Friday, November 30, 2012

Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968)



A 1968 British horror film directed by Vernon Sewell and starring Christopher Lee, Boris Karloff (his final appearance), Barbara Steele and Mark Eden. Robert Manning (Mark Eden) goes in search of his brother who was last known to have visited the remote house of Craxted Lodge at Greymarsh...

Director: Vernon Sewell
Writers: Mervyn Haisman (screenplay), Henry Lincoln (screenplay)
Stars: Boris Karloff, Christopher Lee and Mark Eden

The Limping Man (1953)

A 1953 British crime drama film, starring American actor Lloyd Bridges and Cape Town born actress Moira Lister. World War II vet Frank Pryor (Lloyd Bridges) returns to London from America after six years to look up an old flame, Pauline French (Moira Lister), now a successful actress. As he and the other passengers deplane and walk across to the terminal, Frank pauses for a moment and asks the man beside him for a light. There's a gunshot and the man crumples to the ground, shot by a marksman with a high-powered rifle, an assassin with a limp. It's not long before Frank Pryor is up to his neck in murderous intrigue.
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In the Wake of the Bounty (1933)

An Australian film directed by Charles Chauvel about the 1789 Mutiny on the Bounty. It is notable as the screen debut of Errol Flynn. The film mixed re-enactments with documentary, and focused not so much on the mutiny itself as on its consequences. The re-enactment scenes were shot on sets built at the studio of Cinesound Productions in Bondi. There are different stories how Errol Flynn was cast, but the most common one is he was discovered by cast member John Warwick. Flynn would later claim to be descended from Bounty mutineers.
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Thursday, November 29, 2012

Louisiana Story (1948)

Although the events and characters depicted are fictional, it is often misidentified as a documentary film. In fact, it is a docufiction. The script was written by Frances H. Flaherty and Robert J. Flaherty, and also directed by Robert J. Flaherty. A young Cajun boy named Alexander Napolean Ulysses Latour (Joseph Boudreaux) spends his time on a Louisiana bayou. There he plays, fishes and hunts, worrying only about the alligators which infest its waters. The boy's innocent routine changes forever when his father (Lionel Le Blanc) signs a lease agreement with an oil company which brings a derrick into their corner of the bayou.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012

Cause for Alarm! (1951)

This Girl Is In Trouble!

A film noir suspense film directed by Tay Garnett (The Postman Always Rings Twice), written by Mel Dinelli and Tom Lewis, based on a story by Larry Marcus. Ellen (Loretta Young) narrates the tale of "the most terrifying day of my life", how she was taking care of her bedridden husband George Z. Jones (Barry Sullivan) when he suddenly dropped dead.
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What Price Crime (1935)

FEDERAL AGENTS WAGE WAR ON CRIME!

Thieves break into a warehouse that stores guns, steal them and kill the night watchman. An undercover agent assigned to the case happens to get into a traffic accident with the sister of the man the police suspect is head of the burglary ring, and in order to work his way into the gang, he romances the boss' sister. Complications ensue when the two fall in love.
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Tuesday, November 27, 2012

Cry of the City (1948)


Cry of the City is a 1948 film noir directed by Robert Siodmak based on the novel by Henry Edward Helseth, The Chair for Martin Rome. Veteran film noir-writer Ben Hecht worked on the film's script, but is not credited.

Release date: September 29, 1948 (initial release)
Director: Robert Siodmak
Cinematography: Lloyd Ahern 
Screenplay: Richard Murphy, Ben Hecht, Henry Edward Helseth
Cast: Victor Mature, Debra Pag ,Richard Conte, Shelley Winters, Fred Clark

Condemned to Live (1935)

What was this creature that DEATH could not claim? SAINT OR SATAN! MAN OR MONSTER! FATE DAMNED HIM WITH A THOUSAND DEATHS!
A 1935 horror film directed by Frank R. Strayer, starring Ralph Morgan and Maxine Doyle. After a series of unsolved murders, a man finds out that his mother was bitten by a vampire bat during her pregnancy, and he believes that he may be the vampire committing the murders.
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Escape by Night (1937)

A blast of drama when a city mob hides out in the country! 

A group of criminals on the run hide out in an abandoned farmhouse. They find themselves being "looked after" by a friendly dog, and soon afterwards they meet up with a blind man and his young daughter.
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Two Dollar Bettor (1951)

Don't Be A Sucker ! The true story of a nice guy "taken" - but good ! 

