Month: December 2022
Monogram Monday: In Fast Company (1946)
The Bowery Boys (Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall, and the rest) square off against a strong-arm taxi company on behalf of the independent hack drivers in this early series entry that benefits from a supporting cast including Jane Randolph and Douglas Fowley. The boys’ usual antics provide action and humor in a movie that zips right …
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Doctor in the House (1954)
Dirk Bogarde held a spot at the top in British cinema in the 1950s, in part thanks to this movie, a smash success in the year of its release (1954). The movie is the comedic story of medical student Simon Sparrow, played by Bogarde, who begins school at the start and finds congenial companions in …
Monogram Monday: Yukon Manhunt (1951)
Kirby Grant, best known as TV’s Sky King, starred as a Mountie in a series of 10 movies for Monogram Pictures that prominently featured Chinook, a dog who later played White Shadow in Disney’s Corky and White Shadow (and my dog’s favorite actor — the only one for which she pays attention to the screen). …
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Sunday Fun: Trouble
Kadin Düsmani (1967)
A masked and gloved killer is stalking women in various areas of Istanbul in this Turkish krimi. Though the subject is sordid enough — and would fit in well with the Italian gialli of the 1970s — this mystery nevertheless delivers a reasonable amount of entertainment. Mildly recommended. Otto judiciously thinks this movie is OK. …
Funny Friday: Noisemaker
The Evil Karate (1971)
A fairly common plot — villains after a book describing secret martial arts techniques — doesn’t keep this movie from providing some entertainment. The vicious “Seven Monsters of Poison” are tasked with obtaining the book, but the man who is key to finding it temporarily eludes them, finding brief refuge with a household whose young …