Lon Chaney Jr. In the Movies : From A to Z
Looking back, Lon Chaney Jr, is one of those actors I discovered more through books than I did actual movies as a child. What I mean by that are the […]
Virginia Mayo Goes West Part 2
Next up are a pair of westerns that saw Virginia reteam with two well known leading men of the era with whom she had starred with in earlier outdoor adventures. […]
The Strange Door (1951)
Returning to Universal Studios, the home of his glory years, horror icon Boris Karloff takes second billing opposite Charles Laughton as the two bring the pages of this Robert Louis Stevenson […]
King Richard and the Crusaders (1954)
Heroic Action ….. Historic Adventure ………… so says the film’s trailer. Released during the same season as Prince Valiant, this proved to be another film aimed at the youth market […]
Quantez (1957)
Not to far back this year I got touched for another five dollars thanks to a western collection from Universal on DVD. No big hurt on the pocket book but […]
The Killer is Loose (1956)
Before Robert Mitchum’s brutish killer Max Cady cast a long shadow over movie goers in 1962’s Cape Fear, look no further than a surprisingly intense performance from Wendell Corey as a […]
Curse of the Undead (1959)
At a time when the cycle of Sci-Fi flicks were coming to an end at Universal-International, this oddity was released to the public that crossed two of the most popular […]
Allison Hayes Double Feature : Hong Kong Confidential (1958) and Counterplot (1959)
More or less by chance I fell into a couple of Noir styled “B” flicks that featured Allison Hayes. A statuesque brunette of many curves that both Gene Barry and […]
The Black Castle (1952)
Here is somewhat of a departure for Noir/Western themed actor Stephen McNally. For this Universal International release he gets to ham it up immensely as Count Karl von Bruno who […]
