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368,574 | 2,707,735 | 24,301 | 6 | Cats grow big up here , it's the mountain air . | After watching and reviewing nearly three hundred Westerns on this forum , it's always a neat surprise to find one with an element or two that I haven't seen before . Not that " Man of the Forest " doesn't have one of the typically standard plots for a ' B ' oater , because it does . This is one of those flicks where t... |
368,121 | 2,707,735 | 33,519 | 6 | Man has learned much who has learned how to die . | It seems as if " Dead Men Tell " is over just as it's about to get interesting , with Inspector Charlie Chan ( Sidney Toler ) solving two murders in virtually record time . The action takes place aboard a docked sailing vessel , The Suva Star , which has been chartered to host a treasure hunt cruise for sixty million d... |
368,362 | 2,707,735 | 37,826 | 6 | Subtle as a blast of TNT , isn't he ? | The body count reaches an all time high of four in this Charlie Chan film , as Sidney Toler attempts to solve the murder of inventor Dr . Harper , apparently killed for a secret gas formula he was developing for the war effort . The continuity of the Chan films is maintained here , as Edwin Luke joins the cast as Numbe... |
367,598 | 2,707,735 | 45,469 | 6 | I'm doin ' all the drinkin ' and you turn into a mouse . | By the time they were through , Abbott and Costello got to mix it up with just about all of Universal Studios ' iconic monsters ; here they take their mayhem over to England to exchange pleasantries with Boris Karloff and his portrayal of Dr . Jekyll and Mr . Hyde . Karloff has a turn at a variation of the Wolfman gimm... |
368,502 | 2,707,735 | 45,468 | 6 | Put the hose on him , put the fire out , and put him in the dungeon . | Abbott and Costello Go To Mars is one of the better remembered films from my childhood , along with their romp with Frankenstein , and other Million Dollar Movie favorites like " Godzilla " and " King Kong " . Perhaps it was the memorable New Orleans Mardi Gras setting with it's outlandish cast of costumed " martians... |
367,680 | 2,707,735 | 74,776 | 6 | What I think up here , I think two , three , minutes ahead of you . . . | I have to side with the naysayers here , if you've seen enough Westerns , there's no escaping the fact that this one is nothing special . Perhaps notable for an early treatment of rape in cinema , even that theme gets botched by the overtly one track randiness of henchman Gant ( John Quade ) . Once the attempt is made ... |
368,223 | 2,707,735 | 44,966 | 6 | Texas is in safe hands again . | I guess I've seen about a dozen Gene Autry films in recent months , but the hook for this one is that I happen to have the original theatrical poster for it , proclaiming that ' Gene's Rangers ride herd on the killers who tried to take Texas for a ride ' . In the story , Gene and his sidekick Pat Buttram put the word o... |
367,639 | 2,707,735 | 60,261 | 6 | There can be no haste before the eternity of death . | Knowing that a hellbender is actually a large type of salamander , I was weirdly surprised to see that the flag draped coffin bore a likeness of a salamander on it . The Hellbenders were a Confederate outfit in the film , with leader Jonas ( Joseph Cotten ) and his three sons attempting to revive the Southern cause wit... |
367,793 | 2,707,735 | 29,694 | 6 | Well that makes it more interestin ' when the competition's good . | Trouble in Texas appears to be a re-working of the 1934 Lone Star Pictures film , " The Man From Utah " , starring John Wayne ; both were directed by Robert North Bradbury and both utilize the excellent stunt work of Yakima Canutt . In fact , Yak's character in both pictures is pretty much the same , he portrays a ch... |
367,982 | 2,707,735 | 31,589 | 6 | Oh I get it , we're going places . | This is the first time I've seen a Lone Wolf movie , and I was struck by the similarity to the Bulldog Drummond series from the same era . Not only did the main characters have a canine nom de plume , but each featured a comic relief butler and a fetching female hanger on that can't wait to get married . In the Drummon... |
367,871 | 2,707,735 | 44,936 | 6 | The crew's below , all I have to do is sober them up . | Not a bad little actioner here for a movie that doesn't go feature length . It doesn't start out as a pirate adventure but turns into one when Hook ( Gene Evans ) and Redlegs ( Rhys Williams ) learn of plans to smuggle ten million dollars worth of gold back to the States during the War of 1812 . Captain James Marshall ... |
368,237 | 2,707,735 | 34,173 | 6 | There's something queer going on here . | I was surprised to see the Warner Brothers / First National name attached to this film ; their many movies of the era often presented a social ill as a backdrop to a story headlined by one of their main contract players . " Shadows on the Stairs " seems to have been done with just entertainment value in mind , and it w... |
368,378 | 2,707,735 | 42,782 | 6 | I pay for everything eventually . | I've seen quite a few Randolph Scott movies , and the thing I notice about him as a Western star is the frequent number of outfit changes he goes through in a picture . It's more noticeable in color of course , but it occurs in his black and white films as well . The interesting thing about " The Nevadan " is that the ... |
