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Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5), episodes #9-#12
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 6, 2018
Aired December 6 1974 US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Gordon Hessler Pr: Cy Chermak Scr: Al Friedman, David Chase Story: Al Friedman Cine: Ronald W. Browne Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Keenan Wynn, Severn Darden, Randy Boone, Johnny Silver, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt, read more
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5), episodes #5-#8
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 5, 2018
Aired November 1 1974 US / 52 minutes / color / Francy, Universal, ABC Dir: Allen Baron Pr: Cy Chermak Scr: David Chase, Paul Playdon Cine: Ronald W. Browne Cast: Darren McGavin, Simon Oakland, Dick Gautier, Henry Jones, Nita Talbot, Eric Braeden, Jack Grinnage, Ruth McDevitt, Jackie Russell, Lewis read more
Kolchak: The Night Stalker (1974-5), episodes #1-#4
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 4, 2018
The great movie (and more) website Wonders in the Dark is currently running the second (and, according to plan, final) “TV Countdown,” in which a diversity of writers are penning essays about their favorite series and other TV items. I know very little about TV, so didn’t participate in the earlier read more
o/t: May’s leisure reading
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 3, 2018
A few disappointments this month, but most of these I enjoyed quite a lot. The links are as usual to my Goodreads accounts of the books — although most of them (I think in fact all of them, but cannae be fashed to check) were immediately afterwards crossposted here. Fill in your details below read more
book: The Madman’s Room (1990; trans 2017) by Paul Halter
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 3, 2018
Paul Halter is one of those writers who seem to divide opinions. Some readers quite clearly don’t enjoy his books much, while others adore them, hailing them — as I do — as being like John Dickson Carr on acid. True, they have their ups and downs and they’re not as well writ read more
Allan Fish Online Film Festival: Pornography (2012)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 3, 2018
Each year (this is the second such) the splendid movies’n’more website Wonders in the Dark runs an “Online Film Festival” in honor of Allan Fish, the site’s co-founder, whose tragically young death came as a shock to all connected with WitD. Here’s my contribution read more
The Night Strangler (1973 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on Jun 2, 2018
US / originally aired cut to 74 minutes; later releases have full 90 minutes / color / ABC Circle Dir & Pr: Dan Curtis Scr: Richard Matheson Cine: Robert Hauser Cast: Darren McGavin, Jo Ann Pflug, Simon Oakland, Scott Brady, Wally Cox, Richard Anderson, Margaret Hamilton, John Carradine, Nina Wa read more
book: Napoleon’s Pyramids (2007) by William Dietrich
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 30, 2018
Ethan Gage, a rapscallion American ex-mentee of Benjamin Franklin now resident in immediate post-Terror Paris, wins an unusual medallion in a card game and soon after finds himself hotly pursued by rogues for the medallion and by the authorities for the murder (which he did not commit) of a prostit read more
The Night Stalker (1972 TVM)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 26, 2018
vt Kolchak: The Night Stalker; vt The Kolchak Papers; vt The Kolchak Tapes
US / 75 minutes / color / Curtis, ABC Dir: John Llewellyn Moxey Pr: Dan Curtis Scr: Richard Matheson Story: Jeff Rice Cine: Michel Hugo Cast: Darren McGavin, Carol Lynley, Simon Oakland, Ralph Meeker, Claude Akins, Charles Mc read more
Allan Fish Online Film Festival 2018
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 25, 2018
***Starting on Monday, an event to look out for! Wonders in the Dark Starting Monday, May 28th Wonders in the Dark will be hosting a 12 day Allan Fish Online Film Festival (Allan Fish OFF 2018). The rules are simple; each day will see a new chairman host the festivities and select a film that is av read more
o/t: His Artist Wife
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 24, 2018
Earlier this year the John Joseph Adams-edited US magazine Lightspeed bought reprint rights in my novelette “His Artist Wife,” originally published a yonk or two ago in the Andy Cox-edited UK magazine Black Static. Lightspeed has now put “His Artist Wife” up on the intertubes read more
book: Best Detective Stories of the Year 1950 (1950), edited by David C. Cooke
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 21, 2018
I read this book because I was intrigued by the fact that it was the only item to turn up when I did a search for Fredric Brown in the online catalogue for my local county’s libraries. There are 27 — countem, 27!!! — libraries in the county, so it’s pretty shameful that a po read more
book: Dolly and the Bird of Paradise (1983) by Dorothy Dunnett
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 20, 2018
Rita Geddes — from Troon in Scotland — is a dyslexic punk who’s made her way up to become one of the best-regarded makeup artists in the world. Her friendship with flamboyantly randy photographer Ferdy Braithwaite brings her into the ambits of enigmatic portrait painter and underc read more
Permission to Kill (1975)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 19, 2018
vt Kickback; vt The Executioner UK, Austria, US / 97 minutes / color with occasional brief bw / Sascha–Film, Jungbluth & Lazek, Warner, Columbia–Warner, Embassy Dir: Cyril Frankel Pr: Paul Mills Scr: Robin Estridge Story: W.I.L One to Curtis (1967) by Robin Estridge Cine: Freddie Young Cast: read more
book: The Murder of Ann Avery (1956) by Henry Kuttner
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 15, 2018
Young ne’er-do-well Eddie Udall is arrested for the murder of Ann Avery, a cinema-owner’s wife who’d taken the teenager under her wing. All the evidence points toward Eddie as the killer — everything except possible motive, in fact, and motives are of course psychoanalyst Mi read more
book: The Man with Two Wives (1955) by Patrick Quentin
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 14, 2018
Bill Harding is happily married to tireless philanthropist Betsy Callingham, elder daughter of the magazine plutocrat C.J. Callingham. To be sure, Bill can’t really stand his bullying father-in-law, who’s also his boss, and Betsy’s younger and much prettier sister Daphne, the appl read more
book: From Afar: A Science Fiction Mystery (1946) by John Russell Fearn
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 12, 2018
I remember John Russell Fearn from my younger days (cough, wheeze) as being a somewhat mediocre science fiction writer — rather in the mold of Charles Eric Maine but, in my youthful opinion, not as good. It was only quite recently that I discovered he also wrote quite a number of mysteries an read more
book: The Anatomy of Deception (2008) by Lawrence Goldstone
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 12, 2018
In 1889, at the same as James Norton is chasing a killer and confronting his own demons in Paris in Lisa Appignanesi’s Paris Requiem, which by unusual coincidence I read just a few days ago, young surgeon Ephraim Carroll is undergoing rather similar adventures in Philadelphia. What made The A read more
book: The Case of the Dancing Sandwiches (1951) by Fredric Brown
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 12, 2018
A splendid mystery novella by yet another writer whose sf/fantasy work I’ve read fairly widely but whose mystery fiction I know far less well. One of my current resolutions is to redress that balance in the case of both Brown and fellow-skiffer Henry Kuttner. Accountant Carl Dixon goes out on read more
Blitz (2011)
Noirish Posted by John Grant on May 12, 2018
UK, France, US / 97 minutes / color / Davis, Current, Kushner/Wyman, Metropolitan, Lionsgate UK Dir: Elliott Lester Pr: Zygi Kamasa, Steven Chasman, Donald Kushner, Brad Wyman Scr: Nathan Parker Story: Blitz (2002) by Ken Bruen Cine: Rob Hardy Cast: Jason Statham, Paddy Considine, Aidan Gillen, Zawe read more