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Barry Ergang's Short Story Wednesday Review: Kindly Dig Your Own Grave and Other Wicked Stories (1977) by Stanley Ellin

From the archive… 

 

The late, great Stanley Ellin was a painstaking craftsman, as Ellery Queen (Frederick Dannay) details in his introduction to Kindly Dig Your Grave and Other Wicked Stories. The results justified the pains he took, as demonstrated by the fact that his first published story, “The Specialty of the House,” is acknowledged as a classic of its kind. (Those who haven’t read it may have seen the televised versions on “Alfred Hitchcock Presents” and “The Alfred Hitchcock Hour,” the former version having a shorter running time but being truer to the original story. As of this writing, both versions are available on YouTube.) Ellin won two Edgar awards for other short stories and one for a novel. The (mostly) character-driven stories in the collection under consideration here bolster his well-deserved reputation.

 

In "Kindly Dig Your Grave," the reader meets Madame Lagrue, a Parisian art dealer who specializes in bad paintings that sell especially well to the American market hungry for work "by great French artists at reasonable prices." She has found an effective method of dealing with hungry artists to whom she can pay a pittance for their canvases, which she then sells for a 500- to 1000-percent profit. One of her hapless suppliers is a painter named O'Toole. When a tough-minded young Algerian woman who goes by the alias Fatima becomes enamored of him, she quickly realizes how Madame Lagrue is taking advantage and sets out to rectify the situation in this comical biter-bit tale.

 

Dispirited in spite of being exonerated of graft charges and told he can return to duty though not even his father is sure he's innocent, Noah Freeman takes a trip to Rome, Italy to try to decide whether or not to go back to work as a New York City police detective. He finds himself drawn to an attractive but distant, cynical young woman, Rosanna, who works at the pensione he's staying in. When he learns that her father was killed by partisans twenty years earlier during WWII because they were sure he had betrayed them to the Germans, resulting in the deaths of three members of the Resistance, and that the stigma attaches to her and her brother to this day, Noah sets out to get to the bottom of "The Crime of Ezechiele Coen." I correctly guessed the outcome of this story quite early into it. Nevertheless, it lost none of its power or poignancy.

 

In "Death of an Old-Fashioned Girl," Elizabeth Ann Moore is anything but. She's quite the drama queen, portraying herself as naïve and ingenuous: "During her brief lifetime she must have ingested enough romantic literature and technicolored movies to addle a much larger brain than hers, and in the end she came to believe that human beings actually behaved the way the heroine of a melodrama would." She's actually quite manipulative, which is how she managed to entice artist Paul Zachary to divorce his wife Nicole and marry her. When she ends up knifed to death, the police aren't lacking for suspects. They include the narrator, another artist, and his wife; Sidney and Elinor Goldsmith, art gallery owners and the folks who discovered Zachary and helped him achieve success; and Zachary himself. How the narrator and Zachary became friends, and how theirs and the others' lives converged and Elizabeth Ann died make for an absorbing story with a neat and fitting irony at its end.

 

When Max de Marechal, editor of a magazine for wine connoisseurs, tells the wine merchant Drummond he's writing an article about the greatest vintages various experts have sampled and asks for an interview, they get into a small debate over specific vintages and whether there could ever be any consensus among a group of experts. De Marechal maintains there is one he's never tasted but which has acquired a legendary status among authorities: Nuits Saint-Oen 1929. Because it was produced in such a small quantity, he's certain that a single bottle no longer exists. Drummond tells him he has "The Last Bottle in the World" in his company's cellars. He has not been tempted to open it because it's so old the wine might be bad. De Marechal asks if he'll sell it, and Drummond says no. Ultimately, de Marechal introduces him to millionaire Kyros Kassoulas and his wife, and he becomes involved in a tense domestic drama in which the wine plays a pivotal role.

 

In another story set in Paris, "Coin of the Realm," Millie gets on her husband Walt's case for dressing like a tourist. Walt rather proudly proclaims that that is what he is, and accompanies his tastefully-attired wife to a flea market. While Millie haggles with a furniture seller, Walt, ostensibly looking for coins for his business partner's collection at the partner's request, goes to see another seller, Piron, for a much more sinister reason.