368,458 | 2,707,735 | 175,090 | 6 | Did you see the English he put on that bullet ? | I'd seen any number of appearances by Edgar Bergen and Charlie McCarthy back in the 1950's on variety shows , but never knew they appeared in film shorts like the one presented in " Pure Feud " . It's actually a pretty entertaining vehicle , and without the one on one banter between ventriloquist and dummy on a variety... |
367,808 | 2,707,735 | 27,200 | 6 | Them fellas seem to be in a mighty big hurry ! | When new Republic Pictures was formed in 1935 , they brought over a lot of talent from Lone Star Productions , including producers Trem Carr and Paul Malvern , director Robert North Bradbury , and box office draw John Wayne . All were involved in " Westward Ho " , their first picture featuring ' The Duke ' . Curiously ... |
367,945 | 2,707,735 | 31,536 | 6 | Of course me , I think banks is swell , I don't know what I'd do without ' em . | King of the Underworld paces at a machine gun clip , with Humphrey Bogart as Joe Gurney , a crime boss who quotes Napoleon and fancies himself as the last of the public enemies . When doctors Niles and Carol Nelson ( John Eldredge and Kay Francis ) perform a difficult surgery and save one of his men , Gurney insinuat... |
368,020 | 2,707,735 | 27,136 | 6 | Your perception as usual does you credit Mr . Holmes . | Arthur Wontner does the honors as Sherlock Holmes in this 1935 film , while the non-Bond Ian Fleming portrays a dapper Dr . John Watson . This was my first experience of their pairing , and they play off each other well , though the running gag of Watson's nudging Holmes to be introduced to every new character wears th... |
368,148 | 2,707,735 | 29,602 | 6 | I'm the doctor now and I'm prescribing a little song . | Springtime in the Rockies is probably one of the more romantic sounding titles in Gene Autry's filmography , but the story boils down to a fairly standard cattle men versus sheep men plot . Better make that sheep women though , as new college graduate Sandra Knight ( Polly Rowles ) heads West to assume her role as th... |
367,987 | 2,707,735 | 45,012 | 6 | See her face , a real honest face , only disgusting thing about her . | I'm sure this was the wrong choice for a first time viewing of the fabled Tracy / Hepburn team , about a third of the way in I was scratching my head over just about everything in the film . With awkward pacing , stilted dialog and prolonged sporting sequences that eventually wear out their welcome , I had trouble reco... |
368,165 | 2,707,735 | 74,851 | 6 | Well you're really hooked on water , aren't you ? | I was hip enough in the Seventies to consider David Bowie one of my favorite performers , and managed to catch him in concert a couple of times in major arenas . I guess what I was expecting in " The Man Who Fell To Earth " was something on the order of Ziggy Stardust , but if that was the only thing missing I wouldn't... |
367,622 | 2,707,735 | 38,126 | 6 | Sure we know , we're just nuts looking for a padded cell . | The plot of " Strange Illusion " can be summed up by main character Paul Cartwright ( Jimmy Lydon ) in conversation with his friend Dr . Vincent ( Regis Toomey ) - " This may sound kinda crazy Doc but , that dream is beginning to happen " . The story finds college student Paul , who's overly protective of his mother Vi... |
367,634 | 2,707,735 | 73,559 | 6 | Every day above ground is a good day . | Finally , after watching literally hundreds of westerns , score one for the bad guy ! Bruce Dern's character is Jack Strawhorn , a savvy train robber with enough sense in the early going to know that his gang was second best to Marshal Howard Nightingale's ( Kirk Douglas ) lawmen . Savvy enough also to allow himself to... |
368,118 | 2,707,735 | 31,704 | 6 | I'm afraid there has been an unfortunate accident , your host is dead . | Boris Karloff follows up his 1938 film " Mr . Wong , Detective " , with this clever whodunit about the murder of a rare gem collector , who just the day before he comes into it's possession , receives a sinister written message - " The possessor of the Eye of the Daughter of the Moon rides swiftly to his death . " Bran... |
368,071 | 2,707,735 | 58,202 | 6 | Tell me , is there any particular way you'd like to die ? | I just picked up a 3 DVD / 9 Movie set of Spaghetti Westerns put out by St . Clair Entertainment and am getting an introduction to some neat Eurowest films . My only familiarity with the genre has been the Clint Eastwood movies , so these are proving to be a treat . " Minnesota Clay " is one of the entries , with a uni... |
367,870 | 2,707,735 | 31,716 | 6 | Oh Jeepers , I'm cursed . A woman finds out I've got twenty million dollars and bad health she falls in love with me . | Bob Hope and Martha Raye continually keep the viewer off balance with regard to their romantic intentions in " Never Say Die " , even though they start out by getting married and then go about falling in something like love by the movie's finale . In between , the story ping pongs back and forth between scenes of frust... |
