The Gun Runners (1958)
“Hemingway-Hot Adventure!” In terms of film adaptations of Ernest Hemingway’s 1937 novel To Have and Have Not, The Gun Runners ranks well below established classics To Have and Have Not…
The Happy Years (1950)
“A Story of Wild and Wonderful Days.” A true forgotten classic, this wonderful little coming-of-age story was directed by William A. “Wild Bill” Wellman (The Public Enemy) and based on…
The Harder They Fall (1956)
“Powderpuff punch and a glass jaw… that’s a great combination!” Humphrey Bogart’s last film (he passed away from esophageal cancer the following year at the age of 57) in which…
The Haunting (1963)
“It was an evil house from the beginning – a house that was born bad.” Arguably the best of the haunted-house genre, this superb psychological horror film was directed by…
The Sadist (1963)
“Who would believe in something like this?” A true unappreciated low-budget horror classic, The Sadist (AKA Profile of Terror and Sweet Baby Charlie) is very loosely based on the infamous…
The Screaming Skull (1958)
“The tortured ghost who claimed vengeance in the bride’s bedroom.” If you enjoy campy, extremely low-budget horror films as much as I do, then don’t miss the opportunity to check…
The Secret Six (1931)
“Go ahead and shoot if you got the nerve.” A gritty, Pre-Code gangster flick from MGM, The Secret Six features a solid performance by Wallace Beery as “Louis ‘Slaughterhouse’ Scorpio,”…
The Seventh Victim (1943)
“Weird pagan rites in secret dens of exotic mystery!” A young woman named “Mary Gibson” (Kim Hunter) leaves a boarding school to search for her missing sister “Jacqueline” (Jean Brooks)…
The Snake Pit (1948)
“It was strange, here I was among all those people, and a the same time I felt as if I were looking at them from some place far away .…
The Gangster (1947)
“I knew everything I did was low and rotten. I knew what people thought of me. What difference did it make? What did I care?” An offbeat film noirish crime…