PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1560/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1028" data-original-width="1560" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh1RIjKAfW4lCqAZI9QFMO2lYpDhUQKFTO4PR57fTgxmuXwTO2AuoZJ4-A2jUB3-6xVKMgDcQJvsIe1SVZy8s7yMjhtyjS6f9IEoSwU1Ex4qgIN5mN5q13RJB087xi4yU0Bhc8TPjE9JwyqfzlqWiD47oJV8xRw2-MTG8q7JRPBTIlcHxxLPtXd_GwuHpPI/s1600/Screen%20Shot%202026-09-28%20at%2010.02.01%20PM-1%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing his smooth voice for the usual roles as announcers or broadcasters, has a charmingly affable manner in which, for 1950's British Noirs <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2025/05/stockcar.html">STOCK CAR</a> and THE NARROWING CIRCLE, he seems to be a replacement for what aspires to be a more standard-leading-man type of picture...<br><br>But he's still fairly intriguing: here as a true crime journalist falling into the usual wrong-man trope of not only being falsely accused for one murder... of a fellow writer who took both his job and his fiance... but he's always around when random dead bodies keep turning up...</p><p><span></span></p>

british film noir, charles saunders, ferdy mayne, fifties, hazel court, hugh latimer, michael standing, paul carpenter, wrong man

PAUL CARPENTER AND HAZEL COURT IN 'THE NARROWING CIRCLE'

Hazel Court and Paul Carpenter in THE NARROWING CIRCLE  Year: 1957 Rating: ***1/2 Canadian actor Paul Carpenter, when he's not providing...

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1452/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="828" data-original-width="1452" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjIyPhYGGgUrEMeKJVS5e1DV8bI_Vg-SCQKa5cwWvnbkpK7FCSiGTawr3eIKtJMeQkn-yunGc7TVBWOa5wBZjaCNYPMxM-Rb16LxoqrlF4QRrqpKoZt06UUomvoYoia4QdbfvFqvpq2Mgh-YCfeGouJN96waTKMU7Xolj-j5WK1mL6YMgICFtQ4sfX16pJG/s1600/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Canadian actor turned British movie <i>stock American</i> <i>character</i> Paul Carpenter had one of the smoothest voices in the history of cinema, so much that he'd either play random announcers or sometimes co-leads, like in director Wolf Rilla's STOCK CAR...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>By looks he didn't really stand out, yet with a cool enough demeanor suiting the vocal delivery, it's easier to believe that two polar opposite dames (bad blonde and virginal brunette) would be instantly smitten...  <br></p><span></span>

british film noir, fifties, harry fowler, patrick jordan, paul carpenter, race car, robert rietty, rona anderson, sabrina, susan shaw, wolf rilla

PAUL CARPENTER AND SUSAN SHAW IN WOLF RILLA'S 'STOCK CAR'

Title: STOCK CAR Year: 1955 Rating: **** Canadian actor turned British movie stock American character Paul Carpenter had one of the smooth...

RICARDO MONTALBAN WITH BRUCE BENNETT IN 'MYSTERY STREET'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPxLjvir6Sq6o-SK6TtFlXAyg6AL1rdpHl7Zo5xOMnKwmBn9cTLtF2R8EwI7ghp96FLx_efNt822exRJePQntBGQTzP2KiYCEHDEnWFYmyUIyVIGTsN-PZ6j4eVMUfGFkQ28syTGj1bDxMqSFqs-WuKZJUSmOlU3kSD7YAzBg0xvaG8ozXHnRf1T2imPt/s2078/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-18%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1222" data-original-width="2078" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgQPxLjvir6Sq6o-SK6TtFlXAyg6AL1rdpHl7Zo5xOMnKwmBn9cTLtF2R8EwI7ghp96FLx_efNt822exRJePQntBGQTzP2KiYCEHDEnWFYmyUIyVIGTsN-PZ6j4eVMUfGFkQ28syTGj1bDxMqSFqs-WuKZJUSmOlU3kSD7YAzBg0xvaG8ozXHnRf1T2imPt/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-18%20at%201.15.28%20PM.png"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1950 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>When debt-ridden Jan Sterling... in an apartment complex where lovely single ladies exist under the bickering rule of middle-aged Elsa Lanchester... walks down the stairs to make an enigmatic phone call, not only does MYSTERY STREET begin, but it could have been another movie entirely...<br><br>After Sterling meets up with drunken married Marshall Thompson, driving him through rural back-roads before stealing the car and getting murdered, what follows is tighter and meticulously by-the-book...</p><p><span></span></p>

besty blair, bruce bennett, cop, edmon ryan, elsa lanchester, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jan sterling, marshall thompson, ricardo montalban, sally forrest, wrong man

RICARDO MONTALBAN WITH BRUCE BENNETT IN 'MYSTERY STREET'

Year: 1950 Rating: **** When debt-ridden Jan Sterling... in an apartment complex where lovely single ladies exist under the bickering rule o...

