reviewId int64 363k 588k | userId int64 33.9k 15.9M | itemId int64 1 1.42M | rating float64 1 10 | title stringlengths 1 10.9k ⌀ | content stringlengths 81 11.6k ⌀ |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
368,240 | 2,707,735 | 44,167 | 5 | We're down to a hundred miles , you better pull up . | This could have been another cheesy 1950's outer space sci-fi flick , but the participants were going in the opposite direction . So instead , this is a cheesy 1950's subterranean film , starring an underground submarine called a cyclotram . It's mission is to discover a habitable region where the world's population ca... |
368,189 | 2,707,735 | 57,569 | 5 | With all respect Baron , for a ghost she's a very active young woman , | Let's see , the Baron is not the Baron , Helene is really Ilsa , and Katrina the Witch doesn't recognize her own son , the one she's trying to drive to suicide in a case of mistaken identity . That one sentence probably sounds more interesting than sitting through eighty one minutes of " The Terror " , but the film at ... |
367,739 | 2,707,735 | 26,908 | 5 | Hey that fella's a fighter , that's what we need around here . | Rainbow Valley was made right after " Texas Terror " , and interestingly , a number of the principals stuck around to appear in both . The main heavy goes by Rogers , and is portrayed by LeRoy Mason , while John Wayne's romantic interest is a demure Miss Eleanor ( Lucille Brown ) . Each had similar roles in " Texas T... |
368,193 | 2,707,735 | 28,772 | 5 | Why , I didn't know there was a thing the matter with me till I met him . | A Day at the Races gets off to a start in the Standish Sanitarium , and that should tell you something about this Marx Brothers movie . Perennial hypochondriac Emily Upjohn ( Margaret Dumont ) may provide the financial key to solvency for owner Judy Standish ( Maureen O'Sullivan ) , but only if experienced and truste... |
367,602 | 2,707,735 | 44,052 | 5 | Ever hear a polka in a Western ? | If you've seen one Durango Kid movie , you've seen them all . Here's the deal - in the opening sequence , the Durango Kid rides into town in the guise of his alter-ego . His name usually changes from film to film ; in " Snake River Desperados " , he goes by Steve Reynolds . Within the first fifteen minutes , we're trea... |
368,369 | 2,707,735 | 40,778 | 5 | Sometimes muddy waters when stirred sufficiently bring strange things to surface . | Forged fingerprints in a Charlie Chan film were used as recently as 1946 in " Dark Alibi " , six movies prior to " The Shanghai Chest " . The same gimmick is used here again , this time with the fingerprints of a man who's been dead for six months . The prints are found at the scene of three murders , all of the victim... |
368,439 | 2,707,735 | 44,035 | 5 | It's easy to die for your country , but sometimes it's much more important to stay alive . | This one has all the look and feel of one of Gene's TV Westerns , not surprising since it was made during that show's run . Gene and Pat use their real names in the story , and Gail Davis also appears as Dell Middler , daughter of a Union Army Colonel . It's set in 1861 at the start of the Civil War , but that conflict... |
368,326 | 2,707,735 | 34,545 | 5 | Don't you get enough of cops and robbers in the movies ? | A frenetic entry in the Boston Blackie series , this one gets downright farcical at times with the Runt ( George E . Stone ) masquerading as an Our Gang Alfalfa type character , and Boston Blackie ( Chester Morris ) donning the guise of a Professor to help a friend in California . The caper involves the missing Montere... |
367,687 | 2,707,735 | 34,521 | 5 | I have come a long way to see you . . . . I'm a very sick man . | Japs Bomb Honolulu During Peace Talks is the headline that opens this World War II era mystery thriller , featuring Bela Lugosi as a Nazi plastic surgeon who turns six Japanese members of the Black Dragon Society into replicas of American fifth column industrialists . When Dr . Melcher is rewarded for his efforts by ... |
368,523 | 2,707,735 | 51,962 | 5 | You see , I'm waiting for them to come back , that's why I keep it like it was , for them . | The video box proclaims " The First Picture in Psycho-Rama ! The Fourth Dimension ! Using Subliminal Communication ! For added emphasis , the movie was " Banned by the U . S . Government ! " Having seen it this evening , I'm ready to ban it from my own video collection after one day in my possession . The movie does ha... |
367,857 | 2,707,735 | 50,629 | 6 | The Sahara Desert , straight ahead and turn to your left . | He may not be battling the entire Apache Nation , or winning World War II single handedly , but John Wayne has his hands full with co-star Sophia Loren in this desert adventure . Wayne's character is Joe January , a guide hired by Paul Bonnard ( Rosanno Brazzi ) to help him locate his missing father and a lost treasure... |
367,937 | 2,707,735 | 41,809 | 6 | A man can't run away from what's inside him . | Riders of the Whistling Pines is a cool sounding title , and the story itself is not your run of the mill Western . Set in ' modern ' times so to speak , automobiles and airplanes are very much in evidence , and there's even a reference to World War II . After being exonerated for the accidental death of a forestry a... |
