the high terrace (1956)

"Stephanie. Why do we always have to quarrel?"
American playwright Bill Lang (Dale Robertson) comes to the aid of leading actress Stephanie Blake (Lois Maxwell) when the show's producer is killed, with her scissors being the murder weapon!
A competant but standard B-pict mix from the time.

the crater lake monster (1977)

"You saw what?"
Some scientists uncover cave paintings depicting men fighting a dinosaur in a remote part of Oregon. Meanwhile a meteor crashes into a nearby lake. Then tourists and cattle start to go missing prompting a local Sheriff Steve Hanson (Richard Cardella) to investigate...
Hmmm....could be better.

the lost continent (1951)

"Sacred mountain taboo. No one ever come back from mountain."
Major Joe Nolan (Cesar Romero) leads an expedition sent to the South Pacific to recover a rogue atomic rocket only to crash on a mysterious island of dinosaurs and the unbiquitous native girl (Acquanetta).
Promises oh so much more than it delivers.

women without men (1956)

"Like most women in prison I'm here because of a man!"
Aka Blonde Bait
Statuesque Angie (Beverly Michaels) tells her story, about how she has ended up in prison and how she has promised her boyfriend Nick (Jim Davis) she will meet him at a certain pub at midnight on New Years. As the time approaches is Angie desperate enough to chance a break out?
So-so thriller, enlivened by Thora Hird as a wise old lag. Later he film was re-edited with a much altered storyline to become Blonde Bait.

smart alec (1951)

"Any message for Sylvia"
Alex (Peter Reynolds) is a bounder who develops a plot to literally get away with murder, and everyone is stumped as to how he has done it. Especially after he is brazen enough to reveal his masterly plan after he is cleared of the murder.
Intreging crime drama quickly disolves into a slap-stick comedy once the crime comes to be investigated as the likes of Charles Hawtrey get involved. A truely oddball how-done-it.

the first omen (2024)

"I can't do this anymore."
Maggie (Nell Tiger Free) is a young American woman arriving in Rome to take the veil. But she soon starts being led astray by another novice (Maria Caballero), starts to question her faith as she brefriends a child in the orphanage she works in and terrible events start occuring.
From its first moment you know this is no mere cash in and as a prequel to The Omen develops in the same unsettling way.

the halfway house (1944)

"You would do well to get ready now"
A mixed bag of travellers, an ex-sea captain, a classical music conductor, a war profiteer and others, find themselves in a rural Welsh Inn, and it soon becomes obvious that there is something off about the place and the Innkeeper and his daughter (Mervyn Johns and Glynis Johns).
A supernatural tale that weaves real wartime events into its story including neutrality, profiteering and life after death.