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368,147 | 2,707,735 | 32,987 | 5 | You know , I think it was fate that brought us together like this . " | Oh boy , where to start ! For a cowboy hero , Gene Autry sure takes part in some questionable and seriously folks , unethical behavior , in this Republic oater , in the interest of saving his inherited meat packing company . I don't know which was worse actually , faking a marriage to a fourteen year old girl , or beat... |
368,331 | 2,707,735 | 23,701 | 5 | Wait'll some guy lays a stiff right hand on that new beak and it'll spread like ice cream in August . | It wasn't unusual for films of the Thirties to be weak on story line and continuity and this was no exception . It's got Jimmy Cagney going for it , and even he seems confused at times , going through a few changes in speech pattern over the course of the movie . He starts out like a member of the East Side Kids and tr... |
367,994 | 2,707,735 | 46,002 | 5 | You name it , he's got it ! | View this film critically and you'll find it's lack of continuity and exasperating story line to defy credibility . It begins right away with the non courtship of Verity Wade ( Barbara Hale ) leading to marriage with virtually no attempt to define what she ever saw in the smooth talking Hank Martin ( James Cagney ) . W... |
367,760 | 2,707,735 | 21,508 | 5 | Remember who you're playin ' with , a bunch o ' crooks . | Humphrey Bogart in his first screen role and Spencer Tracy in one of his earliest are about the only reasons to take in " Up The River " , a blend of prison drama and comedy that really doesn't satisfy very well . Tracy's character is Saint Louis , a virtual celebrity inmate who's on a handshake basis with the warden a... |
367,812 | 2,707,735 | 53,095 | 5 | Are you an undertaker ? . . . You hold me like I was dead . | Here's a perfectly creepy little bump in the night flick that should appeal to most fans of the decapitated head genre . One's first thought if you've been around the block with these films is " The Brain That Wouldn't Die " , and the plot of both appear remarkably similar . " The Head " is certainly more atmospheric a... |
368,387 | 2,707,735 | 22,470 | 5 | Charity . . . , for a drunkard's family ! | Not what I expected from a movie titled " Ten Nights In a Barroom " , particularly since it was packaged with a variety of anti-drug propaganda films from the 1930's like " The Marijuana Menace " and " Reefer Madness " . This one played more like a melodramatic morality play at one end , and as another reviewer on this... |
368,060 | 2,707,735 | 37,433 | 5 | I know what happens when you're in a peaceable mood . | One thing about these old " B " Westerns - the title often had nothing to do with the actual story . Case in point , " Vigilantes of Dodge City " was not a story about vigilantes as one commonly envisions when hearing the term . This film is one of a number of Red Ryder Westerns , the series of films that starred eithe... |
368,046 | 2,707,735 | 30,170 | 5 | A West Point man never retires in the face of fire . . . | Monogram Pictures took a stab at the old ' like father , like son ' theme in this 1938 picture with somewhat mixed results . Jackie Cooper is credible as the high school senior reacquainting with his father who's been gone for five years , yet that's the main plot point that strains credibility in the ensuing story . N... |
367,881 | 2,707,735 | 30,159 | 5 | Don't worry boys , we'll split all the medals three ways . | The draw for this picture would presumably be the character of Wild Bill Hickok , but when all is said and done , the story plays out pretty much like any of hundreds of ' B ' programmers from the Thirties and Forties . George Houston presents a fairly rugged and good looking portrayal of the title character and it's p... |
367,604 | 2,707,735 | 24,516 | 5 | You know we ought to give up this racket though , gonna lead us both to a rope necktie one of these days . | If my count is correct , this is the eleventh Lone Star Film starring John Wayne that I've seen , and it may be the best of the bunch . Not that it doesn't have it's share of gaffs , but it was entertaining and had some humor to lighten the load . Perhaps it was Armand Schaefer's directing hand that accounts for my pre... |
367,656 | 2,707,735 | 70,074 | 5 | It's a wise monster who knows his own father . | Beware - " Frankenstein : The True Story " - is not ! In fact , after the film gets off to an intriguing start , it begins to unravel in almost comic fashion to the point where it seems to be a parody on the order of Mel Brooks ' " Young Frankenstein " . Seriously , how can you keep a straight face when that disembodie... |
368,158 | 2,707,735 | 54,878 | 5 | Anybody who doesn't wanna hang , step out and get shot ! | Great name for a Western flick , but that's the only draw for this run of the mill ' B ' programmer that doesn't even have a name actor in the leading role . You'll have to keep track of a good guy being a bad guy being a good guy before it's all over , as Billy Wade ( James Brown , but not any of the ones you know ) t... |
