Overlooked Films: The Simple Art of Philip Marlowe

From the 1999 BBC2 series THE GREAT DETECTIVES.

Overlooked Films: "A Dime a Dance," from a BLACK MASK story by Cornell Woolrich (1995)

Based on the story "The Dancing Detective" from the February 1938 issue of Mask. This one stars Jennifer Grey and Eric Stolz, and was directed by Peter Bogdanovich.

Overlooked Films: REMO WILLIAMS TV Pilot (1988)

Overlooked Films: LI'L ABNER (1940)

Overlooked Films: RAWHIDE TV Pilot

Overlooked Films: THE LIFE AND LEGEND OF WYATT EARP (Episode 1)

Overlooked Films: THE ADVENTURES OF KIT CARSON (TV epidose)

Overlooked Films: ANNIE OAKLEY (Episode 1)

Overlooked Films: CAPTAIN MIDNIGHT TV Episode (1955)

Overlooked Films: FEARLESS FOSDICK TV Series

My FFB celebration of Fearless Fosdick is HERE. The TV series ran for thirteen episodes in 1952.

Overlooked Films: MODESTY BLAISE TV Pilot (1982)

 

Overlooked Films: DICK TRACY AND FLAT TOP (1950 TV Episode)

Overlooked Films: DJANGO (1966)

In keeping with my Italian frame of mind (did I mention I'm 25% Italian?), here's a great Spaghetti Western. This is the original  Django film, and still the best I've seen.

Overlooked Films: THE REBEL - "Judgement"

Overlooked Films: Mickey Spilane's TOMORROW I DIE (1995)

Here's another episode of Fallen Angels. This one stars Bill Pullman in a non-Hammer story from Cavalier magazine.

Overlooked Films: NOSFERATU (1922) - restored version

Sweet Freedom is your Tuesday HQ for Overlooked Stuff.

Overlooked Films: Raymond Chandler's I'LL BE WAITING (1993)

Tom Hanks directed this adaptation of Chandler's Marlowe-free Saturday Evening Post story for the Showtime series Fallen Angels.

Overlooked Films: DICK TRACY TV Pilot (1967)

This Tracy pilot, titled "The Plot to Kill NATO," was produced by Batman/Green Hornet guy William Dozier for NBC, but due to circumstances beyond Dick's control, it never aired. The story behind the project is related in great detail HERE.

 

More Overlooked This & That at Sweet Freedom.

Overlooked Films: Danny Glover in Raymond Chandler's RED WIND (1995)

Danny Glover got an Emmy nomination for his performace in this episode of Showtime's Fallen Angels. 

 

The story first appeared in this January 1938 issue of Dime, where Chandler got second billing to Carroll John Daly. Though the magazine detective was John Dalmas, Showtime followed the OTR, paperback and HBO tradition of pretedning he was Marlowe.

More Forgotten Stuff at Sweet Freedom. 

Overlooked Films: THE THREE STOOGES in "The Three Troubledoers" (1946)

Apparently this short was officially titled "The Three Troubledoers," but some of the promotional material left out the Three. No biggee. It's the Three real Stooges Out West. Let the n'yuck-n'yuck-n'yucking begin.