Written by James M. Tate / 2/28/2024 / No comments / body count , cult , donna anderson , edward walsh , horror , judy lang , michael murphy , robert quarry , seventies , vampire
ROBERT QUARRY SINKS HIS TEEH INTO 'COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE'
Title: COUNT YORGA, VAMPIRE Year: 1970 Rating: **** A hybrid of late-1960's leading to early-1970's low-budget exploitation horror a...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/27/2024 / No comments / adventure , anne jeffreys , chase , cold war , film noir or melodrama , forties , james flavin , jason robarts sr. , lawrence tierney , myrna dell , mystery , romance , wrong man
LAWRENCE TIERNEY & ANNE JEFFREYS RETURN FOR 'STEP BY STEP'
Lawrence Tierney and Anne Jeffreys in STEP BY STEP Year: 1946 Rating: **** Lawrence Tierney with Anne Jeffreys, the gangster and moll from D...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/26/2024 / No comments / anne jeffreys , biopic , constance worth , dewey robinson , eduardo ciannelli , elisha cook jr. , film noir or melodrama , forties , heist , lawrence tierney , lou lubin , marc lawrence , max nosseck
LAWRENCE TIERNEY DEAD AS 'DILLINGER' WITH ANNE JEFFREYS
Anne Jeffreys and Lawrence Tierney in DILLINGER Year: 1945 Rating: ****1/2 In the 1930's through to the 1960's and 1970's, befo...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/25/2024 / No comments / action , adventure , film noir or melodrama , forties , george coulouris , lawrence tierney , max nosseck , piranha , romance , rudolph anders , wrong man
LAWRENCE TIERNEY PLAYS THE WRONG MAN IN 'KILL OR BE KILLED'
Title: KILL OR BE KILLED Year: 1950 Rates: ***1/2 The epitome of a crime programmer with a beginning, middle and end, and plenty in-bet...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/24/2024 / No comments / fifties , film noir or melodrama , harry bellaver , james francsiscus , jeanette nolan , john mcintire , kent smith , lawrence tierney , TV
LAWRENCE TIERNEY VILLAINIZES 'NAKED CITY: ONE TO GET LOST'
Lawrence Tierney in Naked City: One To Get Lost Year: 1959 Rating: ***1/2 By the late 1950's, Lawrence Tierney, who was an RKO leading m...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/23/2024 / No comments / betty lawford , crime , film noir or melodrama , forties , harry shannon , lawrence tierney , nan leslie , road movie , ted north , thriller
LAWRENCE TIERNEY & BETTY LAWFORD IN 'THE DEVIL THUMBS A RIDE'
Lawrence Tierney & Betty Lawford in The Devil Thumbs a Ride Year: 1947 Rates: ***1/2 One year after Lawrence Tierney played an affable c...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/22/2024 / No comments / exploitation , fifties , film noir or melodrama , indie , jayne mansfield , john carradine , kathleen crowley , lawrence tierney , mystery , thriller
LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'FEMALE JUNGLE' WITH JAYNE MANSFIELD
Title: FEMALE JUNGLE Year: 1955 Jayne Mansfield, Lawrence Tierney Rates: ***1/2 Iconic tough guy Lawrence Tierney, ten years after his hey-...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/21/2024 / No comments / action , dorothy malone , fifties , john ireland , lawrence tierney , lon chaney jr. , myrna dell , wayne morris , western
LAWRENCE TIERNEY AND JOHN IRELAND IN 'THE BUSHWHACKERS'
Title: THE BUSHWHACKERS Year: 1951 Rating: *** By the time Lawrence Tierney turned up in the b-western THE BUSHWHACKERS, his leading man sta...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/20/2024 / No comments / docudrama , escape , film noir or melodrama , forties , prison , scott brady , whit bissell
SCOTT BRADY & JEFF COREY PRISON ESCAPE NOIR 'CANON CITY'
Title: CANON CITY Year: 1948 Rating: *** The semi-documentary/docudrama film noir device can be awkward, always beginning with real glimpses...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/19/2024 / No comments / action , dorothy hart , film noir or melodrama , forties , john russell , peggy dow , scott brady , william castle , wrong man
SCOTT BRADY WITH PEGGY DOW IN WILLIAM CASTLE'S 'UNDERTOW'
Scott Brady and Peggy Dow in UNDERTOW Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 Scott Brady, younger brother of tough guy legend Lawrence Tierney, is thrust...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/18/2024 / No comments / british , creature , dean jagger , fifties , hammer films , horror , kenneth cope , leo mckern , michael ripper , nuclear , science-fiction , william lucas
DEAN JAGGER AND WILLIAM LUCAS IN HAMMER'S 'X THE UNKNOWN'
X THE UNKNOWN Year: 1957 Rates: **** Hammer's science-fiction/horror hybrid X THE UNKNOWN came out the same year as QUATERMASS 2, sequel...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/17/2024 / No comments / barbara payton , british , fifties , hammer films , james hayter , john van eyssen , science-fiction , stephen murray , thriller
BARBARA PAYTON IN HAMMER'S 'THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE'
Title: THE FOUR SIDED TRIANGLE (Spanish Translation: OF THE EVIL GENIUS) Year: 1953 Rating: **** Before Hammer's Golden Age of Victorian...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/16/2024 / No comments / barbara shelley , body count , exploitation , hammer films , horror , thriller , vanda godsell , william lucas
