment completed, I had to further postpone posts because of that Irma thing (we were a lot luckier than some of our fellow Georgians in that our electricity didn’t go on vacation during the storm…but it did come and go a few times, interfering with the movie I was trying to watch) …and then a pair of doctor appointments (for the patriarch of Rancho Yesteryear, _mi padre_) ate up some more time. I finally said ta heck wid it and vowed to get back to the blogging thing Monday. In the meantime, I’ve been doing a little hammering-and-nailing at the new site; there are close to 300 classic _TDOY_ posts up there now, some with new photos added and a few tweaks and edits here and there. I’ve also been doing a little pruning here at the old blog; I’ve made some editorial decisions about what to transfer and what to destroy—so if it looks as if the old blog has lost a little weight that’s the reason. It’s simply going to be too Herculean a task to transfer _everything_ to the new site, and some past posts will have to sit in the waiting room (most appropriate in light of the medical appointments this week) while others will simply vanish into the blogosphere, accessible only for those patient to sift througharchive.org.
So that’s how things stand—come back by next week and I’ll have a thing or two to bend your ear about. Have a great weekend,cartooners!
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THURSDAY, AUGUST 17, 2017 PLEASE PERMIT US TO PAUSE… I really hate to put the brakes on the ol’ blog while I was going great guns (more or less), but it’s going to be silent for the rest of the week. My sister Kat is in town, and she brought along with her my favorite nephew…who’ll be occupying much of my free time here at Rancho Yesteryear. (Kat and Mom left him with Dad and I while Mom is at her doctor’s appointment….so the old man and I are gonna get Davis a tattoo.) Normal blogging will resume Monday, so until then—make the most of your weekend, cartooners! Posted by Ivan G Shreve Jrat 7:00 AM
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MONDAY, AUGUST 14, 2017 BOOK REVIEW: _HOLLYWOOD OBSCURA: DEATH, MURDER, AND THE PARANORMALAFTERMATH_
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_ _Thrilling Days of Yesteryear_ goddess Thelma Todd had her motion picture career cut short by a mysterious death in 1935 that continues to mystify fans and provoke endless speculation even today. Was the “Hot Toddy” murdered…or was her death merely a tragic accident? There is no shortage of suspects for the murder theory (her ex-husband Pat DiCicco, business partner/lover Roland West…even mobster “Lucky” Luciano) but however you choose to explain Thel’s demise there’s certainly no argument that we lost a truly amazing talented actress-comedienne. Thelma Todd with Charley Chase in _The Nickel Nurser _(1932) After Todd’s death, many witnesses have claimed to see her spirit floating around her old haunts (pardon the pun): the building that housed her restaurant, Thelma Todd’s Sidewalk Café, is the site of several sightings, in addition to the garage where her body was discovered, presumably after passing out from the deadly carbon monoxide resulting from her Lincoln Phaeton running inside. (Not to mention a few bruises of unexplained origin.) There are even reports that the yacht once owned by Roland West, the _Joyita_, has a rather cursed history—linked to Thelma’s demise (there are those that speculate that possible murderer West croaked Thelma on the boat before bringing her to the garage and setting it up to look like an accident). If you have a strong interest in the supernatural, you’re going to enjoy reading Brian Clune’s _Hollywood Obscura: Death, Murder, and the Paranormal Aftermath_—a
book due out this month that examines a handful of Tinsel Town deaths (George Reeves, Marilyn Monroe, Ramon Novarro, etc.) in page-turning detail and relates accounts of folks spotting these celebs still tooling around despite a change of address in The Great Beyond.AUTHOR BRIAN CLUNE
Speaking for myself: I’m a tremendous skeptic when it comes to the paranormal. To paraphrase Bert Lahr’s Cowardly Lion: “I don’t believe in spooks…I don’t believe in spooks…I don’t, I don’t, I don’t.” So I was a little leery about the ghost aspect of the book…but even those who remained unconvinced about such phenomena will enjoy _Hollywood Obscura_, a refreshing read by an author whose other works include _California’s Historic Haunts_
