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Lucky Pup (1948)
Very Early Children's Show from the Dawn of TV
Return to the days of yesteryear, with Foodini the magician and his assistant Pinhead. Lucky Pup was a TV show, I think 15 minutes in length on Saturday mornings in the early 1950's and one of the first TV shows I ever saw.
In addition to the characters Foodini had a magic talking portrait that inspired the line "Portraits should be seen and not heard."
Although the show was officially entitled "Lucky Pup," many of my generation (war babies) called the show Pinhead and Foodini. If it were not for the IMDb I was about to doubt the existence of this show and thought it might have been a figment of my imagination. However finding it on IMDb restored my faith in my memory of early TV.
Sahara (1943)
Rousing WWII Patriotic War Film
Sahara although not usually contained in the compendium of Bogey's best movies is a rousing WWII action movie. The plot involving a rag tag group of allied soldiers,along with Bogey's M-3 Grant Tank "Lulu Belle" holding a North African well against a motorized battalion of the Afrika Korps is enough to set the tone of this movie. I will not go into the plot any further but state that it was filmed in 1943 and it was a morale booster. The acting is first rate and the fact that an African-American actor, Rex Ingram was treated as an equal, as Sergeant-Major Tambul, Fourth Sudanese Battalion was far ahead of his time. A movie I see every time it plays. It was remade for TV with James Belushi playing the Bogart role as Master Sergeant Joe Gunn, USA and was a good movie in its own right. However, the Bogart version sets the standard. A must see movie for Bogey fans and WWII film buffs.
Michael Wolkow, Colonel, Infantry, Retired