BARBARA SHELLEY & WILLIAM LUCAS IN 'THE SHADOW OF THE CAT'
Title: THE SHADOW OF THE CAT Year: 1961 Rating: ** Hammer Films pitted vulnerable humans against a vampire, a werewolf, a mummy, a mad scien...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/15/2024 / No comments / dorothy hart , fifties , film noir or melodrama , harry morgan , heist , john hoyt , joseph pevney , marilyn maxwell , prison , richard basehart
RICHARD BASEHART AND MARILYN MAXWELL IN 'OUTSIDE THE WALL'
Title: OUTSIDE THE WALL Year: 1950 Rating: *** Crane Wilber's OUTSIDE THE WALL is three movies in one, and the first two are the best: s...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/14/2024 / No comments / british film noir , crime , delphi lawrence , gumshoe , honor blackman , john colicos , michael balflour , michael balfour , mystery , thriller , tom conway
TOM CONWAY AS DUKE MARTIN BRITISH CRIME DOUBLE-FEATURE
Title: BREAKAWAY Year: 1956 Rating: ***1/2 BREAKAWAY : Former FALCON Tom Conway in the second Tom 'Duke' Martin private eye flicks m...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/13/2024 / No comments / action , brian donlevy , bruce bennett , fifties , film noir or melodrama , howard duff , lawrence tierney , peggy dow , thriller
HOWARD DUFF, PEGGY DOW & LAWRENCE TIERNEY IN 'SHAKEDOWN'
Title: THE SHADOW OF THE CAT Year: 1961 Rating: ** In the 1930's James Cagney programmer PICTURE SNATCHER, he plays a photographer who w...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/12/2024 / No comments / beverly garland , edmond o'brien , fifties , film noir or melodrama , hugh o'brian , jazz-score , laurette luez , luther adler , mystery , neville brand , race against time , thriller , virginia lee
EDMOND O'BRIEN RACES THROUGH THE CLASSIC FILM NOIR 'D.O.A.'
Title: D.O.A. Year: 1959 Director: Rudolph Maté Stars: Edmond O'Brien Rating: **** For one of the most literally deadly-serious film noi...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/10/2024 / No comments / burt lancaster , dan duryea , film noir or melodrama , forties , heist , robert osterloh , stephen mcnally , tom pedi , yvonne de carlo
BURT LANCASTER IN ROBERT SIODMAK'S HEIST-NOIR 'CRISS CROSS'
Title: CRISS CROSS Year: 1949 Rating: *** Burt Lancaster became a breakout star in director Robert Siodmak's complicated heist-noir THE ...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/09/2024 / No comments / anita colby , ann blyth , burt lancaster , film noir or melodrama , howard duff , howland chamberlain , hume cronyn , jack overman , jeff corey , john hoyt , jules dassin , prison , sam levene , yvonne de carlo
BURT LANCASTER IN JULES DASSIN'S PRISON NOIR 'BRUTE FORCE'
BRUTE FORCE Year: 1947 Rating: ***1/2 Director Jules Dassin basically made his own post-war World War II picture, only set in an American ho...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/08/2024 / No comments / albert dekker , ava gardner , burt lancaster , edmond o'brien , ernest hemingway , film noir or melodrama , forties , jack lambert , jeff corey , phil brown , thriller
BURT LANCASTER IN HEMINGWAY'S PULP FICTION 'THE KILLERS'
Title: THE KILLERS Year: 1946 Rating: **** Little did Ernest Hemingway know, when he created the very short short-story THE KILLERS, that he...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/07/2024 / No comments / clark gable , drama , eli wallach , john huston , marilyn monroe , montgomery clift , romance , sixties , thelma ritter , western
CLARK GABLE, MONTOMERY CLIFT & MARILYN MONROE 'THE MISFITS
Title: THE MISFITS Year: 1961 Shown: Clark Gable Rating: ***1/2 Most famous about THE MISFITS is that Clark Gable died right after filming, ...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/06/2024 / No comments / buddy , classic , drama , drug culture , dustin hoffman , jon voight , m. emmett walsh , oscar , sixties
DUSTIN HOFFMAN ALONGSIDE JON VOIGHT IN 'MIDNIGHT COWBOY'
Dustin Hoffman and Jon Voight in MIDNIGHT COWBOY Year: 1969 Rating: ***** A simplistic but mostly naive young man from Texas, Joe Buck, iro...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/05/2024 / No comments / barry levinson , drama , dustin hoffman , eighties , oscar , road movie , tom cruise , valaria golino
DUSTIN HOFFMAN AND TOM CRUISE CRUSING THROUGH 'RAIN MAN'
RAIN MAN Year: 1988 Rating: **** Dustin Hoffman's RAIN MAN character is intentionally annoying since the Barry Levinson Oscar-winning mo...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/04/2024 / No comments / beverly michaels , desert , fifties , film noir or melodrama , howland chamberlain , hugo hass , jo-carroll dennison , rural , train
DOROTHY MICHAELS STEALS HUGO HASS'S BIZARRE NOIR 'PICKUP'
Beverly Michaels in PICKUP Year: 1951 Rating: **** There's nothing better than when a bad blonde steals a film noir, and none have been ...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/02/2024 / No comments / alun armstrong , british neo noir , british new wave , exploitation , george sewell , godfrey quigley , ian hendry , john bindon , michael caine , mike hodges , petra markham , seventies , thriller , tony beckley
MIKE HODGES DIRECTS A KILLER MICHAEL CAINE IN 'GET CARTER'
Title: GET CARTER Year: 1971 Rating: ***** The plot of director Mike Hodges' GET CARTER is simple enough: London-based gangster Michael ...