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I enjoyed The Sentry... with all its limitations... Yes, the "lizard outfit" was not that well done, but heck, the budget wasn't up to it.

I liked the interplay between McGavin and his wife (the cop), and with the guest-cast, top notch as always.

The plot of course was similar to Star Trek's The Devil in the Dark, where a rock-eating monster goes berserk after its eggs are found and destroyed by humans.

I don't' know that any episode would have been a good "final episode"... would Kolchak ever have found a story that he could actually tell?

Kolchak belonged to a different time...but he was a good hero and a good role model.

I'm watching this episode even as I type...and I'm as outraged by it now as I was when I first saw it.

Of course, in one sense it would never happen. The flight attendant who kept giving the drunk the liquor even though he was clearly too drunk to even speak properly would have been sued to within an inch of her life by the guy, who would have course have not gone to jail at all, since it wasn't his fault he was drunk, it was the flight attendant's fault because she kept giving him the liquor! At least, that's the way it would have happened in real life.

In real life, too many drunk drivers get away with murder, over and over again, because they were drunk at the time they killed their victims. They should be sent to jail for a long time, not let out after a couple of years to kill again.

As for this show, the guy knows he "blacks out" if he's drunk too much, that he'd already had an accident two years previous where he'd put a girl in a coma...

It's just stupid that he'd get a lesser sentence because he was "drunk"!

This show was made in 1955, 7 years before Doctor Who made his debut on British TV. This show is clearly a forerunner of that one. It's meant to be educational, Z-RO goes back and forth in time in his time machine, and viewers learn about history.

It was quite enjoyable, and very good for its day. Yes, it was made for kids, but we're not talking about teletubbies or other crap here, we're talking about quality programming, with a hero kids could look up to.

These shows are now available on DVD, as the star is still alive, and had the originals on 16mm film. Why he waited until last year to release them................ that's a mystery!

>>Claudette Colbert looking far too old and matronly for the part of an ambitious small-town journalist and card sharp Colbert certainly doesn't look matronly in this film - she's just as slender and attractive as ever.

I've just attended the WIllimasburg Film Festival, which showed this film. It has great meaning for Gregory Walcott- it was his "breakthrough" role, and his wife was pregnant with his first child, which she gave birth to a week after the movie finished filming.

In Walcott's biography, Hollywood Adventures, he tells the story of how he first met Colbert, who was concerned that he was so much younger than she was. But if older leading men can be put in with actresses 20 years younger than them, than women should be able to get the same treatment.

It is a bit episodic, but fun nevertheless.

This is one of my favorite Mr. Motos, and I have seen them all. As usual Lorre is his charming self as the debonair Mr. Moto. Lionel Atwill plays a delightfully zany museum curator, the usual comic relief is quite funny here, and there are lots of suspects on whom to cast an eye. It's fast paced and fun.

The archaeologist doesn't have quite the same flair as Thomas Beck, the usual second lead in these programmers, but he's adequate. Stepin Fetchit is on board, and while he speaks in a stereotypical manner his lines are funny, not demeaning to his intelligence, and he actually saves the day in his brief time on screen.

I love the Mr. Moto series. My favorite is the first, Think Fast, Mr. Moto, but this second in the series comes a close second. Mr.Moto has been tasked (by whom we don't know) to locate the treasure of Genghis Kahn. His good friend Prince Chung is a descendant of Kahn, and cares for 5 (one was stolen) scrolls that, when put together with the remaining two, reveal the location of the tomb of Genghis Kahn, and within it, a vast treasure.

Considering how Japanese/Chinese relations were at the time, the friendship of Moto and Chung is perhaps unusual, but its very touching.

John Carradine does a lovely turn as the slimy antique dealer Parera, Thomas Beck is the usual boyish hero in love with the girl. Philip Ahn is quite good as Prince Chung. Why his mother was played by Pauline Frederick instead of a Chinese woman I do not know, but she did quite a good job in her last movie.

Quite a few Chinese actors had walk ons in this movie, and the Chinese police are shown in a good light - they too are anxious to stop the smuggling of art objects.

It's fast paced, it's fun, I recommend it.