In this Austrian-Italian co-production, first released under the title Lycanthropus, a new teacher comes to a reform school for girls, and soon a young woman engaged in an affair with one of the teachers is murdered, apparently struck down by some sort of beast. More killings follow, and suspicion soon falls on the arrival, who …
Read the full post →“<em>Werewolf in a Girls’ Dormitory</em> (1961; MGM, 1963)”
Ken Maynard’s horse plays a major role in this picture (he’s the title character) — although for much of the film, Tarzan isn’t really Ken’s horse, but rather a smart, free-ranging equine that helps to foil the aims of horse rustlers who want the wild creatures for dog food. Maynard plays a likeable character, as …
Read the full post →“<em>Come On, Tarzan</em> (K.B.S. Productions / World Wide, 1932)”
John Wayne is Singin’ Sandy Saunders, a government agent who is working undercover to investigate in response to ranchers’ complaints about Kincaid (Forrest Taylor), a businessman who controls nearly all the water in the area and is forcing the landowners to pay up or is by denying them the water needed for their livestock. The …
Read the full post →“<em>Riders of Destiny</em> (Lone Star / Monogram, 1933)”
Edward Everett Horton heads the cast as a small-town businessman, under the thumb of his aunts, who falls for the pitch of oilfield swindlers who then proceed to dupe the whole town by trading on his reputation. He loses his reputation and his friends but gains his independence as he sets out to make things …
Read the full post →“<em>Let’s Make a Million</em> (Paramount, 1936)”
Fast-paced entry in the Lone Wolf series has Michael Lanyard (Warren William) suspected of murder and dodging the cops as he rushes to solve the crime, foil a kidnapping, and save the life of a young inventor. It’s all rather far-fetched but breezy fun. Recommended. Otto finds this one pleasing enough to relax. Movie 148 …
Read the full post →“<em>The Lone Wolf Takes a Chance</em> (Columbia, 1941)”
Hammer and Shaw Brothers teamed up in 1974 to bring out a moderately effective blend of martial arts and horror movies, with action star David Chiang as the leader of a group of warrior siblings who recruit Dr. Van Helsing (Peter Cushing), who is visiting China, to assist them in freeing their village from the …
Read the full post →“<em>The Legend of the 7 Golden Vampires</em> (Hammer-Shaw Brothers, 1974)”
Creepy happenings ensue when a producer plans to reopen a theater, closed since the killing of the star performer in the middle of a performance five years before, and put on the same play with the surviving members of the original cast. An atmospheric and fast-paced late silent. Recommended. Otto finds this one pleasing enough …
Read the full post →“<em>The Last Warning</em> (Universal, 1928)”
All the members of a jury that convicted a man set to be executed are summoned, by various means, to a gloomy old mansion, in fact the home of the person the condemned man was said to have murdered, and the tension grows as the various people realize that there must be some plan at …
Read the full post →“<em>Strange People</em> (Chesterfield, 1933)”
