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14) 11/18/2023 Force of Evil (1948)
John Garfield is excellent as a crooked attorney who tries to protect his brother when a bold move by numbers racketeer might ruin him. Fast-paced with tense final shoot out. Final scene is...
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11) 11/15/2023 Kiss Me Deadly (1955)
Ralph Meeker is a gruff Mike Hammer in search of the great whatsit – a box which contains something a gang of ruthless thugs will torture and kill for. Influential noir from Robert Aldrich is...
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08) 11/13/2023 His Kind of Woman (1951)
Robert Mitchum is down on his luck gambler who, in desperation, takes a mysterious gig in Mexico that pays $5,000 upfront. He doesn’t ask many questions. But he’s actually being set up by...
Rating - Out of a possible 4
05) 11/11/2023 Among the Living (1941)
After the death of his father, John Raden (Albert Dekker) learns that his twin brother Paul did not die years ago as claimed, but was instead hidden away because of a brain injury, suffered at the hands of his father, that...
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01) 11/10/2023 The Long Goodbye (1973) 1/2
Elliott Gould is great as a 1953 Philip Marlowe caught up in a 1973 Los Angeles mystery concerning close friend Terry Lennox who allegedly murdered his wife before committing suicide...
Rating out of a possible 4
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102) 10/31/2023 Firestarter (2022)
Young Charlie, whose parents were given experimental drugs by the government, has the power to start fires with her will. Now on the run from the authorities, the small family have been found again...
Rating out of 4
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097) 10/30/2023 The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Ten years after Cyrus Norman's death, his relatives are assembled for the reading of his will. There's only one heir, played by Paulette Goddard. But if she's determined to be be mentally unfit, an...
Rating out of 4
093) 10/29/2023 The House of Fear (1939) 1/2
Detective poses as theater producer in hopes of discovering who murdered actor one year earlier. He assembles the cast of the play that was being performed when the murder took place. Remake of The Last Warning (1929) is decent...
Rating out of 4
088) 10/28/2023 The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
Right after Son of Frankenstein Rathbone went on to play the role that would, for better or worse, forever define him. He's the definitive Sherlock Holmes investigating murder supposedly committed by legendary hound. Atwill...
Rating out of 4
083) 10/27/2023 The Devil-Doll (1936)
Prison escapee Lionel Barrymore joins forces with mad scientist who can miniaturize living beings and force them to do his bidding. Barrymore plots to use this breakthrough to exact revenge on his partners who framed him for theft and...
Rating out of 4
079) 10/26/2023 Ouanga (1935)
Light-skinned plantation owner is furious the Caucasian man she loves intends to marry another. So she makes with the voodoo. Cheap and poorly acted. (Sinister Cinema DVD-R)
080) 10/26/2023 A Face in the Fog (1936) 1/2
Creaky thriller about...
Rating - out of 4
073) 10/24/2023 The Black Room (1935) 1/2
Boris Karloff plays three roles in this elegant thriller about family curse. He's a corrupt, evil Baron who summons his younger twin brother so he can appoint him the new ruler. But it's a setup: he murders his sibling and then...
Out of 4
067) 10/23/2023 The Ghost Walks (1934)
Twisty cheapie about production company putting on a play in creepy manor while escaped mental patient lurks about. Average stuff with the occasional amusing moment. (Alpha DVD)
068) 10/23/2023 Mark of the Vampire (1935)
Beautifully shot...
Rating out of 4
062) 10/22/2023 House of Mystery (1934)
Partners in a business venture have finally found the person who stiffed them their shares. But he claims he was only trying to protect them from ancient curse attached to the treasure he stole. Oh, and an ape commits murders. Low...