MonsterGirl’s Quote of the Day! The Glass Key (1942)

The Glass Key 1942

CLYDE MATTHEWS: “Isn’t all this beating likely to be fatal?

NICK VARNA: “Not unless we want it to be”

Directed by Stuart Heisler (Tulsa 1949, The Star 1952), penned for the screen by Jonathan Latimer based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett.

Alan Ladd is Ed Beaumont who sets out to find the truth behind his friend’s murder, and the divine sylph Veronica Lake is Janet Henry in this classic Noir Crime Drama!

Brain Donlevy (Kiss of Death 1947, Dangerous Assignment 1952)plays Paul Madvig who decides to clean up his past, while running for re-election. He refuses to take any muscle from gangster Nick Varna (Joseph Calleia Gilda 1946, Touch of Evil 1958) Instead he throws his support behind politician Ralph Henry (Moroni Olsen)

Things heat up when Ralph’s gambling son, Taylor Henry played by Richard Denning,  who loves Paul’s sister Opal Madvig, (Bonita Granville)is murdered.

Nick Varna takes advantage of the dire financial situation of The Observer to strong arm publisher Clyde Matthews (Arthur Loft) to use his newspaper to crucify and create suspicion around Paul Madvig’s involvement in the murder. Also starring William Bendix.

MonsterGirl’s Quote of the Day! Creation of the Humanoids (1962)

A Cyborg or “Clicker” – “My circuits are unoffended”

In this post nuclear holocaust society, there are underlying social ramifications for humans engaging in’rapport’ with cyborgs.The end of civilization is near and there are shadow groups like The Flesh and Blooders who want to keep the world pure. Is merging machine, artificial intelligence, the soul, memory and our very species being moral and is it imperative?

How will man survive, with an inability to bare children, their race inevitably dying out, will the cyborgs be the next evolutionary process?

Creation of the Humanoids is a mind blowing philosophical sci-fi experience with not so covert racial and class implications imbedded in the narrative.

MonsterGirl’s Quote of The Day! Nocturne 1946 ‘I aint no lady’

Nocturne 1946 Starring George Raft, Lynn Bari and Virginia Huston and Myrna Dell. Directed by Edwin L. Marin

Police detective Joe Warner investigates the shooting of womanizing composer Keith Vincent.But he doesn’t believe the evidence, that it was a suicide. He goes on the hunt from one broken love affair after another….

Susan Flanders ( Myrna Dell ) – ” He was a lady-killer, but don’t get any ideas, I ain’t no lady!”

MonsterGirl-I’m no lady!

A Moment from A Christmas Story 1983 Bob Clark’s Vintage Transcendental Humor “Don’t Bother Me…I’m Thinking”

Based on the novel by Jean Shepherd ” In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.”

Here’s the magnificent blue eyed kid, Peter Billingsley as the self absorbed and opportunistic Ralphie.

A Ralphie Moment!

“I like Santa”

Ralphie: “Yeah”

“I like the Wizard of Oz”

Ralphie: “Yeah”

“I like the Tin Man”

I like that kid’s bomber hat and goggles!

MonsterGirl ( jogabriel )

Barney Fife’s Mother’s Day Ode To Mrs.Mendlebright “Snoop Snoop, Bulb Snatcher!”

The Andy Griffith Show Episode 104: Up in Barney’s Room

ENID MARKEY as MRS MENDLEBRIGHT

Originally Aired on Dec 2, 1963.  Barney is evicted from his room at Mrs. Mendelbright’s boardinghouse after she catches him cooking chili on his hot plate and proceeds to shove the smoking evidence into her mother’s dresser that came by bus all the way from Ft Lauderdale.

She’s also caught him using a 75 Watt bulb and sleeping with the lights on accusing him of being afraid of the dark…

When he goes back to beg for his room, he learns that Mrs. Mendlebright is being preyed on by a con man, and about to sell her home in order to pool assets with this new suspicious boyfriend, Mr. Fields, whom she plans to marry.

Barney doesn’t trust this guy at all, especially after Mrs Mendlebright withdraws “3600 hundred smackers” to give to that “swindler!”

Andy places a call to the next county sheriff’s office and learns that indeed Mr. Fields is a con man with various aliases. Barney drinks his cider which has now turned hard and gets “gassed”

A) A guy moves into town

2) He has no job….and

C) He wants to marry Mrs Bendlemright!

Barney save Mrs. Mendelbright from financial ruin and all is right with the world again!

A salute to motherhood and mother figures: Here is the saga of Barney Fife and his beloved Mrs. Mendlebright!

“I like you Mrs. Mendlebright”, “I like you too…Barney”

Happy Mother’s Day from MonsterGirl