Jungle movies get the Carry On treatment, with Sid James as a boozing safari guide and hunter who can’t seem to hit anything but one of his bearers; Terry Scott as Ugh, a Tarzan-like individual who finds his “June” in Jacki Piper, the companion to Lady Evelyn Bagley (Joan Sims), who has come on safari …
Read the full post →“<em>Carry On Up the Jungle</em> (1970)”
Kay Curtis (Glenda Farrell) and June Dale (Mary Brian) are two golddiggers left stranded in Florida when their mark (Guy Kibbee) gets wise that he’s not going to get any action. When a former fellow performer marries a millionaire (Ben Lyon) but disappears, perhaps kidnapped, on their wedding night, while a local gambler (Harold Huber) …
An attorney (Walter Brandi) is summoned to a castle only to find that the person who had sent for the senior partner of the firm has in fact been dead for nearly a year. On hand are the dead man’s daughter (Mirella Maravidi), his second wife (Barbara Steele), and an odd servant (Luciano Pigozzi). Strange …
Read the full post →“<em>Terror-Creatures from the Grave</em> (1965)”
After the arrest of one of its members, the Crooked Circle, a secret society of crooks, plots vengeance against Col. Walters (Berton Churchill), the head of a rival organization on the side of law and order, and plenty of spooky doings follow at that man’s new home, an old mansion with a sinister reputation. Will …
Settlers are gunned down by crooks pretending to be Indians, but the two sons survive, with the elder vanishing into the brush while laughing hysterically. Years pass, and the former renegades are now respected citizens, but they are meeting their doom at the hands of the title character, whose face can be glimpsed in the …
A man (Onslow Stevens) arrives at the home of his pal, Ralph Nelson, claiming to be Ralph himself. He is actually Don Phillips, who has come there at the request of his friend (James Bush), as Ralph fears some menace threatens both the estate and his former near-fiancée, Sylvia Evans (Janet Chandler). Don is not …
Captain Carroll (Frank Hall Crane) is just asking for trouble when, desperate for ship’s officers, he hires Woolf Barstow (Noah Beery) as first mate despite his very bad reputation — a reputation that is soon shown to be well-deserved, as Barstow is soon slowly poisoning the captain and plotting both the takeover of the ship …
A newspaper reporter, Jean Monroe (June Collyer), sets herself up as a target by rashly claiming knowledge about “the Fiend,” a killer who is terrorizing the cast of a show at the Alden Theatre. A fellow reporter, Frank Gordon (Lloyd Hughes), joins in the investigation, as the murderer continues his crimes and attempts to strike …
Read the full post →“<em>A Face in the Fog</em> (Victory, 1936)”
After the murder of his father and the theft of $60,000, young Bob Neal (Bob Steele) and pal Rusty (John Elliott) search for the killer, and they find a clue in the town of Gladstone. Unfortunately, Bob has been blamed for the robbery of the stage and is suspected of murdering local rancher Jim Bowers …
An alcoholic journalist, Andrea Bild (Franco Nero), investigates a series of murders of people in some way connected with him, including someone who attended a party before the attacks began and the editor of the journalist’s paper. Some sequences are quite suspenseful (e.g., the killing of an invalid who is home alone), but the unpleasantness …
