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MARY STEVENS, M.D.
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Feb 3, 2022
The Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for January 2022 was Kay Francis, the epitome of the modern, stylish American woman for the early 1930s. MARY STEVENS, M.D. has Francis as a hard-working doctor dealing with all sorts of personal and professional problems. Mary and her lifelong read more
RICH AND STRANGE On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 29, 2022
For many years film buffs had to put up with very low-quality home video releases of the early British films directed by Alfred Hitchcock from the 1920s and early 1930s. Thankfully in the 21st Century most of these early titles helmed by Hitchcock have been restored and have been given the spe read more
If Hammer Films Had Made DUNE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 23, 2022
I came up with this idea while watching the 2021 DUNE on Blu-ray. The timeline for this would have had to have been the early 1970s. And yes, I'm well aware that Hammer wouldn't have had the budget to film even one chapter of Frank Herbert's novel. But the cast would have been great. read more
SILVER BLAZE On Blu-ray From The Film Detective
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 22, 2022
SILVER BLAZE (1937) was the last film in which English actor Arthur Wontner portrayed Sherlock Holmes. It is included in The Film Detective's THE SHERLOCK HOLMES VAULT COLLECTION Blu-ray set. Holmes and Watson (Ian "Not that one" Fleming) are invited to pay a visit to old friend Sir Henry read more
IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 17, 2022
Yesterday was the 80th anniversary of the plane crash that took the lives of Carole Lombard and 21 others. Last night I watched one of Lombard's earliest films that she starred in while under contract to Paramount--the 1931 comedy IT PAYS TO ADVERTISE. Norman Foster plays Rodney Martin, t read more
INTERNATIONAL LADY
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 16, 2022
INTERNATIONAL LADY, released in the fall of 1941, is WWII espionage tale, produced by Edward Small, directed by Tim Whelan, and released by United Artists. The story opens in London during the blitz. Glamorous Norwegian concert pianist/singer Carla Nillsson (Ilona Massey) has attracted th read more
THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES On Blu-ray From The Film Detective
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 15, 2022
THE TRIUMPH OF SHERLOCK HOLMES (1935) is the fourth film in which English actor Arthur Wontner starred as Holmes. It is included in THE SHERLOCK HOLMES VAULT COLLECTION from The Film Detective. At the beginning of this film Holmes is moving out of his rooms at Baker Street, and preparing read more
A STUDY IN SCARLET (1933) On Blu-ray From The Film Detective
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 8, 2022
The only film in THE SHERLOCK HOLMES VAULT COLLECTION Blu-ray set that does not have Arthur Wontner as Sherlock Holmes is A STUDY IN SCARLET (1933), made at the low-budget Tiffany Studio in Hollywood. Character actor Reginald Owen plays Holmes. Members of a secretive group called the Scar read more
SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATAL HOUR On Blu-ray From The Film Detective
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 5, 2022
Included in The Film Detective's THE SHERLOCK HOLMES VAULT COLLECTION Blu-ray set is the first film starring English actor Arthur Wontner as the Great Detective. SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATAL HOUR (1931) was a British production, released in that country as THE SLEEPING CARDINAL. The story is lo read more
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES VAULT COLLECTION On Blu-ray From The Film Detective
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 3, 2022
THE SHERLOCK HOLMES VAULT COLLECTION is a new Blu-ray set from The Film Detective company, and it contains four films featuring the great detective that were made in the 1930s. Three of the films were made in England, and star Arthur Wontner as Holmes: SHERLOCK HOLMES' FATAL HOUR (aka THE SLEE read more
THE MURDERS IN THE RUE MORGUE (1986)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 2, 2022
This is a 1986 television movie based on Edgar Allan Poe's classic tale, with George C. Scott as master criminologist Auguste Dupin. I remember seeing ads for this before its first showing, but for whatever reason I didn't see it. I stumbled upon it recently on the Tubi streaming channel. read more
My Top Five Blu-rays Of 2021
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 31, 2021
It's the end of another screwed-up year. But hey, I did get to actually attend some baseball games....and I even went to a movie convention, the Monster Bash Conference in Pennsylvania. And I spent plenty of money (as usual) on home video releases of obscure films. So it's time for my yea read more
BEAT GIRL
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 25, 2021
BEAT GIRL (released in the U.S. under the title WILD FOR KICKS) is a 1960 British film concerning teenage rebellion and rock and roll music. It is of interest to fans of English fantastic films due to the cast, which includes Christopher Lee, Oliver Reed, Gillian Hills (DEMONS OF THE MIND), Cl read more
THE FROZEN DEAD
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 19, 2021
THE FROZEN DEAD is a 1966 British horror film, written and directed by Herbert J. Leder. It's a title I finally caught up with the other day, after seeing various stills from it in books and magazines over the years. The movie has many plot elements that are ripe with possibilities, but overal read more
THE INVISIBLE MENACE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 18, 2021
THE INVISIBLE MENACE (1938) is one of a group of films Boris Karloff made under a contract with Warner Bros. in the late 1930s. With horror movies temporarily on the wane, Warners gave Karloff character actor parts. THE INVISIBLE MENACE may sound like an imaginative thriller, but it's ac read more
THE MUTATIONS
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 12, 2021
THE MUTATIONS, filmed in 1972 and released in 1974, is a very weird British horror film that brings to mind the crazy low-budget thriller movies made in the 1940s and 50s. I saw it for the first time on the Xfinity TCM app. A quietly sinister professor named Nolter (Donald Pleasence) lect read more
THE DYBBUK
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 6, 2021
Last week, I had a meeting with a financial advisor who works at my bank. He asked me about my hobbies and interests, and I told how much of a film buff I was. He mentioned that on Halloween he had screened THE DYBBUK, a movie I was aware of but had never seen. Ironically, Turner Classic Movie read more
THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 5, 2021
Universal's 1935 feature THE MYSTERY OF EDWIN DROOD is based on an unfinished work by Charles Dickens (the author died while in the middle of writing it). It contains a number of elements familiar to classic Universal horror, but it is a mystery melodrama, with a climax whipped up by a number read more
THE SPIDER WOMAN STRIKES BACK On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 4, 2021
THE SPIDER WOMAN STRIKES BACK (1946) was made toward the end of what is called Universal's "Silver Age" of thrillers and chillers. The movie is not a sequel to the studio's Sherlock Holmes entry THE SPIDER WOMAN, despite having the same star, Gale Sondergaard. A young woman named Jean (Br read more
SECRET OF THE BLUE ROOM On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 26, 2021
Universal loves to constantly release home video editions of their most famous classics such as FRANKENSTEIN and DRACULA, but they seem to have little interest in their more obscure titles. Thankfully companies like Kino Lorber have taken up the slack. Kino has just put out SECRET OF THE BLUE read more