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Last nights first watch #film was the entertaining British crime thriller #BMovie Impulse (1954)

Directed by Hollywood exile Cy Endfield and with Arthur Kennedy & Constance Smith leading a strong cast of character actors.

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Impulse (1954)
An American realtor living in England is dissatisfied with what he believes to be his humdrum life. One weekend while his wife is out of town, he gives a ride to a woman he sees stranded on the road. ...
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September 27, 2026 at 8:27 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was the neat little thriller The Net (Anthony Asquith, UK 1953)

with James Donald, Phyllis Calvert, Noel Willman, Herbert Lom & Robert Beatty

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The Net (1953)
A secret jet aircraft capable of traveling three times the speed of sound is being developed by a group of scientists. On the day of the test flight, one of the scientists dies in a mysterious acciden...
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September 14, 2026 at 9:04 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was the solid #FilmNoir B Movie Crime Against Joe (Lee Sholem, US 1956)

with John Bromfield, Julie London and Henry Calvin

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Crime Against Joe (1956)
Down-and-out artist Joe Manning wakes up from a night of drunken revelry in a jail cell, where he's being held on suspicion for the murder of a nightclub singer.
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July 23, 2026 at 7:15 AM
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Happy birthday to Joanne Woodward, shine on brightly. #joannewoodward #tennesseewilliams #fiftiescinema #criterioncollection
March 1, 2026 at 12:04 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was the fairly routine #western Springfield Rifle (US, 1952)

Massively improved by the stylish direction of André de Toth and a very strong central performance by Gary Cooper.

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Springfield Rifle (1952)
Major Lex Kearney, dishonourably discharged from the army for cowardice in battle, volunteers to go undercover to try to prevent raids against shipments of horses desperately needed for the Union war ...
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January 3, 2026 at 9:58 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was Robert Aldrich's gritty drama Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)

with Jack Palance, Jeff Chandler and Martine Carol

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Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Two rivals from a German bomb squad are left to deactivate duds in postwar Berlin.
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December 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was the smart #noir crime thriller Shield For Murder (US, 1954)

starring and co-directed by Edmond O'Brien; with good support from Marla English & John Agar

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Shield for Murder (1954)
A crooked detective masterminds a robbery then fights to keep his money.
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October 12, 2025 at 9:57 AM
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Last nights #film first watch was the routine #western Fort Yuma (Lesley Selander, US 1955)
with Peter Graves , John Hudson and Joan Taylor but Joan Vohs

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#50sFilm #Technicolor #FiftiesCinema
Fort Yuma (1955)
Apaches plan to attack a fort by wearing uniforms plundered from a cavalry officer's (Peter Graves) supply column.
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August 19, 2025 at 11:49 AM
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Last nights first watch #film was the superior #Bmovie #western Rebel In Town (US, 1956)

Skilfully directed by Alfred L. Werker, with some real breath taking moments
Starring John Payne with Ruth Roman & J. Carrol Naish

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Rebel in Town (1956)
Ex-Confederate Bedloe Mason and his four sons ride into a small Western town with robbery in mind. Hearing a suspicious "click," Wes Mason whirls and shoots dead a boy playing with a cap pistol. The M...
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August 12, 2025 at 10:24 AM
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Last nights #film rewatch was the early Robert Aldrich domestic melodrama Autumn Leaves (US, 1956)
with Joan Collins at full-throttle and a subtle, mannered Cliff Robertson trying to keep up!
Excellent hysterical fun!

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Autumn Leaves (1956)
A woman falls for a younger man with severe mental problems.
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August 11, 2025 at 12:57 PM
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Last night's #film was British #ColdWar #thriller The Teckman Mystery (Wendy Toye, 1954)

with John Justin, Margaret Leighton, Duncan Lamont and Raymond Huntley

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#movienight
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The Teckman Mystery (1954)
A fiction writer begins working on a biography of a pilot who went down during the test flight of a new plane and finds himself soon involved in a series of murders.
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January 28, 2025 at 10:22 AM
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Last night's #film was the slyly subversive comedy/melodrama The Passionate Stranger (Muriel Box, UK 1957)

with Margaret Leighton, Ralph Richardson, Patricia Dainton & Carlo Giustini

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The Passionate Stranger (1957)
Judith Wynter is a happily married novelist whose romantic works are eagerly devoured by scores of female readers. When Carlo, a handsome young Italian chauffeur, arrives to work for Judith and her hu...
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January 24, 2025 at 11:35 AM
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Last night's first watch #film was Jacques Tourneur's engaging thriller Circle of Danger (1951)

with Ray Milland, Patricia Roc, Marius Goring & Hugh Sinclair

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Circle of Danger (1951)
An American comes to Britain to investigate the murky circumstances of his brother's death that occurred during a WW2 commando raid.
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January 17, 2025 at 10:03 AM
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Last night's #film was the #western adventure Top Gun (Ray Nazarro, US 1955)
with Sterling Hayden, William Bishop and Karin Booth

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Top Gun (1955)
A gunslinger returns to his hometown to warn of an impending outlaw gang attack, but he's met with hatred and fear for his previous killings.
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December 2, 2024 at 10:56 AM
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Last nights #film was Edward Dmytryk's spiky #western take on King Lear, Broken Lance (US, 1954)
with Spencer Tracy, Robert Wagner, Jean Peters, Richard Widmark & Katy Jurado

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Broken Lance (1954)
Cattle baron Matt Devereaux raids a copper smelter that is polluting his water, then divides his property among his sons. Son Joe takes responsibility for the raid and gets three years in prison. Matt...
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October 8, 2024 at 9:47 AM
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Last night's #film was Private Hell 36 (US 1954) : early work by 70s action superstar director Don Siegel and starring the wonderful Ida Lupino, who also co-wrote the screenplay and was co-producer

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Private Hell 36 (1954)
In New York, a bank robbery of $300,000 goes unsolved for a year, until some of the marked bills are found in a Los Angeles drugstore theft. Police detectives Cal Bruner and Jack Farnham investigate…
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March 2, 2024 at 12:50 PM
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Last night's #film rewatch was Andre De Toth's gorgeous looking #cinemascope #western The Indian Fighter (US, 1955)

with Kirk Douglas, Elsa Martinelli, Walter Matthau and Diana Douglas

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#50sFilm #MidCenturyCinema #FiftiesCinema
Review of ‘The Indian Fighter’ (1955) ★★★½
The first film to be produced by Douglas' own Bryna Productions is also one of the first to offer a revisionist view of some of the accepted genre cliches. Douglas' Johnny Hawks is ostensibly a…
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December 1, 2023 at 12:08 PM