368,560 | 2,707,735 | 48,703 | 6 | Looks like we got all the foxes bottled up in one hole ! | Well I don't know if there were more than three or four of the ten wanted men of the title to challenge Randolph Scott in this mid 1950's Western , which played a lot more like an oater from a decade or two earlier . This was not Scott's finest hour , which probably explains only a single outfit change from a plaid shi... |
368,016 | 2,707,735 | 29,565 | 6 | I see no more than you , but I've trained myself to notice what I see . | Arthur Wontner and Ian Fleming reprise their Holmes and Watson roles , once again foiling a plot by the villainous Professor Moriarty ( Lyn Harding ) and his top henchman Moran ( Arthur Goullet ) . This time around , the story involves a murder and the theft of a race horse in an effort to insure that a big time gamble... |
368,360 | 2,707,735 | 38,080 | 6 | I knew it , I knew it , you fool around with murders and you turn up a ghost ! | In 1937 , Dan Van Horn was arrested in Shanghai for a murder in which the bite of a cobra was implicated . Van Horn escaped , never to be heard from again , although it's known that his face was badly burned in an accident . It's now eight years later , and three employees of the Sixth National Bank have turned up dead... |
368,437 | 2,707,735 | 39,988 | 6 | He couldn't track an elephant in five feet of snow ! | In the oddest of coincidences , this is the second Western in a row I've watched , picked entirely at random , to take place in a town called Red Bluff . The other was the 1942 Rough Riders picture , " Riders of the West " . I don't recall the state ever being mentioned in the stories , but a quick Google search brough... |
368,308 | 2,707,735 | 29,462 | 6 | Don't you know he could shoot the buttons off your shirt ? | From Republic Pictures , " Range Defenders " is a Three Mesquiteers Western that teams up Robert Livingston , Ray Corrigan and Max Terhune . When George Brooke ( Thomas Carr ) is framed for murder by town boss John Harvey ( Harry Woods ) , it's up to his brother Stony ( Livingston ) and his buddies to clear his name an... |
368,002 | 2,707,735 | 64,155 | 6 | My brother's the only man alive who can call me an idiot . | When I first saw Elvis in the film as the bearded desperado Jess Wade , I thought Wow ! - what if his career had taken a turn like , say , Clint Eastwood's . Elvis Presley as Rowdy Yates on ' Rawhide ' . Back when Elvis was lean and good looking , the independent wrangler approach might have taken him into spaghetti We... |
367,786 | 2,707,735 | 39,998 | 6 | Mrs . Hawkins , marriage is nothing but a three ring circus , first the engagement ring , then the wedding ring , and then suffering . | Abbott and Costello managed to wreak havoc in virtually every type of movie genre , and the Western was no exception . They did it the first time in 1942's " Ride ' Em Cowboy " , and came back once more in " The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap " . The boys are traveling salesmen for all of about five minutes in the film's i... |
368,468 | 2,707,735 | 16,461 | 6 | Boys - it's the last of the West . | If William S . Hart's birth date listed on the IMDb is accurate , and my math is correct , he would have been sixty one years old in the picture , which I find to be pretty amazing . Considering that his on screen sweetheart Miss Molly ( Barbara Bedford ) in the story is twenty two , I'd say that some of the early sile... |
368,057 | 2,707,735 | 23,027 | 6 | Anything further , father ? | Professor Quincy Adams Wagstaff ( Groucho Marx ) is the new president of Huxley College , and you get the impression that he feels about it as much as his opening song - " I'm Against It " ! . Wagstaff's main and perhaps only goal at Huxley is to produce a winning football team , good enough to defeat arch rival Darwin... |
368,533 | 2,707,735 | 324,216 | 6 | I'll tell you this much , the next hitchhiker is s . . . outta luck , I swear to God . | OK , so you thought this was a horror flick . Here for your consideration are the top ten reasons why " Texas Chainsaw Massacre " is a highly underrated educational film : 1 . Don't pick up hitchhikers for any reason , especially if they're going to kill themselves in your back seat . 2 . When you come across a strange... |
368,315 | 2,707,735 | 31,678 | 6 | That is my one permanent characteristic . | My only prior experience with Peter Lorre's work was in two of my favorite Humphrey Bogart films , as Joel Cairo in " The Maltese Falcon " , and as the scheming Ugarte in " Casablanca " . Both characterizations were excellent and memorable efforts . His casting as a Japanese " International Police " investigator is alm... |
367,891 | 2,707,735 | 31,676 | 6 | You going out to detect somethin ' ? | Like most of the Charlie Chan movies of the same era , it might help to keep a score card here to keep track of all the players . Mr . Moto ( Peter Lorre ) , true to characterizations in earlier films in the series , relies on his skills as an anthropologist as well as a detective to solve this , his final case . He's ... |
