Robert Weston Smith, known as Wolfman Jack (January 21, 1938 – July 1, 1995), was an American disc jockey. Famous for his gravelly voice, he credited it for his success, saying, "It's kept meat and potatoes on the table for years for Wolfman and Wolfwoman. A couple of shots of whiskey helps it. I've got that nice raspy sound." Smith was born in Brooklyn on January 21, 1938, the younger of two children of Anson Weston Smith, an Episcopal Sunday school teacher, writer, editor, and executive vice president of Financial World, and his wife Rosamond Small. He lived on 12th Street and 4th Avenue and went to Manual Training High School in the Park Slope section. His parents divorced while he was a child. To help keep him out of trouble, his father bought him a large Trans-Oceanic radio, and Smith became an avid fan of R&B music and the disc jockeys who played it, including Douglas "Jocko" Henderson of Philadelphia, New York's "Dr. Jive" (Tommy Smalls), the "Moon Dog" from Cleveland, Alan Freed, and Nashville's "John R." Richbourg, who later became his mentor. Smith attended the National Academy of Broadcasting in Washington, D.C. After he graduated in 1960, he began working as "Daddy Jules" at WYOU in Newport News, Virginia. When the station format changed to "beautiful music", Smith became known as "Roger Gordon and Music in Good Taste". In 1962, he moved to country music station KCIJ/1050 in Shreveport, Louisiana, as the station manager and morning disc jockey, "Big Smith with the Records". He married Lucy "Lou" Lamb in 1961, and they had two children. Smith's adaptation of the Alan Freed's Moondog theme was to call himself Wolfman Jack and add his own sound effects. The character was based in part on the manner and style of bluesman Howlin' Wolf. At KCIJ,at he first began to develop his famous alter ego Wolfman Jack. According to author Philip A. Lieberman, Smith's "Wolfman" persona "derived from Smith's love of horror films and his shenanigans as a "wolfman" with his two young nephews. The "Jack" was added as a part of the "hipster" lingo of the 1950s, as in "Take a page from my book, Jack," or the more popular, "Hit the road, Jack'." In 1963, Smith took his act to the border when the Inter-American Radio Advertising's Ramon Bosquez hired him and sent him to the studio and transmitter site of XERF-AM at Ciudad Acuña in Mexico, a station across the U.S.-Mexico border from Del Rio, Texas, whose high-powered border blaster signal could be picked up across much of the United States. Smith described the reach of the XERF signal: "We had the most powerful signal in North America. Birds dropped dead when they flew too close to the tower. A car driving from New York to L.A. would never lose the station." Most of the border stations broadcast at 250,000 watts, five times the U.S. limit, meaning that their signals were picked up all over North America, and at night as far away as Europe and the Soviet Union. At XERF, Smith developed his signature style (with phrases such as, "Who's this on the Wolfman telephone?") and widespread fame. The border stations made money by renting time to Pentecostal preachers and psychics, and by taking 50% of the profit from anything sold by mail order. The Wolfman did pitches for dog food, weight-loss pills, weight-gain pills, rose bushes, and baby chicks. Even a pill called Florex, which was supposed to enhance one's sex drive, was sold. "Some zing for your ling nuts", the Wolfman would say. That sales pitch was typical of Wolfman Jack's growling, exuberant on-air style. In the spirit of his character name, he punctuated his banter with howls, while urging his listeners to "get naked" or "lay your hands on the radio and squeeze my knobs". Part of the persona was his nocturnal anonymity; listeners from coast to coast had no idea how to recognize the face behind the voice that said things such as, "Wolfman plays the best records in the business, and then he eats 'em!" On July 1, 1995, Smith died from a heart attack at his house in Belvidere, North Carolina, shortly after finishing a weekly broadcast. ///// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolfman_Jack https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

Episode 6 of 15: Death Dials a Number "The nefarious Dr. Fu Manchu searches for the keys to the tomb of Genghis Khan, in order to fulfill a prophecy that will enable him to conquer the world. His nemesis, Dr. Nayland Smith, and his associates fight to keep the evil doctor from getting his hands on the keys." Drums of Fu Manchu (1940) is a 15-chapter Republic serial film based on the character created by Sax Rohmer. Though using the title of the ninth novel in the series, it actually is based on numerous elements from throughout the series to that point, cherry-picked by the writers. It starred Henry Brandon, William Royle and Robert Kellard. It was directed by the legendary serial team of William Witney and John English and is often considered one of the best serial films ever made. A serial film, film serial (or just serial), movie serial, or chapter play, is a motion picture form popular during the first half of the 20th century, consisting of a series of short subjects exhibited in consecutive order at one theater, generally advancing weekly, until the series is completed. Generally, each serial involves a single set of characters, protagonistic and antagonistic, involved in a single story, which has been edited into chapters after the fashion of serial fiction and the episodes cannot be shown out of order or as a single or a random collection of short subjects. Each chapter was screened at a movie theater for one week, and ended with a cliffhanger, in which characters found themselves in perilous situations with little apparent chance of escape. Viewers had to return each week to see the cliffhangers resolved and to follow the continuing story. Movie serials were especially popular with children, and for many youths in the first half of the 20th century a typical Saturday matinee at the movies included at least one chapter of a serial, along with animated cartoons, newsreels, and two feature films. The complete serial was released on DVD in 2003. Plot Fu Manchu attempts to conquer the world by acquiring the sceptre of Genghis Khan, which will unite the people of Asia under his rule. Allan Parker allies himself with the traditional British literary nemeses of Fu Manchu, Sir Denis Nayland Smith and his associate, Dr. Flinders Petrie after his father is kidnapped and killed by Fu Manchu's dacoits. Cast Henry Brandon as Fu Manchu William Royle as Sir Denis Nayland Smith Robert Kellard as Allan Parker Gloria Franklin as Fah Lo Suee Olaf Hytten as Dr. Flinders Petrie Tom Chatterton as Professor Edward Randolph Luana Walters as Mary Randolph John Merton as Loki Dwight Frye as Professor Anderson Lal Chand Mehra as Sirdar Prahni ///// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drums_of_Fu_Manchu https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Serial_film https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032420/ https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

