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Forgotten Stories: "Hop Cargo" - a SPICY ADVENTURE by Robert Leslie Bellem...
PRESENTING . . . from the July 1937 issue of Spicy Adventure, a titillating tale of Dan Turner's second-cousin, news photographer Johnnie Piper. This is one of two Piper adventures I have, and since I...
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Cap Gun Monday: Leslie-Henry DAVY CROCKETT
In kicking off this new series, Davy quite naturally insisted on featuring a gun with his name on it (of which, you will be unsurprised, there were several). Of course, Old Davy never saw a weapon...
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Overlooked Films: THINGS TO COME (1936)
I posted several cool posters from this film on Sunday (HERE), without realizing the whole dang movie (and colorized to boot) is in on YouTube. Well, I realize it now, and so do you. So here it is.
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Forgotten Books: GREEN ICE by Raoul Whitfield (1930)
Green Ice is an appropriate forgotten book—not because anyone is likely to have forgotten it—but because I'd forgotten how good it was.Over the past couple of years I've read (again) the complete...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX Presidents (Part 1)
Sometime in the '50s, Marx issued a great set of Presidents (up through Eisenhower) done in white plastic to resemble marble statues. I got mine (at a flea market some years back) in a box with a...
View Article"The Ballad of Davy Crockett" by Feng Fei Fei and the Stylers
I don't know what this film is all about, but I do see a lot of mountaintops.
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Cap Gun Monday: Actoy BUNTLINE SPECIAL
The jury is still out on whether Wyatt Earp ever carried a long-barreled Colt, but if he did it probably didn't look much like this. Still, while there were a lot of Wyatt Earp cap guns, this is the...
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Overlooked Films: THE GLASS KEY (1935) See it here!
All hail YouTube! I've been wanting to see this first screen version of The Glass Key for thirty-some years and had just about given up on it. Then a couple days ago, while searching for...
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Forgotten Books: THE GLASS KEY by Dashiell Hammett
Here's the second leg of our salute to the three incarnations of The Glass Key. If you missed Tuesday's assessment and showing of the 1935 film version, that's HERE.The first time I read this novel -...
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Toy Soldier Saturday: MARX 45mm Indians
These 45mm guys are small, averaging only about an inch and a half tall. To put them in perspective, here's one next to 6-inch, 54mm and 60mm Marx figures.More Toy Soldiers HERE.
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