(co-written with Bob Davis) and who’s contributed to such TV shows as _DEAD FILES_ and _GHOST HUNTERS_. Brian Clune is also the co-founder and historian of Planet Paranormal Radio and Planet Paranormal Investigations, the website for which can be found here . His book is well-documented, and I was particularly tickled by the fact that he drew on material from some of my fellow classic movie bloggers including fervent Shirley Temple disciple Page at _My Love of Old Hollywood _ (where a lot of the Thelma Todd biography was borrowed—odd, in that I’d think Pagey would be a natural for Ramon Novarro) and the now-defunct _The Silent_ _Movie Blog_ , once owned and operated by Facebook compadre Christopher Snowden (now blogging at _Television Diary _). THE LOS FELIZ "MURDER MANSION" _Hollywood Obscura_ isn’t all about celebrities. It features chapters on would-be celebrities, like the legendary Black Dahlia, and some semi-celebs who achieved fifteen minutes of fame, as in the case of the notorious Manson family. There’s even a section on the infamous Los Feliz “Murder Mansion,” a case whose particulars I was not familiar with, so it made for a pretty riveting read. Rounding out the book are chapters on “Bugsy” Siegel, John Belushi, Tupac Shakur/Biggie Smalls, and recent TCM Star of the Month Natalie Wood. (Since I’m one of those people convinced that Wood’s husband—Robert Wagner—introduced Nat to a deeper part of the ocean, I don’t mind telling you I was a little uncomfortable watching R.J. and daughter Natasha Gregson Wagner chat it up in between those Wood movies showcased on The Greatest Cable Channel Known to Mankind™. But I digress, even though this theory of Wagner's possible complicity is touched upon in the book.) _Hollywood Obscura_ is a most diverting tome, one you’ll navigate it very quickly (I took it with me when my fadduh had to have some tests done at Athens Regional and had it finished by the time they were done poking and prodding him) while being thoroughly entertained all the same. Published by Schiffer Books , a family-owned independent based out of Atglen, PA, _Hollywood Obscura_ is also available from fine bookstores (Barnes & Noble) and those not so fine (you know the behemoth I’m talking about). Many thanks to Meghan Schaffer for sending the review copy my way. Posted by Ivan G Shreve Jrat 7:00 AM
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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 9, 2017 RAGE AGAINST THE (WINDSTREAM) MACHINE The fields went fallow on the blog for nearly a week for one simple reason: our internet provider is terrible, and isn’t planning on improving their behavior anytime soon. I’m not shy about naming these poltroons; we get our crappy service from Windstream, and in a just world the company would be brought up before a tribunal to answer for their crimes…and once found guilty by a not-at-all-impartial judge of my own choosing, sentenced to one of those islands where they used to quarantine lepers, plague victims, and other unfortunates of society. I don’t think it’s a coincidence that Windstream—at least in my neck of the woods—has been wedded to DISH, since they both deserve one another. The trouble started around 4:30pm last Wednesday, when I noticed the little yellow triangle symbol superimposed over the internet connectivity icon on my laptop. This meant that the system was down, and though I was mildly annoyed (I was working on a post for the Radio Spirits blog) I decided to be cool and wait to see if the problem would be quickly worked out. Two-and-a-half hours later, and still no internet, I phoned Windstream with that sinking feeling in my stomach pit that they were going to make me run what I call “the Internet Obstacle Course.” (This is where I’m required to unplug and re-plug cables, the modem, etc.—which I wouldn’t have a problem with except my mother insists that they be relegated to a space behind the TV (an area where a person of my girth has difficulty accessing) because she doesn’t like the sight of wires. Before I called Windstream, I ran the Course ahead of time to make sure the problem wasn’t on my end. It wasn’t, and I had suspected as such. So, once I’d made it past their infuriating phone tree, I explain to the customer service representative that the system is out. She’s convinced the problem is on my end, since no one else has complained, and lets me know she’s writing up a ticket so a technician can fix the problem. He’ll be there Saturday. I’m ticked off at this, because that means we’ll be offline for two entire days…and I won’t be able to get this post done. I phoned my editor at Radio Spirits, and she lets me know that if I can get the piece to her Monday morning (assuming the tech fixes the problem on Saturday) she’ll give it a quick read, make the necessary changes, and have it back at me so I can schedule the post. I should have known the technician wasn’t going to be at Rancho Yesteryear Saturday. Oh, we got a phone call from Windstream at 11:15am informing us he’d be there between 11:15 and 3pm, but I end up calling them back at 3:05 to find out that the problem is worse than they originally estimated and that we may not be back up until Monday morning. Monday afternoon, I’m having to call them back to find out where the hell the guy is, and they’re telling me it’s not going to happen until the next day. I gave the person a bit of pranging about this, and they finally acquiesce to my demands, promising the work will be done by five that day. When I wound up having to call back at 5:05pm to ask why they insist on lying to me every time I phone, we got a call on our other cell phone line…telling us the technician will be at the house between 8am and12 noon.
