The Phil Silvers Show 3.33

Bilko's Vacation

Bilko wants to go on vacation but doesn't have enough money. He tricks Colonel Hall into giving his entire platoon two weeks of leave. He next tricks his entire platoon to go to the same vacation spot after making a deal with the manager of the vacation spot.

Thoughts

This was a bit messy and surprisingly ended with Colonel Hall fooling Bilko.

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

Yolanda and the Thief (1945)

starring Fred Astaire, Lucile Bremer, Frank Morgan

directed by Vincente Minnelli

108 minutes

Yolanda Acquaviva (Lucille Bremer) returns from the convent where she has lived and attended school for several years. She is now old enough to take control of the assets she inherited from her parents. She fears the responsibility and winds up signing over control of all her money to con man Johnny Riggs (Fred Astaire). He has fooled her into thinking that he is her guardian angel. Johnny starts to have second thoughts after it looks like he and Victor Trout (Frank Morgan), his partner in crime, are going to successfully get away with Yolanda's family fortune.

Havoc (2005)

Havoc (2005)

starring Anne Hathaway

directed by Barbara Kopple

85 minutes

High school student Allison Lang (Anne Hathaway) gets interested in Hector after he embarrasses her poser boyfriend. She seeks out Hector who deals drugs and comes from a poorer section of Los Angeles than she and her boyfriend do. Everything seems fairly low key until Allison and her friend Emily decide that they want to join Hector's gang. 

Allison and Emily agree to go along with the initiation ritual which involves having sex with (potentially) multiple members of the gang. It gets to be a bit too intense for both of them and the two teens leave before it gets any worse.

Emily reports the incident to the police and accuses Hector of raping her. Allison doesn’t back up her friend’s account of the incident when she is questioned by the police. This creates a rift between the two friends although it is only a temporary one.

Justice League Action 1.14

Speed Demon

Batman angers Brother Night who retaliates by turning the Batmobile into a demonic car. It takes the combined efforts of Batman, Zatanna, and the Demon to set things right again.

Thoughts

This is another episode that is lacking in subtlety. Its all action with little to nothing in the way of character moments. The Demon's rhyming was the biggest plus in my book.

On the Beach (1959)

On the Beach (1959)

starring Gregory Peck, Ava Gardner, Fred Astaire

directed and produced by Stanley Kramer

Commander Dwight Towers (Gregory Peck) and the crew of the of the USS Sawfish, a submarine, survive a nuclear war (Wordle War III) and pull into port in Melbourne, Australia. It doesn't look good for what's left of humanity in the southern hemisphere.

Towers gets involved romantically with Moira Davidson (Ava Gardner). He was married and had two children. They were killed in the nuclear war but he has trouble coming to terms with that fact or opening up to Moira.

Towers and the Sawfish crew travel to Alaska and California in the hopes of finding some survivors but come up empty handed. Radiation from the nuclear war eventually reaches Australia and spreads across the country until overwhelms even Melbourne, the southeastern most major city in the country.

Towers would be content to stay there with Moira but he puts it to a vote and the crew of the Sawfish elect to return to the United States despite knowing what awaits them there.

Orange Is the New Black 7.09

The Hidey Hole

Piper comes clean with her coworkers. She starts to feel much better. She has a talk with her father, who isn't happy (about her telling her coworkers about her past) but accepts it.

Monica, Cindy's daughter, gets the letter that Tastyee sent. She confronts Cindy and her grandmother, who she thought was her mother, about it. They don't know how to respond. Cindy had just talked her way into a job at an old folks home. Cindy can't take it. She packs her things and leaves.

Morello goes around the bend. Her web page for the baby pictures (that were not of Sterling, her baby who died of pneumonia) gets deleted. She later finds out that it was Vinnie who did it. Morello also gets the backstory spotlight. She had problems back then, too. 

Batman: Caped Crusader 1.06

Night Ride

A ghostly figure on horseback robs poor people and charities. Batman is at a loss. He gets some help from a kindly librarian who helps him identify the family from which the ghost came, the Craddocks. The ghost is Jim Craddock who was executed for treason in the late 18th century.

Batman turns to an expert on ghosts, Linton Midnite, who gives Batman the information he needs to defeat Gentleman Jim Craddock. Alfred helps Batman with the ritual that needs to be conducted. They are successful in dealing with Craddock but he doesn't make it easy for them.