Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at March’s best.
SEAN FLYNN: ERROL’S SON IN MOVIES – The son of swashbuckler Errol Flynn and Lili Damita starred in several overlooked films, among them The Son of Captain Blood, The Sign of Zorro, and Temple of the White Elephant (think Indiana Jones adventures).
He was also the star of a few Spaghetti Westerns and a few Swinging 60s spy movies, too. Click HERE.
FAILED PREDICTIONS FROM PSYCHICS AND SCIENTISTS: SUPERCUT – Dozens of wildly inaccurate predictions from psychics and scientists over the decades. Click HERE.
CUBA’S SILENT FILMS FROM 1897 to 1907 – Click HERE.
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – The Blue Palace (1974-1976): A German sci-fi series that was like a cross between Doomwatch and The X-Files. Click HERE. Beacon Hill (1975): A drama about wealthy Irish Americans and very poor Irish Americans in Boston right after World War One. Click HERE. Amy Prentiss (1974-1975): Long before she was Archer’s mother, Jessica Walter played Chief of Detectives Amy Prentiss in San Francisco. Click HERE.
MARIE WALCAMP: THE DAREDEVIL OF SILENT MOVIES – Forgotten by everybody except us Silent Film geeks, Marie did most of her own stunts and from 1913 to 1920 starred in adventure serials like The Lion’s Claws, Liberty: A Daughter of the USA, and the Fu Manchu-inspired The Dragon’s Net. She also did jungle adventures like The Jungle Queen, A Daughter of the Jungle, and Cast Adrift in the South Seas. Plus westerns like The Red Ace and her 9 flicks as female gunslinger Tempest Cody. Click HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – Omegon (1915), about a high-tech war between America on one side and China, Mexico and Japan on the other. Click HERE. A Prophetic Romance (1896), about a Martian ambassador to Earth of “the future” (1990s). Click HERE. A Trip to the North Pole (1903) – Mormon explorers discover the Lost Tribes of Israel running a futuristic civilization at the North Pole. Dinosaurs and high-tech weaponry are there, too. Click HERE.
I WAS A TEENAGE TIME LORD – Young me and Bad Movies like Frankenstein Meets the Space Monster, From Hell It Came, The Creeping Terror, Robot Monster, Teenagers from Outer Space and more HERE.
BLACK RAIN (1977) – A neglected horror/ sci-fi hybrid film starring Richard Chamberlin as a lawyer in Australia who gets caught up in supernatural events leading to the end of the world. Click HERE. Continue reading
“George King, a Bernie Sanders supporter, is yet another in the ever-growing list of people like me who are disgusted with the pathetic and irrational behavior of the Democrats following career criminal Hillary Clinton’s loss to Donald Trump. King wrote an op-ed piece titled Democrats Have Lost the War, the People and All Three Branches of Government. 
“The doubling down of the corporate and neocon wing of the democrat party after the complete destruction from voters’ rejection clearly paints the picture for those who question the truth in what has happened.”
“The Democrat Party has doubled down on all the things resulting in the loss of power in all three branches of government… “
GENE HACKMAN: R.I.P. – HIS BEST 1970s ROLES – With the passing of actor Gene Hackman I examined some of his best roles in 1970s movies 
THE TELEVISION GHOST: REALLY, REALLY FORGOTTEN TELEVISION (1931-1933) – Much earlier than most people realize, television broadcasts were already hitting the airwaves, including this horror anthology series. 
MOTOR PIRATES (1906) – My review of an early silent sci-fi film short featuring a high-tech, armed and armored vehicle and its criminal designers. Click 
ASTREA: STRONGWOMAN OF ITALIAN SILENT FILMS – Before Gina Carano, Sigourney Weaver or Milla Jovovich came this butt-kicking action starlet from Italy 
WILDSIDE (1985) – This Forgotten Television item was a short-lived series that had the elite Old West secret agents appeal that 
MABEL NORMAND: HER SILENT FILM COMEDIES FROM 1910-1915 – The pioneering comedienne who blazed cinematic trails and had a long collaboration with the iconic Fatty Arbuckle and Mack Sennett. 
SUPERHEROES FROM INDIA – Reading superhero stories as a kid served as a gateway to some of my adult passions like mythology and opera, so I will always have a soft spot for them. This blog post looked at some Indian superheroes from the 1960s onward. 
BRUCE CAMPBELL AND SAM RAIMI SHORT FILMS: 1974-1982 – Bruce, Sam and the rest of their Michigan Mafia when they were making youthful short films. My reviews of Cleveland Smith: Bounty Hunter, The Blind Waiter, Holding It, Attack of the Helping Hand and more 
FROM NOVEMBER 9th, 2013. Republican George W. Bush and Democrat Barack Obama are the two presidents I despise the most, but nobody is surprised at what garbage Bush was. Obama loons like to ignore the criticism he received in office. Even when language like “war criminal” and “dictator’s dream” were used to describe Obama, it never approached the hysteria seen in the Trump years. 
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