The Garden Of Allah
"A man who refuses to acknowledge his God is unwise to set foot in the desert. The Arabs have a saying, Madam, that the desert is the garden of Allah." Just what Count Antioni (Basil Rathbone) means by...
View ArticleThe Son of Frankenstein/Ghost of Frankenstein
When James Whales’s "Frankenstein" lit up the box office in 1931 it didn’t take a mad genius to figure out that Universal would soon start churning out sequels to capitalize on the popularity of...
View ArticleThe Comedy Of Terrors/ The Raven
In their ’Midnite Movies’ series, MGM Home Entertianment has just released another great double-feature, containing two of the great Roger Corman films of the 60s. Almost a homage to Vincent Price,...
View ArticlePrelude To Murder
There are some things I just can't say "No" to. Sherlock Holmes movies and stories are one of them. When 20th Century Fox Home Entertainment dropped a DVD version of "Prelude To Murder" I was more than...
View ArticleThe Boris Karloff Collection
As a lover of classic horror movies from the genre's golden era, I'm always eager to check out the films that make it to DVD. With "The Boris Karloff Collection," Universal now pays tribute to the...
View ArticleThe Adventures of Robin Hood
In our post-"auteur" era of filmmaking, there's a tendency to dismiss the work of the big-studio contract director. The old movie moguls viewed motion pictures as generic entertainment and not a...
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