 

While Broderick and Yates, both slightly inebriated, wait on Broderick's boat, Chappie and Del set out in a dinghy toward the Miami Beach shoreline. Del stays on the dinghy while Chappie swims to the Royal Oceanic Hotel to fulfill a grisly task. When they return to the boat they demand "The Payoff," the nature of which readers will never guess.

 

There are any number of things Albert doesn't like—about himself and about others. His first name, for instance. He resents his mother naming him for a figure on a pipe tobacco can. He doesn't like women, but in his therapy session with Dr. Schwimmer, he discusses his recurrent dreams about a "Girl, Doctor. Maiden, if you will. Not a woman" with whom, for the first time in his fifty years, he has fallen in love. In "The Other Side of the Wall," told almost entirely in dialogue, Dr. Schwimmer employs a radical approach to help Albert achieve catharsis and surprises the reader in the process.

 

A change of pace in tone and approach from the stories that precede it, "The Corruption of Officer Avakadian" displays Ellin's skills at writing humorously. First-person narrator Avakadian, a  young, uncompromisingly by-the-book police officer, has been partnered with the soon-to-retire Schultz, a jaded cop who is not above a bribe or a free meal. When they are dispatched to the home of Dr. Cyrus Cahoon and his wife in a wealthy neighborhood, they learn from Mrs. Cahoon that her husband has been kidnapped. The victim happens to be present and confirms the story, which becomes more and more bizarre as its details are revealed.

 

Script doctor Mel Gordon can’t resist the lure of a poorly-written script, and Alexander  File, tight-fisted producer of low-budget schlock movies, knows it. Because he’s been successful working in television, Gordon no longer needs to work for File, as he had done for a number of years earlier in his career. But when File sends him the script for Emperor of Lust, Gordon agrees to fly to Rome to improve it and help with the production. Apart from making movies as cheaply as possible, File’s primary interest is in “dewy and nubile maidens, unripe lovelies all the more enticing to him because they were unripe. He loved them, did File, with a mouth-watering, hard-breathing, popeyed love.” Once filming begins, it’s not long before tension sets in and conflicts develop between File and Gordon, and between File and his director, his cameraman, and a young man hired to create props in the novella “The Twelfth Statue.” And then one evening File “walked out the door of his office and vanished from the face of the earth as utterly and completely as if the devil had snatched him down to hell by the heels.” Readers who think they see the ending coming will only see part of it, so they can look forward to at least one additional surprise. 

 

The author’s elegant, flexible writing style and sense of place, combined with storylines that are far from run-of-the-mill and populated with colorful characters, make this collection a wonderful read. I can highly recommend it to those who appreciate the kind of literary craftsmanship whose ultimate result is pure artistry. 

 

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Barry Ergang © 2012, 2016, 2023, 2026 

Among his other works, Derringer Award-winner Barry Ergang’s locked-room novelette, The Play of Light and Shadow, can be found in eBook formats at Smashwords.com and Amazon.com

 

Publishing News from Barry Ergang

My friend Barry Ergang, has a new poem published in the latest issue of Yellow Mama Webzine. His poem, Centerfold, appears in Yellow Mama #115 and is free to read. 

Barry Ergang: Books I read in 2025

 

Albom, Mitch--Twice

Alpert, Hollis-The Life and Times of Porgy and Bess

Ayatsuji, Yukito—The Labyrinth House Murders

Beer, Edith Hahn with Susan Dworkin—The Nazi Officer’s Wife: How One Jewish         Woman Survived the Holocaust

Bloch, Robert—Cold Chills

Bloch, Robert—The Will to Kill

Blochman, Lawrence G.—Clues for Dr. Coffee (Second Casebook)

Bourg, BJ—Bullet Drop

Burke, James Lee—Burning Angel

Carr, John Dickson—The Kindling Spark: Early Tales of Mystery, Horror, and Adventure 

