20th Century Fox
Release Date : December 19, 1940
Running Time : 77 minutes
Black & White
Director : Eugene Forde
Cast : Lloyd Nolan, Marjorie Weaver, Joan Valerie, Walter Abel, Donald McBride, Elizabeth Patterson, Douglas Dumbrille, Clarence Kolb, Frank Orth, Irving Bacon, George Meeker
First of seven films starring Lloyd Nolan as Michael Shayne, based upon the character created by Brett Halliday. The first film is from the novel “The Private Practice Of Michael Shayne”, wherein Irish “private eye” Shayne ( Nolan ) is hired by millionaire Hiram Brighton ( Kolb ) to keep his compulsive daughter Phyllis ( Weaver ) from gambling away a fortune. Mike fakes her race track tout boyfriend’s ( Abel ) death to try to shake from the shady gambling world. When the tout turns up dead they discover he was also romancing daughter of gambling casino owner Benny Gordon ( Dumbrille ). Mike and Aunt Olivia have their hands full in this fun, kick off to a neat series of “Irish” based detective work.
Before it was on the stage or a 1957 movie, “Twelve Angry Men” was a live teleplay on CBS Studio One. The film kinescope copy, thought to be lost until found a few years ago, is cleaned and restored to the original frame rate of live television, so you may see what it looked like when originally broadcast live.
This project was one of the more difficult of projects, due to the dirty film and poor sound quality on the soundtrack. Commercials are inserted from a show of the same season, as the originals are not on the film. This production was obviously one of “close quarters.” See if you can notice various cameras moving in and out of the edge of the picture from time to time.
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A colonial police detective in an Eastern seaport seeks a stolen gem, and infiltrates the underworld by posing as a look-alike wharfside bar owner.
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Directed by Fred C. Newmeyer, produced by Ray Kirkwood, written by Norman Springer, starring Lon Chaney Jr. as Detective Jack Wilson / Butch Curtain, Sheila Terry as Edith Bentley, Zarah Tazil as Mora, Philip Ahn as Wu Ting, John Ince as Joe Bentley, Manuel López as Johnny Fly, Richard Cramer as Inspector Green, Merrill McCormick as Jalla (the Money-Lender) and John Lester Johnson as John, the Bartender.
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Source: “A Scream in the Night” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 8 June 2013. Web. 24 July 2013.
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If you like this movie and our channel, please subscribe: https://goo.gl/0qDmXe | “The Bat” is a mystery film directed by Crane Wilbur. The film’s tagline was “When it flies, someone dies!” The film was based on the 1920 Broadway play “The Bat by Avery Hopwood” and Mary Roberts “Rinehart”, which was previously filmed as “The Bat” (1926) and as “The Bat Whispers” (1930), both directed by Roland West.
Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) is a mystery author who lives in a town terrorized by a mysterious murderer known only as “The Bat”. The Bat is said to be a man with no face who murders women at night by ripping out their throats with steel claws. Early in the film, The Bat enters Van Gorder’s house and releases a bat, which bites van Gorder’s maid Lizzy (Lenita Lane). With Lizzy in a panic, fearing she may now have contracted “the rabies”, an outbreak of which local papers have reported, Van Gorder calls her doctor, Dr Malcolm Wells (Vincent Price), who is conducting research on bats.
Meanwhile, the whole town is searching for a million-dollar stash of looted bank securities that were recently stolen. Dr. Wells discovers the location of the treasure when the thief confides in him. Wells then murders the thief in cold blood, presumably so that he can take the treasure for himself, which he believes to be hidden in van Gorder’s house.
A series of break-ins and murders by The Bat brings the local chief of detectives, Andy Anderson (Gavin Gordon) to the Van Gorder house. The Bat then murders two people in the Van Gorder house, Mark Fleming (John Bryant) and Judy Hollander (Darla Hood). Anderson attempts to determine the identity of The Bat, suspecting both Wells and Van Gorder’s new butler, Warner (John Sutton). Wells is removed from suspicion, however, when he is murdered by The Bat in his lab.
Miss Van Gorder cleverly manages to capture The Bat inside the secret room in her house. The Bat shoots a detective named Davenport (Robert Williams), he is then shot by Warner. Warner unmasks The Bat and he is revealed to be Lieutenant Anderson.
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Directed by Crane Wilbur, produced by C.J. Tevlin, written by Avery Hopwood, Mary Roberts Rinehart and Crane Wilbur, starring Vincent Price, Agnes Moorehead, Gavin Gordon, John Sutton, Lenita Lane, Elaine Edwards, Darla Hood, John Bryant and Harvey Stephens.
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Source: “The Bat (1959 film)” Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia. Wikimedia Foundation, Inc.. 14 March 2013. Web. 16 August 2013. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Bat_(film).
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