MILL CREEK LEGENDS OF HORROR: Blackmail (1947)
Detective Dan Turner (William Marshall) has been hired by movie exec Ziggy Cranston (Ricardo Cortez) to stop a blackmail plot against him by Carla (Stephanie Bachelor), who has photos of him but is soon murdered. He’s also being set up by some mobsters. Based on Dan Turner, Hollywood Detective, a pulp story that ran in Spicy Detective […]
SEVERIN BOX SET RELEASE: All the Haunts Be Ours: A Compendium Of Folk Horror Vol. 2: A Witch’s Drum (1982), The Nightside of the Sky (2024), With the Reindeer (1947)
These three short films appear with The White Reindeer on Severin’s All the Haunts Be Ours Vol. 2 set. A Witch’s Drum (1982): In this animated film by Kari Kekkonen and writers Outi Nyytäjä and Samuli Paulaharju, a man in a reindeer sled is taking the corpse of a shaman to where it will be barried. This takes […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: King of the Bandits (1947)
In Arizona, The Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) and Pancho (Chris-Pin Martin) learn that someone has been impersonating Cisco and robbing people. I feel like this has happened more than a few times to our hero. Directed by Christy Cabanne and written by Bennett Cohen, this is yet another adventure just as much about finding the […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: Robin Hood of Monterey (1947)
Eduardo Belmonte (Travis Kent) overhears his new stepmother Maria (Evelyn Brent) and her lover Don Ricardo Gonzales (Jack La Rue) planning on getting his father Don Carlos Belmonte (Pedro de Cordoba) off the ranch and in the ground, so to speak. Eduardo offers her money to get out and she accuses him of trying to […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: Riding the California Trail (1947)
Rancher Don Jose Ramirez (Martin Garralaga) wants to marry off his niece Delores (Inez Cooper) to Raoul (Ted Hecht), because when she’s wed, he’ll be able to get her inheritance. The problem is that Raoul also is involved with Raquel (Teala Loring). Where does the Cisco Kid (Gilbert Roland) and Baby (Frank Yaconelli) come in? […]
VCI BLU RAY RELEASE: Jack Armstrong (1947)
If you think movies have too much product placement today, well, Jack Armstrong himself was an ad. Known as the All-American Boy, he was created by the vice president of advertising for General Mills Samuel Chester Gale. The Jack Armstrong character is a fictitious “everyboy” who got into adventures on his radio serial and always ate […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: The Lady from Shanghai (1947)
Columbia Pictures president Harry Cohn got this movie from Orson Welles — he promised to write, produce and direct it for just $55,000 — because he helped him pay for Welles’ production of Around the World, a musical stage adaptation of the Jules Verne novel Around the World in Eighty Days. In Spine Tingler! The William […]
PURE TERROR MONTH: Scared To Death (1947)
“Roots of horror” fans that enjoy digging beneath the Italian and Spanish Giallo graves of the late ’60s and ‘70s will enjoy seeing Bela Lugosi in Scared to Death (directed by Christy Cabanne of the first Kharis-the-mummy flick, The Mummy’s Hand; he uses that film’s George Zucco, here) as it is the only opportunity to […]
A Double Life (1947)
George Cukor may have been replaced as the director of Gone with the Wind, but he went on to direct some of Hollywood’s most famous films: Gaslight, Adam’s Rib, the 1954 version of A Star Is Born and My Fair Lady. Here, he tells the story of Anthony John, a celebrated stage actor who is the ultimate Method actor, fully taking on […]
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