An ageing Sheriff calls on his son from the east to deal with Deadeye. Finds out the son, Rollo, is a bit of a wimp. Red's guests are Nancy Walker and Hope Emerson. Highlights: Impressed with Bolivar's hair-styling talents, his girlfriend and her mother decide to set him up in business. But business goes badly for Bolivar's beauty salon until movie star Valerie Venton visits. Valerie is so pleased with his work that she takes Bolivar back to Hollywood to open a shop.
Highlights: Cold opening: A Pretty Girl at a filling station. A series of murders have taken place in George Appleby's town. Convinced that he can solve the crimes, George, and his wife Clara, look for the murderer.
Clem Kadiddlehopper paints what he considers a masterpiece, and wants to exhibit it in New York. San Fernando cons miners out of gold mines. Guest Star Edward Everett Horton. Clem becomes a judge for a beauty contest and is pressured by the sponsors. San Fernando gambles his riverboat away but becomes a cabin boy to protect his daughter. Romero takes San Fernando's place to avoid the law. Long-running weekly show that spotlighted legendary comedian and beloved TV clown, Red Skelton.
George Appleby discovers a formula that will wipe out smog in Los Angeles and his wife Clara Marilyn Maxwell discovers that smog isn't all that the formula will make disappear. With Vincent Price. After embarrassing her at the movies during a showing of "The Blob", Mrs. Appleby decides to teach George a lesson by tricking him into believing she's turned into a bird with the help of a borrowed parrot. He takes her the bird to a psychiatrist for help.
Deadeye looks for a female bandit. A health club instructor tries to build up Appleby on his TV show. The mayor gets blackmailed with San Fernando's badger game photo, and must let him run a bookie room in city hall. When he pulls the same trick on the governor, they're forced to nominate him at the big convention, but the two politicos get their revenge by showing an unexpected movie.
Emmy Awards; prize fight; Halloween; salesman; spaghetti dinner; Clem Kadiddlehopper. Opening: Telephones. Clem, Bolivar, McPugg and Willie call in to get messages. Bolivar goes to the wrong house to repair a TV. Maxwell sings. Mime and a song. William Demarest plays Burnside, a political boss who believes that Clem Kadiddlehopper Red Skelton would make the ideal Presidential candidate.
San Fernando Red Red Skelton launches an investigation of investigating committees. Clem visits the Johnson's Wax factory and raises the ire of an executive Played by Cedric Hardwicke by his bungling.
Red Skelton appears as a marionette. Red Skelton and Cesar Romero star in this episode about what "really" happened at the Alamo. George and Clara Appleby sketch: --Clara discovers that her refrigerator was raided during the night. Freddie the Freeloader and his pal Muggsy Jack Kirkwood have lived at the city dump for years. This fact astounds Dr. Benson Jackie Coogan and his colleagues who want the place condemned as a health menace. Color staging to the classic tale of Freddie with a Raggedy Ann doll that comes to life.
Act 1: Freddie wakes up in a park and trys to get warm. Act 2: Freddie dances with doll that comes to life. Act 3: Freddie and the live doll visit Santa and gets skates.
She latter turns back to a doll. Guest star Marilyn Maxwell plays Appleby's wife, and Harvey Korman is an office worker who throws George a post-hypnotic suggestion that he's drunk. Appleby invents a cooling blanket that freezes his wife. Jayne Meadows plays the leader of a group of female outlaws. And Clem Kadiddlehopper is the amateur detective who tries to capture the gang. Eva Gabor and Wally Cox.
Appleby puts something in the suggestion box that he wants to take back. Sling shot and a sparrow. Clem finds Mary Todd Lincoln's rocking chair. Howard Snyder, millionaire, remembers is promise to have Freddie as his best man at his wedding.
The rich family want to get ride of him. Guests: --Harpo Marx --Mahalia Jackson. Daisy June joins a carnival. Clem trys to get her to come back but is against owner Phil Harris. Freddie enters a hospital for a free meal.
Featuring: 'Freddie and the Yuletide Doll'. Silent Spot: Hangover. Martha Raye, Tommy Noonan. Eve Arden appears as Clara Appleby. Freddie is arrested for breaking into a library. Clem's head becomes a musical instrument and becomes a big hit. Guests: --Rhonda Fleming --Hank Henry.
Add to history. Add to collection. Add to list. Recommend this. Special 5 The Pledge Of Allegiance. Special 5 The Pledge Of Allegiance no air date — 25 mins. Special 8 The Best of Red Skelton. Come into the Cafe and join in the conversation! I had recorded Hotel just recently and watched it Tuesday! You are right on the money about it. Karl Malden was a lot of fun as a light-footed, smiling thief, but I agree he was used way too much loved that you describe his music as unbearable!
