Saturday 24 April 2021

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Escape (1930) - Early Ealing drama.


Mystery Train (1931)



Money Talks (1932) - British Jewish comedy.

Se also the Divorce of Lady X (1938) and mr. Emmanuel (1944), with a Cushingesque  Felix Aylmer.


Bed of Roses (1933)- Dreary 30s drama.


Sequoia (1934) - Proto Disney wildlife.


The Amateur Gentleman (1936)


Bulldog Drummond's Revenge (1937)/Bulldog Drummond's Peril (1938)/Bulldog Drummond in Africa (1938)/Bulldog Drummond's Secret Police (1939)


Tom Sawyer, Detective (1938) - Donald feckin' O'Connor.


The Gaunt Stranger (1938) - Edgar Wallace krimi.


Romance on the Run (1938) - Republic timewaster.


6000 enemies (1939) - Porridge for Pidgeon. 


Boy Slaves (1939) - Young prison dash.


Mutiny in the Big House (1939) - Routine prison yarn for Monogram.



The Great Man Votes (1939) - See Staggering Stories of Ferdinand de Bargos clips undubbed!

They Came by Night (1940) - Routine British crime movie with eccentric turns by Will Fyffe and Kathleen Harrison.


Smilin' Through (1941) - Oirish muck.


The Prime minister (1941) - Gielgud is Disraeli. Beat that, Arliss. 


Tarzan and the Secret Treasure (1941) - Routine jungler.


I Killed that Man (1941) - Poverty row crimer. 


Gallant Lady (1942) - Poverty row time-killer.

See also Dangerous Lady (1941)


They flew alone (1942)



Rationing (1944)/Blonde Inspiration (1941)/Washington Melodrama (1943) - Catching up on the MGM I had missed.


Goupi Mains Rouges (1943) - Routine French drama.


Remarques (1944) - Routine Gabin.


Alaska (1944) - Monogram northern.


The Great Sacrifice (1944) - Colourful Nazi shite. 


I live in Grosvenor Square (1945) - Routine propaganda.

See also Great Day (1945)


Beware of Pity (1946) - Routine tearjerker


Suspense (1946)/The Hunted (1948) - Strange, hypnotic ice skating noirs, vehicle for British skater Belita.


Under the Sun of Rome (1948)


Bamboo Blonde (1947)- Routine RKO b musical.


 Le Silence est dor (1947) - Chevalier for Clair.


The Imperfect Lady (1947) - Another Britoid music hall drama. 


Homesteaders of Paradise Valley (1947) - Republic b-oater.


The Noose Hangs High (1948) - Abbott and Costello  go to Eagle-Lion. 


It's A Joke, Son (1947) - Forgotten radio character Senator Claghorn, now known only for inspiring Foghorn Leghorn.


This was a Woman (1948) - Routine melodrama with Sonia Dresdel.

See also the Third Visitor (1951)


State Peniteniary (1950) - Routine Warner Baxter classic. 


Southside 1-1000 (1950) - Undistinguished AA noir.


Cargo to Capetown (1950)  - Routine shipbound melodrama.


Volcano (1950) - Routine Anna Magnani melo.


Whistle at Eaton Falls (1951) - Routine drama with Lloyd Bridges.


The Lady and the Bandit (1951)  - Louis Hayward is Dick Turpin. 


Pride of St. Louis (1951) - Dreary baseballer. 


Guilty Bystander (1951) - Routine poverty row noir. 


Man Trap (1952) - Hammer quota quickie noir with Paul Henreid. 


Last Train from Bombay (1952) - Routine colonial tosh.


Target Hong Kong (1953) - Typical yellow peril. 


City of Shadows (1955 )-Republic toh with Victor McLaglen.


Let's be Happy (1957) - Forgettable Edinburgh-set musical.

Surprisingly, no Finlay Currie, John Laurie or Duncan Macrae, but you do get Gordon Jackson singing in a kilt.


Hong kong Confidential (1958) - Faux-quota quickie proto-Adventurer tripe with Gene Barry as a club singer/spy trying to find an Arab prince.


Fate of a Man (1959)


il Vedovo (1959)


The Immoral Mr. Teas (1959) - Barely immoral. 

Karate Hand of Death (1961) - Rubbish would be kung fu.


So Evil, So Young (1961) - Reform schooler Danziger's style.


The Nun and the Sergeant (1961) - Heaven knows Mr. Allison with added Japanese schoolgirls. 


