This being Thursday, it's time for another edition of Thursday Movie Picks, the blogathon run by Wandering Through the Shelves. This week's theme is "undercover", so immediately the first thing I thought of was this:
Of course, that's not a movie, so I had to come up with some movies instead. After a bit of thinking, I was able to come up with three interesting movies:
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse (1938). Edward G. Robinson plays the title character, a psychologist investigating the causes of crime who comes up with a brilliant idea: he'll pass himself off as a gangster to allow him to get initiated into a gang so that he can do his research from the inside. The gang is headed by Claire Trevor and Humphrey Bogart, and things get complicated with Dr. Clitterhouse tries to get out of the gang.
Smashing the Money Ring (1939). Ronald Reagan returns to play Secret Service agent Brass Bancroft once again in the third of four movies in the series. This time, there's a counterfeiting ring being run in a prison, and Brass' job is to get himself sent to that prison and find out who's doing the counterfeiting. Reagan is by far the best thing about the Brass Bancroft movies, which got weaker as the series went on.
High School Confidential! (1958). Russ Tamblyn plays a narcotics officer sent to infiltrate a high school to find out who's the mastermind behind the heroin distribution going on there. As it turns out, that's Jackie Coogan. Jan Sterling plays one of the teachers, and Mamie Van Doren plays his "aunt" who gets to flaunt her assets in a bullet bra, as do some of the other female characters, as in this fabulous bit of beatnik poetry:
Thursday, June 13, 2019
Thursday Movie Picks #257: Undercover
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Ah, one of my favorites from the Stones.
That’s a great song which also popped into my head when I read the theme for this week. I do I always giggle when I read the Edward G Robinson film title? Heeeheeee. I don’t know the second film but have seen only parts of the 3rd and talk about high camp..or low camp because it does co-star Mamie Van Doren who gives new meaning to the term “tits up”.
I thought it was only us guys who made that puerile joke....
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