SUBSTITUTE "WINDSTREAM" FOR "AT&T" AND YOU'LL GET THE IDEA. Since confession is good for the soul, I’ll come clean here. I have a bit of a temper. But I’m even-keeled for the most part—the only time I start approaching Hulk status is when someone can’t be straight with me. They couldn’t be forthright and tell me that the problem with our internet connectivity was that some idiot installed some switches wrong, and it apparently took them all that time to find out just exactly what that individual screwed up. My mother ran into the technician as she headed out the door Tuesday morning as he was just pulling up. I had discovered by that time that our internet was back, but he wanted to check on our status. He told her the story of what happened (I believe I was asked by both my parents not to come into contact with him for fear that something terrible might happen) and she replied matter-of-factly, “That person needs to be fired.” The technician, looking out for his own, tried to explain that “it’s not his fault” and Mom just dismissed him with a wave of her hand. That’s the sordid story of why there’s been nothing new to read on the blog for over a week, and because I had to get caught up with some other assignments there may not be any new material until next Monday (I wanted to at least get a new _Crime Does Not Pay_ up—I’ll try my best, but my eye appointment tomorrow may interfere with that). If your situation is like mine in that Windstream is your only option for internet access…I feel your pain, brother. If you’re looking for a provider and are considering Windstream…don’t. Run fast, run far. Posted by Ivan G Shreve Jrat 2:00 PM
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MONDAY, JULY 31, 2017 “WELL, THANK YOU, HARVEY! I PREFER YOU, TOO…” For ten seasons on TV’s _THE CAROL BURNETT SHOW_, comic actor Harvey Korman was not only one of the hardest working second bananas in the variety show bidness but one of the funniest. Korman left the series before its eleventh and final season to pursue projects that would allow him to take center stage (he was offered a contract by ABC-TV and did a self-titled sitcom in 1978 that came and went) and while he never quite captured the stardom he sought he had plenty of laurels to rest on as far as his boob tube legacy was concerned (not to mention his sidesplitting turn in BLAZING SADDLES ). During his stint on the Burnett show, Harvey was nominated six times for an Emmy (and he won four trophies) and four times for a Golden Globe (he won in 1975). “He was fearless: he sang, he danced, he ad-libbed, he pranced, and he made TV audiences roar with laughter,” observes a Time Life press release for a DVD due to be released tomorrow (August 1): _THE BEST OF HARVEY KORMAN_.
My chum Michael Krause at Foundry Communications was good enough to slip me a screener, and while people may quibble what constitutes Mr. Korman’s “best” there’s certainly nothing to be ashamed of with regards to the material on this disc. There are four telecasts (three of which haven’t been seen in 40 years) present, with the first a very funny show that closed out the first season of Burnett’s series on May 13, 1968. Carol has no guest stars on this telecast; it’s billed as a “family show,” and focuses on her talented ensemble—Vicki Lawrence performs _Best of Both Worlds_ and Lyle Waggoner does a not-too-shabby _By the Time I Get to Phoenix_—including a hilarious sketch where Harvey ducks into his dressing room to avoid his “fan club” (the women who comprise that aggregation reminded me of the same matrons who were gaga for Jack Benny) and fantasizes about being a Hugh Hefner-type. There are funny segments of “Carol and Sis” and “The Old Folks” on hand, and a sprightly version of _Together_ by the cast just before the wonderful closing featuring Carol’s charwoman character. WHEN CAROL'S MOLLY SUGGESTS THE TWO OF THEM "GO INSIDE AND TURN ON LAWRENCE WELK" BERT CRACKS: "I DIDN'T THINK THAT WAS _POSSIBLE_." CAROL, HARVEY & VICKI AS PATTY, MAXENE & LAVERNE A November 18, 1968 episode is unusual in that it was taped during a musician’s strike…which necessitates Carol having to hum her show’s opening theme and sing the familiar _I’m So Glad We Had This Time Together _close with choral accompaniment. A telecast without an orchestra might be a handicap if Ella Fitzgerald is your musical guest (Ella could have just scat-sang a couple) but the First Lady of Song, Carol explains later, lip-synched to previously recorded numbers…and demonstrates by doing her own lip-synch to _The Trolley Song_ (which experiences speed problems during the playback, and Burnett’s facial expressions are hysterical). There’s also a lip-synch performed to the Andrews Sisters’ _Bei Mir Bist Du_ _Schön_…executed by Carol, Vicki, and Harvey (in drag) in a “Carol and Sis” sketch. IN THE "CAROL AND SIS" ANDREWS SISTERS SKETCH, ISABEL "WEEZY" SANFORD PLAYS A CLEANING LADY... ...AND ELAINE JOYCE TURNS UP IN ANOTHER SKIT AS THE SEXY NEIGHBORFROM NEXT DOOR.