The L Shaped Room (1962) - Brock Peters actually sounds Mancunian when he's supposed to be from the Caribbean, but when your costar is Pat Phoenix, it's hard not to.


The Wild and the Willing (1963) - McShane and Hurt and Brett drink. 


Do you know this Voice (1964) - Interesting quickie with Isa Miranda and Dan Duryea in the Uk suburbs.


None but the Brave (1966) - Toho war fare, weirdly directed by Frank Sinatra.


 The Master Demon (1991)/Sword of Heaven (1985) - Low budget American attempts at Asian action fantasy. Sword at least has a Belfast sidekick.


First Surrender (1971) - Undistinguished giallo with Javier Bardem's ma. 


Sweet Jesus Preacherman (1972) - Why the hell did MGM buy this?


Midnighter (1973) - Charming Lithuanian kidvid.


Catherine and Co (1973) - Somehow charming, thanks to Jane Birkin.


Simona (1974) - Laura Antonelli bullfighting vehicle.


The Astrologer (1975) - The greatest Republic Pictures revival attempt/vanity project ever set in Glasgow. 


Crypt of Dark Secrets (1976) - 


Polk County Pot Plane (1977)


The Bodyguard (1978) - Dodgy Americanisation starring Chiba as himself?!?


Burnout (1979) - Tired racing picture. 


Improper Channels (1981)  Dreary Canuck drama. See also Friends, Lovers and Lunatics (1989)


Moonlight Mask (1982) - Ropey Japanese motocross Lone Ranger.



Hearts and Armour (1983) - Excalibritta!


Dream One/Nemo (1984) - Curiously overlooked in terms of 80s comic book movies, a weirdsville Boorman-produced Film on Four Europudding starring Jason Connery as Little Nemo, with Mathilda May, Carole Bouquet, Harvey Keitel, Nipsey Russell,


POW The Escape (1986) - Routine Cannon fare.


War Dog (1987) - Swedish actioner.


Berserker (1987) - Faux-Scando slasher.


Death Run (1987) - Amateur but ambitious Michael J Murphy post-apocalyptica.


Hollow Gate (1988) - PM slasher schlock. The one highlight is one of the actors is named George Cole. Not Arfur, sadly. 


Savage Justice (1988) - The sensei/monk looks like Ken Morley.


Lily was Here (1988) - Remembered only for the Dave Stewart theme. 


Never Say Die (1988) -  Saw an edited version of this. Tightened but it seemed to go in circles. Temeura Morrison an interesting tough guy. 


Traxx (1988)/Action USA (1989) - Texan madness.


Riverbend (1989) - 60s set southern drama, an interesting but flawed vehicle for Steve James, at last given a starring role. 


Hell High (1989)  - Dreary not-Canadian-but-cold slasher.


Rescue Force (1990) - Like an Andy Sidaris film seemingly on no budget, but with foreign locale shooting.


Baby Brown (1990) - Ifrikan copshite.


Beastmaster 2 (1991) - Initially cheeseball fun, soon tails off.


Lena's Holiday (1991) - Slightly erotic unfunny romcom.


Nothing but Trouble (1991) - Oh, Dananananaykroyd, what were you thinking?


Evil Toons (1992) - Grim Fred Olen Ray film.


Leprechaun (1993) - Surprisingly fun.


The Gifted  (1993) - Ambitious indie African-American alien invasion film.


Night Train to Venice (1993) - Supernatural erotic thriller made by Cannon, that yes, Hugh Grant regrets.


Monolith (1993) - Sub-Glickenhaus actioner starring Bill Paxton. John Hurt must have done this for lager money (knowing his career, a big bottle of Lamot)


Deadfall (1993) - Coppola family gettogether.


Death Machine (1994) - Stephen Norrington, having worked on Hardware decides to make his own-faux-Richard Stanley film.  It's glossy, it has Hootkins, it's 2000 AD-y Fauxmerican dystopia, but it hurts me to say this, it's sillier than Hardware.  Rather too po-faced yet at the time goofball. 


Four Rooms (1995) - Technically part of the Roald Dahl cinematic canon, doomed to be confused with Blame It on the Bellboy. 


Mother Night (1996)


I woke Up Early the day I died (1996) - Billy Zane IS Ed Wood.


The Impostors (1998) - A great underrated comedy. Platt and Tucci should have made more of these films. A discovery?


Pi (1998) - More paper than tin. 


Breakfast of Champions (1999) - watched this alongside The Last Days of Frankie the Fly (1996), and the two kind of blended.


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