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Black Bart 1948
A solid comedic western starring the great Dan Duryea.
Duryea wears his slicked back hair well, as is per usual, and makes his fellow actors look like fools.
Yvonne DeCarlo is mysteriously top billed, although she sings and dances well.
Percy Kilbride steals any scene he is in.
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Bunco Squad 1950
Bunco Squad is definitely not a bad film, neither is it a very good one. It's pretty typical for a B crime movie of its period.
I guess, reasonably, one should not expect too much out of a film like Bunco Squad as one considers the sort of a not-very-ambitious B picture it in fact is.
The word "Bunco" is pretty funny though.
Apparently, Herbert I. Leeds also directed entries in both the Mr. Moto and the Charlie Chan series…
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Serenade 1956
There's a great musical in here somewhere, and a great noir too. Together they don't mix.
Mario Lanza. What a fantastic singer. Such a terrible actor.
Never has Joan Fontaine been more vicious. She plays the ultimate femme fatale, too bad she does so in a misfire of a film.
Vincent Price lends the proceedings a well needed sense of greatness, as is to be expected, and literally lights up the screen whenever he is on it. The projectionist has to put out the fire after every appearance.
In a small role we see Vince Edwards. He looks tough.
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Ten Little Indians 1974
The story of Ten Little Indians is a familiar one, the famous Agatha Christie novel was already splendidly adapted into the classic And Then There Were None (1945), but its intricately plotted narrative is one which definitely withstands retelling.
Ten people unknown to each other are gathered together in an isolated mansion. As it turns out, all of them has some sort of criminal past involving murder which they have all succeeded to escape legal punishment for. Soon one of…
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The Desperados 1969
Jack Palance's tour de force performance makes this a must see!
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The Other Woman 1954
A very worthwhile, small scale, noir thriller written and directed by, (and also starring), Hugo Haas.
Cleo Moore plays Sherry, a wannabe actress, who one day receives the opportunity she has always dreamed of.
Haas, self reflectingly playing a movie director, gives her the shot, a small role in his latest motion picture, when one of his other actresses can’t make it in to work.
Sherry turns out to be a terrible actress though and, at least in her mind,…
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Without Warning 1980
This movie's got it all. Jack Palance, stupid teenagers, great music and a cheesy monster.
The scene in the bar with Palance, Martin Landau, Neville Brand and Ralph Meeker is a keeper. Meeker has never been funnier.
David Caruso also makes an appearence, but luckily, he dies.
