Peter Lorre is Janos, a poor immigrant who has come to America looking for work in order to get enough money that he might marry his fiancé in The Face Behind the […]
More Than His Appearance – The Face Behind the Mask (1941)
A Reality Worth Fighting For – The Chase (1946)
The Chase, released in 1946, follows the familiar pattern seen in many a film of the down-on-his-luck, war-torn veteran, yet still honest to a fault, fall in with the wrong crowd. Here, […]
Try Not to Get Stung by… – The Deadly Bees (1966)
Dying is hardly ever easy and there are a lot of ways to go when one’s time is up. Whether heart attack, car accident, victim of a serial killer, torn apart by […]
Living Though Dead – Black Friday (1940)
Despite featuring two of horror’s biggest icons in Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi and being marketed as such, Black Friday features very little horror, if any. The story concerns Dr. Ernest Sovac […]
Held Prisoner Upon the… – Island of Doomed Men (1940)
The motion picture called Island of Doomed Men would be a rather forgettable experience if not for the memorable performance of Peter Lorre. It was not a terrible movie as such, but […]
On a Remote Island, the… – She Gods of Shark Reef (1958)
Chris and Jim are brothers, one good and one bad. Unbeknownst to Chris is the truth of Jim’s nature and when the two get shipwrecked upon an island inhabited by only women, […]
Not As He Appears – The Vampire’s Ghost (1945)
Whether describing spies, illicit lovers or creatures of the night, the very best ones are those that can hide in plain sight and for a vampire, it is somewhat essential. There are […]
Out to Discover the… – Secret of the Incas (1954)
At first, it might seem like Secret of the Incas is a lost Indiana Jones feature, what with Charlton Heston looking exactly like Harrison Ford would many years later sans whip. The […]
Spy Versus Spy – Top Secret (1967)
The 1960’s would see quite a few spy thrillers produced, both American and those made abroad with many falling under the Eurospy sub-genre and as a result, often being far more entertaining […]
Helen of Egypt – The Lion of Thebes (1964)
After the Fall of Troy, the infamous Helen and her bodyguard Arion flee the city and make their way to Thebes where they encounter the Pharaoh Ramses. Ramses falls in love with […]
The Telltale Mind 