MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Probably the best movie of Hitchcock’s British era, one he would remix and remake in 1956. Of these films, he said, “Let’s say the first version is the work of a talented amateur and the second was made by a professional.” Bob and Jill Lawrence (Leslie Banks and Edna Best) are on vacation in Switzerland, […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Chloe, Love Is Calling You (1934)
BONUS WILDCARD WEEK (September 22 – 28) Go order something from the SWV website and watch it! Chloe (Olive Borden) has escaped the swamps where she was raised and her family, including her mother Mandy (Georgette Harvey). Thanks to the light color of her skin, she’s passed for a white person. She’s in love with Wade […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: The Lost Jungle (1934)
There was a serial and movie of this released at the same time. They filmed several principal scenes with different dialog along with a new ending to make two totally different films. It’s also sort of a sequel to another serial, Darkest Africa. This stars Clyde Beatty, who was one of the most famous circus […]
UNSUNG HORRORS HORROR GIVES BACK 2023: El fantasma del convento (1934)
Each October, the Unsung Horrors podcast does a month of themed movies. This year they will once again be setting up a fundraiser to benefit Best Friends, which is working to save the lives of cats and dogs all across America, giving pets second chances and happy homes. Today’s theme: Mexico The Ghost of the Convent (released in […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 11: The Black Cat (1934)
The first of eight films to pair Bela Lugosi and Boris Karloff, this has so much less to do with the Edgar Allan Poe story and so much more to do with Aleister Crowley, in particular a series of rituals and did with Betty May Loveday. Loveday was a model, a dancer, an artist and […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Double Door (1934)
Based on the 1933 Broadway play of the same name by Elizabeth A. McFadden, Double Door is a pre-Hays Code directed by Charles Vidor (Gilda, Blind Alley). Victoria Van Brett (Mary Morris, who had a long stage career but this was her only film) rules her family, even destroying the relationships that her brother Rip (Kent Taylor, Brain […]
Four Frightened People (1934)
Arnold Ainger (Herbert Marshall, who lost a leg during World War I yet became one of the biggest leading men of Hollywood; he was also the star of the radio drama The Man Called X), Mrs. Mardick (Mary Boland, The Women), Stewart Corder (William Gargan, who played radio and TV detective Martin Kane) and Judy Jones […]
Ladies Should Listen (1934)
Directed by Frank Tuttle (A Cry In the Night) and starring Cary Grant, this romantic comedy is all about switchboard operator Anna Mirelle (Frances Drake, Les Misérables) who falls in love with Grant’s character of Julian De Lussac, a man she has only met over the phone. To win him over, she’ll have to break him […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: Green Eyes (1934)
Oh PURE TERROR, you box set of my dreams. Sometimes, you reward me with Italian cyborgs. Or then a movie about jungle cannibals. Or this — whatever Green Eyes is, a Chesterfield Pictures movie made before the Hayes Code. Who at Mill Creek decides what goes into these box sets? During a masquarade ball, Stephen Kester […]
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