Conrad, Hy—Mr. Monk Is Open For Business      

Crider, Bill—Too Late to Die

Crispin, Edmund—The Glimpses of the Moon

Curtis, Christopher Paul—The Watsons Go to Birmingham—1963

Deaver, Jeffery—The Never Game

Dixon, Franklin W.—While the Clock Ticked

Friedman, Kinky—Elvis, Jesus & Coca-Cola

Gervais, Simon & Ryan Steck—The Second Son

Goldman, William—Boys and Girls Together

Hale, Bruce—The Mystery of Mr. Nice

Hall, Rachel Howzell—Fog and Fury

Halter, Paul—The Crimson Fog

Hammett, Dashiell—The Maltese Falcon (original version from Black Mask)

Hayter, Sparkle—The Last Manly Man

Healy, Jeremiah—Rescue

Hess, Joan—Maggody in Manhattan

Hiaasen, Carl—Star Island

Hyams, Joe—Bogart & Bacall

Junger, Sebastian—In My Time of Dying

King, C. Daly—The Complete Curious Mr. Tarrant¹

Levine, Paul—Bum Rap

Levine, Paul—The Deep Blue Alibi

MacDonald, John D.—The Executioners (aka Cape Fear)

Margolis, Steve—The Toaster Oven Mocks Me: Living with Synesthesia

Marlowe, Stephen—Manhunt Is My Mission

Maslen, Andy—The Lying Man

Mayne, Andrew—Mr. Whisper

McBain, Ed—The Frumious Bandersnatch

Miller, Kirsten—Lula Dean’s Little Library of Banned Books

Nebel, Frederick—The Crimes of Richmond City

Penzler, Otto, ed.—Golden Age Locked Room Mysteries

Peters, Elizabeth—The Locked Tomb Mystery and Other Stories

Prather, Richard S.—Dance With the Dead (2^nd reading)

Resnick, Mike--Purgatory

Rich, Simon—Ant Farm and Other Desperate Situations

Scheer, Ron—Miles to Lost Dog Creek

Slaughter, Karin—Triptych

Swanson, Peter—Nine Lives

Twain, Mark—A Double-Barreled Detective Story (novella)

Wentworth, Patricia—Grey Mask

Yousafzai, Malala—Finding My Way

 

¹I read the Dover edition, which contains 8 stories, years ago. This edition adds 4 more, which I read this year

 

Barry Ergang's FFB Review: UNFAITHFUL SERVANT (2004) by Timothy Harris

From the archive….

 

I might as well say this right at the beginning: Unfaithful Servant is one of the best hardboiled detective novels I’ve read in a long time.

 

I discovered Timothy Harris’s work in the early 1980s when I stumbled upon a paperback edition of Good Night and Good-Bye. Cover copy hyped it as being “in the tradition of The Long Goodbye,” which automatically demanded that I read it because The Long Goodbye is my favorite novel. Read it I did, and found some similarities to Raymond Chandler’s masterwork, but was also pleased to see that, unlike too many other authors who tried unconvincingly to imitate Chandler, Harris chose to write in his own style, which is colorful and entertaining. As a result of loving the book, which I later acquired in hardback, I bought a copy of Kyd for Hire, Harris’s first novel about Southern California private investigator Thomas Kyd, which I recall thinking reminded in me ways of The Big Sleep, and which I also quite enjoyed.

 

Then I waited over thirty years for another Thomas Kyd novel. Fortunately, Unfaithful Servant—which description can refer to Kyd as well as to others in the story—was eminently worth the wait.

 

When Kyd is approached by fourteen-year-old Hugo Vine, who offers him a fifteen-thousand-dollar Rolex to watch his parents, his refusal sets the boy raging insults and obscenities at him. A few months later he encounters Hugo yet again. Their conversation is brief because Kyd is on a case and hasn’t time for a lengthy chat.

 

Hugo is the son of Hollywood actress Sally Vine and her late producer husband Daniel Vine, as Kyd learns when he’s contacted by Sally’s lawyer and summoned to the Vine home, threatened with the charge of contributing to the delinquency of a minor. In attendance at the meeting are the lawyer, Hugo’s therapist, a deputy city attorney, and a Robbery-Homicide detective with an attitude. It isn’t until the meeting ends that Kyd meets Raj LaSalle, Sally’s current husband, and Sally herself. The actress transparently manipulates the reluctant Kyd into accepting the job of keeping an eye on Hugo, who may or may not be using or dealing drugs, to learn what he’s up to and to prevent him from getting into trouble.

