Movies For the Blind

Hey, it’s been a while! :-) I don’t know if anyone is ever here anymore, but I’m just letting you know that in about 24 hours, this site is going away. Also all the Internet Archive files are being taken down. Don’t panic (why would you panic? It’s been several years!) because it’s for happy reasons, and something awesome will be replacing all that. However, it will be different, so if you haven’t downloaded a particular episode that you’d like, you better go get it now. Thanks to everyone who has listened over the years and supported MFTB, but it will be back in another form for way more people who haven’t heard of it before. And you can be hipsters saying you knew us when. ;-) Byeee!

Peace, Valerie ❤️

While the evidence seems clear that Joe’s hospital roommate needs heart bypass surgery, Mac (Louis Gossett Jr.) can’t help but feel something doesn’t add up. Part 2 of 2. First posted May 8, 2012.

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William Blinn @ Archive for American Television
Trailer for “Brian’s Song”
Ronald Hunter Obituary @ Variety

Mac (Louis Gossett Jr. looks at Joe (Ronald Hunter) as he looks down into the operating theatre.

Louis Gossett Jr. plays a hard-working doctor dealing with a disintegrating marriage and a patient (Ronald Hunter) whose journalistic instincts are causing trouble at his hospital. 1978. Part 1 of 2. First posted May 1, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
Louis Gossett Jr. Official Website
Enemy Mine @ IMDB
Vortigaunt @ Wikipedia

Wearing a turtleneck in the emergency room, Mac (Louis Gossett Jr.) uses defibrillators on Joe (Ronald Hunter).

The Judge (Will Rogers) has his position on the bench threatened in an assault trial that will reveal a very big secret. Part 2 of 2. First posted April 23, 2012.

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Stepin Fetchit: Hollywood’s First Black Film Star @ NPR
Stepin Fetchit @ Wikipedia
“The Coon Caricature” via Ferris State University
Hattie McDaniel @ Wikipedia
Hattie McDaniel accepts her Oscar @ YouTube

The word “JUSTICE!” is written on an envelope.

Will Rogers stars as a common-sense widower with his own way of running a courtroom in a post-Reconstruction Kentucky small town. 1934. Part 1 of 2. First posted April 16, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
Will Rogers @ Wikipedia
Official Site of Will Rogers
“Old Judge Priest” stories (as PDF, plain text, and for Daisy, Kindle and more) @ Internet Archive

Judge Priest (Will Rogers) reads a newspaper while presiding in his courtroom.

Charlie (Mark Stevens) heads for Mexico, but not for the purpose originally planned, as he tries to stay one step ahead of his own investigation. Part 2 of 2. First posted April 10, 2012.

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Review @ Noir of the Week (spoilers)
Alan Reed bio @ IMDB
Mark Stevens bio @ IMDB

Charlie (Mark Stevens) holds Linda (Felicia Farr) and a pistol as they hide around a corner.

An insurance investigator (Mark Stevens) has to cancel his vacation when called to find the money stolen in a daring train robbery. But he’s a little more stressed about the case than he should be. 1956. Part 1 of 2. First posted April 3, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
Mark Stevens @ Wikipedia
Cleveland Play House
Jack Klugman @Wikipedia
Alan Reed @IMDB
History of The Flintstones @ YouTube

In a suit and hat, Charlie (Mark Stevens) stands by framed text which says “There is no such thing as a Perfect Crime”.

In this parody of melodramas set in the frozen North, prospector Snavely (W.C Fields) returns home via dogsled to his cabin, where he and his wife are reunited with their son who left for the city only to land in prison. 1933. First posted March 27, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
“Driven to Drink: The Films of W.C. Fields” @ Modern Drunkard
Review @ Booze Movies

Snavely (W.C. Fields) opens a cabin door and gets a cloud of snow blown at him.

In this short, W.C. Fields has the title role as an irascible man dealing with a freakish golf game, strange patients and a daughter who wants to run off with the iceman. 1932. First posted March 19, 2012. 

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
W.C. Fields @ Wikipedia
W.C. Fields bio @ The Canteen
The Dentist @ DoctorMacro.com

In his exam room wearing his white lab coat, The Dentist (W.C. Fields) holds a rifle to the long bushy beard of a patient in the chair.

A “voodoo woman” predicts doom for Gertie (Francine Everett), but who poses the greatest threat: Mr. Christian, Diamond Joe, the piano player, the two servicemen…or her own conscience? Part 2 of 2. First posted March 12, 2012.

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Francine Everett @ BlackPast.org
Francine Everett obituary @ New York Times
Cab Calloway singing “Blues In the Night” @ YouTube

On her balcony, Gertie (Francine Everett) stares into the sky fearfully.

A tropical island hosts a musical revue starring a glamorous but selfish exotic dancer (Francine Everett) haunted by past mistakes. 1946. Part 1 of 2. First posted March 5, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
Spencer Williams @ Wikipedia
Other “race films”: MFTB103/4 – The Duke Is Tops and MFTB 161/2 – Beware

Gertie (Francine Everett) stares at the camera, unsmiling, her raised hand wearing opera-length gloves.

During his brain surgery, Peter (David Niven) goes on trial not just for his life, but for his love with June (Kim Hunter). Part 3 of 3. First posted February 27, 2012.

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The Powell and Pressburger Pages
A Matter of Life and Death @ Turner Classic Movies
Kim Hunter @ Wikipedia

Peter and June (David Niven, Kim Hunter) face The Judge (Abraham Sofaer) with his long white robes and wig, flanked by Frank (Roger Livesey) and Farlan (Raymond Massey).

Peter (David Niven) meets June’s friend Frank (Roger Livesey), a village doctor with an expertise in neurology who tries to reconcile the world of Peter’s brain with the Other World where his trial is imminent. Part 2 of 3. First posted February 20, 2012.

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David Niven @ Wikipedia
David Niven @ BFI
“Stairway to Heaven” trivia @IMDB

Celebrating our 200th episode, clips from past episodes, and we start a critically-acclaimed film about a doomed British airman (David Niven) whose life is saved by mistake and falls in love with an American radio operator before the mistake is realized. Part 1 of 3. 1946. First posted February 13, 2012.

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Original movie from Internet Archive
Movie info from IMDB
War, Love and Weirdness @ The Guardian
Article @ Turner Classic Movies
The BFI 100
Total Film‘s 50 Greatest British Films Ever

Against a blue sky, Peter (David Niven) holds June (Kim Hunter) and her bicycle which has a small U.S. flag flying from it.