Another Man’s Poison (1951)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Melanie Novak writes about the Golden Age of Hollywood, infusing her weekly movie reviews with history, gossip, and the glamour of the studio era. You can read her reviews at http://www.melanienovak.com and follow her on Instagram @novak_melanie or Twitter @MelanieANovak. Bette Davis needs no introduction, but if she’d lived to write a […]
El Extraneo Case del Hombre y La Bestia (1951)
Yet again, Dr. Henry Jekyll has decided to try to discover the dark side of man and the nature of evil, but ends up releasing the dark side. This time, however, the movie is made in Argentina, which at least lends it some level of interest. This was a dream project of actor/director Mario Soffici, […]
Father’s Little Dividend (1951)
ABOUT THE AUTHOR: Melanie Novak writes about the Golden Age of Hollywood, infusing her weekly movie reviews with history, gossip, and the glamour of the studio era. You can read her reviews at http://www.melanienovak.com and follow her on Instagram @novak_melanie. You may not be familiar with Father’s Little Dividend, but you certainly know the original. […]
Yes Sir, Mr. Bones (1951)
Editor’s Note: We’ll also touch upon another lost, forgotten Ormond historical document, Parisienne Creations, concerned with the vaudeville-inspiring cabaret halls of Paris, within the context of this review. The many who are quick to denounce this entry on Ron Ormond’s resume, unfortunately, don’t know the man behind the lens. Ron Ormond directed a series of […]
Varieties on Parade (1951) and Forty Acre Feud (1965)
We’ve made it our life’s mission to watch and review — sans his twenty-plus westerns as a producer, writer and director — all of Ron Ormond’s secular and Christian films. (The westerns will get done, eventually.) And we’re almost there. We’re left with The Eternal Question (1956), a soft skin-flick of which we have yet […]
Kentucky Jubilee (1951) and Square Dance Jubilee (1949)
Bruce Eder, in the liner notes of the 1989 The Criterion Collection reissue of A Hard Day’s Night, reminds us that, in a 1964 review of that classic Beatles’ film, critic Andrew Sarris described it as “the Citizen Kane of jukebox musicals.” Since then, the term “jukebox musical” has, in my opinion, gone a wee-bit […]
Flight to Mars (1951)
“The thing that hath been, it is that which shall be; and that which is done is that which shall be done: and there is no new thing under the sun.” — Solomon, Ecclesiastes 1:9 “Plus ça change, plus c’est la même chose.” — French critic, journalist and novelist Jean-Baptiste Alphonse Karr Whoa, ye Richard […]
Racket Girls (1951)
Umberto Scalli (Timothy Farrell, Test Tube Babies, Glen or Glenda) is in charge of women’s wrestling shows, which covers up his crime life, which includes racketeering, bookmaking and prostitution. Yet now, the police and the mob are both after him. Real pro wrestlers Peaches Page, Rita Martinez and Clara Mortensen all play themselves in this. So does […]
Lost Continent (1951)
Maj. Joe Nolan (Cesar Romero, the only Joker never to shave), Lt. Danny Wilson (Chick Chandler) and Sgt. William Tatlow (Sid Melton, Alf Monroe from Green Acres) and three scientists — Stanley Briggs (Whit Bissell, the undertaker in The Magnificent Seven), Robert Phillips (Hugh Beaumont from Leave It to Beaver) and Russian Michael Rostov (John Hoyt, Flesh […]
Death Is A Number (1951)
Death Is A Number is one strange movie. It’s a combiantion of inserts, stock footage and still photos, all superimposed and layered on top of one another, along with a framing opening and close, that relates the curse that the number nine has placed upon a family, including the race car driving friend of the […]
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