Nearly everyone from his radio show gets a chance to contribute in this Jack Benny movie — Phil Harris is key to setting Jack up to go west (though surprisingly he doesn’t lead his band), Andy Devine has a ranch Jack pretends to own, Dennis Day gets to sing, Mary Livingston contributes her voice, announcer …
Read the full post →“<em>Buck Benny Rides Again</em> (Paramount, 1940)”
A cowboy comes to the big city to turn his cash into more wealth, and he becomes the target of unscrupulous Broadway producers. Fortunately, he has their secretary looking out for him, but will the two be able to make for a successful show … particularly when the other partners want out and a gang …
Reasonably amusing horror-comedy leans perhaps too much on slapstick and is weakened a bit by the fact that the leads aren’t all that sympathetic, but it does manage to blend humor and the spooky situations arising in a police station that had formerly been used by Japanese occupiers during World War Two. Also known as …
A mystery-comedy with slight touches of horror, The Phantom in the Red House (original title: El fantasma de la casa roja) has a young woman who works at the Devil’s Inn, a nightclub with themed costumes, named as an heir to a dead millionaire’s fortune — but she and the others concerned must survive a …
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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 …
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 …
Read the full post →“<em>Midnight Intruder</em> (Universal, 1938)”
As a new money-making venture, Slip (Leo Gorcey) and the boys turn Louie’s into an escort bureau, with the guys as the sophisticated escorts, while Louie (Bernard Gorcey) and his wife are away on vacation. They soon obtain some beautiful (and unlikely!) clients, including Joan Marshall (Adele Jergens), but the gals are part of a …
Read the full post →“<em>Blonde Dynamite</em> (Monogram, 1950)”
It’s another road rally for Jimmy Bondi (Rudolf Zehetgruber) and Dudu, in Switzerland, where Dudu’s ability to fly comes in handy. At stake this time around are a hotel (whose one employee occupies a variety of roles) and an orphanage (on whose behalf two nuns, one played by Zehetgruber’s wife, Kathrin Oginski, enter the race). …
Read the full post →“<em>Superbug – The Craziest Car in the World</em> (1975)”
Heiress Elinor Bentley Fairchild (Alexis Smith) has a problem: her fiancés encounter terrible fates, either dying or ending up crippled. Her desperate grandmother (Helen Westley) turns to a newspaper ad in an effort to attract another potential groom to serve as bait to break the apparent curse, and Lucky Downing (Wayne Morris), who doesn’t know …
In this weird fantasy movie, Xuxa’s dog Xuxo (a puppet) is kidnapped by Baixo Astral (“Bad Mood”), who wants to turn everyone gloomy, and especially Xuxa. She then goes on a quest to rescue her dog, making friends (often puppets) and facing strange obstacles along the way, and finding time for song as well. Perhaps …
Read the full post →“<em>Super Xuxa Contra o Baixo Astral</em> (1988)”