367,954 | 2,707,735 | 43,982 | 6 | Get out of there , or I'll fill you full o ' lead . | When one of Rocky Lane's courier buddies is shot and killed , the cowboy hero heads off to the town of Durango to help avenge his friend and get the goods on the bad guys who are looting local wagon trains and creating general havoc . It's true as another reviewer points out , that the town of Durango is never mentione... |
368,244 | 2,707,735 | 35,252 | 6 | Don't worry sister , we'll have a bow and arrow wedding . | Abbott and Costello found themselves in a wide variety of films ; " Ride ' em Cowboy " is their take on mangling the Western genre . They're aided by genuine " B " Western stars Johnny Mack Brown and Dick Foran along with pretty Anne Gwynne as the romantic interest for Foran's character , Bronco Bob Mitchell . Bronco B... |
368,438 | 2,707,735 | 35,254 | 6 | I like dealer's choice . . . , when I'm dealin ' . | Riders of the West was the seventh of eight Rough Riders films to come out of Monogram Pictures . The stories brought together the aging cowboy trio of Buck Rogers , Tim McCoy and Ray Hatton who usually met up at some point in the movie to thwart assorted villains and desperadoes . In this one , the boys are summoned... |
368,170 | 2,707,735 | 35,255 | 6 | When hoss thieves hear me comin ' , they march right up with a rope around their neck ! | I got a kick out of this Roy Rogers film , and mostly for elements not even connected to the story per se . For example , the name of Buzz Henry's character in the picture goes by Bobby Blake , and I thought to myself , wouldn't it have been cool if the REAL Bobby Blake ( Robert Blake , that is ) was cast as a characte... |
367,938 | 2,707,735 | 39,157 | 6 | You better get those silver bullets ready for those ghosts because we're going in . | Even with a fuzzy washed out print and voices out of sync with lip movements , " Apache Rose " is a fun Western in an uncharacteristic setting . Gabby , Andy and Smiley must have been unavailable because Roy Rogers ' sidekick here is Olin Howlin who I haven't seen before . As expected , he provides some of the film's c... |
368,465 | 2,707,735 | 33,144 | 6 | Listen , you see things those white boys don't see . . . | The East Side Kids films would often use the boxing ring as the focus of their stories , but the sport dealt with here is horse racing , as Muggs Maloney ( Leo Gorcey ) fancies himself a championship rider . When an itinerant black trainer and his horse find temporary shelter at the abandoned Acme Stable , Muggs and hi... |
367,838 | 2,707,735 | 47,795 | 6 | I shot the body three times and the head twice . | The mystery here is the names attributed to Abbott and Costello in the closing credits as Peter Patterson and Freddie Franklin . They repeatedly refer to each other by their real names in the film , and I can't recall their character references in the movie at all . Universal rounds out the boys ' monster pairings one ... |
368,066 | 2,707,735 | 43,932 | 6 | That feller stuck up the two fellers that was stickin ' us up ! | This time out , Steve Carson ( Charles Starrett ) is an ex-Texas Ranger , on the trail of cattle swindlers making life tough for Santa Fe ranchers . Before getting there , he's framed for killing the Durango Kid back in Texas by a couple of henchmen working for Buck Prescott ( Frank Fenton ) . He'll use Smiley Burnette... |
368,225 | 2,707,735 | 26,157 | 6 | No , I'm the man who held up the men who held up the stage . | This is one of the more solid ' B ' Westerns you'll find going back to 1935 , with Tim McCoy cast in a dual role as swindled mine owner Slim Braddock , and later as the grown up son Tim Braddock , back for revenge on the outlaw that stole his father's mine claim . The picture even does an admirable job of aging bad guy... |
368,528 | 2,707,735 | 30,473 | 6 | I hope I'm not too late . . . . | As a fan of , and having seen all of the available Charlie Chan films , I was curious to sample another take on the genre , with " Mr . Wong , Detective " as my first sampling of the Wong series . I found the movie to have both similarities and differences to the Chan mysteries . As far as similarities go , the first a... |
368,056 | 2,707,735 | 41,967 | 6 | I gave up being an officer and a gentleman when I turned in my little brown suit . | Joe Barrett ( Humphrey Bogart ) , Passport # 276322 , is back in Tokyo seven years after the war , fluent in Japanese and rousing suspicion in all the official channels . He soon learns that the wife he presumed dead is still alive , having survived Oyama prison camp where she was forced to broadcast propaganda message... |
368,058 | 2,707,735 | 32,706 | 6 | Without faith , we are only dust . | Paramount's " The Light of Western Stars " is based on a Zane Grey novel , and with it's writing and characters , cuts a notch above the average " B " Western of the era . Victor Jory stars as Gene Stewart , and opens the story by betting Sheriff Tom Hawes that he'll marry the first girl who arrives in town . Boston so... |
368,008 | 2,707,735 | 30,550 | 6 | Our partner don't usually go around murdering strangers . . . | In 1938 , Republic Pictures decided to use Robert Livingston in feature films , including " The Lone Ranger Rides Again " serial . Needing a replacement for Livingston in The Three Mesquiteers franchise , they turned to John Wayne who came along to Republic in 1936 with the merger of several ' B ' film companies . Wayn... |