I never read the book, but your description sounds like it would have been a lot more interesting than what ended up on screen. Great review, Rick Excellent take on one of my favorite 60s films, which, come to think of it, would make great viewing tonight.
You are right, too much Karl and not enough sleazy Richard Conte, who always brought a lot to the party in any film he was in. Yes, Richard Conte could have been used better. The whole plot line with him, Merle Oberon, and Michael Rennie could have been expanded to take better advantage of three good actors.
I think the Spaak character actually says, "You embarrass me," not "You interest me. Thursday, December 25, Arthur Hailey's "Hotel". I always think of Hotel as a follow-up to Arthur Hailey's Airport --when, in reality, the former film came out first. Made in , it was based on Hailey's novel of the same title.
Of course, the movie's structure--different stories set in a grand hotel--harkens back to Grand Hotel Still, it's a serviceable plot device; the key is to wrap the framing story around interesting ones involving the guests. In that aspect, one could call Hotel a reasonable success. The central story revolves arond the future of the St.
Gregory, a posh but aging and debt-ridden hotel in New Orleans. Its elderly owner, Warren Trent Melvyn Douglas , has a standing offer from developers who want the real estate, but not the hotel.
Gregory from an upscale hotel into a very commercial one. Neither choice appeals to Trent, so his general manager Peter McDermott Rod Taylor tries to put together his own deal. Merle Oberon as the Duchess. Meanwhile, a visiting British dignitary Michael Rennie and his wife Merle Oberon find themselves in a quandry when he accidentally kills a child while driving drunk and flees the scene.
While he struggles with his conscience, his wife tries to strike a bargain with the blackmailing house detective Richard Conte. Other hotel guests fall prey to a clever thief Karl Malden , who steals room keys and then robs the occupants while they sleep. Finally, Peter can't help but notice O'Keefe's lovely companion Catherine Spaak and she apparently has eyes for him.
In the book, Peter has a checkered past and is interested in Trent's secretary who's missing from the movie. Mayes jettisons a major subplot involving an attempted rape, adds the romance between Peter and O'Keefe's girlfriend, and alters the climax.
Undoubtedly, major alterations were required to keep the running time at two hours. Still, too much time is spent on Malden's key thief, whose every appearance is accompanied by a playful jazz theme that becomes unbearable. Rod Taylor as the hotel's manager. Just as the unflappable, efficient McDermott keeps the St. Gregory operating smoothy, Rod Taylor keeps Hotel moving along from subplot to subplot. A reliable leading man, Taylor got pigeon-holed as a likable hero, which sadly limited his big screen appearances after the s.
Lame pictures like Trader Horn didn't help either. Still, he shifted his focus to television in the s, where he thrived for the next two decades in series such as Bearcats! French actress Catherine Spaak. While it's entertaining to see classic-era stars such as Ms.
Oberon, Conte, and Douglas, they have relatively little screen time. In contrast, too much time is devoted to Kevin McCarthy's one-note "villain" and Catherine Spaak's tedious love interest for Taylor. To the latter's defense, the French beauty is saddled with the film's worst dialogue. When Taylor discovers her wearing only her slip in his apartment, she tells him seductively: "Take off your jacket. Although it was conceived as a loose sequel to Victor Halperin's moderately successful film White Zombie , when compared with Halperin's previous work, this film is generally regarded as a disappointment.
Although he is not credited in the film, Bela Lugosi's eyes appear in Revolt of the Zombies whenever zombifying-powers are used; it is the same image of Lugosi's eyes used in the film White Zombie. Revolt of the Zombies is in the public domain, and can be copied or distributed without regard to copyright law. British Intelligence is a spy film set in World War I. It was directed by Terry O. Morse and stars Boris Karloff and Margaret Lindsay. The Warner Bros. It was the final film Karloff made under his contract with Columbia Pictures, and it was filmed in the wake of his success in the Broadway production Arsenic and Old Lace.
As he had done several times previously, Karloff played the part of a "mad scientist", Professor Billings, who is using the basement of his inn to conduct experiments using electricity to create a race of superhumans.
The inn is bought by a new owner, who is initially unaware of the work Billings is conducting. Despite receiving top billing, Bela Lugosi has a relatively small part. RKO Radio Pictures. Release date. November 22, Running time. Virginia Ellen Simms was an American popular singer and film actress.
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