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Malcolm Tucker, Sheriff Andy Taylor, Barney Fife sing "The Little Brown Church" - one of the sweetest moments in "Man in a Hurry"

Man in a Hurry

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Man in a HurryThe Andy Griffith Show season 3

Man in a Hurry is one of the best episodes of the entire Andy Griffith Show series. A too-busy businessman’s car breaks down in Mayberry, and he gets a taste of life in the slow lane.

Man in a Hurry

The Monolith Monsters

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The Monolith Monsters (1957) starring Grant Williams, Lola Albright

Synopsis of The Monolith Monsters

The sleepy town of San Angelo is in danger after a giant meteor crashes nearby in the classic sci-fi thriller The Monolith Monsters. Strange black rocks from the event litter the town. Nearby geologists are unable to identify the unusual specimens. When the alien monoliths interact with water … They grow to terrifying, gargantuan dimensions and petrify anyone in their path. It is up to one of the geologists and a dedicated professor to stop their path of destruction. Before they plow humankind into a stone-cold early grave.

The Monolith Monsters

A Face in the Crowd

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A Face in the Crowd (1957) starring Andy Griffith, Patricia Neal, Walter Matthau, Lee Remick, directed by Elia Kazan

Synopsis of A Face in the Crowd

In A Face in the Crowd, an Arkansas drifter is discovered by the producer of a small radio station. He’s a philosophical country/western singer Larry “Lonesome” Rhodes. He’s “discovered” in the local jail by television talent coordinator Marcia Jeffries. His folksy style make him an overnight media sensation. He ultimately rises to great fame and influence on national television. But after becoming consumed by his power …. Will he ever be exposed as the fraud he’s become?

A Face in the Crowd

Finian’s Rainbow

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Finian’s Rainbow (1968) starring Fred Astaire, Petula Clark, Tommy Steele, Keenan Wynn

Fred Astaire sang and danced his last musical lead in Finian’s Rainbow, director Francis Ford Coppola’s movie of the 1947 Broadway hit. Astaire plays an Irish rogue who plants a stolen crock of leprechaun gold in the soil near Fort Knox to reap what he thinks will be a rich harvest. In tow are his spirited daughter (Petula Clark), a lovestruck leprechaun (Tommy Steele) and a bigoted Southern senator (Keenan Wynn) transformed by misbegotten magic.

Finian’s Rainbow

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled

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The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled – Batman season 1

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled – Cesar Romero’s first appearance as the Joker on the live action Batman series. And he’s at he’s gleeful best!

The Joker is Wild / Batman is Riled

The Corpse Vanishes

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The Corpse Vanishes  (1942) starring Bela Lugosi, Angelo Rossitto

Synopsis of The Corpse Vanishes.

The Corpse Vanishes is one of Bela Lugosi’s better Monogram efforts. He plays a mad scientist who uses a sadistic dwarf (Rossitto of Freaks) to help him kill virgin brides …. And then extract their spinal fluid to keep his ancient wife young and beautiful.

The Corpse Vanishes

The Apartment [Billy Wilder comedy]

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The Apartment (1960) starring Jack Lemmon, Shirley MacLaine, Fred MacMurray

In The Apartment, Jack Lemmon is a career-climbing executive who offers his boss the use of his apartment for an extra-marital fling. And he soon gets tangled up with the boss’ flighty and fragile girlfriend (Shirley MacLaine).

The Apartment [Billy Wilder comedy]

Dancing in the Dark [song lyrics]

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Song lyrics to Dancing in the Dark (1931), danced by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in The Band Wagon, music by Arthur Schwartz and lyrics by Howard Dietz

Dancin’ in the dark ’til the tune ends
We’re dancin’ in the dark and it soon ends
We’re waltzin’ in the wonder of why we’re here
Time hurries by, we’re here, and gone

Dancing in the Dark [song lyrics]

Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx

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Batman season 1 – Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx

Fine Feathered FinksBurgess Meredith’s first appearance as The Penguin. Where he plans to con the Batman into plotting his crimes for him!

Fine Feathered Finks / The Penquin’s a Jinx

12 to the Moon

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12 to the Moon (1959) starring Ken Clark, Michi Kobi, Tom Conway, John Wengraf, Robert Montgomery Jr.

12 to the Moon – a 1959 science fiction film about an international crew attempting the first voyage to the moon. But the moon people may have something to say about that!

12 to the Moon
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