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kwebtv · 9 months

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A Child is Born - CBS - December 25, 1955 and December 23, 1956

A presentation of "General Electric Theater"

Drama

Running Time: 30 minutes

Hosted by Ronald Reagan, Nancy Reagan and Patti Reagan

Stars:

Nadine Connor as Innkeeper's Wife

Robert Middleton as Innkeeper

Marian Seldes as Leah

Harve Presnell as Dismas

Nyra Monsour as Sarah

Ross Elliott as Joseph

Dean Fredericks as Soldier (as Norman Fredric)

The Roger Wagner Chorale

A retelling of the Nativity story from the point of view of the Innkeeper's wife, her husband and their servants.

#A Child is Born #TV #General Electric Theater #1955 #1956 #1950's #Drama #Nadine Connor #Robert Middleton #Marian Seldes #Harve Presnell #Nyra Monsour #Ross Elliott #The Roger Wagner Chorale #Dean Fredericks

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mariocki · 2 years

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Monster on the Campus (1958)

"Now I hope I've made these two aspects of living organisms clear to you. In the case of the coelacanth, we have a species which became stabilised over two hundred million years ago, in the form you see here. But in the case of man, we have a recent species which is not stabilised at all. Man is not only capable of change but man alone, among all living creatures, can choose the direction in which that change will take place. In other words, man can use his knowledge to destroy all spiritual values and reduce the race to bestiality, or he can use his knowledge to increase his understanding to a point far beyond anything now imaginable."

#monster on the campus #1958 #creature feature #american cinema #b movie #jack arnold #david duncan #arthur franz #joanna moore #judson pratt #nancy walters #troy donahue #phil harvey #helen westcott #alexander lockwood #whit bissell #ross elliott #richard h. cutting #eddie parker #hank patterson #enormously fun‚ enormously silly. stars Franz as quite possibly the worst scientist in all creature featuredom #he gets hold of a priceless specimen and hauls it around by hand‚ shoving it here and there. he stabs at a prehistoric beastie that #appears in his lab‚ a once in a lifetime opportunity. he conducts highly unsafe and unethical experiments which lead to all too obvious #tragedies. he doesn't own a first aid kit. he does own netting‚ for reasons which are never satisfactorily explained.#this bridges two moments in horror cinema‚ interestingly‚ as cold war nuclear paranoia inspired creature features started to give #way to more domestic psychological horrors (the maniac in the house) and the nastier violence that crept in with the 60s.#straddling both genres‚ this has a surprisingly hard streak (it's not every 50s b movie that features an axe to the face) but it's all so #charmingly silly and with such endearingly ropey FX that it's difficult to treat this as anything more than a silly little fondant

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howardhawkshollywoodannex · 2 years

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Ross Elliott as Jim the telephone repairman disconnects and reconnects Dan Duryea's land line in Chicago Calling (1951). Ross was born in The Bronx and had a whopping 267 acting credits from 1943 to 1986. His entry among my best 1,001 movies is Gun Crazy. His other honorable mentions are Storm Warning, The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms and The Towering Inferno.

His other notable credits include two episodes of I Married Joan, Ma and Pa Kettle at Home, Dragnet, Women's Prison, four episodes of I Love Lucy (as Ricky's publicity agent in Hollywood), Tarantula, seven episodes of The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show, Perry Mason, The Donna Reed Show, One Step Beyond (2 episodes), Leave It to Beaver (2), The Untouchables, Peter Gunn, Sea Hunt (6), Dr Kildare, The Twilight Zone (2), The Alfred Hitchcock Hour, The Jack Benny Program (11), Gomer Pyle: USMC, Petticoat Junction, Hazel, The Dick Dan Dyke Show (2), Mister Ed, The Andy Griffith Show (2), General Hospital (19), The Lucy Show, Lassie (4), The Doris Day Show (2), The Virginian (61), Ironside (3), Mission: Impossible, The FBI (7), Bonanza (3), Kung Fu, Mod Squad (6), Marcus Welby MD, Here's Lucy, Columbo, Emergency (4), Barnaby Jones (4), The Bionic Woman, Phyllis, The Six Million Dollar Man (2), Wonder Woman, The Waltons, The Dukes of Hazzard, Dallas, Little House on the Prairie, The A Team, and the 1985 reboot pilot for Alfred Hitchcock Presents.

#ross elliott #dan duryea #chicago calling

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twittercomfrnklin2001-blog · 3 months

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Tarantula

Hot on the heels of Warner Bros.’ THEM (1954), Universal entered the giant-insect arena with Jack Arnold’s TARANTULA (1955, TCM). Like its predecessor the film makes great use of its desert locations, though they’re not quite as evocative as those in Arnold’s earlier IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953). Still, it’s all good clunky fun and moves surprisingly well, considering that the giant bug doesn’t really start doing anything scarier than crossing the screen until well past the halfway mark. Instead, it keeps popping up just as town doctor John Agar leaves, as if it were out to get him. Maybe they should have called it Shirley Temple.

Leo G. Carroll is over a barrel as a researcher trying to solve the problem of overpopulation by using a radioactive nutrient to create giant animals with a radioactive nutrient. When two of his colleagues inject themselves with the thing, they start losing their minds (and their looks) and one injects Carroll after a decently staged fight that burns most of the test subjects but unleashes the creepy crawly. Had they fire developed differently, they’d have had to call the picture GUINEA PIG.

The film is very ‘50s. Carroll wears a tie in the lab even though it’s in his own home. When his assistant (Mara Corday) suggests something caused the rockslide that almost killed her and Agar, Agar pooh poohs the idea (maybe it didn’t jell for him). She may be a graduate researcher in biology, but she’s also just a woman. And the ugly critter eventually runs afoul of one of the studio’s prettiest contract players, the young Clint Eastwood, who delivers his single line as if it were in a language he’d never heard of. Still, the ‘50s era effects are good enough to make you realize how scary the critter was, and it gets some expert support from Nestor Paiva (“Jumping Jupiter!”) as the town sheriff, Ross Elliott, who would dabble in his own nutrient later trying to get some redhead to hawk Vitamitavegemin, and Raymond Bailey as a scientist more tolerant of tarantulas than he would later be of hillbillies.