James Coburn returns as super-cool secret agent Derek Flint, this time helping the ousted Lloyd Cramden (Lee J. Cobb) determine just what happened during a missing three minutes on a golf course and then working to foil the villains and effect a rescue from their island base. There’s plenty of silliness in evidence — witness …
Read the full post →“<em>In Like Flint</em> (Twentieth Century Fox, 1967)”
A man takes in a young boy left stranded in the desert, and shares with him the secret gold mine discovered when he found the child. The boy grows to manhood with no knowledge of his parents, but both are in fact still alive and have parts to play in the young man’s efforts to …
Read the full post →“<em>Son of Oklahoma</em> (Sono Art-World Wide, 1932)”
In the years just after World War 2, A. C. Gilbert reintroduced its American Flyer HO scale line, this time with plastic cars. The New Haven RPO*-baggage combine car shown below was available in sets and separately. This car lacks couplers; I may add Mantua passenger couplers to use this with my two John English …
Early Wheeler & Woolsey vehicle is flawed but nonetheless entertaining. The loosely constructed plot has the boys as phony fortune tellers who get involved with a wealthy woman and her daughter, a fortune-hunting nobleman, and also gypsies, but what plot there is serves more as a vehicle to move from musical number to musical number, …
Just before his execution, a convicted killer gets ready to reveal the man who hired him, but he is struck down by a poison dart. Who committed the crime right in front of witnesses, including the assistant district attorney (Ricardo Cortez)? When a search of all present turns up no weapon, the assistant DA makes …
Read the full post →“<em>I Killed That Man</em> (Monogram, 1941)”
Two unsuccessful businessmen try to contribute to the war effort. After being turned down by all the uniformed services, the well-meaning bumblers hope to make good in their town’s civil defense organization, but even here their talent for accidental destruction makes them misfits. Will they get a chance to serve their country and redeem themselves …
James Gleason gets top billing in this Hildegarde Withers movie, the fifth in RKO’s series, in which Zasu Pitts takes over the role of the spinster detective, and it’s easy to see why. His performance as Inspector Oscar Piper is polished and fun, and this time around, he’s the one who brings the investigation to …
Read the full post →“<em>The Plot Thickens</em> (RKO, 1936)”
Inspector Trent (Ralph Bellamy) returns in the third of four movies in the short series, and once again, though called in ahead of time by someone worried about a possible crime, he proves unable to prevent a murder. Gail Patrick does a fine turn as the title character, though the character’s viciousness leaves ample scope …
Read the full post →“<em>The Crime of Helen Stanley</em> (Columbia, 1934)”
