Written by James M. Tate / 3/31/2022 / No comments / action , british , british neo noir , british tv , buddy , cop , crime , dennis waterman , heist , john thaw , myra francis , robert swann , seventies , suspense , sweeney , tv series
JOHN THAW AND MYRA FRANCIS ON 'THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY'

Myra Francis on The Sweeney Year: 1975 Rating: ***** THE SWEENEY: COUNTRY BOY has our London boys joined by a well-dressed/educated tech guy...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/30/2022 / No comments / action , british , con man , cop , crime , dennis waterman , john thaw , judy matheson , maureen lipton , ronald coleman , seventies , sweeney , tv series
MAUREEN LIPTON COLORS 'THE SWEENEY' EPISODE 'SELECTED TARGET'

Maureen Lipman and Dennis Waterman in The Sweeney: Selected Target 1976 Rating: **** With so much going on in THE SWEENEY season three's...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/29/2022 / No comments / action , british , cop , crime , dennis waterman , george tovey , john thaw , ray winstone , seventies , sweeney
UNKNOWN RAY WINSTONE GUESTS ON 'THE SWEENEY: LOVING ARMS'

The Sweeney: Loving Arms Year: 1976 Rating: ***1/2 One of the best episodes of the third season for THE SWEENEY, a 1970's British gritty...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/28/2022 / No comments / 2022 , body count , comedy , dave grohl , exploitation , foo fighters , horror , horror satire , john carpenter , music , new , pat smear , taylor hawkins
DAVE GROHL POSSESSES THE FOO FIGHTERS HORROR 'STUDIO 666'

Title: STUDIO 666 Year: 2022 Rating: ** It's common in horror movies to center on a novelist suffering writer's block so that whatev...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/27/2022 / No comments / charles boyer , epic , glenn ford , karlheinz böhm , lee j. cobb , melodrama , nazi , romance , sixties , war , warner archives , yvette mimieux
GLENN FORD IN 'THE FOUR HORSEMEN OF THE APOCALYPSE'

YEAR: 1962 In GET SHORTY, John Travolta's movie fanatic gangster brags about going to see "Charlton Heston playing a Mexican" ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/26/2022 / No comments / al ruscio , biopic , fifties , gangster , james gregory , jazz score , martin balsam , mobster , nehemiah persoff , neo noir , rod steiger , sally todd , warner archives
ROD STEIGER STARRING AS 'AL CAPONE' FEATURING FAY SPAIN

AL CAPONE Year of Release: 1959 Like Jack Nicholson (intentionally or otherwise) displayed a little of pal Bruce Dern in THE SHINING , perh...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/23/2022 / No comments / edgar buchanan , forties , glenn ford , leslie nielsen , mickey shaughnessy , pernell roberts , shirley maclaine , warner archives , western , william bowers
GLENN FORD IN GEORGE MARSHALL'S WESTERN 'THE SHEEPMAN'

Title: THE SHEEPMAN Year: 1958 Rating: **** George Marshall's THE SHEEPMAN could have been a genuine satire, deliberately playing upon W...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/22/2022 / No comments / christine delaroche , cold war , espionage , hardy kruger , macha méril , montgomery clift , roddy mcdowall , sixties , thriller , uta levka , warner archives
FINAL CINEMA TURN FOR MONTGOMERY CLIFT IN 'THE DEFECTOR'

THE DEFECTOR Year: 1967 By the Sixties, the Cold War genre, which began in the Forties, was in full swing, sometimes with bullets flying, a...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/21/2022 / No comments / fifties , film noir or melodrama , richard egan , steve cochran , warner archives
STEVE COCHRAN GANGSTER NOIR REVIEW OF 'HIGHWAY 301'
Title: HIGHWAY 301 Year: 1950 Rating: **1/2 Steve Cochran will be no stranger in the months to come. From playing heavies in popular Film N...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/20/2022 / No comments / biopic , fifties , james arness , james stewart , jean hagen , melodrama , paul stewart , prison , warner archives , wendell corey
JAMES STEWART WITH JEAN HAGEN IN 'CARBINE WILLIAMS'
Title: CARBINE WILLIAMS Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 Famously likeable James Stewart did his share of dramatic roles, although most were of sim...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/18/2022 / No comments / action , disaster , irwin allen , joseph cotten , paul stewart , robert colbert , robert wagner , rosemary forsyth , science-fiction , seventies , stuart whitman , susana miranda , tv movie , warner archives
IRWIN ALLEN'S 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH STUART WHITMAN
Title: CITY BENEATH THE SEA Director: Irwin Allen Year: 1971 Rating: *** Between his b-science-fiction series and a-list disaster films, Irw...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/17/2022 / No comments / college , comedy , fifties , gene nelson , musical , patrice wymore , ronald reagan , virginia mayo , warner archives
VIRGINIA MAYO IN 'SHE'S WORKING HER WAY THROUGH COLLEGE'
Year: 1952 Rating: ***1/2 "I don't know what there is about the pelts of dead little animals that makes them so attractive to wom...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/16/2022 / No comments / fifties , frank lovejoy , gene nelson , melodrama , musical , patrice wymore , steve cochran , virginia mayo , warner archives
COCHRAN HOLDS THE MAYO AGAIN IN 'SHE'S BACK ON BROADWAY'
Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 This is more than a review of the 1952 feel-good comedy loaded with as many hardships and frowns as smiles, takin...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/15/2022 / No comments / action , civil war , diane brewster , fifties , gale robbins , kim charney , leo gordon , steve cochran , warner archives , western
STEVE COCHRAN AND LEO GORDON IN 'QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS'
Title: QUANTRILL'S RAIDERS Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Underrated WHITE HEAT actor Steve Cochran plays a smooth gent sent to trick a sma...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/14/2022 / No comments / action , adventure , claude akins , diane mcbain , james gregory , kent smith , raoul walsh , sixties , susan pleshette , troy donahue , western , william reynolds
TROY DONAHUE IN RAOUL WALSH'S WESTERN 'A DISTANT TRUMPET'
Troy Donahue from 1964 Rating: ***1/2 Raoul Walsh finished his iconic directing career providing the otherwise wooden Troy Donahue his best ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/13/2022 / No comments / action , charles watts , circus , fifties , howard mcnear , kathryn grant , mystery , peter lorre , red buttons , rhonda fleming , thriller , victor mature , warner archives
VICTOR MATURE, PETER LORRE & KATHRYN GRANT 'THE BIG CIRCUS'

