FILMS WATCHED
JULY 2008 - SEPTEMBER 2008

.....Highest rating. Deserves to be considered a classic.
½ ...Very good. The movie greatly entertains or greatly moves me on a personal level.

.......Good. It is a solid, enjoyable film.

½ ......I like the movie, but can't muster strong feelings for it.

..........I dislike it, but can't muster strong emotions against it.

½ .........Terrible, but not hateful. May have cult appeal.
BOMB ....Lowest rating. The movie is offensive, inept or both.
Titles in bold indicate first time viewing.



7/1 Slave of Love (1976, Nikita Mikhalkov)  

7/2 Rock-A-Doodle (1991, Don Bluth)   ½

7/2 King Rat (1965, Bryan Forbes)  

7/3 The Outsiders (1983, Francis Ford Coppola)   ½

7/4 Black Widow (1954, Nunnally Johnson)   ½

7/5 Mr. Freedom (1969, William Klein)   ½

7/7 Passing Fancy (1933, Yasujiro Ozu)  

7/8 People of the Wind (1976, Andy Howarth)  

7/10 Siddhartha (1972, Conrad Rooks)   ½

7/10 The Song of Bernadette (1943, Henry King)  

7/17 Why Has Bodhi-Dharma Left for the East? (1989, Yong-Kyun Bae)  

7/17 Becket (1964, Peter Glenville)   ½

7/18 The Lady with the Dog (1960, Iosif Kheifits)  

7/18 Straight Time (1978, Ulu Grosbard)  

7/19 Sunset Pass (1946, William Berke)   ½

7/19 What's New Pussycat (1965, Clive Donner)   ½

7/19 World Trade Center (2006, Oliver Stone)  

7/20 The Devil and Max Devlin (1981, Steven Hilliard Stern)  

7/20 Crackerjack (1938, Albert de Courville)  

7/20 Devils of Darkness (1965, Lance Comfort)   ½

7/21 Witchcraft (1964, Don Sharp)  

7/22 Unwed Mother (1958, Walter Doniger)   ½

7/23 Shakes the Clown (1991, Bob Goldthwait)  

7/24 Desert Gold (1936, James P. Hogan)   ½

7/25 Daisy Kenyon (1947, Otto Preminger)  

7/26 Car of Dreams (1935, Graham Cutts, Austin Melford)  

7/26 The Night of the Following Day (1968, Hubert Cornfield)  

7/27 Carnegie Hall (1947, Edgar G. Ulmer)   ½

7/27 Anastasia (1956, Anatole Litvak)  

7/27 The Pyx (1973, Harvey Hart)  

7/28 The Stranglers of Bombay (1960, Terence Fisher)   ½

7/28 The Assassination of Trotsky (1972, Joseph Losey)  

7/29 Pocketful of Miracles (1961, Frank Capra)   ½

7/30 I See A Dark Stranger (1946, Frank Launder)   ½

7/31 Posse (1975, Kirk Douglas)   ½

8/1 The Ugly American (1963, George Englund)  

8/1 The Terror of the Tongs (1961, Anthony Bushell)   ½

8/2 Pirates of Blood River (1962, John Gilling)   ½

8/2 Expresso Bongo (1959, Val Guest)   ½

8/2 The Devil-Ship Pirates (1964, Don Sharp)   ½

8/3 Treasure of the Amazon (1985, René Cardona Jr.)   BOMB

8/3 Midnight Madness (1980, Michael Nankin, David Wechter)   ½

8/4 A Kid for Two Farthings (1955, Carol Reed)   ½

8/5 Fanny (1961, Joshua Logan)  

8/6 A Countess from Hong Kong (1967, Charles Chaplin)  

8/7 The Pirates of Capri (1949, Edgar G. Ulmer)  

8/8 The Green Hornet (1974, William Beaudine, Norman Foster)  

8/8 The Appaloosa (1966, Sidney J. Furie)  

8/8 Of Unknown Origin (1983, George P. Cosmatos)  

8/9 Song of Freedom (1936, J. Elder Wills)  

8/9 Time Without Pity (1957, Joseph Losey)   ½

8/9 World Without End (1956, Edward Bernds)   ½

8/10 Big Fella (1937, J. Elder Wills)  

8/10 The Party (1968, Blake Edwards)  

8/10 The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958, Mark Robson)  

8/11 Satellite in the Sky (1956, Paul Dickson)  

8/11 Run, Appaloosa, Run (1966, Larry Lansburgh)   ½

8/11 Titanic (1953, Jean Negulesco)   ½

8/12 Moon Zero Two (1969, Roy Ward Baker)   ½

8/12 The Mark of Zorro (1940, Rouben Mamoulian)  

8/13 Suddenly, Last Summer (1959, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)  

8/14 When Dinosaurs Ruled the Earth (1970, Val Guest)  

8/16 Lure of the Wilderness (1952, Jean Negulesco)  

