A Nod to the Corner Men on Boxing Day
As is my custom I turn to the world of the Sweet Science aka Boxing on December 26th. Usually I feature the Brawlers and Bruisers who enter the Square Jungle […]
The River’s Edge (1957)
Under the direction of Allan Dwan and a location shoot in Mexico, it’s Anthony Quinn versus Ray Milland with the prize being a fortune in cash and the favors of […]
It’s Never Too Late ….. to Buy My First Betamax Machine
It’s a well known fact that I’m a sucker for collecting movies, movie memorabilia and the various formats to play movies on. Like most collectors my stack of movies mainly […]
Dear Dead Delilah (1972)
Made in Nashville, the home of country music, this thriller essentially plays like a Herschell Gordon Lewis film only with a budget that allowed for three well known faces to […]
Six Black Horses (1962)
From the pen of western writer and eventual director, Burt Kennedy, comes this Universal-International release that not surprisingly plays like another of the Kennedy/Boetticher/Scott westerns. Instead of Randolph Scott taking […]
Bird of Paradise (1932)
On a tropical island paradise, Joel McCrea, is to meet one of the screen’s greatest beauties, Dolores Del Rio, in a King Vidor directed pre-code effort that features scenes and […]
Highway 301
If Steve Cochran learned anything playing opposite James Cagney’s Cody Jarrett in the 1949 gangster classic, White Heat, it’s how to kill indiscriminately and in a cold blooded fashion on […]
Thunder Road (1958)
I don’t think it’s a stretch to say that screen icon Robert Mitchum was at the height of his box office pull when this tightly budgeted black and white feature […]
Kid Galahad (1962)
Far better than the bulk of Elvis Presley’s later films between 1965 and 1969, Kid Galahad, proves an entertaining outing for the King as long as we look past the […]
