NO ORCHIDS FOR MISS BLANDISH

 Based on the shocking novel by James Hadley Chase, No Orchids for Miss Blandish’s mixture of sex, violence and low morals made it one of the most controversial films of the late 1940’s. The story tells of a pampered heiress (Linden Travers) who is abducted on her wedding night by a gang of small time hoods, in what starts out as a jewel robbery and turns into a kidnapping/murder when one of them kills the groom. Despite her terrifying ordeal, Miss Blandish finds herself falling in love with the gang leader, Slim Grisson (Jack La Rue).

SEA DEVILS

When a smuggler (Rock Hudson) takes to the high seas in the historical era of Napoleon's threatened invasion of England, he meets a beautiful mystery woman (Yvonne De Carlo) and is induced to sail her to the French coast, unaware that she is actually a spy...but for which side? "Good color photography enhances the striking sea scenes and lavish interior settings" (Harrison's Reports) in this suspenseful costume adventure from action directing great Raoul Walsh.

FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON: Apollo 11 (1969)

 The saga of Neil Armstrong, Col. Edwin “Buzz” Aldrin and col. Michael Collins and the events leading up to the historic week in July, 1969, is recreated in “FOOTPRINTS ON THE MOON.” This color film traces the space odyssey of Astronauts Armstrong, Aldrin and Collins from the tense preparation during the weeks before blastoff through the magnificent descent into the black shadow on the moon’s surface, to final splashdown in the Pacific Ocean. “Footprints on the Moon” contains footage filmed by the astronauts themselves as well as the vast film crew assembled at Cape Kennedy and the Houston Space Center.

ISLAND OF DESIRE

Shipwrecked on an uninhabited South Seas atoll, a Canadian nurse (Linda Darnell) and a young Marine (Tab Hunter) initially clash, but as the weeks turn into months, begin to see each other through different eyes and give in to their natural impulses. But when an RAF flyer (Donald Gray) crashes on the island, the tropical love story is complicated by that familiar bit of romantic geometry, the Eternal Triangle.