Director William Nigh’s 1934 tongue-in-cheek black and white Monogram Pictures’ horror mystery movie The Mysterious Mr Wong stars Bela Lugosi, Wallace Ford, and Arline Judge. A wildly miscast Bela Lugosi, who was Hungarian, plays a Chinatown underworld criminal […]
Director Herbert I Leeds’s 1939 American mystery crime thriller Mr Moto in Danger Island is the seventh movie in the enjoyable 20th Century Fox casebook series of eight films starring Peter Lorre as the Japanese sleuth […]
Director Leslie Arliss’s 1948 British film Idol of Paris about a mid-19th century French courtesan called Theresa stars Beryl Baxter, Christine Norden, Michael Rennie, Margaretta Scott. Leslie Arliss, director of some of the famous 1940s Gainsborough Pictures […]
Writer-director Val Guest’s British 1945 Gainsborough Pictures black and white historical musical film I’ll Be Your Sweetheart stars Margaret Lockwood, Michael Rennie, Vic Oliver, Peter Graves, and Moore Marriott. Music piracy proves an odd but intriguing […]
Director Arthur Crabtree’s 1945 British black and white melodrama film They Were Sisters is based on a 1943 novel by Dorothy Whipple, and stars James Mason, Phyllis Calvert, Dulcie Gray, Anne Crawford, Hugh Sinclair and […]
Writer-director Robert Resnikoff’s 1990 American neo-noir horror thriller film The First Power stars Lou Diamond Phillips, Tracy Griffith, Jeff Kober and Mykelti Williamson. The intense Phillips is fine as Detective Russell Logan, the cop who […]
Director Tony Maylam’s 1992 British/ US science fiction action horror thriller film Split Second stars Rutger Hauer, Kim Cattrall, Neil Duncan, Michael J Pollard, Alun Armstrong, Pete Postlethwaite, and Ian Drury. Rutger Hauer stars as a burnt-out […]