Author Archives: Kevin
Africa Screams (1949)
Africa Screams is a 1949 film starring the comedy team of Abbott and Costello. The film is notable for having…
Indestructible Man (1956)
A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an…
Old Time Radio Station
A little tinkering on my part and I created an instant Old Time Radio station.
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1804-06 Lewis and Clark Expedition Documentary
The Lewis and Clark Expedition, also known as the Corps of Discovery Expedition, was the first American expedition to cross…
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Voyage to the Prehistoric Planet (1965)
Roger Corman bought the footage from an unfinished Russian film called Planeta Burg (Storm planet) and some extra film from…
Hawaiians, The (1970)
Charlton Heston brings to the island a shipload of Chinese slaves to work the plantation fields. With Asian Tina Chen…
Mt. Saint Helens (1980)
I was thinking May 18th? Why is May 18th important. Then I remembered. Mt. St Helens is about 80 miles…
Surface (2005)
Surface has been on my list of things to watch for some time. I haven’t got through all of it…
DAR FM
Years ago there was the Betamax case. It’s been upheld in the courts since. We have the right to record…
Jim French Productions
I know there are some old time radio fans out there. You’ll like this if you didn’t know about it.…
Long Voyage Home, The (1940)
Working from quartet of Eugene O’Neill plays, John Ford created a hauntingly dark dramatic universe, populated with his usual stock…
Fighting Owl Films
I like independent films. It’s a respite in the modern public addiction to high dollar entertainment. One of the best…
Traffic Warden (2004)
Want a gentle smile? This is an 11 minute short film starring David Tennant of Doctor Who fame. It made…
The Veil – Vision of Crime (1958)
A man on a trip to Paris has a vision where he sees his brother murdered. When he arrives back…
Hell’s Highway (1932)
This is a terrific little film (especially given it’s from 1932) about characters who are sentenced to a chain gang…
The Veil – Food On the Table
In this episode of the never launched series “The Veil”, Boris Karloff finds himself a ship captain with a wife…
Planet Outlaws (1953)
Buck Rogers is a Universal serial film based on the Buck Rogers comic strip. It starred Buster Crabbe (who had…
The Veil – The Doctors (1958)
Boris Karloff plays kindly old Doctor Marcabienti. A reminder that Karloff, unlike a lot of his typecast contemporaries, could actually…
Galaxy Invader (1985)
If I die and I go to hell, the Devil will be showing Galaxy Invader for eternity. Be cautious B…
Charade (1963)
Audrey Hepburn stars as Reggie targeted by men for her murdered husbands fortune, Cary Grant plays Peter Joshua, a charming…
Night of the Living Dead (1968)
This is George Romero’s 1968 Zombie film “Night of the Living Dead”. It is the basis for most of this…
Killers from Space (1954)
Killers from Space is a 1954 Science Fiction film where Peter Graves (Mission Impossible) fights some evil conquerors from the…
Phantom Planet (1961)
“The Phantom Planet” is well worth watching: not because it’s a great movie, but because it’s not a great movie.…
Phantom Express (1932)
A phantom express starts derailing trains, and threatens a company’s future. The son of the owner must find out what…
Lady In the Death House (1944)
Mary Logan is accused of murdering a blackmailer. She is innocent but waiting on death row. Lionel Atwill plays the…
X Marks the Spot (1942)
A cop gets killed when he runs into some gangster Marty Clark heisting a warehouse. This is a film noir,…
Friday the 13th (1933)
Passengers in a bus crash relive the experience through flash backs.…
Blue Thunder (1983)
I really liked this movie when I saw it in the theater so many years ago. It’s got Roy Scheider…
Stories of the Century – Sam Bass (1954)
Sam Bass was a bank robber in the 1870′s in San Francisco until he was caught and shot by the…
Stories of the Century – Cattle Kate (1954)
Matt Clark is a railroad detective whose assignment is to track down and bring to justice the most notorious criminals…
Stories of the Century – Quantrill’s Raiders (1954)
The Union called them bushwhackers, the Confederacy called them “Quantrill’s Rangers”. This weeks episode explores the issue with Matt Clarke,…
Stories of the Century – Geromimo (1954)
This episode of the adventures of Matt Clark, railroad detective, has him meeting the great chief, turned sideshow attraction, Geronimo.…
Stories of The Century – The James Gang (1954)
This time Matt Clark, railroad detective, goes up against the notorious James Gang. In 1955, Stories of the Century became…
Stories of the Century – Billy The Kid (1954)
In this episode, Matt Clark takes after the famous outlaw, Billy the Kid. This series has some minor educational value…
Stories of the Century – Belle Star (1954)
Stories of the Century is a TV series from 1954 about a fictional railroad detective named Matt Clark. In this…
Mothra (1961)
Mothra (???, Mosura?) is a 1961 giant-monster movie from Toho Studios, directed by genre regular Ishir? Honda with special effects…
Dragnet – The Big Phone Call (1952)
A jeweler is robbed and despite the indignation of his competitor over the police investigation, Joe and Frank investigate the…
One Step Beyond – Brainwave (1960)
A soldier in WWI must perform emergency surgery being assisted only by a voice on the radio.…
Gang Busters – The Nobel Case (1952)
Herbert Nobel is a rich guy, but that seems to get him in a lot of trouble in this episode…
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef is a 1953 adventure film about a family of Greek-American sponge divers and their rival with…
KMHD
Mount Hood Community College here in rainy Oregon runs my favorite radio station. It escapes all the Clear Channel flotsam…
X from Outer Space, The (1967)
Guilala, a monster grown from spores attached from the hull of a spaceship returning from a Martian expedition, attacks earth…
Planet on the Prowl (1966)
Another planet is speeding toward the earth threatening to destroy it in a collision. The only people who can save…
Magnificent Seven Ride, The (1972)
The chief of “The Magnificent Seven” (Lee Van Cleef) is now settled down as the sheriff of a small town,…
Whistle Stop (1946)
Here’s a 1946 black and white movie starring George Raft and Ava Gardner shot in and in the film noir…
House of Seven Gables, The (1960)
This is an episode of Shirley Temple’s storybook hosted and starring Shirley Temple, with Robert Culp, Agnes Moorehead, Jonathan Harris…
Man who walked alone, The (1945)
A veteran finds his way to to his home town and meets a society girl who is fleeing her boyfriend.…
