by Mark Murton Directed by: Agnieszka Holland Synopsis: Welsh journalist Gareth Jones (James Norton) risks his life to expose the truth about the devastating famine in the Soviet Union in the early 1930s. Kitty Cameo: Jones’s writing is said to have influenced George Owell’s Animal Farm and the film opens with Orwell (Joseph Mawle) working […]
by Mark Murton Also Known As: Sweet Baby Charlie Directed by: James Landis Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A trio of teaching colleagues, Doris Page (Helen Hovey), Ed Stiles (Richard Alden), and Carl Oliver (Don Russell), are driving to Los Angeles for a Dodgers game. […]
by Mark Murton Starring: Lininsore Sheba Director: Lance Comfort This review contains a Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Bedelia Carrington (Margaret Lockwood) is honeymooning happily in Monte Carlo with her husband Charlie (Ian Hunter) when they encounter a cultivated young artist, Ben […]
Directed by: Hugo Haas Synopsis: Garage owner Gus Hilmer (Hugo Haas) woos and marries the much younger Julie (Cleo Moore) who is only interested in his money and his younger more handsome mechanic Frank (Vince Edwards). Purr Blur (and Cat Burglar Scene Stealer!): As Gus approaches a remote rundown house with a For Sale sign […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: William Castle Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Recently widowed, newly wealthy Irene Trent (Barbara Stanwyck) indulges in regular bouts of titanic and voluble eardrum-shattering screaming as she’s repeatedly haunted by the ghostly apparition of creepy and possessive late husband Howard […]
by Ted Davis Directed by: J. Lee Thompson Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: It’s the London, England of the early 1950s, and 12 year-old Frankie Palmer (Andrew Ray), in a moment of spite, swipes a balloon from nearby neighbor and friend Ronnie Williams (Stephen Fenemore). […]
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: April 30, 1962 Directed by: Ted Post This review contains a very mild Kitty Carnage Warning! Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: A shadowy globe-trotting ring of jewel thieves masterminded by slippery Anthony Hugh Swinburne (Robert Douglas) is relentlessly pursued […]
by Mark Murton Director: Harold Huth Synopsis: A South American revolutionary leader is arrested and sentenced to death. In a bid to prevent the execution, his followers kidnap the president’s daughter in London. Purr Blur: An American pilot (Ron Randell) finds himself unwittingly involved in the plot when he receives a phone call from a […]
by Mark Murton Starring: Mirabel Director: Anthony Asquith Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains MAJOR spoilers for this film! Synopsis: A young American Air Force pilot, Gene Summers (Paul Massie), is recruited to take part in a secret UK government mission to eliminate Marcel Lafitte (Leslie French), a suspected traitor in the […]
by Ted Davis Original Air Date: April 18, 1961 Directed by: Jules Bricken Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains spoilers for this episode! Synopsis: In exchange for riches and fame, neglected artist Hector Vane (Macdonald Carey) accepts a pawn ticket from the Devil (John Emery) in his temporary role of pawn shop […]