Carol gives Harvey a Miranda warning. (Sorry about that... I've been hanging out on Facebook with Andrew "Grover" Lealtoo much.)
Carol Burnett and her writers were classic movie fans, and many of her show’s best-remembered sketches were hilarious parodies of movies. The November 18th show features Carol and guest Sid Caesar in “Mrs. Magnificent” (MRS. MINIVER), and as much as I revere Sid he’s forced to take a back seat to Burnett’s antics as a stiff-upper-lip British woman who’s unsettlingly nonchalant about being shelled by the Germans during WW2. (Sid reprises some bits from _Tars and Spars _in the show’s opening Q&A segment, and he’s much funnier there.) A September 29, 1969 show with guests Bernadette Peters and Nancy Wilson teams the two guests with Carol in a big musical number split in three parts: Wilson does a kind of CASABLANCA parody, and Peters is the novice who’s going out a nobody but coming back a star in a send-up of Warners’ Depression-era musicals. In between these two, Carol apes Carmen Miranda and completely loses it when Harvey slips and falls on his Gazoo during the number. (At one point in the song Korman ad-libs “I suppose they’ll want the Emmy back,” breaking Carol up.) A REMINDER OF CBS' COMMITMENT TO PROGRAMMING IN COLOR. LOOK WHO'S IN THE AUDIENCE! MR. AND MRS. ROSS MARTIN! A spoof of SUMMERTIME (the 1955 Katharine Hepburn film) is the highlight of the fourth and final show on _THE BEST OF HARVEY KORMAN_, a telecast from October 27, 1971 with guest stars Tim Conway and Diahann “Julia” Carroll. Tim does his shuffling old man character in a sketch about a jewel robbery (Harvey manages to keep it together for the most part despite a couple of lapses into hysterics) and Carol and Diahann do the number that you see Carol perform with Lucille Ball in that segment that Burnett narrates on The Greatest Cable Channel Known to Mankind™, _Chutzpah_. Carol Burnett fans will want to nab this very entertaining DVD for their shelf—a fitting reminder that whether he was supporting Carol or Danny Kaye, Harvey Korman was the yardstick by which second bananas should bemeasured.
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FRIDAY, JULY 28, 2017 _CRIME DOES NOT PAY_ #11: “SOAK THE POOR” (08/21/37) This week’s entry in our _Crime Does Not Pay_ series features two actors in the opening credits that would go on to bigger and better things in the motion picture bidness. The first is Leslie Fenton, a British-born thespian who made an impression in silent pictures (LAZYBONES, THE ROAD TO GLORY) before smoothly transitioning to the talkies and appearing in such features as THE PUBLIC ENEMY(1931),
THE GUILTY GENERATION (1931), and BOYS TOWN (1938). Fenton later walked around to the other side of the camera and became a director, starting out with shorts (he even helmed a pair in the _CDNP_ franchise) before graduating to feature flicks, notably TOMORROW, THE WORLD! (1944) and PARDON MY PAST (1945). (If it happens to swing by The Greatest Cable Channel Known to Mankind™ sometime in future, I highly recommend TELL NO TALES —a great little B curio starring Melvyn Douglas…believe me, I am not a fan of Douglas in his “leading man” days but he’s positively first-rate in this one.) The other familiar personage who gets a nod in the opening credits is Leon Ames, a hardy character actor whose was billed as Leon Waycoff early in his picture career (MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE, THE FAMOUS FERGUSON CASE) before he changed it to the more familiar handle and cemented his cinematic immortality with memorable turns in MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS (1944), THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946), and PEYTON PLACE (1957). Ames would later channel William Powell in a boob tube version of _LIFE WITH FATHER_ (1953-55) and Spencer Tracy in _FATHER OF THE BRIDE_ (1961-62) before landing the role he was _born_ to play: Wilbur Post’s (Alan Young) next-door neighbor (and former commanding officer) Gordon Kirkwood in _MISTER ED_ (he replaced Larry Keating’s character when Keating died in 1963). Ames continued to work even into the 1980s; he’s got a nice bit in PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED (1986), his cinematic swan song. “But, Ian,” I hear you saying. “What of our old friend, the MGM Crime Reporter?” Well, Philip Trent must have called in sick that day because the Crime Reporter is played by an unidentified actor…who looks like he might also have a sideline in the funeral parlor game. He introduces Leon Ames as “Mr. Stanton” (no first name), a “special investigator of the Crime Prevention Bureau.” (Don’t tell me they didn’t make that up.) STANTON: The federal government in our several states met the challenge of unemployment and hunger during the Depression years by creating the Home Relief Bureau…hundreds of millions were distributed during the first few months of direct home relief… Hundreds of millions of what? This sounds like that government cheese thing. I also like how Stanton refers to “the Depression years”—according to my father, they lasted until 1962 (the year hegot married).