367,754 | 2,707,735 | 46,876 | 6 | Even I , Lucas , have heard of the legend of a man fish . | Just the name alone , " Creature From the Black Lagoon " conjures up all sorts of mental images of creepy , slimy monsters from murky underwater depths . And this 1954 Universal Film certainly delivers on that score , the legendary creature earning his place among the pantheon of Universal's all star lineup - Frankenst... |
368,064 | 2,707,735 | 62,429 | 6 | That'll be one bandit less then Clayton , that I'll have to condemn to hell fire . | Any Gun Can Play probably has more ' vamanos ' and ' andeles ' than any spaghetti Western out there , while mixing in it's share of black hats , stogies , beards and ponchos . The opening scene is a blast , it will make you sit up and take notice of some familiar , yet unfamiliar characters who aren't around long eno... |
368,089 | 2,707,735 | 27,499 | 6 | Ladies and Gentlmen , I give you the future of Boonesborough . | Seeing the film today gave me an interesting perspective on our country's history , as the events took place one year before the Declaration of Independence . With the Revolutionary War in full swing , an entirely different battle was being waged on the near Western frontier of ' Kain-Tu-Kee ' , the Indian name for a '... |
367,643 | 2,707,735 | 31,347 | 6 | Dead men don't recognize anybody . | Frontier Pony Express features an early starring role for cowboy Roy Rogers , one in which he acquits himself reasonably well . Set in 1861 , Roy's a Pony Express rider and acknowledged as the best in the business , so it would be a major victory for Senator Lassiter Calhoun ( Edward Keane ) to convince Roy to cast a... |
367,611 | 2,707,735 | 36,075 | 6 | Roy , you're dead . As long as you stay dead you won't get killed . | It's only appropriate that the King of the Cowboys would appear in a movie of the same name . Roy Rogers was always my favorite Western hero , and he appears here as an undercover agent for Texas Governor Shuville ( Russell Hicks ) , investigating sabotage in the territory . The story itself however , turns out to be r... |
368,581 | 2,707,735 | 18,756 | 6 | Hold everything ! The next one's a knockout . | Sadly , not so . I detected the enthusiasm in the reviews of other posters on this board , but I'm far from enthralled by this early effort from director Hitchcock . Admittedly , the Master shows a flair for some of the techniques that would gain him accolades in his later work . I particularly liked his use of the swa... |
368,116 | 2,707,735 | 46,937 | 6 | Move a little faster Sonny , I irritate real easy . | Crown City , Colorado was born and built on gold , but by 1880 the town was tapped out , with the only remaining mineral left to mine located in the San Juan Mountains , right in the middle of Ute Indian Territory . Gary Brannon ( Audie Murphy ) is on the side of the miners , and wants to see his town survive along wit... |
367,789 | 2,707,735 | 49,363 | 6 | There you are old boy , you respond properly and my theory is sound , you'll be more famous dead than alive . . . , throw the switch ! | Indestructible Man is one of those 1950's pseudo horror gems that threaten to implode into comedy at any minute , but chalk one up for Lon Chaney Jr . here , he holds this thinly scripted melodrama together long enough to provide some entertaining moments . Chaney's character is Butcher Benton , about to die in the e... |
368,474 | 2,707,735 | 42,618 | 6 | . . . this is not just a dog , this is Johnny One-Eye . | With one of the cooler sounding film titles going , I was surprised when the title character turned out not to be a gangster , but a down and out mutt belonging to a little girl . Johnny One-Eye gets his name from Martin Martin ( Pat O'Brien ) , victim to a former partner's bullet , and holed up in a run down alley whe... |
367,569 | 2,707,735 | 25,499 | 6 | . . . It's out of my hands , I was a mere instrument of the law . | It was somewhat comical to see the full screen opening credit given Humphrey Bogart in this re-release version from Guaranteed Pictures . One of the mainstays of the public domain bargain bin , " Call It Murder " provides an early look at the future star in a limited role , which in retrospect could have been played by... |
368,372 | 2,707,735 | 40,296 | 6 | Sometimes most essential clue very difficult to find . | Opposing forces are at work in a dual plot that makes " Docks of New Orleans " an interesting Charlie Chan mystery . An international gang attempts to steal a secret gas formula that they can no longer prevent from being shipped to rival forces in South America . At the same time , the inventor of the gas formula seeks... |
368,568 | 2,707,735 | 29,280 | 6 | There's something rummy about that chap tonight . | Not too bad a story for a film I'd never heard of before , much less have a chance to see if not for a neat little compilation of ten movies on three DVD's from St . Clair Vision . The set has a pirates theme with bonus features including an except from a 1938 radio broadcast . " The Mutiny of the Elsinore " is based o... |
368,192 | 2,707,735 | 22,676 | 6 | Oh that place , take it easy Sonny , this rushin ' will come in handy after you get there . | Perhaps to underscore the quick pace of life in New York , " Big City Blues " moves along at a hectic sixty three minute pace , and tries to cram as much action as it can into that amount of time . Willow Station railroad agent ( Grant Mitchell ) has been there and done that , and bets a ten spot with a buddy that anxi... |