368,410 | 2,707,735 | 47,189 | 5 | Shiver my timbers , a land lubber I'll never be . | With enough references to the original " Treasure Island " , I didn't feel lost for not having seen that one yet . Robert Newton is a treat as the ' Arrgghh . . . ing ' Long John Silver , planning one scheme or another to lay his hands on the fabled riches of the titled island . Here's a question - how did Silver manag... |
367,666 | 2,707,735 | 29,952 | 5 | You always break the law with the best intentions , don't you ? | Miss Phyllis Clavering ( Louise Campbell ) is oh , so close to getting married to Captain Drummond this time out ; they've made it all the way to the Clavering Villa in Geneva , Switzerland for the ceremony . However one of the wedding gifts gets it the way , a synthetic diamond that looks just like the real thing . It... |
367,746 | 2,707,735 | 35,694 | 5 | Listen Mike , there's somethin ' going on , and it doesn't smell like lilac . | What a great name for a gangster film - " The Boss of Big Town " ; it conjures up visions of racketeering , mob warfare and violent shoot outs . In fact , the film is a little more reserved than that , focusing on corruption and payoffs in the city food industry . The ' big town ' of the title is never mentioned by nam... |
368,210 | 2,707,735 | 33,787 | 5 | Why Mr . Bill , this place is zombiefied , but good . | There's not a lot about this film that makes much sense , but if you're in the mood for some lighthearted comic horror , " King of the Zombies " is a fun stop . The always funny Mantan Moreland is showcased in this one , and has all the best lines in the picture from the word go . Moreland portrays manservant Jefferson... |
367,728 | 2,707,735 | 25,725 | 5 | Please , please don't hate me for . . . , for what's happened . | Sex delinquent ! ? ! ? - Is that what they actually called loose women back in the day ? " The Road To Ruin " is the sexploitation equivalent of those better known drug cult flicks from the 1930's like " Reefer Madness " and " Cocaine Fiends " . It purports to portray what can happen to an average teenage girl who gets... |
367,862 | 2,707,735 | 32,215 | 5 | Somebody better get after that ape or he'll tear this town wide open . | As I sit here and think about the movie I've just seen , I ask myself why the film makers even bothered to feature a gorilla as a central character in this story , but there's the title " The Ape " , so I guess they had to fit one in somewhere . The story is actually rather standard fare for the era , a mad scientist /... |
367,721 | 2,707,735 | 58,725 | 5 | I'd like you to check my motor , it whistles . | Oh boy , whistle it does in this energetic early 1960's romp in tinsel town . By association , Ann-Margret fairly or not , came to be known as the female Elvis . Living up to the name , she matches The King here song for song and move for move in what's basically a musical showcase strung together around a loosely scri... |
367,814 | 2,707,735 | 27,917 | 5 | How do you do , mystery cowman ? | Lucky Terror is a bit unusual for a ' B ' Western , with elements I haven't seen before that keep it interesting for it's entire sixty one minute run . Hoot Gibson stars , somewhat past his prime as a cowboy attraction , but still showing some of the charisma and skill of the real life champion rider and roper he had... |
367,627 | 2,707,735 | 37,642 | 5 | You're the best known unknown that I've ever known . | It used to always make me wonder , even as a kid , why a movie's murderous villain would sneak up close to one of the story's lead characters and fail to close the deal . It made me consider them entirely inept , even while they were leaving a trail of bodies behind elsewhere throughout the picture . The scene with Mik... |
367,889 | 2,707,735 | 33,332 | 5 | Well they were in jail , I figure they could be trusted . | I was left scratching my head early in the story when the buddy trio of Tim Holt , Ray Whitley and Emmett Lynn deposit twelve thousand dollars for their boss in the Sweet Water bank . A note signed by Pop Edwards requesting they bring it back is delivered by a young boy , but since the banker smells a rat he refuses to... |
368,019 | 2,707,735 | 80,596 | 5 | Steve , you know what this is don't you , it's a time space warp . | This film hooked me early on with it's colorful special effects and eerie just around the corner hint of suspense , but even while watching it , I realized that it came two years after " Star Wars " , at which point it's low budget origins started to make sense . The appearance of the stop motion monsters then took the... |
367,757 | 2,707,735 | 33,286 | 5 | Looks like it was a pretty good fight while it lasted . | Young Bill Hickok freely uses the names of historical figures to tell a formulaic story of adventure in the closing days of the Civil War . Roy Rogers portrays Wild Bill , earning his name after he wards off a band of Morrell's Overland Raiders singlehandedly . The central story involves the shipment of gold to help ... |
367,968 | 2,707,735 | 74,575 | 5 | What's the matter with you , you look like you've seen a ghost . | I'm surprised by the number of negative reviews of this film , though I know it's a far cry from the best the spaghetti Western genre has to offer . My main complaint would be in the long exposition that took place in the first half of the story to set up Father John's murder at the hands of Sam Clayton's ( Jack Palanc... |