STANTON: …twice a month, each needy family received a relief ticket…exchangeable at authorized neighborhood grocery stores forfood…
A precursor to food stamps, in other words. STANTON: Then without warning, something went wrong… I’m guessing Blue Dog Democrats got elected to Congress? STANTON: …relief became a national nightmare… Nailed it! Okay, I’m just jinkin’ ya. Stanton is going to illustrate an unsettling example of how the road to hell is paved with good intentions, as we are whisked away to a humble grocery store (not the one owned by Herbert T. Gillis, sadly enough) to find its proprietor humming a happy tune. Without warning, a pair of rough customers enter the store and send the grocer to the floor of his establishment courtesy of a sock in the jaw. FIRST HOOD: This is the last time we’re gonna tell ya to _get intoline_…
SECOND HOOD: You know what happened to _Belvin_… FIRST HOOD: He didn’t want to do business with us _either_… Well, when you go around punching people in the jaw it’s bound to effect customer relations, Mr. Henchman. I’d try the soft sell approach. The second goon in this little morality play goes by “Mac” (I wish it could have been something more colorful, like “Monty the Gonif”) …but we recognize him as Ben Welden, a character great who played more hoodlums than you’ve had hot dinners. (I think that scar across his left eye is a nice touch): The scene shifts to yet another grocer getting a shakedown…and it’s none other than character veteran Byron Foulger! My very good friend Cliff “Sugarball” Weimer, who carefully measures out the fountain soda machine syrup with utmost precision _In the Balcony _, once joked that he had probably seen more movies featuring Byron than Foulger’s immediate family…so I (un)officially made Mr. Foulger the mascot of _ITB’s_ Facebook page. An unidentified hood puts the squeeze on Grocer Foulger: THIRD HOOD (counting pieces of paper): Sixty-four dollars’ worth ofrelief tickets…
GROCER FOULGER: You’re grabbing _forty cents_ out of every dollar…how do you expect me to keep goin’? THIRD HOOD: Quit beefin’…you’d have to wait _sixty days_ down at relief headquarters for your dough…we give you _cash on theline_…
So, what seems at first glance like unsavory criminal activity is just a concerted effort to cut through bureaucratic red tape. GROCER FOULGER (after counting): Hey—this is thirty dollars’ _short_…even the way you figure… THIRD HOOD: Last week you sneaked over to the relief office yourself with a flock of tickets…we’re taking our cut just the same…_don’t try that again_… I retract my earlier statement. With all this lawlessness rampant in the welfare system, eventually there are going to be courageous men who say, “Enough is enough” …and they just decide to opt out of the program. Such a man is played by Harry Hayden, and this time the (always reliable) IMDb gets the identification right. GROCER HARRY: I’m all through—I’m washed up with this reliefbusiness…
FOURTH HOOD (grabbing the sign): Yeah? This ain’t _your_ business you’re throwin’ out…it’s _ours_…you know, accidents happen to _guys who put up signs_…well, come on, come on…let’s havewhat you got…
If the henchman that shakes down Harry the Grocer looks familiar…it’s because it’s an incredibly thin Horace McMahon, the character actor who later appeared on the right side of the law as “Lt. Mike Parker” on the _TDOY_ television fave _NAKED CITY_. McMahon’s thug returns to Hoodlum Central, where he tells the second-in-command of the operation (identified as “Slim”) that Grocer Harry was all set to back out of the Relief deal until he was told it would be a shame if someone were to set fire to his store. FIFTH HOOD: Nobody wants to handle tickets anymore! FOURTH HOOD: We’re takin’ all the gravy! DARLA HOOD: A lot of grocers are gonna fold up on you, Slim… SLIM: You guys gettin’ _soft_? Just get me the tickets, that’sall…
Slim takes up the tickets collected by his hard-working “staff” and takes them to the headquarters of the operation’s Big Boss, a charming snake named Nick Garvey (Fenton)—we’ll meet him in a second. First order of business: Slim hands out stacks of tickets to a quartet of grocers who will, in turn, cash them in at the Relief Bureau for sweet, sweet moolah. One of the merchants, a human-weasel hybrid named Schultz, is portrayed by a character stalwart named John Butler—who will appear in later entries in the _Crime Does Not Pay_ series but I always remember him from appearances in several Robert Benchley shorts (HOW TO WATCH FOOTBALL, OPENING DAY). SCHULTZ: Say, Slim…SLIM: Yeah?
