Month: March 2021
Tom Thumb and Little Red Riding Hood
Little Red Riding Hood and Tom Thumb, together with their friend Stinky the Skunk and a faithful dog, set out to rescue their pals, the reformed Big Bad Wolf and a likewise reformed Ogre, from the Devil’s Dominion, where they have been imprisoned and face death at the hands of the minions of the Queen …
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Beware! (Astor, 1946)
A formerly timid alumnus, now a famed band leader, comes to the aid of his alma mater when the founder’s grandson, a former rival in romance, threatens to force the college to close, claiming there is no money to keep it going. The plot is no great shakes, and the acting is atrocious, but those …
The Buddha Assassinator (1980)
In The Buddha Assassinator (original title: Fo zhang huang ye), a young fan of martial arts finds a place in a Manchu prince’s guard, but his family’s opposition to the prince soon forces the young man to choose between the sides, all while learning more fighting techniques. There’s nothing particularly special here, but the fights …
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Argosy All-Story Weekly, February 13, 1926
The February 13, 1926 issue of Argosy All-Story Weekly featured four serials, including the start of Charles Francis Coe’s The Ranch Beyond, one novelette, four short stories, five poems, and a special insert that is a tribute to Frank A. Munsey, the founder of the magazine, who had passed away on December 22 of the …
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Twins of Evil (Hammer / Rank, 1971)
When twins come to stay with their uncle, Gustav Weil (Peter Cushing), the hard and fanatical leader of a group aimed at stamping out evil in the form of witches in the area, a group with reckless disregard for the facts of particular cases, one of the pair is drawn to the local noble, Count …
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Eagles over London (1969)
The Battle of Britain is the focus of this Italian movie, originally titled La battaglia d’Inghilterra. During the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a small group of German saboteurs infiltrates and comes to England along with rescued British (and French) forces. Their target: the radar installations that give advance warning of planes heading to England to …
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Judex (1963)
Crooked banker Favraux has received warning letters from someone who signs himself “Judex,” threatening doom if he fails to make things right with those he has swindled and otherwise betrayed. After he disregards the letters and casually runs down a man who could endanger his position, he keels over, apparently dead, while making an announcement …
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (Columbia, 1947)
When movie star Mona Harrison (Adele Jergens) opens a packing crate from the studio, she finds more than just the fabrics she was expecting: She finds the body of the designer with whom she was fighting just the day before. Rather than calling the police, she summons enamored newspaperman Joe Medford (George Brent), who is …
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