TV Guide: Joan Blackman

Listing: Shivers

Tue, 16 Sep 2008 03:30:00 +0000

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Video: The Barter

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Enemy agents grab the daughter of an American businessman living in Asia and plan to trade her for a defected Communist scientist. Guest starring: Roger C. Carmel, John Abbott, George Takei, Philip Ober, John Alderson, Lisa Jager, Joan Blackman, Michael Forrest, Noel Drayton, George Perina, Yuki Shimoda, Helen Funai, Irvin Ashkenazy, George Zaima

Video: Great Imposter, The

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:59:31 +0000

The Great Impostor is the true story of chameleonlike Canadian Ferdinand Waldo DeMara Jr., well-played by Tony Curtis. Unable to decide what he wants to do with his life, DeMara goes about pretending to be other people, hoping to eventually find himself. He poses as a Harvard professor, a Trappist monk, a prison warden, and a navy physician, and manages each time to get away with the artifice. The film wavers uncertainly between tense drama and frothy comedy, with comedy finally winning out. Karl Malden co-stars as Father Devlin, the young DeMara's spiritual advisor, while Joan Blackman is the nominal (and hardly visible) heroine. The real Ferdinand DeMara (if indeed there was a real Ferdinand DeMara) can be seen in a supporting role in the 1960 melodrama The Hypnotic Eye. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide.

Video: Kid Galahad

Video Detective — Mon, 17 Mar 2008 04:28:16 +0000

This musical boxing drama finds Walter (Elvis Presley) as a recently discharged soldier looking forwork in New York's Catskill Mountains. He happens across Grogan's Gym, a boxing emporium that helps perfect the gentle art. Proprioter Willie Grogan (Gig Young) and trainer Lew (Charles Bronson) run the camp for aspiring pugilists. Walter saves Grogan's long suffering girlfriend Rose (Joan Blackman) from an assault by a gangster when he knocks out the goon. He earns the nickname Kid Galahad and a chance to show off his talents in the boxing ring. While Walter trains for the big fight, Lew is approached by unsavory gamblers, who want Lew to be lax in repairing any cuts Walter sustains in the ring for a slice of the economic pie. Lew refuses and has his hands broken by the gambling goons. Although Walter knows the fix is on, he battles his way to victory against overwhelming odds and an intimidating opponent. Walter exacts revenge on the men who broke Lew's hands, which may be the first and only time in cinematic

Video: The Barter

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