The House of the Seven Hawks (1959)
Once again teaming with director Richard Thorpe, long time MGM contract star, Robert Taylor, scores a movie role that plays like a five to ten year old discarded script meant […]
Killer Fish (1978)
The long shadow of Jaws was a major influence on the exploitation market in the immediate years that followed the Spielberg film. Grizzly, Piranha and of course Jaws 2, 3 […]
Background to Danger (1943)
Warner Brothers Studios attempts to recapture that Casablanca feeling by once again giving theater goers international intrigue, the pairing of Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre opposite Humphr……. scratch that, opposite George […]
A Don Siegel Film : The Movie Posters
Beginning my journey into film studies in the late seventies and early eighties, I began to notice some familiar names on the final screen credit before a movie really got underway. […]
It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
I have always enjoyed revisiting this Warner Brothers comedy musical for a variety of reasons led by the voice of Doris Day and the antics of Jack Carson. It’s really […]
The More the Merrier (1943)
Of all the movies that Kristina over at Speakeasy has challenged me to watch in our ongoing series it’s this one that I was surprised the most at not having […]
The Angry Hills (1959)
Anytime you team Robert Mitchum with Stanley Baker under Robert Aldrich’s direction you have a formula for success. Or so it would seem. This turns out to be rather unbelievable […]
24 Hours to Kill (1965)
Since his passing last week I have been meaning to dig thru the titles I have starring The Mick. I came upon this flick that paired Mickey Rooney and former […]
They Died With Their Boots On (1941) Errol Flynn Day 5
I decided to save this film to the end of my Errol Flynn salute because there is a scene in this film that I must admit makes it hard for […]
Calcutta (1947)
From Paramount studios comes another Alan Ladd thriller where he tangles with foreign police, a beautiful club singer, his old pal William Bendix and a lovely but possibly lethal leading […]