367,582 | 2,707,735 | 39,863 | 5 | Every time we begin to investigate somethin ' , the bullets start to fly . | Encore Westerns featured a six-gun salute to Lash La Rue today , and I would have been remiss if I didn't take in at least one of his pictures . In this story , the black clad cowboy hero rides in to Mesa City as Marshal Cheyenne Davis along with partner and deputy Fuzzy Jones ( Fuzzy St . John ) . They've been sent to... |
368,027 | 2,707,735 | 20,305 | 5 | Is the Rat in from Chicago ? | While watching the movie , it struck me that this might be the closest I've seen to a silent film actually put to dialog , the execution of which seems like actors from a high school play who simply studied their lines and recited them from memory . We know that the principal players were much better than that from the... |
368,197 | 2,707,735 | 33,390 | 5 | Am I dreamin ' or who am I ? | I've never seen a Western before where the hero and his sidekick pals start out in jail ! It turns out to be a set up for the good guys getting sprung by a trio of look alike outlaws . Billy the Kid ( Buster Crabbe ) and his partners , Fuzzy ( Fuzzy St . John ) and Jeff Walker ( Bud McTaggart ) spend the rest of the pi... |
368,433 | 2,707,735 | 40,966 | 5 | Hey , ain't that the guy you murdered Professor ? | You can make out the Hal Roach / Our Gang connection in the casting of the movie , but by this time , the magic was gone , and the youngsters appearing here were used more for visuals and sight gags rather than genuine chemistry among friends . The story finds the kids attempting to prove their friend , the neighborhoo... |
367,576 | 2,707,735 | 40,964 | 5 | Texas , greatest place in the world , where they grow mice that can stand flat footed and whip a tiger . | The setting is West Texas in 1873 , and the Texas Rangers have been disbanded , only to be replaced by the corrupt Texas State Police . Tracy Beaumont ( Fred Sears ) owns the town of Indian Springs and virtually everything in it , but it's not enough . Gaining the upper hand on respected cattle man Homer Ross , in debt... |
367,877 | 2,707,735 | 33,394 | 5 | If I didn't know different stranger , I'd think I was lookin ' in a mirror ! | You'll probably wonder as I did some time into the picture as to where exactly the ' range war ' of the title might be . Not really a problem , as almost any Western title from the 1930's and ' 40's had nothing at all to do with the story . Billy the Kid himself is presented as the film's hero rather than the famous ou... |
367,668 | 2,707,735 | 52,782 | 5 | Anyway , I like the idea of being a king . By the way , what's my name ? | I remember watching " Hercules Unchained " back in the day , but for the life of me , my viewing of the film today brought back not one memory of it . For certain though , with Steve Reeves generally acknowledged as the best of the movie strongmen to portray the Greek demi-god , all the rest are pretty lame by comparis... |
368,306 | 2,707,735 | 29,951 | 5 | Pardon me Sir , but these are not guns , these are pistols . | The movie opens with a trouser less Drummond ( John Howard ) and his butler Tenny ( E . E . Clive ) , confined to Rockingham Lodge on the eve of the Captain's wedding to Miss Phyllis Clavering ( Heather Angel ) . Drummond's sidekick Algy ( Reginald Denny ) is holding their pants hostage to prevent his boss from getting... |
368,573 | 2,707,735 | 24,124 | 5 | You know I think I'll call him and find out if I'm a millionaire . | In 1933 , John Wayne made three Westerns for a series at Warner's , and another three for Paul Malvern's Lone Star Productions . Somewhere in between he found the time to play against type in this rather offbeat romantic comedy . It may be the only time you'll catch him in a movie wearing a suit and tie as he portrays ... |
368,298 | 2,707,735 | 37,728 | 5 | That settles it , when I lose my touch at flapjacks , it's time for a change in scenery . | ' Fuzzy ' St . John could have been top billed here and I don't think anyone would have a problem with that . A perennial sidekick to film cowboys Lash LaRue and George Houston's Lone Rider , Fuzzy backs up Buster Crabbe's character Billy Carson in this oater heavy on the laughs and pratfalls . In fact , Fuzzy has a co... |
367,683 | 2,707,735 | 67,870 | 5 | The devil has the largest congregation . | If the movie leaves you somewhat confused the first time around , you might try fast forwarding through it a second time like I did to pick up the pieces . That might clear up a a thing or two , but you'll still have to put up with some of the unresolved issues the flick has to offer . Most notable of these is the fate... |
368,432 | 2,707,735 | 28,054 | 5 | Roy Rogers to Gene Autry - " Put ' em up Sheriff ! " | This is one of Gene Autry's most easily obtained films , but if you pick up a recently made copy , you're likely to see Roy Rogers with equal billing on the video or DVD sleeve . It was only one of two times that the cowboy stars appeared in a film together , and since it was Gene's picture for Republic Studios , Roy a... |
