Director Jack Cardiff’s 1974 exploiter British horror movie The Mutations stars Donald Pleasence as Professor Nolter, the typical movie mad doctor/ crazed scientist, who uses his students to create monstrous amalgams of humans and plants, […]
The Dick Francis bestseller novel about doped horses, a trainer’s death and the Grand National race must have looked a dead cert for the cinema. But director Tony Richardson’s 1974 film Dead Cert soon falls […]
Three decades on from the story in Stanley Kubrick’s 1980 classic The Shining, the kid Danny Torrance is grown up, a troubled alcoholic drifter, now played by Ewan McGregor, who gets a job at a […]
This final Charlie Chan film in the 20th Century Fox series, director Harry Lachman’s 1942 Castle in the Desert, is a good one, with a decent script and a fine cast. The studio cut […]
Director Louis King’s 1935 comedy crime mystery thriller Charlie Chan in Egypt tells an entertainingly dotty tale of Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) discovering a couple of corpses and preventing a third death as he investigates […]
Director Harry Lachman’s 1940 comedy crime mystery thriller Murder Over New York again stars Sidney Toler as Earl Derr Biggers‘s immortal character Charlie Chan, who takes over the current case of Inspector Vance (Donald […]
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 […]
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