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 ROAR OF THE DRAGON (1932) is a fast-paced Pre-Code from RKO. It's another of those movies dealing with a random group of English-speaking people who are stranded in a far-flung exotic foreign locale, facing danger at every moment. The story is set in Manchuria, where a bandit chief named read more

 CATLOW is a 1971 Western that has a lot in common with SHALAKO--both films were made in Spain, both were based on Louis L'Amour novels, they were produced by Euan Lloyd, and they feature a cast of international actors. The title character in CATLOW, played by Yul Brynner, is an easygoing read more

 I've been fascinated by German actress Brigitte Helm ever since I first saw her memorable screen debut in Fritz Lang's legendary silent epic METROPOLIS (1927). Unfortunately most of Helm's work is unavailable in America, and there isn't even all that much info about her on the internet. O read more

 This is a film that I hoped would be shown in a theater near my area, but no such luck. (Considering that it's a three hour movie made in France, I'm not surprised it didn't get a major release in America--perhaps the production should have cast a rapper in the lead role??) I became interested read more

 This came out a couple years ago, but I didn't get it until recently because it was (you guessed it) at a discount. STOOGE O-RAMA is a 3 disc grab bag of odds & ends involving the Funky Trio, available on DVD and Blu-ray. (I bought the DVD version--considering the less-than-pristine qualit read more

 THE DEADLY BEES (1967) is one of the lesser entries in the Amicus catalog, despite being directed by Freddie Francis. I purchased it on Blu-ray at a discount (what did you expect?). Pop music star Vicky Robbins (Suzanna Leigh) suffers a nervous breakdown while performing on a TV show. Her read more

 Robert Downey Jr. does not appear in this film. This is a 1931 production from Universal, directed by Tod Browning. I was inspired to seek it out by my recent reading of DARK CARNIVAL, a biography of Browning. IRON MAN was made between DRACULA and FREAKS, and, as one would expect, it doesn't c read more

 SONNY AND JED (also known as LA BANDA J. & S., among a number of other alternate titles) is a bizarre 1972 Euro Western directed and co-written by Sergio Corbucci. I would describe the movie as a combination of BONNIE AND CLYDE and the TRINITY films. Naive prairie girl Sonny (Susan Ge read more

 DARK CARNIVAL is the revised edition of a 1995 biography on American film director Tod Browning, written by David J. Skal and Elias Savada. The book was published by the University of Minnesota Press, and I purchased the more affordable paperback version. Tod Browning is a name well-known read more

 DOUBLE FACE is a 1969 Italian-West German co-production, a mystery thriller also known as A DOPPIA FACCIA and DAS GESICHT IM DUNKLEN. The movie was promoted as an Edgar Wallace Krimi in Germany, and it is listed as an official part of the Rialto Krimi series in a few sources, although it has n read more

 I'm currently reading the revised edition of DARK CARNIVAL, the excellent biography of film director Tod Browning, written by David J. Skal and Elias Savada. I'll be writing a blog post on the book when I've finished it, but it has inspired me to seek out some of Browning's films I haven't yet read more

 VOODOO ISLAND is one of Boris Karloff's lesser onscreen moments. It's a 1957 low-budget black & white tale dealing with supernatural events taking place in the Pacific South Seas. (Due to its title, the film should have been set in the Caribbean or near Africa.) The island of the titl read more

 The latest in the Film Masters series of Blu-ray special editions featuring low-budget 50s/60s sci-fi-horror outings is MONSTER FROM THE OCEAN FLOOR (1954), the very first film produced by the legendary Roger Corman. A young American named Julie (Anne Kimbell) is taking a vacation on the read more

 This is one of the Perry Mason films produced by Warner Bros. in the 1930s, and I caught it on Tubi last night. The Warner Bros. version of Perry Mason has very little to do with the Raymond Burr version of the character, despite the fact that Warners based their films on the Mason novels writ read more

 As anyone who has read any entries in this blog knows, my favorite actor of all time is Peter Cushing. One great thing about living in the 21st Century is the availability of so many streaming and Internet sites that allows one to watch even the most obscure and rare films and TV shows. These read more

 In my last post, on the Criterion Blu-ray of WINCHESTER '73, I mentioned that one of the extras on the disc was a program concerning the films that Anthony Mann made at Universal. During this program it was stated that the non-Western films that Mann directed starring James Stewart--THUNDER BA read more

 One of the all-time best American Westerns gets the well-deserved Criterion treatment. WINCHESTER '73 marked the first time that James Stewart worked with director Anthony Mann, and this 1950 Universal production ushered in an entire decade of tough, meaningful Westerns. The major subplot read more

 It's classic Mexican horror time again as we visit THE WORLD OF THE VAMPIRES (original Spanish title EL MUNDO DE LOS VAMPIROS). This 1961 Gothic tale is a very effective story of the undead, with plenty of twists on the expected vampiric tropes. The movie details the efforts of one Count read more

 This is a 1965 Euro Western, an early example of the genre that isn't as flamboyant as later, more famous entries. I viewed a fantastic-looking uncut widescreen version of this on YouTube. Riding to his latest job, gun-for-hire Steve Blaine (Stephen Forsyth) proclaims that he wants to put read more

 COCKEYED CAVALIERS is a 1934 RKO comedy starring Bert Wheeler & Robert Woolsey. The team of Wheeler & Woolsey were featured in a number of RKO pictures in the 1930s, but very few are familiar with the duo today. Wheeler & Woolsey's comedies are filled with silly puns, double e read more