368,586 | 2,707,735 | 43,829 | 6 | You , you've got one slight advantage on me , you don't mind being killed . | I've never given thought to Mickey Rooney in a Western , so seeing him turn up here was an unexpected surprise . Though it makes sense to cast him as a greenhorn sugarfoot heading for Border City , Texas , it's a bit more of a stretch that his long lost brother is portrayed by Robert Stack . Not as bad as Schwarzennege... |
368,488 | 2,707,735 | 43,827 | 6 | If I saw this on television I'd never believe it ! | Bob Hope plays a dual role in this comedy spy flick , one as his usual character throwing out humorous one liners , and the other as an international spy who Peanuts White ( Hope ) is asked to imitate in order to secure a valuable piece of film for the government . Hope actually looked a bit scary as the villain Eric A... |
367,565 | 2,707,735 | 37,115 | 6 | Land of the white witch taboo , we no go . | I was all ready to strap myself in for the ride , but you know what , once the story got going it didn't turn out to be too bad . It reminded me a little of 1949's " Mighty Joe Young " without the production values , and quite possibly a more notable cast . The story opens with the ill fated plane flight of a wanted em... |
367,716 | 2,707,735 | 26,184 | 6 | Hey , ever feel like stranglin ' your wife ? | I never thought about the history of Perry Mason prior to the classic TV series starring Raymond Burr , so catching this on TCM today was a nice treat . The character is handled in a much lighter vein than Burr's portrayal , and I got the feeling that Warren William would also have made a good Nick Charles in the ' Thi... |
368,549 | 2,707,735 | 35,173 | 6 | I think we can stand more canvas boys , ease the main dorsal jib and break out the spinnaker . | Two unlikely buddies hijack a bus , stow away on a charter boat , land on an uncharted island , and save the sacred ruby of Mantua . On paper , the concept doesn't seem to work , but with Abbott and Costello , anything is possible . In " Pardon My Sarong " , all this and more combine to present a musical comedy that wo... |
368,234 | 2,707,735 | 37,074 | 6 | Yeah you're not stupid , you just got a shortage of corrugation in the cerebellum . | Million Dollar Kid is probably as close as you'll get to a tear jerker from an East Side Kids film , as the boys are befriended by wealthy businessman John Cortland ( Herbert Heyes ) . Oddly , Cortland's character is rescued from a mugging by Muggs McGinnis ( Leo Gorcey ) and his gang , but the kicker is that one of ... |
367,710 | 2,707,735 | 30,341 | 6 | There has been no English lady here . | I was genuinely entertained by " The Lady Vanishes " , however I can't help wondering why the film garners such rave reviews along with it's standing in the IMDb film rankings . I'll readily admit that maybe it's me , as I've found myself against the majority from time to time . The premise of the film is an intriguing... |
368,166 | 2,707,735 | 26,534 | 6 | Of course , I don't look so good with my clothes on . | So it's St . Patrick's Day , and something tells me to go through my unviewed stack of Jimmy Cagney films . I get to " The Irish In Us " and figure it's got to be cosmic serendipity , there's no question that this is the one for today . This 1935 film offers all the elements of an early Warner Brothers flick set in New... |
368,253 | 2,707,735 | 32,312 | 6 | Hey , that fella can shoot ! | The Carson City Kid ( Roy Rogers ) is on a quest to find the man that murdered his brother , and that trail brings him to Sonora and the Olive Branch Saloon , owned by crooked card shark Lee Jessup ( Bob Steele ) . Although a hero in most of his films , Steele offers a characterization here of a villain you just love t... |
367,640 | 2,707,735 | 39,320 | 6 | Smart ? He's weird . I tell ' ya , if I didn't know better I'd swear we were doing business with Boris Karloff . | I got a great kick out of the line Dick Tracy's detective assistant Pat Patton ( Lyle Latell ) used referencing the star of the film . It's the second time I know of when Boris Karloff or one of his characters is called by name in a movie . In " Charlie Chan At The Opera " , a stage manager responds to a ruckus in the ... |
367,726 | 2,707,735 | 35,031 | 6 | I tell ya , that guy gives me the creeps ! | With the opening scene , you had to believe this was going to me a moody and atmospheric sci-fi / horror thriller . I was really impressed with all the lab equipment and scientific looking gizmos , probably the best I've seen besides the original " Frankenstein " movie . Dr . Richard Clark ( Edward Keane ) has been exp... |
367,946 | 2,707,735 | 32,346 | 6 | Fine way to talk to a man who fought and died for his country . | Colorado takes place during the Civil War years , with Roy Rogers portraying a Union government agent investigating unrest in the Colorado Territory , where Union forces are being detained to contain outlaws , Indians and Confederate sympathizers . With direct authorization from President Lincoln , Lieutenant Jerry B... |
