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This is probably one of the lightest movies in the entire series both with the tone and with the plot. After a dozen movies, most of which had a quick pace and some of them with complicated plots, this one just seems to amble along without taking things to seriously. In other words this movieContinue reading “Pursuit to Algiers (1945)”

As if we didn’t have enough reason already to fall asleep while watching this one… This might be the campiest movie in the entire Holmes series and for good reason since if I remember correctly this movie was actually part of the show that they based off of this movie series. I watched the showContinue reading “Woman In Green (1945)”

After a week of doing blogs for other movies we are back to our favorite movie series of the 1940s with the Sherlock Holmes series. There was no detective better than Rathbone as Holmes and this movie has a decent plot with a conspiracy idea to collect insurance money. Somebody within a group of peopleContinue reading “Sherlock Holmes and House of Fear (1945)”

We get a different from usual mystery movie with this one about a group of eight people who go to an island out in the middle of the ocean. There are two people already there who are working there, which makes it ten people total or should I say ten little Indians since that isContinue reading “And Then There Were None (1945)”

John Wayne has his first movie with this blog in a movie that was out of the ordinary for Wayne in a couple of different ways. First off, this movie isn’t a western, it’s about some ships on the ocean and the people who sailed them. Second off, he’s the antagonist for most of thisContinue reading “Reap the Wild Wind (1942)”

We get one of the goofiest movies I have ever seen with this one about a woman played by Katherine Hepburn who gets a leopard and somehow makes it somebody else’s problem, Cary Grant. They go through a lot of goofy situations together while trying to get their leopard back when it escapes and weContinue reading “Bringing Up Baby (1937)”

We have the last of the Frankenstein sequels for this blog, there are a couple other ones after this movie when the creature meets other horror monsters but I never really cared for those that much and will probably skip over all of them because I eventually want to get to the 1950s and beyondContinue reading “Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)”

Basil Rathbone from the Sherlock Holmes series plays the famous scientist this time around as he resurrects the monster who long lay dormant after being blown up by its own hand in the previous movie. We get a couple of other pretty good actors in this movie, too, making for one hell of an openingContinue reading “Son of Frankenstein (1939)”

This was a tough day for the monster, but he got out of it eventually of course. We get a sequel to the Frankenstein movie with this interesting idea about what it would be like for the monster to have another monster to join it in marital bliss. Only a truly nutty scientist could comeContinue reading “Bride of Frankenstein (1935)”

Some of the shots in this movie would probably rock the world of Mike Score from FoS. After several mediocre movies in a row, yesterday was a slugfest, we get back to something kind of good again with the first movie in the Frankenstein series. For some reason I’ve always felt that this movie wasContinue reading “Frankenstein (1931)”