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ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 17, 2023
ILL MET BY MOONLIGHT is a 1957 film based on an actual incident during the German occupation of the island of Crete in World War II. It was the last film written, produced, and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger for their production company The Archers. The movie details th read more
LAUREL & HARDY: YEAR ONE On Blu-ray From Flicker Alley
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 16, 2023
This two-disc set will no doubt wind up on my top five home video releases of 2023. LAUREL & HARDY: YEAR ONE contains 15 silent short subjects, each one featuring Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy. What's notable here is that this set shows the beginnings of the Laurel & Hardy partnership.& read more
Book Review: RETURN OF THE JEDI--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 13, 2023
This is the third book in a series that includes volumes pertaining to the 40th anniversary of STAR WARS in 2017 and THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK in 2020. RETURN OF THE JEDI--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW follows the same pattern as the earlier two books. It features 40 stories from 40 different aut read more
STOLEN FACE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 4, 2023
STOLEN FACE is a 1952 melodrama from Hammer and directed by Terence Fisher. I finally caught up with it on the Tubi streaming channel. STOLEN FACE is unlike most of the productions Hammer made in the early 1950s in that it is not a crime story with noir elements. The story deals with Dr. read more
BRASS TARGET
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Sep 1, 2023
BRASS TARGET (1978) is a WWII/espionage/conspiracy tale centered around the death of General George S. Patton in December of 1945. Patton's death (which came about from injuries he suffered in a car accident) has long been fodder for conspiracy theorists. BRASS TARGET doesn't try to be a read more
VENGEANCE (1968)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 28, 2023
Another Western from director Antonio Margheriti (or Anthony Dawson, if you prefer). VENGEANCE was also co-written by Margheriti. The movie's original Italian title is JOKO INVOCA DIO...E MOURI. This is a more typical Euro Western, with a scruffy loner as the main character, plenty of swe read more
IS PARIS BURNING? On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 26, 2023
As a World War II buff, I've seen nearly every major film that revolves around a battle or campaign from that conflict. One WWII picture I had not yet seen was the 1966 French epic IS PARIS BURNING? Kino has just released a restored version of the film on Blu-ray.IS PARIS BURNING? is essential read more
DYNAMITE JOE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 20, 2023
My quest to seek out movies directed by Antonio Margeriti that I haven't seen begins with the 1967 Euro Western DYNAMITE JOE (also known as JOE L'IMPLACABILE). This movie features Rik Van Nutter as "Dynamite" Joe Ford, a special agent for the U.S. Government after the Civil War. Joe is ca read more
THE OUTSIDER--THE CINEMA OF ANTONIO MARGHERITI
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 19, 2023
One of the new additions to the Tubi streaming channel is the 2013 documentary THE OUTSIDER--THE CINEMA OF ANTONIO MARGHERITI. I have a huge home video collection, and if you sorted it out by director, you'd find there's quite a few titles helmed by Antonio Margheriti. Better known under read more
NAKED GUN
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 14, 2023
This is not THE NAKED GUN, it's just plain NAKED GUN, a 1956 low-budget Western that has a cast that will get the interest of classic sci-fi movie fans. If anything, NAKED GUN has too many characters and subplots for its 69 minute running time. There's a drunken piano player who introduce read more
ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT (1979)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 12, 2023
Last year I chose the German-made adaptation of ALL QUIET ON THE WESTERN FRONT as the best film of 2022. After I wrote a blog post on it a few people mentioned the 1979 TV film of the novel, which I had never seen. Recently I bought an 8-movie DVD set of action films from Edward R. Hamilt read more
LAFAYETTE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 7, 2023
I was going through some of my back issues of CINEMA RETRO (a fine magazine, by the way) when I came across an article on the 1962 French film LAFAYETTE. This was an epic production about Gilbert du Motier, the Marquis de Lafayette, and his involvement in the American Revolution. The CINEMA RE read more
WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 5, 2023
My latest Tubi discovery is the English language version of the 1966 remake of DIE NIBELUNGEN. Like the legendary silent version of the story directed by Fritz Lang, the 1966 version is in two parts, with a massive running time. The title WHOM THE GODS WISH TO DESTROY is affixed to this Englis read more
LADY FOR A NIGHT
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Aug 2, 2023
LADY FOR A NIGHT is a 1942 Republic production starring two of my favorites, Joan Blondell and John Wayne. With the film being set in post-Civil War Memphis, I assumed it was going to be a rollicking period adventure--but it actually is more of a Southern Gothic with a few GONE WITH THE WIND e read more
OPPENHEIMER
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 29, 2023
The best way I can sum up Christopher Nolan's OPPENHEIMER is to call it a thinking person's historical epic. It's a three-hour film filled with all sorts of technical wizardry, but it's really more of an intimate drama than a big-budget spectacle. Despite what the trailers and advertising read more
REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 24, 2023
Another Poverty Row zombie flick? Yes, it's Monogram's 1943 REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES, which has a lot of similarities with the company's earlier KING OF THE ZOMBIES. REVENGE OF THE ZOMBIES starts right out with the "good stuff". On a stormy, windswept night, a mysterious fellow holding a la read more
Book Review: PATRON SAINTS OF THE LIVING DEAD
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 22, 2023
The latest volume in Frank Dello Stritto's series of books combining classic horror film characters with historical fiction is PATRON SAINTS OF THE LIVING DEAD, from Cult Movie Press. Like the other three books in the series (A WEREWOLF REMEMBERS, CARL DENHAM'S GIANT MONSTERS, and THE PAS read more
KING OF THE ZOMBIES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 16, 2023
Another low-budget zombie tale. This time it's the 1941 Monogram production KING OF THE ZOMBIES. Three Americans (John Archer, Dick Purcell, and Mantan Moreland) are flying in a storm somewhere between Cuba and Puerto Rico. The trio crash land on an island, and find it to be inhabited by read more
REVOLT OF THE ZOMBIES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 15, 2023
I'm currently reading Frank Dello Stritto's new book PATRON SAINTS OF THE LIVING DEAD. It's the latest volume in what I call the "Strittoverse", where the author takes various classic movies, TV episodes, and characters and weaves fantastic tales of his own. In PATRON SAINTS, Frank takes on th read more
WILL PENNY On Blu-ray From Kino
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jul 9, 2023
Charlton Heston considered WILL PENNY to be his favorite film role. This unique 1967 Western gets a nice Blu-ray treatment courtesy of Kino Lorber. Heston's Will Penny isn't a larger-than-life legend of the Old West. He's an ordinary man, a true working cowboy, and he's spent his entire l read more