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368,292 | 2,707,735 | 52,846 | 4 | There was this big pink and black thing drove right in front of me . . . . | Hot rods and gila monsters ! - now there's a mix that absolutely demands attention . " The Giant Gila Monster " opens ominously enough with sinister music but quickly turns into " At the Hop " , at a pace that is repeated enough times in the movie to keep you off balance . It's difficult to get a fix on just how monstr... |
367,837 | 2,707,735 | 55,294 | 4 | Activate the gravity field ! | One of the first revelations that this was going to be a fun camp film was it's setting in the way distant future of 1980 , replete with space age jargon and a goal to find out what's been happening to prior lost space missions . I found myself making comparisons between " The Phantom Planet " and the TV Series " Star ... |
367,618 | 2,707,735 | 58,548 | 4 | From this spot there's only one direction you can go , and that's South . | I first became aware of " Santa Claus Conquers The Martians " when I saw the Dell Comic Book adaptation of the movie . That was about a dozen years ago , so when this film showed up on the Mill Creek / Tree Line compilation of fifty sci-fi classics , it was the capstone to an outrageous mix of mostly goofy flicks that ... |
367,852 | 2,707,735 | 37,720 | 4 | Me heap big Indian Chief , make Pow-Wow ! | If Richard Simmons had been part of the cast , this could have easily passed for an extended episode of ' Sergeant Preston of the Yukon ' , the Alaskan style TV Western of the late 1950's . The story dealt with a quartet of villains after a cache of valuable animal furs , but manages to sidetrack into a badly cliché ri... |
368,445 | 2,707,735 | 39,912 | 4 | Leisurely hunter have time to stalk prey , but hunter in haste must set trap . | It's not clear to me what the trap is that's suggested by the title of this film , other than Charlie Chan's instruction to Sergeant Reynolds ( Kirk Alyn ) to guard the distance between a Malibu beach house and a nearby cabana . You know Charlie Chan is in for a rough investigation when it involves nine women , soon to... |
368,345 | 2,707,735 | 47,501 | 4 | Go , make your war . | Right out of the gate , it probably would have been best if this film came with a warning to sit back and view it as the work of fiction that it is , rather than try to figure out which elements may or may not have been historically accurate . As it is , I'm ready to dismiss it entirely as a contrived piece of movie ma... |
367,854 | 2,707,735 | 52,969 | 4 | Looks like somebody's getting rid of somebody , huh Captain ? | After delivering supplies to a desolate but inhabited island , Captain Thorne Sherman ( James Best ) wisely decides that with a threatening hurricane about to make landfall , it would make sense to stick around at least for one night until things blow over . However Dr . Marlowe Craigis ( Baruch Lumet ) and his daughte... |
368,137 | 2,707,735 | 58,384 | 4 | I'm seein ' it . and I'm feelin ' it , but I don't believe it ! | My summary line above pretty much says it all about " Muscle Beach Party " , and quite honestly I think , for the entire beach movie genre . Not that I'm an expert , the only other one I've seen is " Beach Blanket Bingo " , but it strikes me that this is the kind of film that's fascinating in the same kind of way as a ... |
367,555 | 2,707,735 | 25,903 | 4 | My gosh , he get away ! | By now I've seen most of John Wayne's Westerns for Lone Star Productions , and this one so far ranks just above " The Lawless Frontier " as the poorest of the bunch . Interestingly they were made back to back in 1934 in about the middle of the run , both directed by Robert North Bradbury . Plot points and continuity di... |
368,283 | 2,707,735 | 33,427 | 4 | Never mind my inefficiency , you just watch your step . | Tom Bryant ( Johnny Mack Brown ) and his sidekick Burt Pennypacker ( Fuzzy Knight ) are headed to Bullion City to open a newspaper business , but before getting established , they find themselves up against a crooked sheriff who's been staging robberies in the territory with his outlaw deputies . When a large gold ship... |
367,774 | 2,707,735 | 52,929 | 4 | I want to believe that I'm out of my mind John , but I can't . | Oh boy ! , this is one of the best bad movies you'll ever see , with elements of horror and sci-fi blending together to produce a cult classic . It's got one of those ' warning from outer space ' themes , complete with invisible aliens who make their point with Earthlings by taking over dead bodies and wreaking havoc a... |
368,179 | 2,707,735 | 29,799 | 4 | We gotta finish like we began - together ! | Well now , here's a crackerjack idea - let's rob the bank where I work , turn ourselves in the next day , do the time , and when we get out , get the money and live happily ever after . This might have worked if a little more thought was put into it , but instead what you have is a pretty lame story that fails on just ... |
367,614 | 2,707,735 | 27,255 | 4 | Ace , you were cold decked by that gambler in Nevada , and he's deader now than my Aunt Emma's hopes of matrimony . | As the film's title suggests , the famed aces and eights poker hand plays a role in the outcome of the story , but this time it's not a murder . Cowboy star Tim McCoy portrays Gentleman Tim Madigan , a card sharp who's not above a little bottom dealing himself . His reputation is so renowned that posters warn other gam... |
