Götz George stars as gunfighter Mace Carson, who agrees to take on the job of marshal in a town where outlaws are targeting the mine of crippled rancher Sam Martin (Pietro Tordi), whose son disappeared years ago, and also disrupting the business of freighter Dave Walton (Hilario Flores), who is murdered for his effort to …
Read the full post →“<em>Sie nannten ihn Gringo</em> (1965)”
Ohio-born cartoonist Gardner Rea was among the initial contributors to The New Yorker, but in his long career, his work was published by various magazines. Among them was Collier’s, whose cartoon editor, Gurney Williams, edited this volume of Rea’s cartoons first published in that magazine. The contents cover a wide variety of subjects, from the …
Read the full post →“<em>The Gentleman Says It’s Pixies</em>, by Gardner Rea”
A disfigured former professional wrestler, El Murciélago (the Bat), driven mad by his condition, lives a life in hiding, scheming for opportunities to best other wrestlers — he has henchmen kidnap them and bring them to his secret lair for that purpose — and obsessed with a beautiful singer. Fortunately for the world, the masked …
Read the full post →“<em>La sombra del murciélago</em> (1968)”
Action a-plenty and lots of dancing are to be found in this Turkish Batman and Robin movie that is marred by poor editing, unappealing “heroes,” and a rather jumbled plot in which the Dynamic Duo take on a murderous gang targeting various young women at the behest of a criminal mastermind. For completists only, I’d …
Impresario George White attained success on Broadway with his “Scandals,” annual revue shows similar to Ziegfeld’s “Follies,” and he brought the idea to the screen a few times, twice in the Thirties and a third time in 1945. As usual with such revues, the plot is pretty flimsy, with two couples bumping along the road …
Read the full post →“<em>George White’s Scandals</em> (RKO, 1945)”
