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Joan Crawford, March 23, 1905 – May 10, 1977.

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Station West (1948), via SBBN

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Spies (Spione, 1928)

Fritz Lang’s Spies (Spione, 1928) is gorgeous, as all of Lang’s silents are, full of art deco designs and sharp-edged shadows and perfectly posed extras set amongst some truly stunning visual effects, impressive today, but so incredible at the time that they must have been nearly indistinguishable from magic.

Spies (Spione, 1928) was originally published on She Blogged By Night

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Pressure Point (1962)

Now out on Blu-ray from @OliveFilms, the tense and terrific Pressure Point (1962): Considered now a minor classic, Pressure Point (1962) was, at the time, a box-office flop, described by preeminent pearlclutcher Bosley Crowther as “shrill, flaring and heavily melodramatic“… and that’s one of the nicer moments in his review. What Crowther only begrudgingly admits…

Pressure Point (1962) was originally published on She Blogged By Night

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Hitch Hike (1977)

Exploitation classic Hitch Hike (1977), now out in an uncut Blu-ray from @rarovideousa and @kinolorber:

  Alcoholic reporter Walter Mancini (Franco Nero) and his wife Eve (Corinne Cléry) are traveling and arguing through the California countryside, on their way home from what seems to have been a pointless vacation. Between bitter arguments, the couple irritate other campers, fantasize about killing each other and hate fuck each other on top of animal corpses, as one does. Mostly out of spite, Eve…

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Serial (1980), Now Out on Blu-Ray and DVD From Olive Films

Serial (1980), Now Out on Blu-Ray and DVD From Olive Films

It’s the dawn of the 1980s, and the upper-middle-class hippie holdouts of Marin County, California are snarking and screwing their way through life, certain that health foods and open marriages will save their souls while blissfully unaware that they’re emotionally and psychologically adrift. Serial (1980), a dark comedy from long-time television director Bill Persky, follows an Altman-esque…

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Darling Lili (1970)

The troubled production behind the gorgeous DARLING LILI (1970), now out from @WarnerArchive:

Lili Smith (Julie Andrews) is a beautiful and popular singer, living and performing in Paris during World War I. She is also a German spy, working with one Colonel Kurt Von Ruger (Jeremy Kemp), her lover and espionage coordinator. She’s given the job of seducing American pilot Major William Larrabee (Rock Hudson), and when she muses that he’ll at least be a pleasant change from all the old heads…

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Phase IV (1974)

Phase IV (1974), now out on Blu-ray from @OliveFilms:

  After a bizarre-yet-vague cosmic event, ants all across the globe begin to act strangely. Biologist Dr. Ernest Hubbs (Nigel Davenport) and analyst James Lesko (Michael Murphy) travel to a mostly abandoned Arizona town, where all species of which appear to be working together, creating geometric patterns in crop fields and building enormous ant towers. Swarms of ants have killed animals and most…

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The Bees Number is Canceled: Beauty, Boredom, and The Deadly Bees

The Bees Number is Canceled: Beauty, Boredom, and The Deadly Bees (1966), now out on Blu from @OliveFilms:

When pop chanteuse Vicki Robbins (the lovely Suzanna Leigh) collapses from exhaustion — actual exhaustion, not the euphemistic kind that pop stars are usually known for — her doctor prescribes a few weeks of rest. He suggests she visits an old friend of his, Ralph Hargrove (Guy Doleman), at his farm on Seagull Island. Hargrove’s place is nice and rustic but hardly quiet; Ralph raises noisy, noisy…

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Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Murder, My Sweet (1944)

Dick Powell was understandably nervous about taking the role of Philip Marlowe in the now-classic film noir Murder, My Sweet (1944). Having enjoyed a long career as the “juvenile” lead in musicals, the hard-bitten private dick Philip Marlowe was one hell of a long way away from the boy singers Powell had played in lighter fare like Star Spangled Rhythm and the Gold Digger series. RKO was keenly…

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Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

Prick Up Your Ears (1987)

Gary Oldman as Joe Orton in Prick Up Your Ears (1987).   It’s the mid 1980s and biographer John Lahr (Wallace Shawn) is searching for the infamous diaries of playwright Joe Orton (Gary Oldman), hoping to learn more about the man he hopes to unmask in an upcoming book. Lahr’s agent Peggy Ramsay (Vanessa Redgrave) eventually gives him the diaries, and thus we are transported back to the 1960s, when…

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The Hunger (1983)

High-gloss vampires and the research scientists who love them: THE HUNGER from @WarnerArchive:

Despite being a mainstream, upscale version of the European erotic horror flicks of the 1970s, Tony Scott’s The Hunger goes to unnecessary lengths to distance its vampires from the creatures already well-established in the public’s consciousness. Plot points hinge on Miriam and John Blaylock, our stylish vampiric duo, being seen in reflections and photographs, of being out during the daytime, and…

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The Last American Virgin (1982)

Fascinating, cynical & frustrating: THE LAST AMERICAN VIRGIN out today from @OliveFilms:

Dismissed by many as just another crass teenage sex romp not-so-secretly marketed to pervs a generation older than the stars on the screen, The Last American Virgin (1982), in truth, doesn’t disabuse anyone of that notion during its first half. Opening with our young kinda-hero Gary (Lawrence Monoson) struggling to find time to hang with friends despite a busy pizza delivery job and being saddled…

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West of Zanzibar (1928)

New #SBBN post! WEST OF ZANZIBAR (1928) for The Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon:

(Via)   This is the SBBN entry for The Barrymore Trilogy Blogathon, hosted by In the Good Old Days of Classic Hollywood. Make sure to click here and enjoy all the fantastic entries! *** Lon Chaney was one of the biggest movie stars of the silent era, a master of disguise whose dedication to his craft was alternately admirable and obscene. Though a true pioneer in the art of movie make-up, his…

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SBBN Updates: Social Media Hangouts and Other Things of Interest

A new #SBBN post! Social Media Hangouts and Other Things of Interest:

This was originally intended as an end-of-year update, then became a first-of-the-year update, then a do-it-in-March-I-guess-I-dunno update, and now a shit-it’s-almost-fall update. Trust me, we’re all lucky I’ve even gotten this far. Social Media Hangouts There are now dedicated blog-only SBBN accounts on various platforms that update every time there’s a new post. These are separate from my…

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