SCHULTZ: I haven’t got much of a _store_…they’re gonna wonder at relief headquarters, turnin’ in this many… SLIM: Why. Schultz—you’re the first guy I ever saw who didn’tlike _big dough_…
Suddenly, a terrible smell permeates the office…which can only mean Nick Garvey has entered. GARVEY: You haven’t had any trouble up to now, have ya? SCHULTZ: No, I haven’t, Nick…but I… GARVEY: Then _forget it_…your job is to take those tickets over to the relief office and bring back the dough…let _me_ do the worrying—I’ll take care of you… This is what is known in the two-reeler business as “foreshadowing.” Meanwhile, Nick wants to see Slim in hispersonal office.
GARVEY: I understand you’re having trouble with some of your grocers…we gotta keep them from going out of business… SLIM: Let ‘em _try it_…I’ll shake their ears off… GARVEY: Now no rough stuff, Slim…we gotta give ‘em _back_ theirprofits…
Um…I’m pretty sure this isn’t the way capitalism is supposed towork…
SLIM: Whaaaat?
GARVEY: Tell every grocer in town to raise his prices _fortypercent_…
(Wiping brow) Whew! You had me worried for a sec…_that’s_ how capitalism is supposed to work. GARVEY: The people on relief are getting _something for nothing_…let them pay… Nick Garvey, noted Republican economist, seems to have forgotten that _everyone_ pays in this system. I guess we should have expected those headlines. What follows is a montage of grocers jacking up their prices to satisfy the parasites running this racket. Ten pounds of potatoes: formerly 25 cents…now 35 cents. Bread rises (no pun intended) from ten cents to twelve cents a loaf. And milk—children’s milk, Mandrake!—sees
a two-cent increase from eleven to thirteen cents! Madness! Superimposed over these rising prices are angry crowds of men, women, and chillun…who are all too aware that getting by on what they normally get on relief is a tragic set of circumstances at best. As a small mob of relief holders loudly protest the rising costs of groceries, Hastings, a representative from the Home Relief Bureau attempts to address the situation: HASTINGS: Please…please…we _must _have order here or we can’t _do_ anything…remember…we’re here to _help_ you…all of you… (Crowd mutters in anger) We’ve stretched our present budget to the limit…but we hope for increased appropriations any day… FIRST MAN: Well, that’s what you said _yesterday_! “Well, yesterday I was convinced Congress would do _something_…apparently I suffered some sort of head injury…” SECOND MAN: If we had jobs, we wouldn’t be _here_! FIRST WOMAN: Why don’t you go after the grocers! SECOND WOMAN: I just can’t keep my family on four dollars a week…I can’t do it, I tell you… HASTINGS: We’re doing everything that we can to get prices back tonormal…
FIRST MAN: Well, when? SECOND MAN: That’s what I say…when? THIRD WOMAN: You’ve got to do something _now_! “We plan to convene a committee this afternoon to address the matter…and a report with their findings should be out sometime in 1939…” Helpless as only a government bureaucrat can be, Hastings has called in Our Man Stanton to examine the situation. HASTINGS: It’s the same thing every day, Stanton… STANTON: That’s one of the reasons I’m here… HASTINGS: Oh…is that so? “Well, that and to justify the taxpayers ponying up for my obscene salary…” The state muckety-mucks have asked Stansy to consider why there are only four grocers getting compensation from all the relief tickets. Hastings is convinced everything is on the up-and-up, but he asks Stanton if he wants to look at the cashier records. As the two men head inside another office, Stanton stops…because he recognizes Schultz, who’s collecting his ill-gotten welfare gains. STANTON: Is that one of the four grocers? “No—I believe that’s one of the Four Freshmen.” Schultz asks the clerk if any checks came through, and when he’s told “no” tells the man he’ll see him tomorrow. Hastings assures Stanton that Schultz is one of the “four grocers” and the two of them walk over to the clerk’s area so Stanton can get a gander at the tickets Schultz turned in. Stanton finds it peculiar that many of the tickets are from addresses that are not normally in the vicinity of the store, and his observations are heard by this nosy parker: Stanton tells Hastings that he’s going to look into the peculiarity of people shopping from as far as ten miles away, and he signs a receipt for some of the tickets he’ll use