The Hitch-Hiker, like many movies before and after it, is based upon real-world events, specifically the story of killer Billy Cook. It stars William Tallman as sociopath Emmett Myers who has been […]
Steve had thought that after two years away, he had left his former life of crime behind. He is on parole, has a job, a wife and leads what some might call […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