A 1951 film-noir directed by Edward L. Cahn, starring Steve Brodie, Marie Windsor and John Litel A middle-aged man who places a two-dollar bet on a horse at the track and wins. The widower with two teenaged daughters becomes hooked on gambling and within a week he begins cashing in his life savings to pay off his bookie. To make matters worse, he's being grifted by a beautiful con woman and her husband for thousands of dollars. To try to get even, the man begins betting on long shots.
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Monday, November 26, 2012

Johnny O'Clock (1947)

JOHNNY'S NO GOOD...but that's how women want him!

A film noir written and directed by Robert Rossen, based on a story by Milton Holmes. The drama features Dick Powell, Evelyn Keyes, and Lee J. Cobb.
A high-class gambler gets in trouble with the law.
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Prison Nurse (1938)

A 1938 drama film directed by James Cruze.
A state prison is threatened by approaching floods, an epidemic of typhoid fever breaks out among the inmates and when three nurses are sent inside to help, one of them falls in love with a prisoner who is framed for murder.
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Sunday, November 25, 2012

The Phantom Carriage (1921)

The Phantom Carriage (Swedish: Körkarlen) is a 1921 Swedish film generally considered to be one of the central works in the history of Swedish cinema. Released on New Year's Day 1921, it was directed by and starred Victor Sjöström, alongside Hilda Borgström, Tore Svennberg and Astrid Holm. It is based on the novel Thy Soul Shall Bear Witness! (Körkarlen; 1912), by Nobel prize-winning Swedish author Selma Lagerlöf. On New Year's Eve, the dying Salvation Army girl Edit has one last wish: to speak with David Holm. David, an alcoholic, is sitting in a graveyard with two drinking buddies, talking about his old friend Georges who told him about Death's carriage—the legend that the last person to die each year has to work under the "strict master" Death and collect the souls of everybody who dies the following year. Georges himself died on New Year's Eve last year....
Director: Victor Sjöström
Writers: Selma Lagerlöf (novel), Victor Sjöström
Stars: Victor Sjöström, Hilda Borgström and Tore Svennberg

Svengali (1931)

He hypnotizes! He thrills...! Any woman caught in his spell must obey.

A drama/horror film starring John Barrymore, Marian Marsh, and Bramwell Fletcher, directed by Archie Mayo and written by J. Grubb Alexander. It is based on the gothic horror novel Trilby (1894) by George du Maurier.
Sinister music maestro Svengali can control the actions of women through hypnotism and his telepathic powers. When a pupil he has seduced announces she has left her husband for him, he uses his powers to cause her suicide and promptly forgets her. He meets a beautiful model, Trilby, and becomes infatuated with her, but she, in turn, falls for a young artist called Billee who also loves her. One day Svengali hypnotizes Trilby to cure her headache, but also examines her upper palate and decides it is an ideal cavity for great singing. He convinces her to fake her suicide, so Billee and friends will forget her, and goes on a singing tour with her. Svengali uses his powers to make her sing wonderfully and Madame Svengali, as Trilby is now known, becomes a sensation throughout Europe. But Billee discovers the ruse and begins to follow the pair, upsetting Svengali enough to have him cancel performances too frequently, so they no longer can perform in Europe. They go to Egypt, but Billee relentlessly follows.
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The Bigamist (1953)

A 1953 movie written by Collier Young from a story by Larry Marcus and Lou Schor and directed by Ida Lupino.
Young was married to Joan Fontaine at the time and had previously been married to Ida Lupino.
Harry and Eve Graham are trying to adopt a baby. The head of the agency senses Harry is keeping a secret and does some investigating. He soon discovers Harry has done an unusual amount of traveling from his home in San Francisco to Los Angeles. Harry gets tracked down in LA where he has a second wife and a baby. Via flashbacks, Harry tells the adoption agent how he ended up in two marriages.
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Saturday, November 24, 2012

The Moon is Blue (1953) trailer

A romantic comedy film produced and directed by Otto Preminger and starring William Holden, David Niven, and Maggie McNamara. The film is about a young woman who meets an architect on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and quickly turns his life upside down.
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Back Door to Heaven (1939)

Jimmy Lydon appears as Francis (Frankie) Rogers, a small boy living a desperate existence in a slum area, who steals a harmonica in order to fit in with his classmates. He winds up in reform school, and eventually spends much of his life in prison. Upon his release, he (Wallace Ford - Frankie as an adult) finds that life on the outside can be just as hard as life on the inside.
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The Big Bluff (1955)

A 1955 crime film directed by W. Lee Wilder.
Starring John Bromfield, Martha Vickers and Robert Hutton.
Suave Don Juan Rick De Villa (John Bromfield) and his married lover Fritzi Darvel would like to take off together, but his lack of money prevents them from doing so. A chance encounter introduces Rick to the young, but terminally ill socialite Valerie Bancroft (Martha Vickers), in whom Rick sees the solution to his predicament.
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Corruption (1933)

A 1933 film directed by Charles E. Roberts.Starring Evalyn Knapp, Preston Foster and Charles Delaney.
A young lawyer is elected mayor of the city and promises to rid it of the corruption it's famous for.
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Friday, November 23, 2012

North to Alaska (1960) trailer

When Big Sam wanted somethin', he got it - the best! When he did somethin', he did it big... Like taming a woman the way you tame the land! Or fighting until the last man was down! Now Big Sam was set. He and the Seattle pleasure palace doll were on their way -- to the top of the world!