Doing so results in a stormy relationship with a determined, possibly disturbed, and ultimately endangered Hugo because it isn’t long before Kyd learns that the boy is certain his father’s death was not a skiing accident but a deliberate murder, and that he, Hugo, is not only sure he knows who the killer is, but also knows someone who claims to have witnessed the crime. As Kyd probes further, additional deaths occur, at least one of which he’s accused of, and he has to contend with cops who are honest but suspicious as well as  others who are corrupt and brutal; sycophants with delusions of cinematic grandeur and their monied idols; tabloid “journalists;” a lawyer friend whose eye is always on the big, constantly-remunerative score; and those who would harm a savvy but justifiably depressed fourteen-year-old kid.

 

A successful screenwriter, Timothy Harris knows his turf, vividly evoking the Hollywood film community and the southern California landscape, external and internal. Building steadily to an intense finish, this is an excellently-paced novel in which the characters, major and minor alike, are three-dimensionally configured and examined insightfully. Not the least of these is Kyd himself. Unlike the heroes of most private eye series, about whom we’re told mostly superficial things and shown only their quotidian routines, Kyd reveals significant moments about his past, including boyhood and familial circumstances and events that shaped the man he has become, that were the geneses of some of the demons he must contend with now.  

 

Unfaithful Servant was originally released in a hardcover edition from Five Star Publishing, which sells mainly to libraries. From what I’ve seen at Internet sites, booksellers are asking high prices for it both in hardcover and advanced reading copy paperback editions. As far as I’m aware, it has never been released in a trade or mass market paperback edition. I read it in reasonably-priced Kindle edition from Endeavour Press, which came out in 2014, but have not been able to find it in other electronic formats.

 

As has become all too typical in both physical and electronic books nowadays, this one has a few typos and some incorrect punctuation. Fortunately they’re relatively few, and most readers will find them ignorable. Two errors that stood out for me were venal, in discussing sin, when venial was the intended word; and Invisible Man model when the old Visible Man plastic model is what Harris meant. The other errors are not likely to disrupt a reader’s flow.

 

Unfaithful Servant is a must-read for fans of hardboiled private eye novels—provided they aren’t squeamish about street language and graphic violence. Although Harris doesn’t inundate the reader with raunchy verbiage, he doesn’t shy away from it when it serves to delineate someone’s manner of expressing himself and his feelings. Some of the violence is very explicit, especially that in a climactic moment in which a character gets his comeuppance. I found it satisfying; others may find it gross.

 

Timothy Harris, in my estimation, is a top-tier writer who merits the same kind of accolades and esteem accorded to masters of the genre Dashiell Hammett, Raymond Chandler, Ross Macdonald, and Lawrence Block, among others. I highly recommend the title under consideration here and its two predecessors, which I should reread one of these days. The big question is whether there will be another Thomas Kyd novel—and when. I hope the answers are Yes and Soon because I probably don’t have another thirty years ahead of me.  

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Barry Ergang ©2015, 2019, 2025 

Derringer Award-winner Barry Ergang’s written work has appeared in numerous publications, print and electronic. Some of it is available at Amazon and at Smashwords. His website is http://www.writetrack.yolasite.com/ and he can be reached there for your editorial needs.

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Short Story Wednesday Review: Criminalities: Three Short Crime Stories and an Essay by Barry Ergang

 

An Earl Stagg review from the archive…

  

The first story is ”Jewel of Denial,” a gem originally published in the June 2005 issue of Mysterical-e.  Lainie Truscott is dismayed when guests at her bed and breakfast are robbed of cash and jewelry during the night. Lainie follows a hunch and takes a short trip to see if she's right. When she arrives at her destination, one surprising twist after another will leave you grinning, nodding your head, and thinking, “Well done, Mr. Ergang.”

 

Next up is “Vigilante,” which received a Derringer Award in 2007 for Best Story of the Year. Weissman is alone in a dark alley with a militant, tattooed skinhead. Their vast difference of opinion about the Holocaust is settled in the only appropriate manner.

 

The third story, “Brianna’s Way,” was an Editor’s Choice when it appeared in Flash Bang Mysteries Magazine. When his ex-wife's lawyer wants to talk to him, Rutledge agrees to the meeting out of curiosity. Brianna is accused of killing her second husband, the man she dumped him for. What does the woman who ruined his life want from him?

