John Bishop (John Wayne), wrongfully accused of cheating in a stagecoach race and causing injury to his rival, is backed by his boss (Henry B. Walthall), whose own son was accused of a crime and ended up in the gang of Monte Black (J. P. McGowan), down in Sonora. John heads across the border to …
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Richard Johnson returns as Bulldog Drummond, super-spy, continuing the character portrayal begun in Deadlier Than the Male, though this time around there’s no nephew. Drummond is charged with investigating a series of accidents befalling those working on the SST, and he eventually must confront an evil mastermind who has created an army of female robots …
Weng Weng returns as Agent 00 in the follow-up to For Y’ur Height Only. This time around, the 2’9″ secret agent is working for Interpol, and his mission involves foiling Mr. X, a master criminal who is menacing the country and whose identity is unknown. More fun fights and amusing shenanigans make this an OK …
The 2’9″-tall Weng Weng stars as Agent 00, a Filipino secret agent tasked with foiling a villain’s plans to use a scientist’s lethal invention to blackmail the world. Amusing sequences and lines, clever gadgets, and a rather wild plot help explain why the movie was a surprise success. Fans of the spy genre are likely …
Twists galore and a fair amount of action make for an entertaining tale as three Confederate soldiers facing death for selling guns — George Hilton, Edd Byrnes, and Jorge Martín — are given their freedom (after a fashion) in exchange for going after some stolen Confederate gold. The protagonists aren’t particularly admirable, but it is …
Read the full post →“<em>Professionals for a Massacre</em> (1967)”
Pedestrian pacing and a poor script, together with a less-than-likeable main character, sink this 1970 action movie, based on the novel by Mickey Spillane and starring Christopher George as Morgan, the freelancer forced into helping out the government in a plan to rescue an imprisoned scientist. Yvette Mimieux is the agent assigned to work with …
Lightweight entertainment in which Barry Gilbert and Doc Norton (Louis Hayward and J. C. Nugent), two guys down on their luck, take shelter in an empty home, only to awaken to the arrival of servants, who take Barry to be the rightful owner, John Clark Reitter, Jr. (Eric Linden), who is estranged from his newspaper-owning …
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An orphanage faces closure because the local cattlemen’s association, which supports it, is facing bankruptcy, owing to payouts to ranchers whose stock has been rustled. The Three Mesquiteers — Stony Brooke (Robert Livingston), Tucson Smith (Ray Corrigan), and Lullaby Joslin (Max Terhune) — are trustees of the orphanage, and they take steps to keep it …
Read the full post →“<em>Roarin’ Lead</em> (Republic, 1936)”
A scientific experiment goes wrong, and soon the local doctor on an isolated island is faced with an odd corpse. He turns to a famed medico on the mainland for help, and a wealthy young woman inserts herself into the expedition to determine the cause of the calamity — and put an end to it. …
The sons of the aging Genghis Khan jockey for position as the Polish kingdom prepares to try to wrest back the city of Tuleda, which is in Mongol hands. Bianca (José Greci), the rightful heir, has been raised ignorant of her status, while her father languishes in a Mongol dungeon. Bianca loves and is loved …
Read the full post →“<em>Hercules Against the Mongols</em> (1963)”
