Lawless Valley (1938)
Former silent film star George O’Brien made the transition to sound chiefly performing in westerns, and he appeared in a well-regarded string of westerns at RKO at the end of the 1930s. Lawless Valley was one of these: an efficient little B picture with a helping of humor. The plot is based on a story …
Funny Friday: Tough Course
Haunted Honeymoon (1986)
Radio star Larry Abbot (Gene Wilder), who is about to marry co-star Vickie Pearle (Gilda Radner), suffers from bouts of anxiety that threaten his career. His uncle (Paul L. Smith) undertakes to cure him during a weekend family reunion in an old dark house. The movie is just silly fun, with Wilder and Radner in …
Monogram Monday: Jungle Bride (1933)
Charles Starrett, best known for his long-running series as the Durango Kid, essays an early role in this rather soapy picture. A shipwreck strands a young woman (top-billed Anita Page), her fiancé (Kenneth Thomson), the man (Starrett) she believes guilty of a murder for which her brother was imprisoned, and that man’s sidekick (Eddie Borden) …
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Weekly Reader — January 15 – 21
I finished just two books during this week, though I read about half of another that I have chosen not to finish, at least at this time. I also read one dialogue of Plato and much of the latest issue of the magazine Cirsova. The Best Cartoons from France, edited by Edna Bennett — This …
Sunday Fun: Twice Shy
Stoney (1974)
Incoherent action and a muddled plot fatally weaken this tale of rival groups of gun-runners out to obtain a fortune in gold and jewelry stolen during the Second World War and concealed beneath a swimming pool in the former home of the Japanese commander in charge of Surabaya (hence the original title, Surabaya Conspiracy). Michael …
Funny Friday: Snow Throw
Cat People (1942)
Engineer Oliver Reed (Kent Smith) meets and marries Irena, a Serbian immigrant (Simone Simon), who is fascinated by the big cats at the zoo and who worries that she herself may be descended from the were-panthers of her homeland. Although Oliver tries to help her, Irena’s beliefs put a strain on their relationship, as does …