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This Television Anthology program is that rarest of things, a tv program with no flaws whatsoever! Fine acting, great writing, wonderfull art/effects. The Outer Limits, the new version, is far and above, much better than the original series. which can only have a certain, "antique" quality when compared with this most excellent series.

This film is about the battle of Thermopylae, between the Athenian Democracy and the Persian totalitarian empire. which sought to extend its empire, and its oppressive tyranny into Europe and snuff out the light of Freedom and human rights in Athens. Ralph Richardson played the Athenian statesman Themistocles, one of the world's greatest men who overcame tremendous political problems to defeat the huge Persian empire. and free the Greek kingdoms to the east, and Cypress, and Eygpt. from Persian oppression. to ensure that Athenian values such as freedom from oppression, and human rights would continue in the world. and the Spartan King, Leonidas, who defied the Spartan government and fought with some of Sparta's best fighters at Thermopylae. although marred, somewhat by the hype that accompanied the "traileur" promoting the film. "The 300 Spartans" is a rare film about the most important battle that changed world history.

The only film adaption ever done of the Saturday Evening Post "Tugboat Annie" stories. interesting depictions of the eating area, and engine room with its old triple expansion engine. the "Narcissus", was played by the real tugboat "Arthur Foss" which is preserved as a maritime museum after 101 years of work.

The guy that produced this toiky (Dick Clark) shudda stayed wit' "America Bandstand. it was really really bad. it starred Tige Andrews of the Mod squad as the main charecter, an unbeliveably horribly negative anal rententive farmer, whose total negativity merges with the ions in the lightning bolt which hit him as he was wrecking the abandoned woodstock stage (today it would be a precious cultural landmark) to turn him into "the woodstock werewolf".<screams please!> the only thing positive about this "tele~play", which hasn't been shown on tv since 1976, was the werewolf make up, the farmer looked like one of those flamboyant woodstock hippies he hated so much.

It would have a perfect ending to M*A*S*H all the characters in civilian lives B.J. and wife Peg and daughter in suburban San Francisco Hawkeye crab~backed in his practice in Crabapple cove Maine Iron nurse Margaret Hoolehan in the big city hospital and severe but gentle Col.Potter and of course Maxwell Klinger! a fine 2 night special it would have made but hollywood turned it into a series after the war Klinger wanted to leave Toledo due to the constant prejudgice to his mixed marriage to his Korean beloved Soon~Lee and the economic decline of Toledo he got a stop~gap job as a bookie to raise funds to move to California he was however, arrested and was on his way to jail for six months he talked the judge into letting him go free because of his troubles and the promise of a job in Long Beach, California far far away from Toledo a letter from his job connection Colonel Potter with train fare enclosed convinces a rather reluctant and prejudiced judge to allow Klinger 24 hours to get of town so he and Soon ~lee hightail it to California mostly the show lacked that certain something to make it interesting and sustainable it was a wearying and tension filled show the only interesting dramatic was the relationship between clerk Klinger and office manager Alma Cox it was a replication of the subordinate Klinger to female authority figure Houlihan role Alma Cox had none of Margaret Houlihan's competence, intelligence, or kindliness but she did have Houlihan's overbearing bossiness and her own innate bigotry, pettiness, and viciousness the show also had Father Mulcahy as the chaplain at Veteran Hospital where they all worked I don't recall if he recovered his hearing though

