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This is the final movie in the series and is pretty serious. They attempt to adapt to the times but it doesn’t work very well because the series has clearly run its course. This time the Thin Man goes into the jazz music scene. He encounters some music and lots of slang along with aContinue reading “Song of the Thin Man (1946)”

Donald Meek described this painting as not being very good but I’ll have to agree with Loy because I actually kind of like the look of it. Powell and Loy go to the home town of the Thin Man in this movie where they meet the father of the Thin Man and find another murderContinue reading “Thin Man Goes Home (1944)”

Seeing Loy attempt to strangle Powell might have been the most engaging part of this movie… After the first three Thin Man movies, a couple of which were pretty good because they had a good story or featured good supporting actors, the series definitely seems to decline a little bit with this fourth one inContinue reading “Shadow of the Thin Man (1942)”

Charge of the Light Brigade is a pretty good action movie. It might have the best action scene from the 1930s. The entire movie is a build up to a charge scene done by some cavalry into enemy fire. We also get a pretty good cast featuring the iconic swashbuckler Errol Flynn and the actorContinue reading “Charge of Light Brigade (1936)”

“She’s got the looks to kill/” Cue guitar riff. Holmes has his final movie and it’s a pretty good one, too, when Holmes must find some stolen plates before a group of other people. They really finished things on a high note with this one with good action, pacing and a story. It’s similar toContinue reading “Dressed to Kill (1946)”

This Holmes movie is on a train instead of a boat like last time. It’s clear we have come towards the end of the series since ideas for movies had moved into Charlie Chan territory with different gimmicks for each movie. The movie is incredibly slight and moves along at a good pace. A coupleContinue reading “Terror by Night (1946)”

The Marxes try to recapture that old spark. Due to the fact that Chico had lost some considerable money at gambling the brothers all came back again for two more movies in their series. This was the better one of the two. The war had come to an end and things were trying to returnContinue reading “Night In Casablanca (1946)”

“Do you believe this guy?” thinks Lon Chaney when he comes home from work. Strange Confession is an interesting movie with Lon Chaney Jr. For one thing he is playing a good person in this movie that you really seem to care for, a doctor who is making medicine to cure people. His problems occurContinue reading “Strange Confession (1945)”

This was a good movie to start February with. A couple of guys work at a night club for a gangster played by Leonard Sheldon. They decide to advertise that they are going to have a zombie at opening night but word gets around that their zombie is actually a fake so they have toContinue reading “Zombie On Broadway (1945)”

Lon Chaney Jr. has his next movie in the Inner Sanctum series with this movie about a wax museum and a hypnotist who is supposedly killing people with his eyes. This movie also stars Martin Kosleck from the previous movie with this blog once again as a sleazy villain only this time compounding his villainousContinue reading “Frozen Ghost (1945)”