Films Around the World

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...so-so yarn built around a goldmine....Dean is again matched against George Chesebro. Casting of the latter in the heavy's role, incidentally, has now become almost tradition. A trainrobber on the lam, he heads the outlaws while in the guise of an attorney. Jennifer Holt is the object of his schemings. He and his gang have already killed Miss Holt's father and uncle in an attempt to scare her into selling her ranch. Thar's gold in them thar hills, but Miss Holt doesn't know it. In the nick...

Average musical western starring Eddie Dean. Rancher discovers gold vein in abandoned mine, keeps it secret from son and daughter, is murdered by local saloon owner who robs son of payroll money to force ranch's foreclosure. Dean and his comic sidekick Roscoe Ates chase robbers, recover loot, stay on ranch, foil another plot by bad guys to get ranch. (Variety, January 28, 1948; publicity release) "... the usual stagecoach chases, hand-to-hand fisticuffs and inaccurate six-gun shooting." (The...

The Cheyenne Kid ('Lash' La Rue) is on his way to Mesa City to help his pal, Sheriff 'Fuzzy' Jones (Al 'Fuzzy' St. John), settle an old feud between the Harts and the Condons. Posing as an outlaw, Cheyenne is accepted by gang leader Bill Barton (Bob Duncan) and is told that his job will be to continue stirring up trouble between the Condons and the Harts. The plan is to make the two families kill each other off, so that a mine, which they own jointly, can be bought at a price far below its...

Poured out of the same mold used for all the other Eddie Dean starrers, 'Tumbleweed Trail' rates as standard fare for the oatuner trade. Pic is compounded out of the regular ingredients of obvious good guys vs. bad guys plot, gun and fist play, a speck of romance, and a flock of fair saddle tunes delivered by Dean with banjo obligato. Production accouterments, as usual, are held down to the barest minimum with scripting, thesping and camera work of mediocre calibre. Dean plays an undercover...

Average singing western, starring Eddie Dean as a U. S. marshal on a secret mission. "While the story formula remains basically similar to other films in this series, there's a slight switch in that Jennifer Holt is the leader of the outlaws. Her underlings kill her uncle who was on the verge of exposing her. She also plots to rub out her cousin... but the scheme is nipped by Dean. Usual chase sequences, fisticuffs and shooting sprinkle the reels." (Variety, March 3, 1948)

Adolescent Paul Cartwright believes that his father's death and his mother's plans for remarriage are not merely coincidental. This suspicion becomes solidified after he receives a letter written by his father before the man was found dead. Spurred on by this message from beyond the grave, Paul decides to feign insanity in the hopes of catching his mother's suitor off guard and exposing him as his father's murderer. Committed to an asylum by his mother at the prompting of her fiance, Brett...

Maybe the quintessential movie depiction of the flower child era: Set in 1967 in Venice. Calif., the film follows the waif of the title as she drifts from bad to worse. She gets arrested. joins a commune, takes up with a man she meets on a park bench. works as a topless model. and contracts gonorrhea. Only at the film's closing. when an acquaintance of Hilary's takes LSD and then confuses her baby with the Thanksgiving turkey, does the film display any definite attitude toward such goings-on....

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The first feature by England's Michael Reeves (then 21) stars Barbara Steele as a tourist in Transylvania possessed by a vengeful ugly witch. Ian Ogilvy is her husband. Lots of odd gags about Communists in modern Eastern Europe make this a unique thriller. With John Karlson and Mel Welles (as the innkeeper). **, Corel All Movie Guide

During the 1870s, two survivors of a capsized boat make their way to a remote island, desolate save for a decaying castle belonging to a demented count and leprous wife, who is also mad. The couple are imprisoned and tortured, but all are eventually doomed by the wife's dread disease. (The American Film Institute Catalog) Taken at face value, this film may be one of the worst movies ever made. It has almost no redeeming features, in the ordinary sense. The acting, photography, music, story,...