367,603 | 2,707,735 | 33,458 | 5 | Sweet wine often turn nice woman sour . | A woman under suspicion of murder is herself murdered . This Charlie Chan film breezes along fairly quickly at just an hour in length , and is brought to conclusion in a straightforward manner . The characters under suspicion all have a hidden past - the murderer / murdered Lola Dean was once Lola Wagner , in love with... |
368,470 | 2,707,735 | 33,428 | 5 | I can't write a ' thousand bucks ' , it makes me nervous , my hand trembles . | The opening credits state ' Introducing ' Huntz Hall , which surprised me a little because Hall was part of the gang in the earlier Warner Brothers flicks , including the original " Dead End " which introduced the boys to film . Of course they were the Dead End Kids during their WB days , so maybe this was the first ' ... |
368,112 | 2,707,735 | 31,880 | 5 | Roy says it's boots and saddles for all you Rough Riders ! | It's 1900 , and Teddy Roosevelt's Rough Riders have returned from Cuba . Roy Rogers and friends Rusty Coburn ( Eddie Acuff ) and Tommy Ward ( Ray Hatton ) seek work as border patrol agents , with the personal recommendation of Roosevelt himself . The border patrol captain is willing to take them on , especially since o... |
368,232 | 2,707,735 | 29,801 | 5 | Heap Big Show To-Morrow | For an early Gene Autry Western , this one has a few interesting hooks to keep you entertained , chief among them the location in that far off western state of Georgia . I imagine it was necessary to pull off the premise of the title , since the story dealt with a community of ' turpentiners ' who made their living off... |
367,831 | 2,707,735 | 33,526 | 5 | Well , first we have men and no tickets , now we have tickets and no men . | I kept picturing what an effectively done remake of this movie today might come up with , because it had all the neat elements needed for a thriller combining air travelers trapped with gangsters in a confined space with no way out . But in the 1940's it seems , and even later , there wasn't very much in the way of cre... |
367,659 | 2,707,735 | 420,294 | 5 | He ain't retarded , he's misunderstood . | My son asked me if I wanted to watch this film with him , so in the spirit of male bonding , I took him up on it . The only thing is , he wound up walking out during some of the intense parts , while I wound up getting squirmy with Ermey . I really should know better by now , I watched the 2003 remake a little over a y... |
367,553 | 2,707,735 | 25,969 | 5 | I mean that from now on , I'm Gat Ganns , murderer . | It appears a little more thought than usual went into this Lone Star Western , as the story line is fairly consistent and director Robert North Bradbury throws in a few elements I haven't seen yet after watching almost all of them . Wayne's character is Ted Hayden , who takes on the guise of wanted murderer Gat Ganns w... |
367,568 | 2,707,735 | 39,800 | 5 | Who can ever be sure what's behind a mask ? | You would think that teaming Bela Lugosi and George Zucco together would guarantee a moody creep fest , but " Scared to Death " is all over the place with references to green masks and Nazis , and a central character who's dead and telling the story in flashback . The flick adds character after character , presumably t... |
367,895 | 2,707,735 | 43,046 | 5 | You ever been to a necktie party ? | This one starts with a fairly serious if not standard premise ; if the new railroad train can make it to the town of Tomahawk , Colorado by the prescribed time , they'll win a subsidy that gives the rail line an advantage over the local stagecoach outfit . Unfortunately , the film devolves into virtual farce by the las... |
368,146 | 2,707,735 | 44,991 | 5 | Well those plugs of mine could beat your windjammin ' clodhoppers . | The Old West offers a few curious elements for Gene Autry fans ; for one , it looks like he learned a few judo throws for that stable fight against the bad guys . The other was seeing Dick Jones in the role of a villain , something I hadn't seen before . Jones doesn't really have the face for a villain , nor the voic... |
367,758 | 2,707,735 | 34,120 | 5 | Now everything there is , I am . | Roy Rogers portrays Vance Corbin , an ex-Confederate soldier who takes the amnesty oath declaring his allegiance to the United States , and is duly elected sheriff of Purvis City . Opposing him is town boss Ambrose Ballard ( Cy Kendall ) , whose goal is to eliminate all the local ranchers by declaring them seditionists... |
368,144 | 2,707,735 | 22,792 | 5 | You can't take the roar of the crowd and cash in on it . | For a three time Indy race champion , Jimmy Cagney's character Joe Greer isn't as flamboyant as some of the ones he portrayed in the handful of films prior to this one . There's the spark of " The Public Enemy " Tom Powers here when he manhandles Joan Blondell , and slaps around kid brother Eddie ( Eric Linden ) . But ... |
368,334 | 2,707,735 | 34,064 | 5 | You know , you're a lot better man than you even think you are . | Once again , a boxing milieu provides the backdrop to an East Side Kids film , as the boys initially make their way to a Civilian Conservation Corps camp under Danny's ( Bobby Jordan ) pretext of finding a training camp for Muggs ( Leo Gorcey ) . Muggs ' character follows the pattern of starting out as a street wise to... |
