The Colgate Comedy Hour is an American comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955. The show featured many notable comedians and entertainers of the era as guest stars.
This episode of the Colgate Comedy Hour was hosted by Bud Abbott and Lou Costello on January 7, 1951. The Colgate Comedy Hour was a comedy-musical variety series that aired live on the NBC network from 1950 to 1955.
Also known as – Colgate Summer Comedy Hour Colgate Variety Hour
Genre – Comedy/Variety
Created by – Fred Hamilton
Directed by – William Asher Bob Finkel Fred Hamilton Ernest D. Glucksman Jim Jordan Kingman T. Moore Ed Sobol James V. Kern Bud Yorkin
Country of origin – United States
Original language(s) – English
No. of seasons – 6
No. of episodes – 221 Production
Executive producer(s) – Samuel Fuller Pete Barnum
Producer(s) – Charles Friedman Ernest D. Glucksman Leo Morgan Ed Sobol Michael Todd Pete Barnum
Camera setup – Multi-camera
Running time – 50 minutes
Production company(s) – Colgate-Palmolive-Peet Release
Original channel – NBC
Picture format – Black-and-white Color
Audio format – Monaural
Original release – September 10, 1950 – December 25, 1955
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Cross-dressing Chaplin plays a pugnacious wife jealous of her husband (Mack Swain) having interest in another woman (Phyllis Allen) during a military parade.
Released on May 7th, 1914 by Mack Sennett’s Keystone Studios.
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Horror Express, also known as Pánico en el Transiberiano/Panic on the Trans-Siberian Express, is a 1972 Spanish/British horror film directed by Eugenio Martín and starring Christopher Lee, Peter Cushing, Alberto de Mendoza and Telly Savalas.
It was produced by Bernard Gordon and written by Arnaud d’Usseau and Julian Zimet (credited as Julian Halevy).
Storyline: An English anthropologist has discovered a frozen monster in the frozen wastes of Manchuria which he believes may be the Missing Link. He brings the creature back to Europe aboard a trans-Siberian express, but during the trip the monster thaws out and starts to butcher the passengers one by one.
A nightmare of terror travelling aboard the Horror Express!
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When a wealthy man (Lionel Atwill) is threatened by a an insane killer known as The Gorilla, he hires the Ritz Brothers to investigate. A real escaped gorilla shows up at the mansion just as the investigators arrive. Patsy Kelly portrays a newly hired maid who wants to quit because the butler, played by Bela Lugosi, scares her. Based on a play of the same name by Ralph Spence.
This was the final Ritz Brothers film directed by Allan Dwan, and their last for 20th Century-Fox (they would move on to Universal).
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The Battle of Russia (1943) – shows a history of Russian defense and Russia’s battle against Germany. This film made available courtesy the Department of Defense, National Technical Information Service, and the National Archives and Records Administration http://www.archives.gov/
Capra’s synopsis: “History of Russia; people, size, resources, wars. Death struggle against Nazi armies at gates of Moscow and Leningrad. At Stalingrad, Nazis put through meat grinder
The following background information is from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Why_We_Fight
Why We Fight is a series of seven propaganda films commissioned by the United States government during World War II to demonstrate to American soldiers the reason for U.S. involvement in the war. Later on they were also shown to the general U.S. public to persuade them to support American involvement in the war.
Most of the films were directed by Frank Capra, who was daunted yet also impressed and challenged by Leni Riefenstahl’s propaganda film Triumph of the Will and who worked in direct response to it. The series faced a tough challenge: convincing an only recently non-interventionist nation of the need to become involved in the war and ally with the Soviets, among other things. In many of the films, Capra and other directors spliced in Axis powers propaganda footage—recontextualizing it so it promoted the cause of the Allies instead.
Why We Fight was edited primarily by William Hornbeck and is among the best examples of stock-footage montage ever produced, although some parts were re-enacted “under War Department supervision” if there was no relevant footage available. The animated portions of the films were produced by the Disney studios — with the animated maps following a convention of depicting Axis-occupied territory in black.
The films were narrated by Academy Award winning actor Walter Huston. This narration, though factual for the most part, is replete with nationalist and racist rhetoric describing implacably warlike Germans and “blood-crazed Japs.” Conversely, it lionizes the courage and sacrifice of the British, Soviets, and Chinese.
At the end of each film, the quotation from Army Chief of Staff George Marshall that “…the victory of the democracies can only be complete with the utter defeat of the war machines of Germany and Japan.” is shown on screen, followed by a ringing Liberty Bell over which is superimposed a large letter “V” zooming into the screen, accompanied by patriotic or military music on the soundtrack.
Why We Fight also contains many scenes from Triumph of the Will when talking about the Nazis. .
The Battle of Russia,” Chapter V of Frank Capra’s “Why We Fight”
series, follows the beginning of the end for Adolph Hitler. In Part
Two, the German army falls victim to the Soviet scorched-earth strategy.
The Russian forces flee from the start, retreating deep into their
homeland, drawing the Nazis farther and farther away from the German
border. As the Red Army falls back, it destroys infrastructure and
natural resources, making it difficult for the Nazi army to live off the
land. Once the famed Russian winter sets in, Germany is doomed. The
film focuses on the stalwart defense of Leningrad. After the Nazis
surround the Soviet metropolis in an attempt to starve out its
residents, the Russians outsmart them by constructing a fully
operational railroad across a frozen lake to get supplies to the
beleaguered citizens. The Battle of Russia ends up as a disaster for the
Germans, who lose more than 800,000 men.
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Three Guys Named Mike (1951) – Classic comedy movie
When a small town girl becomes an airline stewardess she finds herself in relationships with three guys named Mike: an airline pilot, a college professor, and a successful businessman. When the three find out about each other, she must decide which one she loves most. Stars Van Johnson and Jane Wyman.
