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HYSTERIA
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 26, 2019
I haven't seen every movie made by Hammer Films. There's still plenty of titles that have eluded me, including most of the company's output before they produced THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN. I was able to partake in a personal Hammer debut last night, courtesy of Turner Classic Movies. The cable channe read more
WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY On Blu-ray From Severin
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 23, 2019
WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY is the American name for a 1961 Italian/Austrian production originally titled LYCANTHROPUS. The Euro horror has been given a special Blu-ray release courtesy of Severin Films.
WEREWOLF IN A GIRLS' DORMITORY may be a silly title, but it's a memorable one, and it has en read more
BIG CITY BLUES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 21, 2019
It's Pre-Code time again with the 1932 Warner Bros. feature BIG CITY BLUES. The film stars Joan Blondell as a--you guessed it--struggling chorus girl, and it has elements of other Pre-Codes the actress starred in such as UNION DEPOT and CENTRAL PARK.
Bud Reeves (Eric Linden) is a callow young man f read more
MIDWAY
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 19, 2019
I have to admit that when I first heard about the 2019 film version of MIDWAY, I had serious doubts. Roland Emmerich as the director? Woody Harrelson as Admiral Nimitz? It turns out that the movie is actually a quite accurate and well done interpretation of the events surrounding one of the greatest read more
My Favorite Gooey Films Performances
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 14, 2019
Recently my great friend Joshua Kennedy mentioned to me that next year will be the 10th anniversary of his first film to receive an official home video release, ATTACK OF THE OCTOPUS PEOPLE. I told him that this means the "Gooey Films Universe" is now a decade old (Gooey Films being the chosen name read more
THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 10, 2019
I discovered this 2016 documentary on Tubi. It details one man's quixotic attempt to recover a large film set that was built--and supposedly buried--on the central coast of California.
The writer, producer, and director of THE LOST CITY OF CECIL B. DEMILLE, Peter Brosnan, had heard a story in the e read more
Bela Lugosi And His Personal Assistant Problem
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 9, 2019
While watching the Blu-ray of THE HUMAN MONSTER, a realization popped in my head. In that movie Bela Lugosi is assisted in his villainous activities by a disfigured hulking blind man played by Wilfred Walter. It occurred to me that throughout his screen career Lugosi had many unique "helpers" who di read more
THE HUMAN MONSTER/DARK EYES OF LONDON On Blu-ray From VCI
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 7, 2019
In the spring of 1939, Bela Lugosi was in London, England, starring in a film based on Edgar Wallace's novel DARK EYES OF LONDON. The movie would be released in America by Monogram under the title THE HUMAN MONSTER. The result is one of Bela's best showcases. The movie has long been one of the most read more
Book Review: GEORGE LUCAS--A LIFE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 2, 2019
I picked this volume up at a local Meijers at a discount--there's nothing better than getting books cheap.
In high school back in the 1980s I read the first major biography of George Lucas, SKYWALKING, by Dale Pollock. This newer book by Brian Jay Jones is a much more thorough examination of the fi read more
Rating The Amicus Anthologies
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 30, 2019
Amicus Productions is best known as being a rival to Hammer Films in the making of various horror and science-fiction films during the 1960s and 1970s. While Hammer became famous for their English Gothic titles, the British-based Amicus (headed by Americans Max Rosenberg and Milton Subotsky) stuck m read more
TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 26, 2019
I am a huge fan of the Three Stooges, but until this week I had never seen the 1941 film TIME OUT FOR RHYTHM. This was one of the very few full-length features the Stooges appeared in during their long time working for Columbia Pictures.
I've never understood why the Stooges didn't get more chances read more
THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN Original Soundtrack Recording On CD
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 24, 2019
La-La Land Records has released a CD of original soundtrack music from THE BRIDE OF FRANKENSTEIN as part of the Universal Pictures Film Music Heritage Collection. It is not the complete original soundtrack--according to the liner notes only about 35 minutes of the score exist--but it is more than en read more
HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 23, 2019
HERCULES IN THE HAUNTED WORLD (1961) isn't just another cheesy sword & sandal movie. It is a phantasmagorical wonder, allowing Mario Bava's creativity and ingenuity to run riot (even if the film's budget didn't).
Kino has given the title a magnificent Region A Blu-ray release, which contains tw read more
THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 16, 2019
The latest issue of Richard Klemensen's LITTLE SHOPPE OF HORRORS, #43, is chock full of goodies. Two films are exhaustively covered in this issue. The first one is CHILDREN OF THE DAMNED, the almost-forgotten sequel to the original VILLAGE OF THE DAMNED.
The second is THE BLOOD BEAST TERROR, a 1967 read more
FFOLKES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 14, 2019
Roger Moore was born on this day in 1927, so there's no better time to write a blog post on Kino's new Region A Blu-ray of the 1980 action-suspense film FFOLKES.
Moore plays Rufus Excalibur ffolkes (the first letter in his last name is supposed to be smaller-case), a rather eccentric underwater exp read more
MADEMOISELLE FIFI
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 12, 2019
This month being October, one naturally thinks about classic horror films. Producer Val Lewton is most famous for the series of thrillers he made at RKO in the 1940s. Writer Guy de Maupassant penned many renowned tales of terror. MADEMOISELLE FIFI is a 1944 film that Lewton produced based on two of read more
THE FIRST TEXAN
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 5, 2019
Last week a wrote a post about the 2004 THE ALAMO. This week I viewed another film dealing with subject of Texas independence: THE FIRST TEXAN, a 1956 production that is a mini-biography of Sam Houston.
Joel McCrea portrays Sam Houston, and here the statesman comes off like just about every other M read more
FIELD OF DREAMS And The Black Sox Scandal
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Oct 1, 2019
This week is the 100th anniversary of the 1919 World Series. For those of you who are not baseball fans, the 1919 World Series is one of the most infamous events in American cultural history. During that series, the American League champion Chicago White Sox faced off against the National League cha read more
THE ALAMO (2004)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 28, 2019
My birthday was earlier this week, and as a present my great friend Josh Kennedy sent me a DVD of the 2004 version of THE ALAMO. Josh has been trying to get me to see this movie for years.
Josh is a native Texan, which means that the legend of the Alamo has made a huge impression on him. Josh can l read more
Book Review: THE MAKING OF DUNE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 21, 2019
A couple weeks ago I visited my brother Robert in Illinois, and while there we went to a Half-Price Books store. I picked up three titles--one on the Fatty Arbuckle scandal, a Carole Lombard biography, and THE MAKING OF DUNE.
The 1984 version of DUNE, which was directed by David Lynch, is now consi read more