The premise behind The Killer That Stalked New York (shouldn’t it be Who?) is almost beyond goofy. The movie mixes one part film noir and one part medical thriller and… I mean, I don’t even know what to say about the story. It’s such a ludicrous idea (the fate of the city, under threat from […]
Entries Tagged as 'Jim Backus'
The Killer That Stalked New York (1950, Earl McEvoy)
December 18th, 2007 No Comments
Above and Beyond (1952, Melvin Frank and Norman Panama)
August 26th, 2006 No Comments
Above and Beyond breaks one of my severest rules–don’t start with narrative and then drop it. Above and Beyond starts with Eleanor Parker narrating the film, mostly because otherwise she wouldn’t be in it for the first hour. Once she is in the film full-time, the narration quickly disappears. I can’t remember the last time […]
Bright Victory (1951, Mark Robson)
March 15th, 2006 No Comments
Mark Robson made some great films. I first saw Bright Victory before I knew who he was (I think Victory was probably my first Robson, actually). I saw it on AMC in 1997 probably. Julie Adams is in it and maybe I had AMC flagged for Julie Adams movies somehow. I can’t remember if they […]
Boys’ Night Out (1962, Michael Gordon)
September 21st, 2005 1 Comment
Ah, the 1960s sex comedy. I guess Hollywood was ecstatic to be able to use the word sex in a film back then. Actually, watching the film, I thought it was later, maybe 1966. But it couldn’t have been, because Kim Novak wasn’t making films in ‘66 (according to IMDb). Kim Novak has always gotten […]
