Movies For the Blind

While the evidence seems clear that Joe’s hospital roommate needs heart bypass surgery, Mac (Louis Gossett Jr.) can’t help but feel something doesn’t add up. Part 2 of 2. First posted May 8, 2012.

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Mac (Louis Gossett Jr. looks at Joe (Ronald Hunter) as he looks down into the operating theatre.

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Louis Gossett Jr. plays a hard-working doctor dealing with a disintegrating marriage and a patient (Ronald Hunter) whose journalistic instincts are causing trouble at his hospital. 1978. Part 1 of 2. First posted May 1, 2012.

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Wearing a turtleneck in the emergency room, Mac (Louis Gossett Jr.) uses defibrillators on Joe (Ronald Hunter).

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The Judge (Will Rogers) has his position on the bench threatened in an assault trial that will reveal a very big secret. Part 2 of 2. First posted April 23, 2012.

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The word “JUSTICE!” is written on an envelope.

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Will Rogers stars as a common-sense widower with his own way of running a courtroom in a post-Reconstruction Kentucky small town. 1934. Part 1 of 2. First posted April 16, 2012.

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Judge Priest (Will Rogers) reads a newspaper while presiding in his courtroom.

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Charlie (Mark Stevens) heads for Mexico, but not for the purpose originally planned, as he tries to stay one step ahead of his own investigation. Part 2 of 2. First posted April 10, 2012.

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Review @ Noir of the Week (spoilers)
Alan Reed bio @ IMDB
Mark Stevens bio @ IMDB

Charlie (Mark Stevens) holds Linda (Felicia Farr) and a pistol as they hide around a corner.

The post Episode 208 – Time Table, part 2 (repeat) first appeared on Movies For the Blind.

An insurance investigator (Mark Stevens) has to cancel his vacation when called to find the money stolen in a daring train robbery. But he’s a little more stressed about the case than he should be. 1956. Part 1 of 2. First posted April 3, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
Mark Stevens @ Wikipedia
Cleveland Play House
Jack Klugman @Wikipedia
Alan Reed @IMDB
History of The Flintstones @ YouTube

In a suit and hat, Charlie (Mark Stevens) stands by framed text which says “There is no such thing as a Perfect Crime”.

The post Episode 207 – Time Table, part 1 (repeat) first appeared on Movies For the Blind.

In this parody of melodramas set in the frozen North, prospector Snavely (W.C Fields) returns home via dogsled to his cabin, where he and his wife are reunited with their son who left for the city only to land in prison. 1933. First posted March 27, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
“Driven to Drink: The Films of W.C. Fields” @ Modern Drunkard
Review @ Booze Movies

Snavely (W.C. Fields) opens a cabin door and gets a cloud of snow blown at him.

The post Episode 206 – The Fatal Glass of Beer (repeat) first appeared on Movies For the Blind.

In this short, W.C. Fields has the title role as an irascible man dealing with a freakish golf game, strange patients and a daughter who wants to run off with the iceman. 1932. First posted March 19, 2012. 

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In his exam room wearing his white lab coat, The Dentist (W.C. Fields) holds a rifle to the long bushy beard of a patient in the chair.

The post Episode 205 – The Dentist (repeat) first appeared on Movies For the Blind.

A “voodoo woman” predicts doom for Gertie (Francine Everett), but who poses the greatest threat: Mr. Christian, Diamond Joe, the piano player, the two servicemen…or her own conscience? Part 2 of 2. First posted March 12, 2012.

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Francine Everett @ BlackPast.org
Francine Everett obituary @ New York Times
Cab Calloway singing “Blues In the Night” @ YouTube

On her balcony, Gertie (Francine Everett) stares into the sky fearfully.

The post Episode 204 – Dirty Gertie from Harlem USA, part 2 (repeat) first appeared on Movies For the Blind.

A tropical island hosts a musical revue starring a glamorous but selfish exotic dancer (Francine Everett) haunted by past mistakes. 1946. Part 1 of 2. First posted March 5, 2012.

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Spencer Williams @ Wikipedia
Other “race films”: MFTB103/4 – The Duke Is Tops and MFTB 161/2 – Beware

Gertie (Francine Everett) stares at the camera, unsmiling, her raised hand wearing opera-length gloves.

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