Director Raoul Walsh’s 1951 romance adventure Western movie Along the Great Divide stars Kirk Douglas as the new federal lawman Marshal Len Merrick, who saves old Tim ‘Pop’ Keith (Walter Brennan) from the noose in […]
Wilbur Smith’s second published novel The Dark of the Sun (1965), about mercenaries during the Congo Crisis, was filmed as The Mercenaries (1968) starring Rod Taylor and Yvette Mimieux. Director Jack Cardiff’s 1968 MGM British movie The Mercenaries [Dark of the […]
Directors Phil Karlson and Roger Corman’s 1967 Western A Time for Killing [The Long Ride Home] stars Glenn Ford as Union soldier Major Charles Wolcott, who chases escaped Confederate prisoners led by Captain Dorrit Bentley […]
Director Irving Cummings’s 1929 Behind That Curtain takes its place in movie history as the impossibly creaky but still intriguing first Charlie Chan film in sound. It is based on Earl Derr Biggers’s novel of […]
Director Terry O Morse’s 1946 comedy crime mystery thriller Dangerous Money is a disappointingly poor and predictable Charlie Chan episode, with a lack of the required pace and tension, as Chan (Sidney Toler) and Number two […]
Director Terry Morse’s 1946 thriller Shadows over Chinatown is an especially feeble Charlie Chan entry as Earl Derr Biggers’s oriental detective Charlie Chan (Sidney Toler) searches for a missing young woman, Mary Conover (Tanis Chandler), […]
Safe-crackings, faked fingerprints, framed jailbirds, shoot-outs and cell block riots are all relished here by esteemed B-movie director Phil Karlson, who gives this 1946 Charlie Chan entry Dark Alibi welcome pace and tension. Sidney Toler […]
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