368,136 | 2,707,735 | 42,869 | 5 | It's not what you run away to , it's what you run away from . | If you had asked me if Mickey Rooney and Peter Lorre ever appeared in a film together , the obvious answer would have been ' No ' , but here they are together in a strangely noirish take about an everyday Joe garage mechanic whose life spirals out of control due to some bad decisions . It all starts out with a measly t... |
367,826 | 2,707,735 | 31,507 | 5 | Great thunderin ' Halleluia - that's ruin ! | I had the greatest trouble believing this film came out in 1939 , I would have believed 1959 if not for the principals . Writing , cinematography and acting are far superior to what the average 1930's , or even 1940's film had to offer . Story wise , I found the treatment of the Jesse James legacy to be somewhat sympat... |
368,195 | 2,707,735 | 36,241 | 5 | He can charm a bird right out of a bush . | What boggles my mind is why Howard Hughes would even attempt this garbled retelling of the story of three legendary Western figures . With Hughes ' generally obsessive attention to detail in his aeronautical career , you would think that at least some integrity would be maintained with names and dates for historical ac... |
368,115 | 2,707,735 | 31,680 | 5 | Well this is a payoff , murder in the house of Mr . Wong , now we've seen everything . | A distressed Oriental woman comes knocking on the door of James Lee Wong seeking his help . Before we get to learn her request , she is murdered by a poisoned dart , fired through the open window of Wong's study . She is Princess Lin Hwa , a woman of high degree from the Wang-Ki family , as evidenced by a ring displayi... |
368,359 | 2,707,735 | 38,056 | 5 | That's easy Pop , the murderer will be the one with the guilty look . | The Scarlet Clue takes it's name from a bloody footprint found at the scene of the first murder in this film , which takes place on a suitably mysterious docked boat . The action resumes at the Cosmo Radio Center , where a host of suspects and victims interact with Inspector Charlie Chan as he goes about solving the ca... |
367,827 | 2,707,735 | 43,007 | 5 | Oh , no tellin ' what'll disappear next , maybe one of us ! | By the time " Streets of Ghost Town " came out , Columbia was using more and more stock footage to keep expenses down , and it's quite evident here , particularly in those scenes with the voice over narration by Charles Starrett . The film also chews up a lot of time with endless back and forth riders on horseback and ... |
368,404 | 2,707,735 | 49,477 | 5 | Someday my friend , I'm gonna kill you . | Based on two of Edgar Allen Poe's short stories , " The Gold Bug " and " The Tell Tale Heart " , I found the story to more closely resemble a reworking of " The Treasure of the Sierra Madre " set on the ocean . It's three ' prospectors ' are portrayed by John Bromfield , Lon Chaney Jr . and Victor Jory in a pirate styl... |
368,471 | 2,707,735 | 34,224 | 5 | Hey , this looks like the place where the plot begins to thicken . | For a while I thought " Spooks Run Wild " and " Ghosts on the Loose " were the same film , both featuring The East Side Kids teaming up with Bela Lugosi . This , the earlier of the two movies is heavier on the haunted house atmospherics which the East Siders use to fire off their gags and one liners . Lugosi comes comp... |
367,999 | 2,707,735 | 22,999 | 5 | You got a six gun where your brains oughta be . | Heritage of the Desert was a first for two of it's principals ; it was Henry Hathaway's first directing effort , and for Randolph Scott his first starring role . Both went on to bigger and better things of course , and though interesting from that standpoint , the film itself is a rather run of the mill oater whose t... |
368,201 | 2,707,735 | 58,101 | 5 | I can assure you , we are in for a good pounding . | Just a couple of weeks ago I caught a flick on the Monster HD channel called " The Brain Eaters " , so when this one followed I just had to be there . There's just something dreadfully intriguing about pictures this cheesy , and if you watch enough of them , you really get to form a weird perspective and insight . For ... |
368,097 | 2,707,735 | 29,401 | 5 | Well , would you mind going downstairs and doing it with your wife ? | I picked up this movie under the re-issue title " Movie Struck " , appropriate enough for the film's premise - a starry eyed Cecilia Moore ( Rosina Lawrence ) longs for a Hollywood career and sees her chance in the " On to Hollywood Beauty and Talent Contest " . Though she wins against a handful of contestants ( among ... |
368,364 | 2,707,735 | 40,394 | 5 | Small thing sometimes tell very large story . | A formerly unproductive gold mine suddenly turns out to be highly profitable ; it's owner Manning insists someone is out to murder him . He turns to Charlie Chan ( Roland Winters ) for help , and the Oriental detective and his two assistants , Number # 2 Son Tommy ( Victor Sen Yung ) and driver Birmingham Brown ( Manta... |