8/16 City of Bad Men (1953, Harmon Jones)  

8/16 Victim (1961, Basil Dearden)  

8/17 Across the Wide Missouri (1951, William A. Wellman)  

8/17 Night Tide (1961, Curtis Harrington)  

8/17 Sister Street Fighter (1974, Kazuhiko Yamaguchi)  

8/18 St. Martin's Lane (1938, Tim Whelan)  

8/18 Second Chance (1953, Rudolph Maté)  

8/18 The Egyptian (1954, Michael Curtiz)   ½

8/19 Wings of the Morning (1937, Harold D. Schuster)  

8/19 The Man Inside (1958, John Gilling)  

8/19 House of Numbers (1957, Russell Rouse)  

8/20 The Mercenary (1968, Sergio Corbucci)   ½

8/20 The Gate (1987, Tibor Takács)   ½

8/20 Chained Heat (1983, Paul Nicholas)   ½

8/21 Cover Me Babe (1970, Noel Black)  

8/21 Kill a Dragon (1967, Michael D. Moore)  

8/22 Apachen (1973, Gottfried Kolditz)   ½

8/22 The Landlord (1970, Hal Ashby)   ½

8/23 Ordeal (1973, Lee H. Katzin)  

8/23 The Raid (1954, Hugo Fregonese)   ½

8/24 Tomahawk Trail (1957, Lesley Selander)  

8/24 The Big Show (1961, James B. Clark)  

8/24 Hudson's Bay (1941, Irving Pichel)   ½

8/25 Gunsight Ridge (1957, Francis D. Lyon)   ½

8/25 Battle Beneath the Earth (1967, Montgomery Tully)   ½

8/25 The Topeka Terror (1945, Howard Bretherton)   ½

8/26 Hey, I'm Alive (1975, Lawrence Schiller)  

8/26 Hickey & Boggs (1972, Robert Culp)  

8/26 The Ultimate Warrior (1975, Robert Clouse)  

8/26 The Mummy (1999, Stephen Sommers)  

8/27 The Horror of It All (1963, Terence Fisher)   ½

8/27 Grindhouse (2007, Robert Rodriguez, Quentin Tarantino)   ½

8/29 Death Rides a Horse (1967, Giulio Petroni)  

8/29 Kidnapped (1938, Alfred L. Werker)   ½

9/1 Blood Money (1933, Rowland Brown)  

9/3 The Honey Pot (1967, Joseph L. Mankiewicz)  

9/4 John Goldfarb, Please Come Home (1965, J. Lee Thompson)   ½

9/4 The African Queen (1951, John Huston)   ½

9/4 Down to the Sea in Ships (1949, Henry Hathaway)  

9/5 In the Year 2889 (1967, Larry Buchanan)   ½

9/5 The Monkey's Uncle (1965, Robert Stevenson)  

9/5 The Little Hut (1957, Mark Robson)  

9/6 Welcome to Hard Times (1967, Burt Kennedy)   ½

9/8 Sins of Rome (1953, Riccardo Freda)  

9/8 Rat Pfink a Boo Boo (1966, Ray Dennis Steckler)   BOMB

9/9 Harry in Your Pocket (1973, Bruce Geller)   ½

9/9 The Misfits (1961, John Huston)  

9/10 Blue Water, White Death (1971, Peter Gimbel, James Lipscomb)  

9/10 Dangerous Crossing (1953, Joseph M. Newman)  

9/11 Billy Two Hats (1974, Ted Kotcheff)  

9/11 A Hard Day's Night (1964, Richard Lester)   ½

9/11 Rush (1991, Lili Fini Zanuck)  

9/12 Fearless Frank (1967, Philip Kaufman)   ½

9/13 The Hawaiians (1970, Tom Gries)   ½

9/15 The Second Face (1950, Jack Bernhard)   ½

9/15 Here We Go Round the Mulberry Bush (1967, Clive Donner)  

9/18 The Buccaneer (1958, Anthony Quinn)   ½

9/18 Lady in the Water (2006, M. Night Shyamalan)  

9/19 Moon Pilot (1962, James Neilson)  

9/19 Samson and Delilah (1949, Cecil B. DeMille)   ½

9/20 The Secret Invasion (1964, Roger Corman)   ½

9/23 The Diary of Anne Frank (1959, George Stevens)   ½

9/24 A Scanner Darkly (2006, Richard Linklater)   ½

9/25 Mogambo (1953, John Ford)  

9/25 The King (2005, James Marsh)  

9/26 The Caretakers (1963, Hall Bartlett)  

9/26 Valley of the Dolls (1967, Mark Robson)   ½

9/27 Beyond the Valley of the Dolls (1970, Russ Meyer)   ½

9/29 Gilda (1946, Charles Vidor)   ½

9/29 The Millionairess (1960, Anthony Asquith)  

9/30 She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949, John Ford)   ½

9/30 Peyton Place (1957, Mark Robson)   ½