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 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

 Yesterday news broke about the passing of actress Yvonne Furneaux, best known now for being the leading lady of Hammer Films' 1959 THE MUMMY. The dark-haired exotic Furneaux also appeared in LA DOLCE VITA and REPULSION, and she also starred in a number of Italian historical adventures filmed i read more

 THE KING AND THE CHORUS GIRL is a 1937 romantic comedy from Warner Bros., directed by Mervyn LeRoy and starring Fernand Gravet & Joan Blondell. The movie was written by Norman Krasna and none other than Groucho Marx. Alfred (Fernand Gravet) is an ex-king of an unnamed European country read more

 In August of 1959 Christopher Lee worked on two different films with very similar plots. Both movies dealt with the tawdry world of London strip joints. The first, BEAT GIRL, is a picture I wrote a blog post about a couple years ago. The second, TOO HOT TO HANDLE (titled PLAYGIRL AFTER DARK in read more

 One of the many impressive things about the SCRIPTS FOR THE CRYPT: THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN book is that it contains a reproduction of an entire early script for the film, written by Eric Taylor. (Taylor is credited on THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN for the original story.) This script is signific read more

Included on Kino's SCI-FI CHILLERS Blu-ray release is the 1966 underwater adventure DESTINATION INNER SPACE. The story takes place in a sea lab resting on the ocean floor, crewed by scientists and civilians. The lab has picked up a strange underwater signal, and a Naval Commander named Wayne (S read more

 The 16th volume in the SCRIPTS FROM THE CRYPT series from Bear Manor Media focuses on THE GHOST OF FRANKENSTEIN, Universal's 1942 follow-up to SON OF FRANKENSTEIN. What makes this book particularly noteworthy is that it's nearly 400 pages, a treasure trove of facts, trivia, commentary, analysi read more

 THE UNKNOWN TERROR (1957) was previously unknown to me. The movie is included in Kino's SCI-FI CHILLERS COLLECTION, a two-disc set containing three films. Rich explorer Dan Matthews (John Howard) intends to go searching for the mysterious "Cave of Death", a place where his wife's brother read more

 The final film in the Kino Philo Vance Collection Blu-ray release is THE BENSON MURDER CASE (1930). It was the third Vance film made by Paramount starring William Powell, but it was based on the very first Vance novel written by S.S. Van Dine. After the Wall Street crash of 1929, plenty o read more