Hobbyline produced a number of train sets, beginning with a few unnamed sets (I’ve seen 1–4) and then adding more, with names, later on. A kind soul on the Tyco Trains forum has discussed the sets in a thread there and shared plenty of information on Hobbyline products. Here are a couple photos of my …
Month: January 2021
Bomba and the Jungle Girl (Monogram, 1952)
After Johnny Sheffield was dropped from the Tarzan movies, he was signed by Monogram Pictures for a series of films bringing the children’s book character Bomba, the Jungle Boy, to the screen (at the same time, Johnny Weissmuller moved to Columbia to play Jungle Jim). Bomba and the Jungle Girl finds the young jungle dweller …
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She’s Got Everything (RKO, 1937)
When heiress Carol Rogers (Ann Sothern) learns upon her father’s demise that she has inherited nothing but debts, she resolves to get a job to pay them off. Through the machinations of “horse broker” Waldo Eddington (Victor Moore), acting on behalf of the creditors, she ends up secretary for coffee magnate — and eligible bachelor …
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Quite a Synopsis!
Ursus in the Land of Fire (1963)
Ed Fury played the character Ursus in three sword-and-sandal movies, with Ursus in the Land of Fire (original title: Ursus nella terra di fuoco). Here, the strongman is leader of the shepherd people, whose territory is targeted by the ambitious Hamilkar, a general who, together with the lady Mila, has designs that go beyond merely …
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The Thin Man Goes Home (MGM, 1945)
For the first time since their marriage, Nick and Nora Charles head to Nick’s hometown to visit with his parents for a birthday vacation. Nick still chafes at his father’s disapproval of his decision to forgo medicine as a career, and Nora believes that a crime right there in Sycamore Springs will give Nick a …
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Model Trains, January 1960
For about a decade in the 1950s and early 1960s, Kalmbach published Model Trains alongside its flagship Model Railroader. The magazine, which had begun with a somewhat different title under another publisher, in this Kalmbach incarnation at least was oriented more toward beginners than MR and at least some of the time offered space to …
The Stranger from Pecos (Monogram, 1943)
My first movie of 2021 is the second in the long-running series of Monogram westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton. In the early films, Hatton continues to portray Marshal Sandy Hopkins, the character he originated in the Rough Riders series, which ended after the death of Buck Jones in 1942. In The Stranger …
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Supplementing His Allowance
Rubber Racketeers (Monogram, 1942)
A gangster newly released from prison decides to take advantage of the government’s war-related ban on sales of new tires to get involved in the black market, including making counterfeit tires with a synthetic rubber substitute. When one of those tires, an early experimental failure, causes a crash that kills a young woman’s brother, her …
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