FILMS WATCHED
MARCH to JUNE 2009




















.....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.
...........Lowest rating. The movie is offensive, inept or both.

Titles in bold indicate first time viewing.
3/3 Southwest Passage (1954, Ray Nazarro)   ½
3/4 Revolt of the Slaves (1960, Nunzio Malasomma)   ½
3/4 The Journey (1959, Anatole Litvak)  
3/4 The Nevadan (1950, Gordon Douglas)   ½
3/5 Robbers' Roost (1955, Sidney Salkow)   ½
3/6 The Killer That Stalked New York (1950, Earl McEvoy)  
3/6 Old Los Angeles (1948, Joseph Kane)   ½
3/7 Cheyenne (1947, Raoul Walsh)  
3/9 Noose for a Gunman (1960, Edward L. Cahn)  
3/10 The Revolt of Mamie Stover (1956, Raoul Walsh)   ½
3/10 Follow Me Quietly (1949, Richard Fleischer)   ½
3/12 My Gun Is Quick (1957, Phil Victor, George White)  
3/12 The Dark Past (1948, Rudolph Maté)   ½
3/13 The Last Bandit (1949, Joseph Kane)  
3/13 Wagon Master (1950, John Ford)  
3/14 Cold Turkey (1971, Norman Lear)   ½
3/14 Three Strangers (1946, Jean Negulesco)  
3/15 The Terror of Tiny Town (1938, Sam Newfield)   ½
3/16 Rebel in Town (1956, Alfred L. Werker)   ½
3/17 I'd Climb the Highest Mountain (1951, Henry King)   ½
3/18 Psyche 59 (1964, Alexander Singer)   ½
3/20 The Mountain Road (1960, Daniel Mann)  
3/21 The Notorious Landlady (1962, Richard Quine)  
3/21 Trooper Hook (1957, Charles Marquis Warren)   ½
3/22 Hard Contract (1969, S. Lee Pogostin)  
3/22 The Unholy Three (1930, Jack Conway)  
3/23 The Man Between (1953, Carol Reed)  
3/24 Stars in My Crown (1950, Jacques Tourneur)   ½
3/26 Night Must Fall (1937, Richard Thorpe)  
3/26 Gun Battle at Monterey (1957, Carl Hittleman, Sidney Franklin Jr.)  
3/27 Under the Yum Yum Tree (1963, David Swift)   ½
3/28 Outlaw's Son (1957, Lesley Selander)  
3/31 Dangerous (1935, Alfred E. Green)  
4/2 The Magic Carpet (1951, Lew Landers)  
4/2 The Fugitive (1947, John Ford)   ½
4/2 The Last Command (1955, Frank Lloyd)   ½
4/3 Thief of Damascus (1952, Will Jason)  
4/3 None But the Lonely Heart (1944, Clifford Odets)  
4/3 The Swinger (1966, George Sidney)  
4/4 The Pleasure Seekers (1964, Jean Negulesco)  
4/4 The Citadel (1938, King Vidor)  
4/4 Three Comrades (1938, Frank Borzage)  
4/4 The 27th Day (1957, William Asher)  
4/5 The H-Man (1958, Ishirô Honda)   ½
4/5 The White Buffalo (1977, J. Lee Thompson)  
4/6 Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet (1940, William Dieterle)  
4/9 Lock Up Your Daughters! (1969, Peter Coe)   ½
4/10 Dante's Inferno (1935, Harry Lachman)   ½
4/11 Conrack (1974, Martin Ritt)   ½
4/11 He Ran All the Way (1951, John Berry)  
4/11 The Captive City (1952, Robert Wise)   ½
4/12 Quentin Durward (1955, Richard Thorpe)   ½
4/12 Beau Brummell (1954, Curtis Bernhardt)   ½
