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FILMS WATCHED
NOVEMBER 2008 - JANUARY 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.


11/1 Sugar Hill (1974, Paul Maslansky)  

11/1 Pirates of Tripoli (1955, Felix E. Feist)  

11/2 Telefon (1977, Don Siegel)  

11/2 Curse of the Crimson Altar (1968, Vernon Sewell)   ½

11/2 The Mortal Storm (1940, Frank Borzage)  

11/3 Dr. Goldfoot and the Girl Bombs (1966, Mario Bava)   ½

11/3 A Rage to Live (1965, Walter Grauman)   ½

11/4 Number One (1969, Tom Gries)   ½

11/5 Celui qui Doit Mourir (1957, Jules Dassin)   ½

11/9 Decision Against Time (1957, Charles Crichton)   ½

11/9 The Moonlighter (1953, Roy Rowland)  

11/9 The Clairvoyant (1934, Maurice Elvey)   ½

11/10 A Hatful of Rain (1957, Fred Zinnemann)   ½

11/10 Voyage of the Damned (1976, Stuart Rosenberg)  

11/10 Tomorrow We Live (1942, Edgar G. Ulmer)   ½

11/11 Tell Them Willie Boy Is Here (1969, Abraham Polonsky)  

11/11 Last of the Buccaneers (1950, Lew Landers)  

11/13 A Ticket to Tomahawk (1950, Richard Sale)  

11/17 Alfred the Great (1969, Clive Donner)   ½

11/18 Chad Hanna (1940, Henry King)  

11/18 Rock Island Trail (1950, Joseph Kane)  

11/19 W.W. and the Dixie Dancekings (1975, John G. Avildsen)   ½

11/19 Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952, Charles Lamont)  

11/19 Monsoon (1943, Edgar G. Ulmer)   ½

11/20 The Hairy Ape (1944, Alfred Santell)  

11/20 The Night They Raided Minsky's (1968, William Friedkin)  

11/20 A Study in Scarlet (1933, Edwin L. Marin)  

11/20 Time Travelers (1976, Alexander Singer)   ½

11/21 Murder at the Baskervilles (1937, Thomas Bentley)   ½


11/21 Raiders of the Seven Seas (1953, Sidney Salkow)  

11/23 Desert Sands (1955, Lesley Selander)  

11/25 Valley of the Kings (1954, Robert Pirosh)   ½

11/25 Fighter Squadron (1948, Raoul Walsh)  

11/26 The Canterville Ghost (1944, Jules Dassin)   ½

11/26 Rhodes of Africa (1936, Berthold Viertel)  

11/26 The Iron Sheriff (1957, Sidney Salkow)   ½

11/26 Joanna (1968, Michael Sarne)  

11/27 Jack Slade (1953, Harold D. Schuster)  

11/27 Plymouth Adventure (1952, Clarence Brown)  

11/27 A Man Alone (1955, Ray Milland)   ½

11/28 99 and 44/100% Dead (1974, John Frankenheimer)  

11/28 Capone (1975, Steve Carver)   ½

11/30 The Gallant Hours (1960, Robert Montgomery)  

12/1 Genevieve (1953, Henry Cornelius)  

12/1 Those Fantastic Flying Fools (1967, Don Sharp)  

12/2 Chicago Confidential (1957, Sidney Salkow)   ½

12/4 Wild River (1960, Elia Kazan)   ½

12/4 Lady of Vengeance (1957, Burt Balaban)  

12/4 The Giant Spider Invasion (1975, Bill Rebane)   ½

12/5 Pushover (1954, Richard Quine)  

12/5 The Black Knight (1954, Tay Garnett)  

12/5 Spaceflight IC-1: An Adventure in Space (1965, Bernard Knowles)   ½

12/5 The Fastest Gun Alive (1956, Russell Rouse)  

12/6 Monte Walsh (1970, William A. Fraker)  

12/7 Bigger Than Life (1956, Nicholas Ray)   ½

12/7 Smoky (1966, George Sherman)   ½

12/8 Salome (1953, William Dieterle)   ½

12/8 Adventure (1945, Victor Fleming)  

12/9 El Condor (1970, John Guillermin)  

12/13 Davy Crockett, Indian Scout (1950, Lew Landers)  

12/14 Conquest of the Planet of the Apes (1972, J. Lee Thompson)  

12/14 Stanley and Livingstone (1939, Henry King)  

12/15 The Sterile Cuckoo (1969, Alan J. Pakula)  

12/15 Yellowstone Kelly (1959, Gordon Douglas)  

