Recent Posts Tagged With '1950s'

• \'Woman on the Run\' is worth chasing after

  Posted on Wednesday December 2nd, 2009 at 22:00 in 1950s, crime drama, ann sheridan

  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

  Posted on Tuesday September 1st, 2009 at 12:30 in 1950s, boris karloff, lon chaney jr, franchise collection

  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

  Posted on Thursday August 6th, 2009 at 11:57 in Dracula, 1950s, 1940s, bela lugosi, abbott and costello, legacy collection, lon chaney jr, franchise collection

  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'

  Posted on Tuesday June 9th, 2009 at 23:44 in 1950s, legacy collection, gill man

  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...