RE/SEARCH Incredibly Strange Films: Last Date (1950)
Jeanne (Joan Taylor, 20 Million Miles to Earth) has just dumped boring — and safe driving — Larry (Robert V. Stern) and hooked up with hot ro racer Nick (Dick York!), who drives 55 MPH which is three times the speed limit. Nick and everyone in his car celebrate his great football game and the school […]
MILL CREEK SCI-FI CLASSICS: Prehistoric Women (1950)
Gregg G. Tallas started his career working with Fritz Lang, which does not explain how his career took him to some crazy places, such as Espionage in Tangiers, Assignment Skybolt and the movie he’d make 12 years later, Cataclysm, which is, of course, “The Case of Claire Hansen” in Night Train to Terror. So yeah. He made this bit of […]
Cisco Kid Movie Collection: The Girl from San Lorenzo (1950)
Cisco (Duncan Renaldo) and Pancho (Leo Carrillo) have to prove their innocence after robberies made by two thugs (David Sharpe and Edmund Cobb) who look just like them. Our heroic dup gets jailed, but the outlaws have one more big score and need to free Cisco and Pancho to have an alibi. Director Derwin Abrahams […]
2022 Scarecrow Psychotronic Challenge Day 13: Sunset Boulevard (1950)
13. RELIVOMAX: Do your enigmas need resolving? Don’t wait, talk to an expert to see if Relivomax is right for you. Taking Relivomax may result in flashbacks. At a mansion on Sunset Boulevard, police officers and gossip photographers find Joe Gillis (William Holden) drowned face down in the swimming pool of Norma Desmond (Gloria Swanson). […]
KINO LORBER BLU RAY RELEASE: Outrage (1950)
Directed by Ida Lupino — who co-wrote the script, along with producer Malvin Wald and her husband at the time Collier Young — this was the second post-Code Hollywood film to deal with the issue of rape. The other is after Johnny Belinda. Ann Walton (Mala Powers) is ready to marry Jim Owens (Robert Clark) […]
APRIL MOVIE THON 2: Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
April 27: Until You Call on the Dark — Pick a movie from the approved movies list of the Church of Satan. Here’s the list. Banned in Ohio because it was “a sordid, sadistic presentation of brutality and an extreme presentation of crime with explicit steps in commission,” the first $500,000 of this movie went to […]
Prehistoric Women (1950)
Gregg G. Tallas started his career working with Fritz Lang, which does not explain how his career took him to some crazy places, such as Espionage in Tangiers, Assignment Skybolt and the movie he’d make 12 years later, Cataclysm, which is, of course, “The Case of Claire Hansen” in Night Train to Terror. So yeah. He made this bit of […]
El Hombre Sin Rostro (1950)
Juan Carlos isn’t a great hero. He’s been infantilized by his mother and is going through therapy, which would probably a novel idea in the macho culture of Mexico, much less today. In his dreams, he can see the serial killer that has been haunting the city, quite literally The Man Without A Face that the […]
CHILLING CLASSICS MONTH: A Passenger to Bali (1950)
Why would Mill Creek include this on their Chilling Classics set — a made for TV production for CBS’ Westinghouse Studio One that originally aired on March 27, 1950? Who knows — Mill Creek does what Mill Creek wants. This tale began as a novel, published in 1936 and written by Ellis St. Joseph. It was adapted into […]
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