Gift Horse (1952) aka … Glory At Sea
If there’s one thing I find irresistible it’s a British Navy war time thriller starring the likes of Trevor Howard and Richard Attenborough. Add in Bernard Lee and all […]
The Quatermass Xperiment (1955)
Just two years prior to launching the second wave of classic horror upon movie screens world wide in vivid color with 1957’s The Curse of Frankenstein followed by Dracula, The […]
Six Bridges To Cross (1955)
In what is essentially a “B” picture from Universal-International this Joseph Pevney directed effort has the grandeur of an epic gangster film. Admittedly it comes nowhere near that mark and […]
The Haunted Strangler (1958)
aka …. Grip of the Strangler. In the year 1958, Boris Karloff, found himself back in his native England starring in a pair of shockers from the team of Richard […]
Chase a Crooked Shadow (1958)
Here’s a nifty Hitchcock like thriller that sees Anne Baxter as a young woman confronted with the reappearance of her brother one year after she identified his body in the […]
The Girl In Black Stockings (1957)
While the advertising campaign was clearly built around the one and only Mamie Van Doren’s sex appeal, this low budget Bel Air Production has her billed below the title in […]
Appreciating the Randolph Scott / Budd Boetticher Westerns
Like a fine wine, Randolph Scott westerns, particularly those directed by Budd Boetticher have only gotten better as the years have passed by. Their reputations and stature only increasing with […]
Guns Girls and Gangsters (1959)
There are plenty of guns and gangsters in this Edward L. Cahn directed “B” and as for girls …. well the male cast get all they can handle in one […]
Men In War (1957)
Considering this was directed by Anthony Mann I couldn’t help but wonder if James Stewart was approached to play a grizzled war veteran with a platoon of men at his […]
