 | The Uninvited [Read More ...] Description: One of the spookiest ghost stories ever put to film, The Uninvited is also one of the few classic haunted-house movies to treat the subject with respect and seriousness. Ray Milland and Ruth Hussey play a brother and sister who leave the city to live in a beautiful old house dram... |
 | Dial M for Murder [Read More ...] Description: A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for ... |
 | Ministry of Fear [Read More ...] Review: Lang Battles Nazism :Fritz Lang was one of the greatest directing talents to ever emerge from German cinema. Born in Vienna, he migrated to Berlin following service in World War One and became one of Germany's premier directors.
When Hitler came to power, however, Lang found hi... |
 | Big Clock [Read More ...] Description: What if you were asked to investigate a murder in which you were the prime suspect? From this seemingly impossible notion comes a grandly entertaining nail-biter. Charles Laughton plays the punctuality obsessed, slave-driving head of a publishing empire who won't let his crime ma... |
 | Frogs [Read More ...] Description: Millionaire Jason Crockett (Ray Milland. No, really. Ray Milland) hates frogs. Naturally, he lives on an island estate in the middle of a big Southern swamp. His family also hates frogs, so much so that they clap their hands over their ears and scream about the horrible, horri... |
 | Dial M for Murder [Read More ...] Review: A Perfect Murder?.....NOT!:Aren't we lucky that cell phones weren't around in the 50's. Then Grace Kelly would never have had to leave her bed, to answer that potentialy fatal phone call in the living room.No matter how often you view this very suspense filled, thriller from Hitc... |
 | Dead Don't Die [Read More ...] Review: Not that bad.:I love zombie movies and in that case, this one is disappointing. Not your typical zombies. Aside from a couple, these act normal, talk, and aren't too interested in eating brains. I've seen some horrible b-movies that drag forever and this one isn't one of those... |
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 | Bulldog Drummond Escapes / Bulldog Drummond Comes Back [Read More ...] Description: Bulldog Drummond Escapes The adventurer falls in love with the heiress he was hired to rescue from a ring of spies. "Ray Milland carries along with dash and verve the best traditions of [this] storybook and screen detective." FILM DAILY Bulldog Drummond Comes Back J. Carrol Nai... |
![]() | Masks of Death [Read More ...] Review: A nostalgic look at The Great Detective as, aging, impatient and in retirement, he once more saves England:The year is 1926 and the place is a sitting room in London. An elderly gentleman is preparing to dictate a story to a young stenographer, a story which had until recently be... |
![]() | Premature Burial, the [Read More ...] Review: House Of Usher 3 ??:Following the pattern set by the 2 previous Poe flicks, this Roger Corman film (Exec. Producer, Producer AND Director!) opens with a character trying to gain entrance to a large house, and someone trying to turn them away. 3 films in a row, the same opening-... |
 | Life of Her Own [Read More ...] A haunting melody.:Glamorous Lana Turner in this stirring 1950 melodrama along with a haunting melody.
George Cukor direction gave us the faces of Ms Turner as she contemplated at the movie' closeure.
Will remember this one for a long while.
Looking forward to the DVD asap. |
 | The Attic (Amazon.com Exclusive) [Read More ...] A psychological thriller/character study about an insecure, sheltered spinster's revolt against her invalid, almost insane father. Louise learns to escape her unhappy life by hiding in the attic...where the tables will be turned on Daddy when she finds out what's up there. |
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![]() | Bulldog Drummond Escapes [Read More ...] Review: "Phyllis, you're wonderful! You're one of us!" :Bulldog Drummond films date all the way back to the silent era. While the two films with Ronald Colman are considered to be the best by many critics, the most fun and entertaining films are surely the "B" films with John Howard in t... |
 | Swiss Conspiracy [Read More ...] Review: Irrelevant obligatory dull sex scene:This film holds your interest on a low level, on "simmer", not on "cook". It's not awful. It's not very good either. My wife picks up these movies that are two for a dollar, figuring what the hell. And I watch them. She doesn't.
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 | Premature Burial [Read More ...] Review: House Of Usher 3 ??:Following the pattern set by the 2 previous Poe flicks, this Roger Corman film (Exec. Producer, Producer AND Director!) opens with a character trying to gain entrance to a large house, and someone trying to turn them away. 3 films in a row, the same opening-... |
 | Charlie Chan in London [Read More ...] Review: Solid Drama, Intriguing Mystery, and Well-Acted Character Roles:Charlie Chan in London is one my favorite movies in the series. The opening grips you when you discover that a young man is about to be executed for a murder he claims he didn't commit. Only his sister believes in hi... |
![]() | Dial M for Murder [Read More ...] Description: A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for ... |
 | Dial M for Murder [Read More ...] Description: A suave tennis player (Ray Milland) plots the perfect murder, the dispatching of his wealthy wife (Grace Kelly), who is having an affair with a writer (Robert Cummings). Amazingly, the wife manages to stave off her attacker, a twist of fate that challenges the hubby's talent for ... |