The Alphabet Murders is a spoof of the murder mystery movie. Tony Randall stars as Agatha Christie’s famous Belgian detective, Hercule Poirot.
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The Uncanny is an anthology movie. Wilbur Gray (Peter Cushing) is an eccentric writer who has written a novel. He’s trying to convince his agent (Ray Milland) to publish his latest, about — cats! He documents his thesis that household cats are intelligent, in control, and murderous when necessary. This serves as the framing device for three horror stories about the murderous cats.
Frankie and Johnny is a traditional American popular song. It tells the story of a woman, Frankie, who finds her man Johnny making love to another woman and shoots him dead. Frankie is then arrested; in some versions of the song she is also executed. It’s based on an actual story.
Frankie and Johnny was sweethearts
At least that’s the way the story goes
Frankie bought everything for Johnny
From his sports car to his Ivy League clothes
All versions of The Tennessee Waltz tell the story of a person introducing his or her sweetheart to a friend who then waltzes away with her or him. The popularity of Tennessee Waltz also made it the fourth official song of the state of Tennessee in 1965
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I Didn’t Know the Gun Was Loaded was recorded by The Andrews Sisters, and by multiple people since. To modern ears, it’s more famous for its’ appearance in Fallout 76.
Oh Miss Effie was her name
Through the west she won her fame
Being handy with the gun
But she drove the men insane
Everywhere you seem to go there I suppose you’ll find a yearn
Oh, how I’d like to be that man, he’s got money to burn
Oh, how I’d like to be that man, he’s got money to burn.
Song lyrics to That’s the Man for Me, sung by The Taylor Maids on The Red Skelton Show episode, Smokeless Sunday That’s the man for… Read More »That’s the Man for Me [song lyrics]
September Song was specially written by composer Kurt Weill and lyricist Maxwell Anderson for Walter Huston, for the Broadway show Knickerbocker Holiday in 1938
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Song lyrics to Camptown Races (1850) by Stephen Foster – originally a minstrel song, it’s become an American classic, performed virtually everywhere – stage, screen, radio, television, and movies.
The Campptown ladies sing this song,
Doo-da, Doo-da
The Camptown racetrack’s five miles long
Oh, de doo-da day
In The Stranger on the Third Floor, an aspiring journalist testifies that he saw a young man at the scene of a brutal killing. The man is sentenced to death. The journalist worries that he’s responsible for the death of an innocent man. He begins his own investigation with his girlfriend. But they soon find themselves threatened by a mysterious stranger …
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