A rodeo rider and his gambler buddy are framed for theft and the murder of a rodeo official. They make their escape and follow the real killers to another town, but what will they do when they both fall for the sister of one of the crooks and then are framed — again! — for …
Read the full post →“<em>The Desert Trail</em> (Monogram, 1935)”
A young Betty Grable replaces Dorothy Lee as the love interest for Bert in this 1935 Wheeler-Woolsey mystery-comedy. In this one, the boys get mixed up in the murder of a music executive who was trying to put the moves on his secretary (Grable). There are plenty of other suspects, of course, and mutual misunderstandings …
After Johnny Sheffield was dropped from the Tarzan movies, he was signed by Monogram Pictures for a series of films bringing the children’s book character Bomba, the Jungle Boy, to the screen (at the same time, Johnny Weissmuller moved to Columbia to play Jungle Jim). Bomba and the Jungle Girl finds the young jungle dweller …
Read the full post →“<em>Bomba and the Jungle Girl</em> (Monogram, 1952)”
When heiress Carol Rogers (Ann Sothern) learns upon her father’s demise that she has inherited nothing but debts, she resolves to get a job to pay them off. Through the machinations of “horse broker” Waldo Eddington (Victor Moore), acting on behalf of the creditors, she ends up secretary for coffee magnate — and eligible bachelor …
Read the full post →“<em>She’s Got Everything</em> (RKO, 1937)”
Ed Fury played the character Ursus in three sword-and-sandal movies, with Ursus in the Land of Fire (original title: Ursus nella terra di fuoco). Here, the strongman is leader of the shepherd people, whose territory is targeted by the ambitious Hamilkar, a general who, together with the lady Mila, has designs that go beyond merely …
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For the first time since their marriage, Nick and Nora Charles head to Nick’s hometown to visit with his parents for a birthday vacation. Nick still chafes at his father’s disapproval of his decision to forgo medicine as a career, and Nora believes that a crime right there in Sycamore Springs will give Nick a …
Read the full post →“<em>The Thin Man Goes Home</em> (MGM, 1945)”
My first movie of 2021 is the second in the long-running series of Monogram westerns starring Johnny Mack Brown and Raymond Hatton. In the early films, Hatton continues to portray Marshal Sandy Hopkins, the character he originated in the Rough Riders series, which ended after the death of Buck Jones in 1942. In The Stranger …
Read the full post →“<em>The Stranger from Pecos</em> (Monogram, 1943)”
