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MSRP: $24.99
The Production: 4/5
On a ship bound for England from the West Indies, Olivia Harwood (Ann Todd) – a missionary’s widow – meets the mysterious Mark Bellis (Ray Milland) while nursing him back to health from malaria. Upon arriving in Liverpool, Olivia is persuaded by Mark to let him live with her in the boarding house she inherited. Over time, it’s revealed that Mark is a con man whose previous escapades as an art thief and forger have come up empty; when Olivia is hired as a live in companion to her former schoolfriend Susan Courtney (Geraldine Fitzgerald), Mark persuades her into stealing the stocks and bonds from the household. However, it’s when a bundle of letters containing Susan’s admissions of romantic interludes outside of her marriage amid other morally questionable behavior is when Olivia is dragged further into a deepening web of blackmail, betrayal, and eventually murder.
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Peter Cushing and a host of other much-loved British talent star in this Cold War thriller from 1960, here playing researchers who unexpectedly find themselves ‘silenced’ by government officials who conclude that a newly discovered cure for both typhus and the bubonic plague could be used for biological warfare by enemy states.
At London’s Haughton Research Laboratory a hard working team of scientists, led by Professor Sewell (the always dependable Peter Cushing), come very close to developing a certain strain of ‘superbugs’ that could nip world plagues in the bud so to speak (perhaps, we could do with them now). Low and behold they come up trumps but when the good professor is anxious to publish the results he is called to the office of Minister of Defence Sir George Gatting (Raymond Huntley). This outwardly respectable but in truth far from lovable authority figure informs Sewell just how dangerous it would be to publish his scientific breakthrough discover
A scene from the original New York production of
Grease.
1882 Birthday of John Barrymore, actor in the grand style, and scion of the Barrymore acting clan. Though he begins as a light comedian, he becomes identified with the classics, notably
Hamlet.
Sinbad at the Winter Garden Theatre. It runs 164 performances.
1921Laurette Taylor stars in a revival of one of the great hits of the early 1920s,
Peg o My Heart, J. Hartley Manners play is about an Irish farm lass who inherits a fortune, but must give up all she loves to get it. It runs 88 performances at the Cort Theatre.
UK’s rarest cars: 1958 Wolseley 6/90, one of only 50 left on British roads
This handsome saloon denoted intrinsic good taste and gave owners a sense of superiority; 500 found favour with the forces of law and order
5 February 2021 • 6:00am
The Series III 6/90 cost £1,276 7s; the owner says it s “rather underpriced for what it offers”
In the late 1950s, the presence of a 6/90 Series III on a driveway was proof that its owner was a lady or gentleman of substance. Every detail, from the imposing grille to the leather upholstery, bespoke taste, dignity and looking down on anyone who drove a Vauxhall Victor. Equally importantly, with the radiator badge illuminated at night, other road users might think your Wolseley belonged to the long arm of the law.