368,109 | 2,707,735 | 31,478 | 6 | So my gringo friends , tomorrow your necks will be considerably longer . | As Americans move westward to California in the mid 1800's , the days of the old Spanish Dons and their vast ranchos are numbered . One such landowner is Don Jose Vargas , who bemoans the loss of his way of life . Roy Rogers is like a second son to Don Jose , but his integrity is threatened when he defends a band of wh... |
367,681 | 2,707,735 | 79,094 | 6 | Shoot your little stick my heathen friend . . . | It's not likely you'll catch a Western like this again , good guys and bad guys have little meaning here . Martin Sheen and Sam Waterston are pitted against each other as an ex-foot soldier versus a Kiowa warrior , and the mismatch is palpable throughout . There's a great innovative scene where White Bull ( Waterston )... |
368,176 | 2,707,735 | 51,418 | 6 | There's nobody in here but us monsters ! | I just watched " The Blob " for the first time , having been too young at the time to catch it at a local drive-in or movie theater . Holy cow , what a blast , owing to the goofy pseudo sci-fi horror effects and Steve McQueen in an early starring film role . Although by 1958 , he was well past being a teenager , and it... |
368,276 | 2,707,735 | 33,944 | 6 | That , you don't want us to run that swayback coffee pot on wheels , do ya ? | Jeff Connor ( Roy Rogers ) and Gabby Chapman ( Gabby Hayes ) find themselves in the middle of a three way competition between a stagecoach line , a railroad company and a third party Sacramento Navigation Co . in this rather well done Republic Film from 1941 . This was still the pre Dale Evans era for Roy , so the fema... |
368,181 | 2,707,735 | 60,049 | 6 | Of course we know the dead don't come back to life . | With a title like " Terror Creatures From the Grave " , you would think the picture would be an exercise in campy horror and cheesy special effects . But you know , this was actually a pretty neat little creep fest , and for it's relatively compact run time of just under an hour and a half , the picture offers some of ... |
367,641 | 2,707,735 | 27,551 | 6 | You know you saved my life today , you ought to do it again . | Buster Crabbe is top billed in " Drift Fence " , though it seems that honor should have gone to Tom Keene who has more screen time and is at the center of the story most often . Keene's character is undercover Texas Ranger Jim Travis , who trades places with an Eastern city dude when it looks like it might help him tra... |
367,902 | 2,707,735 | 51,432 | 6 | The point of origin becomes the point of return . | If you're a fan of cheesy sci-fi flicks from the 1950's , there's no way you can pass on a title like " The Brain Eaters " . Truthfully , this wound up pretty interesting , and I'll get into that in a minute . The flick got me hooked with Dr . Kettering's statement after firing his gun into the cone shaped object , whi... |
367,625 | 2,707,735 | 38,478 | 6 | Will crime never cease ? | The best thing about " Dick Tracy vs . Cueball " is the great cast of characters , all of whom were probably even more interesting than the title villain . I'm thinking of names like Percival Priceless ( Douglas Walton ) , Filthy Flora ( Esther Howard ) , and that strangely wonderful Vitamin Flintheart ( Ian Keith ) . ... |
367,592 | 2,707,735 | 24,787 | 6 | I can't get it out of my mind Gaines , we're crooks . | Just about sixty years before the Enron scandal , " The World Gone Mad " appears to be a strangely prophetic film of personal scandal and corporate greed . When a District Attorney is murdered and discovered in a " love nest " , the front page headlines leave all those close to him bewildered and doubtful of the circum... |
367,885 | 2,707,735 | 44,460 | 6 | I don't want any part of any kind of war . . . , it has a bad smell . | I found it interesting that the film's original working title was " The Rebel " , since some of the early footage was also used in the opening sequence of the 1959 Civil War TV series , " The Gray Ghost " . I'm pretty sure I've also seen it recycled in other movies with a Civil War theme . John Ireland stars as tired e... |
368,207 | 2,707,735 | 34,613 | 6 | Someday the master will catch you , then you'll be sorry . | I'm surprised at the rather low rating IMDb viewers have given this film , as I rather like the set up for this one . Beautiful young brides wind up dead at the altar just as they are about to recite their wedding vows , and their bodies are stolen shortly after . Mad scientist Dr . Lorenz ( Bela Lugosi ) is behind the... |
368,095 | 2,707,735 | 29,118 | 6 | OK , I'll give him a present , and it won't be Brooklyn . | With " The Last Gangster " , I was expecting more in the tradition of Cagney's " Public Enemy " or his much later " White Heat " , or something along the lines of Edward G . Robinson's own early contribution to the gangster genre , 1931's " Little Caesar " . The early going seems to be heading in that direction , until... |
