Despite heavy studio cuts, The Lady from Shanghai remains a film noir classic and one of Orson Welles’ best movies. Intended to be a much longer picture than it was, Welles might […]
Mystery and Menace Was… – The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
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 […]
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 […]
Trapped in the… – Valley of the Dragons (1961)
Though cinema was not exactly new in 1961, it was not any cheaper either and a way to keep costs down was to either recycle footage from various sources or to film […]
Come and See the… – Ladies of the Chorus (1948)
The most memorable thing you will take away from Ladies of the Chorus is Marilyn Monroe and a feeling of well-being as it is a happy little film that never fails to […]
All the Makings of a… – Cover Girl (1944)
Gene Kelly, Rita Hayworth and Phil Silvers star in the 1944 musical Cover Girl, a story of misunderstanding more than anything else and one of love when it comes right down to […]
Look Out! She’s… – Homicidal (1961)
Homicidal is a horror film produced and directed by William Castle in 1961 which was memorable for one thing more than anything else, namely Joan Marshall under the pseudonym Jean Arless, playing […]
Matinee Fluff – The Soul of a Monster (1944)
The Soul of a Monster is a 1944 film released by Columbia Pictures, directed by Will Jason and written by Edward Dein. It stars Rose Hobart as Lilyan Gregg, George Macready as […]
There Is Always a Cost – The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
If you like women in prison films then you will most likely be disappointed in this one as it is not like those you classically associate with the genre. Yes, there are […]
The Sins of the Father… – The Son of Dr. Jekyll (1951)
Anyone with the moniker of Jekyll would most likely never have an easy time of it in this world. It brings to mind the image of a man gone mad, that of […]
