THE DEVIL WITHIN HER (1975) misnamed, because the devil was in her baby. Other than that, a good horror film. An ex-stripper marries & has a son. Titled
I Don't Want to Be Born in the UK.
Both of the next two were shot in post WWII Japan. Interesting stuff Ben M said, both before & after.
TOKYO JOE (1949) Joe Barrett (
Humphrey Bogart) ex-WWII pilot, had been living in Tokyo before the war, and returned after, hoping to pick up the pieces and resume his prewar life. He had been running a bar with a partner, but, upon returning found the American occupation forces would only grant him a 60 day permit to stay. Moreover, there is his wife who had stayed in Japan, and married another man. They have a daughter, just old enough to be Joe's, but he thinks the other guy is the dad. He wants to get his wife back, but that is just one plot element. He needs a job, and being a pilot is his occupation. Baron Kimura (
Sessue Hayakawa) hires him to fly cargo, but Joe knows there is something off, about it. There must be smuggling involved, but what?
HOUSE OF BAMBOO (1955) I forgot much of the detail, but a US Army train is robbed of several heavy machine guns and smoke bombs. An Army Sgt. (
Robert Stack) takes the place of Eddie Spanier, who had been named by a dying crook, who was involved in the theft. Spanier comforts the dead crook's wife, and becomes a bit more intimate with her, than he had expected. The Army falsifies a criminal record and doctors a photo, so he can infiltrate the gang that Sandy Dawson (
Robert Ryan) runs. I know this is a terrible review!
Charlie (
DeForest Kelley; what!? in a non-cowboy film?) has a fairly good role, as one of Ryan's mobsters.
Cameron Mitchell is the crime Boss' Ichiban (The #1 henchman) .
Sessue Hayakawa, who was also in Tokyo Joe, is a police inspector here.
One of the interesting points of this film, according to Ben M., was that Sam Fuller, who directed it, used several unauthorized shots (with filming permits) of Tokyo street life, thus giving a better look at the city than would otherwise have been possible. A very good film, very intense.
SHERLOCK JR (1924) Buster Keaton runs the projector in a small town movie theater, but he really wants to be a lumberjack. No, he wants to be a private detective. This thing is very funny.
THE PASSIONATE PLUMBER (1932) Elmer Tuttle (
Buster Keaton) is called to the mansion to repair the shower in the young lady's bathroom, but just about everything other than that occurs.
Julius J. McCracken (
Jimmy Durante) is the family chauffeur, and he & Keaton create some really funny scenes.
The young lady, Patricia Alden (
Irene Purcell) is in love with two-timer Tony Lagorce (
Gilbert Roland), who is constantly telling her that his wife will not give him the divorce he seeks. But he is telling the other woman, the same thing. The young lady decides to use Tuttle to make her boyfriend jealous.
YOU'RE IN THE ARMY NOW (1941) Homer Smith (
Jimmy Durante) & Breezy Jones (
Phil Silvers), are pushy vacuum cleaner salesmen. After a few failed attempts, the two try selling in an Army Recruitment office, & end up, enlisting. I have seen this before, but it was still fresh. Must have been several year ago. Their failed attempts to sell vacuum cleaners may have been inspiration for an episode of
, which, somehow, I recall.