368,370 | 2,707,735 | 21,636 | 6 | I just know you're going to be happy . | Let's see , Wade loves Marianne , Dick loves Marianne , Laura loves Dick , Marianne loves Val , Val loves himself . By film's end , Dick loves Laura , Marianne loves Wade and everyone lives happily ever after . Despite the opening comments , " The Bad Sister " is not that hard to follow , even with it's soap opera feel... |
368,305 | 2,707,735 | 30,433 | 6 | Why don't you scram cutie , we're buildin ' up a love nest . | Men Are Such Fools pretty much tries to live up to it's title , as all the male leads are flawed characters , with Wayne Morris heading the list as former college football star turned ad agency wonder boy Jimmy Hall . Right out of the gate he's shown chasing pretty Linda Lawrence ( Priscilla Lane ) , a secretary with... |
368,535 | 2,707,735 | 41,503 | 6 | No , seriously darling , run along and buy your little factories and hurry home . | It's unfortunate that this film doesn't have more of a reputation . Had it not been for a four movie DVD compilation from Diamond Entertainment , I would never have come across it . The story involves a scheming wife out to murder her husband , a plot that backfires when her lover botches the job and winds up dying him... |
368,564 | 2,707,735 | 28,510 | 6 | Who ever heard of sending messages over a piece of wire ? | John Wayne appeared in sixteen Westerns for Paul Malvern's Lone Star / Monogram Pictures , and stayed on for eight more films when the group merged with Republic in 1935 . " Winds of the Wasteland " was the last one of these , and would be Wayne's final Western for a couple of years while working on six pictures for Un... |
368,224 | 2,707,735 | 59,093 | 6 | . . . a man must know , a man must walk alone . | The end of the picture really made me think about how this Western turned the traditional good guy / bad guy story on it's head , ending in the death of the hero in a virtually non-climactic finale with the saving posse arriving just a little too late . It's probably how a lot of real life stories ended in the old West... |
368,489 | 2,707,735 | 63,459 | 6 | I don't know what I've got , but I'm about to share it . | Abbott and Costello may have wreaked havoc on more branches of the military , but they never tangled with two at the same time the way Bob Hope does in " The Private Navy of Sgt . O'Farrell " . A somewhat uneven comedy , the film makes do with Hope's traditional one liners and does the best it can with a supporting cas... |
368,314 | 2,707,735 | 43,657 | 6 | Once a jailbird , always a jailbird . | This fairly standard Western features cowboy star Tim Holt and perennial sidekick Chito Rafferty ( Richard Martin ) as a pair of ranch hands who spend a lot of time trying to prove a recently released ex-con is trying to go straight . They manage to get him a job on the Bar Circle Ranch owned by Gail Martin ( Joan Dixo... |
367,715 | 2,707,735 | 28,579 | 6 | Never let your life live from one dawn to another . | I had the greatest trouble with two quotes from the film , the first one in my summary line above , and the other - " The hopes we have for tomorrow die today " . I can't make any sense out of the first , and the second is one of the most pessimistic and depressing statements I've ever heard . The latter was actually s... |
367,670 | 2,707,735 | 28,583 | 6 | The longer a man dances , the more he owes the fiddler . | Finally a ' B ' Western that doesn't have anything to do with land rights , water rights , mining rights , railroad right of way , or a town boss too big for his britches . " Arizona Gunfighter " is also unusual in other ways as well , not the least of which is cowboy star Bob Steele portraying both a hero and an outla... |
368,286 | 2,707,735 | 32,903 | 6 | I'm sick of scrolls , translations , eternal fires ; I'm gonna have just a slight dash of murder mystery . | Filmed in 1940 , " Phantom of Chinatown " is the last of the Mr . Wong series of films , but it's chronologically set as the earliest , featuring Asian actor Keye Luke as a young detective James Lee Wong , a role that British actor Boris Karloff parlayed into five films between 1938 and 1940 . It's refreshing to see Lu... |
368,291 | 2,707,735 | 32,404 | 6 | This is one time we got the murderer dead to rights . | By now , the formula has pretty much run it's course , Detective James Lee Wong ( Boris Karloff ) is called upon to help solve the murder of a shipping magnate whose signature steamship , the " Wentworth Castle " has burned at sea with four hundred lives lost . This time though , it's Herald newspaper reporter Bobbie L... |
368,493 | 2,707,735 | 43,626 | 6 | I didn't know you had enough brains to get an idea , | Heart of the Rockies conjures up a certain sense of romance and adventure for me , but the story here has to do with a state sponsored road gang for first time lawbreakers , with Roy Rogers appearing as a mining engineer who's ramrodding a new road through land owned by a stubborn cattle rancher . I've long gotten pa... |
368,213 | 2,707,735 | 39,226 | 6 | I'd marry him if I was a little bigger and he was a little littler . | Abbott and Costello churned out three service films in 1941 ( " Buck Privates " , " In The Navy " , and " Keep ' Em Flying " ) . With the second World War over , the boys reprise their original roles from " Buck Privates " as they re-enter the civilian world . Universal Pictures gets some mileage out of the first pictu... |