in his investigation. Nosy Parker offers to file the receipt…but what he’s really planning to do is phone Nick Garvey to let him know some flatfoot is sniffing around his operation. He gives Nick the names of the relief customers, and in turn Nick issues orders for Slim to send his confederates out for damage control. One of the people on the list goes by “Briggs,” and he’s played by another familiar face… …it’s George Chandler, whom has a movie and TV resume as long as your arm—he’s “Chester” in the classic W.C. Fields comedy THE FATAL GLASS OF BEER (1933), and on television he played “Uncle Petrie” on _LASSIE_ (and “Ichabod” on the sitcom _ICHABOD AND ME_). Briggs is a bit of a nervous Nellie when Stanton comes a-callin’…but that’s easily explained… …some of the Garvey mob (shame on you, Ben!) are hovering over Briggs’ family ready to work over La Familia. Another individual who’s reluctant to talk is Mrs. Clark, who tells Stansy that even though she and her husband “do without” it’s not enough to keep her sick daughter healthy—the child’s not getting enough to eat. When Stanton asks about Schultz, Mrs. Clark becomes upset: “You’re the third man who’s been here today…Schultz…Schultz…_Schultz!_ _ That’s all I hear! I’m sick of it! I can’t stand anymore of it! _Get out! _Get out!_” STANTON (on the telephone): Why, these people are _scared stiff_, Hastings…somebody’s been ahead of me browbeating them…there must be a leak in your office… HASTINGS: What? Anything I can do? STANTON: No, I just wanted to warn you—hereafter, we’ll meet in Captain Burke’s office…we’ll get together after I’ve lookedSchultz over…
“And in the meantime, I can put that new guy—Scaramucci—in charge of plugging the leaks.” There’s a scene shift to Schultz’s grocery, where a clerk informs a “Mrs. Flynn” that she’s just twenty-eight cents over. MRS. FLYNN: Oh, well…uh…couldn’t you take it out of our _next week’s_ ticket? It’s only three days off… SCHULTZ (interjecting icily): _We don’t give credit on relieftickets…_
MRS. FLYNN: All right…take out the sugar… (The clerk starts removing items from the sack) And the butter… “The milk…eggs…bread…vegetables…” Schultz, spotting Stanton in the store, asks what he can do for him. STANTON: I’m from relief headquarters…I’d like to see yourtickets…
SCHULTZ: Oh—what for? STANTON: We’re checking up on some families who are getting luxuries instead of necessities… “You know, sugar…butter…milk…eggs…bread…vegetables…” Stanton looks over the tickets from the customers he visited, and everything appears to be in order—he bids the smug Schultz adieu, while Slim emerges from a nearby corner. Schultz starts to file the tickets away but is stopped by Slim: “Hey, just a minute—those go back where they came from…” The old-substitute-relief-ticket ploy (thanks, Nosy!) …and Stanton fell for it. Stanton, Hastings, and other assorted underlings are having a meeting in Captain Burke’s (Davison Clark) office: STANTON: Schultz was all primed…we’re dealing with fast workers, and they’re ruthless… I wonder where Ruth is? (Love the Firesign Theatre.) STANTON: …to break this case by ordinary methods, it might take _three months_…but we haven’t got time—people are _starving_… You’ve also only five minutes left in this thing. Stanton decides to go for broke: he hands out court orders to his deputies to serve on the four grocers—a little surprise audit! “Bring me back a telephone number…a scrap of paper…or a name…_anything_! Something that will give me a clue as to who’s behind thisthing…”
Schultz is saying good night to his employees when one of Stanton’s men enters with the court order, asking to look at his books. Schultz tells him “Help yourself,” but when he heads toward his safe to close the doors he’s told to leave everything open. Andthen this happens:
DEPUTY: Just a minute—_you can’t do that!_ SCHULTZ: You’ve no authority to go through my private papers! That’s my own _personal _box…I’ll be right back… “I…forgot to program the DVR for that Michael Phelps/Shark thing.” The deputy waits for a few moments, but Schultz does not return. (Because he’s all ass and elbows, headed for the state line—that’s my guess.) He phones Stanton at Burke’s office and gives him the lowdown about Schultz locking the box—“I’ll jimmy it if you say so.” Stanton, in a rare display of adhering to the Fourth Amendment, tells his man he’ll need a witness…so he’s onhis way.