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Too Late for Tears is a 1949 film noir crime film directed by Byron Haskin and starring Lizabeth Scott, Don DeFore, Dan Duryea and Arthur Kennedy.
IMDb Rating: 7.3/10
It tells a story about a seductive woman and ruthless killer who steals a suitcase of $60,000. The screenplay was written by Roy Huggins, developed from a serial he wrote for the Saturday Evening Post.
The film was reissued as Killer Bait in 1955. Too Late for Tears has gained a cult following;
On January 25, 2014, a restored 35mm print was premiered by the Film Noir Foundation at Noir City 12 at the Castro Theatre in San Francisco. The film was restored by UCLA Film & Television Archive and the Film Noir Foundation, with the Hollywood Foreign Press Association providing some of the necessary funding.
Director: Byron Haskin
Writers: Roy Huggins (screenplay), Roy Huggins (serial)
Through a fluke circumstance a ruthless woman stumbles across a suitcase filled with $60,000, and she is determined to hold onto it even it if means murder.
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Raymond Burr (Perry Mason) stars as a lawyer who defends a woman accused of murdering her husband (Angela Lansbury – Murder, She Wrote). During the trial he falls in love with the women. When the woman is acquited, he finds out information that he did not know during the trial, beginning a cat and mouse psychological thriller.
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The Little Shop of Horrors is a 1960 American black comedy horror film directed by Roger Corman. Written by Charles B. Griffith, the film is a farce about an inadequate florist’s assistant who cultivates a plant that feeds on human flesh and blood.
The film’s concept is thought to be based on a 1932 story called “Green Thoughts”, by John Collier, about a man-eating plant. However, Dennis McDougal in Jack Nicholson’s biography suggests that Charles B. Griffith may have been influenced by Arthur C. Clarke’s sci-fi short story ‘The Reluctant Orchid’.
The film stars Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles and Dick Miller, all of whom had worked for Corman on previous films. Produced under the title The Passionate People Eater, the film employs an original style of humor, combining black comedy with farce and incorporating Jewish humor and elements of spoof. The Little Shop of Horrors was shot on a budget of $30,000 in two days utilizing sets that had been left standing from A Bucket of Blood.
The film slowly gained a cult following through word of mouth when it was distributed as the B movie in a double feature with Mario Bava’s Black Sunday and eventually with The Last Woman on Earth.The film’s popularity increased with local television broadcasts, in addition to the presence of a young Jack Nicholson, whose small role in the film has been prominently promoted on home video releases of the film. The movie was the basis for an Off Broadway musical, Little Shop of Horrors, which was made into a 1986 feature film and enjoyed a Broadway revival, all of which have attracted attention to the 1960 film.
IMDb Rating:6.3/10
Actor: Jack Nicholson
Director: Roger Corman
Producer: Roger Corman
Writer: Charles Griffith
Category: Black Comedy Horror
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Five Minutes to Live is a 1961 American crime film. It was re-titled Door-to-Door Maniac for a re-release in 1966. The film starred Johnny Cash and Cay Forrester who wrote the screenplay for the film that was produced by her husband Ludlow Flower.
The film opens on Fred (Vic Tayback), sitting in a dark room, detailing his most recent bank robbery. He talks about how he has always had a plan for a small town bank robbery. He had teamed-up with hardened criminal, Johnny Cabot (Johnny Cash) to execute his plan. Cabot is to take the wife of the bank’s vice president hostage. He is to hold her until he gets a call from Fred informing him that they have the ransom money. Cabot watches the Wilson house as the husband leaves for work and their son heads off to school. At first, posing as a door-to-door guitar instructor, Cabot works his way into the house and takes Nancy Wilson (Cay Forrester) hostage. At the bank, Fred talks his way into Ken Wilson’s (Donald Woods) office, and hands him a check for $70,000, informing Wilson that he will withdraw the funds to cover the ransom or his wife will die. He tells Wilson to call home in order to prove that Nancy is being held hostage, and then informs him that if he does not call Cabot back in five minutes that Mrs. Wilson will die. Wilson tells Fred that he’s been planning to leave his wife anyway and run off to Las Vegas with his mistress, Ellen (Pamela Mason). He tells Fred that he will be doing him a favor by killing his wife. Fred, however, does not believe that Ken will let his wife die. He is proven correct, as time ticks by, Wilson finally cracks and agrees to pay the ransom. Fred calls Cabot and starts the clock over again. As time ticks away, Fred works on Ken to collect the money so he can leave the bank safely. Meanwhile, at the Wilson house, Cabot is enjoying terrorizing his hostage. Forcing her to listen to him play songs about her impending demise, shooting at her and making sexual advances toward her (which she tries to use to aid her escape to no avail). Back at the bank, Fred has been taken down by the police who arrived after someone tripped the silent alarm. As a result, Cabot is getting nervous having not received his expected call from Fred. Suddenly, in walks Little Bobby (Ron Howard), home for lunch. Around this time the police finally arrive outside the Wilson house. In a panic, Cabot grabs Bobby and runs for it. He runs right into the yard and waiting police gunfire. Bobby pretends as though he’s been shot in the fight in order to get Cabot to put him down. After apparently being very upset by the accidental shooting of the young boy, Cabot runs back into the fight and is killed by police. Nancy runs outside to find her son alive and well. The film ends with Mr. Wilson driving to Las Vegas, but with his wife instead of his, now former, mistress.
Stars: Johnny Cash, Donald Woods, Cay Forester
Director: Bill Karn
Writers: Cay Forester (screenplay), Palmer Thompson.
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