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This is the first drama movie I have done for my blog so far and it is a pretty good one. 1942 was loaded with good movies to make people feel better despite the war not going so well at the current time and this is a great example of the movie they were makingContinue reading “Holiday Inn (1942)”

Bambi is a great movie from the Disney company and my favorite movie from Disney. It is one of the classic five movies from Disney along with a couple other early Disney movies. Some people say that Fantasia was good because of its visuals and that is true, but I think the best looking oneContinue reading “Bambi (1942)”

He’s Dynamo Dan, America’s favorite living light bulb. Lon Chaney Jr. has his first movie with this blog about a guy who is turned into some kind of electrical being in a laboratory by a diabolical scientist played by Lionel Atwill. Most of this movie is just plot development and not much happens until theContinue reading “Man Made Monster (1941)”

This is a goofy movie. Bela Lugosi makes another appearance in this movie with another comedy group, only this time instead of the Ritz Brothers, it is the Bowery Boys. They have pretty much the same sense of humor, only maybe a little more street smart and little less in your face. Other wise itContinue reading “Spooks Run Wild (1941)”

“Leave the castle”, says the Phantom. This was an O.K. movie. It’s kind of interesting because there are no really noteworthy horror/thriller actors in this movie aside from Dick Foran who was in one of the Mummy movies and Iris Adrian who was in Lady of Burlesque with Barbara Stanwyck, but everybody in this movieContinue reading “Horror Island (1941)”

I decided to take a bit of a day off from blogging to do other things, getting some more movies from the library, getting a little buzzed off of a drink I got from a local gas station, etc. This will be a simple review. It is the first of the Monogram movies with BelaContinue reading “Invisible Ghost (1941)”

Bela Lugosi was in this dark house movie, which for the most part wasn’t really that memorable, but does have a stellar cast of actors. Both Gale Sondegard and Basil Rathbone make another appearance in this movie. There is actually a joke from another one of the actors who plays the main character, Broderick Crawford,Continue reading “Black Cat (1941)”

The Marx Brothers have one of their last movies in a store. The Marxes were always about sticking with the small guy who gets kicked around a lot so having one of their movies in a retail store made a lot of sense. This gives them some good material to work with. Instead of makingContinue reading “Big Store (1941)”

Mark of Zorro is probably the first really good action movie we have gotten to so far during this blog. I don’t really know the actor who played Zorro in this movie that well but he does a great job of playing the Zorro character and comes across as a slightly different, maybe edgier ErrolContinue reading “Mark of Zorro (1940)”

This is probably one of the more serious Marx Brothers movies. Most of it is focused on plot and action. As a matter of fact this is probably the most structured Marx movie the brothers ever did. That being said, this isn’t a boring movie and there are plenty of laughs provided in this. TheContinue reading “Go West (1940)”