{"id":36227,"date":"2021-07-10T12:18:13","date_gmt":"2021-07-10T16:18:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/?p=36227"},"modified":"2026-04-06T00:10:16","modified_gmt":"2026-04-06T04:10:16","slug":"a-lady-cabbie-and-george-sanders-brother","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/07\/10\/a-lady-cabbie-and-george-sanders-brother\/","title":{"rendered":"A Lady Cabbie and George Sanders&#8217; Brother"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/20\/gaslight\/mystery_matinee\/\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-35546\"><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" decoding=\"async\" data-attachment-id=\"35546\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/01\/20\/gaslight\/mystery_matinee\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?fit=640%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" data-orig-size=\"640,148\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"Mystery_Matinee\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?fit=640%2C148&amp;ssl=1\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-35546\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?resize=640%2C148&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"Mystery Matinee\" width=\"640\" height=\"148\" srcset=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?w=640&amp;ssl=1 640w, https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/willceau.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/Mystery_Matinee.png?resize=300%2C69&amp;ssl=1 300w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><br \/>\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/embed\/two-o-clock-courage-1945\" width=\"560\" height=\"384\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s another satisfying but forgotten mystery movie the likes of which used to play regularly at local movie houses when there were local movie houses. Eventually films like this would pad out the schedules of local UHF channels to be enjoyed by insomniacs as they were unspooled during the <em>Late, Late Show<\/em>. Of course, this was well before the advent of infomercials.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>The following program is a paid advertisement&#8230;<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><!--more--><\/p>\n<p>Fortunately for me, these movies may be forgotten, but they are not <em>gone<\/em>. There are a number of streaming channels filled with movies like <em>Two O&#8217;Clock Courage<\/em> that I watch on my streaming player of choice, the <em>Roku<\/em>. I think I watched it on the <a href=\"https:\/\/pubdhub.info\/index.php\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Pub-D-Hub<\/em><\/a> channel which has become my favorite place for this kind of material. It&#8217;s also really nice that it is commercial free. I can bask in the past rather than being pestered by ads for pharmaceuticals and air fresheners.<\/p>\n<p>Watch the movie embedded above or check it out at the <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.org\/details\/2OclockCourage\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><em>Internet Archive<\/em><\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s another satisfying but forgotten mystery movie the likes of which used to play regularly at local movie houses when there were local movie houses. Eventually films like this would pad out the schedules of local UHF channels to be &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2021\/07\/10\/a-lady-cabbie-and-george-sanders-brother\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[368,3456],"tags":[5106,5105,412,1392,568,185,5104],"class_list":["post-36227","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-movie-matinee","category-weird-world-of-the-roku","tag-5106","tag-amnesia","tag-murder","tag-mystery","tag-pub-d-hub","tag-roku","tag-tom-conway"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1ed1x-9qj","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":4190,"url":"https:\/\/willceau.com\/news\/2015\/03\/05\/wonderfully-weird-channels-roku\/","url_meta":{"origin":36227,"position":0},"title":"The Wonderfully Weird Channels of the Roku","author":"Joe_Williams","date":"March 5, 2015","format":false,"excerpt":"I'm starting a new category that could be considered for cord-cutters or folks looking to save some serious cash by giving cable TV the heave-ho. 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