Title: THE BIG CIRCUS Pictured: Petter Lorre Year of Release: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 Circus movie with the same plot as RING OF FEAR where som...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/12/2022 / No comments / edgar buchanan , fifties , jack elam , jacques tourneur , joel mccrea , john smith , lloyd bridges , peter graves , robert wilke , sam peckinpah , wallace ford , warner archives , western
DIRECTOR JACQUES TOURNEUR'S 'WITCHITA' STARRING JOEL MCCREA
Title: WICHITA Year: 1955 Rating: **** This Jacques Tourneur's Western is as basic and entertaining as they come, centering on what beg...
GEORGE MONTGOMERY IN 'CANYON RIVER' WITH PETER GRAVES

CANYON RIVER Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 George Montgomery's character has two first names, and both are so damn perfect: As Steve Patr...
RON ELY AS 'DOC SAVAGE: MAN OF BRONZE' WITH ROBYN HILTON

Doc Savage YEAR: 1976 Just when you thought you'd seen everything, up comes something you missed because of being too young at the time...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/08/2022 / No comments / action , crime , doberman , hal holbrook , james garner , jenifer shaw , katharine ross , lane slate , mystery , neo noir , rural , small town , thriller , warner archives
JAMES GARNER & KATHARINE ROSS 'THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS'

year: 1972 Rating: *** One of the first vehicles of the 1970's catering to the 1970's Doberman craze; although this particular pooch...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/07/2022 / No comments / dorothy malone , forties , ian wolfe , joel mccrea , raoul walsh , remake , virginia mayo , warner archives , western
RAOUL WALSH REMAKES 'HIGH SIERRA' WITH 'COLORADO TERRITORY'
Title: COLORADO TERRITORY Year: 1949 Rating: *1/2 Raoul Walsh directed the Western remake of his classic "modern" noir (yet set in...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/06/2022 / No comments / albert dekker , barry sullivan , belita , bonita granville , circus , con man , dewey robinson , eugene pallette , film noir or melodrama , forties , nestor paiva , sport , warner archives
FRANK TUTTLE DIRECTS BARRY SULLIVAN & BELITA IN 'SUSPENSE'
Belita and Barry Sullivan in SUSPENSE Year: 1946 Rating: ***1/2 It's hard living up to such a broad yet existential title as SUSPENSE; b...
FLASHBACK TO WARNER'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'THE CROWDED SKY'

John Kerr with Joe Mantell & Dana Andrews in THE CROWDED SKY Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 In one of the most bizarre airplane disaster film...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/05/2022 / No comments / anthony quinn , drama , gambling , inger stevens , irene pappas , melodrama , sam levene , sixties , warner archives
ANTHONY QUINN IN 'A DREAM OF KINGS' WITH INGER STEVENS
Title: A DREAM OF KINGS Stars: Anthony Quinn Year: 1969 Rating: ***1/2 In A DREAM OF KINGS, Anthony Quinn plays Leonidas Matsoukas, a ZORBA ...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/04/2022 / No comments / bette davis , film noir or melodrama , gangster , margaret lindsay , mexico , paul muni , thirties , warner archives , wrong man
PAUL MUNI & BETTE DAVIS IN THE PRE-NOIR OF 'BORDERTOWN'
Title: BORDERTOWN Year: 1935 Rating: *** The early Noir THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT starring George Raft and Humphrey Bogart was a remake of the ear...
TELEVISION AIRPLANE-HIJACKING THRILLER OF 'HOSTAGE FLIGHT'
Frank M. Benard and Kristina Wayborn in HOSTAGE FLIGHT Year: 1985 Rating: **** The 1985 TV-Movie HOSTAGE FLIGHT is one of the better hijacki...