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THE 39 STEPS (1959)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 6, 2021
The 1959 version of THE 39 STEPS was the first remake of Alfred Hitchcock's famous 1935 spy tale. It is also proof that unnecessary remakes are not just a 21st Century phenomenon. This version, a British production directed by Ralph Thomas, is based on the screenplay for the 1935 version, read more
Barbara Shelley (1932-2021)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 4, 2021
2021 is not starting off too well, with news of the death of English actress Barbara Shelley. Shelley, who was born Barbara Kowin, appeared in eight different movies for Hammer Films, and had major roles in seven of them--more than any actress had for the company. She was also, in my opin read more
SPACE MASTER X-7
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Jan 3, 2021
Edward Bernds is best known for his work directing various films with the Bowery Boys and The Three Stooges, but in the late 1950s, he started to make a series of science-fiction features. They ranged from the mildly interesting (WORLD WITHOUT END), to the infamous (QUEEN OF OUTER SPACE) and t read more
My Top Five Blu-rays Of 2020
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 30, 2020
There's no need for me to tell you that this year sucked. But this was a great year for home video product (that is, if you still had enough money to buy any of this stuff). Thankfully, I'm still working regularly, so, as usual, I spent plenty of money on Blu-rays and DVDs. And I still do read more
POCKETFUL OF MIRACLES
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 26, 2020
Being this is the holiday season, the movie IT"S A WONDERFUL LIFE gets discussed often. What doesn't get discussed nearly enough is what happened to the career of that film's director, Frank Capra, after it was made. Capra is one of my favorite movie directors of all time, and in the 1930 read more
Season Two Of THE MANDALORIAN
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 25, 2020
One good thing about 2020 was the second season of THE MANDALORIAN. The first season of the show was great--but it wound up being an appetizer for Season Two. This year the show expanded its horizons, giving more of an examination of the post-RETURN OF THE JEDI Star Wars Universe. The Man read more
THE CURSE OF FRANKENSTEIN On Blu-ray From Warner Archive
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 21, 2020
Despite all the horrid things that happened in 2020, fans of Hammer Films couldn't complain about the many home video releases of the famed company's product. Shout Factory continued its Hammer series, and Mill Creek released a 20 film Blu-ray set of Hammer movies made for Columbia Pictures. T read more
POSTMAN'S KNOCK
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 8, 2020
POSTMAN'S KNOCK is a 1962 British comedy starring Spike Milligan, about--what else--a hapless postman. The main reason I watched the film was that the major female role was played by one of the leading ladies of English Gothic cinema, Barbara Shelley. (It was no less than Veronica Carlson who read more
MANK
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 6, 2020
The big thing trending movie-wise now is MANK, an exaggerated biopic of 1930s Hollywood screenwriter Herman J. Mankiewicz. The film purports to tell how Mankiewicz, suffering the after-effects of a car crash and holed up in a desert retreat, wrote what would become the basis of CITIZEN KA read more
BRITISH INTELLIGENCE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 5, 2020
Boris Karloff had plenty of movies on release in 1940. That year he starred in films from Universal, Columbia, Monogram, and Warner Bros. The last movie on his Warner contract was BRITISH INTELLIGENCE, a very convoluted, very low-budget espionage tale set during World War One. Karloff pla read more
THE TELL-TALE HEART (1960)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Dec 1, 2020
In his essential book ENGLISH GOTHIC, Jonathan Rigby declares, "....THE TELL-TALE HEART is something of a lost classic, albeit a minor one, of British horror." Having seen the film for the first time over the weekend, I wouldn't exactly call it a classic. This Edgar Allan Poe adaptation from 1 read more
CHESLEY BONESTELL: A BRUSH WITH THE FUTURE
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 27, 2020
Chesley Bonestell (1888-1986) was a multifaceted and multi-talented individual. In his long life he was an illustrator, architect, matte painter, and a renowned graphic futurist. His drawings and conceptions of the solar system still inspire those working in the field of space exploration toda read more
DOWNHILL (1927)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 26, 2020
The number of films directed by Alfred Hitchcock that I have not seen are in the single digits--and that total went down with my recent viewing of DOWNHILL, made in 1927. DOWNHILL was only Hitchcock's fourth film as a director, and it was his next feature after the highly successful THE L read more
Book Review: THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 23, 2020
In 2017, Del Rey published STAR WARS--FROM A CERTAIN POINT OF VIEW, a book that celebrated the 40th anniversary of the film by featuring 40 stories that looked at the story from a different perspective. Now THE EMPIRE STRIKES BACK gets the same treatment. 40 stories by 40 writers, in roughly t read more
PROXIMA
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 17, 2020
A NEW movie?? Well, relatively new....it's PROXIMA, a French film from 2019, starring Eva Green, and co-written and directed by Alice Winocour. Green plays Sarah Loreau, who has been picked as a replacement to go on a space flight to the International Space Station. This is something that read more
HAND OF DEATH
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 15, 2020
HAND OF DEATH is a 1962 sci-fi/horror film, released by 20th Century Fox. The movie stars John Agar, but instead of his usual act of fighting monsters, here Agar becomes one. Agar plays Alex Marsh, a scientist who is experimenting with nerve gases. Marsh is a hardworking, determined fello read more
WHITE TIGER (1923)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 14, 2020
Earlier this month I covered DRIFTING, the main feature on a Kino Blu-ray that contains two silent films directed by Tod Browning. Today I'll look at the other movie on the disc, WHITE TIGER, which was made before DRIFTING but released after. WHITE TIGER is very much a precursor to Browni read more
THE BRIDES OF DRACULA On Blu-ray From Shout Factory
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 10, 2020
I have often been asked, "What is your favorite all-time Hammer film??" The answer might surprise you--it is by far THE BRIDES OF DRACULA, the 1960 vampire adventure released in the United States by Universal. I realize that Christopher Lee is not in this film--heck, Dracula isn't even in read more
YOUTH RUNS WILD
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 7, 2020
One of the few non-horror films Val Lewton produced during his tenure at RKO in the 1940s is a drama about juvenile delinquency called YOUTH RUNS WILD (1944). Like Lewton's terror tales, this movie has a very exploitative title....but the result is very non-exploitative. According to my i read more
DRIFTING (1923)
The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on Nov 4, 2020
Kino continues to release rare silent movies on Blu-ray. A couple weeks ago I posted a review of their offering of Tod Browning's 1921 OUTSIDE THE LAW. The company has also brought out a Browning silent double feature, containing DRIFTING and WHITE TIGER. For today's purposes I'll be writing a read more