by Ted Davis Original Air Date: March 20, 1964 Directed by: Joseph M. Newman Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Nervous and high-strung Helen Clarvoe (Joan Hackett) asks attorney Paul Blackshear (Kevin McCarthy) to resolve her stressful and long-standing conflict with unhinged Dorothy Johnson (Kathleen Nolan), […]
English Title: Adam and Eve Directed by: Mario Mattoli This review contains a Slight Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains a spoiler for this film! Synopsis: A manicurist named Eva (Isa Barzizza) falls for Adamo (Erminio Macario), the owner of the shop where she works. He in turn tells […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Vincent Minnelli Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In his unrelenting and obsessive drive for success, ruthless and powerful Hollywood movie producer Jonathan Shields (Kirk Douglas) abuses the trust and friendship of talented director Fred Amiel (Barry Sullivan), emotionally fragile actress […]
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: April 30, 1962 Directed by: Ted Post This review contains a very mild Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: A shadowy globe-trotting ring of jewel thieves masterminded by slippery Anthony Hugh Swinburne (Robert Douglas) is relentlessly pursued […]
by Mark Murton Directed by: Andrea Arnold Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Troubled 18-year-old Texan runaway Star (Sasha Lane) joins a travelling magazine sales crew and gets caught up in a whirlwind of hard partying, law bending and young love as she and the band […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Terence Young Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: In the England of 1938, society playgirl and purported beauty Mifanwy Conway (Edana Romney) becomes romantically involved with enigmatic artist and aesthete Paul Mangin (Eric Portman), who is either a self-deceiving mountebank or […]
Directed by: Lambert Hillyer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Wilse Dilling (Lon Chaney) is a handicapped criminal who reforms when he is sent to a quiet town to work undercover and falls in love with the daughter of his boss’ blackmail target. Cat Burglar (Scene Stealer): […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Robert Butler Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Approaching his fiftieth year, weary streetwise cop Bumper Morgan (William Holden) has been pounding the L.A. beat for close to two decades and feels the weight of each one of his years. He’s […]
Original Air Date: May 26, 2022 Directed by: Gwyneth Horder-Payton Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: In this episode of the series which re-enacts the making of The Godfather, producer Ruddy (Miles Teller) has to convince Paramount head Bluhdorn (Burn Gorman) that Coppola (Dan Fogler) and Pacino […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Fritz Lang Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: The clumsy and aggressive attempt by unpublished author Stephen Byrne (Louis Hayward) to seduce servant girl Elsa Gaunt (Dorothy Patrick) results in her tragic death. Immediately after his crime, Stephen is genuinely shocked […]