With Niagara, Marilyn Monroe would receive top billing and would be do something she would never do again – be in a thriller and be a bad girl. Later roles like Bus […]
There is More to See Than Just the Falls in… – Niagara (1953)
Who Wouldn’t? – Some Like It Hot (1958)
There are some that proclaim Some Like It Hot to be the very best film of Marilyn Monroe’s career, even the best of Jack Lemmon and Tony Curtis who also co-star and […]
Too Much… – Monkey Business (1952)
Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers star in Monkey Business as Barnaby and Edwina, a 1952 comedy that finds them acting younger than they are though in reality, you are really only as […]
Look Out Ladies, He Has… – The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Films are often successful for a variety of reasons and this film, like every film, is exactly the same. Three reasons stand out though more than any other – Marilyn Monroe, Tom […]
Beware… The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Universal, who after making four movies with this one being the fifth, decided to retire Kharis and their mummy franchise in favour of other things as it seemed that people perhaps, were […]
More Real Than You Think – The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Ghost begins like the two previous films with the old priest passing on the responsibilities of looking after Kharis, who is indeed still alive, and the Princess Ananka to a […]
You Would Be a Fool to Take… – The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
The first sequel to The Mummy from Universal actually has nothing to do with the original in almost any way and it is a little strange that the studio would do as […]
Do You Dare Wake… – The Mummy (1932)
Joining Dracula, Frankenstein and The Invisible Man back in 1932 from Universal Studios was The Mummy and it would go on to be successful enough to garner itself a number of sequels […]
Take a Ride Down the… – River of No Return (1954)
Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe star in this fairly standard western drama, written by Frank Fenton and directed by the legendary Otto Preminger. While there was no breaking of the mold here, […]
Nothing Will Stop Him – The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)
With the final film in the Invisible Man franchise, it finally returns to its roots, that horror which was proliferated in the first two films and then abandoned in the third and […]
The Telltale Mind 