368,073 | 2,707,735 | 58,341 | 4 | As long as there is need , there'll be Sons of Hercules . | I don't know about you , but the first appearance of Anthar ( Kirk Morris ) and his mute friend seemed a bit disturbing , adding fuel to the argument that the genre has a special appeal for gay audiences . Their attire , if it can be called that , looks like over-sized diapers , and speaking from a non prurient perspec... |
367,613 | 2,707,735 | 58,311 | 4 | I know that you're strong enough to crush me , but it's worth the risk . | There was a period of time in the 1960's when I OD'd on films in the Hercules genre , as if there even was such a thing . Steve Reeves was the best of course , and his films were fairly watchable . Reg Park was a reasonable substitute , and then you got down to all those beefcake Maciste's portrayed by guys with two fi... |
368,168 | 2,707,735 | 29,578 | 4 | From now on , our policy is to crusade against vice ! | Well the title is a lot more suggestive than the story ever gets to be . The most exploitative this flick ever gets is showing a half dozen or so young girls in their undies , and they didn't seem to mind all that much . The trigger for the plot occurs right at the outset with a botched kidnap attempt ( the girl was wa... |
368,518 | 2,707,735 | 49,615 | 4 | I'm an oceanographer , the ocean is my business , day or night . | Released in 1956 , " The Phantom From 10 , 000 Leagues " may have been trying to capitalize on the Creature From the Black Lagoon trilogy ( 1954-1956 ) . There's no time wasted here , the " phantom " makes his first appearance within fifteen seconds of the film's beginning to claim it's first victim . Washed ashore , t... |
367,579 | 2,707,735 | 356,618 | 4 | An appropriate name for this film . | The Forgotten doesn't play fair with it's audience , it starts out as one kind of movie and ends up another . The first half treats us to what appears to be a very suspenseful mystery and psychological drama , then it spirals downhill into a sci-fi movie . Looking back on the film , we are given a hint of what's to c... |
367,836 | 2,707,735 | 53,250 | 4 | We'll fly following a hyperbolic trajectory . | No space monsters , no death rays , no strange alien beings . Perhaps I've been conditioned by too many cheesy sci-fi and horror films of the ' s era , but " First Spaceship on Venus " is simply so boring that it overrides the few inventive elements that it otherwise contains . There is one humorous idea though that st... |
368,576 | 2,707,735 | 29,542 | 4 | It might be a good idea Sir , to phone the police . | So , does anybody know who killed Caleb Delthern and Winstead Comstock ? The newspaper headline stated that ' Amateur Criminologist , Granston , Solves Baffling Case ' . Maybe they should have let the viewer in on the little secret . Are we supposed to believe the butler did it ? Maybe Charlie Chan should have been alo... |
367,564 | 2,707,735 | 39,987 | 4 | As the outcast and the black gorilla met , the jungle vibrated with their wild battle cry . | Did you ever play that game where someone starts a story and then turns it over to the next person to carry it forward , and so on ? Well that looks pretty much how " The White Gorilla " was put together , with this requirement - each story teller has to introduce a new person , and must include either a lion or an ele... |
368,010 | 2,707,735 | 69,159 | 4 | Go get ' em . | You know , I must have missed something here because this story just didn't make much sense . During the Civil War , Union Colonel Pembroke ( James Coburn ) surrenders his position at Fort Holman to Rebel forces , and once court martialed , makes an offer to Major Charles Ballard to take the fort back with a handful of... |
368,356 | 2,707,735 | 38,017 | 4 | I like to have you and my other enemies together so I can see what you're all doing . | One shot , 2 bullets , no gun - that's the common denominator in three separate murders being investigated by Charlie Chan in Mexico City . The motive for the murders is a set of research notes and a formula for an atomic bomb which the killer is after . Adding to the mystery is the fact that there are no rifling marks... |
367,915 | 2,707,735 | 64,175 | 4 | I don't like to have to thank somebody too many times . | This is a fairly obtuse Western , filmed altogether too dark and muddy that comes complemented by circus trapeze artists , midget clowns and dancing girls . There's also the hint of a homosexual flavor peppered throughout , with two shaggy males dancing cheek to cheek in an opening scene , and glistening male torsos sw... |
368,496 | 2,707,735 | 58,084 | 4 | When life is suspended , time has no meaning at all . | Frozen Alive plays it straight throughout it's eighty minute running time , and that might be it's biggest downside . With no pseudo scientific jargon to camp it up and little in the way of action , the film offers an early look at the field of cryogenics with a slight detour into a murder mystery . Dr . Frank Overto... |
