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DATE WITH DISASTER (Dir: Charles Saunders, 1957).
DATE WITH DISASTER (Dir: Charles Saunders, 1957).
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Date with Disaster is something of a misnomer of a title, seemingly designed to appear more sensational. With no particular date or disaster to be found, the movie concerns two partners of secondhand car dealer Highgrade Autosales, who plan a safe robbery while third partner Miles Harrington (Tom Drake) is out of town. Engaging the help of professional criminal Tracey (William Hartnell) things, as you might expect, do not go according to plan. Mixed up in the dodgy doings is Miles' girl Sue (Shirley Eaton).
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RIP Diana Rigg.
PORT OF ESCAPE (Dir: Tony Young, 1956).
Noir-ish British B-movie crime flick starring real life husband and wife John McCallum and Googie Withers. Based upon Barbara S Harper’s short story Safe Harbour.
Having just docked in London, seaman Mitch Gillie (McCallum) accidentally kills a man in a knife fight while protecting his pal Dinty (Bill Kerr). On the lam and needing an escape route they commander the houseboat of gossip columnist Anne Stirling (Googie Withers). At first fearing the men, Anne, her sister (Wendy Danielli) and their housekeeper (Joan Hickson) eventually try to help the pair when they learn of Dinty’s mental illness.
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RIP Helen Reddy.
ESCAPE TO WITCH MOUNTAIN (Dir: John Hough, 1975).
A family friendly, sci-fi suspense from Walt Disney Productions. Based upon the 1968 novel by Alexander Key.
Tony (Ike Eisenmann) and Tia Malone (Kim Richards) are two orphaned kids with ESP. Where they got their powers and where they come from is a mystery but makes them outcasts among their peers in the children’s home. Their powers attract unwanted attention from powerful but crooked businessman Aristotle Bolt (Ray Milland) and his assistant Lucas Deranian (Donald Pleasence). Posing as the Malones’ uncle, Deranian adopts the pair with the intention of exploiting them. Escaping from the clutches of Bolt and Deranian the kids stowaway aboard the motor home of curmudgeonly widower Jason O’Day (Eddie Albert) who eventually warms to them and agrees to take them to Witch Mountain, a mysterious place which is somehow connected to Tony and Tia’s past.
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He played a hero on screen. Turns out he was a hero in real life.