Sizzlin’ Summer of Side-Splitters 2025: Blithe Spirit (1945)
July 28 – Aug 3 Screwball Comedy: Just imagine, the Great Depression is raging and you’re getting less than a fin a week at the rubber boiling factory, but it only costs two bits to go to the movies all day, so let’s watch some quick-talking dames match wits with some dopey joes! Based on […]
RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Mom and Dad (1945)
Howard W. “Kroger” Babb called himself America’s Fearless Young Showman and lived by the belief, “You gotta tell ’em to sell ’em.” The name Kroger either came from working at the grocery store as a kid or the fact that his dad loved B.H. Kroger coffee. He worked numerous other jobs all through his teens, […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: White Pongo (1945)
Back in the day of these movies, the costumes were never one and done. Ray “Crash” Corrigan was an experienced gorilla man and played a similar role earlier that year in The White Gorilla, where he was both the jungle explorer and the gorilla. This costume was years later brought out of storage for Jerry […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: Cisco Kid In Old New Mexico (1945)
Cisco (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Martin Garralaga) are bandits who hold up a stagecoach and take Ellen Roth (Gwen Kenyon). Yet she wins them over by telling them that she’s a nurse who has been framed for murder. They decide to help her in their own way, demanding a ransom for her that the killer […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: Cisco Kid Returns (1945)
The first of three Cisco Kid films made in 1945r with Duncan Renaldo as Cisco and Martin Garralaga as Pancho, Cisco Kid Returns finds our hero trying to escape murder charges and keep his girlfriend Rosita (Cecilia Callejo) from marrying John Harris (Roger Pryor). There’s also the daughter of a murdered man who is used […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: South of the Rio Grande (1945)
There were three Cisco Kid movies made in 1945. That’s how popular the character was. This one, directed by Lambert Hillyer (who made so many movies, including Dracula’s Daughter) and written by Victor Hammond and Ralph Bettinson, is unlike many of the other movies in the series as its a musical. It starts with Cisco […]
CHILLER THEATER MONTH: House of Dracula (1945)
EDITOR’S NOTE: House of Dracula was on Chiller Theater on Saturday, May 14, 1966 at 1:00 a.m. It was on so many times: Saturday, October 28, 1967; December 16, 1972; November 3, 1973; October 12, 1974; October 30, 1976 in a triple feature with House of Frankenstein and Curse of Bigfoot; November 19, 1977 and January 1, […]
CBS LATE MOVIE MONTH: The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Story of G.I. Joe was on the CBS Late Movie on October 13, 1972 and May 18, 1973. Ernie Pyle, a Pulitzer Prize-winning American journalist and war correspondent, is revered for his stories about the ordinary American men who fought in World War II. His work was so impactful that President Harry Truman […]
Spellbound (1945)
In the amazing list “Hollywood Giallo (+ its others),” IMDB user Schwenkstar says of this movie, “The razor blade, the repressed memories, the amnesia, the mistaken identities, the Freudian subtext, the surreal dream sequences, the fixation on eyes and the hooded figure all prefigure giallo films.” Based on The House of Dr. Edwardes by Hilary […]
Dead of Night (1945)
The solid-state model of the universe is an alternative to the Big Bang theory, which states that the univere has a finite history and “changed dramatically with time, growing bigger, emptier and more desolate.” In contrast, the solid-state model sets forth the theory that “the density of matter in the expanding universe remains unchanged due […]
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