368,254 | 2,707,735 | 38,246 | 4 | All right Mumbo Jumbo , bring the Fraulein with us . | I went into " White Pongo " cold , preferring not to read the DVD sleeve to get a hint of the story . Lo and behold , it's another in a long line of gorilla films that found popularity in the 1940's , that perhaps thought it could enrich itself with a name no one had ever heard of before or since . Pongo rhymes with Co... |
368,134 | 2,707,735 | 40,399 | 4 | I hope you get bit by a rattlesnake ! | I'd have to say that this was a little embarrassing for the ' King of the Cowboys ' ; made in 1948 , the picture came out a decade after Roy Rogers ' earliest pictures in which he had a starring role . Roy's character comes off as a bit clueless in this one , along with his female co-star Jane Frazee , who alternates h... |
367,807 | 2,707,735 | 25,543 | 4 | You stuck your nose in the wrong place once too often . . . | Here's a curious little programmer from Monogram Pictures , probably the best known of the Poverty Row studios of the 1930's . The basis of the story has to do with the testing of a newly invented device in the form of a glass tube operated by radio that was designed to control a passenger ship . The gizmo is classifie... |
368,590 | 2,707,735 | 27,434 | 4 | I wouldn't send any man's soul where your's is going without a chance . | Young Asa Knox is taken away from his surviving family by an outlaw after his father is killed . Mrs . Knox heads back to St . Joseph , Missouri with her other son Clint . The Knox family's original destination was California during the glory days of the Gold Rush , so for the math to work , the Knox boys would have ju... |
367,745 | 2,707,735 | 44,777 | 4 | . . . in the jungle , you're not always given a second chance . | Gee , what would have possessed Jungle Jim ( Johnny Weissmuller ) to take on a hippo , and under water no less ? That's one of the offerings in ' The Forbidden Land ' , as the jungle hero aids an anthropologist seeking the fabled Land of Giant People . When a couple of the ' giants ' actually appear for the first time ... |
367,744 | 2,707,735 | 49,403 | 4 | Just one thing Jason , rifles and women don't mix . | Nor apparently , do rifles and Comanches , as the Indians are shown to be willing to fight and kill for them , or conversely , are willing to fight and kill once they have them . I couldn't help thinking while watching , as another viewer commented on this board , that here was a half century early preview of the polit... |
367,860 | 2,707,735 | 25,465 | 4 | Tonight my dear Maxwell , I'm ready to try my experiment on a human . | I've never been at a loss to describe a film , but this time I think I've met my match . With no idea of what I was in for , " Maniac " managed to turn a mere fifty one minutes into a hallucinogenic experience without the drugs . With lines like " What I want is a victim with a shattered heart " , and " What was IN tha... |
367,953 | 2,707,735 | 25,440 | 4 | Oh for goodness sake , I do love murder trials , don't you ? | Jerry Mason ( John Wayne ) is fresh out of college and has sought out old friend Jake Benson ( George pre " Gabby " Hayes ) . Together they open up a blacksmith shop , but wind up prospecting a gold strike after following up on a quartz nugget removed from a lame horse's hoof . Their mining work allows them to while aw... |
368,367 | 2,707,735 | 25,455 | 4 | I didn't get you into this to get yourself killed . | The Man From Utah opens with a singing cowboy strumming a guitar on horseback . This is how we're introduced to John Weston ( John Wayne ) , heading into town and looking for work . When he helps Marshal Higgins ( George pre-Gabby Hayes ) foil a bank robbery with his fancy shooting , the marshal offers him an underco... |
368,039 | 2,707,735 | 25,452 | 4 | You have beaten my wife and she's gone off with another man ; you are a dirty dog . | I'll have to admit that I'm at a disadvantage here ; when I learn more about a film from other reviewers than from watching it myself , then that's a problem . Although the plot of " The Man Who Knew Too Much " seems generally straightforward , the movie allows too many cryptic elements to get in the way of what could ... |
368,096 | 2,707,735 | 31,387 | 4 | Now you just sit tight Mr . Stevens , the gorilla will get you over our dead bodies . | A newspaper headline in an opening scene states " Police Claim Gorilla a Professional Killer " . When a wealthy businessman is threatened with a note tied to a rock and thrown through his window , Walter Stevens ( Lionel Atwill ) hires on the Ritz Brothers to protect him . By the time the story is over , the film will ... |
368,114 | 2,707,735 | 53,611 | 4 | Well , we might as well get outta here . | There's just enough of a story and an almost sensible scientific rationale to the proceedings to make " Attack of the Giant Leeches " an entertaining hour , though it IS offset by cheesy monster costumes reminiscent of DC Comics ' Starro the Conqueror . When the philandering wife ( Yvette Vickers ) of a saloon owner di... |
368,052 | 2,707,735 | 42,713 | 4 | Skipper , this isn't gorilla country ! | Having just watched the Jungle Jim adventure " The Lost Tribe " with it's wild gorilla finale , I was a whole lot better prepared for this one with the word ' Gorilla ' actually in the title . Unexpectedly though , the apes were revealed to be men in gorilla suits , in a scheme to loot the lost gold treasure of Shalaka... |
