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Howdy doo. Cary Grant and Audrey Hepburn of all people star in this entertaining thriller that with just the cast alone was risen a couple of notches above most other thriller movies out there during this time. The plot is pretty good, too. A woman is being pursued by a group of people who servedContinue reading “Charade (1963)”

Groovy… Dementia 13 was a slasher horror movie starring the doctor from Zulu as another doctor in this movie and predating Dr. Loomis from the popular Halloween series by about fifteen years. This movie showed up after Hitchcock came out with Psycho and was one of several campy slasher movies to come out during theContinue reading “Dementia 13 (1963)”

Well, damn… Sean Connery stars in his first James Bond movie, a series that will be continuing with this blog right up until the present day and also a movie series that makes this entire blog idea of doing at least one movie for every year a whole lot easier. Anyway Bond has his firstContinue reading “Dr. No (1962)”

All aboard for the incredibly charismatic Ms. Marple series of movies. This was the first of four mystery movies in the Ms. Marple series starring the quirky Margaret Rutherford as the detective, Ms. Marple. It’s also the most atmospheric of the four movies and probably one of the better ones in the series, although myContinue reading “Murder She Said (1961)”

Barabbas is about a guy who is set free when Jesus is put to death instead. This is probably the most related to the Bible movie I will be doing for this blog. It is interesting following along with Barabbas while he finds out why it is that Jesus made it so that he wasContinue reading “Barabbas (1961)”

Hallelujah. This was a movie about a guy named Elmer Gantry who joined a woman in her crusade for religion from the country to the big city. They develop a relationship during the movie and Elmer is haunted by a figure from his past. This seems like the kind of movie that was trying toContinue reading “Elmer Gantry (1960)”

We’ve all got to start somewhere and it would be a couple of years after this when McQueen would show up in a much better movie featuring a much better cast. Steve McQueen has an early movie role in this horror movie about a meteor that crashes into the earth and a blob comes outContinue reading “Blob (1958)”

Feeling spunky today. lolz This was a great movie. Sure, it didn’t really try to do anything serious but anything that a movie of this type should have it does. A large lizard is going around destroying things in a country area. A young guy with a fast car must stop the lizard from attackingContinue reading “Giant Gila Monster (1959)”

You’ve got two choices; get shot or put Attack of the Giant Leeches on your resume. Tough one… This might be one of the best examples I can think of for a movie that most people have probably seen at least once, movie fans at least, but nobody can actually remember. It’s one of thoseContinue reading “Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)”

This movie tried to be a B movie, but it was really just a… wasp movie. “snare drum” This movie was kind of annoying. There was a lot of buzzing and the soundtrack itself bounced between jarring and incredibly quirky with a xylophone. I still remember the first time I saw this movie when IContinue reading “Wasp Woman (1959)”