367,899 | 2,707,735 | 41,715 | 6 | On third night , not before , Shark God must again have eyes . | With a title like " Omoo-Omoo The Shark God " I was making room on my Top Ten Worst Movie List for a possible contender , but you know , this wasn't all that bad . Just goes to show you that initial impressions can be deceiving . The first thing to get my double take reaction was seeing that the picture was based on a ... |
368,258 | 2,707,735 | 78,056 | 6 | Yeah , that's a very heavy grease ball wager . | I didn't quite know what to make of " Paradise Alley " when it first came out in 1978 , and quite truthfully , I don't quite know what to make of it today . Back in the mid 1960's I became quite a fan of professional wrestling , oxymoron as that description is . So it was the wrestling theme that prompted me to see it ... |
368,209 | 2,707,735 | 11,130 | 6 | You're a mysterious young man , Dr . Jekyll . | As a medical doctor , Henry Jekyll ( John Barrymore ) maintains a human " repair shop " for the poor and destitute at his own expense . Generally acknowledged as too good to be true , Jekyll is challenged by socialite Sir George Carew to experience more of life for himself , before he marries Carew's daughter Millicent... |
368,228 | 2,707,735 | 32,423 | 6 | Why there's a man who knows what he's doin ' every minute . | After Roy , Gene and Hoppy , one of the first ' B ' Western stars I became familiar with was The Durango Kid , the masked avenger who came to right the wrongs against common folks on the Western plains . Charles Starrett was hired by Columbia Pictures to replace the aging Tim McCoy , and even though he didn't want to b... |
368,519 | 2,707,735 | 34,889 | 6 | Thank you sir , for your arrogant assistance . | John Wayne's Westerns in the mid 1930's for Lone Star Productions were typically formulaic , and they show the Duke developing the two fisted no nonsense style of hero he eventually achieved . Republic Pictures picked up the pacing and quality in this 1942 effort , in which John Wayne portrays a druggist on his way Wes... |
368,243 | 2,707,735 | 28,668 | 6 | But , . . . . , you'll find a crime or invent one before the night's over . " | For my first introduction to the Bulldog Drummond franchise , I must say I was rather pleasantly entertained . The film is decidedly played in a much lighter vein than the Charlie Chan stories of the same era , and with a cast of characters that complement each other nicely . Captain Hugh " Bulldog " Drummond ( Ray Mil... |
368,186 | 2,707,735 | 32,457 | 6 | Things happen to people who know too much . | A trio of familiar faces reunites in this engaging Mr . Wong mystery - Boris Karloff as the Chinese Detective , Grant Withers as San Francisco Police Captain Bill Street ( though he was " Sam " Street in the first two Wong films ) , and Marjorie Reynolds as feisty Herald newspaper reporter Bobbie Logan . Street " unoff... |
368,371 | 2,707,735 | 39,262 | 6 | A murder in the house of Charlie Chan , now I've seen everything . | The Chinese Ring is a passable entry in the Monogram series of Charlie Chan films , notable for Roland Winters ' first time portrayal of the Oriental Detective . In a strange departure from the usual strong continuity between films , Victor Sen Yung is presented as Number # 2 Son named Tommy ; he was Jimmy in all of ... |
367,829 | 2,707,735 | 45,991 | 6 | This town is a sinkhole of violence and evil . . . | Hey , wasn't that a great way to open the film - Ronald Reagan rides into view wearing that tin star , championing law and order and democracy . One of history's great ironic tributes to life imitating art . Ultimately though , the film is largely a run of the mill Western , a notch above the ' B ' programmers churned ... |
368,074 | 2,707,735 | 39,261 | 6 | Aw , my mind's made up like a dance hall girl's face . | Apart from my three best remembered TV / Movie cowboy heroes , ( Roy , Gene and Hoppy ) , the one I recall the best after only seeing him once or twice back in the Fifties was Lash LaRue . It must have been the impression he made with the all black outfit and of course , the unforgettable bullwhip . " Cheyenne Takes Ov... |
368,525 | 2,707,735 | 23,694 | 6 | They are not men Monsieur , they are dead bodies . | If you call yourself a classic horror movie fan , then you've either seen " White Zombie " , or it better be on your must see list . The opening of the film is itself a visual and auditory treat , replete with voodoo drums and chanting , punctuating stylized graphics that spell out the title . As expected , the film is... |
367,853 | 2,707,735 | 41,311 | 6 | No use trying to talk to ' em . | I can't say for sure I've seen a Roy Rogers picture in color before , so this one was a pleasant surprise . It's a decently scripted story that covers a couple of plot lines and winds up maintaining credibility throughout . Well , except for Dolly Paxton ( Elizabeth Risdon ) creasing the side of Roy's head with her rif... |
367,662 | 2,707,735 | 12,657 | 6 | Get aloft and furl the mainroyal . | The movie's title comes from the nickname of the captain of ' The Lair ' , John Nelson ( Hobart Bosworth ) - ' recognizing work as the only creed and brute strength as the one law ' . Nelson's bitter nature dates back two decades from the time his wife left him for another man . In a parallel coincidence , businessman ... |
