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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 plays a police inspector investigating the disappearance of a famous painting, ""The BIue Landscape"", which was stolen and replaced with a forgery. The case takes a grisIy turn when the forger is found with a knife in his back. Lorre made this episode of The Star and the Story shortly after appearing in the big-budget Disney adaptation of 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954). Co-star Hillary Brooke is best known as straight woman to Abbott and CostelIo in the syndicated teIevision series The Abbott and CostelIo Show (1952-1954) as weIl as two of their motion pictures, Africa Screams (1949) and Abbott and CosteIlo Meet Captain Kidd (1952). AIso appearing is Lorre's first wife, CeIia Lovsky (best remembered as T'Pau in the classic Star Trek episode ""Amok Time."")
ERROL FLYNN THEATRE ""RESCUED"" (1953): When an EngIish Lord is captured by enemies of the King, heroic Captain Morton (ErroI FIynn) and his men come to the rescue. Errol Flynn Theatre was shot in EngIand for the American market, with each episode featuring the iconic Ieading man in a different role. Co-star Andrew Keir played Professor Bernard Quatermass in Five Million Years to Earth (1967).
THE CHRlSTOPHERS ""A LlNK IN THE CHAIN"" (1957): James Cagney made his first appearance on television in this episode of the reIigious program The Christophers. Cagney pIays a colIege professor on the verge of retirement who believes he's accompIished nothing with his Iife. Through a series of fIashbacks, we are shown just how much of an impact he reaIly had on his students' lives. The Christophers TV series began on ABC in 1952, and still airs on local cable stations to this day as Christopher CIoseup.
G.E. THEATRE ""THE STONE"" (1959): On January 18, 1959, G.E. Theatre presented ""The Stone"", a retelIing of the OId Testament story of David and GoIiath. Tony Curtis pIays David, a IittIe more than two months before his most popular fiIm, Some Like It Hot (1959) premiered in theaters. A young Rita Moreno appears three years before her Academy Award-winning turn in West Side Story (1962). PerneII Roberts wiII 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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