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s1486/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1032" data-original-width="1486" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiN_MwZkYPi3o1d3NfCNCWtpJqRfdhzHR9Zouri9kYQarZOcb-iJybj1A10UaaO2h05KypREwsvWNfv64s-w20G4g0k65kS7aq9GbDHxAGcM6JJQsAw6ueaKC1irb5VA2UptOVxS1UMSHepXizDBogiUfCM-NplLy9BPZZsbf4b79IfQg7Bkdktdohb4510/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.54.39%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p></p><p>Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, and remade to center on a then-current anti-mafia-probe, it's no wonder that RKO's THE RACKET plays out so deliberately over-the-top, where Robert Ryan not only openly admits to being the head of an illegal/totally corrupt syndicate, but shoots and kills an honest lawman right inside a police station... with a cub reporter witness only inches away...<br /><br />In that, Ryan gets most of the praise for a performance that's more 1930's teeth-clenching gangbusters than subtle 1950's noir, which, for the lack of alleyway shadows and femme fatales, many claim this feature as being something other than... <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s1128/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="666" data-original-width="1128" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgZJPXYN0Tfu2zScGp59R0YYNB_OVF2twXyCrld1tTbkSXthSvojmDbRAmZ1Bhyphenhyphen-ga5NyESJ8kPp6JaNvavNtGZ2FnIGf9OqgTvMC89f_xgHN0wO2A-xZZfzjy3T-qMXkMYHQBEc86an_YUKYigvxz_kP_952H2CUz5zl6LZyk49xNpMTGJ96fF1S-oIDEZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.33.40%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u><br /></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Which is an ongoing/never-ending debate on any b-crimer that isn't dreamily melodramatic the likes of OUT OF THE PAST... segwaying into the other Robert here in Robert Mitchum, the star of several Howard Hughes productions, where, on the heels of playing likable losers in THIS KIND OF WOMAN and THE BIG STEAL, this is his most solidly straightforward performance... <br /><br />As a police chief the syndicate moves around in order to never press permanent charges, and with scene-stealing/ideal-driven good cop William Talman by his side, Mitchum doesn't simply breeze around with his handsome slow-burn cool, but really fits the part with both feet planted firmly on the ground...  </p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s1428/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="760" data-original-width="1428" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiYr3JQVCeCOLim5s1d9fJ3V_XHcxgnKzRzkKv62HNg9kjZw51DMcmCNExC74cV4VA_KXb4SNr3sSX0OT4mMMw8SlJKgtGL3Hp_fBICplJL75kov754bRmv9jJ6ZQpckAyeHEGJNm56wink2Nj_oLHRGOOBE-ftqytGrtR_SmsFNaXTnowYQ5Y1gIyzuu_P/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.35.28%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The biggest problem (besides pretty Lizabeth Scott in a throwaway nightclub canary/dame role) is that everything's too up-front, particularly with Ryan's scrunched-up mug exploding into temper-tantrums.... <br /><br />In one reaction shot, Mitchum seems to intentionally smirk at Ryan's overacting: playing more of a head gangster's viciously lethal thug than any kind of realistic big boss, making THE RACKET more a good vs evil fable than either noir or your typical standard detective story. <br /></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s1110/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="636" data-original-width="1110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjgUDk0PshNV3iwPnV0vusOVjeg_W47qEl0VTlceP-Z4vWrLUsADoxhvVyxEJZLt-2nt3Hg5iBEwtnAhKSpjwfHUSHj7T1RLq_yDkz6fUvC1PQxtZOIhKGlGhvG5BkFdKtr9ppv0SlR_-oLPgRyM3TItzC_8JtcHo6nJeHgSIUKTeKqwAQ6XyX9iUZXzUE3/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.37%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s1026/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="782" data-original-width="1026" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhXBbYSCSQDg33oGhBZ21z6A3BoO8cuSxpJNOg9Dc-NVrcLPhZ29q_O5wbSr6Z0Yogo48pHzeyTYoT2Fh6GHX3fET3gQFSGXDrS81elr7cS0-3eVwd3aYuBIGRlbIFdQkAIx3WAfpx6jc3HXPt6vq1wx4dyWk9Q10vZIZGs98XeQ0LiEF45f3uSooHbvMQZ/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.45%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Ray Collins in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s1032/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="768" data-original-width="1032" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjnyK_eSCd6nA_iTar0lOCOBUIGrFNNmbpa829i1SlBVo2H1dxGK7aSRXYbP6bNEdwAQN5jfLnaRoptcKRyvbsUjVsVECD3fEmA1hTvq4mC1LRRwj-ov_h9C91sshVSqiZBH_7zKE8fat170ykBPf91fG0yBrzEVQ8Qgi99tFppt4MscjiVrYSJ2mURhd5K/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.29.59%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Ryan in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s1080/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="816" data-original-width="1080" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiwYKZnG2xMyFoJNVwsL1g4BCYjSODePH7mGV7SoLwH19nFddIpbudevFuaHZahkqwR0j5qGL7wY5W2pueB_LwNb4gpCQe_dFEo14XARW4pcsOB7rH4eeSd05qGR8ydSjMlnvZeJRVB73acsImZ04-dSC-G48pup_E0RMABNuWBu8HQ6Z6C86FMBipKhWzU/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.48%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman and Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s1256/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="800" data-original-width="1256" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbIJxtz4FJiTjw_OrcDetQ1S4w_MYg2Bp4iFIOTN3sx1quq23VmLxiTKGg_zbafKr3OhG876HsklinmznEr7iyByhyuqTjNem2hv_fjfnAnSdRfjA_N5gdyiaBx3vJJwJNBRxSzfQsp6Sew_oKe1MqFjkpnxInXFJ2kqrxq2yh0PhpXlzGL9WbAMurCa0Q/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.30.57%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Virginia Huston in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s902/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="474" data-original-width="902" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhwsjTMWqFvHAoojyrqwnZTD8lc9S1tEIqeRZPwy_ajJUTPQjpAUVOJ4ncyWP85gQUJTWZoX5tSpwfkIBS0RGWpsVFZ47a4TkHgOG_ObXKFCSJl7VAPYewWsY20Q0Ym6d4GfkY8sOVdLc1c3IvRtAS2_rKp7eN5Dpq2PJzSsGV56J4H3NGBxGn8L7n_dK9b/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.18%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>From THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s942/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="594" data-original-width="942" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhdOp-aRtqZxSikROH4ceskc39jYQz4EtgF9ajX9YiQtIPdKTtYoCEWT6R6cC4cs3x5qzyAX84N2t2kBF-AsCyI4sIwQYOwpE_-0zVSl2IlNM25K43BIvi78IssI8Emo5kmiErOZFfjeJWQ-3fl6dvcV3uGW9s6ztROYfd7KjMQqRQt8qrcX4oEvr-liBjy/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.27%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s1186/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="742" data-original-width="1186" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhicwM7vQ4gM62JEkkexYqRs6FoWcYhQ9ADBhx3F4wHywvg6hdpND2__9QhMI-FzN8QkXzmVS9jL48W4CH-XVvRuYHbAzv9XSoTthzchAlqQCzOdxvWHxn79IZKJ7b6hSPk6FwAaAehYvZ61rYAa6KLJo60MPncX-mScCiUuJibTkSbNoykPbZE1GtyBXJK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.35%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Talman in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s1312/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="820" data-original-width="1312" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiWV7UxVVnXQI7i6W-mvLFz8gWEksD8DCOuV5zEDcZ-7RI0ys9xwiw-Sv_0Tjm3u9ekxVaN_yfPZhS2GADO_gi35syshgC9_u_3qpzKAsKpYQ0DXTVEGPv-dzZn7j9V1v_kpeqkEVJ3zw-4uZ2fzmwsanpQEZ30EX7Z74ynzmC95JXBcMgB3ER0FvmMn006/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.43%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>William Conrad in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s1278/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="804" data-original-width="1278" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEghwRaSQMHgcu23jiiJSRwW56Quaq90T0CcuJQyVAr9-ZDVv1CEfDF2DeetfaLcAG6D0X2q5TfK6b_l9iaatxgeFsoY6HomXGrmo4qhsuXcEBmbiyxNssAap5rpSjUhqpsdJnzoBhMkAaAZwXVJi6W1yH2QeToIon0NV0KSy5WO4M6GUT_jt4PkjFkLcZz_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%202.31.51%20PM.png" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Lizabeth Scott and Robert Hutton in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s1830/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1284" data-original-width="1830" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEinS_R03nwaqK4XZZdmxiRM8Mp-apraT9vBNOeAfZhuA0YU4HFDW9x_69UsJeqeGSoHJfMZAzaKCtem8dQvkH_1lerLREc_b8p4KhXWssfQWrLQL_5npKxenzd_agbACYKGv6h-PXE-j8qkLuy9LHE2smXMt4AlSKQojoxRSnc6HNIFpezK2WRK616TsTSn/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-04%20at%201.04.40%20PM.jpeg" /></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET</u></td></tr></tbody></table><br /><br /><br /><br />

fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, joyce mackenzie, mob, ray collins, robert mitchum, robert ryan, virginia huston, william conrad, william talman

ROBERT MITCHUM BUSTING ROBERT RYAN THROUGH 'THE RACKET'

Joyce Mackenzie and Robert Mitchum in THE RACKET Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Based on a let's-fight-city-corruption picture from 1928, an...

ROBERT MITCHUM SPIRALS THROUGH 'THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbetkBDhFGidKknrcudd38udOGnJSogt5GZn54Ggq72iN6C97-cenb7QZSpF7CX1IrMZF06oJRhTdNSy8xHgnj4gmLezpTDtYwYYaxsUP8-hhvPUKnrBGRmWi7MkmI_lTymQ0Yhht7EcDq3GxOlLEDEG3-aFp6JRnRjiwNJyKGF-sMLYufinFsraVNjBuh/s2102/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-08%20at%2010.40.36%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1290" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhbetkBDhFGidKknrcudd38udOGnJSogt5GZn54Ggq72iN6C97-cenb7QZSpF7CX1IrMZF06oJRhTdNSy8xHgnj4gmLezpTDtYwYYaxsUP8-hhvPUKnrBGRmWi7MkmI_lTymQ0Yhht7EcDq3GxOlLEDEG3-aFp6JRnRjiwNJyKGF-sMLYufinFsraVNjBuh/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-08%20at%2010.40.36%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindling women, specifically widows, and that he's also a self-professed preacher in THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER... </p><p>Since that first type of villain is always sneakily two-faced and entertainingly unpredictable, when we catch a glimpse of Mitchum's convict Harry Powell talking to himself about how only God can set him free, any mystery's quickly lifted — we're experiencing a genuinely pathetic sociopath whose supposed charm is limited to how he'll broadly carry himself throughout an excruciatingly long 90-minutes...</p><span></span>

charles laughton, corey allen, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria castillo, peter graves, robert mitchum, shelley winters, thriller

ROBERT MITCHUM SPIRALS THROUGH 'THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER'

Title: THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER Year: 1955 Rating: ** The summary promises that Robert Mitchum plays a con-artist with a background of swindl...

ROBERT MITCHUM AND FAITH DOMERGUE IN 'WHERE DANGER LIVES'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91S1vpDvPPIZt5BJDqdsNE0y3ACG22LACv7ogGOe68BjJgdtEs9LcUIa1bSerPksR2pBOK6LIpPWXHwncxJ7u0-BoL1xyYJQ3IfYR0-jcuZ4E86GUxl8acLesxZs3mHyAt-yEue8Exr7YiNRKcw6PT4p246rtAijhz38yEZA0HT-5p5pat2C3L4R1WDrE/s1168/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-03%20at%203.04.28%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="710" data-original-width="1168" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi91S1vpDvPPIZt5BJDqdsNE0y3ACG22LACv7ogGOe68BjJgdtEs9LcUIa1bSerPksR2pBOK6LIpPWXHwncxJ7u0-BoL1xyYJQ3IfYR0-jcuZ4E86GUxl8acLesxZs3mHyAt-yEue8Exr7YiNRKcw6PT4p246rtAijhz38yEZA0HT-5p5pat2C3L4R1WDrE/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-06-03%20at%203.04.28%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert Mitchum on the run into Mexico wherein WHERE DANGER LIVES is the most lackluster, providing the sleepy-eyed sex symbol a role that didn't technically suit him at all...</p><p></p><p>As a doctor performing surgery on a little girl (Sherry Jackson), Mitchum's mile-high pompadour above the surgical mask is unintentionally hilarious... and yet his usual low-key performance somewhat carries him through the initial set-up where, after quickly falling in love with gorgeous yet troubled (and secretly suicidal) patient Faith Domergue, the usual noir-device of the old/rich husband being murdered by the young lover happens in an accidental flash...</p><p><span></span></p>

claude rains, faith domergue, fifties, film noir or melodrama, harry shannon, howard hughes, road movie, robert mitchum, sherry jackson

ROBERT MITCHUM AND FAITH DOMERGUE IN 'WHERE DANGER LIVES'

Title: WHERE DANGER LIVES Year: 1950 Rating: ** From HIS KIND OF WOMAN to THE BIG STEAL, Howard Hughes's RKO Pictures usually had Robert...

