Balladeer’s Blog’s annual end of year retrospective continues with this look at May’s best.
MINNIE’S BOYS (1970) – My review of the original production of this stage show about the hilarious comedy team the Marx Brothers. Click HERE.
FORGOTTEN TELEVISION – Frontier Circus (1961-1962) about a circus traveling the wild old west HERE; The Great Adventure (1963-1964) dramatizations of historical action HERE; Everglades (1961-1962) about a law enforcement ranger whose beat is the Florida Everglades HERE; and Together We Stand (1986-1987) starring Dee Wallace, “Short Round” and Elliott Gould HERE.
THE MICHIGAN BRIGADE – A Memorial Day look at this Union Army Cavalry unit from the Civil War. Click HERE.
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 HERE.
ANCIENT SCIENCE FICTION – A Trip to the Moon by Mr. Murtagh McDermot (1728) a clever man encounters various life-forms on the moon HERE; The Mad Scientist (1908) about the title character and his inventions unleashing an incredible war in the U.S. HERE; and Wonderworlds (1911) an Earth crew explores our solar system and then the Alpha Centauri system HERE.
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 HERE.
APOCALYPSE CULTURE (1987) – Before the internet there were books like this collecting some of the most daring, iconoclastic, demented and just plain perverse writings of the late 20th Century. Click HERE. Continue reading
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