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Classic Television Thursday #022 – The Abbott and Costello Show – The Haunted House
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 12, 2015
Early television comedies, especially ones like The Abbott and Costello Show, are often interesting, because they provided the performers a different venue to reuse a lot of material that they were basically recycling from their vaudeville days. In some ways this was a good thing, because it gave th read more
Which Movie Superman Is Really Super? Here Are Some Interesting Box Office Numbers
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 9, 2015
As anyone who knows me or who has read much of my writing here will know, I’m not one who is all that concerned with box office returns. As a matter of fact, I think that the current emphasis on opening weekend returns is one of Hollywood’s current biggest problems. However I found this read more
“What You Have Here Is A Paltry Ghost” – Here’s The First Trailer For The New Poltergeist Remake
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 8, 2015
I’m going to skip the usual “but do we really need it?” commentary on this Poltergeist remake, because the obvious answer is “no”. As far as I’m concerned the original has about as perfect a blend of both creepiness and jump scare as you’re going to find, an read more
Saturday Breakfast Serial 015 – Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. (1941) Chapter 3: Doom Patrol
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 7, 2015
Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s Saturday Breakfast Serial Time! This week, it’s Chapter Three of Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. (You can find Chapter One here and Chapter Two here.) Last week, we looked at King of the Kongo, the first partially talking serial, read more
Classic Television Thursday #021 – A Day Called X (1957)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 5, 2015
The year is 1957, the location is Portland, Oregon, and Soviet bombers had been spotted just to the north, indicating that a nuclear attack may soon be underway. That’s the setup for CBS television’s production A Day Called X which details the plans and preparedness of the city in antici read more
Matt Murdock May Be Fearless, But… – Here’s The New Trailer For Netflix’s Daerdevil
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Feb 4, 2015
I’ve really liked all the info we’ve gotten so far about Netflix’s upcoming Daredevil series. What bugs me, though, is the final piece that we haven’t seen. Unless I’ve missed it somewhere along the line, there’s been absolutely no hint about the look of, or if we read more
Saturday Breakfast Serial 014 – Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. (1941) Chapter 2: The Prisoner Vanishes
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 31, 2015
Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s Saturday Breakfast Serial Time! This week, it’s Chapter Two of Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. (You can find Chapter One here.) A couple of weeks ago, I wrote about the transition of serials from silent to sound, a transition whic read more
Sight and Sound Top 250 – #244 The Thin Blue Line (1988)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 25, 2015
A short(ish) introduction – As I noted recently, I’m changing the way that I post these essays. Instead of attempting to get them up in a once-per-week-on-Tuesday format, instead I’ll be watching and posting them more in an as-the-spirit-leads time frame. What will this mean in pra read more
Saturday Breakfast Serial 013 – Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. (1941) Chapter 1: The Invisible Trail
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 24, 2015
Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s Saturday Breakfast Serial Time! Today we begin a new serial, Dick Tracy vs Crime Inc. This was actually the fourth and last of Republic’s Dick Tracy serials, and is largely considered the best of them all. Ralph Byrd stars read more
Classic Television Thursday #020 – Playhouse 90: Forbidden Area (1956)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 22, 2015
What do I need to say here? Charlton Heston, Vincent Price, Tab Hunter, Diana Lynn, and Victor Jory, all starring in a screenplay adapted by Rod Serling and directed by John Frankenheimer. What could possibly bring all of this talent together? It’s “Forbidden Area”, the premiere ep read more
Saturday Breakfast Serial 012 – The Crimson Ghost (1946) Chapter 12: The Invisible Trail
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 17, 2015
Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11) I’m gonna get out of the way pretty quickly here this morning so that read more
Classic Television Thursday #019 – Sherlock Holmes: The Case of the Cunningham Heritage (1954)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 15, 2015
Considering the perennial popularity of the character, I was rather surprised to find out that up until the recent CBS series Elementary, there has been only one American television series based on the adventures of Sherlock Holmes. Produced for syndication in 1954 the series, simply titled Sherlock read more
R.I.P. Robert Kinoshita
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 14, 2015
I’m not sure why the news is only now being reported, or if I simply missed a mention of it before, but famed TV and movie robot creator Robert Kinoshita passed away on Dec 9 of last year at age 100. Here’s Variety’s (unfortunately short) report. Mr. Kinoshita was the designer and read more
I’m Not Here To Cause Any Trouble, I’m Just Here To Do The Ape Shuffle
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 11, 2015
I consider myself to be a pretty big fan of the original Planet of the Apes series. I have all of the original films on Blu-ray. I have a collection of the entire run of the TV series, I even have a full set of the Saturday morning animated series (which, for those of you who haven’t seen it, read more
Saturday Breakfast Serial 011 – The Crimson Ghost (1946) Chapter 11: Double Murder
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 10, 2015
Welcome back! It’s Saturday morning again which means it’s time for the next chapter of our ongoing serial The Crimson Ghost and more movie serial history. (Previous Chapters: 1 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10) So far, as we’ve been looking back at the history of movie serials, we̵ read more
Did You Know There Was Actually A Six Million Dollar Man Theme Song? Neither Did I
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 8, 2015
So I just happened to be at Target yesterday, and I ran across a 6-DVD set of the first season of The Six Million Dollar Man which also includes the first three made for TV movies and was selling for ten bucks. Naturally, that was the kind of thing that I wasn’t going to pass up. And, since I read more
Classic Television Thursday #018 – Captain Video and His Video Rangers
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 8, 2015
Running across this series was something of a surprise for me, because it actually answers a question I’d never really thought to ask: What was the first Science Fiction Adventure series on American television? It turns out that the answer is a little known show that aired on the Dumont Networ read more
Want To Play More Than 2300 MS-DOS Games? Head Over To The Internet Archives
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 7, 2015
That’s right, just on the heels of putting up almost 650 games in the Internet Arcade last year, the Internet Archives has just opened up a new section with over 2300 MS-DOS based games that are playable right in your computer browser. What’s MS-DOS I hear a bunch of you ask? I’m a read more
2014 In Review – An Introduction And An Offer
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 6, 2015
One of the things it seems everyone tends to do as one year rolls into the next is some kind of Year In Review post, but I’m really not into that for a number of reasons, #1 of which is that I really don’t want to have to go back and try to figure out which movies I first saw in 2014 and read more
Top 250 Tuesday – #112 Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Durnmoose Movie Musings Posted by Michael on Jan 6, 2015
Continuing to wend my way through the Sight and Sound Top 250 Greatest Movies of All Time. This week, it’s #112 on the list, Howard Hawks‘ Bringing Up Baby. For a longer introduction to this series and a look at the full list, just click here. And if you want a heads-up on what I’ read more