Retronaut on Metropolis

Metropolis Magazine: Depicting Scenes, Story and Incidents in the Making of the World's Greatest Modern Spectacular Film Masterpiece....

Just looking at this makes me want to see it again. It's been 20 years.

Old Time radio

I Love Adventure: "Finishing School Kidnapping" 05/30/48

Oh, I've heard this: 12 girls between the ages of 14 and 17 have disappeared. They're all v. important - from monied families. They may have been taken into the Orient.

Ah, they're going to a lamissary, which is apparently like a harem (at least that was the impression I got). Well, they've gotten to Tibet to the Dalai Lama's room; the girls are there, also (in the harem). I think we'll find something more to the story.

.... Ah, yes: it looks like they've raided for the girls to help a little girl who landed at their place (they're all old men and they want the little girl who landed there to have other girls around her). But the man asked to do it misunderstood the mission: the Dalai Lama was supposed to get 12 orphans, and now they're getting the guys from "I Love Adventure" are here to save them.

The girls don't want to go back, but they're being shipped back to finishing school. As one of the girls says, "A girls can be wrong about a 1,000 things, but only needs to be right once."

Escape: "Confidential Agent"

David is an agent for his country trying to get diamonds. He rode in a car for 15 minutes with Rose (who, logically, has fallen in love with him).

Oh, and I forgot: he already ran over someone (during the 15 minute drive) from someone trying to kill him (it's international espionage).

Oh, fun: a Scotland Yard investigator has threatened to kill David (good old Nazi, you know, chop chop!). A proper British gent with that accent that all Scotland Yard detectives seem to have + Nazism = Such a fun sound.

At the end, David gets away & meets Rose on the ship on the way to go. That woman did a lot for him: got his diamonds, met him on the ship. Quite a lady.

Sherlock Holmes: "The Incurable Skeptic"

Oh, Sherlock Holmes has figured out ballistics. A doctor was shot in the neck by someone (Dr. Watson saves his life), and everyone thinks it's a drunk named George. It's so cute to hear about an incurable drunk - when he went into the hospital, he went through the DTs; and when he was released from the hospital, he immediately went out and got drunk (preventing him from attempted murder of the doctor, since he was passed out in the gutter at the time). It's just pleasantly quaint.

X-Minus One: "The Castaways"

The U.S. is testing a bomb on an island and the natives are not happy about it: they've just cursed the captain and disappeared into a lagoon.

Well, the natives, it turns out, are space castaways who have been waiting 400 years until humans developed atomic power; they needed it to refuel their ship, which was hidden in the bottom of the lagoon. Nice little turn of things.