* * * * (Out of * * * *)
- High School Confidential (1958)
- No Name on the Bullet (1959)
- Man in the Shadow (1957)
- The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
- Tarantula! (1955)
- Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
- It Came from Outer Space (1953)
* * * 1/2 (Out of * * * *)
- The Mouse That Roared (1959)
- Boss (1975)
- Black Eye (1974)
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The Incredible Shrinking Man
Tarantula!
Bachelor in Paradise
It Came from Outer Space
Creature from the Black Lagoon
Revenge of the Creature
Monster on the Campus
The Mouse That Roared
Boss Nigger
Red Sundown
High School confidential
Moviedrome Junior Bonner intro is here:
tvark.org/moviedrome
It’s great you watched the poliziotteschis. Any thoughts on the films and any particular favourite films?
I remember being amazed by the Incredible Shrinking Man when I was young. I thought the special effects were terrific. I haven’t seen it since, and wonder how they would hold up today.
Best wishes, Pete.
Hey Bill, I re-edited my blog entry regarding Jack Arnold films not only because I forgot that he directed High School Confidential (Shocking I know), but because I gave deeper thought into all of his great films and how I would love to rank them so the order has changed a bit 🙂 I will comment on your rankings after you re-read my rankings 🙂
Great to hear from you again Steve 🙂 Neither of your recommendations disappointed at all – in fact, I am proud to say that I loved them all 🙂 I can totally see now why the Nico Giraldi films were big 🙂 Although Tomas Milian is charismatic as always, that word always seems to stand out in particular whenever anybody discusses the Nico Giraldi films – or maybe it is just me? 🙂 I have the Umberto Lenzi box set as well (a.k.a. Violent Streets) 🙂 Now If I could only finish the miniseries version of Blood Ties, we will be in business 🙂 Even though I have not started it yet, I plan on posting a review of The Climber one of these days and I would like to know when you would like it posted 🙂
OMG Steve 🙂 Thank you so much for that link 🙂 Once I get to updated my Moviedrome Mondays post, I can include the Junior Bonner link to it 🙂 Our love of Moviedrome continues to this day 🙂 So great to hear from you again 🙂
Hey Pete, I re-edited my blog entry regarding my favorite Jack Arnold films not only because I forgot that he directed High School Confidential (Shocking I know), but because I gave deeper thought into all of his great films and how I would love to rank them so the order has changed a bit 🙂 I will comment on your reply after you re-read my rankings 🙂
ill have to reatch man in the shadow since you rate it so highly and i cant remember a thing about it.
It is a great one Bill 🙂 Albert Zugsmith served as producer on it and as you know, he produced Orson Welles (who also co-stars) Touch of Evil and two of Douglas Sirk’s films, which were Written on the Wind and The Tarnished Angels respectively. He also produced another Jack Arnold film, which was High School Confidential 🙂
Your rankings are interesting as well 🙂 I am kind of surprised that Bachelor In Paradise made your list, but No Name on the Bullet did not. The reason I mention that is because the latter is often known for featuring what many consider to be Audie Murphy’s greatest performance in a western 🙂
I have only seen 3 of these, and the shrinking man has stayed with me the longest.
Best wishes, Pete.
It’s great you watched the poliziotteschis. There’s so many great films and I wish they could get DVD releases. Especially the Nico films. They are great and fun. There is a box set of Fernando Di Leo films by Raro too.
It’s great you got the box set! Great films in that set. There’s two Tomases in Brothers Til We Die which is great. I bet you like that Joseph Cotten is in Syndicate Sadists too. Has Umberto Lenzi joined your list of favourite directors?
Please finish Blood Ties too as it’s really great.
A review of The Climber would be great too. You can post it whenever is OK for you.
I love the Junior Bonner intro too. It’s such a great intro. So pleased it’s been found. Now there’s 87 Alex intros on the internet and 54 to go. Really wish all could be found and uploaded.
The Incredible Shrinking Man is an excellent film. It was also shown on Alex Cox’s Moviedrome.
I hafta tell ya John that ‘The Incredible Shrinking Man’ was one of those movies with a power and scenes that have stuck with me to this very day. I was 9 years old in 1957. Apart from the spider and the cat, the ending was very eigmatic for me. I always believed that no matter what he experienced from that point on, he would always survive …
I hear what you are saying jcalberta 🙂 When I first saw the film, I always got a little sad at the ending because I wanted him to grow back to his normal size, but I can now see why they wanted the ending we see on it today 🙂
Hey there again Steve 🙂 I love all of the films you just mentioned and yes that includes Syndicate Sadists 🙂 As for Umberto Lenzi, he has joined my list of my favorite directors and once I get to the L last names of my favorite directors, you can count on my posting a blog entry regarding my favorite films of his 🙂
Trust me, I plan on finishing Blood Ties this year 🙂
The Climber will probably be an easier review to write, but that is only because it does not need as much background info that Je t’aime moi non plus rightly needed 🙂
As for Junior Bonner, that is another great intro and Peckinpah film 🙂 Maybe my number one favorite Steve McQueen performance as well 🙂 You probably realized this already, but If you add 87 with 54 that means that there are precisely 141 Alex Cox Moviedrome intros all together 🙂 Of course, that does not count his non-Moviedrome intros, but that is another story 🙂 Speaking of which, Alex Cox has made my list of my favorite directors and once I get to the C last names, you can expect to see him on there too 🙂
I totally agree with you on The Incredible Shrinking Man Steve 🙂 That too was shown on Moviedrome as you so eloquently state 🙂
On an unrelated note, are you familiar with Alfred Hitchcock’s 1972 British thriller Frenzy? If not, here is a youtube video link to the trailer below and If you want, tell me what you think? 🙂
Gotcha Pete 🙂 As Steve told me, it was also shown on Moviedrome back in the day (the Alex Cox years of course) 🙂
I haven’t seen Frenzy but I’ve been meaning to before. An R/18 rated Hitch would be interesting. It would mean freedom to further than before. The trailer is good.
Hitch is amusing in the trailer.