


(Paul Henreid + Patricia Medina) X 2 = Popcorn Adventures
From Columbia Pictures by way of frugal producer Sam Katzman, who fans of Monogram cheapies with Bela and the Bowery Boys are sure to recognize, comes a pair of titles […]

The Fighting O’Flynn (1949)
This energetic Douglas Fairbanks Jr. swashbuckler is one which will easily make my list of most enjoyable new to me discoveries for the calendar year 2018. It’s an old fashioned […]

The Magic Carpet (1951)
The film that Lucille Ball made for spite! This Sam Katzman production released through Harry Cohn’s Columbia Studios casts Lucy in this sword and sandals “epic” that wouldn’t even have […]

The Beast of Hollow Mountain (1956)
Somehow I have never thought the western mixed too well with fantasy and this Guy Madison flick hasn’t done much to change that opinion. When the credits pointed out this […]

Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
With the success of The House of Wax in 1953 it seems more than obvious when viewing this 3-D effort that the Warner Brothers studio was hoping to duplicate the […]