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SALOON BAR This is another of those nice surprises that one is fortunate to stumble upon from time to time in one’s film-collecting adventures. An at-the-time unknown title that was put up on the screen late at the end of a while-back Movie Night (nearing midnight after a long afternoon-evening of f...

Thanks for posting this Dave, but one correction: don;t let the Screen Gems logo fool you, that was stuck on there from some other print. this is one of the Sol Wurtzel-produced B pictures after Fox wiped out their in-house B-picture unit in 1945 (the one they would have kept open for Laurel and Har...

That's great Richard! Thanks!! Because of Mildred's appearance and Snub being dressed the way he is, I had been thinking it was possibly GIVING THE BRIDE AWAY. But I'd also guessed you may have seen one of the surviving prints of that one, somewhere along the line... The chase in GIVING THE BRIDE A...

This is TOUGH LUCK, the eighth released (December 21, 1919) Snub Pollard Comedy. That is indeed Mildred Davis playing the leading lady.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

We've been cranking out new program notes for this years Cinevent, and we'll be posting some of those soon to whet your appetites to come out for the Fest, but here's a few more past one to start off the year, first up being this 1944 Univerasl Comedy: HER PRIMITIVE MAN Here’s this year’s offering f...

Continuing with our nostalgia for the days when Television was a tad more intelligent, and also because this is a damn funny show that we just recently caught up with, here's an episode originally broadcast September 20, 1959 of that wonderful Game Show WHATS MY LINE in which, along with the regular...

Hey You Wheeler and Woolsey Fans! Here's a rare and odd little home movie Dorothy Lee made up at a weekend at Big Bear in the early 30's with her then Husband (number two of six) Hollywood reporter JImmy Fidler. The other couple they trade off with were their friends Honey and Bill "Razz" ...

While we're on the topic of Kalton Lahue, I'm curious to know more about Sam Gill. It sounds like a lot of you all know him personally. All I know is that he went to the University of Kansas and I guess now is retired from the Herrick Library. But what happened in between that stirred his interest ...

Speaking with Sam Gill this week, Sam told me that he had finally tracked down what had happened to an Author whose work most likely influenced most of us here, Kalton C. Lahue, who wrote what is still two of the most important books on Silent Comedy, WORLD OF LAUGHTER, and CLOWN PRINCES AND COURT J...

Here's something that you don't see anywhere on television anymore, a program featuring people who actually know about something (in this case art and archaeology) examining artifacts and going through the process of figuring out what they are. We the viewers may actually learn something about art a...