367,863 | 2,707,735 | 24,727 | 6 | You ought to make a pretty fair meal for a vampire . | Six deaths in six weeks and the residents of Kleinschloss are getting jumpy , particularly since all the corpses have had their bodies drained of blood . Burgermeister Gustave Schoen ( Lionel Belmore ) and police chief Karl Brettschneider ( Melvyn Douglas ) are at a loss as to explain what's going on , though hints of ... |
367,833 | 2,707,735 | 42,313 | 6 | Come on sheriff , we don't wanna keep that bandit waiting . | The interesting twist to this story is that Lin Vanner ( Lew Ayres ) becomes the man he pursued and killed at the opening of the film . Not literally of course , but figuratively , in that he became entangled in a set of circumstances that made it look like he was guilty of a crime . It's the kind of irony , as another... |
368,126 | 2,707,735 | 99,612 | 6 | Meet . . . . my monster ! | Trying to deal with time travel stories often makes my head hurt , because it sets up a whole set of ' what if ' scenarios . For example , when Dr . Buchanan ( John Hurt ) produces Mary Shelley's ( Bridget Fonda ) book " Frankenstein - or , The Modern Prometheus " , wouldn't natural curiosity have compelled her to read... |
368,425 | 2,707,735 | 50,131 | 6 | The only man who can catch an Apache is another Apache . | An opening title card stated that this was a true story , but I would certainly hedge my bets on that score . The only accurate take away from the film is the fact that Katawan / Apache Kid ( Keith Larsen ) once served as a scout in the U . S . Army and for some reason turned renegade against the white man . The movie ... |
368,021 | 2,707,735 | 23,395 | 6 | Are you satisfied with your present circumstances ? | Like Hitchcock's earlier film " Blackmail " , " Rich and Strange " contains elements of silent film as a holdover from an earlier era . It features extended scenes uninterrupted by voice , and the use of inter title cards from time to time . Considering the lack of a murder victim , the movie plays out interestingly as... |
368,226 | 2,707,735 | 36,741 | 6 | Nothing like a ship wreck to change a man's sense of values . | Interesting little programmer that builds it's intrigue with slow , deliberate revelations of what's going on aboard the self described bucket , ' The Merman ' . I liked the way steward Dawson ( Alec Craig ) and passenger Nita Paxton ( Phyllis Brooks ) took an interest in Joe Beck's ( Robert Lowery ) welfare up until t... |
368,558 | 2,707,735 | 61,576 | 6 | It's easy enough to talk when you got a gun in your hand . | This is only my second viewing of a Terrence Hill / Bud Spencer collaboration , the other being 1972's " La Collina Degli Stivali " or " Boot Hill " , the title I saw it under . I've yet to see a Trinity film , so maybe my opinion will change , but I don't see a whole lot to be enthused about regarding their output . "... |
368,355 | 2,707,735 | 38,452 | 6 | One small wind can raise much dust . | Three former convicts have served time in States Prison together . At one time or another , each has been convicted of bank robbery based on fingerprints found at the crime scene . Charlie Chan's hunch is that the fingerprints were forgeries , and the victims were all set up by the real thief . Only one of the three is... |
367,663 | 2,707,735 | 61,587 | 6 | A man who knows what he wants is worth a lot . | I would have lost a bet on whether Burt Reynolds ever appeared in a spaghetti Western , but you know what , this is actually a fairly entertaining flick once you get past the unbelievable body count by Reynolds ' title character , Navajo Joe . My unofficial count was twenty nine by the time the film was over , and when... |
368,059 | 2,707,735 | 36,709 | 6 | Every time I meet a Chan , I meet trouble . | This second Charlie Chan offering from the Monogram Studios is an improvement over " Charlie Chan in the Secret Service " . Back again are Sidney Toler in the Chan role , Benson Fong as # 3 Son Tommy , and Mantan Moreland as Yellow Cab driver Birmingham Brown . Monogram remained true to the 20th Century Fox sense of co... |
367,951 | 2,707,735 | 36,725 | 6 | You're a mighty dangerous woman to us , you'd better break down and explain a lot . | Cowboy and the Senorita is the very first screen pairing of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans , and it comes across surprisingly well . The film title is also the name of the opening and closing musical number , and even if not meant to be prophetic , the eventual marriage of Roy and Dale proved to be a wonderful union for f... |
368,235 | 2,707,735 | 26,867 | 6 | An interesting example of antediluvian Americana . | My experience of " The Phantom Empire " comes from the two hour movie pieced together from the twelve chapter serial , so admittedly , there is much I didn't get to see . To say that the film is unique is an understatement ; where else do you have a Western blending with sci-fi and dating back to 1935 ? Gene Autry star... |
368,269 | 2,707,735 | 31,148 | 6 | Please , patience big sister to wisdom . | If you were to say at the outset " The butler did it " , you'd be right . On the brink of World War II between Nazi Germany and the European Allies , Charlie Chan finds himself in Paris , the " City in Darkness " of the title , deriving the name from the precaution taken for German air raids against the city . The film... |
