ATTACK OF THE KAIJU DAY: Unknown Island (1948)
Directed by Jack Bernhard and written by Robert T. Shannon and Jack Harvey, Unknown Island has Ted Osborne (Phillip Reed) and his fiancée, Carole (Virginia Grey), looking for dinosaurs. Good news. They find them. Along with drunk Captain Tarnowski (Barton MacLane) and even drunker PTSD-having John Fairbanks (Richard Denning), who survived a previous dinosaur attack, they head […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 4: Night Has a Thousand Eyes (1948)
April 11: Until You Call on the Dark — Pick a movie from the approved movies list of the Church of Satan. Here’s the list. Directed by John Farrow — the father of Tisa and, yes, Mia — and written by Jonathan Latimer and Barré Lyndon (the stage name of Alfred Edgar Frederick Higgs; he also […]
The Sizzlin’ Something Weird Summer Challenge 2024: Because of Eve (1948)
Roadshow Rarities (June 30 – July 6) In the old days of theatrical releases some of the more lavish movies would be promoted by holding limited screenings in large cities. These roadshow releases would generate hype before the nationwide release and allow producers to tweak the film to the audience’s reaction. This model also worked […]
MILL CREEK NIGHTMARE WORLDS: Counterblast (1948)
Born in Austria and settling in England, Paul L. Stein directed a ton of movies over his career and this was his next to last, a spy movie which was one of the two genres he worked in most, the other being female-friendly movies. One of its writers, Jack Whittingham, was the screenwriter that worked […]
APRIL MOVIE THON DAY 7: Bill and Coo (1948)
Shot on the world’s smallest film set, this film only has three humans — producer Ken Murray, bird trainer George Burton and Elizabeth Walters — show up in the opening. The stars are the birds of the town of Chirpendale. It was awarded an honorary Academy Award as it doesn’t really fit into the world […]
Because of Eve (1948)
Sally and Bob have been married a year and there’s some good news. It seems like she’s pregnant. That means they go to see Dr. West, who has no idea what HiPPA laws are or the privacy of the patient and we learn about how Sally had a baby with Bob’s best friend who died […]
2021 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 24: Rope (1948)
24. 2 CLOSE 4 COMFORT: A main character suffers from claustrophobia. Outside of the expected films like Psycho and Rear Window, Hitchcock has been a blind spot to me, despite my obsession with the Krimi and Giallo films that owe a debt to his work. Let’s change that! Based on Patrick Hamilton’s 1929 play of the […]
Jungle Goddess (1948)
Between 1922 and 1954, Lewis D. Collins made around 120 films, most of them Westerns. Here’s one of the rare ones that doesn’t have horses and six shooters, set in the jungle and starring future Superman George Reeves as an explorer. Pilot Mike Patton (Reeves) and Bob Simpson (Ralph Byrd, who had played Dick Tracy […]
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
Originally titled The Brain of Frankenstein, the title of this movie was changed to make it less “horror” and to feature the comedy duo. Lou Costello hated the script, claiming his five-year-old daughter could write a better script. The Universal Monsters hadn’t been in a movie in three years, with Lugosi — who is playing […]
Kiss the Blood Off My Hands (1948)
Kino Lorber Studio Classics has steadily been releasing a number of classic film noir titles under its Film Noir: The Dark Side of Cinema series. This one, starring Joan Fontaine and Burt Lancaster, fits right into those box sets. Former POW Bill Saunders (Lancaster) barely survived the war and is a man on the edge. […]
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