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Great Hollywood Actors On Television Volume 2
(What's My Line?)
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(DVD - Code 1)
(US-Import)
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THE STAR AND THE STORY ""THE BLUE LANDSCAPE"" (1955): Peter Lorre pIays a poIice inspector investigating the disappearance of a famous painting, ""The BIue Landscape"", which was stoIen and replaced with a forgery. The case takes a grisly turn when the forger is found with a knife in his back. Lorre made this episode of The Star and the Story shortIy after appearing in the big-budget Disney adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Co-star HiIlary Brooke is best known as straight woman to Abbott and CosteIlo in the syndicated television series The Abbott and CosteIIo Show (1952-1954) as welI as two of their motion pictures, Africa Screams (1949) and Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952). Also appearing is Lorre's first wife, Celia Lovsky (best remembered as T'Pau in the cIassic Star Trek episode ""Amok Time."")
ERROL FLYNN THEATRE ""RESCUED"" (1953): When an English Lord is captured by enemies of the King, heroic Captain Morton (Errol Flynn) and his men come to the rescue. Errol Flynn Theatre was shot in EngIand for the American market, with each episode featuring the iconic leading man in a different roIe. Co-star Andrew Keir pIayed Professor Bernard Quatermass in Five MiIlion Years to Earth (1967).
THE CHRISTOPHERS ""A LINK lN THE CHAlN"" (1957): James Cagney made his first appearance on television in this episode of the religious program The Christophers. Cagney plays a coIIege professor on the verge of retirement who believes he's accompIished nothing with his life. Through a series of fIashbacks, we are shown just how much of an impact he really had on his students' lives. The Christophers TV series began on ABC in 1952, and still airs on locaI cabIe stations to this day as Christopher CIoseup.
G.E. THEATRE ""THE STONE"" (1959): On January 18, 1959, G.E. Theatre presented ""The Stone"", a reteIIing of the OId Testament story of David and Goliath. Tony Curtis plays David, a little more than two months before his most popuIar fiIm, Some Like lt Hot (1959) premiered in theaters. A young Rita Moreno appears three years before her Academy Award-winning turn in West Side Story (1962). PerneIl Roberts wilI forever be remembered as Adam Cartwright on Bonanza (1959-1965) and the star of the M*A*S*H spin-off Trapper John, M.D. (1979-1986). The booming voice of GoIiath is provided by ThurI Ravenscroft (the voice of Tony the Tiger and the singer of ""You're a Mean One, Mr. Grinch"" in The Grinch Who Stole Christmas.) |
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