"William Bendix suits up in Yankee flannels as the renowned pitcher-turned-outfielder Babe Ruth in a sports biopic that mixes facts with fiction." The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 biographical film of Babe Ruth, the famed New York Yankees slugger. It stars William Bendix (New York Yankee batboy in the 1920s) as the ballplayer and Claire Trevor as his wife Claire Merritt Hodgson. Critics faulted the film's heavy-handedness and direction, and it is said by many to be one of the worst films ever made. On Wikipedia's List of "Films Considered the Worst" is says: "The Babe Ruth Story is a 1948 baseball film biography of Babe Ruth, starring William Bendix, Claire Trevor and Sam Levene. The New York Times describes it as "the Plan 9 from Outer Space of baseball biopics". It was rushed into release while Ruth was still alive. One infamous scene features Ruth promising a dying child that he will hit two home runs. The child is subsequently cured of his ailments after Ruth delivers on the promise. Baseball Hall of Famer Ted Williams believed it to be the worst movie he had ever seen. The Washington Times stated that it "stands as possibly the worst movie ever made". The Spokesman-Review included the film on their list of the worst films of all time, while Paul Newberry of the Associated Press wrote that the film's place on "nearly every list of the worst movies ever made" was "with good reason". Newsday's Jack Mathews similarly wrote that The Babe Ruth Story was "what many people consider to be the worst sports movie of all time". It also was called one of the worst sports films ever each by Newsday and The A.V. Club, and called one of the worst biopics by Moviefone and Spike. Entertainment writer Michael Sauter included the film in his book, The Worst Movies of All Time, and Leonard Maltin called it "perfectly dreadful". ///// https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Babe_Ruth_Story https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_films_considered_the_worst#The_Babe_Ruth_Story_(1948) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0040142/ https://odysee.com/@OpenAllNight:7?view=lists

Alamaailma-trilogia (Vanki - Kyttä - Lakimies) on kansainväliseen ammattirikollisuuteen pureutuva 12-osainen rikossarja, jonka Vertigo Production on tuottanut vuonna 2010. Sarjan ovat ohjanneet Minna Virtanen ja Petri Kotwica sekä käsikirjoittaneet Marko Leino ja Pekka Lehtosaari. Alamaailma-trilogia: Vanki on Alamaailma-trilogian ensimmäinen sarja. Kuusiosaisen sarjan on kirjoittanut Marko Leino ja ohjannut Minna Virtanen. Pääosaa, Vesa Levolaa esittää Max Ovaska. Riideltyään tyttöystävänsä (Ada Kukkonen) kanssa nuori Vesa Levola (Ovaska) joutuu uudenvuodenyönä katutappeluun, jossa Vesan kimppuun hyökännyt mies kuolee. Vesa joutuu vankilaan, jossa hänet pakotetaan huumekuriiriksi vankilan ja siviilimaailman väliin. Samalla osastolla Vesan kanssa oleva huumepomo Reka Sundström (Suosalo) juonittelee Vesan työskentelemään hänelle. Reka Sundström pyörittää salakuljetusoperaatioita yhteistyössä Tukholman ja Pietarin mafian kanssa. Sundströmin toimia ja samalla huumeiden kansainvälistä salakuljetusta tutkii komisario Juha Viitasalo (Kouki). Näyttelijät Max Ovaska … Vesa Levola Mikko Kouki … Juha Viitasalo Martti Suosalo … Reka Sundström Eppu Salminen … Janne Kivi Krista Kosonen … Satu Haapala Tuomas Uusitalo … Raikka Aleksandr Diachenko … Vladimir Koljakov Tommi Eronen … vartija Ville Haapasalo … Artur Deminoff Jari Hietanen … Reino Levola Pertti Koivula … Liljeberg Marja-Leena Kouki … Aili Lempinen Ada Kukkonen … Tiina Sesa Lehto … Kale Petri Manninen … Visuri Miia Nuutila … Sari Viitasalo Jan Nyqvist … Leif Turunen Petteri Pennilä … Makkonen Ivan M. Petersson … Goran Bregovic Tuisku Puhakka … Liina Viitasalo Sari Siikander … Anita Levola Juha Svahn … Tuomisto Timo Tuominen … Ville Kousa Leena Uotila … Marja