The Adventures of Busty Brown (1967)
Barry Mahon’s movies often have no plot, just women being whatever he thinks women are. This time, however, it’s all about a female detective named Busty Brown* (Laurie Dane’s only role) as she helps an Asian shopkeeper keep his daughter (Lotus Lee) from dancing nude in a go-go bar for one of his rivals. Of […]
Martha: A Picture Story (2021)
“Marty’s Cooper’s camera captures the corners of life which are often forgotten about.” — quote from the film And now: Martha Cooper will not be forgotten . . . thanks to Selina Miles. Filmmaker Selina Miles — as did her idol and inspiration — began her career as a photojournalist and film documentarian chronicling the […]
Vanguard (2020)
How did it take this long for a Jackie Chan movie to wind up on our site? Here, he plays Tang, CEO of the covert security company Vanguard, who must protect an accountant and his family are targeted by the world’s deadliest mercenary organization. I kind of dug how this movie flies all over the […]
Rocket Attack U.S.A. (1958)
While the majority of science fiction points toward liberal worries against groupthink — nearly every version of Invasion of the Body Snatchers — Rocket Attack U.S.A. is at once fantasy and propaganda. I have no idea if Barry Mahon believed in what he was selling — the man did fight for our country after all and spent […]
Cuban Rebel Girls (1959)
The last filmed appearance of Errol Flynn was not a major Hollywood movie, but instead a strange piece of B-movie propaganda directed by Barry Mahon and starring Flynn’s lover at the time, Beverly Aadland, who was seventeen at the time that this movie was made. A year after this, her boyfriend William Stanciu died after […]
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