368,508 | 2,707,735 | 91,834 | 6 | You'll be fightin ' the devil on his own ground here , Sir . | Boy oh boy , if this film didn't star Willie Nelson I hazard to think what the reviews might be like . This is one mess of a story , defying logic and credibility even in the days of the Wild West . The wedding scene at the start of the film is where it all begins , I initially thought Willie was the father giving his ... |
367,795 | 2,707,735 | 32,032 | 6 | Get down out of there you upholstered nitwit ! | For Western film fans and trivia enthusiasts , this one is a blast ! Not only do you have John Wayne teaming up with Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune as the Three Mesquiteers , but also one of the most clever twists you'll ever find in a ' B ' Western . Nancy Evans ( Carole Landis ) is the owner of the West-East Traveling ... |
368,579 | 2,707,735 | 27,654 | 6 | Have a good time dear , don't get in too deep . | Another entry in the Mill Creek Entertainment collection of ' Cult Classics ' , a neat compilation of twenty films from the 1930's focusing on exploitation flicks that sidestepped the Hays Code to offer scenes of sexual titillation or the evils of substance abuse . " Gambling With Souls " falls in the former category ,... |
368,330 | 2,707,735 | 27,707 | 6 | Watch her wiggle , watch her shake , and don't forget to watch that snake ! | The story synopsis for this film on Encore Westerns stated that after being framed for murder , Gene Autry goes on a search for the real killers . I was wondering if he'd have better luck than OJ , so I tuned in to check it out . Actually , I knew he would , since Autry always gets his man , whether in the movies or on... |
368,321 | 2,707,735 | 67,750 | 6 | I just wanted to see if there's any of my blood still on the sidewalk . | Shootout begins with an unbelievable scene ; when Clay Lomax ( Gregory Peck ) is released from prison , he's allowed to strap on a loaded gun directly in front of the prison warden . Seems like a more vindictive ex-con could have done some damage . Shortly after , with his mind set on revenge against the partner that... |
367,900 | 2,707,735 | 55,008 | 6 | You have to catch the spider Inspector , not the web . | The style and direction of the movie reminded me of the later British Hitchcock films as well as some of the Sherlock Holmes flicks of the 1930's and ' 40's , even though this German movie was made in 1961 . The quality of the print I viewed also seemed to place it as an older film by a couple of decades , but in that ... |
367,846 | 2,707,735 | 47,320 | 6 | Too late for a doctor , this boy's a fixin ' to die . | Sorry I can't share the same enthusiasm for this film that prior reviewers have , but it seems to muddle from scene to scene in search of the righteous revenge angle that never quite materializes . The protagonist , Jet Cosgrave ( John Derek ) , never evokes the kind of sympathy one would expect for his cause , because... |
367,958 | 2,707,735 | 80,870 | 6 | Well learn and live , huh kid ? | Right out of the gate , this movie had an almost impossible hurdle to overcome by invoking the name of " High Noon " , so it shouldn't come as any surprise that the result was somewhat disappointing . Had the film makers gone for an entirely different premise , you might have had a reasonably interesting Western . Howe... |
368,324 | 2,707,735 | 32,107 | 6 | Chuckawalla , there's skullduggery going round here . | Like the opening song says , Roy , Gabby and Ray Hatton are a happy go lucky bunch of punchers in this quick paced story that moves West to New York and back again to the Circle R to have Roy Rogers save his ranch from a gang of would be land grabbers . The bad guys are after the molybdenum found at Skeleton Canyon on ... |
367,587 | 2,707,735 | 43,397 | 6 | It all started as a publicity stunt for the show . . . | Chained For Life is offered as part of a four disc , twenty film DVD set from Mill Creek Entertainment , any one of which is worth it's relatively modest purchase price in entertainment value . Most of the flicks in the set fall into the exploitation genre of the 1930's , with a good number dealing with drug and alco... |
368,163 | 2,707,735 | 22,403 | 6 | Mr . Nick , you sure is one lucky white man . | You might expect the only screen pairing of Edward G . Robinson and James Cagney to be a hard edged gangster drama on the order of Robinson's own " Little Caesar " or Cagney's " Public Enemy " . In fact , " Smart Money " isn't a gangster flick per se , though it has it's seamy under world characters like Sleepy Sam ( R... |
367,561 | 2,707,735 | 37,470 | 6 | You can't run a town with laws for some and none for others . | The only other times I've seen Claire Trevor in a movie she was portraying a fallen woman ; as Humphrey Bogart's ex-girl friend turned hooker in 1937's " Dead End " , and as Edward G . Robinson's moll in " Key Largo " from 1948 . Her occupation of choice in " The Woman of the Town " is a ' dance hall belle ' , in an at... |