368,267 | 2,707,735 | 55,830 | 4 | Thank you , but I'm never coming back . | I was rather surprised to see the IMDb overall rating of 7 . 0 for " Carnival of Souls " at the time of my posting ; the film for me straddles the line between pretentious and artsy . The lone survivor of a car driven off a bridge wanders out of the river in shock , only to be viewed in the next scene preparing to take... |
368,054 | 2,707,735 | 24,805 | 4 | Some men are like books written in a strange language , and that makes it awfully hard to read them . | Daddy Chris Morrell ( John Wayne ) is the guardian of a young Indian girl who stands to inherit fifty thousand dollars , whether or not her rightful father is ever found . Bad guy Sam Black wants that money , and is hot on the trail of Morrell and the girl . The action takes place in Snake River , used as the locale ... |
368,391 | 2,707,735 | 51,993 | 4 | I think we should see what I look like under the fluoroscope ! | What a travesty of movie ratings injustice - a 2 . 1 on the IMDb scale as I write this . Folks , this is a lot closer to a 3 . 0 , I'll even go out on a limb and say 4 . 0 where I've put it . Come on - how can you have a movie about a net of static electricity surrounding the earth and alien amorphic cell structures , ... |
368,151 | 2,707,735 | 52,077 | 4 | My friends , we cannot keep this a secret any longer . . . | OK , let's get this whole ' worst movie ever made ' business out of the way real quick - Plan 9 is NOT . Not when " Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet " , " The Incredible Petrified World " , and " She Gods of Shark Reef " all occupy a space on this planet . I've been giving this a lot of thought , and for my money , a m... |
368,161 | 2,707,735 | 38,409 | 4 | I'd say she was contemplating a voyage . | I strongly disapprove of a film where I have to rewind to understand what's going on , especially if the person I've just seen murdered shows up again in her bedroom writing in her diary . It's all part of a pill addled nightmare sequence experienced by Chuck Scott ( Robert Cummings ) , newly hired chauffeur to gangste... |
367,897 | 2,707,735 | 125,737 | 4 | Naughty , naughty , don't ask me too many questions . | The only other reviewer at the time of my posting states that the quality of his VHS transfer was excellent , while my ' remastered ' DVD print is about as second rate as they come . A lot of jump cuts and missed dialog however doesn't hurt the flow of the story all that much , but even so , what you're left with it ar... |
368,007 | 2,707,735 | 198,660 | 4 | You have the back of a toad and the venom of a snake . | I'm not a devotee of these action kung fu flicks , but every once in a while they're a neat change of pace . This one is almost entirely fighting from start to finish between a core trio of antagonists , Master Ma , Little Fatty and Chun Wu . Little Fatty appears to be the central character , owing his martial arts abi... |
368,584 | 2,707,735 | 29,005 | 4 | Just at the present time I find horse tradin ' most interestin ' . | In a case of mistaken identity , Tex Ritter is arrested for murder and horse theft , but with the situation grim , there's still plenty of time for a handful of tunes that are actually pretty good for a Western as early as this one . Qualifying that , it's Ray Whitley and his Range Ramblers that provide the quality ent... |
368,339 | 2,707,735 | 26,759 | 4 | When this ship sails , death sails on her . | Reading some of the positive posts on this film leads me to wonder whether I watched the same movie . There's probably only one reason to catch this picture , that being the presence of Bela Lugosi . However with the bad editing of what survives in the American release of " Phantom Ship " , even Lugosi's performance ra... |
367,970 | 2,707,735 | 48,238 | 4 | Let's see if we can make the little rascal talk . | For all intents and purposes this is another in a string of Jungle Jim adventure movies , except that Johnny Weissmuller appears in this one using his own name . Most of the typical JJ scenarios are presented except for Weissmuller wrestling some hapless stuffed animal or underwater blow up creature . Otherwise it's pr... |
367,840 | 2,707,735 | 450,278 | 4 | Hostel or Hustle , you decide . | This type of horror fare is not my usual cup , but based on other viewers positive raves , I felt compelled to give it a try . Not without some trepidation did I purchase my ticket for what I felt would be a squeamish couple of hours . I don't know anything about director Eli Roth , but with Quentin Tarantino's name at... |
368,227 | 2,707,735 | 30,832 | 4 | You must produce the goddess , if you fail , you die ! | This is the kind of movie I usually delight in making fun of , but I'll hold back a bit in deference to one of my three childhood fictional heroes ( the others - Superman and The Lone Ranger ) . I'm sure the film makers tried hard to put together a serious picture , but the result was somewhat dubious . The best I can ... |
