A KING’S RANSOM (Michelle Usher, 2012)
An assassin (Eva Green) and a papal courier (Rachel Weisz) are chosen to transport a shipment of gold to ransom Richard the Lion-Hearted, a prisoner of war. They battle thieves, foreign spies, and servants of the treacherous Prince John.
THE PUNCH & JUDY MURDER CASE (Sidney Lanfield, 1938)
In the 48 hours leading up to their wedding, a young diplomat and his burlesque queen fiancé (Victor Sen Yung & Toshia Mori) are pursued by spies, occultists, poisoners, and the police, after being falsely accused of murder.
THE CAT’S PAJAMAS (Sidney Lanfield, 1939)
A young state department official and his showgirl wife (Victor Sen Yung & Toshia Mori) attend a weekend retreat in England, along with a family of eccentric aristocrats, twin gangsters, a notorious cat burglar, and several murder victims
THE CAT’S PAJAMAS (Sidney Lanfield, 1939)
A young state department official and his showgirl wife (Victor Sen Yung & Toshia Mori) attend a weekend retreat in England, along with a family of eccentric aristocrats, twin gangsters, a notorious cat burglar, and several murder victims
MURDER CRUISE (Sidney Lanfield, 1938)
Newlyweds Victor Sen Yung & Toshia Mori find themselves involved in murder, blackmail, and jewel-theft in this fast-paced mystery. Based on John Dickson Carr’s THE BLIND BARBER. Screenplay by John Larkin, Arthur Sheekman, and Nat Perrin.
THE GOLDEN ASTEROID or “Astronave Atlantide: 5 Donne su un Asteroide Dorato" (Massimo Cazzioni, 1966)
While scanning for rare metal deposits in the rings of Saturn, the glamorous astronauts of the Starship Atlantis discover a derelict spacecraft in orbit around a golden asteroid.
Did Drew Goddard ever talk about it as an obvious BAD TIMES AT THE EL ROYALE influence?
Beachfront Propriety (Leo McCarey, 1934)
Two beautiful and high-spirited young women attract much attention, speculation, and criticism simply by having fun at the beach. Starring Mary Carlisle and Joan Marsh. Short film. Running time 17:39.
DIVA LAS VEGAS (Sam Raimi, 1997)
Rival Elvis impersonators (Kurt Russell and Bruce Campbell) compete for the attention of a beautiful lounge singer (Angela Bassett), who is secretly planning to scam the mafioso who transports skimmed money from her casino back to his mob bosses.
ZEPPELIN VERSUS PTERODACTYLS (Michael Carreras, 1972)
A German Zeppelin is blown off-course during a bombing raid on London - with two stowaway British commandos and a beautiful Irish revolutionary aboard. It floats over a craggy lost continent inhabited by prehistoric animals.
A HOUSE AMONG THE LAURELS (Terence Fisher, 1968)
Occult detective Thomas Carnacki and the celebrants of an Irish wake spend a terrifying night in a cursed mansion at the behest of a beautiful grieving widow. Starring Peter Cushing, Oliver Reed, Susan Denberg, and Freddie Jones.
FOR RICHER OR POORER (Sam Wood, 1940)
A beautiful con-artist (Joan Crawford) realizes that she needs the veneer of respectability to pull off an elaborate scam in Macao. She enters into a “marriage of convenience” with a timorous hard-luck gambler (Peter Lorre).
ZEPPELIN VERSUS PTERODACTYLS (Michael Carreras, 1972)
A German Zeppelin is blown off-course during a bombing raid on London - with two stowaway British commandos and a beautiful Irish revolutionary aboard. It floats over a craggy lost continent inhabited by prehistoric animals.
SINNER’S PARADISE (Lloyd Bacon, 1937)
When a pair of small-time bootleggers are forced to take sides in a gang war, their romantic rivalry over a beautiful E.R. nurse suddenly takes on an added weight. Starring James Cagney, Humphrey Bogart, Joan Blondell, and Boris Karloff.
PRESUMPTION OF INNOCENCE (Alfred Hitchcock, 1959)
A cocksure criminal lawyer defends a woman whom he believes is guilty of murdering her abusive husband. Meanwhile, the husband’s criminal associates stalk her to reacquire loot from their last heist. Cary Grant, Marilyn Monroe.
HOUSE ON FIRE (Dorothy Arzner, 1934)
MSM couple (Cary Grant, Randolph Scott) rent a beach house in Santa Monica. Their idyllic vacation is soon filled with an assortment of nuisances & minor calamities caused by nosy neighbors, a noisy boardwalk, and insistent traveling salesmen.
THUNDERBALL (Stanley Donen, 1964)
When a megalomaniacal billionaire (James Mason) hijacks two atomic warheads during an RAF training exercise, it falls to James Bond (Cary Grant) to save the day - with the reluctant help of a betrayed co-conspirator’s sister (Sophia Loren).
BACK CHAT (2020)
A Hollywood agent (Elizabeth Olsen) and a celebrity crisis manager (Aubrey Plaza) spend a weekend flirting and falling in love while babysitting a troubled actress (Kristen Stewart) who is sleeping with both of them.
BACK CHAT (Michelle Usher, 2020)
A Hollywood agent (Elizabeth Olsen) and an elite celebrity crisis manager (Aubrey Plaza) spend a weekend flirting and falling in love while babysitting a troubled actress (Kristen Stewart) who is sleeping with both of them.
THE MARITIME SAILORS' CATHEDRAL (Taylor Hackford, 2019)
Alone on tour and snowed in at a Michigan hotel room, singer-songwriter Gordon Lightfoot (Bryan Cranston) becomes transfixed by a local news story concerning the sinking of a freighter called the SS Edmund Fitzgerald.
THE DUNWICH HORROR (Jacques Tourneur, 1946)
Scholars at Miskatonic University (Boris Karloff, Bela Lugosi, Ray Milland) are forced to do battle with a horrific multidimensional entity when rural oddball Wilbur Whateley (Vincent Price) attempts to steal an ancient grimoire.
Just saw @itsquinns.bsky.social 's Public Access review (revised?!?) yesterday. So I am primed for this!
Ah, good times, good times…
Attn Huntington-Ashland-Steubenville folks
Still want the Clive Barker Written/Directed Hellrasier/Nightbreed movie.
The comic was ok but so much potential there.
"Tenpin Boleyn" is a nicely Keatonesque name.
CANDLE COVE (1971)
Multiversal+ is pleased to feature this infamous children’s marionette show, which ran for a single glorious season on WCLV-TV in the Huntington–Ashland Tri-State area. The series is charming and unsettling; guaranteed to evoke delicious nostalgia in grownup Gen-X latchkey kids.
EASY DOES IT! (George Marshall, 1948)
An exhausted radio entertainer seeks solitude
at the remote Lost Caverns Resort Hotel, only to get tangled up with hypnotists, blackmailers, and femme fatales. Starring Bob Hope, Lucille Ball, William Bendix, Alan Mowbray, and Lenore Aubert.
CHELSEA BRIDGE (Andrew L. Stone, 1943)
A pair of knockabout dancers from Harlem's Cotton Club find love and success when their
musical review tours Europe. Starring Fayard & Harold Nicholas, Lena Horne, Nina Mae McKinney, and Cab Calloway.
BODEGA OF DEATH (Leo Post, 1998)
The perpetually high late-shift manager of a Brooklyn bodega (Dave Chappelle) attempts to convince his store’s bickering and apathetic owners (Robin Williams & Emma Thompson) that he is being menaced at night by an increasingly violent poltergeist.
