One Body Too Many is a mystery film with some comedy and horror thrown in for good measure and while it is never all that bad, it is not a film that […]
One Body is… – One Body Too Many (1944)
Treachery and Treason in… – Hell’s Half Acre (1954)
A man is accused of a murder he did not commit while half a country away, a woman hears his voice on a record and believes it is her husband, long-dead from […]
Deceit and Betrayal on… – Hell’s Island (1955)
Hell’s Island is a film noir filmed in VistaVision, a statement that seems utterly ridiculous but with the advent of television during the 1950’s, colour was apparently all the rage and as […]
Not as Tough as He Seems – Pushover (1954)
Fred MacMurray stars in Pushover, a Columbia Pictures release from 1954 and while one can always count on the man for a good performance, the film feels more like Double Indemnity-lite than […]
A Return Stay is Out of the Question – Girl in Room 2A (1974)
One has to wonder just what it is that makes a person want to stay in a place that makes them not only uncomfortable, but truly frightened. Is it obligation, a fear […]
Problems With Memory and Murder – Two O’Clock Courage (1945)
Two O’Clock Courage is a film noir about a man with amnesia and a dead body that is inexplicably tied to him. Running into a female cabbie, she decides to help the […]
One Little… – Smile Before Death (1972)
Silvio Amadio’s Smile Before Death, of which he both wrote with Francesco Villa and directed, is perhaps not the most exciting giallo to come along, but it is an interesting one. It […]
Framed… For Murder! – I Wake Up Screaming (1941)
Whether one wants to call this film I Wake up Screaming or Hot Spot, it is a captivating little noir starring Victor Mature, Betty Grable and Carole Landis. In it, Mature and […]
Murder and Nightmares From Out of… – The Dark Past (1948)
William Holden plays a man on the run who takes a family hostage while Lee J. Cobb plays a psychoanalyst who means to help him. Holden is Al Walker – a killer […]
Quiet and Unassuming, He Was the… – Man in the Attic (1953)
Jack the Ripper was a man accredited with killing five women, though some might suspect that he had innumerable kills to his name. He could have been a doctor or a pauper […]