367,848 | 2,707,735 | 30,845 | 4 | Seems to me , I smell somethin ' that should be buried , smelly like a polecat . | Since adding the Encore Western Channel to my cable TV lineup I've been overdosing on that particular genre , so I thought I'd take a break to check out a four disc , twenty movie DVD package I picked up from Mill Creek Entertainment . It's called ' Cult Classics ' , and the title that immediately called out to me was ... |
368,111 | 2,707,735 | 30,820 | 4 | Well listen , I'd match him with an ape if the customers could tell them apart . | Swing Your Lady may not offer Humphrey Bogart his strangest role ( for that , try 1939's " The Return of Doctor X " ) , but it sure is his goofiest . Bogey is wrestling promoter Ed Hatch , heading up an entourage that includes his protégé Joe Skopapoulos ( Nat Pendleton ) , trainers Popeye Bronson ( Frank McHugh ) an... |
368,457 | 2,707,735 | 183,884 | 4 | You can never tell what you're gonna run into at four o'clock in the morning . | Someone , somewhere , at some time must have thought this was a pretty good idea for a picture . But come on , even with the back drop of Cold War hysteria and all those ' duck and cover ' air raid drills back in grammar school , this is one sorry effort . I keep thinking about the character of Deputy Dan Colter ( Seam... |
368,460 | 2,707,735 | 30,972 | 4 | I never seen him before , but he can sure sling lead ! | By the time " Whirlwind Horseman " came out , Ken Maynard was well past his prime as a major cowboy star , winding down his career with movies for Grand National and Colony Pictures . Here , Maynard wears one of the biggest good guy white hats going , as he tries to get to the bottom of a ' sudden burst of lawlessness ... |
368,361 | 2,707,735 | 32,536 | 5 | There's something corrupt going around my pants and I just can't seem to locate it . | Dead Man's Gulch is the locale for this Marx Brothers western spoof , and whoever holds the deed to the town at the end of the show is a rich man . As you can imagine , the deed itself is up for grabs , and changes hands any number of times before the grand finale . Groucho is S . Quentin Quale , in turn hoodwinked and... |
368,216 | 2,707,735 | 28,194 | 5 | Hey , are you the Three Meskeeters ? | What got my attention right out of the gate was how young the principles were in this early Three Mesquiteers outing - Robert Livingston , Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune , the trio that participated in the most number of films as the title characters . " Roarin ' Lead " was only the third film in the series that eventual... |
367,942 | 2,707,735 | 45,655 | 5 | Hey Rocky , couldn't we rig up a space anchor for Placida and call the whole thing off ? | Take your best shot at " Crash of Moons " , but I found the film to be fairly entertaining , with some unique story elements and special effects that come off as pretty original for the mid 1950's . I've been overdosing on sci-fi films of the era recently , and must say that it's a lot better than some of the space tur... |
368,563 | 2,707,735 | 28,163 | 5 | I'm beginning to smell a rat ! | The Red River Land and Irrigation Company is experiencing sabotage at a number of their project dams , so Gene Autry hires on to investigate the trouble . Smiley Burnette's on hand as Gene's sidekick Frog Millhouse , but this isn't one of his pictures where you get to hear that distinctive frog voice . That's OK , as G... |
368,352 | 2,707,735 | 72,615 | 5 | Well now , that's a freak of nature to behold . | A young Sam Sutter ( Stewart Petersen ) sets out to rescue his older sister , captured by a trio of Indian braves at the Sutter homestead while they were the only two there . Apparently , Sam is motivated by an earlier conversation with Charlotte ( Jewel Blanch ) , who with Bible firmly in hand , declared that she woul... |
368,310 | 2,707,735 | 54,462 | 5 | In a few minutes madame , you shall see a miracle you shall not believe . | In the tradition of 1958's " The Fly " with Vincent Price comes the female version known as " The Wasp Woman " , produced and directed by Roger Corman . With opening and closing credits enhanced by a swarming hive , the film is another in a long succession of creature features that offers a scientific experiment gone h... |
367,719 | 2,707,735 | 30,714 | 5 | Words fail to express my contempt for this court ! | Kids in Westerns were fairly common as far back as the 1930's , but it's always surprising to me when a youngster is killed or allowed to die like you find here in " Santa Fe Stampede " . Young Julie Carson ( Genee Hall ) and her father Dave ( William Farnum ) are snuffed by henchmen of Santa Fe Junction's mayor , Gilb... |
368,452 | 2,707,735 | 35,317 | 5 | The best place to hide something is where everyone can see it . | Sherlock Holmes ( Basil Rathbone ) and Dr . Watson ( Nigel Bruce ) are men out of time in this World War II era mystery , centered on the development of an advanced bomb sight by Dr . Franz Tobel ( William Post Jr . ) . The invention will give England an edge in the conflict , however Tobel is intent on mass producing ... |
367,747 | 2,707,735 | 54,428 | 5 | You run from the truth . | If as I've read , that director John Huston didn't like this movie , it's totally understandable . I'm more curious as to why he might have taken on the project given the inconsistent elements in so many parts of the story and characters . Perhaps he felt he could have melded these issues into a coherent picture , but ... |