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3P5vRvhcQOu__FkLV8X7n3iHImu5O1TCjNz0_xc4yEgCxU6PEKmXnSKUg066RWBhxoo0vcaMEKRWcXA6uZo9xcH8Tytu4533dA0APFmC0JnRxC7tzAQLfnVup6yY5CVshGVuLiwNp-itdYiCr6zTUlI39ZLspnC-3bcx7s77zOReaA6GSMLEoheyuNivZ/s1666/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1014" data-original-width="1666" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi3P5vRvhcQOu__FkLV8X7n3iHImu5O1TCjNz0_xc4yEgCxU6PEKmXnSKUg066RWBhxoo0vcaMEKRWcXA6uZo9xcH8Tytu4533dA0APFmC0JnRxC7tzAQLfnVup6yY5CVshGVuLiwNp-itdYiCr6zTUlI39ZLspnC-3bcx7s77zOReaA6GSMLEoheyuNivZ/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO owner Howard Hughes's in-house starlet Jane Russell, and both mostly taking place on a large boat...<br><br>There it's Mexico and here it's the titular Asian sampan-filled location of MACAO, which is mostly viewed through a vast number of rear projected shots as Mitchum meets fellow lonesome-traveler William Bendix, his co-star from THE BIG STEAL, while Russell... again a lounge singer... is involved with a nightclub's seedy yet sophisticated owner...</p><p><span></span></p>

brad dexter, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gloria grahame, howard hughes, jane russell, robert mitchum, thomas gomez, william bendix

ROBERT MITCHUM & WILLIAM BENDIX IN 'MACAO' W/ JANE RUSSELL

Title: MACAO Year: 1952 Rating: **1/2 Produced at the same time as HIS KIND OF WOMAN, another Robert Mitchum adventure-noir opposite RKO own...

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s2102/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1270" data-original-width="2102" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEi-EJPrKLzaVooOX8W6aJEY0W-sq36IwpUnFOrgD7HQEdV6Cq9ebQpe-sItzEWyeRUUIKSYKNVatjTk9zXUWpjVi4PUUOCgzBkXhe7vi7qrLz_tziIrrILs6AKzZPw7mOP-VjyUx1ZwU8-vnaUgWAXwF2gaXRJq0C5fKFx5QsH2bboXKDvTQzHJxFjuOMNx/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying RKO Pictures, exploited discovered leading lady Jane Russell's ample bosom in THE OUTLAW while, almost a decade later, he put even more time and money into Robert Mitchum's handsome, slow-burn cool for HIS KIND OF WOMAN...<br><br>Despite Russell's character being part of the title, she really has little to do here but hang around a plush Mexican resort where Mitchum's affable gambling loser is sent so that chief mobster Raymond Burr... who replaced original director John Farrow's original villain Lee Van Cleef followed by Robert Wilke... to be able to immigrate back to America... or something...<span></span></p>

anthony caruso, charles mcgraw, fifties, film noir or melodrama, howard hughes, jane russell, paul frees, raymond burr, richard fleischer, robert mitchum, stacy harris, tim holt, vincent price

ROBERT MITCHUM AND JANE RUSSELL IN 'HIS KIND OF WOMAN'

Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell in HIS KIND OF WOMAN Year: 1951 Rating: ***1/2 Legendary eccentric billionaire Howard Hughes, after buying R...

VIRGINIA FIELD BARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON IN 'DIAL 1119'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7m5zQb7_jCKGFjQrL0VuwkgWdpZg9FPQ8NyVG2eYbNDeovTN2Y5MtERIfvgThnARMjadUvKYkFYamw2asBSMZpDqgRxoE3xu1LvfJtE9zrjXYdZPyBX1mIcpZvWV6g6Cvt3orBKMQZSctHsJ5Vy53iSt6Jtu-FzOCP37z8SqwOmrL8LbGIJJdZLwA1WJ_/s2110/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-29%20at%2012.02.09%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1342" data-original-width="2110" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7m5zQb7_jCKGFjQrL0VuwkgWdpZg9FPQ8NyVG2eYbNDeovTN2Y5MtERIfvgThnARMjadUvKYkFYamw2asBSMZpDqgRxoE3xu1LvfJtE9zrjXYdZPyBX1mIcpZvWV6g6Cvt3orBKMQZSctHsJ5Vy53iSt6Jtu-FzOCP37z8SqwOmrL8LbGIJJdZLwA1WJ_/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-29%20at%2012.02.09%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-characters stage play combined with any hostage thriller, DIAL 1119 stars Marshall Thompson as a troubled young man who you can't insult or compliment without possibly getting shot and killed...<br><br>The tavern-dwellers include world-weary workaday bartender William Conrad; a stressed young married man waiting for a telephone call from his birthing wife; a cranky newspaperman; floozy Virginia Field, having perfectly aged from her 1930's heyday into an older yet still alluring hustler; and a creepy older businessman calling twenty-something beauty Andrea King his niece while trying to seduce her...</p><p><span></span></p>

andrea king, fifties, film noir or melodrama, hostage, marshall thompson, sam levene, thriller, virginia field, william conrad

VIRGINIA FIELD BARRING MARSHALL THOMPSON IN 'DIAL 1119'

Marshall Thompson and Virginia Field in DIAL 1119 Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 A kind of expository TIME OF YOUR LIFE barroom-of-eclectic-chara...

