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\'Woman on the Run\' is worth chasing after
Woman on the Run (1950)Starring: Ann Sheridan, Dennis O'Keefe, Robert Keith and Ross ElliotDirector: Norman FosterRating: Eight of Ten StarsWhen artist Frank Johnson (Elliot) witnesses a gangland slaying and is subsequently target by the killer, he p...
Although from the 1950s, this film looks and feels like it's from the 1940s
The Black Castle (1952)Starring: Richard Green, Stephen McNally, Rita Corday, Boris Karloff, Tudor Owen, John Hoyt, Michael Pate, Lon Chaney Jr, and Henry CordenDirector: Nathan JuranRating: Seven of Ten StarsIn the early 18th century, an English spy...
The Last Prowl for the Classic Universal Monsters
As the 1940s gave way to the 1950s, Universal Pictures had driven the monsters that had saved the studio from oblivion during the Great Depression--Dracula, Frankenstein's Monster, and the Mummy--pretty much into the ground. A series of ever-worsenin...
The monster is the hero in 'Creature from the Black Lagoon'
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)Starring: Richard Carlson, Julie Adams, Antonio Moreno and Richard DenningDirector: Jack ArnoldRating: Five of Ten StarsA group of scientist travel into the Amazon jungle to retrieve an unusual fossil, but instead...