367,692 | 2,707,735 | 36,953 | 5 | What would a weekend be without a fox hunt ? | In Society presents Abbott and Costello as a pair of inept plumbers who manage to get themselves invited to an upper class weekend party , where they get to hob nob with the hoi polloi and solve a mystery in their usual frantic manner . There's some fairly standard fare here , including the Bagel Street / Susquehanna... |
368,015 | 2,707,735 | 28,231 | 5 | Somehow I don't like murders at close quarters as much as I expected . . . | First off , I'll state that I enjoyed " Secret Agent " , however on reflection , the story doesn't hold up realistically as the espionage drama it sets out to be . Not that it couldn't have been , it's just that the story development overlooked some important considerations . The main one is the integrity of Madeleine ... |
367,813 | 2,707,735 | 97,720 | 5 | . . . we agreed to a hangin ' , not a murder . | A somewhat muddled Western with Glenn Ford in the credits , " Border Shootout " often keeps you wondering when he might actually appear on screen . The picture has the flavor of a made for TV Western , and there are enough ' huh ? ' moments to keep you off balance . Like the first time new deputy Kirby Frye ( Cody Glen... |
367,761 | 2,707,735 | 35,096 | 5 | Kharis still lives , lives for the moment he will carry death and destruction to all those who dared violate the tomb of Ananka . | The Mummy's Tomb takes place thirty years following the events of " The Mummy's Hand " , recounting the events of that earlier film in a series of flashbacks as narrated by expedition leader Stephen Banning ( Dick Foran ) , bearing an uncanny resemblance to Martin Mull . We also come to learn that the Mummy from the ... |
368,346 | 2,707,735 | 54,393 | 5 | Darling , you look as if you're ready to kill me . | Add " Tormented " to the list of 1960's " B " list films that with a healthy dose of present day technology and a credible rewrite , could actually turn out to be a pretty good psychological thriller . The basic plot involving a jazz pianist dumping one love affair and about to marry someone else takes a turn for the w... |
368,363 | 2,707,735 | 21,861 | 5 | I understand Indians ain't got no use for blondes , no way . | The Gary Cooper of " Fighting Caravans " is certainly not the Gary Cooper of " High Noon " , nor is his future star quality evident here . In this film , Cooper is as green and naive as the Clint Belmet character he portrays . To avoid arrest on a trumped up charge , he poses as an intended groom for French lovely Feli... |
367,943 | 2,707,735 | 28,306 | 5 | Hey , you better start at the beginning and let me get this straight . | It's always a treat for me to see Charles Starrett in a non Durango Kid role ; " Stampede " was made about four years before the first film in that series . It certainly differs from the Durango formula . There's no comedic sidekick , in fact , the entire picture is done fairly straight as a dramatic Western . Starrett... |
368,453 | 2,707,735 | 38,929 | 5 | Never bait trap with wolf to catch wolf . | Charlie Chan ( Sidney Toler ) is on two cases at once in " Shadows Over Chinatown " , one is business , the other personal . The trail of the two investigations converge when it's learned that the missing person he is trying to locate once worked with the murder victim . Overshadowing the entire plot is an insurance fr... |
368,107 | 2,707,735 | 37,018 | 5 | I didn't know anyone could sing so good and be so pretty all at the same time . | Lights of Old Santa Fe presents Roy Rogers and Dale Evans in a modern Western setting with a host of musical numbers and rodeo intrigue in the forefront . Dale's character Marjorie Brooks owns the Brooks International Rodeo , although with only one major booking , the business is on the brink of financial ruin . As u... |
367,755 | 2,707,735 | 37,098 | 5 | On the night when the moon is high in the heavens , the mummy and his princess , they walk . | With Lon Chaney portraying The Mummy for the last time , and with no name actors for support , " The Mummy's Curse " is the least noteworthy of the Mummy sequels , but you know what - it's a blast ! Let's start with the chronology ; originally " The Mummy " starring Boris Karloff was set in 1932 , the year of it's rele... |
367,580 | 2,707,735 | 41,882 | 5 | Innocent act without thinking , guilty always make plans . | The Sky Dragon would be the last of the Charlie Chan mystery films , this one starring Roland Winters who appeared in a total of six films as the Oriental Detective . Keye Luke , who first appeared as Number # 1 Son Lee in 1935's " Charlie Chan in Paris " opposite Warner Oland , appears here in a much more mature cha... |
368,140 | 2,707,735 | 35,171 | 5 | This sounds like a third degree among those movie who-dunits , doesn't it ? | Producers Releasing Corporation was known for it's cheap sets and low production values ; " The Panther's Claw " probably falls in the middle tier of their low budget offerings . What I found most amusing about this picture is the choice of it's title , purporting to be some great mystery a la the symbolism of a sleek ... |
