Written by James M. Tate / 8/30/2016 / No comments / counter culture , drama , drug culture , george c. scott , leonard gaines , paul schrader , peter boyle , prostitute , reb brown , season hubley , seventies
GEORGE C. SCOTT 'HARDCORE' W/ PETER BOYLE & SEASON HUBLEY

Season Hubley kicking front in HARDCORE Year: 1979 George C. Scott is a straight-laced, Midwestern business-owner with an innocent daugh...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/29/2016 / No comments / gene wilder , tribute
GOODBYE WILDER GENE: A MEMORIAL FOR GENE WILDER

We Rushed this Rushed Tribute, so FORGIVE any Unedited Mistakes! What was it about Gene Wilder that worked? That really, really worked? ...
DEFENDING THE NOIR-HORROR CAMP OF 'THE LEECH WOMAN'

Part of the Universal Science Fiction Collection YEAR: 1960 While it's rare, Mystery Science Theater (or what they've become, Ri...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/27/2016 / No comments / dennis quaid , edmond o'brien , eighties , fifties , film noir , jazz score , neo noir , remake
FIFTIES & EIGHTIES: GLOSSING OVER TWO DECADES OF D.O.A.

1950 D.O.A. starring Edmond O'Brien D.O.A. 1950 : Before the ball really gets rolling, and things become serious for a small town bu...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/24/2016 / No comments / action , adventure , david carradine , moonshine , seventies
DAVID CARRADINE & KATE JACKSON IN 'THUNDER & LIGHTING'

Car chase in THUNDER & LIGHTNING Around the same time as Ingmar Bergman's THE SERPENT'S EGG and Hal Ashby's BOUND FOR GL...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/21/2016 / No comments / earl holliman , fifties , film noir or melodrama , heist , jack palance , lee marvin , perry lopez , remake , shelley winters
JACK PALANCE IN THE NOIR REMAKE 'I DIED A THOUSAND TIMES'

Warner Archives DVD Year: 1955 HIGH SIERRA is a great book that became an even greater film: With Raoul Walsh's tight direction from...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/20/2016 / No comments / action , adventure , alfred hitchcock , espionage , forties , george sanders , joel mccrea , laraine day , martin kosleck , war , world war II
'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT' HAS RELOCATED

Martin Kosleck as Tramp CLICK HERE TO THE NEW HOME OF 'FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT'
Written by James M. Tate / 8/16/2016 / No comments / anne francis , dana andrews , drama , drive-in , jazz score , jeffrey hunter , neo noir , nicolas coster , richard kiel , romance , sixties , strother martin , thriller , troy donahue , viveca lindfors , william conrad
WILLIAM CONRAD'S 'BRAINSTORM' AND 'MY BLOOD RUNS COLD'

William Conrad Directorial Double Feature from 1965 From his sinister beginnings as one of the two title hitmen who cast an ominous shad...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/15/2016 / No comments / claude reins , courtroom drama , joey heatherton , nick adams , richard chamberlain , sixties
ANATOMY OF A COURTROOM AGENDA: TWILIGHT OF HONOR

Richard Chamberlain faces Joey Heatherton YEAR: 1963 Once again, Hollywood puts Capitol Punishment on trial along with another of their ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/14/2016 / No comments / dana andrews , elia kazan , fifties , film noir or melodrama , forties , fritz lang , lee j. cobb
BOOMSHADOW: DANA ANDREWS COURTROOM NOIR DOUBLE

Poster Art and DVD Cover YEAR: 1956 CRIME AND PUNISHMENT, DANA ANDREWS & FILM NOIR: Following the career of Dana Andrews and dedicat...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/09/2016 / No comments / cold war , dana andrews , dick foran , fifties , film noir or melodrama , jacques tourneur , kelly thordsen , marilee earle , mel torme , politics , thriller
JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'THE FEARMAKERS' WITH DANA ANDREWS

Year Released: 1958 Of the three motion pictures actor Dana Andrews starred in under the direction of Noir-Horror guru Jacques Tourneur...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/08/2016 / No comments / barbara stanwyk , drama , fifties , james cagney , small town , teen
AN OLDER JAMES CAGNEY IN THESE WILDER YEARS

Year Released: 1957 While the Studio System may have been difficult for the talent, forced into project after project using whatever sty...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/06/2016 / No comments / charles bickford , film noir or melodrama , forties , henry fonda , joan crawford , otto preminger , wrong man
OTTO PREMINGER AND GENE TIERNEY REUNITE FOR 'WHIRLPOOL'

Year: 1949 Before Jose Ferrer played despicable villains he played intellectual/sophisticated ones... In Otto Preminger's WHIRLPOOL ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/04/2016 / No comments / cop , douglass dumbrille , jack younger , jazz score , larue farlow , maury dexter , merry anders , neo noir , robert dix , russ bender , sixties , willard parker
MERRY ANDERS & ROBERT DIX IN MAURY DEXTER'S 'AIR PATROL'

Terrific Fox DVD Cover Art YEAR: 1962 In AIR PATROL, one of many low-budget movies directed by Maury Dexter, the wheels of justice move ...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/03/2016 / No comments / dana andrews , dean stockwell , drama , jean peters , kids
DANA ANDREWS AND CESAR ROMERO WORK IN 'DEEP WATERS'

Future Joker from BATMAN meets the Old Guy from QUANTUM LEAP How very easily DEEP WATERS could have been a sappy childhood melodrama, ri...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/02/2016 / No comments / franchise , ian ziering , science-fiction
FLIPPING TO SHARKNADO: THE 4TH AWAKENS

Sharks In Space... It's Just Dumb This Time YEAR: 2016 With an opening scrawl and a title taken from the new STAR WARS: FORCE AWAKEN...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/01/2016 / No comments / action , chuck norris , dana andrews , james francsiscus , war
CHUCK NORRIS IN 'GOOD GUYS WEAR BLACK' W/ DANA ANDREWS

Chuck reflects the film's best kick YEAR: 1978 For an action star, compared to a Steve McQueen, Charles Bronson and more befitting t...
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