367,910 | 2,707,735 | 61,497 | 6 | Notah's brother talks like the white man he thinks he is , he's afraid to be Comanche . | I had more than a little trepidation approaching this film , but you know what , it wasn't that bad . Casting William Shatner is a little like putting Lorne Greene in command of a space ship , but for the most part it worked , sort of . He pulled off the part of Johnny Moon decently enough , the brother who went off to... |
367,875 | 2,707,735 | 24,593 | 6 | I guess next time you leave big monkey alone , huh ? | When I was a kid back in the 1950's , the New York television market had a channel ( WNEW , I think ) , that offered a single movie every night , Monday through Friday around the dinner hour . It was the ' Million Dollar Movie ' and it's where I wound up catching some of the films that remain among my favorites to this... |
368,174 | 2,707,735 | 24,628 | 6 | I have my own way of dealing double crossers . | I wouldn't have bet a plug nickel that " Sucker Money " would wind up as entertaining and interesting as it turned out to be . It had the look and feel of those 1930's era ' educational ' films that purported to warn the viewer about the dangers of illicit drugs , alcohol or sex , but in this case the film was an attem... |
368,534 | 2,707,735 | 31,124 | 6 | Hugh , that car you heard fires bullets through the heart . | Well , Hugh Drummond ( John Howard ) and Miss Phyllis Clavering ( Heather Angel ) finally tie the knot in this finale to the Bulldog Drummond series , but not without the usual share of mishaps that interrupted their union more than a half dozen times in the past . This time it's a slick bank thief that diverts Drummon... |
367,856 | 2,707,735 | 44,186 | 6 | Be careful that applejack don't put your lights out . | The Arch Strobie ranch is in the business of growing beef , though the aging cowpuncher has left the duties of running the ranch to his foreman and adopted son Owen Daybright ( Burt Lancaster ) , and his ne'er do well biological son Lee ( Robert Walker ) . For all of their fifteen year association , Owen has covered fo... |
367,725 | 2,707,735 | 51,755 | 6 | The only question is , does a man die in his own time or on the map ? | While it's all going on , the story manages to build suspense and intrigues the viewer with how the whole thing will turn out . However the idea of Robert Kraft's ( Richard Boone ) black pin voodoo exercise resulting in the deaths of seven victims goes well beyond the realm of coincidence . Still , there aren't a lot o... |
368,079 | 2,707,735 | 26,962 | 6 | I told you they'd make the next move ! | One of the things that caught me by surprise in this Gene Autry outing was a spill he took astride Champion in the early going . Knowing that Gene would never put his prize horse in jeopardy like that , it made me wonder how often the lead horse ( Champion , Trigger , Silver , etc . ) might have had a stand-in . Someth... |
367,927 | 2,707,735 | 34,420 | 6 | Anyone can build a bridge over water , I'd like to see some guy build one under . | Danny ( Bobby Jordan ) accidentally gets a murder rap pinned on him in this East Side Kids outing , and the rest of the gang are out to find the real killer . It's a fairly standard adventure for the boys with a few surprises thrown in . Noah Beery Jr . makes an appearance as a former ' charter member ' of the gang , w... |
367,727 | 2,707,735 | 40,915 | 6 | Gee , no wonder Ed took a licking , that's Roy Rogers . . . , and Trigger ! I was curious about the premise of this picture , since an early scene reports that it's Roy Rogers ' Tenth Anniversary in movies . Sure enough , a check of Roy's film credits shows Under Western Stars " as his first feature role for Republic... | null |
367,964 | 2,707,735 | 135,694 | 6 | Brother , the next time I miss will be the first time . . . | Scanning the cable TV listings I came across this title , and it summoned up a mental picture of a Mel Brooks knock off like " Blazing Saddles " or one of Richard Pryor's movie spoofs . Then I saw it was from 1938 , which made me even more curious . What I stumbled upon was my very first all Black cowboy Western , cour... |
368,293 | 2,707,735 | 48,535 | 6 | The Reno's are worth a lot of money . . . . . dead ! | Set in 1866 in Southern Indiana , " Rage at Dawn " is based on the true story of the Reno Brothers , purportedly America's first band of train robbers . In the opening sequence , the citizens of North Vernon lie in silent wait for the Brothers , tipped off to a bank job they intend to foil . Though one brother is kille... |
368,405 | 2,707,735 | 56,138 | 6 | Don't push me Willy , I'm a grease monkey that won't slide so easily . | Comparisons to the 1937 version of " Kid Galahad " are pointless , the only similarity between the two films is the nickname of the title character . It probably suits Elvis Presley a bit better than Wayne Morris , the knight in shining armor who at the film's opening touts his reputation in song as ' King of the Whole... |
368,188 | 2,707,735 | 23,153 | 6 | If we go out some evening , you'll see more of my shoulders than I see of yours . | Filmed in 1932 , " Love Affair " has traces of the silent film era coming to a close , particularly in the wide eyed and innocent faces of the two female leads , Dorothy Mackaill as free wheeling socialite Carol Owen , and Astrid Allwyn as struggling actress Linda Lee . Linda is the sister of Humphrey Bogart's characte... |
