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Friday, October 28, 2016

Gang Smashers [a.k.a. Gun Moll] (1938)





















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Nina Mae McKinney, an undercover detective for the police, infiltrates the Dalton mob with intentions of bringing them down.

Teacher, Teacher (1969)

















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Hamilton Cade (McCallum) is an alcoholic teacher striving to put his life back together. He accepts a job tutoring an "exceptional child" only to find that young Freddie (Billy Schulman) is mentally retarded. A black man (Ossie Davis) who works for Freddie's father (George Grizzard) also becomes interested in teaching the child, and becomes a second role model for him. 

Wednesday, October 26, 2016

Almos' A Man (1976)













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Although Dave (LeVar Burton, Roots, Dummy) and his family are poor sharecroppers in the Deep South in the 1930's, this 15 year-olds problem is shared by teenagers today: he stands with one foot in adulthood and the other in childhood. “Almos' A Man”, yet still treated like a child, he struggles for an identity. There's one thing, one symbol of manhood, Dave thinks, that could guarantee him instant respect: a gun.

Dave finds a way to buy a pistol and at last, is ready to pull the trigger for the first time, never again will they call him a boy…But, he trembles, the gun overpowers the boy's body and he loses control - his young life forever changed.  Also starring Madge Sinclair (Cornbread, Earl & Me) and Robert DoQui (Coffy).

Tuesday, October 25, 2016

The Sport of the Gods (1921) [Lost Film]






The New York Age 
(New York, New York)
21 May 1921, Sat  • Page 6

San Francisco Chronicle 
(San Francisco, California)
14 Aug 1921, Sun  • Page 4

The New York Age 
(New York, New York)
21 May 1921, Sat  • Page 6
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Reol Productions. The story deals with a man whose fidelity and loyalty are rewarded by his being thrown into prison for the crime of another. His wife, son and daughter, rather than suffer the humiliation and disgrace brought upon them by their friends in old Virginia, move to New York. The son associates with evil companions and the daughter's character is placed in jeopardy while she is working as a singer in an underworld cabaret. The mother, having been convinced that a prison sentence is the same as a divorce, is persuaded to marry a man who has schemed to get her money. The husband is finally released from jail after the real criminal has confessed and he goes to New York to join his family, only to find his wife married. After man complications, it all works out.