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This one's a jaw-dropper. Broadcast Nov 6, 1958, the strangest adaptation of Joseph Conrad's book ever perpetrated. Worth it to see Boris Karloff as Kurtz:








RICHARD M ROBERTS

Todays note is for the 1941 Columbia programmer MYSTERY SHIP, directed by Lew Landers and starring Paul Kelly and Lola Lane: MYSTERY SHIP Yeah, on the surface MYSTERY SHIP don’t look like much, Paul Kelly and Lola Lane in the leads, and a young, pre-JOLSON STORY Larry Parks as the best friend. Lane’...

Jim Reid wrote:It's got everything I've wanted to know and couldn't find anywhere. This is a definate must-have!
Thanks for this book, Richard!

Thanks Again Jim, for both the nice words and moving it to the right thread.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

It's got everything I've wanted to know and couldn't find anywhere. This is a definate must-have! Thanks for this book, Richard! You're welcome Jim, and thanks for the nice words. Oh, I give up, if you're gonna praise my book in the wrong thread, what else can I do? We don't do all that moving thre...

Here's the thread to comment on the book, rather than the Banned Thread.


RICHARD M ROBERTS

I received my copy yesterday, and it's a wow! A truly astonishing book Richard; thank you for putting this out! Lots of great pictures and fascinating info, I'm having a ball reading it. But no picture of Finlayson au natural? Dennis Thanks for the nice words Dennis, glad you like tha book. But hey...

One of the nameless ones on Nitrateville wrote a little piece about Daphne Pollard, showing complete ignorance about her stage career, just referring to her as the poor little person who lived until 1978, some 40 years after the best days of her career. Well, here's a quick refresher course in Daphn...

Todays Cinevent note is for the 1926 Reginald Denny Comedy: SKINNERS DRESS SUIT When James Agee wrote “Comedy’s Greatest Era” for Life Magazine in 1949, and started this whole “Three Kings of Comedy” nonsense that Comedy Film Historians have been working to knock apart for decades, he essentially le...

I figured his Paramount shorts might have went the same way as Langdon's Paramounts - maybe not lost but definately misplaced. Actually, the only Paramount shorts that are currently missing are those ArVid Gillstrom-produced ones, which includes the Langdons and a Bing Crosby short or two, and they...

RICHARD M ROBERTS