368,285 | 2,707,735 | 35,784 | 6 | You'll pray for death long before you die . | Following the death of his brother , Dr . Lloyd Clayton ( George Zucco ) methodically destroys all of his books and papers dealing in Satanism , sorcery and demonology . The good doctor is not above a little malevolence of his own though , as Elwyn Clayton's ( also Zucco in a dual role ) death was at the hands of Lloyd... |
367,957 | 2,707,735 | 41,429 | 6 | We're starting from scratch . You're a duchess without dough , and I'm a millionaires without a mill . | With the start of each Bob Hope movie , I begin my countdown as to when Bing Crosby might make a characteristic unscheduled appearance . So imagine my surprise when all of a sudden Jack Benny pops up in a typical skinflint role offering to change a hundred dollar bill for Hope's character . Hope's reaction to whether i... |
368,190 | 2,707,735 | 27,805 | 6 | If a man wants to hide himself from the world , isn't this an ideal place ? | With a quick " I Do " and a hasty good bye kiss , Val Stevens ( Humphrey Bogart ) takes off to save a handful of sailors caught in a furious tropical storm off the island of Tankana , the " Isle of Fury " of the title . With a look that asks " Did I do the right thing ? " , wife Lucille ( Margaret Lindsay ) questions h... |
367,806 | 2,707,735 | 179,209 | 6 | I'll tell ya , I get my orders from The Hawk . | What might have ended up as a fairly standard Western programmer wound up somewhat more interesting due to a number of elements , chief of which was the identity of the title character . The ' Hawk ' of Powder River was the leader of an outlaw gang , and as it turns out , was a female , ably portrayed by Jennifer Holt ... |
368,544 | 2,707,735 | 29,984 | 6 | Honolulu Police frown on choking bay with bodies . | Charlie Chan in Honolulu opens with a view of the mailbox at the Chan family home , reading ' Chas . Chan ' - I never really thought of the Oriental Detective as " Chas " . The film is Sidney Toler's debut as the master detective , along with Victor Sen Yung's first portrayal of Number # 2 Son Jimmy , although he app... |
368,217 | 2,707,735 | 33,683 | 6 | Well I've known some men that tried to cash in on bein ' crazy . | The Gunman From Bodie is the second in a series of eight Rough Riders films from Monogram Studios that paired three aging veterans of ' B ' Western flicks from the Twenties and Thirties - Buck Jones , Tim McCoy and Ray Hatton . The trio had a pretty cool chemistry together in the RR flicks , and the stories themselve... |
368,313 | 2,707,735 | 43,360 | 6 | The jungle's my house , it belongs to me . | I can't bring myself to call this a bad film . Going by the title of course , I was expecting a huge helping of cheese to go with the story , but there was something intriguing to this tale of black magic and mystical animals . You'll have to get past the casting of Raymond Burr as a Spanish plantation worker , but tha... |
367,784 | 2,707,735 | 41,361 | 6 | I said Kentucky whiskey , and that's what I want ! | I would be hard pressed to find an odder casting of co-stars in a movie than John Wayne and Oliver Hardy , but the arrangement seems to work in " The Fighting Kentuckian " . Both are members of the 2nd Kentucky Regiment , making their way home following the Battle of New Orleans ; it's 1819 and the setting is Demopolis... |
368,250 | 2,707,735 | 33,781 | 6 | Aw , poison ivy , now you made me say a rash word . | Abbott and Costello follow up their first two service films ( " Buck Privates " and " In the Navy " ) with this comedy offering where they enter the U . S . Army Air Corps with fellow " woman hater " Jinx Roberts ( Dick Foran ) . Foran portrays a sideshow stunt pilot whose flying escapades usually get him in trouble , ... |
368,327 | 2,707,735 | 477,348 | 6 | Well this is just a deal gone wrong , isn't it ? | Sometimes I'll work an overnight graveyard shift ( like last night ) , and then stay up the next day making it about twenty hours straight without sleep . I'll usually catch a second wind around two o'clock in the afternoon , so figured that would be perfect to see this film with a 2 : 20 start time . Now I know I was ... |
367,909 | 2,707,735 | 22,293 | 6 | If there's any hanging to be done , I'll take care of it . | In the opening scene , a church notice states that a " Peace Meeting " will be held on Friday at 7 : 30 P . M . Right after the meeting ends , as sheriff Buck Gordon ( Buck Jones ) accompanies Dad Turner ( Will Walling ) to Charlie's Saloon , Dad states that it's Sunday ! " Range Feud " was much better than I was expec... |
368,422 | 2,707,735 | 27,849 | 6 | Sounds like a polite case of cattle rustling to me . | From 1933 to 1935 , John Wayne made a series of sixteen sagebrush yarns for Monogram Pictures under their Lone Star production unit . In 1935 , Monogram along with Mascot , Consolidated Film Laborites and others merged into the Republic Pictures fold . Wayne , with producers Trem Carr and Paul Malvern moved over to Rep... |
367,552 | 2,707,735 | 24,500 | 6 | You suppose you could , eh , go in and tell her you like her biscuits or somethin ' . . . | The good news is that " Riders of Destiny " just might be the best of John Wayne's Westerns for producer Paul Malvern's Lone Star Productions . The bad news would be that this was the first one , meaning that all the rest went downhill from here . Now don't get me wrong , I'm a ' B ' Western fan from way back , but if ... |
