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 Among my recent purchases from Edward R. Hamilton Booksellers was a $6 DVD, a Kino double feature of two 1950s British comedies starring Alec Guinness, one of my favorite actors. Today I'll be discussing THE CAPTAIN'S PARADISE, a 1953 film produced & directed by Anthony Kimmins. THE C read more

 This is another entry in the German Rialto series of Edgar Wallace Krimi thrillers. THE STRANGE COUNTESS (1961) concerns a young London secretary named Margaret Reedle (Brigitte Grothum). Margaret is getting ready to take on a new position, but she's getting threatening phone calls, and there' read more

 Director Roland West's THE BAT WHISPERS is a 1930 sound remake of his silent 1926 film THE BAT, based on the popular play by Mary Roberts Rinehart and Avery Hopwood. THE BAT was one of the main progenitors of the "Old Dark House" mystery thriller story that had a major impact on American popul read more

 This is another Krimi thriller from Germany, one of the earlier ones, actually the second in the Rialto series of Edgar Wallace films. THE RED CIRCLE (1960) was based on Wallace's THE CRIMSON CIRCLE. The movie gets your attention at the start, with a sequence showing a botched attempt at read more

 This is one of the better entries in the series of German films made in the 1960s based on the works of British mystery writer Edgar Wallace. This Krimi has an iconic title character, a hooded, cloaked figure who carries a whip and is quite proficient at using it. Like many of the other German read more

 PUBLIC HERO #1 is a 1935 MGM gangster story with some comedic elements. Much of the film is inspired by the criminal life of John Dillinger. The movie begins with Jeff Crane (Chester Morris) being incarcerated in a large prison. Once inside, Crane goes out of his way to cause as much trou read more

 I've seen most of the epic World War II movies made in the 1950s and 60s, but until last night THE VICTORS (1963) had eluded me. The movie has never been officially released on DVD or Blu-ray in North America, and I don't remember any TV showings of it in my area during my younger days. T read more

 Last night I had the great privilege of seeing the 70th anniversary restoration of Akira Kurosawa's SEVEN SAMURAI on the big screen, at the Browning Cinema on the campus of the University of Notre Dame, along with my good friend Paul Lyzun. Seeing SEVEN SAMURAI under any circumstances is read more

 This is another Tubi discovery, a movie I had never heard of. It's a Cold War espionage tale that came out after the 1960s spy craze had already died down. It doesn't try to be an exciting Bond-like glitzy adventure--it takes the dour John Le Carre route of lies, deceit, and bureaucratic infig read more

 SWING HIGH, SWING LOW is the third of four films made by Paramount that starred Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray. Today the movie, which fell into public domain, is only available in a mediocre-looking version that doesn't give credit to the talent and effort of those who worked on it. Turner read more

 RENDEZVOUS is a 1935 World War One spy story from MGM, with (unfortunately) a lot of light comedic elements. The film is set in 1917, and former newspaperman Bill Gordon (William Powell) is itching to get to the front. American intelligence agencies, however, want Bill to work for them st read more

 I haven't seen every film made by Amicus Productions, the British outfit run by producers Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky that was a rival to Hammer Films in the 1960s and 70s, but I think it's safe to say that the worst movie from that company has to be the 1967 science fiction story THE TE read more

 One of my favorite movie genres is the World War II film. It might be surprising to some how extensive that genre is--there's still plenty of major features about the conflict that I haven't caught up to yet. Last night I viewed for the first time a 1955 British production called THE COCKLESHE read more

 THE LAST REBEL is a 1971 Euro Western that features professional football star quarterback Joe Namath as the leading man--and that's the most noteworthy thing about it. Somewhere in Missouri in April, 1865, Confederate soldiers Hollis (Joe Namath) and Matt (Jack Elam) are at a lonely outp read more

 Since I wrote a post on END OF THE WORLD yesterday, I might as well do one on the other 1977 sci-fi flick starring Christopher Lee: STARSHIP INVASIONS. Lee plays Captain Rameses, the commander of a flying saucer and its crew who are sent to Earth to determine if the planet is suitable for read more

 One thing about being a Christopher Lee fan is that you can never run out of titles in which to watch him perform. END OF THE WORLD is a 1977 science fiction story, produced in the USA by Charles Band, which I recently acquired on DVD (at a cheap price of course). 1977 saw the release of read more

 THE GIANT OF MARATHON is a 1959 Italian-French historical epic dealing with the conflict between Greece and Persia in 490 B.C. It stars Steve Reeves, who had helped start the Golden Age of Sword & Sandal adventures after playing Hercules in the late 1950s. In this film Reeves is Phill read more

 BLANCHE FURY is a 1948 British Victorian melodrama starring Valerie Hobson and Stewart Granger. Set around 1860, the story concerns Blanche Fuller (Valerie Hobson), a young woman working as a servant. Blanche's parents are deceased, and she's on her own, trying to support herself. Her hea read more

 PERSECUTION (1974) is one of the most obscure titles made during the Golden Age of the British horror film. It's a mediocre variation of PSYCHO, with a cast that deserved a much better production. This is a movie that starts out with a young boy drowning a cat in a bowl of milk....and it read more

 One of my annual outings is attending the Monster Bash Conference held in Western Pennsylvania. Ron Adams (the head honcho of the festivities) and his hard-working staff do a fantastic job, and the weekend is filled with fun and classic horror/sci-fi fan camaraderie. This recent Monster B read more