Sahara (1943)

starring Humphrey Bogart

directed by Zoltan Korda

97 minutes

A rag tag group of Allied soldiers in the Libyan desert in June 1942 attempts to escape back to friendly lines after most of their units have been wiped out. They are led by Sgt Joe Gunn (Humphrey Bogart), the commander of an three-man American M3 tank crew. The group includes three English, one Irish, one French, one Sudanese, one South African. They also have two prisoners, one German and the other Italian. 

The first half of the movie is about the search for water and the gradual accumulation of characters who make up the makeshift unit of Allied soldiers and their prisoners. The second half is about their efforts to defend the well at Hassan Barani. Things get progressively worse as things don't go exactly as they hoped they would. A battalion of German soldiers attempt to take the well. One by one the Allied troops are picked off.

Orange Is the New Black 5.01

Riot FOMO

The riot begins in earnest. Daya has Humphrey's gun and she shoots him in the thigh. It looks like things might get worse, she might kill him, but she doesn't. She does hold on to the gun.

Nichols and Morello go looking for druge. They have to deal with Angie and Leanne who are also jonesing for something. Nichols eventually find a key to the room where the drugs are kept.

Taystee, Black Cindy, Watson, and Abdullah take Caputo and Josh hostage. They force Caputo to read a message that they record on Josh's iPad. They post it on the internet with some help from Josh. The message is a more explicit version of what happened to Poussey. 

Hapakuka hides under bed. Big Boo and Doggett hole up in the commissary. Judy King and Soso wind up in the library. Judy tries to comfort Soso who is still crushed by Poussey's death.

Some of the guards try fighting back. They lock up some of the inmates in the kitchen and then lock themselves in there too when lots more inmate come looking for them.

Beth tries hiding in the bathroom. Chapman and Vause finds her. They take her hostage but they get tired of her and try to lose her. She begs them to look after her. They find her a uniform and tell her to put it on.

Atlanta 3.01

Three Slaps

Two men are on a boat, fishing in a reservoir, at night. One is Black and one is White. They talk about the reservoir. The White man tells the Black man a story about the reservoir. It creeps the Black man out and then it gets creepier.

Loquareeous is a young boy about 10 years old. He acts up in school. His mother and grandfather are called in. His mother is tired of his act and gives him a hard time. His grandfather slaps him, three times. One of his teachers sees all this and calls child protective services.

An agent from CPS shows up at Loquareeous' mother's house. His mother has had enough. She throws him out and tells CPS to take him. He is placed with a white couple, Amber and Gail. He is just one of four kids, all Black that the two women have taken in. They make them work. They don't send them to school. Loquareeous tries acting up but it doesn't get him anywhere.

CPS shows up at the house. It isn't the same agent whom Amber and Gail are used to dealing with. Gail has a private chat with the agent. The agent disappears. Amber and Gail decide to go on a trip and take the kids with them.

The episode ends with Earn waking up. He has a puzzled look on his face.

She-Ra and the Princesses of Power 5.10

Return to the Fright Zone

Adora, Catra, Perfuma, Netossa, and Melog go to the Fright Zone to look for Scorpia. They find her but she isn't the only one there. Scorpia is still chipped. She attacks them. Adora and Perfuma try to subdue Scorpia. Catra and Melog fight with Mermista. Netossa fights with Spinerella, her girlfriend.

Glimmer and Bow go looking for Lance and George, his fathers. They find their home in bad shape but they also find a note that leads them to the ruins. There they find Bow's fathers. Lance and George have uncovered a piece of First One's technology that is activated by the word Eternia. It includes a reference to a failsafe device for the Heart of Etheria.

Perfuma and Adora encounter Horde Prime. He orders Scorpia to kill them, but she doesn't and they get away. Glimmer teleports in and joins the fight just in time to help get the others away from the Fright Zone. Netossa overcomes Spinerella and removes her chip.

Party Down 1.06

Taylor Stiltskin Sweet Sixteen

The Party Down team works the party of the daughter of a big shot Hollywood director. Ron gets high by accident after going to talk to the entertainment for the party. Constance and Casey are tasked with talking the birthday girl into actually showing up for her party. Roman hits on one of the teenagers at the party. Kyle just had his teeth fixed and they are hurting a lot. The wife of the host comes on to him. She offers him a part in her husband's next film if he will sleep with her. He tries but his teeth are hurting too much. Henry runs into someone he knows from acting school who tries to help him get a part in Leonard Stiltskin's next movie.

Columbo 4.03

By Dawn's Early Light

Columbo investigates the death of the chairman of the Board of Trustees of a military academy. 

Thoughts

Patrick McGoohan plays Colonel Rumford, the director of the military academy. I know him best from The Prisoner but I have probably seen him in a few other things.

This episode takes place in California but it was shot on the grounds of the Citadel in South Carolina.

The father and son team of Bruce and Bruno Kirby have small parts in this episode. Bruce Kirby was also in an episode of the Phil Silvers show that I watched fairly recently.

This was a decent episode but the ending was kind of abrupt. I was not fully satisfied with it. I think I wanted more than this episode had to offer. Having not watched Columbo in quite some time I'm not sure how typical the ending to this episode is.

The Phil Silvers Show 2.11

Where There's a Will

Gregory Chickering, one of the guys in Bilko's platoon, gets discharged from the army. Chickering's uncle dies. He thinks he stands to inherit quite a bit of money, but all he gets is a parrot. Chickering turns to Bilko for help. Bilko shows up in disguise with four of his men (Barbella, Doberman, Henshaw, Fleischman). They pretend to be part of a gang with whom Chickering's uncle used to run. They fool Chickering's relatives into thinking that there is buried treasure somewhere in the world and only the parrot knows the name of the island where it can be found.