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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
THE GIANT CLAW On Blu-ray From Arrow
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 25, 2021
Since this is Thanksgiving morning, I might as well present one of the biggest (literally and figuratively) cinematic turkeys of all: THE GIANT CLAW (1957).This is by far the most notorious film included in Arrow Video's COLD WAR CREATURES: FOUR FILMS FROM SAM KATZMAN Blu-ray set. Its notoriet read more
My 1,000th Blog Post: VIGIL IN THE NIGHT
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 21, 2021
This is post #1000 of The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog. One Thousand!!?? I can't believe I've written a thousand of these things....and I can't believe that they've had much of an overall effect. Nevertheless, I plan on continuing to write them for the time being. I tried to figure out read more
MALAYA
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 20, 2021
James Stewart's feature movie debut was the 1935 MGM production THE MURDER MAN, in which he played a supporting role to Spencer Tracy. Stewart and Tracy would go on to become two of MGM's biggest stars, but the only movie in which they actually co-starred together was MALAYA (1950). James read more
DARK SHADOWS AND BEYOND: THE JONATHAN FRID STORY
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 14, 2021
When it comes to the American TV Gothic soap opera DARK SHADOWS, I have to admit that I am not a major expert on it. I own a Blu-ray of the first theatrical film based on the series, HOUSE OF DARK SHADOWS (which is very good), and I know the basics behind it, and its impact on popular culture. read more
ROCKY IV: ROCKY VS. DRAGO
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 13, 2021
ROCKY IV: ROCKY VS. DRAGO is writer-director-star Sylvester Stallone's reinterpretation of his famed ROCKY IV, one of the ultimate examples of 1980s American pop culture. I wasn't able to see this at its only recent theatrical showing, but I did view it on AppleTV. There's a bit of a diff read more
THE WEREWOLF On Blu-ray From Arrow
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 7, 2021
It's back to Arrow Video's COLD WAR CREATURES: FOUR FILMS FROM SAM KATZMAN Blu-ray set. This time I'll be looking at THE WEREWOLF (1956). THE WEREWOLF is by far the best film in this set. It's not as outlandish as the other entries, and it's downbeat and realistic tone makes it stand out. read more
AN ANGEL FOR SATAN On Blu-ray From Severin
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 6, 2021
AN ANGEL FOR SATAN (1966) is the last true Italian Gothic film that the iconic Barbara Steele starred in. The movie finally gets a proper official Blu-ray release courtesy of Severin Films. Sometime in the 19th Century, a young artist named Roberto (Anthony Steffen) travels to an Italian read more
THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 5, 2021
French filmmaker Abel Gance will always be known for his stupendous silent-era epic NAPOLEON. But he also made another movie featuring the famed conqueror--a 1959 production called THE BATTLE OF AUSTERLITZ (aka just AUSTERLITZ). I recently purchased a bargain-priced DVD of this film from read more