Entry Five

One Fatal Hour: Short (56 minutes) melodrama starring Humphrey Bogart as a radio programmer who is forced by his boss to write a radio series about a lurid murder committed 20 years ago. The details of the murder threaten the stir up controversy for participants now contentedly married. It's not bad, but it's a bit of a smear job on the whole medium of Radio, which the studios might've seen as a threat around that time. Bogart is good in a rare early good-guy type. Also known as Two Against the World.

Cass: A British biopic about Cass Petersen, the first football hooligan to be jailed for a long term prison sentence. We first see Cass at 14, struggling to find a place as a young black teenager amongst the predominantly white (and pretty racist) London boroughs in the 1970s. Cass gets involved with West Ham's infamous Inter City Firm, hooligans who battle other team's fans. Growing up to be a leader of the firm, he finds himself caught between the love of his family and his perceived duty to the firm. It's well-worn territory, despite being based on a true story, but it has a good central performance that makes the cliched drama compelling.

Stowaway: 1936 comedy/drama vehicle for child superstar, Shirley Temple. She stars as "Ching-Ching" an orphaned girl who through circumstance finds herself on board a cruise liner. There she charms absolutely everyone, sings a few songs, and gets adopted by rich, adoring parents. Despite the slightly racist portrayal of the Chinese in the movie, it isn't bad, by Shirley Temple standards, at least.