368,411 | 2,707,735 | 37,627 | 6 | Speaking of politics , where we're going there are only two parties , the quick and the dead . | It's interesting to follow John Wayne's career progress , from the early Lone Star Western days up through the leading roles he's most famous for in the Sixties and Seventies . Here , in " Dakota " , and in other films of the era , he probably appeared at his best in terms of rugged good looks and athletic skill . He c... |
368,004 | 2,707,735 | 52,862 | 6 | Would you stop acting like I'm a gangster or something . | Here's an interesting little noir style thriller starring Steve McQueen , who through a series of bad choices winds up as the fall guy for a trio of hoods that plan the robbery of the St . Louis Southwest Bank . His senior partners are portrayed by Crahan Denton , James Dukas , and David Clarke , all of whom garnered a... |
367,749 | 2,707,735 | 22,236 | 6 | Now get this straight , when a guy is a pal o ' mine , I don't play around with his wife . | Films from the early talkie era are always interesting , even fascinating , since it was easy to be innovative and creative with things that hadn't been done before . As the name implies , " Other Men's Women " suggests infidelity with possible dire consequences and so it is here . Jack Culper ( Regis Toomey ) and Bill... |
368,093 | 2,707,735 | 452,637 | 6 | There's no swimming after seven . | It's been three weeks since I saw the film , and I've been thinking about it off and on ever since . I had difficulty at first deciding whether it was a genuinely brilliant exercise in film making , or a contrived piece of self indulgence from Shyamalan himself . I'm ready to side with the latter and call it a wrap . H... |
367,665 | 2,707,735 | 22,243 | 6 | I never thought I'd have to kill a man , but it may be that I will . | Considering the release of this film on the early threshold of the talkie film era , and with the hindsight of a couple hundred Western films under my belt , I was rather surprised by the originality of some of the scenes presented here . The opening sequence almost suggests that it IS a silent film , until broken by t... |
367,969 | 2,707,735 | 64,780 | 6 | No Ranger retires perpendicular ! | If you have a choice of watching only one Western and want to catch a corral full of great character actors of the genre , this would be a good choice . Not so much for the story , but just to get to see Walter Brennan , Edgar Buchanan , Chill Wills , and Andy Devine all in one picture , with a little help from Edward ... |
368,003 | 2,707,735 | 24,176 | 6 | We drank heavily and fought over the women . . . | I found the film to be strangely surreal , relating as it does the life on Pitcairn Island for the descendants of Fletcher Christian and his fellow mutineers from the ' Bounty ' . After setting Captain Bligh and eighteen of his men adrift in the ocean , Christian and his crew found solace and a life on Pitcairn , seemi... |
367,785 | 2,707,735 | 33,388 | 6 | You mean that a woman of your culture and money and beauty and money and wealth and money would , would marry that impostor ! | There are enough song , dance and Harpo routines in " The Big Store " to classify it as a musical , and that's just including the numbers done by the Marx Brothers . Throw in some additional tunes by co-star Tony Martin , and you've probably got more minutes of music than not in this 1941 frolic . The story involves Ma... |
367,589 | 2,707,735 | 89,092 | 6 | Earth Man - your Mickey Mouse is one big stupid dope ! | In the past week , I had seen this movie in the TV cable listings just about every day being offered on a variety of channels . Sensing that this might have been a mysterious calling out to me on some personal level , I decided to watch it . I stayed till the end , but I have to say , I can't for the life of me imagine... |
367,616 | 2,707,735 | 29,915 | 6 | You need a new Billy The Kid , ' aincha ? | Western film fans will recognize the characters and locale of " Billy The Kid Returns " , though not the spin off tale that forms the basis of this story . Roy Rogers performs double duty as both the legendary badman and his good guy counterpart , a character sharing Rogers ' own name . When Billy is gunned down by She... |
367,842 | 2,707,735 | 45,544 | 6 | They haven't invented a medal yet for those people . | Humprey Bogart is a doctor with the Mobile Army Surgical Hospital , MASH Unit # 8666 , in a non comedy preview of the more notable TV Series of the early 1970's . The early going in the film really left me disoriented when the unit's encampment undergoes strafing fire , while more than once and clearly visible , a warp... |
367,892 | 2,707,735 | 50,763 | 6 | If we're all playing showdown , I'd like to see the cards when they fall . | With " Night Passage " , you get Jimmy Stewart uncharacteristically playing an accordion and singing a few songs , and Audie Murphy in another one of his baby face villain roles . You also have Dan Duryea in a co-starring effort , but you have to wonder if he might have been hard of hearing during filming . He shouts e... |
Subsets and Splits
No community queries yet
The top public SQL queries from the community will appear here once available.