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How do you see most of these older movies you’ve been posting about, Psi-Fi? I know YouTube has a lot of these older movies. |
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Sci-fi adventure into the world of "inner space" below the waves. An underwater "city" made up of several airtight structures, is constructed and anchored to the sea floor, to conduct an experiment to see if humans can live underwater in such an environment. The acting wasn't bad but the special effects were ridiculous and the story just plodded along without much of interest happening for the most part until the action picked up a bit during the last few minutes of the film. |
B&W horror/sci-fi film about a scientist who develops an apparatus and procedure to resuscitate people who have recently died. His first experiment using the device and procedure on a living human volunteer, is interrupted by the local police, who charge him with murder. |
Late 1950's crime-thriller about a Deputy Sheriff in a small town, on the edge of the Grand Canyon in Arizona, trying to solve a mysterious murder in the town. The film had the look and feel of an Alfred Hitchcock movie from that era, which gave it a typical Hitchcock vibe, but he wasn't involved in the film as far as I know. |
Horror film about mysterious deaths occurring in a small European village. The victims are all found with two puncture marks on their necks and are drained of their blood. Rumors of vampires spread through the village while the local constable tries to find clues to solve the murders, which he suspects are the work of a homicidal lunatic. The plot has a couple of unexplained holes in it, which occur later in the film, but they don't ruin the film as far as horror flicks go. |
A recently married newspaper reporter on his honeymoon, witnesses a man fall from a building to the street below. He quickly calls the story in to his editor, who tells him to cover the story and find out more info on the man, which eventually leads to him discovering a sinister plot involving foreign agents. Various moments of romantic comic relief between the husband and wife are added to the story as it unfolds. |
https://i.postimg.cc/x8jfd6qC/The-In...World-1959.jpg The Incredible Petrified World (1959) Low-budget adventure/exploration flick with a ridiculous plot and tedious pacing. A film where you are waiting for something interesting and/or exciting to happen but it never does. |
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John Carradine was in a LOT of movies, some good, some OK, some awful. Did the man ever refuse an acting job? |
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A low-budget B&W horror film with an interesting twist. A mentally disturbed young woman awakes from a nightmare in a cheap hotel room... but was it just a nightmare? The story has a visual film noir style but there's no dialog except from an unseen narrator who occasionally speaks throughout the story while music plays in the background. |
An action/crime thriller with Bill Cosby and Robert Culp, teaming up as a couple of struggling private detectives who get hired to find an elusive woman. The trail to the woman leads to several murders and a large sum of money missing from a violent bank heist. Reminiscent of the 'I Spy' TV show that they appeared in together, for several seasons, a few years earlier. |
B&W crime thriller about a manipulative crime kingpin on death row, breaking out of prison with help from his gang and some fellow prisoners, just before he is about to be executed in the electric chair. |
Another vampire movie. This one is about a vampire living as a nightclub owner in a jungle setting. Rather mediocre movie overall. The most interesting part of the story was that the vampire was a nightclub owner and the nightclub was located in a jungle. No ghosts of any type made any appearances at any time during the story. |
Low-budget exploitation flick about prostitution. A young pimp puts his girls to work by dropping them off on the side of roads and having them hitch rides with passing men to seduce them. He befriends the impressionable teenage son of a motel owner, to try to convince him to take over the motel so that he can use it as a base to operate his prostitution business out of. Awful script, awful acting, awful directing, and awful editing, makes for an awful movie. In the right hands, this story could've been wildly entertaining, but alas, it was not to be. |
Low-budget crime flick about girls gone bad. Bad directing, bad acting, ridiculous script, unintentionally campy. This is the type of movie that probably inspired John Waters to become a film maker (which is a good thing.) |
B&W horror flick about voodoo. A wealthy hotel developer hires a celebrity myth-buster to help him look into the disappearance of 3 of his employees who vanished on a surveying trip to an uninhabited island. One of those films where nothing much of interest happens throughout the story until almost the end, and even then it isn't enough to justify the time spent watching. |
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Tim Farrell! A member of Ed Wood's "stock company", so to speak. I definitely have to see this one! |
This one is a bit like 'Frankenstein' with a zombie/robot twist. A wealthy criminal obsessed with revenge, meets an unscrupulous scientist and funds his experiments which produce the ability to reanimate recently deceased people, give them superhuman strength, and manipulate them electronically via remote control. The late, great, Roky Erickson even wrote a song about it... Creature With the Atom Brain (Live) |
Low-budget sci-fi/horror flick about hungry, gigantic, mutant locusts with a taste for human flesh. The locusts grow to enormous proportions after eating plants which were created in an experimental agricultural lab which was using radiation to grow vegetables and fruits into oversized specimens. This one sort of falls into the "so bad it's good" category, but it was just so genuinely bad overall that I couldn't rate it any higher than 2 out of 5 stars. The poster for the movie gets a solid 5/5 stars from me, though. |
Crime film about a group of U.S. Treasury agents investigating the finances of a mob boss in order to bring a charge of tax evasion against him. Not the most exciting plot but I thought the movie was well done. I'm puzzled by the title of the flick, though, because nobody actually went undercover at any time during the story. |
