For some, or maybe no, reason I liked Stage Fright this time around more than I thought I would and I've seen it three or four times over the years. It's still not top-drawer Hitchcock, but fairly decent. The unreliable flashback is a bit of a cheat, but I can live with it. I caught a noir on YT a ...

I prefer the Falcon movies over the Saint movies also. I feel there was a constraint in that the Saint was a literary character and so screenwriters had to work within the character's published canon. There was no such restriction in writing the Falcon. Many traits of the Falcon could change from m...

Jan 12 is a morning of Saint movies. My favorite is The Saint in Palm Springs . The ones with George Sanders are much better than the ones with Hugh Sinclair. On the other hand, I think the similar series of Falcon movies are better than the Saint ones and the ones with George Sanders' brother Tom C...

Cold Comfort Farm? You must have seen something nasty in the woodshed, Skimpole, because that's the right answer! The old lady is played by Sheila Burrell, whom I've seen on stage many times. She was Laurence Olivier's cousin. Great film, thoroughly enjoyable. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UYd9I5...

So Haas wagered $85,000 on Americans having a taste for sleaze? How could he miss. While it's the old wife trying to bump off hubby for the money and using her boy toy to do the dirty deed plot, what's different in this one is nobody is killed. The boyfriend chickens out and the wife packs her suit...

Watched Pickup and around about the middle it got boring, but then it picked back up. Probably not a movie I would watch again. Beverly Michaels did give a good performance as a trashy girl. Then there was Miss America 1952(?) I have One Girl's Confession on DVD, starring Cleo Moore with Hugo Haas a...

Jan 06 and Noir Alley returns with Pickup. This one is a Hugo Haas production in which he also stars. Not sure if I have seen it, but not a Hugo that I remember if I have. Be interesting to hear what Eddie has to say about it.

HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951) Great cast, usually ignored it, but caught all the parts I'd missed. Yes, absurdly impossible. Comic? VINCENT PRICE is kind-of PERFECTLY over-the-top. There are long stretches where we don't see ROBERT MITCHUM at all... and RAYMOND BURR at his most menacing. Hee hee hee! ht...

At 9:45 PM TCM shows The Big Steal (my favorite movie) followed by His Kind of Woman (another of my favorite movies). They follow Out of the Past and Steal pairs Mitchum with Jane Greer again. The two movies show how excellent an actress Greer was and how great she could have been if not for Howard ...

I "opened" my January TCM Now Playing email this morning. Nice write up by Donald Liebenson about Robert Mitchum as SOTM. Mitchum is my favorite actor so I may be biased, but he made many, many absolutely great movies and TCM is showing some of them. Yet another example of greatest actors...

I actually purchased a '71 Dodge Challenger before seeing Barry Newman in Vanishing Point.. Drove it to see the movie without knowing the Challenger would be in the movie.

I "opened" my January TCM Now Playing email this morning. Nice write up by Donald Liebenson about Robert Mitchum as SOTM. Mitchum is my favorite actor so I may be biased, but he made many, many absolutely great movies and TCM is showing some of them. Yet another example of greatest actors,...

Wicked, Wicked (1973) was shown on TCM this morning. Watched it while taking a break from "deconstructing Christmas." It was shown in Duo-Vision and thankfully I have a 55" TV. Most of the movie shows two different, but related scenes at the same time on the screen. Somewhat confusing...

THE KINGSTON TRIO The Last Month Of The Year ...I had this album when I was in high school. Actually my mother had purchased it from a local store. Love those white socks. At that time, boys in my high school wore socks the same color as our shirts. Yes pink socks with pink shirts. Of course, the T...

My favorite Christmas albums are (not in order): Santa's Greatest Hits (20th Century Masters); Dean Martin's My Kind of Christmas; Merry Christmas, Johnny Mathis; Martina McBride, The Classic Christmas Album; Ray Conniff-The Complete Columbia Christmas Recordings (Christmas With Conniff, We Wish You...