Pulp Action from the Wild West through the Dirty 30s and More.
After accidentally eating some hallucinogenic mushrooms, Ka-zar (and Zabu) finds himself engulfed in the world of the pulp magazine story he was reading, where Shanna is his prey. Fun little one-shot with cover art by Brent Anderson
Promotional shot of Diana Dors in Allied Artists 1956 film Blonde Sinner
Kathleen Stewart (Lucille Ball) works for Bradford Galt (Mark Stevens), a private eye who recently moved from San Fransisco to NYC after a 2 year stint in the slammer for a crime he didn’t commit. When Galt is framed (again) for murder, Kathleen does what she can do to help him find the real killer.
Continue reading “Dark Corner, 1946”
An early noir piece starring Ava Gardner and Burt Lancaster, partly on the 1927 short story of the same name by Ernest Hemingway. besides being Burt’s first role, it was also William Conrad’s first credited role, being on of the killers. Two killers come to the small town of Brentwood and kill “The Swede” (Lancaster), The rest of the film is in flashback mode as life insurance investigator Jim Reardon (Edmond O’Brien), unfolds the story leading up to the Swede’s murder.