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I’ve seen this one before. It begins with a horny young couple about to go at it on lover’s lane when they’re rudely interrupted by a giant locust. The locusts are in southern Illinois before making their way to Chicago. The local news reports that all 150 people in the town of Ludlow mysteriously vanished (it’s up to the viewer to figure out they were eaten by locusts). That town actually exists in real life. I wonder if the locals were proud of the fact the people of their town were locust food in the film. The film is good for a few laughs, like when the locusts are shown rampaging through a model of a town that’s supposed to be Chicago. |
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The working day of several people inside a Manhattan commercial tower are revealed and connected to each other through various events which happen throughout the 9 to 5 daily grind. Some humor, some drama, some sex, a villain, and a surprise darkly humorous ending. |
Crime thriller about a broke con man who pitches the idea of a small town bank heist to his well-to-do partner in crime. His partner takes him up on his idea and goes to work putting together a motley crew of dysfunctional criminals to join in and help them pull off the heist. The film ends with a sappy whimper that made me groan in disbelief but up until the last couple of minutes, it was cooking. |
Crime film about a nightclub owner who dies in a fiery car wreck and is burned beyond recognition, leaving his nightclub singer wife to run the club. The deceased man's brother arrives in town, unaware of his brother's death a few days prior, and starts befriending his brother's wife at the request of the local police, who suspect she may be involved in a large narcotics operation. The title of the film gives away a key element of the story, so it ended up like I thought it would, but it was still an entertaining crime film. |
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I never have seen much with Vera Ralston. A lot of people slam her acting. How was she in this film? |
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The Bunker (1981) Anthony Hopkins delivers a top-notch performance as Adolf Hitler living out his final days in his bunker at the closing days of WWII. This was a movie made for TV, so there wasn't a poster made to promote it. The cast seemed to be British and American for the most part and their accents threw me off at first but the story and performances were good enough that it didn't matter much after a few minutes. The movie was a bit longer than usual but the 150 minute running time ended up seeming just about right. |
A married man with a sick child, gets fired from his job as a used car salesman because his boss thinks he's too honest. Another used car dealer quickly offers him a job which ends up testing his honesty to the breaking point. |
B&W crime film about a group of prison convicts who conduct a large-scale prison escape. The story focuses on a group of six of the convicts as they try to elude law enforcement while seeking a hidden stash of money which one of them buried before he was sent to prison. |
Crime film about a member of an organized crime family who comes home from combat in WWII as a changed man. He decides to quit the organization to go into a legitimate business and become a law-abiding member of society and raise a family with his new wife. The head of the organization wishes him well but he soon finds out that there were unseen strings attached to his resignation. |
B&W sci-fi/horror/comedy about a spaceship that lands in a wooded area of a small American town. Martians leave the ship and one of them is accidentally run down by a teenage couple driving down a back road. Disbelief, confusion, and comedy ensue. The special effects were mediocre and crudely done for the most part but the acting and directing was good and the writing was entertaining enough to make me laugh out loud a few times. |
B&W crime thriller featuring Frank Sinatra in a starring role. A small town in California gets a surprise visit from the President of the United States and a trio of assassins who are aware of the impending visit and show up in town ahead of the President and his entourage. Good script, good acting, & good directing make this one well worth watching. |
Not to break up the combo of classic cinema, but the last film I just watched was Ice Age III: Dawn of the Dinosaurs.
Difficult to compare it to these films, but worth a watch at least once anyway, in my humble opinion. Good franchise I'd say. |
Here's another one I watched a while ago...
https://i.postimg.cc/dDPPkFxj/The-H-Man.jpg Beauty and the Liquid People (also known as Beauty and liquid human and The H-Man) (1958) Japanese sci-fi/horror flick from the 50's, filmed in color. A hydrogen bomb test in the Pacific Ocean, creates a gelatinous blob of radioactive goo which takes on a life of its own and absorbs any people in its path as it makes its way from the ocean to Japan. I watched the original Japanese release with English subtitles. The story was ridiculous but fairly entertaining and the color photography was gorgeous. One of those movies where I find myself being more interested in the period clothing, hairstyles, cars, and overall vibe, than the story itself. |
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That's one thing I like about older movies, especially older "B" pictures--the period detail is really good in a lot of cases. Call me nitpicky, but it's a bit annoying to see a bigger budget picture like Badlands (1973), which is set in the 1950s, feature a Texaco station sign that wasn't used until the 1960s. |
Osmosis Jones (2001).
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Crime thriller about a former cop who is released from prison after serving time for a bribery charge which he was framed on. He is obsessed with seeking revenge against the man he believes is responsible for the deaths of his wife and child in a bomb blast which was meant for him shortly before he was set up and sent to prison. |
Low budget B&W semi-documentary style crime thriller, which is loosely based on the real-life crimes committed by Erwin Walker in 1946. Featuring an early appearance by Jack Webb before he went on to create the 'Dragnet' radio show and TV series which is also loosely based on real-life crimes. The story was fairly close to the actual events but after looking up Erwin Walker in Wikipedia, the full story of his criminal activities would've made for a far more interesting script. I guess there's only so much that can be crammed into a movie with a running time of 80 minutes, though. |
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