Finger Man (1955)
Veteran small-time criminal Frank Lovejoy gets busted for hijacking a truck he stole. Because of his prison track record, both in doing time and in refusing to be a stool pigeon, he’s given the choice: life in prison or help…
Jigsaw (1968)
Definitely screams ’60’s Universal Studio Telefilm’, but if you liked the looks of those pictures (as I do), this is a well photographed, directed and acted little picture. Bradford Dillman, that Olivier of the B’s, starred, but Pat Hingle and…
Sweet Sugar (1972)
It is surprising that we did not see more of Miss Davis. A few Love American Styles, Sweet Sugar, Terminal Island, a Love Boat or two, Dan Tanna’s secretary, and that was about it. Given her obvious “attributes” and her…
Daddy-O (1958)
An entertaining little potboiler with rock, drag racing, beautiful girls, and a score by John Williams (yes, THAT John Williams, apparently), DADDY-O if not, like, the most, cats, it’s at least an above-average 1950s exploitation picture. Dick Contino is…
Atlas (1961)
1960’s “Atlas” was Roger Corman’s impoverished attempt at a Hercules-type epic (shot on location in Greece), without the budget. Charles B. Griffith could always be relied upon to deliver a script very quickly, and the haste is quite evident here,…
Hercules Unchained (1959)
This movie definitely is not the best or most exciting one around. Strangely enough it doesn’t decide on picking a more adventurous story and restrains itself mostly to the same locations. You can say that these early Italian genre movies…
Carry on Camping (1969)
This film is as British as fish and chips and beer. It is also one of my personal favourites. A real treat from beginning to end. This film should be viewed at least once by everyone, even if only for…
Re-Arranging Deck Chairs On The Titanic: A Season Of Change For Movie Theaters Erupts
The cracks are forming. A giant tectonic shift is about to be inflicted on the world of the independent theater operator. This week the slow tide of change and market disruption begin to slowly boil. The undercurrents and the anticipated…
Piranha (1978)
I’m a huge fan of Joe Dantes work, even going so far as to buy every movie has directed. There’s something about his style, especially the mixture of humor and lighthearted horror elements that always seemed to resonate well with…
Elvis (1979)
This is a well done biography of Elvis Presley. Director John Carpenter put an enigmatic puzzle of a life together for a brilliant presentation. Kurt Russell did the best job of his career in recreating the essence of Elvis. Uncanny…
Up the MacGregors (1967)
The families of MacGregor, who has 7 sons, and Donovan, who has 7 daughters, are next door neighbors in the Wild West. When bandits steal the treasure of the Mac Gregors, the sons go to retrieve it. The story is…
Quintana: Dead or Alive (1969)
Unlike all those mavericks who populate the Spaghetti Western genre Quintana has a family and we meet his parents in the second scene of the film. His real name is José and his girlfriend is Esmeralda. Setup is in Mexico…
Ride the High Country (1962)
Randolph Scott and Joel McCrea will probably be remembered as the top “B” western stars in movies. But their last film “Ride the High Country” stands as an “A” western and a very good one too. Perhaps they owe this…
Some Girls Do (1969)
If you are tired of all the Politically Correct “no fun” offerings that Hollywood dishes out these days and yearn for some good clean fun from a bygone era when “Womyn” were just happy to be “Chicks” and men were…
Deadlier Than the Male (1967)
Perhaps the best of the escapist superspy movies spawned by the James Bond phenomenon,”Deadlier than the male” benefits by taking itself more seriously than the leering and campy approach found in,for example,the “Matt Helm” series and the 2 “Derek Flint”…
The Man Who Finally Died (1963)
THE MAN WHO FINALLY DIED is an early ’60s black-and-white conspiracy thriller with enough twists to make even M. Night Shyamalan blush and a great cast of British character actors. Along with underrated leading man Stanley Baker and a typically…
6.2/10 2,235 Carry On Matron (1972)
This is another madcap comedy from the Carry On group, this time set in a maternity hospital. The whole group is here and its a fun film. Kenneth Williams deftly plays the hospital administrator Sir Bernard Cutting, who is obsessed…
Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972)
Conquest for the Planet of the Apes, the fourth in the series, covers the ‘pre-history’ of the first movie, where the apes first start to gain some ascendancy in the world of humans. And like the first movie (and to…
Road to Rio (1947)
Considering that The Road to Rio was the fifth in the series, that the formula was down pat, that the plot, as usual, was merely an excuse for spontaneous and not-so-spontaneous bantering by the two stars, that the money-to-effort ratio…
The Unseen (1945)
The Unseen is directed by Lewis Allen and collectively written by Hagar Wilde, Ken Englund and Raymond Chandler. It’s adapted from Ethel Lina White’s novel “Her Heart in Her Throat”. It stars Joel McCrea, Gail Russell, Herbert Marshall, Phyllis Brooks…