AUDREY TOTTER, RICHARD BASEHART & CYD CHARISSE IN 'TENSION'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLx2WjshVV94IxKn-JNceGoHr43zVWAjpoN3opKSPCFsjIwdMjGpXhpd11cP_AtdpfNTiAyFQm5MT0xvSxDfUyv1mIf1YwUN0qGqQJgijhSysddtTl4ovyrYbODWTnjaSYow1l6qllj6pl6BxeE6bnS-fFTevXmhmaw7qhvuDJIlYwXuU4YrqLpxDrIAAb/s2104/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1194" data-original-width="2104" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLx2WjshVV94IxKn-JNceGoHr43zVWAjpoN3opKSPCFsjIwdMjGpXhpd11cP_AtdpfNTiAyFQm5MT0xvSxDfUyv1mIf1YwUN0qGqQJgijhSysddtTl4ovyrYbODWTnjaSYow1l6qllj6pl6BxeE6bnS-fFTevXmhmaw7qhvuDJIlYwXuU4YrqLpxDrIAAb/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Audrey Totter in TENSION Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>From low-budget film noir to big-budget spectaculars, in Golden Age Hollywood there are rarely not-perfect-looking actresses, like in the case of secondary/good girl Cyd Charisse, countering scene-stealing cheating fatale Audrey Totter in the murder mystery thriller TENSION, centering on the mousiest of mousy drug store clerks who Totter replaces with alpha-male Lloyd Gough...<br><br>It's impossible to believe that Richard Basehart would remain in the kind of vengefully lustful state of murdering his wife when, only hours after Totter splits, Charisse... looking like a brunette supermodel straight from a fashion magazine... appears instantly smitten outside a new bachelor pad: where he'd assumed a fake identity to surreptitiously off both his wife and her lover...<span></span></p>

audrey totter, barry sullivan, cyd charisse, fifties, film noir or melodrama, lloyd gough, richard basehart, william conrad, wrong man

AUDREY TOTTER, RICHARD BASEHART & CYD CHARISSE IN 'TENSION'

Audrey Totter in TENSION Year: 1949 Rating: ***1/2 From low-budget film noir to big-budget spectaculars, in Golden Age Hollywood there are r...

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatUY2fMxDFxXdjdBTWfLmuVQWAJJoD-ZVTgAphVnU4pRDGaX7G9MfCkyyVRKiU-gUiXCJO13qkpV90oh0kt3La99yuwo-dcnNNG0JwIgDqgdPqXrwxbvSWkDhrPXZ_JO0zw9fAHuahQ5EG5f3V3kJnf5cE4XqSgBBpbZ8LYv1DAI3-d5Uw6zNfr8yalCp/s2106/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-27%20at%206.25.42%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1422" data-original-width="2106" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhatUY2fMxDFxXdjdBTWfLmuVQWAJJoD-ZVTgAphVnU4pRDGaX7G9MfCkyyVRKiU-gUiXCJO13qkpV90oh0kt3La99yuwo-dcnNNG0JwIgDqgdPqXrwxbvSWkDhrPXZ_JO0zw9fAHuahQ5EG5f3V3kJnf5cE4XqSgBBpbZ8LYv1DAI3-d5Uw6zNfr8yalCp/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-05-27%20at%206.25.42%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue in the 1930's, classing up horror movies DRACULA'S DAUGHTER and THE WALKING DEAD... the latter featuring suave-villain actor Ricardo Cortez, who, in BUNCO SQUAD, cons the older yet still quite lovely Marguerite to get to her heiress boss: the primary long con despite SQUAD starting out with one of those documentary style narrations... <br><br>Starring handsome Robert Sterling partnered with square-jawed Douglas Fowley and in love with lovely actress Joan Dixon, a Gene Tierney lookalike that winds up undercover to bust what's an intriguing, uncomplicated seance scam that includes backstabbing deaths centered around new age spiritualism, before it was the media's personally-protected religion. </p><span></span>

crime, fifties, film noir or melodrama, joan dixon, marguerite churchill, ricardo cortez, robert sterling, undercover

MARGUERITE CHURCHILL & ROBERT STERLING IN 'BUNCO SQUAD'

Marguerite Churchill and Robert Sterling in BUNCO SQUAD Year: 1950 Rating: ***1/2 Sophisticated beauty Marguerite Churchill was an ingenue i...

JOHN BROMFIELD, EVE MILLER & ROSEMARY STACK 'THE BIG BLUFF'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvSQZEWXIXQleOJPBGb0k-SgfyIHvfM0M91jaD9aaanKZ4JvaB0SLp5BQxQxc8NfpTtml-BMgAuowMbLtKC2VJEHEn2gMhZK21mnca4h9UA-sZ4fx0Qi70PtXs1PjurJ3PLagdSqJ_X3O5RdFeCcTJRrcEJhhT9Pzkp652kJYS_uf5OfNSFoeLPD3t1W2/s1612/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-24%20at%204.42.36%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="952" data-original-width="1612" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiTvSQZEWXIXQleOJPBGb0k-SgfyIHvfM0M91jaD9aaanKZ4JvaB0SLp5BQxQxc8NfpTtml-BMgAuowMbLtKC2VJEHEn2gMhZK21mnca4h9UA-sZ4fx0Qi70PtXs1PjurJ3PLagdSqJ_X3O5RdFeCcTJRrcEJhhT9Pzkp652kJYS_uf5OfNSFoeLPD3t1W2/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-24%20at%204.42.36%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>In the 1956 crime thriller <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">HOT CARS</a>, b-movie actor John Bromfield is perfect as a married used car salesman, who, with a sick child, is pushed into a stolen vehicle racket with no way out but his wits, and charm... <br><br>The year before, he starred in another noirish programmer, THE BIG BLUFF, only here he's given the kind of skinny mustache that makes you think of tying a girl to train tracks... making the overall performance too up-front and obvious, clashing with his usual natural under-acting style... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

eve miller, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john bromfield, martha vickers, max palmer, robert hutton, rosemary stack, thriller

JOHN BROMFIELD, EVE MILLER & ROSEMARY STACK 'THE BIG BLUFF'

John Bromfield, Rosemary Stack and Max Palmer in THE BIG BLUFF Year: 1955 Rates: ***1/2 In the 1956 crime thriller HOT CARS , b-movie actor ...

