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cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/10405744 > CTB Perth Movies Channel > > Select movies 24/7 from Community Television Broadcasting > #Community #Community Television #Perth #Western Australia
One of my favorite public domain films! This is an incredible flick with some incredible stars, including the premier of Hedy Lamarr! "Charles Boyer is Pepe, a jewel thief hiding out in Algiers' maze-like and mysterious Casbah. Pepe is a master criminal, but when he meets the beautiful Parisian Gaby (Hedy Lamarr in her Hollywood premier), he begins to question his shady existence."
Nelson S Bond wrote what I would describe as, "space opera western" short stories for a pulp fiction publication called *Planet Stories* in the 1940s. I usually enjoy his descriptions, but none have been as fun as how he described "Salvation" Smith. > > > The old man's lips etched a straight line, reminding Chip that Salvation Smith was not one of those milk-and-water missionaries who espoused the principle of "turning the other cheek" to evildoers. Salvation was not the ordained emissary of any church. A devoutly religious man with the heart of an adventurer, he had taken upon himself the mission of carrying to outland tribes the story of the God he worshipped. > > > > > That his God was the fierce Yahveh of the Old Testament, a God of anger and retribution, was made evident by the methods Salvation sometimes employed in winning his converts. For not only was Salvation acknowledged the most pious man in space; he was also conceded to be the best hand with a gun! > > > > > Earth's softhanded ecclesiastics did not altogether approve of their wayward missionary's reputation. > > Out of the works I have read so far, he has shown up in "[Shadrach](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/61976)" and "[The Lorelei Death](https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/62039)"