Director Lynn Shores’s 1940 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Wax Museum is an eerie series entry, set at the eponymous New York Wax Museum presided over by the usual mad scientist. There […]
All the team are on top form in director H Bruce Humberstone’s droll 1937 episode Charlie Chan at the Olympics, set in pre-World War Two Berlin and including newsreel shots of the 1936 Olympic Games, […]
Director Harry Lachman’s 1936 mystery thriller Charlie Chan at the Circus is a middling, though still entertaining enough episode, in which Warner Oland stars as Chan, who probes a circus killing, along with the help […]
Agatha Christie’s A1 vintage thriller novel The ABC Murders about a murderer apparently bumping people off alphabetically is infuriatingly played for broad and easy laughs by a miscast Tony Randall as Eurotec Hercule Poirot, and […]
Director Charles Band’s 1984 sci-fi action thriller Trancers [Future Cop] stars stand-up comedian – tough guy character actor Tim Thomerson, who acts tough as Trooper Jack Deth, a rogue 23rd-century cop and bounty hunter. He is […]
Joan Crawford appears and Frank Capra helped to write director Harry Edwards’s 1926 silent comedy Tramp, Tramp, Tramp for star Harry Langdon, who plays the humble, lowly Harry Logan, who takes part in a $25,000 […]
Director Phil Karlson’s 1970 Hornets’ Nest [Il Vespaio] stars Rock Hudson as sole surviving American paratrooper captain Turner, who leads the bunch of Italian orphans who have saved him in blowing up a crucial Nazi […]