 A 1960 comedic Western movie directed by Henry Hathaway and John Wayne (uncredited). The picture stars Wayne along with Stewart Granger, Ernie Kovacs, Fabian and Capucine. The script is based on the play Birthday Gift by Ladislas Fodor and set in Nome, 1900.
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The Constant Woman (1933)

Aka Hell in a Circus.
A drama directed by Victor Schertzinger, based on a play by Eugene O'Neill and starring Conrad Nagel and Leila Hyams.
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Secret Agent (1936)


Dead Women Tell No Tales Was The Motto of This Charming Lady Killer !

A British film directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
The film starred John Gielgud, Peter Lorre, Madeleine Carroll, and Robert Young. Future star Michael Redgrave made a brief, uncredited appearance; This was also Michael Rennie's film debut (uncredited). Gielgud plays a British officer, a famous writer whose death is faked during World War I, and who is sent by the mysterious "R", head of British intelligence, to Switzerland on a secret mission. Carroll plays a female agent who poses as his wife. Lorre appears as a British agent working with them, a killer known variously as "the Hairless Mexican" and "the General".
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Mr. Wise Guy (1942)

A 1942 film starring The East Side Kids and directed by William Nigh.
After being falsely accused of stealing a truck, the East Side Kids are sentenced to a reform camp. Meanwhile, Danny's brother, Bill Collins, is accused of murder. The East Side Kids escape the camp to prove Bill's innocence.
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Thursday, November 22, 2012

Man in the Saddle (1951) trailer



Randolph Scott is a rancher with a nasty neighbor (Alexander Knox) who doesn't like to share.

In Which We Serve (1942)

Noel Coward's Academy Award Winner

A 1942 British war film directed by Noël Coward. It was made during the Second World War with the assistance of the Ministry of Information. The screenplay by Coward was inspired by the exploits of Captain Lord Louis Mountbatten, who was in command of the destroyer HMS Kelly when it was sunk during the Battle of Crete.
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Wednesday, November 21, 2012

The Capture (1950)

Killing a Man is One Thing...Loving His Wife is Another...both are DYNAMITE!

An American working for an oil company in Mexico shoots a man suspected of stealing the payroll; later, he fears that the man was innocent.
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Fallen Angel (1945)

Film noir directed by Otto Preminger, with cinematography by Joseph LaShelle, who had also worked with Preminger on Laura a year before. The film features Alice Faye, Dana Andrews, Linda Darnell, and Charles Bickford.
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Tuesday, November 20, 2012

Three Blondes in His Life (1961)

Three Blondes In His Life...And Each Was Someone Else's Wife! 

A detective (Jock Mahoney) searches for a missing goes to Los Angeles to investigate the disappearance of an insurance investigator.
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Monday, November 19, 2012

The Werewolf (1956) trailer



Duncan Marsh (Steven Ritch), a mild-mannered man, finds himself lost in a remote village called Mountaincrest. His mind is clouded, but he learns later that Emory Forrest (S. John Launer) and Morgan Chambers (George Lynn), two scientists, injected him with a special serum containing irradiated wolf's blood when he was suffering from amnesia after being in a car accident. The wolf's blood, for unknown reasons, changed the previously gentlemanlike Duncan into a vicious, bloodthirsty werewolf. (The movie was mainly shot at Big Bear Lake in California).

Racing Blood (1936)

Frankie Reynolds (Frankie Darro) buys a broken-down horse and turns him into a racing winner, despite the racketeers who try to fix the races and put him out of business.
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Sunday, November 18, 2012

13 Lead Soldiers (1948)

Captain Hugh "Bulldog" Drummond is called in to solve the murder of a man from whom two lead soldiers were stolen.
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Friday, November 16, 2012

Guilty Bystander (1950)

This Man Wants Something...

A 1950 film noir, starring Zachary Scott and Faye Emerson. (The film was the last film appearance for character actor Mary Boland).
An alcoholic ex-cop, now the house detective at a scuzzy hotel in an even scuzzier part of town, stumbles through New York City's sleazy underworld searching for his kidnapped son.
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