4/13 Sweet Jesus, Preacherman (1973, Henning Schellerup)   ½
4/15 Three Outlaw Samurai (1964, Hideo Gosha)  
4/16 Jubilee Trail (1954, Joseph Kane)  
4/17 The Unsuspected (1947, Michael Curtiz)  
4/18 Johnny Guitar (1954, Nicholas Ray)   ½
4/18 The Mask of Dimitrios (1944, Jean Negulesco)   ½
4/19 Che! (1969, Richard Fleischer)  
4/20 Johnny Eager (1942, Mervyn LeRoy)   ½
4/20 Scene of the Crime (1949, Roy Rowland)  
4/20 Last Night at the Alamo (1983, Eagle Pennell)   ½
4/21 The Younger Brothers (1949, Edwin L. Marin)  
4/21 Zotz! (1962, William Castle)   ½
4/21 Ambush (1949, Sam Wood)   ½
4/22 Tribute to a Bad Man (1956, Robert Wise)   ½
4/23 Arena (1953, Richard Fleischer)   ½
4/24 The Whole Town's Talking (1935, John Ford)  
4/25 Where It's At (1969, Garson Kanin)   ½
4/27 Mine Own Executioner (1947, Anthony Kimmins)  
4/27 Nightmare Honeymoon (1973, Elliot Silverstein)  
4/28 Too Many Crooks (1959, Mario Zampi)  
4/28 The Honkers (1972, Steve Ihnat)  
4/30 Hook, Line and Sinker (1969, George Marshall)  
5/1 Three on a Couch (1966, Jerry Lewis)  
5/3 The Big Mouth (1967, Jerry Lewis)  
5/4 North West Frontier (1959, J. Lee Thompson)  
5/5 Shack Out on 101 (1955, Edward Dein)   ½
5/5 Man from Del Rio (1956, Harry Horner)  
5/5 Kansas Pacific (1953, Ray Nazarro)   ½
5/6 The Neanderthal Man (1953, E. A. Dupont)   ½
5/6 How I Won the War (1967, Richard Lester)  
5/7 Futureworld (1976, Richard T. Heffron)  
5/7 Young Cassidy (1965, Jack Cardiff)  
5/8 The Pace That Thrills (1952, Leon Barsha)  
5/9 The Outcast (1954, William Witney)   ½
5/10 The Honeymoon Machine (1961, Richard Thorpe)  
5/11 The Phantom Tollbooth (1970, Chuck Jones)  
5/12 The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939, Richard Thorpe)   ½
5/13 The Fortune (1975, Mike Nichols)   ½
5/14 1001 Arabian Nights (1959, Jack Kinney)   ½
5/14 Call Her Savage (1932, John Francis Dillon)   ½
5/15 The Jackpot (1950, Walter Lang)  
5/15 Mickey One (1965, Arthur Penn)   ½
5/15 Carbine Williams (1952, Richard Thorpe)  
5/15 The Lost Missile (1958, William Berke)   ½
5/16 The Tiger Makes Out (1967, Arthur Hiller)   ½
5/17 Siren of Bagdad (1953, Richard Quine)  
5/18 Mister Buddwing (1966, Delbert Mann)  
5/19 Bewitched (1945, Arch Oboler)   ½
5/20 Rose Marie (1954, Mervyn LeRoy)  
5/21 Hellgate (1952, Charles Marquis Warren)  
5/21 Sugata Sanshiro (1943, Akira Kurosawa)  
5/22 Zoku Sugata Sanshiro (1945, Akira Kurosawa)  
5/22 The Twonky (1953, Arch Oboler)   ½
5/23 Body Snatcher from Hell (1968, Hajime Sato)   ½
5/23 Lisa (1962, Philip Dunne)   ½
5/23 Danger Signal (1945, Robert Florey)   ½
5/24 The Marriage of a Young Stockbroker (1971, Lawrence Turman)   ½
5/24 The World's Greatest Sinner (1962, Timothy Carey)  
