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A body disappears and a captain named Midnight saves the day — two days, in fact! 
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The posts below should tempt you guys to add a little something — or a big something! 
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The Body Disappears (1941)
Opening Statement: | Pow wrote: | Loved Jane Wyman in Miracle in the Rain, beautiful & moving movie.
Have read that in real life she was a no-nonsense tough customer not to be trifled with. She was said to be much like her autocrat character on Falcon Crest. |
Well, by gum, in her younger days she was just the cutest thing in shoe leather (as they used to say), and I adore that gal in several 1940s movies I've enjoyed on TCM.
I gaze at her lovely and animated face like a school boy with his first crush! (*sigh*) 
And yet the cold-hearted matriarch she played in Pollyanna is the villain of the piece — until Hayley Mills works her magic on the entire town!
Jane's adorable face and impish charm is impossible to catch in a photograph, but the video below will make my point in the first few seconds, gentlemen!
____________Kid Nightingale - (Original Trailer)
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Captain Midnight (1954 - 1956)
Opening Statement: I posted about this episode earlier, but I watched it again today and decided to boast about it a bit more.
When it comes to presenting an imaginative and action-packed story, this one is a prime example!
Foreign spies kidnap a brilliant scientists, inject him with sodium pentathol (the "truth serum"), and then hide him in a WWII bomber which is about to be used as a target for a new ballistic missile. Only Captain Midnight can save him!
How does he do it? If I told you, I don't think you'd believe it. But trust me when I say that it's the most amazing rescue of all time!
____ Captain Midnight S1E02 The Electronic Killer
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Captain Midnight (1954 - 1956)
Opening Statement: The video below starts with a commercial — but it's a commercial like nothing which kids today have ever seen on television! 
Captain Midnight addresses the audience directly as he tells the children of America that when they grow up they will become the leaders and vital personnel of our society.
And this lofty concept is then illustrated with short but dramatic scenes filmed with young people dressed in various costumes, each doing and important job — such as a boy guarding our coastline as a Navel Seaman, another boy parachuting into enemy territory as a member of the Air Force, and a young girl passing out medical supplies as a nurse who is aiding injured citizens!
Guys, this isn't just an ad for Ovaltine. It's a powerful motivational message for America's youth which inspires them to become ambitious and productive citizens!
Captain Midnight was a program that spoke to the hearts and minds of the young generation who put a man on the Moon, ten years later!
The episode itself is perhaps the best example of how Captain Midnight serves his local community — and in return they come to his aid when he himself is in mortal danger!
The scene in which his sidekick, Ikky, puts out a general alarm to all local Secret Squadron members to help find their missing leader is terrific! The montage shot of various members around the city listening intently to the message being broadcast through there own "pocket communicators" demonstrates the remarkable range in both age and gender of these loyal supporters!
It's a perfect example of how noble and inspirational this series was back in the 1950s. Watch the video below and revisit the Golden Age of Science Fiction in a way that no other series or classic movie can make possible!
______ Captain Midnight S1E05 Death Below Zero
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Is there no man on Earth who has the wisdom and innocence of a child?
~ The Space Children (1958) |
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