DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org My Favorite Brunette is a 1947 movie spoofing movie detectives and the film noir style. Starring Bob Hope and Dorothy Lamour, it also features Lon Chaney, Jr. playing Willie, a character based on his Of Mice and Men role Lennie; Peter Lorre as Kismit, a comic take on his many film noir roles; and cameo appearances by film noir regular Alan Ladd and Hope partner Bing Crosby. The movie is now in the public domain and most copies of it available today are of poor quality. The film was later featured in an episode of Cinema Insomnia. The story is told in flashback from Death Row as Ronnie Jackson (Hope) relates the events to a group of reporters the events that lead to his predicament. Jackson is a baby photographer who dreams about being a real private detective like his friend Sam McCloud (Ladd). One day he is mistaken for a detective by a mysterious lady in distress (Lamour) and soon finds himself involved in a murder mystery. Featured cast Actor / Role Bob Hope / Ronnie Jackson Alan Ladd / Sam McCloud Dorothy Lamour / Baroness Carlotta Montay Frank Puglia / Baron Montay Peter Lorre / Kismet Lon Chaney, Jr. / Willie John Hoyt / Dr. Lundau Charles Dingle / Major Simon Montague Reginald Denny / James Collins Ann Doran / Miss Rogers Sir Bob Hope, KBE, KCSG, KSS (born Leslie Townes Hope; May 29, 1903 -- July 27, 2003) was a British-born American comedian and actor who appeared in vaudeville, on Broadway, and in radio, television and ...
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DVD: www.amazon.com thefilmarchive.org I Cover the Waterfront (1933) is a film directed by James Cruze and starring Ben Lyon, Claudette Colbert, Ernest Torrance, and Hobart Cavanaugh. I Cover the Waterfront tells the story of a reporter who investigates a dockland smuggling operation. In the process he becomes romantically involved with the daughter of the man he is investigating. The film was based on a book by the same name, written by Max Miller (1899--1967), a beat reporter in San Diego who covered stories on the city's waterfront. Cast: Ben Lyon as H. Joseph 'Joe' Miller Claudette Colbert as Julie Kirk Ernest Torrence as Eli Kirk (Julie's father) Hobart Cavanaugh as One Punch McCoy Maurice Black as Ortegus (Kirk's First Mate) Purnell Pratt as John Phelps ('Standard editor, Miller's boss) Harry Beresford as Old Chris (salvage man) Wilfred Lucas as Randall (Coast Guard officer) Ben Lyon (February 6, 1901 -- March 22, 1979) was an American film actor and a 20th Century Fox studio executive. Claudette Colbert (September 13, 1903 -- July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress. Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the 1920s, progressing to film with the advent of talking pictures. She established a successful film career with Paramount Pictures and later, as a freelance performer, became one of the highest paid entertainers in American cinema. Colbert was recognized as one of ...
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Adventure 2. The Red-Headed League.Classic Literature VideoBook with synchronized text, interactive transcript, and closed captions in multiple languages. Audio courtesy of Librivox. Read by Mark F. Smith. Playlist for The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle: www.youtube.com The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes free audiobook at Librivox: librivox.org The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes free eBook at Project Gutenberg: www.gutenberg.org The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes at Wikipedia: en.wikipedia.org View a list of all our videobooks: www.ccprose.com
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