368,131 | 2,707,735 | 58,063 | 5 | I have heard tales of this legendary hero . . . | I knew that Peter Lupus had made a number of Hercules movies , but hadn't seen any until coming across this flick in the fifty movie DVD pack from Mill Creek / Treeline Entertainment under their Sc-Fi collection . His role in the TV series ' Mission Impossible ' only hinted at his size , but not the impressive physique... |
368,257 | 2,707,735 | 38,234 | 5 | Sounds like that long legged nephew of mine has cut loose again , proving what a peaceable man he is . | All the Wild Bill Elliott Red Ryder films have that story book opening where he steps out from behind the cover of a dime novel , gun drawn and ready for action . With this one , Little Beaver ( Bobby Blake ) steps out with him in a neat introduction to the story . The other regular on hand is Red's Aunt , the Duchess ... |
368,396 | 2,707,735 | 36,073 | 5 | . . . keep swingin ' , keep swingin ' , case you don't hit him the breeze might give him pneumonia . | The East Side Kids films were never great cinematic achievements , but they were usually fun and had a sense of do good sentimentality . This one however seemed to be all over the place , as if it was a bunch of scenes in search of a movie . Before it's all over , you have a pool room match up , a boxing event , a jitt... |
368,475 | 2,707,735 | 44,796 | 5 | People pay good money to see me get hurt . . . | Probably one's only interest in seeing this movie would be to catch Leonard Nimoy in his first starring role , no mean feat as the actor had only two prior roles in film , one of them uncredited . The story itself is entirely uneven , and one is kept constantly off balance as to what Paul Baroni's ( Nimoy ) intention a... |
367,948 | 2,707,735 | 49,103 | 5 | On this particular trip , we better know what's in the water . | The Creature From the Black Lagoon saga comes to an end in this final installment of the Gill Man trilogy . The film starts out slowly with an expedition to the Florida Everglades headed by Dr . William Barton ( Jeff Morrow ) and Dr . Thomas Morgan ( Rex Reason ) in search of their objective . When finally tracked down... |
367,835 | 2,707,735 | 62,360 | 5 | Connection complete , everything here is now ours . | The colorful psychedelic intro during the opening credits of " They Came From Beyond Space " suggest something rather unusual might be about to happen , while the first appearance of scientist Lee Mason ( Jennifer Jayne ) and her foot tall red haired bouffant ' do definitely got my attention . And why are we intrigued ... |
368,366 | 2,707,735 | 40,347 | 5 | Only children and fools open their mouths when they have nothing to say . | The Feathered Serpent is unique among Charlie Chan films for a number of reasons . For one , we learn the identity of the master criminal well before the movie's end . Professor John Stanley ( Robert Livingston ) has kidnapped colleague Henry Farnsworth to learn the location of an ancient Aztec treasure . Only Farnsw... |
367,998 | 2,707,735 | 27,420 | 5 | Well there she is - Sofio - jumpin ' off place for the scum of the South Seas . | With a name like " Captain Calamity " , I was surprised coming out of the film at how entertaining it actually was . George Houston portrays the title character , Captain Bill Jones , who gets a lot of mileage out of a single gold doubloon . Without ever actually lying about discovering a sunken treasure , Jones ' tall... |
367,972 | 2,707,735 | 33,998 | 5 | Right now nothing's dangerous . | Right out of the box , this had the makings of a pretty good revenge flick , but that plot got slowly frittered away with off tangent events that didn't move the story forward satisfactorily . I saw the film under the reissue title " Gangs , Inc . " , part of a 4 DVD / sixteen film ' Mobsters ' movie set well worth it'... |
368,421 | 2,707,735 | 42,629 | 5 | When it comes to joinin ' an army , we'll just make up our own mind . | Oh boy , I really wanted to like this film , but as the story progressed it just got more and more unbelievable as major plot holes kept creeping into the story taking away any sense of credibility . I'm not disputing the historical accuracy of Jesse James riding with Quantrill's Raiders during the Civil War , in fact ... |
367,977 | 2,707,735 | 34,020 | 5 | He's pretty healthy lookin ' for a corpse . | Curiosity seekers might be interested in seeking out old films like this for samples of politically incorrect , often times racist language that passed for the norm well before the civil rights movement . The Mexican laborers on the Don Toreno ranch are routinely called peons throughout the story , even referring to ea... |
367,653 | 2,707,735 | 35,939 | 5 | Who say who dat when I say who dat ? | Ghosts On The Loose has one of the more interesting casts in film , with members of the East Side Kids top billed with Bela Lugosi and aspiring newcomer Ava Gardner . However as strong as the lineup looks on paper , the movie itself is a rather hum drum affair , with a few funny gags and one liners thrown in as Leo G... |
368,119 | 2,707,735 | 60,097 | 5 | Another couple of doses and your patient will be ready for the asylum . | Nightmare Castle has one of the best opening lines of any film I've seen - " At this rate you'll destroy all the frogs in the entire county , my dear . " So says Muriel Arrowsmith ( brunette Barbara Steele ) to her pseudo scientist husband Steven ( Paul Muller ) . When Steven discovers his wife being unfaithful , he ... |
