Race Street (1948)
It’s an old plot with a leading actor who had by this time played the same role for years but why should that bother me or my enjoyment of a […]
Strange Bargain (1949)
Noir in a Leave it to Beaver setting is how this RKO release comes across with Jeffrey Lynn getting in over his head in this nifty plotted thriller from producer […]
The Saxon Charm (1948)
While I’m not sure exactly why, I had somehow expected a screwball comedy going in to this feature starring Robert Montgomery as the title character. The opening scene did nothing […]
Passage West (1951)
Action star John Payne gets the technicolor treatment from director Lewis R. Foster along with a brawling donnybrook against costar Dennis O’Keefe in this tale of the western frontier. Payne […]
Holiday Affair (1949)
Laid back tough guy of cinema and Noir poster boy Robert Mitchum in a Christmas movie? Sort of. Mitch’s home studio RKO saw fit to toss him into this romantic […]
Backlash (1956)
Give me a western and I’m usually a contented fellow. Now add in Richard Widmark under John Sturges direction with a great cast of well known outlaws and the added […]
The Shootist (1976)
It is my belief that there has never been a better swan song in the movies than John Wayne’s role as J.B. Books in this Don Siegel directed film that surrounded […]
The Films of Donald Pleasence by Christopher Gullo
A really nice volume here on a career that spanned five decades. Donald Pleasence is a very recognizable face to anyone who has been watching classic films, most notably the […]
Red Light (1949)
In the same year that Virginia Mayo co starred opposite James Cagney in White Heat she also starred opposite another of the famed on screen gangster stars of the thirties […]
Support Your Local Sheriff! (1969)
For this western genre spoof we are treated to a cast of actors who spin the traditional cowboy picture around and give it a good cowboy boot kick in the […]
