GREAT OLD MOVIES

THE BLACK WIDOW (12 chapter Republic serial/1947). Directors: Spencer Gordon Bennet; Fred C. Brannon. " Wait! Open the tunnels and...

THE AWFUL DR. ORLOFF (aka Gritos en la noche / L'Horrible Dr. Orloff /1962. Director: Jesus [Jess] Franco. With the assistance of ...

VICE RAID (1960). Director: Edward L. Cahn. Tough gal Carol Hudson (Mamie Van Doren) is importuned to help her sugar daddy Vince Malone ...

PASSION (2012). Director/writer: Brian De Palma. Christine Stanford (Rachel McAdams) is an advertising executive who takes credit for an...

Rudy Vallee, Loretta Young and Van Johnson MOTHER IS A FRESHMAN (1949). Director: Lloyd Bacon. Since her trust fund can't be acce...

STOP ME BEFORE I KILL! (1960). Director: Val Guest. Race car driver Alan Colby (Ronald Lewis of Scream of Fear ) is still recovering fr...

Yuriko Hoshi, Akira Takarada, Hiroshi Koizumi MOTHRA VS GODZILLA (aka Mosura tai Gojira / Godzilla vs. Mothra /1964). Director: Ishiro ...

A BULLET FOR PRETTY BOY (1970). Director: Larry Buchanan. In this pretty much entirely fictionalized story of "Pretty Boy" Fl...

Mediocre duo: Nigel Davenport and Jean Wallace NO BLADE OF GRASS (1970). Produced and directed by Cornel Wilde. Extreme pollution and...

George Maharis in "Miss Belle" JOURNEY TO THE UNKNOWN . 1968 television series. This British import ran for one season and w...

DR. T AND THE WOMEN (2000). Director: Robert Altman. Dr. Travis (Richard Gere with a white-haired dye job) is a Dallas gynecologist wit...

HAPPY HALLOWEEN from Great Old Movies ! Here's a round-up of horror films and TV shows to check out during this sinister occasion! ...

Cute li'l fella THE DEVIL WITHIN HER (aka Sharon's Baby / I Don't Want to Be Born /1975). Director: Peter Sasdy. Lucy Car...

Oliver Reed THE CURSE OF THE WEREWOLF (1961). Director: Terence Fisher. In a prologue, we meet a miserable landowner, the Marques Sin...

THE FLY II (1989). Director: Chris Walas. Martin (Eric Stoltz), the son of Seth Brundle from the remake of The Fly , fully grown at fiv...

JACK'S BACK (1988). Director/writer: Rowdy Herrington. John Wesford (James Spader) works at a medical clinic in Los Angeles, which i...

EIJI TSUBURAYA: MASTER OF MONSTERS . August Ragone. Chronicle; 2007. From the outset and in full disclosure I must say that with one or ...

LIZZIE BORDEN TOOK AN AXE (2014 Lifetime telefilm). Director: Nick Gomez. Lizzie Borden (Christina Ricci) is arrested and put on trial w...

Gloria Swanson with reporter Larry Quirk LAWRENCE J. QUIRK 1923 - 2014 Larry Quirk was my best friend and longtime companion for 35 ...

Deborah Kerr and Richard Burton THE NIGHT OF THE IGUANA (1964). Director: John Huston. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams. ...

WORLD WITHOUT END (1956). Director: Edward Bernds. Four American astronauts on a trip to observe but not land on Mars, wind up caught in...

JOHN WAYNE: THE LIFE AND LEGEND . Scott Eyman. Simon and Schuster; 2014. Examining the life and very long career of John Wayne from a la...

A COLD WIND IN AUGUST (1961). Director: Alexander Singer. Iris Hartford (Lola Albright) has been disappointed by the men in her life, s...

Henry Armetta CAUGHT IN THE ACT (1941). Director: Jean Yarbrough. Mike Ripportella (Henry Armetta) is expecting the day of his daughte...

David Mooney (Manzy) and Ruth Roman THE BABY (1973). Director: Ted Post. Social worker Ann Gentry (Anjanette Comer) is a widow who liv...

88 MINUTES (2007). Director: Jon Avnet. The testimony of FBI psychologist Jack Gramm (Al Pacino of The Recruit ) helped put away a fiend...

BEYOND THE TIME BARRIER (1960). Director: Edgar G. Ulmer. Major William Allison (Robert Clarke) flies his plane on a test run and someh...

Very odd pairing: Clint Eastwood and Carol Channing THE FIRST TRAVELING SALESLADY (1956). Producer/director: Arthur Lubin. In 1897 fe...