The best of the Mike Hammer movies is Kiss Me Deadly, with Ralph Meeker...and Cloris Leachman...and Abert Dekker...and Jack Elam...and Strother Martin...and the Great Whatsit.
The Great Whatsit showed up in Pulp Fiction, and perhaps in Repo Man, only it was the car trunk.
Kiss Me Deadly is one of those must-see movies.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who wishes we still had the cars and clothes in the movie.
I am apparently the only person in the United States who saw this film when it came out. I don't get it.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who spends a lot of time in the pool just like Kiefer Sutherland.
Richard Widmark died a few years ago at 93. I had seen all of his movies except the first one, which has the classic scene of Widmark pushing an old lady down the stairs. I finally saw it, and Widmark came across as a really good psycho killer!
Posted by Bob Wallace, who wishes guys still wore cool hats.
I saw "Real Steel" a few days ago and it's better than I thought it would be. It's based on a short story by Richard Matheson, who wrote "I am Legend," which so far has been filmed three times. Then there is "The incredible Shrinking Man."
The movie has guy stuff -- gigantic robots pounding each other into scrap. Then there's the girl stuff - the relationship between father, son and girlfriend. So they cover all the bases.
Posted by bob Wallace, who doesn't have a fighting robot, darn it.
Well here's another Retro Sci Fi/ Horror film that's being released in the next few weeks. April 24 in England.
Outlander!
It's about some huge killer alien that lands on earth during the Viking days. So there is sure to be a lot of fighting. Yay!
More about this movieposted by Tom Novak, who learned from Ernest Borgnine how to yell Ooooooodin! and leap into a pit of wolves.
When I saw a little kid I saw "Robinson Crusoe on Mars." I was surprised at how good it was.
Never seen it on TV, never seen it at the video store. But it's at Netflix, and on the way.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who says, Hoorah for Netflix!
I had ":Gangs of New York" next to my Netflix queue but replaced it with the 1965 James Stewart film, "Shenandoah."
I have only seen "Shenandoah" once on TV, and that is not accident.
There is a part in the film where a Confederate conscription gang comes to take his sons and he tells them, "They are my sons," even though he is himself a Southerner.
The is not pro-North or pro-South, not even anti-war, just anti-State.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who can play "Shenandoah" on the harmonica.
I finally got around to seeing "Gods and Generals" some what? five years after it came out?
This is a fair film. The PC delusion is that the North was saintly and South was evil. There is also the view the South was good and the North evil.
The truth is not so simple. The movie points out, correctly, the War Between the States was never about slavery, but the attempt by the South to detach itself from the North because of economic issues. In other words, money.
Later, the war was justified by saying it was about slavery, making it a moral and not an economic issue.
Nobody is demonized in the film, whether they are Northerners or Southerners.
There is a particularly disturbing scene in the movie, in which a Northern Irish brigade assaults a Southern Irish brigage. One Southern Irishman, when he sees them, says, "These are our brothers!," and another responds, "Have they learned nothing from England's occupation of Ireland?"
Of course, they mow then down anyway.
That scene illustrates something I've said for years: the War Between the States was the conflict between England and Scotland and Ireland transplanted to the U.S. Yankees are the English and the South and a lot of the Midwest are Scots-Irish.
That's why I was for the South, and it turns out I was right. All you have to do is look at what the federal government has turned into. And it's because the North won, and not the South.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who is a Scots-Irish Ozarkian hillbilly.
I first remember Patrick MoGoohan as being the Scarecorw, then Secret Agant Man, then the Prisoner. But I always associate this song with him.
Posted by Bob Wallace, who hopes he'll live to see tomorow, as long as he avoids those pesky meteors.
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