Recent content by Michael Elliott

I almost went and saw this last Thursday but the local theater was playing it in a very small and dinky theater. Like a 20 seat theater. I guess the box office made them reconsider because they added it to the Cinemark XD today so I went. Easily the best Godzilla movie ever made. The story...

Storm Fear (1955) ** 1/2 Cornel Wilde plays a bank robber who shows up at his brother's cabin in the mountains. He's wounded but him and his two helpers take the family hostage and soon drama from the past comes out full force. Wilde not only plays the lead but he also served as director and...

I've fallen behind on the noir watches. Next year I will try to have a better plan to fit more in. I watched THE FAMILY SECRET from the Columbia Noir box but there's no way to even pretend it's a noir so I won't include it here. I did like the film though. The Harder They Fall (1956) ****...

Indicator says these are noir so I'll list them. Knock On Any Door (1947) ** 1/2 Nick Romano (John Derek) is a thug who has a long sheet with the police. He's picked up for the murder of a cop but he tells attorney Andrew Morton (Humphrey Bogart) that he's innocent so the lawyer decides to...

Dead Reckoning (1947) *** Captain Murdock (Humphrey Bogart) goes looking for a friend who mysteriously ran off without a word. He soon learns that the friend has been murdered and that he previously had been connected to a murder, which included a love triangle with a beautiful woman (Lizabeth...

The one person I didn't mention here was Janis Wilson who played the young Stanwyck character. I haven't read or seen anything on the making of this movie but I thought Wilson was amazing in the role and was pitch-perfect for the young version of this character. I was curious if they filmed...

The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1948) *** 1/2 Three childhood friends are brought together as adults and this is when their past comes back to haunt them. Martha (Barbara Stanwyck) is married to Walter (Kirk Douglas) who witnessed her commit a crime as a child. Soon Sam (Van Heflin) enters...

Whiplash (1948) ** 1/2 Extremely routine film noir about a boxer (Dane Clark) who falls for a woman (Alexis Smith) who just happens to belong to a gangster (Zachary Scott). WHIPLASH looks and feels like something that you might get from Republic but it was actually shot for Warner. If you're a...

His Kind of Woman (1951) *** Gambler Dan Milner (Robert Mitchum) is in major debt so he agrees to take a job that will pay him $50,000. He heads to Mexico where his orders aren't exactly clear but soon he realizes he was set up. This is a complete mess of a movie and it's just rather insane...

I should still be punished for buying so many Conrad Brooks movies haha

Two O'Clock Courage (1945) ** 1/2 Cab driver Patty (Ann Rutherford) almost runs over a man (Tom Conway) who sees to be suffering from amnesia. The cab driver tries to help him find out who he is but soon it seems he might be involved in a murder. This Anthony Mann film is a bit strange as it...

The Devil Strikes at Night (1957) *** 1/2 The setting is 1944 Germany and the country is deep in World War II but they're also dealing with a serial killer who is stalking women. Investigator Kersten (Claus Holm) tracks down Ludke (Mario Adorf) but the government believes someone else is...

Seven Days to Noon (1950) *** Professor Willingdon (Barry Jones) starts to realize that his work on a nuclear weapon isn't helping mankind so he steals a weapon and threatens to level London unless the British government agrees to stop their program. It seems most people consider this one of...

The Glass Key (1942) *** Brian Donlevy plays a political player who goes against a gangster (Joseph Calleia) in order to get a reformer elected because he loves the man's daughter (Veronica Lake). When a murder happens it seems Donlevy is guilty but his pusher (Alan Ladd) goes out to try and...

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