367,861 | 2,707,735 | 37,084 | 5 | The dead have no place for the living . | Having just seen Boris Karloff in " The Ape " , I was somewhat taken aback to see another " man in a gorilla suit " sharing office space with the protagonist of " The Monster Maker " . Though not credited , I wouldn't be surprised to learn if it was Ray " Crash " Corrigan in the get up , up to his old monkey shines onc... |
367,601 | 2,707,735 | 41,578 | 5 | There's two sides to every pancake . | Two brothers find themselves on opposite sides of the law in this early " Trucolor " film from the Republic studio . Frank Plummer ( Bill Elliott ) is building a life and putting his days as a member of the Plummer Gang behind him . Brother Jim ( a young Forrest Tucker ) is staging a train robbery , and intends to use ... |
368,091 | 2,707,735 | 68,539 | 5 | Oh that's lousy coffee , an ' you're a lyin ' skunk . | Prior reviewers in this forum have been a bit more generous than I'm prepared to be . This was my first Bud Spencer film , and I found it to be adequate at best . If not for the sneering presence of Jack Palance there might not have been enough to hold my interest . Spencer's character is Hiram Coburn , who's gimmick w... |
368,434 | 2,707,735 | 34,973 | 5 | We wanna knock off about a million Japs ! | The East Side Kids made a number of movies to inspire patriotism for the war effort during World War II . " Let's Get Tough " gets a bit muddled in the execution as it tries to portray Danny's ( Bobby Jordan ) older brother as a former GI who's discharged from the service for subversive activity , namely spying for the... |
368,380 | 2,707,735 | 48,078 | 5 | You're gonna die lookin ' like a brave man . | I couldn't get over seeing Roger Corman's name in the opening credits as both producer and director of " Five Guns West " , out the same year as another low budget flick that marked the beginning of his career - " Swamp Women " . Oddly , both films featured a young Mike Connors in a lead role , but credited in each as ... |
368,044 | 2,707,735 | 34,959 | 5 | I like women who ain't all sawdust inside . | All the elements were here for an intriguing and gritty gangster / prison drama , but once Dot Burton ( Faye Emerson ) wound up at the penitentiary , the film started a lot to resemble a high school sorority league . All smiles and chatty , Dot and her new jailbird friend Myrtle ( Julie Bishop ) wind up scheming about ... |
367,762 | 2,707,735 | 32,818 | 5 | Who shall defile the temples of the ancient gods , a cruel and violent death shall be his fate . | The Mummy's Hand opens with scenes lifted from the 1932 Universal film " The Mummy " , and that remains about the only connection to the original . George Zucco as Professor Andoheb is entrusted with the secret formula that will bring the dead back to life , but it must be strictly followed , or the result will be un... |
368,348 | 2,707,735 | 43,725 | 5 | Have a cigar and take off your pants . | I saw this movie under it's reissue name " Cavalry Charge " , and must say that it's original title makes a lot more sense . The film is not a cavalry Western per se , but a story that takes place in 1862 along the route of the Santa Fe Trail , with Union and Confederate forces alternately getting the upper hand in the... |
367,913 | 2,707,735 | 26,614 | 5 | If you fellas are through with your little necktie party , why I'll be on my way . | Lawless Range has all the look and feel of John Wayne's Lone Star Westerns , but this one came from Republic Pictures during the same era . Adding to the tone of the film is the direction of Robert North Bradbury , who also made some of the Lone Star pictures ; one of his trademarks is the quick flash forward techniq... |
368,288 | 2,707,735 | 35,009 | 5 | I don't know what's come over me , I must have a touch of swamp fever . | It seems to me that you'll either love or hate this offering , judging by the comments of other reviewers for the film . As a fan of the genre , I'll always give the benefit of the doubt to the plus side , I rather got a kick out of " The Mad Monster " , with George Zucco as a deranged scientist , given to phantom meet... |
367,752 | 2,707,735 | 43,694 | 5 | When there's trouble in the jungle , it's everybody's business . | I was getting a little worried , almost an hour into the picture and Jungle Jim ( Johnny Weissmuller ) still hadn't tangled with a wild animal yet , but at 58 : 08 he makes short work of a shark - no battle actually , he just stabs it ! That was right after the shark beat up on an octopus , so maybe he was too tired to... |
367,649 | 2,707,735 | 39,419 | 5 | You don't have anything to worry about anyhow , ghosts don't start walkin ' around till midnight . | Chalk one up for " Ghost Town Renegades " , here's a " B " Western with a title that actually has something to do with the story . It takes place in the abandoned old mining town of Waterhole , Arizona , where a newly discovered vein may prove profitable once again . Holders of deeds to property in Waterhole are contac... |
368,138 | 2,707,735 | 52,273 | 5 | He who hunts in jungle in turn is hunted . | So this is the mighty Tarzan , King of the Jungle ! That's the reaction of Sikes ( Saul Gorse ) as Tarzan makes his way to the evil trapper's camp . Tarzan ( Gordon Scott ) had already put away Sikes ' brother for foolishly encroaching on Tarzan's domain , and it would only be a matter of time before he would do the ... |
