Monday, July 11, 2022

'NEATH CANADIAN SKIES (1946)
























Directed by: B. Reeves Eason
Based on the story by: James Oliver Curwood
Starring: Russell Hayden, Inez Cooper, Douglas Fowley, Cliff Nazarro, I. Stanford Jolley, Jack Mulhall, Kermit Maynard, Dick Alexander, Pat Hurst, Gil Patric

40 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Thompson is after Elliot's gold mine. If he can keep it inactive for one year, he can file on it. But when his men kill a Mountie, Tim is sent to investigate. Posing as an outlaw, he hopes to trap the gang by making a deal with them. But he is in trouble when his true identity becomes known.

 

YOUNGBLOOD (1986)
























Directed by: Peter Markle
Starring: Rob Lowe, Patrick Swayze, Cynthia Gibb, Ed Lauter, Jim Youngs, Fionnula Flanagan, Ken James, George Finn, Peter Faussett, Eric Nesterenko, Keanu Reeves, Charlie Wasley, Ricky Davis, Peter Zezel, Steve Thomas

110 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sports violence, nudity)

PLOT:
New York farmer's son Dean Youngblood is a natural at ice hockey, the Canadian national sport. After selection for the Canadian Hamilton Mustangs, the future looks bright, even his landlady is hot. He falls in love with coach Murray Chadwick's daughter Jessie, causing a dangerous tension. Alas, his fine technique has one flaw: it's nearly without defense against brutality. That's the trademark of Racki, who wanted his team spot, and now takes it out on Dean and his team mentor Derek Sutton.

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MORTUARY (2005)
























Directed by: Tobe Hooper
Starring: Dan Byrd, Alexandra Adi, Denise Crosby, Courtney Peldon, Bug Hall, Stephanie Patton, Tarah Paige, Rocky Marquette, Michael Shamus Wiles, Greg Travis, Price Carson, Adam Gierasch, Lee Garlington

94 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, violence, gore, some nudity, drug use)

PLOT:
The widow Leslie Doyle has just lost her husband and moves with her teenage son Jonathan and her young daughter Jamie to a mortuary in a small town in California that she has bought with the intention of starting a new business, practicing her knowledge as mortician. When they arrive, Leslie realizes that she was lured by the former owner, Elliot, and that the decrepit Fowler Brothers Funeral Home was completely abandoned and with problem with the septic sewer. While Leslie tries to improve and clean the place and start embalming corpses, Jonathan is informed about the legend of Bobby Fowler, the deformed son of the Fowlers. Meanwhile a weird substance attacks people, transforming them in zombies.

 

Sunday, July 10, 2022

'NEATH THE ARIZONA SKIES (1934)


















Directed by: Harry L. Fraser
Starring: John Wayne, Sheila Terry, George "Gabby" Hayes, Shirley Jean Rickert, Jack Rockwell, Yakima Canutt, Jay Wilsey, Philip Kieffer, Earl Dwire, Harry L. Fraser

53 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
Chris Morrell, the guardian of half-Indian girl Nina, is helping her find her missing white father. so she can cash in on her late mother's oil lease. Outlaw Sam Black is after the girl and her father as well. Besides dealing with the Black gang, Morrell has to find another robber, Jim Moore, who switches clothes with him after he finds Chris unconscious from a fight with Sam Black. Along the way, he meets a lady who's the sister of Jim Moore, another bad hombre who's in cahoots with Sam Black, and an old friend who takes in Nina and helps Chris locate Nina's father and fight off the various desperadoes.

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Saturday, July 9, 2022

THE BISHOP'S WIFE (1947)
























Directed by: Henry Koster
Based on the novel by: Robert Nathan
Starring: Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven, Monty Woolley, James Gleason, Gladys Cooper, Elsa Lanchester, Sara Haden, Karolyn Grimes, Tito Vuolo, Regis Toomey, Sarah Edwards, Margaret McWade, Anne O'Neal, Ben Erway, Erville Alderson, Robert J. Anderson, Teddy Infuhr, Eugene Borden, Almira Sessions, Claire Du Brey, Florence Auer, Margaret Wells, Kitty O'Neil, Isabel Jewell, David Leonard, Dorothy Vaughan, Edgar Dearing, The Robert Mitchell Boys Choir

109 minutes
(NR - adult themes)

PLOT:
An Episcopal Bishop, Henry Brougham, has been working for months on the plans for an elaborate new cathedral which he hopes will be paid for primarily by a wealthy, stubborn widow. He is losing sight of his family and of why he became a churchman in the first place. Enter Dudley, an angel sent to help him. Dudley does help everyone he meets, but not necessarily in the way they would have preferred. With the exception of Henry, everyone loves him, but Henry begins to believe that Dudley is there to replace him, both at work and in his family's affections, as Christmas approaches.

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THREE AMIGOS! (1986)
























Directed by: John Landis
Screenplay by: Steve Martin, Lorne Michaels, Randy Newman
Starring: Chevy Chase, Steve Martin, Martin Short, Alfonso Arau, Tony Plana, Patrice Martinez, Joe Mantegna, Phil Hartman, Jon Lovitz, Tino Insana, Loyda Ramos, Phillip Gordon, Kai Wulff, Fred Asparagus, Norbert Weisser, Brian Thompson, Randy Newman, Rebecca Underwood

103 minutes
(PG - adult language, adult themes, adult situations, violence)

PLOT:
When silent film stars Lucky Day, Dusty Bottoms and Ned Nederlander get fired, they take a job offer from Mexico: Doing a show with El Guapo, supposedly the most famous actor there. Traveling there in hope of getting good money, they arrive only to learn soon that El Guapo is not an actor, but a cruel gang leader suppressing people. He abducts the mayor's beautiful daughter Carmen (to be his wife) in revenge for the people's cry for help. Now, all hopes of the village folks rest on the weak shoulders of three minor-talented actors, who can't just walk off the set this time.

CLIP:


 

THE DEADLY SPAWN (1983)


 





















Directed by: Douglas McKeown
Starring: Charles George Hildebrandt, Tom DeFranco, Richard Lee Porter, Jean Tafler, Karen Tighe, James Brewster, Elissa Neil, Ethel Michelson, John Schmerling

78 minutes
(R - strong language, adult themes, adult situations, sci-fi/fantasy violence, gore)

PLOT:
Two campers in the New Jersey woods have their outdoor fun interrupted by the arrival of a meteorite crashing nearby. They go to investigate the crater, but are suddenly attacked and devoured by alien parasites who have hitched a ride to Earth. After finishing off the campers, the hungry space monsters head for a nearby town, where they make their domain in the basement of an old house soon begin polishing off one hapless inhabitant after another. Four young teenagers, plus one pre-teen boy, try to find a way to stop the angry space monsters before they reproduce and literally eat humanity.

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