5/24 Union Station (1950, Rudolph Maté)   ½
5/25 The Brigand (1952, Phil Karlson)   ½
5/25 The Big Land (1957, Gordon Douglas)   ½
5/25 The Road to Ruin (1934, Dorothy Davenport, Melville Shyer)  
5/26 Two for the Seesaw (1962, Robert Wise)   ½
5/26 The Relentless Four (1965, Primo Zeglio)  
5/26 House (1977, Nobuhiko Obayashi)   ½
5/27 Captain Sindbad (1963, Byron Haskin)   ½
5/27 Mystery Liner (1934, William Nigh)  
5/28 Lost Lagoon (1958, John Rawlins)  
5/28 The Road to Denver (1955, Joe Kane)   ½
5/29 Escort Girl (1941, Edward E. Kaye)   ½
5/31 Tribes (1970, Joseph Sargent)  
6/1 The Verdict (1946, Don Siegel)  
6/2 Island of Doomed Men (1940, Charles Barton)  
6/2 Yotsuya Kaidan (1949, Keisuke Kinoshita)  
6/3 Yotsuya Kaidan, Part II (1949, Keisuke Kinoshita)   ½
6/3 Old San Francisco (1927, Alan Crosland)  
6/4 20 Mule Team (1940, Richard Thorpe)   ½
6/5 Take a Giant Step (1959, Philip Leacock)   ½
6/6 The Explosive Generation (1961, Buzz Kulick)   ½
6/7 Something Wild (1961, Jack Garfein)   ½
6/8 Barquero (1970, Gordon Douglas)  
6/9 The First Time (1969, James Neilson)   ½
6/10 Woman of Straw (1964, Basil Dearden)  
6/10 The Tunnel (1935, Maurice Elvey)  
6/10 The Runaway Bus (1954, Val Guest)  
6/11 Yabu no Naka no Kuroneko (1968, Kaneto Shindô)   ½
6/11 Miranda (1948, Ken Annakin)   ½
6/11 Castle in the Air (1952, Richard Quine)   ½
6/12 Callaway Went Thataway (1951, Melvin Frank, Norman Panama)   ½
6/12 And Now... Miguel (1953, Joseph Krumgold)  
6/12 Thunder Rock (1942, Roy Boulting)   ½
6/13 The Best Man (1964, Franklin J. Schaffner)   ½
6/14 The Wonderful Country (1959, Robert Parrish)   ½
6/16 Jack McCall Desperado (1953, Sidney Salkow)  
6/17 Riptide (1934, Edmund Goulding)   ½
6/18 Dirigible (1931, Frank Capra)  
6/19 The Lawless (1950, Joseph Losey)  
6/19 Cry Tough (1959, Paul Stanley)  
6/19 Because They're Young (1960, Paul Wendkos)  
6/20 Submarine Command (1951, John Farrow)  
6/20 The Pursuit of Happiness (1971, Robert Mulligan)  
6/20 Carnival in Costa Rica (1947, Gregory Ratoff)   ½
6/21 Strangers May Kiss (1931, George Fitzmaurice)  
6/21 Men of the Fighting Lady (1954, Andrew Marton)  
6/21 Cry of the City (1948, Robert Siodmak)  
6/22 Call of the Jungle (1944, Phil Rosen)   ½
6/23 The In-Laws (1979, Arthur Hiller)   ½
6/24 Strangers in the City (1962, Rick Carrier)   ½
6/26 The Running Man (1963, Carol Reed)  
6/27 Walk Proud (1979, Robert E. Collins)   ½
6/27 The Wrong Box (1966, Bryan Forbes)  
6/27 The Secret of St. Ives (1949, Phil Rosen)  
6/28 Boulevard Nights (1979, Michael Pressman)   ½
6/28 Violent Saturday (1955, Richard Fleischer)  
6/29 The Magnificent Dope (1942, Walter Lang)   ½
6/30 Desire in the Dust (1960, William F. Claxton)