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH JOI LANSING & MARK DANA IN 'HOT CARS'

<p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_LsWqSvlHZ3mMNy_It7VRbV9mQiVfqp_TOch3lBGykJgeTLeDTHiPECB0Oi7NQMm6sFGlyCnoWHmmNnf8lIThihaP5DLPkNDnslZ5PiNrJ9TrffbgnlJwT0cgXvkTYk4ArmzQnOPbxUKeG16p2tVjiCWNqhvRo019yNikmaJ6pb0xcFk5EBiQCGQ1GBi/s1896/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-23%20at%203.55.32%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1044" data-original-width="1896" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiD_LsWqSvlHZ3mMNy_It7VRbV9mQiVfqp_TOch3lBGykJgeTLeDTHiPECB0Oi7NQMm6sFGlyCnoWHmmNnf8lIThihaP5DLPkNDnslZ5PiNrJ9TrffbgnlJwT0cgXvkTYk4ArmzQnOPbxUKeG16p2tVjiCWNqhvRo019yNikmaJ6pb0xcFk5EBiQCGQ1GBi/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-23%20at%203.55.32%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: ****</u><u>*</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT CARS is the epitome of the seedy side of crime cinema led by an otherwise honest guy who, in this case, is ironically a used car salesman in John Bromfield, married to the perfect suburban wife and father of a sick child: thus needing extra money, and quick...</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Yet the best scenes occur in the first act when Bromfield's Nick can't catch a break, mainly from bullying boss Robert Osterloh, who both sophisticated desk-set villain Ralph Clanton and handsome killer henchman Mark Dano... eventually targeting token snoopy cop Dabs Greer... are initially a nice break from...</p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, carol shannon, fifties, film noir or melodrama, jazz-score, john bromfield, joi lansing, mark dana, paula hill, ralph clanton, robert osterloh, thriller

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH JOI LANSING & MARK DANA IN 'HOT CARS'

Joi Lansing, John Bromfield, Carol Shanno & Mark Dana in HOT CARS Year: 1956 Rates: **** * Despite not making any Film Noir lists, HOT C...

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH KATHLEEN HUGHES IN 'THREE BAD SISTERS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RQy15U1rVCwGortt3YqRaMvK1dC7DeJooVpdwURear6QCpnvZ1uzDYCvtxbGyDgb5HGOw1z6f9q3GYLtLY_GqajgHR1PGkV0hB49dd4Yn6ltfRh7gHV4tiPuZX3hynbQj8Noq2SFiEtwBRAa50fYsYSkrZkP1_6OpqHHJZ0aKBrCBgLGag4tSapaZ7RK/s1574/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-20%20at%208.18.58%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1104" data-original-width="1574" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh_RQy15U1rVCwGortt3YqRaMvK1dC7DeJooVpdwURear6QCpnvZ1uzDYCvtxbGyDgb5HGOw1z6f9q3GYLtLY_GqajgHR1PGkV0hB49dd4Yn6ltfRh7gHV4tiPuZX3hynbQj8Noq2SFiEtwBRAa50fYsYSkrZkP1_6OpqHHJZ0aKBrCBgLGag4tSapaZ7RK/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-20%20at%208.18.58%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be totally fantastic, because all three actresses look... totally fantastic: and while technically it makes sense/and is realistic having them look similar, but the token femme fatale villain Kathleen Hughes and her sadistic harassment of lookalike blonde Sara Shane gets a bit confusing...</p><p></p><p>Shane has a pointier face, isn't as outright gorgeous but has the mousy-vulnerable thing down... as production studio <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2023/11/HotCars.html">Bel Air's HOT CARS star John Bromfield</a>, a small plane pilot involved in a crash that killed the three heirs' millionaire father, is instantly smitten... </p><p><span></span></p>

bel air productions, brett halsey, exploitation, fifties, film noir or melodrama, john bromfield, kathleen hughes, sara shane

JOHN BROMFIELD WITH KATHLEEN HUGHES IN 'THREE BAD SISTERS'

Title: THREE BAD SISTERS Year: 1956 Rating: *** It seems impossible that a 1950's b-movie titled THREE BAD SISTERS wouldn't be total...

BIFF ELLIOT ORIGINALLY HAMMERS PEGGIE CASTLE 'I, THE JURY'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIL7HRkA-TrCJVtXN8yRbT7OoPTWKh_rZT_Z6ha-Ug7ZLcmhQ1Ozm2w3iRXx9TLeicSWFYrJz_Ajnbd8fJxegknLKKueawMiA_WHVQzQoQYcyxkcwQUTD5DQkfX8ULUpgogjq6k6vLhJWZSvoJ355mVi9XtE5gwEKaAl5l5Hqcr_poRBetWcDDxb3saOe/s1716/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-19%20at%203.35.05%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="980" data-original-width="1716" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEhhIL7HRkA-TrCJVtXN8yRbT7OoPTWKh_rZT_Z6ha-Ug7ZLcmhQ1Ozm2w3iRXx9TLeicSWFYrJz_Ajnbd8fJxegknLKKueawMiA_WHVQzQoQYcyxkcwQUTD5DQkfX8ULUpgogjq6k6vLhJWZSvoJ355mVi9XtE5gwEKaAl5l5Hqcr_poRBetWcDDxb3saOe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-19%20at%203.35.05%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Peggie Castle and Biff Elliot in I, THE JURY Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The first Mike Hammer film was in 3D, and so the first Mike Hammer actor, Biff Elliot, had to practically burst through the screen... in every single scene, in fact, traipsing from location to location in the usual gumshoe fashion, questioning suspects from wealthy bookies to random hoods to a pair of gorgeous sisters to an eventual twist-ending gun-moll who needed more screen-time for that inevitable (and somewhat predictable) transition to matter...<br><br>Said to be inspired by the pretty psychologist fatale in NIGHTMARE ALLEY, future 99 RIVER STREET bad-girl blonde starlet Peggie Castle still visually shines next to Elliot's scrappy, duck-tailed Hammer whenever he doubles-back to her lavish home... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

3D, action, biff elliot, elijah cook jr., fifties, film noir or melodrama, gumshoe, mary anderson, mickey spillane, mike hammer, peggie castle, preston foster

BIFF ELLIOT ORIGINALLY HAMMERS PEGGIE CASTLE 'I, THE JURY'

Peggie Castle and Biff Elliot in I, THE JURY Year: 1953 Rating: ***1/2 The first Mike Hammer film was in 3D, and so the first Mike Hammer ac...