367,583 | 2,707,735 | 712,598 | 6 | Well , stabbing Mr . Block was serious , wasn't it ? | I can't say I wasn't entertained by this Westinghouse Studio One presentation , but thinking about it now , the story leaves one with a lot of head scratching . The stolen letter at the heart of the story ( along with the murder ) was never recovered , and the murderer was too dumb to move away from the boarding house ... |
368,491 | 2,707,735 | 77,630 | 6 | Never understand why some folks do what they do . | What - that's it ? I'm trying to take away something meaningful from this picture , but it's not working . Let's see - Beth Colter ( Lana Wood ) is kidnapped by the title character ( Alex Cord ) , and it's ultimately revealed that he did so in order to introduce her to her biological father , a dying chief of the Cheye... |
367,718 | 2,707,735 | 63,970 | 6 | I want their heads ! | In her heyday , the 1960's , I don't think any actress was hotter than Raquel Welch in the looks department . Unfortunately , that didn't translate into meaningful movie roles , perhaps because her physical assets outshone her acting ability . Just surmising on that point mind you , since I haven't seen a lot of her pi... |
367,729 | 2,707,735 | 30,960 | 6 | Oh my , I see trouble lookin ' us right in the face ! | The science behind the plot of " Western Jamboree " is probably somewhat suspect , dealing as it does with the discovery of helium on land that Gene Autry ramrods for an absentee owner . Additionally , Gene and his hired hands agree to cover an old timer's tall tale to his daughter that he's the owner of a thriving dud... |
368,171 | 2,707,735 | 51,901 | 6 | By the looks of you , I'd say you hired a gunman . | This was my first look at Macdonald Carey and I can't say I was very impressed with his role as the gunman who cleans up Dutch Flats . He showed none of the charisma of a Western hero , and it didn't help that the mystique of his quick gun hand was regarded as some kind of supernatural hex placed on his Colt Wesson . 4... |
368,236 | 2,707,735 | 34,546 | 6 | I suppose you have never met a homeless kind of maniac before . | Bowery at Midnight conjures up for me an expectation of the East Side Kids , but the closest we come to that is the brief appearance of Leo Gorcey's dad Bernard as a shopkeeper . That's OK though , because I got a kick out of this tale featuring Bela Lugosi in a dual role - college psychology Professor Brenner by day... |
368,067 | 2,707,735 | 44,040 | 6 | What do you care whose gun it is as long as it isn't aimed at you ? | It's interesting to see who Humphrey Bogart is paired up with in his films following the Warner Brothers days . This time out it's Lee J . Cobb as a French colonel and Swedish actress Marta Toren . The story takes place in 1925 Syria , as French forces operating under a United Nations mandate have a difficult time cont... |
367,901 | 2,707,735 | 34,505 | 6 | . . . sheriff here's got my number but he's on the wrong street . | You've got to give Monogram some credit for the catchy Rough Riders theme song , it captures the spirit of the cowboy trio of Buck Jones , Tim McCoy and Ray Hatton rather nicely . Even though each of the cowboy stars was over fifty when the series was formed in 1941 , the boys had a nice chemistry going that kept them ... |
368,536 | 2,707,735 | 68,967 | 6 | How come I'm not getting ' any more answers out of the back of your head than I was out of the front ? | The first half of the movie has a compelling set up that will remind you of " In The Heat of The Night " , a film made five years earlier . The story diverges pretty rapidly though in the second half , preceded by an ominous breathing pattern that heralds the first hint of the title character . By that time , you shoul... |
368,515 | 2,707,735 | 41,841 | 7 | Let the other guy die for his country , you'll live for yours . | The problem I have with most war movies is that they usually get involved with too many side stories dealing with personal relationships , romance , or issues not related to the battle or conflict of the title . That would be the case for " Sands of Iwo Jima " as well , as John Wayne's hard boiled performance as Sergea... |
368,017 | 2,707,735 | 28,212 | 7 | London must not laugh on Saturday . | Watching Alfred Hitchcock's early British films is a treat for this viewer , particularly in seeing the director's experimentation with themes that will become better known in his more famous American movies . " Sabotage " becomes an intriguing psychological drama even after the early revelation of the parts his key ch... |
368,231 | 2,707,735 | 50,625 | 7 | You sure must like a bad gamble . | It didn't take too long into the picture to realize that I had seen it before , the first time being 1963's " Gunfight At Comanche Creek " starring Audie Murphy in the George Montgomery role . In checking the film credits , it surprised me to learn that different writers are listed for each film , even though ' Gunfigh... |
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