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 CAGE OF GOLD is one of the three films contained in Kino's BRIT NOIR COLLECTION I Blu-ray set. It is a 1950 film from Ealing Studios that is more of a soap opera-style melodrama than what I would call a true noir. Set in post-WWII London, the story concerns young Judith (Jean Simmons), wh read more

 Kino Lorber has just released the BRIT NOIR COLLECTION I, a two-disc set containing a trio of British crime thrillers made in the 50s and 60s. The movie I chose to view first was THE FRIGHTENED CITY, a 1961 mob tale starring a pre-Bond Sean Connery. The plot of THE FRIGHTENED CITY revolve read more

 I'm currently reading BEASTS IN THE CELLAR: THE EXPLOITATION FILM CAREER OF TONY TENSER, written by John Hamilton. The book takes a deep, insightful dive into the movies produced by British showman-impresario Tony Tenser. Tenser made a number of provocative genre films during the 1960s-early 7 read more

 Last weekend I wrote a blog post about the Euro Western WHITE COMANCHE, in which Joseph Cotten received top billing in the credits. It got me thinking about the films that Cotten appeared in over his long acting career--a list of movies that defines the word "eclectic". Consider this grou read more

 WHITE COMANCHE is a 1967 Euro Western starring--of all people--William Shatner, who made the film during a break in his STAR TREK schedule. What's more, Shatner plays twin brothers, sons of an American father and a Comanche mother. Johnny Moon is a decent man who has chosen to live in the whit read more

 This is a 1967 Euro Western that I was not aware of (its original title is ODIO PER ODIO). It turned up on Turner Classic Movies earlier this week. The movie stars Antonio Sabato as Miguel, a poor Mexican prospector who is trying to raise enough money to move to New York and become an art read more

 This is an effective, if low-budget, black & white British crime drama lasting only about an hour that I discovered on Tubi. The main reason that it caught my interest was that the film stars George Pastell, who played a number of exotic ethnic types in various movies for Hammer. The Cypru read more

 This is not the 1963 film with the same title directed by Mario Bava. This is a 1969 crime drama that I picked up on DVD at a very cheap price from Edward R. Hamilton, due to the fact that it stars Adam West, one of my childhood heroes due to his portrayal of Batman in the classic TV series.&n read more

 In my post yesterday about THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD I forgot to mention that Universal remade the film in 1945 as STRANGE CONFESSION. The remake was part of Universal's "Inner Sanctum" series, a group of weird mystery movies based on a famed radio show/short story series. The Inner read more

 Kino provides another rare early 1930s Universal production with a home video release. THE MAN WHO RECLAIMED HIS HEAD (1934) has been branded as a "sort of" horror thriller, but it's really a melodrama set during World War One that details how one man's earnest creativity can be used for nefar read more

 This is another DVD I purchased at a discount from Edward R. Hamilton. This version of Robert Louis Stevenson's venerable story was first shown on the American TNT TV cable network in January 1990. I remember seeing commercials for it, but for whatever reason I didn't catch its original broadc read more

 This is a 1961 noir film made by Japan's Toho Studios. I discovered it on the Internet Archive, in an English-dubbed version with English main titles. Very few non-Kaiju Toho films were given the status of an English-language version. I assume THE MERCILESS TRAP got this distinction due to its read more

 The 1957 science fiction film KRONOS stands out for its title "monster", a giant metallic machine from outer space that accumulates massive amounts of energy and is invulnerable to man-made weapons. The giant machine grows out of a flying saucer that lands in the Pacific Ocean off the coa read more

 In my last blog post, I mentioned that I had finished reading FROM THE MOMENT THEY MET IT WAS MURDER: DOUBLE INDEMNITY AND THE RISE OF FILM NOIR by Alain Silver and James Ursini. The book discusses an actual official remake of DOUBLE INDEMNITY that was produced by Universal for the ABC televis read more

 I recently finished reading a book titled FROM THE MOMENT THEY MET IT WAS MURDER: DOUBLE INDEMNITY AND THE RISE OF FILM NOIR by Alain Silver and James Ursini. The book carries the Turner Classic Movies label, and it takes a deep dive into the making of DOUBLE INDEMNITY, the talent involved in read more

 The very lighthearted 1932 romantic comedy THIS IS THE NIGHT has been released on Blu-ray by Universal. (The film was made by Paramount, but Universal owns the rights to it.) Cary Grant made his feature film debut in this production. Grant and Thelma Todd are featured on the cover of the read more

 Another Roger Corman mobster tale, this time based on a real criminal. Charles Bronson stars as the title character in MACHINE-GUN KELLY, released by American-International Pictures in 1958. Roger Corman was drawn to the story of 1930s hood George Kelly by the way he was captured by autho read more

 Sunday will be the 100th anniversary of the birth of filmmaker Roger Corman. I decided to mark this occasion by viewing a movie directed by Corman that I had never seen before--I, MOBSTER, a gangland tale from 1958. It would have been much easier to discuss one of Corman's more famous hor read more

 This 1953 Hammer Films attempt at science fiction was made after the company's FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE. Both movies were directed by Terence Fisher. Of the two films, SPACEWAYS is the more lackluster. Dr. Stephen Mitchell (Howard Duff) is an American rocket scientist working at a top-secret m read more

 TARGET EARTH (1954) is another 1950s sci-fi flick that takes a novel premise and tries to dramatize it as cheaply as possible.The movie starts out intriguingly, with a young woman waking up in her bedroom to the sound of a ticking clock. (A shot of a half-empty bottle of sleeping pills lets us read more