RALPH MEEKER, JEFF RICHARDS & ROBERT HORTON IN 'CODE TWO'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rIqvB0C4YoJU6F1uCvSD9MIjibltxnQ-BUsD9gw-jopF1PFYHRdXMLMLI2QsJ-1hDT_XG1X8KSaMaLfYXTmE95Gtc8JjbPqaLveC6E4_QMyrBKowMEM8ivF_O_Umz9bealuer-VxHHK2wcaoYMEBKpgSG33BJ9bUOg2qy9slssfqBxYPHm-mgWU8w00X/s1816/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-15%20at%201.23.16%20AM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1122" data-original-width="1816" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj5rIqvB0C4YoJU6F1uCvSD9MIjibltxnQ-BUsD9gw-jopF1PFYHRdXMLMLI2QsJ-1hDT_XG1X8KSaMaLfYXTmE95Gtc8JjbPqaLveC6E4_QMyrBKowMEM8ivF_O_Umz9bealuer-VxHHK2wcaoYMEBKpgSG33BJ9bUOg2qy9slssfqBxYPHm-mgWU8w00X/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-15%20at%201.23.16%20AM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1953 Rating: ***</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>One of many B&W b-crime flicks mistakenly promoted as film noir, CODE TWO is basically propaganda for the police force, including rookies Ralph Meeker, Robert Horton and Jeff Richards going through the karate-chopping police academy boot camp (liken to what James Cagney weathered in G-MEN)... <br><br>Before honing in on the specific task of motorcycle cops, called motor cops before being known as CHP years later... and it's not until 40-minutes into the semi-entertaining programmer does a little hint of noir creep in...</p><p><span></span></p>

action, chuck connors, cop, elaine stewart, fifties, film noir or melodrama, james craig, jeff richards, keenan wynn, ralph meeker, robert horton, sally forrest

RALPH MEEKER, JEFF RICHARDS & ROBERT HORTON IN 'CODE TWO'

Year: 1953 Rating: *** One of many B&W b-crime flicks mistakenly promoted as film noir, CODE TWO is basically propaganda for the police ...

RALPH MEEKER HAMMERS ROBERT ALDRICH'S 'KISS ME DEADLY'

<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh08pO4qc5MbAoDeqi7Gs1-mYufr0mg4QOavoNUgEz7pTVCrLhnbPhjCSm1bVn5L5WxpmLMJ9RGys4laeryoZQbhHtjm5Ukln2fqy6LSUErWjwO5MH17WO4ay8C2JB5d6NemC-SEQdNa3UmZ7KBXFQtfyTJ717QzGXXkkbWK1l68tV1noQwuMQfyIehMOxe/s2570/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-09%20at%2011.45.51%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1320" data-original-width="2570" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh08pO4qc5MbAoDeqi7Gs1-mYufr0mg4QOavoNUgEz7pTVCrLhnbPhjCSm1bVn5L5WxpmLMJ9RGys4laeryoZQbhHtjm5Ukln2fqy6LSUErWjwO5MH17WO4ay8C2JB5d6NemC-SEQdNa3UmZ7KBXFQtfyTJ717QzGXXkkbWK1l68tV1noQwuMQfyIehMOxe/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-09%20at%2011.45.51%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Wesley Addy & Ralph Meeker in KISS ME DEADLY Year: 1955 Rating: *****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p></p><p>When hitchhiking damsel-in-distress Cloris Leachman is picked up by convertible driving private-eye rogue Mike Hammer in Robert Aldrich's noir classic KISS ME DEADLY, actor Ralph Meeker epitomizes the role without uttering a single word... <br></p><p></p><p>After she asks if he likes poetry, his manly/glib shrug speaks volumes in what's a gumshoe thriller that plays out like a tapestry of vignettes... thrust into a cautionary tale involving the most important of three ingenues that Meeker's Hammer uses to figure out what/who killed first-girl Leachman, and why... </p><p><span></span></p>

albert dekker, cloris leachman, fifties, film noir or melodrama, gumshoe, jack elam, jack lambert, leigh snowden, marian carr, maxine cooper, paul stewart, ralph meeker, robert aldrich, wesley addy

RALPH MEEKER HAMMERS ROBERT ALDRICH'S 'KISS ME DEADLY'

Wesley Addy & Ralph Meeker in KISS ME DEADLY Year: 1955 Rating: ***** When hitchhiking damsel-in-distress Cloris Leachman is picked up ...