At Nick’s headquarters, Garvey is reading Nosy Parker (his real name is “Joe,” for the curious) the riot act for not tipping them off about the court orders…and Parker emphatically tells his boss they didn’t come from the relief office. Schultz bursts in, sweating in a way that would make Edmond O’Brien jealous: SCHULTZ: They _jumped my books_—you gotta get me out of it! SLIM: Well, keep your shirt on… SCHULTZ: But you don’t understand—he’s got a court order! He’ll go through _everything!_ GARVEY: Whaddya mean, everything?!! SCHULTZ: He’ll go through my safe… GARVEY: What’s the matter with your safe?!! SCHULTZ: Well, I…that is… GARVEY (grabbing him by the lapels): Come on! Spill it! _What’sin that safe?!!_
Schultz lets it be known that there’s a little book inside that safe…one that he kept the relief records in. I know what you’re thinking right now—“That seems kind of stupid.” (Not nearly as stupid as writing “The Real Relief Records” on the cover of the book, of course—he’s not a _complete_ idiot.) Schultz assures his “friends” that he’s locked it up and though Nick is telling him to make like a tree and get out of there, Slim beseeches his boss: “He’ll squawk!” As Schultz backs up toward the evidence he plaintively screeches “_You said you’d take care of me!_ _That’s what you said! You’d take care of me!_” “We’ll take care of you,” declares Garvey. Say what you want about Nick and his associates—but they make good on their word. As Schultz is ducking down alleys like someone trapped in a noir nightmare, he’s gunned down by the Garvey mob…though not before the studio gets in a plug for their current release of THE GOOD EARTH (1937) starring Paul Muni and Luise Rainer—based on the novel by fellow Mountaineer Pearl S. Buck! ON THE POSTER BEHIND HIM. By this time, Stanton and his man have opened Schultz’s private box (well, in all fairness—it’s not like he’ll be needing it anytime soon) and have found the grocer’s book with the incriminating evidence (he even took the time to write Garvey’s name in it!). As Stanton gets on the horn to contact Captain Burke and have him raid Nick’s headquarters, several members of the Garvey mob pull up outside the store and relieve the deputy of some ledgers and papers he’s carrying out. What follows is a scene in which Stanton conceals the incriminating book inside a desk drawer as the hoods tear apart the store looking for it. It’s pretty much all over but the shouting…but I did get a hearty chuckle at this blatant bit ofproduct placement:
I'D LIKE TO BUY THE WORLD A COKE... ...AND USE IT AS A DEADLY WEAPON! Garvey grabs The Pause That Refreshes, breaks it across a store display and starts toward Stanton with it. Stanton tells him the book is in the cash register to stall for time, but by that time the jernt is swarming with cops ready to escort Nick and his chums to TheGrey Bar Hotel.
STANTON: Nick Garvey and his killers went to the _electric chair_…the grocers who hid their greed behind respectable storefronts received _no mercy_…and were sentenced to jail for terms long enough to realize that _crime does not pay_… Oh, puh-leeze. They’re white collar criminals—I’m guessing they pleaded to a lesser charge and fines were involved. Next time on the blog: _Crime Does Not Pay _rips the lid off phony charity rackets with GIVE TILL IT HURTS (1937)! G’bye now! Posted by Ivan G Shreve Jrat 7:00 AM
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