Mutiny ~ 1952 -colour

QUICKIE: Some girls are really bad and will drive you to do such bad things.

PLOT: Early in the War of 1812, Captain James Marshall (Mark Stevens) is commissioned to run the British blockade and fetch an unofficial war loan from France. As first mate, Marshall recruits Ben Waldridge (Patric Knowles), a cashiered former British Navy captain. Waldridge brings his former gun crew... including "Hook" (Gene Evans) who begin plotting mutiny as soon as they learn there'll be gold aboard. The gold duly arrives, and with it Waldridge's former sweetheart Leslie (Angela Lansbury), who's fond of a bit of gold herself.

SUMMARY: I think Angela Lansbury really makes a difference in this film. For one, because she's the only female and two because she drives the first mate on into the dark side once again. Without her this would have been one more boring "pirates against the captain, everybody after the gold" movie. It IS that story, but it is made much more interesting by the exchange between characters and Waldridge's rise, fall and rise of character. This has ALL your typical high seas, pirate adventure movie stuff: the big sailing ships, pirates, cannons, war, a big storm, getting drunk, sharks, royality disseminating ships, murder, treachery, mutiny, poker, floozies, on and on. It's all here.

I liked this bit:

Hook: "Well, the anchor room ain't no place for a Lady."

Leslie: "With a million in gold at stake, I can forget I am a Lady."

Yes she can, and she does, whole heartedly.

Mystery Collection: Disc 59- side B

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A Life at Stake ~ 1954 -BW

QUICKIE: Hot chickie manipulates a guy into business with her while her & her hubbie plot his murder. Mwuah!

PLOT: A man goes into business with a married couple. He has an affair with the wife and then the husband and wife try to kill him and collect the life insurance.

SUMMARY: This movie is filled with great lessons to remember:
~If your business partner insists you take out a million dollar life insurance policy before going into business with them, it's a sure bet they're going to try and kill you soon! (DUH!)
~Never trust a dame who gets naked within the first hour of meeting you.
~Never negotiate business while necking with your partner.
~Never trust a dame whose business persuasion involves alcohol, nudity and/or sex.
~Never trust the husband who gives his wife half a million dollars to start her own business venture so she doesn't "get bored".
~Never, ever accept anything to drink from that husband who surprises you at their mountain cabin having a tryst with his wife.
~If a pair of french doors open out onto a 500 foot clean drop to the highway, it's a good bet somebody's gonna plummet to their death through them.
~Everybody wants to take your framed $1,000 bill that you keep in plain site, and kill you for it too.
~The innocent younger sister is a fountain of information & will readily spill if you're a little attentive.
~Even though you pay their salary, Cops hate you and think you're dumb. No really, they do.

Angela Lansbury (Jessica Fletcher of "Murder, She Wrote") plays a hot chick in a swimsuit. A hot, conieving, evil chick.