12/15 One Million B.C. (1940, Hal Roach, Hal Roach Jr.)   ½

12/15 The Drum (1938, Zoltan Korda)   ½

12/16 Carson City (1952, Andre De Toth)   ½

12/16 Comanche (1956, George Sherman)  

12/17 All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953, Richard Thorpe)   ½

12/17 Zero to Sixty (1978, Don Weis)  

12/17 When the Legends Die (1972, Stuart Millar)  

12/18 Burn! (1969, Gillo Pontecorvo)  

12/18 Caesar and Cleopatra (1945, Gabriel Pascal)   ½

12/18 Fort Defiance (1951, John Rawlins)   ½

12/18 Where Have All the People Gone (1974, John Llewellyn Moxey)   ½

12/19 Captain Caution (1940, Richard Wallace)  

12/22 Thanks for Everything (1938, William A. Seiter)  

12/23 Remember the Night (1940, Mitchell Leisen)  

12/23 Mister Magoo's Christmas Carol (1962, Abe Levitow)   ½

12/23 Holiday Affair (1949, Don Hartman)   ½

12/24 It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947, Roy Del Ruth)  

12/24 Bush Christmas (1947, Ralph Smart)  

12/24 Susan Slept Here (1954, Frank Tashlin)  

12/25 Bundle of Joy (1956, Norman Taurog)   ½

12/25 All Mine to Give (1957, Allen Reisner)  

12/25 Babes in Toyland (1934, Gus Meins, Charley Rogers)   ½

12/26 The Offence (1972, Sidney Lumet)   ½

12/27 Fortunes of Captain Blood (1950, Gordon Douglas)  

12/27 Privilege (1967, Peter Watkins)  

12/29 Soldier's Three (1951, Tay Garnett)  

12/30 Two Weeks in Another Town (1962, Vincente Minnelli)  

12/30 Westbound (1959, Budd Boetticher)   ½

12/31 The Money Trap (1965, Burt Kennedy)  

12/31 Party Monster (2003, Fenton Bailey, Randy Barbato)   ½

12/31 Reprisal! (1956, George Sherman)   ½

1/1 Summer and Smoke (1961, Peter Glenville)   ½

1/1 Savage Streets (1984, Danny Steinmann)   ½

1/1 Boss Nigger (1975, Jack Arnold)  

1/1 Loose Shoes (1980, Ira Miller)   ½

1/2 Brimstone (1949, Joseph Kane)   ½

1/2 Play It As It Lays (1972, Frank Perry)  

1/2 War Drums (1957, Reginald LeBorg)  

1/3 Odyssey of the Pacific (1982, Fernando Arrabal)  

1/5 The Haunted House of Horror (1969, Michael Armstrong)  

1/5 Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay! (1948, F. Hugh Herbert)  

1/5 Let's Spend the Night Together (1983, Hal Ashby)   ½

1/6 Eagle's Wing (1979, Anthony Harvey)  

1/6 War Paint (1953, Lesley Selander)  

1/6 Gunslinger (1956, Roger Corman)   ½

1/7 The Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse (1962, Vincente Minnelli)  

1/7 Blind Alley (1939, Charles Vidor)   ½

1/9 Gun Belt (1953, Ray Nazarro)  

1/10 A Thousand and One Nights (1945, Alfred E. Green)   ½

1/10 Phaedra (1962, Jules Dassin)   ½

1/10 Frontier Scout (1956, Lesley Selander)  

1/11 Sword of the Conqueror (1962, Carlo Campogalliani)  

1/11 Made in USA (1987, Ken Friedman)  

1/11 Model Shop (1969, Jacques Demy)  

1/13 Boeing Boeing (1965, John Rich)  

1/14 Pawnee (1957, George Waggner)   ½

1/16 The Last of the Mohicans (1936, George B. Seitz)   ½

1/18 A Thousand Clowns (1965, Fred Coe)   ½

1/18 Gordon's War (1973, Ossie Davis)   ½

1/19 Western Union (1941, Fritz Lang)  

1/20 Dracula vs. Frankenstein (1971, Al Adamson)   ½

1/20 The Outcasts of Poker Flat (1952, Joseph M. Newman)  

1/22 Don't Make Waves (1967, Alexander Mackendrick)   ½

1/23 The Satan Bug (1965, John Sturges)  

1/24 Toughest Man in Arizona (1952, R.G. Springsteen)  

1/25 H.M. Pulham, Esq. (1941, King Vidor)  

1/27 The Marauders (1955, Gerald Mayer)  

1/28 The Magic Box (1951, John Boulting)   ½

1/29 Overland Pacific (1954, Fred F. Sears)   ½

1/29 The Kremlin Letter (1970, John Huston)