I’m continuing my annual end of year retrospective with this look at June’s best.
NATIONAL VCR DAY – I marked the day with this blog post reviewing 8 films from several genres and all released on video during the 1980s heyday of VCRs. Click HERE.
REVOLUTIONARY WAR: NEGLECTED BATTLES FROM MARCH AND APRIL 1777 – March: Overlooked battles in New York and New Jersey HERE. April: Overlooked battles in Connecticut, New Jersey and off the coasts of Delaware and South Carolina. Click HERE.
COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM – Texas Southmost College HERE.
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Paris (1979-1980) – James Earl Jones starred in Steven Bochco’s show about police detective Woody Paris HERE. The Witness (1960-1961) – Dramatized versions of how trials might have gone against figures like John Dillinger, Al Capone, Lucky Luciano, Mayor Jimmy Walker and more HERE. The Devlin Connection (1982) – Rock Hudson plays a detective who works as a private investigator alongside his long-lost son Jack Scalia HERE.
COOL NAMED SPORTS TEAM – Truckee Meadows Community College HERE.
DOUGLAS FAIRBANKS, JR.’s SWASHBUCKLER FILMS – The son of THE swashbuckler from Silent Movies appeared in several of his own, like The Corsican Brothers, Sinbad the Sailor, The Fighting O’Flynn and more. I reviewed all of them HERE.
ANCIENT GREEK COMEDIES – My reviews of the fragmentary remains of ancient Greek comedies from hundreds of years B.C. Plays like Poleis HERE, Callipides HERE, and Cothurnus HERE.
D-DAY AND OTHER HISTORICAL EVENTS FROM JUNE SIXTH – I looked at that date’s events from various wars, scientific progress, disasters like fires and much, much more. Click HERE. Continue reading
MINNIE’S BOYS (1970) – My review of the original production of this stage show about the hilarious comedy team the Marx Brothers. Click 
JOHN DEREK: HIS SWASHBUCKLER FILMS – The man who married Bo Derek, Ursula Andress, Linda Evans & Pati Behrs also starred in swashbuckler movies like Rogues of Sherwood Forest (1950), The Sword of Monte Cristo (1951), Prince of Pirates (1953) and The Adventures of Hajji Baba (1954). Click 
THE SILENT FILMS OF ALICE GUY-BLACHE – This pioneering woman was for a time the only female director in the industry. I reviewed her works from the 1890s to 1920, including comedies, dramas, westerns, black cast movies, love stories and horror movies like Esmeralda (1905) – the first known film adapting The Hunchback of Notre Dame. Click 
FROM MAY 3rd, 2021 – Independent Voter site Balladeer’s Blog comes to you once again from an America divided by the Democrats’ hatred and racism. It’s no secret that in the United States the REAL division is not black people vs white people or gay people vs straight people or women vs men – it’s DEMOCRATS VS EVERYBODY ELSE. 
SCREAMBOOK (1984) – This low, low budget horror anthology film was written, produced and directed by THIRTEEN-YEAR-OLD Joseph Zaso. 
WINK MARTINDALE, RIP: HE DID MORE THAN JUST GAME SHOWS – I reviewed some of Mr. Martindale’s other productions, like his role on the sci-fi series Mars Patrol (1953-1955), the Rock and Roll movie Let’s Rock (1958), the 26-minute short about life in the future titled 1999 A.D., and the PureFlix series Hilton Head Island. Click 
FOR APRIL 1st, THE THIRD FOOL KILLER LETTER – From June 28th, 1861. 
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Bracken’s World (1969-1970) Leslie Nielsen as the head of a Hollywood studio with as many stars as The Love Boat. Click 
ARGENTINA’S SUPERHEROES – I examined the country’s male and female heroes like Caballero Rojo, Cybersix, Sonoman, El Cazador, Alien Girl, Arana Negra and many more. Click 
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