 

In the essay “Impossible Pleasures,” Mr. Ergang tells how in his youth, he became an “unregenerate, unapologetic fan of the mystery genre,” and discusses classic writers and stories. He was drawn in particular to the “locked door” or impossible crime” tales. These are the stories in which a crime is committed in a space such as a locked room with no way for the criminal to get in or out without being seen. If you're a fan of this type of story, you'll learn which authors, past and present, to look for.

For an excellent example of a locked room mystery, I recommend reading “The Play of Light and Shadow,” one of many published stories by Barry Ergang. You'll find it at: Amazon: https://amzn.to/4oVsJVG and Smashwords: https://www.smashwords.com/books/view/643316

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Earl Staggs ©2016

 

Texas author Earl Staggs earned all Five Star reviews for his novels MEMORY OF A MURDER and JUSTIFIED ACTION and has twice received a Derringer Award for Best Short Story of the Year.  He served as Managing Editor of Futures Mystery Magazine, as President of the Short Mystery Fiction Society, and was a frequent speaker at conferences and seminars.  

http://earlwstaggs.wordpress.com 

 

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Barry Ergang's FFB Review: THE TWISTED ONES (1959) by Vin Packer

 

From the archive…

The Twisted Ones comprises three separate stories about youths driven to extremes by personal and familial issues. 

 

Sixteen-year-old Brock Brown, a student at the high school in the town of Sykes, New York, is a handsome young man who “dressed meticulously, with a rigid sense of style that he had formulated over the years.” His mother Edith, whose maiden name was Brock, whose family was among the town’s upper crust, and who never wanted children, died when he was seven. His forty-two-year-old father remarried a woman named Clara who is only twelve years older than Brock, and who tries to encourage her loner stepson to participate in normal teenage activities: e.g., to ask Carrie Bates, whom he frequently talks about, to the prom. Brock, who has never had a date, vehemently refuses, contending that Carrie is “fast” and that being with her “‘could get me in a whole big crazy pack of trouble if I didn’t know right from wrong.’” One who thinks of and describes himself as “boy cat, all shook up,” Brock’s rigidity extends beyond superficial style to an off-kilter sense of what is right and wrong, legal and illegal, moral and immoral—with catastrophic consequences.

 

Charles Berrey is eight years old and has an I.Q. of 165. “The unexpected fruit of Howard and Evelyn Berry’s middle age, [he is going to] make his third appearance on Cash-Answer, the most popular quiz show on television.” Evelyn Berrey is a loving, doting mother. Howard “Duke” Berrey is an ex-Marine who still works out regularly and who sells sporting goods for a living. Conflicted about his son’s success, he appreciates Charles’s ability to win huge sums of money while simultaneously disliking the way people regard him as an aberration. A physically and verbally abusive type, he constantly berates his son about his vocabulary and often talks to him like a drill instructor to a Marine in training. He argues with, and sometimes strikes, his wife. When he orders his son to “spoof” his boss, Paul Carter, the president of the sporting goods company, he inadvertently ignites a flame in Charles, who devours books on a multitude of subjects “like a hungry tomcat devoured mice.” One of the myths he’s read about is a favorite from Polynesia. It drives him to the commission of an act that forever changes lives—his, his parents’, and the lives of some of the residents in his hometown of Reddton, New Jersey.

 

Nineteen-year-old Reginald Whittier lives in Auburn, Vermont with his mother above their antique shop, Whittier’s Wheel, “as archaic and old-fangled in its appearance as the attitudes and opinions of its proprietress, Miss Ella.” Impregnated by the husband who subsequently abandoned her, she gave her son his father’s first name and her own maiden surname. At her request the town jeweler, Mr. Danker, has become something of a surrogate father to Reggie with regard to certain matters—e.g., the facts of life—although the young man feels uncomfortable around him. (It becomes clear to the reader that Mr. Danker has designs on Reggie of his own.) A stutterer, Reggie has always been shy around people his own age but is nonetheless someone who finds it easier to talk to women than to men. When he becomes involved with eighteen-year-old Laura Lee, who works as a maid at a local junior college, his internal conflict about pleasing her, pleasing his overly protective and possessive mother, and wanting a better life than he’s so far had, results in drastic actions.