368,229 | 2,707,735 | 23,556 | 5 | I'll knock her nose around her ear ! | Starting out , I'd have to say that you'd be hard pressed to come up with a more attractive screen couple than the young James Cagney and Loretta Young . What got them there however , and what ensues is a somewhat haphazard mess of a story , though memorable for a lot of great scenes and characterizations , not the lea... |
368,390 | 2,707,735 | 28,589 | 5 | Maybe angel face can talk her way out of this one . | I saw this film under the title " The Marijuana Menace " , and like that other period film about the ' dreaded weed ' - " Reefer Madness " , this one purports to be an instructional film about the evils of drugs and the consequences they lead to . I found this to be somewhat more titillating than it's counterpart , wit... |
368,205 | 2,707,735 | 89,823 | 5 | When I was your age , I sucked more blood than a California landlord . | If , like the female protagonist in " Polish Vampire in Burbank " , you can't get enough of vampire movies , you might as well add this one to your list . But be warned , this ham and cheese fest defies simple classification , as it aims for comic horror and winds up a horrific comedy . To be sure , the simple plot has... |
368,132 | 2,707,735 | 46,065 | 5 | Shall I weigh the blastoff synchronizer sir ? | Similar to the earlier patch job known as " Crash of Moons " , Space Ranger Rocky Jones ( Richard Crane ) assembles his gang here once again to avert a threat to Earth , though not as ominous as the one in the earlier film . Most of the action as it were , takes place on Fornax , a moon of Jupiter . The mystery of the ... |
368,376 | 2,707,735 | 39,181 | 5 | Take the route by the falls into the big dry wash , then whistle twice like a quail . | This was my first look at Donald Woods in any kind of role , and I'm pretty sure it wasn't representative of his usual kind of character . In the story he portrays Michael O'Brien , undoubtedly Irish , but living in a Mexican village in Paradise Valley , whose residents remain virtual prisoners of an evil overseer name... |
368,113 | 2,707,735 | 39,180 | 5 | This is the work of a devil . . . | Bells of San Angelo is one of the early Republic films done in Trucolor , although it was orange and blue that dominated the print I just viewed . Cowboy hero Roy Rogers portrays himself as a border investigator on the trail of a silver smuggling operation . Roy is aided by comic sidekick Andy Devine in a dual role ,... |
367,646 | 2,707,735 | 178,065 | 5 | Your face looks strangely familiar , seems I've seen it before just under the word WANTED . | Cowboy crooner Eddie Dean has a dual role in this one , that of his regular character using his own name , and that of outlaw Clip Mason , The Tioga Kid . Their paths cross at Dow City in the Tombstone Territory of Arizona , when Eddie and sidekick Soapy Jones ( Roscoe Ates ) get wind of a cattle rustling operation . T... |
368,418 | 2,707,735 | 66,451 | 5 | I shoot better than that , but I need you alive . | Ageing a dozen years and adding a chin full of whiskers makes Guy Madison almost unrecognizable from the title character he portrayed in the 1950 classic TV Western " Wild Bill Hickok " . Here he portrays a gunman of questionable reputation who accepts a mission to track down the purveyors of rifles and rotgut to reser... |
368,133 | 2,707,735 | 28,646 | 5 | Let's step on it boys , we got horses to sell . | Gene Autry takes a young English aristocrat under his wing , Edward the Earl of Granby , and quickly nicknames him ' Spud ' after the boy's father . Starting out one gets the impression that Spud will use his nobility to be a royal pain , but he soon warms up to Gene and his sidekick Frog ( Smiley Burnette ) after Gene... |
367,671 | 2,707,735 | 28,670 | 5 | Take it easy , you want this stuff to blow up ? | The Bulldog Drummond franchise was a busy one with nine films in the three years from 1937 to 1939 . They generally followed a thematic line , one of those being the theft of a newly invented device that might prove useful to enemy hands . In " Bulldog Drummond's Revenge " , the gizmo in question is an explosive powder... |
368,263 | 2,707,735 | 28,669 | 5 | In Scotland , it's my firm intention to kill two birds with one shot . | Kalinsky ( Hugh Miller ) is a mysterious financier who makes war a profitable business , and he means to get his hands on a secret war plane . He's formed an alliance with the villainous Gregoroff ( Victor Jory ) , and they have kidnapped the plane's inventor Caldwell ( Richard Bird ) . Captain Hugh Drummond ( John Lod... |
368,282 | 2,707,735 | 28,667 | 5 | Confound it Drummond , how is it that whenever I see you someone has either been murdered or disappeared . | In this entry in the Bulldog Drummond franchise , the Captain ( John Howard ) finds himself on the trail of a pair of villains who have kidnapped his fiancée Phyllis Clavering ( Louise Campbell ) . What makes the story interesting are the written and audible clues that Irena Soldanis ( Helen Freeman ) and her brother-i... |
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