367,672 | 2,707,735 | 25,421 | 5 | Afraid . . . , listen Captain , Clyde Beatty isn't afraid of man , beast nor devil . | I'm surprised I missed this one as a kid growing up , since anything with wild animals , especially jungle cats I found to be thrilling ; that's why Tarzan has always been a favorite . " The Lost Jungle " more than anything appears to be a showcase for the talents of circus animal trainer Clyde Beatty , who portrays hi... |
367,644 | 2,707,735 | 29,207 | 5 | There's something mysterious going on here , that man's dead . | The Mandarin Mystery plays out as an interesting balance between mystery and comedy , with Eddie Quillan portraying a young Ellery Queen , casually following up hunches and clues to solve a couple of murders . That he's simultaneously romancing a possible suspect doesn't seem to bother him much , though he does expre... |
368,461 | 2,707,735 | 42,244 | 5 | Better to have me slap you around than have somebody bore a hole in ya . | This has all the look of a hastily patched together story , but for Gene Autry fans it's a pretty quick paced and entertaining flick that brings together a number of familiar faces . Pat Buttram shows up not quite mid-way through following a dust up between Gene and a young Hugh O'Brian ! , and goes by the name of Mike... |
367,934 | 2,707,735 | 31,051 | 5 | Well I'll be a knock kneed bobcat . | Set in 1861 Missouri at the outset of the Civil War , it's a toss up as to how the state will side during the great conflict . Officially a Union state , sympathies lie with the Southern cause , and when news of the attack on Fort Sumter breaks , cheers break out for the Confederacy at the garden party of Dr . Jason Br... |
368,504 | 2,707,735 | 44,455 | 5 | Before the mantle of death covers you , speak so all may hear . | I was surprised to learn this film was made as late as 1952 , it looks like it could have been from the Forties , or even the Thirties . Part of that comes from the stock footage used throughout the story , but even Clayton Moore's scenes have a certain aged look . Moore filmed this while on leave from " The Lone Range... |
368,281 | 2,707,735 | 34,638 | 5 | I guess you found out Wallace , there's no place like a wagon train to study human nature . . . | Buck Roberts ( Buck Jones ) and Sandy Hopkins ( Ray Hatton ) guide a wagon train loaded with railroad supplies through Indian territory on the way to Oregon . Jack Carson ( Rex Bell ) rounds out the good guy trio in a role that keeps one guessing who's side he's on as he trades in his buckskins for a new set of gamblin... |
368,122 | 2,707,735 | 44,488 | 5 | Sometimes I think engineers are crazy . | Carson City is not your standard Western fare . Randolph Scott portrays engineer Jeff Kincaid , back in Nevada from a job in Panama and looking more or less for some action . When he learns of a businessman's plans to build a railroad leg through mountainous territory between Virginia City and Carson City , he fairly... |
368,406 | 2,707,735 | 46,179 | 5 | Those drums speak the dance of war . | Even with Clyde Beatty in the movie , Commodore Films used footage to place a lion and tiger in the same place , something I never understood about jungle films of the Fifties . Obviously the tiger realized there was a geographical problem , and beat a hasty retreat , not to be seen again after the opening scene . " Pe... |
368,537 | 2,707,735 | 46,186 | 5 | How do you explain that stuff about the missing head ? | When it comes to 1950's sci-fi , there's good bad , and bad bad ; " Phanton From Space " isn't bad , if you know what I mean . There's an interesting back story about the alien's arrival , your typical lab scenes played out with scientific endeavor , and an invisible alien that comes to play on the viewer's sympathy on... |
367,647 | 2,707,735 | 38,422 | 5 | That sounds like trouble . Let's find out . | Colorado Serenade opens and closes with Eddie Dean on horseback singing " Home on the Range " , though he trades partner Roscoe Ates for love interest Sherry Lynn ( Mary Kenyon ) by the end of the film . In between , Eddie and Soapy ( Ates ) help a trouble shooting circuit judge find a long lost son and bring justice... |
368,047 | 2,707,735 | 42,311 | 5 | Speak or you die , where is She-Devil ? | If you watch enough of the Jungle Jim movies , you'll realize that the stories all follow a pretty standard formula , just as Charles Starrett's Durango Kid films did in the Western genre . Which is OK on the one hand because they're entertaining in their way , but it also makes them highly forgettable once a couple of... |
368,524 | 2,707,735 | 42,338 | 5 | White men crazy . | In " Colt . 45 " , Randolph Scott portrays military hero turned sales representative Steve Farrell who's employed by the Colt Firearm Company , a theme that will be picked up by the late 1950's classic TV Western of the same name . His nemesis in the film , Jason Brett ( Zachary Scott ) is a clever outlaw who manages t... |
