Mayhem in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, a rare fertile man who is appropriated by the governing MedTech Corporation. Hell is sent unwillingly, but compelled by boobytrapped underwear, together with a MedTech scientist and a driver/bodyguard, to rescue some captive fertile women from the mutant stronghold Frogtown, so that they can …
Read the full post →“<em>Hell Comes to Frogtown</em> (1988)”
This excellent historical adventure stars Ronald Colman as the vagabond poet François Villon, made Marshal of France on a whim of King Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) while Paris is under siege and likely to fall to the Burgundians. As ever, Colman does well with the costumed part, giving appeal to the character — a character …
Read the full post →“<em>If I Were King</em> (Paramount, 1938)”
In a post-apocalyptic world, a loner (Michael Beck) rescues a young woman (Annie McEnroe) fleeing from an evil gang led by a ruthless warlord in an armed and armored semi-truck (hence the other title of the move, Battletruck). The gang eventually targets the peaceful village where the woman takes refuge and where the loner has …
Read the full post →“<em>Warlords of the 21st Century</em> (1982)”
The disappearance of a dead body at a costume ball and the reappearance of the same corpse later in a train wreck set private detective John Harwood (Edmund Lowe) and insurance investigator Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) on the trail of conspiracy and international crime, as they look for the sinister villain who has caused not …
Read the full post →“<em>Seven Sinners</em> (Gaumont British, 1936)”
Two friends who live by their wits and are fond of playing tricks on one another are given the secret to a gold deposit and must contend against starvation, the elements, and greedy crooks to secure their reward. Somewhat entertaining comic western, originally titled Amico mio… frega tu che frego io, but nothing more than …
Among the more unusual freight cars traveling the mid-century rails were vinegar tank cars, with their wooden tanks, operating well into the era of all-steel cars but seeming much older, because of the need to handle the corrosive liquid. Yeast-maker Fleischmann had a large fleet of such cars, originally owned via a subsidiary and carrying …
Another unmemorable entry in a four-movie series starring Conrad Nagel and Eleanor Hunt as federal agents, here trying to rescue a kidnapped inventor (who happens to be a naval officer) to prevent other powers from getting his newly developed formula for a concentrated aviation fuel. The banter between the leads is a little heavy (a …
Read the full post →“<em>Navy Spy</em> (Grand National, 1937)”
The Durango Kid comes to the aid of the heirs of a rancher who had hired Steve Ramsey (the Durango Kid’s alter ego) as a surveyor to check on the suitability of the area for a dam that is being promoted by Henry Hardison and who was murdered for his opposition to selling his ranch. …
Read the full post →“<em>West of Dodge City</em> (Columbia, 1947)”
Rather slow but nonetheless entertaining movie that apparently was masked wrestler Santo’s first starring vehicle, Santo contra los zombies has our hero, as so often, battling a mad scientist and his minions — in this case zombies energized and controlled by electronic belts. There’s plenty of battles both in the ring and out, a rather …
Read the full post →“<em>Santo contra los zombies</em> (1962)”
