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)
Four Colour Thoughts – Nancy Drew #1
The Creators – Kelly Thompson – Writer, Jenn St-Onge – Artist, Triona Farrell – Colours, Ariana Maher – Letters The Players – Nancy Drew, Frank Hardy, Joe Hardy, Bess Marvin, George Fayne […]
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 […]
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 […]
Not All As It Seems – The Good Neighbor (2016)
Humans are curious creatures, always wanting to know what their friends or co-workers or even strangers are up to. That curiosity can account for the rise in popularity of reality television, the […]
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 […]
After Serving Her Time, She Was Still… – The Hunted (1948)
Preston Foster and Belita star in the 1948 film noir The Hunted, as directed by Jack Bernhard. It finds Foster as a police detective who even after sending his girlfriend to prison […]
