Showing posts with label 1960. Show all posts
Showing posts with label 1960. Show all posts

Saturday, June 14, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 38.
Episode entitled: The Tiger’s Cage.
Released June 14, 1960.
Directed by Don McDougall.
Written by Stuart Jerome and Maxwell Shane.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Reed, Dan Riss, Regina Gleason, Donald Barry, Art Lewis, Joseph Mell, George Eldredge, Lee Miller.

Tuesday, June 10, 2025

Recommended reading - The Ferguson Affair, by Ross Macdonald (1960):


The Ferguson Affair

By Ross Macdonald.

Published by Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group.
First published 1960.
ISBN-10:030774079X
ISBN-13: 9780307740793

Description:

It was a long way from the million-dollar Foothill Club to Pelly Street, where grudges were settled in blood and Spanish and a stolen diamond ring landed a girl in jail.  Defense lawyer Bill Gunnarson was making the trip – fast.  He already knew a kidnapping at the club was tied to the girl's hot rock, and he suspected that a missing Hollywood starlet was the key to a busy crime ring.  But while Gunnarson made his way through a storm of deception, money, drugs, and passions, he couldn't guess how some big shots and small-timers would all end up with murder in common...

Saturday, June 7, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 37.
Episode entitled: Fire in the Sky.
Released June 7, 1960.
Directed by Dann Cahn.
Written by Robert Quaid.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Rita Lynn, Richard Deacon, Frank Wilcox, Austin Green, Theodore Newton, Jerry O’Sullivan, Tom Monroe, Philip Chapin.

Saturday, May 31, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 36.
Episode entitled: Closed Season.
Released May 31, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Terry Crosby, Lee Erwin and William McCluskey.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Paula Raymond, Dennis Patrick, Herbert Rudley, Chet Stratton, Anita Gordon, Robert Kino, Leonard P. Geer.

Sunday, May 25, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 35.
Episode entitled: Badge for a Coward.
Released May 25, 1960.
Directed by Paul Stewart.
Written by Jay D. Crowley, Ward Hawkins and Robert Quaid.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Edward Kemmer, Ruta Lee, Leonard Nimoy, Kathryn Card, Addison Richards, Stephen Chase.

Saturday, May 17, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 34.
Episode entitled: Two Days for Willy.
Released May 17, 1960.
Directed by Donald McDougall.
Written by Terry Crosby and Dennis Roberts.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Alan Hale, Peggy Webber, Harry Lauter, Mark Tapscott, Bob Hoy, Stephen Talbot.

Thursday, May 15, 2025

On this day in movie history - The Adventure (1960):


The Adventure

directed by Michelangelo Antonioni,
written by Michelangelo Antonioni, Elio Bartolini and Tonino Guerra,
based on a story by Michelangelo Antonioni,
was released at the Cannes Film Festival in France on May 15, 1960.
Music by Giovanni Fusco.

Cast:

Gabriele Ferzetti, Monica Vitti, Lea Massari, Dominique Blanchar, Renzo Ricci, James Addams, Dorothy De Poliolo, Lelio Luttazzi, Giovanni Petrucci, Esmeralda Ruspoli, Enrico Bologna, Franco Cimino, Giovanni Danesi, Rita Molè, Renato Pinciroli, Angela Tomasi di Lampedusa, Vincenzo Tranchina, Prof. Cucco, Jack O'Connell.

Saturday, May 10, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 33.
Episode entitled: A Grenade for a Summer’s Evening.
Released May 10, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Terry Crosby.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jeanne Cooper, Adam Becker, Patty Ann Gerrity, Wesley Lau.

Saturday, May 3, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 32.
Episode entitled: Dead Parrots Don’t Talk.
Released May 3, 1960.
Directed by Donald McDougall.
Written by Frank Burt and Robert Quaid.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Arthur Batanides, Elaine Edwards, Robert Ellis, Bara Byrnes, Warren J. Kemmerling, Norman Leavitt, Arthur Space, Forrest Taylor.

Saturday, April 19, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 31.
Episode entitled: Man with the Ice.
Released April 19, 1960.
Directed by Marc Lawrence.
Written by Kevin Thomas.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Jean Willes, Stan Irwin, Linda Lawson, Joe Flynn, Jimmy Cross, Al Hodge, Roxane Brooks.

Saturday, April 12, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 30.
Episode entitled: A Gun for Mother’s Day.
Released April 12, 1960.
Directed by Herman Hoffman.
Written by Jay D. Crowley and John Robinson.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Marvin Kaplan, Jeremy Slate, Frances Morris, Ed Nelson, Phil Tully, Alan Reynolds.

Saturday, April 5, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 29.
Episode entitled: Let There Be Light.
Released April 5, 1960.
Directed by Paul Stewart.
Written by Frank Fox and Bob Mitchell.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Les Tremayne, K.T. Stevens, Garry Walberg, Frank Killmond, Bernard Fein, Terry Burnham, Sydna Scott, John Zaremba.

Monday, March 31, 2025

On this day in movie history - Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960):


Please Don’t Eat the Daisies

directed by Charles Walters,
written by Isobel Lennart,
based on the novel by Jean Kerr,
was released in the United States on March 31, 1960.
Music by David Rose.


Cast:

Doris Day, David Niven, Janis Paige, Spring Byington, Richard Haydn, Patsy Kelly, Jack Weston, John Harding, Margaret Lindsay, Carmen Phillips, Mary Patton, Charles Herbert, Stanley Livingston, Flip Mark, Baby Gellert.

Saturday, March 29, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 28.
Episode entitled: Diary of a Bomber.
Released March 29, 1960.
Directed by Jerry Hopper.
Written by Adam Williams.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Debbie Megowan, Robert Carricart, Maggie McCarter, Mark Neiman, Robert Stevenson, Coleman Francis, Robert Nash.

Saturday, March 22, 2025

On this day in television history - M Squad (1960):


M Squad

Season 3. Episode 27.
Episode entitled: A Kid Up There.
Released March 22, 1960.
Directed by Paul Stewart.
Written by Ian Hamilton and Maxwell Shane.
Music by Benny Carter.


Cast:

Lee Marvin, Paul Newlan, Bert Freed, Connie Gilchrist, Al Ruscio, Jimmy Baird, Gil Frye.

Sunday, March 16, 2025

On this day in movie history - Breathless (1960):


Breathless

French title: À bout de souffle,
directed and written by Jean-Luc Godard,
based on a story by François Truffaut and Claude Chabrol,
was released in the United States on March 16, 1960.
Music by Martial Solal.


Cast:

Jean Seberg, Jean-Paul Belmondo, Daniel Boulanger, Henri-Jacques Huet, Roger Hanin, Van Doude, Claude Mansard, Liliane Dreyfus, Michel Fabre, Jean-Pierre Melville, Jean-Luc Godard, Richard Balducci, André S. Labarthe, François Moreuil, Jacques Lourcelles, Liliane Robin, Gérard Brach, Philippe de Broca, José Bénazéraf, Jean Domarchi, Jean Douchet, Raymond Huntley, Louiguy, Michel Mourlet, Guido Orlando, Madame Paul, Jean-Louis Richard, Jacques Serguine, Jacques Siclier, Virginie Ullmann, Emile Villion.