by Ted Davis Directed by: Sacha Guitry Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this film! Synopsis: After enduring 30 years of something less than connubial bliss with drunken and slovenly shrew Blandine (Germaine Reuver), the exhausted and constantly harassed Paul Louis Victor Bracconier (Michel Simon) determines to put an end […]
by Mark Murton Also Known As: Crying Out Loud Directed by: Bernard Vorhaus Synopsis: Rival cotton mill owners work together to win a contract when love blossoms between their off-spring. Purr Blur: An establishing shot of the rows of terraced houses standing in the shadow of one of the Lancashire mills features a black cat […]
by Brian H Directed by: Oscar Rudolph Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Timmy (George ‘Foghorn’ Winslow), a little boy in an orphanage, is temporarily invited into the home of Amelia Brown (Spring Byington), a middle-aged Justice of the Peace. Amelia and her family are campaigning […]
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: November 28, 1959 Directed by: Don Taylor This review contains a mild Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: The prolific and mysterious gunslinger known as Paladin (Richard Boone) is hired by wealthy coward John Ellsworth (Parley Baer) to […]
Original Air Date: October 19, 1969 Directed by: Terry Gilliam (animated segments) Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: Various scenes in this episode include a courtroom drama, a bicycle repair man superhero and a stolen news reader. Cartoon Cat: Included in the animated pieces is the classic, […]
by Mark Murton Also Known As: Blood Fiend Directed by: Samuel Gallu Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Overbearing theatre director Philippe Davras (Christopher Lee) runs the Theatre of Death in Paris which specialises in horror presentations. When a series of gruesome murders take place in […]
Starring: Marmalade Directed by: Luiso Berdejo This review contains a Severe Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: John James (Kevin Costner) moves his daughter Louisa (Ivana Baquero) and son Sam (Gattlin Griffith) to a remote home in South Carolina only to realize that […]
by Brian H. English Title: The Adventures of Baron Munchausen Directed by: Josef von Báky Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Baron Hieronymus von Münchhausen (Hans Albers) and his wife (Käthe Haack) live in modern Germany. This Baron Münchhausen is a descendant of the famous Baron […]
by Mark Murton Directed by: Alan Cullimore Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Believing himself to be dying, Charles Heywood (Valentine Dyall) hires an assassin to kill him so he can frame a former business partner who got him sent to jail for the death. Purr […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: Julien Duvivier Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Prosperous and well-fed businessman Doakes (Robert Benchley) visits his club one evening to relieve a bad case of the jitters brought on by the combination of a disturbing experience with a fortune teller […]