Arcadia of My Youth (1982)

Arcadia of My Youth (1982)

starring Makio Inoue, Kei Tomiyama

directed by Tomoharu Katsumata

130 minutes

in Japanese with English subtitles

Harlock returns to Earth which is now occupied by an army of aliens. Some humans continue to resist the aliens, others are working with them. Halock goes looking for an old friend, Maya. Harlock finds a new friend, Tochiro, before he finds Maya. Harlock and Tochiro are captured Zoll, a man from the planet Tokarga. He uses a piece to technology to reveal to them that their ancestors were once friends.

Harlock goes looking for Maya once again. This time he finds her but they get separated after they are attacked by the aliens. Tochiro meets Emereldas, the captain of a pirate ship that just crashed on Earth. Tochiro helps to repair her ship.

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

3:10 to Yuma (1957)

starring Glenn Ford, Van Heflin

directed by Delmer Daves

92 minutes

Down-on-his-luck rancher Dan Evans (Van Heflin) agrees to get Ben Wade (Glenn Ford), a notorious gang leader, on to the train to Yuma. The two men crossed paths earlier that same day when Ben and his gang were robbing a stagecoach. Dan didn’t interfere with the robbery because he was outnumbered and because he had his sons, both fairly young, with him. Ben is later caught by the authorities.

Dan is desperate for money to feed his family. It isn’t until the man who owns the stagecoach offers $200 to anyone who is willing to get Ben on the train to Yuma that Ben steps up. Ben repeatedly offers Dan considerably more money if Dan will just let him go but Dan refuses Ben’s offers. Ben points out that his gang will be back to free him and that they won't hesitate to kill anyone who gets in their way. Dan insists on completing the job he was hired to do despite the impossible odds.

Broadchurch 1.07

Episode Seven

Alec wakes up in the hospital. Ellie is there. She's angry at him for not tellling her about his heart condition. She leaves him in the hospital but before long he checks himself out and heads back to work.

Ellie continues the questioning of Susan Wright, without Alec. She finally gets Susan to start opening up. Susan tells Ellie about her life before she moved to town. She also tells Ellie about how she saw something from the cliffs on the night of the murder and headed down to the beach.

Ellie pokes holes in Susan's story. Susan finally admits that she was on the beach and saw a boat come in to the beach. The man in the boat came ashore and dropped Danny's body off and then left. It takes some more prodding but she finally admits that it was Nige. She also explains that she thinks Nige is her son.

Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

Little Shop of Horrors (1960)

starring Jonathan Haze, Jackie Joseph, Mel Welles

directed, produced, and co-written by Roger Corman

72 minutes

Seymour Krelborn (Johnathan Haze) is about to get fired from his job at Mushnick's flower shop when he convinces Mr. Mushnick (Mel Welles), his boss, to give him one more chance. He brings in the unusual plant that he has been growing at home. He calls it the Audrey Junior. He named it after Audrey (Jackie Joseph), his coworker, on whom he has a crush.

The plant is carnivorous. He gets it to grow larger by feeding it some of his own blood. The plant grows and gets hungrier. Seymour accidentally kills a man and then feeds the body to the plant. It grows bigger. Mr. Mushnik finds out about it but isn't sure what to do. The plant is an attraction that brings in lots of new business.

The Phil Silvers Show 3.21

Cyrano de Bilko

Bilko helps one of his men who is too shy to talk to the woman on whom he has a crush. Bilko gets concerned when he learns that Harold (the soldier) and Natalie are going to get married. He investigates and thinks he finds out that Natatlie is an older woman who is after Harold's money. It turns out that Bilko jumped to conclusions a little too quickly. Bilko almost ends up having to marry Natalie's aunt whose name is also Natalie.

Thoughts

Lee Meriweather played the part of the younger Natalie. This episode is her only appearance on this show. I know her best from Batman (1966) in which she played Catwoman.

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)

starring Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn

directed by Howard Hawks

91 minutes

Showgirl Lorelei Lee (Marilyn Monroe) is eager to get married to Gus Esmond. She travels by ship with Dorothy Shaw (Jane Russell), her best friend, to Paris expecting that Esmond will be eager and willing to marry her when they arrive. Lorelei tries to get Dorothy hooked up and hitched to a rich man like Gus but Dorothy has other ideas and instead falls for Ernie Malone. He's a private detective who has been hired by Esmond's father to dig up some dirt on his son's fiancée. Shaw discover Ernie's real reason being on the ship until later in the movie.

Five Came Back 1.02

Combat Zones

The story of the exploits of the five film directors continues in this episode. The story picks up where it left off and goes up to just before D-Day in 1944. The same talking heads that appeared in the first episode are also in this one. Once again there are archival interviews the five directors at the center of this story.

Topics discussed include 

• difference between war in the movies and the reality of war
• use of animaiton in the Why We Fight series and in the Private Snafu shorts
• Wyler's abortive role in making a movie about Black soldiers in the US Army
• the spill over from Ford's civilian working relationship with Daryl Zanuck