
This one starts differently but, in the end, it is another version of Robert Emmett Tansey’s oft-used plot of “employing bad guys as good guys to help the good-good guys capture the bad-bad guys.” Read More »
Daily Archives: April 23, 2017
Terrain vague / Wasteland (1960) Marcel Carné, Danièle Gaubert, Roland Lesaffre, Maurice Caffarelli, Drama

The members of a criminal gang teenagers gather every day in an old warehouse, where the girl that leads gives the appropriate commands for each day. Read More »
Les espions / The Spies (1957) Henri-Georges Clouzot, Curd Jürgens, Peter Ustinov, O.E. Hasse, Drama, Mystery

A psychiatrist, desperate for money to keep his faltering practice running, makes a deal with a spy to hide a mysterious person in his clinic in return for a million francs. Read More »
The Unsuspected (1947) Michael Curtiz, Claude Rains, Joan Caulfield, Audrey Totter, Drama, Film-Noir, Mystery, Thriller

A girl has been murdered. A woman cannot remember a man who claims to be her husband. Read More »
Showdown (1963) R.G. Springsteen, Audie Murphy, Kathleen Crowley, Charles Drake, Western, Action

Chris Foster and Bert Pickett are two drifters who are passing through the border town of Adonde. Read More »
Talking Feet (1937) John Baxter, Hazel Ascot, Jack Barty, Davy Burnaby, Musical

An east London fishmonger’s young daughter (Hazel Ascot) is so grateful to Dr Hood (John Stuart) for saving her dog Patch after a road accident Read More »
She Knows Y’Know (1962) Montgomery Tully, Hylda Baker, Cyril Smith, Joe Gibbons, Comedy

A young man is accused of getting a girl pregnant. Two sets of parents tussle and then they find out who really got her pregnant. Read More »
Play Up the Band (1935) Harry Hughes, Stanley Holloway, Betty Ann Davies, Leslie Bradley, Comedy

The brass band of the Northern town of Hechdyke travel south to London to compete in a national contest. Read More »
Jours de France / Four Days in France (2016) Jérôme Reybaud, Pascal Cervo, Arthur Igual, Fabienne Babe, Comedy, Drama, Romance

Disillusioned with his life in Paris, Pierre Tomas drops everything to travel through France. Read More »
Bakuhatsu! Boso yugi / Detonation! Violent Games (1976) Teruo Ishii, Kôichi Iwaki, Yutaka Nakajima, Yumi Takigawa, Action, Crime

Teruo Ishii’s West Side Story, done as a bloody, violent, sexploitative biker gang film. It’s the Red Chilis versus the Black Cats, and the chick who just may heal the divide. Read More »