 

A short, absorbing, fast-moving novel, its title and the publisher’s teaser suggest that The Twisted Ones are only Brock Brown, Charles Berrey, and Reginald Whittier. In fact, their parents and some other adult authority figures are equally deserving of that description.

 

Although I’ve known of Vin Packer (real name Marijane Meaker) for decades, this is the first of her books I’ve read. I hope to read others, which is also a way of saying I highly recommend this one.

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Barry Ergang ©2016, 2025 

Winner of the 2007 Derringer Award for the best flash fiction story of 2006, Barry Ergang’s fiction, poetry and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications, print and electronic. His recent e-books, a story for children called The Boy Who Ate Rainbows and a science-fiction parody, The Vole Eater, are available at Amazon and Smashwords. Criminalities: Three Short Crime Stories and an Essay is available for free at Smashwords.

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Short Story Wednesday Review: THE EDUCATION OF A PULP WRITER & OTHER STORIES (2014) by David Cranmer

From the archive and reviewed by Barry Ergang... 

 

THE EDUCATION OF A PULP WRITER & OTHER STORIES (2014)

by David Cranmer

 

 

Besides editing and publishing Beat to a Pulp, David Cranmer is a skilled and versatile writer. This e-book presents five stories to give readers a very brief but entertaining sampler of his work. The stories are generally dark in tone and content, and readers who dislike explicit sexuality, street language, and raw violence should avoid them. Those who like sharp-edged noir, on the other hand, will probably find them quite appealing. 

 

The nameless young college student who prostitutes herself via the Internet to pay for her education can’t have anticipated a client who looks like an enormously obese slab of “Blubber” the way this one does. She can’t possibly anticipate the outcome of their meeting, either. 

 

A case of “Clouds in a Bunker,” Ian Spaulding suffers from dementia but is still reasonably functional. His wife is not. Spaulding has both of them locked up inside an underground fallout shelter behind their home, and plans to take both of their lives once he’s had a chance to talk to their daughter Anna, who’s outside with the police. Both the police chief and the hostage negotiator wonder why Spaulding keeps interrupting their phone conversations to deal with a whistling tea kettle in this poignant—and potent— story.

 

When his sister tells Lars that his ex-wife Danielle is eight months pregnant, “the wiring in Lars’s brain short-circuited.” Still bitter about Danielle’s decision to abort a child he conceived with her and their subsequent divorce, a “Cold Gray Dawn” descends upon him as he determines to eventually have his revenge in a particularly vicious manner. The results will likely repel some readers and relieve others—or possibly do both.    

 

Wanting to please editors with the kind of descriptive prose exemplified by Raymond Chandler while at the same time delivering the kind of forensic realism modern audiences seem to demand “(T)hanks to crime and medical television,” Kirby MacGregor, for the sake of “The Education of a Pulp Writer,” and contending with nosy neighbor Marta Knolls, may or may not be able to deliver, despite his studies of different types of death.

 

Edward Morash, who prefers to be known as “Kid Eddie,” is wanted for a number of particularly vicious crimes. He’s in jail in Vermillion, and Marshal Cash Laramie is assigned the task of bringing him back to Cheyenne to stand trial. When he meets the young man who looks and comports himself as anything but murderous, Laramie begins to wonder if he’s indeed as innocent as he claims to be. An incident on the trip back to Cheyenne proves revelatory. Readers old enough to recognize the references, as well as those who watch the Encore western channel on cable TV as of the time of this writing, will appreciate references to a bounty hunter named Randall who “had a sawed-off Winchester” and to a Reverend McQueen.^* Western noir, the story is one in a series Cranmer has written under the pseudonym Edward A. Grainger.

 

As mentioned at the outset, this e-book is a fast-paced, vividly-written “teaser” that should tempt fans of this kind of fiction to seek out other titles from David Cranmer/Edward A. Grainger, and is emphatically recommended.

 

*****

^*“Wanted: Dead or Alive” starring Steve McQueen as Josh Randall

 

Barry Ergang ©2015, 2025