Tag: 1950s

To Catch A Thief (1955) – Review

While Alfred Hitchcock was famous for stretching tension and plot twists to their absolute limit, that hardly meant that the old boy didn’t like to

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It Came From Beneath The Sea (1955) – Review

Not every creature that assaulted the earth came from the inky depths of space suring the fifties; in fact, if you’ve read the title of

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Fiend Without A Face (1958) – Review

To the uninitiated, I guess most 50s sci-fi flicks seem the same. Take a cast of stuffy, exposition spouting, scientist/military types and have them pontificate

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It Conquered The World (1956) – Review

God bless Roger Corman. Even as far back as the fifties when he was still directing, there wasn’t a film made that he wasn’t willing

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Touch Of Evil (1958) – Review

Sometimes people do their best work when their back is against the wall. When hired to appear in sleazy tex-mex noir, Touch Of Evil, former

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) – Review

No one in the movie business is above tackling a remake. Be it Steven Spielberg altering the likes of A Guy Like Joe, or redoing

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Tarzan And The She-Devil (1953) – Review

And so with his fifth entry, Lex Barker set aside his loin cloth and vacated the role of Tarzan once and for all. But while

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Tarzan’s Savage Fury (1952) – Review

As we start to reach the end of Lex Barker’s swing as the constantly bare chested jungle lord, it was starting to feel like all

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Tarzan’s Peril (1951) – Review

You know, I’ve reviewed so many classic Tarzan movies for this site now (and in the wrong order, no less) that it’s getting virtually impossible

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Tarzan And The Slave Girl (1950) – Review

I wonder if the writers of the old Tarzan films ever panicked when asked to pen yet another adventure featuring Edgar Rice Burroughs’ rippling muscled

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Tarzan’s Fight For Life (1958) – Review

After wading through a fair few classic Tarzan movies as a result of reviewing them for this site, I’ve come to the conclusion that there’s

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Tarzan And The Lost Safari (1957) – Review

Life in the jungle can be brutal, so it’s fairly fitting if I unleash some brutal honesty and declare Gordon Scott’s debut as Tarzan as

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The H-Man (1958) – Review

While Ishiro Honda will always be most famous for unleashing a 165 foot tall irradiated lizard onto the world as it masqueraded as the social

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The Mysterians (1957) – Review

There’s a test I tend to put on the works by Japanese filmmaker Ishiro Honda that I like to call the Godzilla test. It’s born

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Tarzan’s Hidden Jungle (1955) – Review

Much like how Tarzan has to let go of one vine to swing on from the next, the Tarzan franchise once again had to leave

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Tarzan And The Trappers (1958) – Review

Despite having a long history of brawling with lions, feuding with hunters and generally sprinting through the underbrush with only a loin cloth to save

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20,000 Leagues Under The Sea (1954) – Review

If anyone understood the need for high adventure, it was Walt Disney. Obviously, not every timeless, fantasy epic he oversaw was rendered in lush, groundbreaking

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Stage Fright (1950) – Review

After making a slew of cutting edge thrillers in Hollywood since 1939, Alfred Hitchcock decided to return to home soil to make Stage Fright, a

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Rear Window (1954) – Review

To say that Alfred Hitchcock loved a gimmick is an understatement the size of claiming that Norman Bates is close to his mum; but in

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North By Northwest (1959) – Review

After crafting a filmography full of malicious mistaken identities and craven conspiracies, how does someone like Alfred Hitchcock let his hair down after decades of

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