A formerly timid alumnus, now a famed band leader, comes to the aid of his alma mater when the founder’s grandson, a former rival in romance, threatens to force the college to close, claiming there is no money to keep it going. The plot is no great shakes, and the acting is atrocious, but those …
The Buddha Assassinator (1980)
In The Buddha Assassinator (original title: Fo zhang huang ye), a young fan of martial arts finds a place in a Manchu prince’s guard, but his family’s opposition to the prince soon forces the young man to choose between the sides, all while learning more fighting techniques. There’s nothing particularly special here, but the fights …
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Twins of Evil (Hammer / Rank, 1971)
When twins come to stay with their uncle, Gustav Weil (Peter Cushing), the hard and fanatical leader of a group aimed at stamping out evil in the form of witches in the area, a group with reckless disregard for the facts of particular cases, one of the pair is drawn to the local noble, Count …
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Eagles over London (1969)
The Battle of Britain is the focus of this Italian movie, originally titled La battaglia d’Inghilterra. During the British evacuation from Dunkirk, a small group of German saboteurs infiltrates and comes to England along with rescued British (and French) forces. Their target: the radar installations that give advance warning of planes heading to England to …
Judex (1963)
Crooked banker Favraux has received warning letters from someone who signs himself “Judex,” threatening doom if he fails to make things right with those he has swindled and otherwise betrayed. After he disregards the letters and casually runs down a man who could endanger his position, he keels over, apparently dead, while making an announcement …
The Corpse Came C.O.D. (Columbia, 1947)
When movie star Mona Harrison (Adele Jergens) opens a packing crate from the studio, she finds more than just the fabrics she was expecting: She finds the body of the designer with whom she was fighting just the day before. Rather than calling the police, she summons enamored newspaperman Joe Medford (George Brent), who is …
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Hell Comes to Frogtown (1988)
Mayhem in a post-apocalyptic wasteland, with Roddy Piper as Sam Hell, a rare fertile man who is appropriated by the governing MedTech Corporation. Hell is sent unwillingly, but compelled by boobytrapped underwear, together with a MedTech scientist and a driver/bodyguard, to rescue some captive fertile women from the mutant stronghold Frogtown, so that they can …
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If I Were King (Paramount, 1938)
This excellent historical adventure stars Ronald Colman as the vagabond poet François Villon, made Marshal of France on a whim of King Louis XI (Basil Rathbone) while Paris is under siege and likely to fall to the Burgundians. As ever, Colman does well with the costumed part, giving appeal to the character — a character …
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Warlords of the 21st Century (1982)
In a post-apocalyptic world, a loner (Michael Beck) rescues a young woman (Annie McEnroe) fleeing from an evil gang led by a ruthless warlord in an armed and armored semi-truck (hence the other title of the move, Battletruck). The gang eventually targets the peaceful village where the woman takes refuge and where the loner has …
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Seven Sinners (Gaumont British, 1936)
The disappearance of a dead body at a costume ball and the reappearance of the same corpse later in a train wreck set private detective John Harwood (Edmund Lowe) and insurance investigator Caryl Fenton (Constance Cummings) on the trail of conspiracy and international crime, as they look for the sinister villain who has caused not …
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