ROBERT BRAY HAMMERS 'MY GUN IS QUICK' WITH PAMELA DUNCAN

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh523Duu91HCGfNohzQHnv1eHBH0CkJu7QFHvtCPHNZhJPKUQ5SB3Cuy56etizCuUcsCgWeF2vbgzxhfF2H6bwRQZLGUIfgYKiHI8rYEo2cbmMMVQRT6v5qUgjrbgeY6DaJ-R6XyAdayHbkRa7GRxcQIFx_upiR2IZ9VgsMPS00tm9uibMojteId4kUCy9y/s2040/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-08%20at%2010.28.37%20PM.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="1038" data-original-width="2040" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEh523Duu91HCGfNohzQHnv1eHBH0CkJu7QFHvtCPHNZhJPKUQ5SB3Cuy56etizCuUcsCgWeF2vbgzxhfF2H6bwRQZLGUIfgYKiHI8rYEo2cbmMMVQRT6v5qUgjrbgeY6DaJ-R6XyAdayHbkRa7GRxcQIFx_upiR2IZ9VgsMPS00tm9uibMojteId4kUCy9y/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202026-04-08%20at%2010.28.37%20PM.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Robert Bray and Booth Colman in </u><u>MY GUN IS QUICK</u><u> Year: 1957 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>Robert Bray plays Mickey Spillane's no-nonsense private-investigator Mike Hammer in-between Ralph Meeker's quintessential big screen tough guy under-performance in KISS ME DEADLY, and the energetic, watered-down charm of TV's Darren McGavin... and ironically, Bray's MY GUN IS QUICK is a jazz-scored, low-budget b-movie that ironically feels more made-for-television than the series...<br><br>The only aspect mirroring DEADLY is how Hammer's secretary Velda looks... as otherwise scream-queen Pamela Duncan's a dead-ringer for full-lipped Maxine Cooper... and while this Velda seems game with the usual jealousy for her boss's inclination for pretty dames, she literally only phones in her few scenes... <br></p><p><span></span></p>

booth colman, fifties, film noir or melodrama, mickey spillane, mike hammer, robert bray, whitney blake

ROBERT BRAY HAMMERS 'MY GUN IS QUICK' WITH PAMELA DUNCAN

Robert Bray and Booth Colman in  MY GUN IS QUICK Year: 1957 Rating: ** Robert Bray plays Mickey Spillane's no-nonsense private-investig...

PAMELA DUNCAN, RICHARD GARLAND & ALLISON HAYES 'THE UNDEAD'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB0POnyqRnS6kkuxD4ZozzbCeuz-GfGxM7UPatus5671F5XN3px9YYL0IaoD98tKCN05o4rD__1UB5X-v11l2D2_cl4kI03WGBYkRA047AUBbmm-LFMxiZRJtwcnd7zdaKMl5gPtKwYsaQt1uCeWmxJ98ofLq_5ZBOCzXqNEpvMUbCPXshBZNmsmQ2ynW/s1674/1.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="966" data-original-width="1674" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgWB0POnyqRnS6kkuxD4ZozzbCeuz-GfGxM7UPatus5671F5XN3px9YYL0IaoD98tKCN05o4rD__1UB5X-v11l2D2_cl4kI03WGBYkRA047AUBbmm-LFMxiZRJtwcnd7zdaKMl5gPtKwYsaQt1uCeWmxJ98ofLq_5ZBOCzXqNEpvMUbCPXshBZNmsmQ2ynW/s16000/1.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: ****</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/search/label/roger%20corman">Roger Corman'</a>s limp creature-feature <a href="http://www.cultfilmfreaks.com/2026/04/AOTCM.html">ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS</a> they were paired in one of the low-budget director's most ambitious, THE UNDEAD, with a modern frame-story of a prostitute hypnotized back into <span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span>medieval times where she's falsely accused of being a witch... <br></span></span></p><p></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span>But it's actually shape-shifting sorceress in ATTACK OF THE 50 FOOT WOMAN Allison Hayes who wants the stalwart knight Garland (looking like a handsome diesel truck mechanic in ancient knight's clothing) for herself... putting poor Pamela's character through the kind of on-the-run ringer that never lets up...</span></span></p><p><span class="duration-200" lang="en-US"><span><span></span></span></span></p>

adventure, allison hayes, billy barty, bruno vesota, dick miller, dorothy neumann, fantasy, fifties, horror, mel welles, pamela duncan, richard devon, richard garland, roger corman, val dufour

PAMELA DUNCAN, RICHARD GARLAND & ALLISON HAYES 'THE UNDEAD'

Pamela Duncan in THE UNDEAD Year: 1957 Rating: **** The same year that Pamela Duncan and Richard Garland starred in Roger Corman' s limp...

PAMELA DUNCAN & RICHARD GARLAND IN CORMAN'S 'ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS'

<p></p><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><tbody><tr><td style="text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbZnGg5D824A505E4szq3DtzfvK09UP0d-0QZy7BdCdcx92qOHnolI0WBsPD2yCsi204j2cf5AUjwoiQhQ9OydbpmchYe2G1GPZ3kD13e04r-9LYEor4nQIkKge8YQaszONTmAtXCANP3R2tSysBHIW3jDcdsEs_TkRyEaI4nVL-KhudnTyF7wQfK5AjP/s1794/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%205.53.45%20PM%202.jpeg" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;"><img border="0" data-original-height="696" data-original-width="1794" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEiAbZnGg5D824A505E4szq3DtzfvK09UP0d-0QZy7BdCdcx92qOHnolI0WBsPD2yCsi204j2cf5AUjwoiQhQ9OydbpmchYe2G1GPZ3kD13e04r-9LYEor4nQIkKge8YQaszONTmAtXCANP3R2tSysBHIW3jDcdsEs_TkRyEaI4nVL-KhudnTyF7wQfK5AjP/s16000/Screen%20Shot%202025-10-20%20at%205.53.45%20PM%202.jpeg"></a></td></tr><tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><u>Year: 1957 Rating: **</u></td></tr></tbody></table><p>It's a shame Roger Corman's remote island thriller ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS winds up so convoluted because leads Richard Garland and Pamela Duncan have an intriguing presence and story-line, investigating strange behavior of crabs on an island where two former colleagues vanished...<br><br>The problem is that Corman goes the THING FROM ANOTHER WORLD route by loading too many characters, including future GILLIGAN'S ISLAND professor Russell Johnson with Ed Nelson and more than half a dozen others: so when ghostly voices begin calling out from beyond, transforming nuclear-era science-fiction into a kind of slow-burn horror, there are way too many cooks to concentrate on how any single actor/actress can actually matter. <br></p><p><span></span></p>

creature, fifties, horror, pamela duncan, richard garland, roger corman, russell johnson, science-fiction

PAMELA DUNCAN & RICHARD GARLAND IN CORMAN'S 'ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS'

Year: 1957 Rating: ** It's a shame Roger Corman's remote island thriller ATTACK OF THE CRAB MONSTERS winds up so convoluted because ...