Archive for October, 2009

  • Menace On The Mountain (another two part Disney show from the 1970s taped together into a TV movie) is as toothless as one of the old coots that hung around...0October 16, 2009

    Menace on the Mountain (1970)

    Menace On The Mountain (another two part Disney show from the 1970s taped together into a TV movie) is as toothless as one of the old coots that hung around…

  • Truly then, the gods have smiled upon us this day when they sent forth this second adventure of Hercules. Fresh from whatever it was that Herc accomplished in his first...0October 16, 2009

    Hercules Unchained (1959)

    Truly then, the gods have smiled upon us this day when they sent forth this second adventure of Hercules. Fresh from whatever it was that Herc accomplished in his first…

  • Reg Park is one of our beefiest Hercules, with pecs the size of a regular guy’s head and his acting consists of standing around talking in a dubbed monotone, while...0October 15, 2009

    Hercules in the Haunted World (1961)

    Reg Park is one of our beefiest Hercules, with pecs the size of a regular guy’s head and his acting consists of standing around talking in a dubbed monotone, while…

  • If you’re watching Alan Steele (Zorro Contro Maciste) in this movie and wondering just where it was that he learned how to pose and wear his leather gauntlets with so...0October 14, 2009

    Hercules Against the Moon Men (1964)

    If you’re watching Alan Steele (Zorro Contro Maciste) in this movie and wondering just where it was that he learned how to pose and wear his leather gauntlets with so…

  • Child of the most unholy union of them all, its father being Chuck Norris 1980s action studio the Cannon Group, its mother being Italian director Luigi Cozzi, and its costume...0October 13, 2009

    Hercules (1983)

    Child of the most unholy union of them all, its father being Chuck Norris 1980s action studio the Cannon Group, its mother being Italian director Luigi Cozzi, and its costume…

  • This is the movie where Jeremy Slate finally puts it all together! At last, Jeremy Slate unleashed and untamed, riding roughshod all over the desert southwest in search of his...0October 12, 2009

    Hell’s Belles (1970)

    This is the movie where Jeremy Slate finally puts it all together! At last, Jeremy Slate unleashed and untamed, riding roughshod all over the desert southwest in search of his…

  • The selling point with this biker flick is that the unkempt guys with bad attitudes are the real Hell’s Angels. How that was supposed to be a selling point eludes...0October 11, 2009

    Hell’s Angels ’69 (1969)

    The selling point with this biker flick is that the unkempt guys with bad attitudes are the real Hell’s Angels. How that was supposed to be a selling point eludes…

  • There’s a scene in some little bar that Steve McQueen’s John Reese isn’t supposed to be at where he’s getting himself some firewater and the barmaid is saying that he’s...0October 10, 2009

    Hell Is for Heroes (1962)

    There’s a scene in some little bar that Steve McQueen’s John Reese isn’t supposed to be at where he’s getting himself some firewater and the barmaid is saying that he’s…

  • Things begin a bit ominously with the appearance of a narrator whose chief distinguishing characteristic is his horrendously bad old-guy make up. Not to be outdone by his make-up, the...0October 10, 2009

    The Head Mistress (1968)

    Things begin a bit ominously with the appearance of a narrator whose chief distinguishing characteristic is his horrendously bad old-guy make up. Not to be outdone by his make-up, the…

  • Hawaii is the often boring and frequently turgid epic film adapted from James Michener’s novel of the same name. It tells the story of Christian missionary Max Von Sydow and...0October 9, 2009

    Hawaii (1966)

    Hawaii is the often boring and frequently turgid epic film adapted from James Michener’s novel of the same name. It tells the story of Christian missionary Max Von Sydow and…

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