Guys who find that the women at Alpine College won’t go out with them because of advice from the dean’s secretary, Susan Benchley (Chris Noel), recruit surf bum Ronnie Duke (Gary Clarke) to woo her, though she already has a fiancé, the captain of the school’s ski team (Steve Franken). Ronnie pretends to be the …
Read the full post →“<em>Wild Wild Winter</em> (Universal, 1966)”
Bud and Lou are two volunteer firemen who rescue a man attempting suicide (Tom Ewell) on account of disappointment in love. When it turns out that the man has an incredibly wealthy gold claim up north, the boys accompany him back to help him win the gal (and to get some of the gold, of …
Read the full post →“<em>Lost in Alaska</em> (Universal, 1953)”
Gloria Jean, Deanna Durbin’s successor at Universal, plays a teen eager to secure success for the drummer she adores (Mel Tormé) and his band, piling up schemes to win a contest, to gain his affection, to thwart those who would co-opt his talent for their own ends. Patric Knowles portrays her long-suffering but somewhat scattered …
Read the full post →“<em>Pardon My Rhythm</em> (Universal, 1944)”
Who is killing women around London and then mutilating the corpses by cutting off fingers? Sherlock Holmes suspects that this is more than just the actions of a madman, but if so, what is the purpose, and who is behind the fiendish actions? The case proves perhaps more thriller than mystery, as the viewer soon …
Read the full post →“<em>The Woman in Green</em> (Universal, 1945)”
Credit a post at the blog Fists and .45s! for turning me on to the espionage comedy with music Out of Sight. Released in 1966 and starring John Daly as a butler impersonating his secret agent boss, the movie owes a good deal to American International’s beach movies, I’d say, extending even to including musical …
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A killer seems to be stalking a group staying at an isolated house along the coast, and Sherlock Holmes is called in by an insurance man to investigate, as the members of the group have provided for their fellows to be the beneficiaries of their relatively recent policies, suggesting that one may be murdering the …
Read the full post →“<em>The House of Fear</em> (Universal, 1945)”
There are strange doings at an old dark house where travelers are stranded for the night in the midst of a storm. Melvyn Douglas is fine as the lead, and if the romance that develops between his character and that of Lilian Bond seems rather rapid, they at least do appear to belong together. The …
Read the full post →“<em>The Old Dark House</em> (Universal, 1932)”