368,450 | 2,707,735 | 38,449 | 5 | Good hunter never break twig under foot . | Dangerous Money is an aptly named Charlie Chan film in which Sidney Toler's character investigates a pair of murders relating to illegal trading in " hot money " and stolen art . The action takes place aboard the S . S . Newcastle heading to Australia via Samoa . Along for the ride are Number # 2 Son Jimmy ( Victor S... |
367,690 | 2,707,735 | 31,208 | 5 | This is no police station , it's a sanitarium . | Dead bodies have been washing ashore on the banks of the Thames River , and Scotland Yard has so far done very little to solve the mystery . With marching orders to investigate the crimes , if there are any , Inspector Larry Holt ( Hugh Williams ) makes his way to the Dearborn Institute for the Blind , home to a grotes... |
368,061 | 2,707,735 | 36,706 | 5 | When alibi pushed at me , always suspect motive in woodpile . | This first Monogram Charlie Chan film is a little tougher to enjoy than the prior 20th Century Fox films . For one , Sidney Toler's depiction of Chan is more abrupt and almost mean spirited at times . Music is used more frequently , but seems out of place , as when a dramatic score is used when Chan casually strolls to... |
367,736 | 2,707,735 | 26,846 | 5 | . . . my boy , shake the hand that shook the hand of Buffalo Bill . | John Wayne's sixteenth and final picture for Lone Star Films was the only one directed by Carl L . Pierson . In the story , Wayne's character John Wyatt joins a traveling medicine show to expose a band of counterfeiters ; one suspects that the phony money men might be part of Doc Carter's ( Earl Hodgins ) bunch . Inste... |
367,914 | 2,707,735 | 23,456 | 5 | You stand in the shadow of - The Eagle . | Right up front , I'm not a big fan of the serial format . However when I saw a three DVD set of John Wayne's serials from the early 1930's , picking them up was a no brainer , especially for the price - under ten dollars . I watched " The Shadow Of The Eagle " today in a couple of sessions , and it was with a lot of pa... |
368,290 | 2,707,735 | 26,755 | 5 | A few hours with the rats will make him speak the truth . | Bela Lugosi switches cinematic gears in 1934's " The Mysterious Mr . Wong " ; it was just a few years earlier in which he portrayed the iconic " Dracula " ( 1931 ) , followed by a turn as voodoo practitioner Murder Legendre in 1932's " White Zombie " . Here he gets to star in a dual role , first as the title character ... |
368,026 | 2,707,735 | 40,501 | 5 | Your ears are like a fox Bwana Jim . . . | As a kid growing up , I'd watch Johnny Weismuller's Tarzan movies every chance I got , but I can't recall ever seeing any of his Jungle Jim films . TV quality in the 1950's was a dicey affair , and you never knew if antenna reception would be favorable or not . The only other jungle adventures I can recall seeing were ... |
367,574 | 2,707,735 | 24,625 | 5 | My interest is to bring the criminal to justice . | A secret London society agrees to disperse the assets of it's deceased members to the remainder of the group . It doesn't take long for the victims to start dropping off one by one . Enter Sherlock Holmes ( Reginald Owen ) , brought into the case by the wife of victim number two , upset that there isn't even the hint o... |
368,542 | 2,707,735 | 31,125 | 5 | On my record darling , you're justified in expecting battle , murder and sudden death . | The long playing wedding scenario between Captain Hugh Drummond ( John Howard ) and fiancé Phyllis Clavering ( Heather Angel ) manages to get within one hour of the ceremony in this outing , but not before another adventure gets in the way . This time the action stays local , as a scatterbrained professor intrigues Dru... |
367,950 | 2,707,735 | 48,554 | 5 | The beast exists because it is stronger than this thing you call evolution . | Back in the Upper Amazon River Valley , an expedition headed by Professor Clete Ferguson ( John Agar ) attempts to locate the missing link first introduced in the previous year's " Creature From the Black Lagoon " . With only Nestor Paiva as Captain Lucas on hand from the original cast , the beast is quickly located an... |
368,196 | 2,707,735 | 30,833 | 5 | Were you molested by apes ? | Well , he's not Johnny Weissmuller , but then again , Weismuller never did an upside down vine grab with his foot , so I guess that counts for something . As most reviewers on this board mention , Glenn Morris is rather stiff in his virtually silent role as the jungle hero . If one didn't know better , it would seem th... |
368,441 | 2,707,735 | 57,547 | 5 | Rise Sir Lancelot , my champion ! | I've never been a fan of the medieval knight genre , and this one manages to reinforce my feelings . I just couldn't tell what they were going for in the story , and abrupt scene changes often occurred on a dime with no time at all allotted for the transition . Like early in the picture with news of King Leodogran's ch... |
367,661 | 2,707,735 | 69,057 | 5 | Gringos , come surrender ! | Finally , the mystery solved as to how Telly Savalas became bald ! Starting out , " Pancho Villa " appears to be a serious treatment of the Mexican revolutionary's legend , but it quickly dissolves into a farcical comedy Western . Things get under way somewhat tentatively with Colonel Wilcox ' ( Chuck Connors ) ' fly i... |
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