By the 1960s Doris Day represented everything good and wholesome about Hollywood, a concept that would soon be at odds with the nine years that would follow. As Day’s star … Continue Reading Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)
I belatedly close out Hitchcock week with the film that tore his professional relationship with actress Tippi Hedren. Hedren, despite the issues she’s recounted of working with the director, cites … Continue Reading Marnie (1964)
Doctor Zhivago is a movie whose reputation precedes it. Doctor Zhivago marks my first foray into David Lean territory – a director I’ve avoided because his movies require getting comfy for … Continue Reading Doctor Zhivago (1965)
Twilight Time, long the company providing beautiful Blu-ray transfers of oft-neglected titles, enters the giallo business with La Bambola di Satana or The Doll of Satan. Unlike the giallo work … Continue Reading The Doll of Satan (1969)
An unwitting franchise of sorts, the Support Your Local… series acts as simultaneous send-up and loving tribute to the dying Western. Released just three months before Sam Peckinpah shot the … Continue Reading Support Your Local Sheriff (1969) / Support Your Local Gunfighter (1971)
In honor of its remake opening this week, let’s go back to 1967 when Thomas Hardy’s novel first received the big-budget Hollywood treatment. Far From the Madding Crowd is a … Continue Reading Far From the Madding Crowd (1967)
I’ve reviewed a few films detailing the growing generation gap between adults and youths spanning the 1960s and ’70s. Films like Superdad are wholly adrift, wallowing in tired eye-rolling regarding … Continue Reading How Sweet It Is! (1968)
You gotta love the 1960s and 1970s and their adoration of anthology horror. As with Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965), Tales From the Crypt (1972), and Black Sabbath (1963), Twice-Told Tales … Continue Reading Twice-Told Tales (1963)
The first person to cross the finish line wins, a rule that Hollywood endorses no matter what. When revolutionary Ernesto “Che” Guevara died in 1967 Hollywood scrambled to present his … Continue Reading Che! (1969)
After the success of other portmanteau horror films, Dead of Night (1945) especially, screenwriter Milton Subotsky fashioned an anthology horror film for the small Amicus Studios. Amicus’s name would eventually … Continue Reading Dr. Terror’s House of Horrors (1965)
How can a film with the likes of Don Ameche, Martha Hyer, and Zsa Zsa Gabor be so bad? Okay, Gabor’s name should have tipped me off, but what exactly … Continue Reading Picture Mommy Dead (1966)
Originally published October 26th, 2013 We interrupt our weekly foray into the Disney Vault – which I’ll be posting later – to look at a live-action film starring one of … Continue Reading The Ghost and Mr. Chicken (1966)
Originally published October 24th, 2012 I’ve watched The Innocents twice, and while it’s good I’m not considering it one of the best psychological horror films according to Martin Scorsese (hmm, … Continue Reading The Innocents (1961)
Originally published October 20th, 2012 One of the lesser William Castle films, 13 Ghosts doesn’t have the clout or acclaim as something like House on Haunted Hill (1959). Regardless, there’s something fun … Continue Reading 13 Ghosts (1960)
That chill is in the air. Halloween is upon us. And what better way to start the month of October than with some witchy delights? Thanks to the fine folks … Continue Reading Burn Witch Burn (1962)
1960s comedies are known for their rather frank discussions of romance and women. As the 1950s housewife persona slowly eroded and Women’s Lib inched along the horizon, the movies of … Continue Reading How to Murder Your Wife (1965)