"What A Way To Go" starred Shirley Maclaine as the unlucky gal who kept marrying men who she thought would make her priority no.1 but through each ones personal fault comes to a pathetic death like say her first husband Edgar Hopper (Dick Van Dyke) who turns his back on the Thoreauesque poverty he and Shirley were enjoying for Big Business success in the department store game (HOP! HOP! HOP! ALL YOU SHOPPERS!, RIGHT ON DOWN TO HOPPERS! because of wounded PRIDE at a humiliation by town rich playboy and junior executive at the town deparment store Crawley's after building up a huge department store empire by unbelieveable 20 hour a day effort and ignoring Shirley completely he succeeds in crushing the Crawley chain however, seconds after calling Shirley on the telephone

to gleefully gloat over the impoverishment of the Crawleys promptly dies of a heart attack. Shirlie's third husband who was happy enough to have a 13 year run as the unoticed star attraction in a smoky noisy clip joint when fame comes a'~callin' and suddenly he is a great success and egotistical to boot he later upon discovering that citizens in his hometown have painted the front of the house he was born in pink (at the prompting of his press agent) he decides to have Shirley's and His mansion painted pink (thats his nickname pink~ey) inside and out everything the floors, walls, toilets, ceilings, door doorbell, lights, lightbulbs~ everything! all a crummy shade of pink later after when through VANITY he is trampled to death by a mob of frenzied screaming fans he leaves enough money to build a collosal modern architecture building and jumbo sized statue of Pinky~all in that same shade of Pink of course where fans can ponder Pinky's greatness and watch all of his films 24 hours a day 7 days a week watch for the surprise happy ending in which Shirley finally finds true romance and happiness!

I have always wanted to see this movie ever since I read Evelyn Waugh's 'The Loved One' back in 1977 I recently watched 'The Loved One' on American Movie Classics I especially liked Anjanette Comer's Aimee Thanatosgoulos

the funeral company's corpse beautician who is pretty,

talented, thoroughly professional, peculiar, and naive

and her pouring~her~heart~out letters to a newspaper swami who is actually a coarse drunken lout played by actor Lionel Stander demoted by newspaper management from sports reporting to mis~managing this advice to the lovelorn column some of the scenes were filmed at the fantastic estate of Herold Lloyd in Beverly Hills except for a sexually quite suggestive (remote control sex statues) scene I liked this movie it has many plot twists and some memorable scenes by the brother of Wilbur Glenworthy (Johnathan Winters) who runs a sleazy pet cemetary right next to a busy and noisy airport and of course Ma Joyboy who lives only to stuff her gut with an endless amount of

food that would have shamed Henry the VIII if American Movie Classics ever shows 'The Maggie' starring Paul Douglas which is about a Scottish steam vessel which I last saw on TV in 1982 I will have achieved two of my life ambitions.

This movie was filmed on location in the Haight Ashbury district of San Francisco during one scene actual local hippies became impromptu "extras". A very unusual film though not for everyone all the scenes were filmed outdoors in San Francisco in the Haight Ashbury and Fillmore districts.

An early version of the peek and see webcams of today like MTV's original'Real World' and 'Jennicam', the William Loud family of Santa Monica California allowed a television crew [PBS] to set up a camera and photograph >the Loud family in their daily activities barbeques, sibling hassles, petty squabbles between Pat Loud and her husband Bill, it was certainly a very unusual thing, this documentary it was sort of like peeking over your neighbor's fence and spying on them...a most unusual television production!

A throughly bad film. One of the worst films I have ever seen. James Cagney should have let "Ragtime" be his "swan song"

An unusual movie about a vanished type of tradesman who like the iceman, buggy whip maker, milkman, and fuller brush man has gone from the American scene. Formerly this type of tradesman traveled about the south with his truck, switchboard, genarator, and of course electric chair

exeucutin' folks who wuz on death row yeah! Stacy Keach plays such a' one in this 1970 "gallows~humor" tradgi~comedy

In 1970 the United States Marine Corps did for the first time in its 194 year old history draft men for the corp. That's how come a long haired hippie wound up at the training base with long hair and a poncho. This counter-cultural chap Adrian comes face to face with a tough but honest DI played by Darren McGavin who has a softer, more human side under his " I'm a Marine and that's all I am" hardshell leatherneck persona Adrian doesn't conform and uses yoga (which he teaches to the other men) to deal with marine corp training. The made for tv movie has an interesting ending I would give this movie **** four stars