John Emery Archives

Here Comes Mr Jordan (1941)

Rating: ★★½

Feb 3, 2000Afterlife Mixup

One of the original Hollywood afterlife films of the 1940s light fantasy boom, twice remade, most notedly as Warren Beatty’s Heaven Can Wait. Amiable and likeable while avoiding any deeper issues

Director: Alexander Hall

Actors: Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Evelyn Keyes, James Gleason, …

Category: Fantasy

3 February 200014 March 2026 by Roog

Rocketship X-M (1950)

Rating: ★★★

Mar 9, 2010Space Expedition

Low-budget film designed to copy the success of Destination Moon that ended up being the first film of the 1950s Golden Age. A surprisingly modest effort about a rocketship going off course to land on Mars

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Lloyd Bridges, Osa Massen, John Emery, Noah Beery Jr, …

Category: Science Fiction

9 March 201010 December 2025 by Roog

The Mad Magician (1954)

Rating: ★★

Sep 7, 2001Psycho Stage Magician

Vincent Price had success as the mad waxworks curator in the 3D horror House of Wax. This cheap copycat casts Price as a mad stage magician and is also served up in 3D

Director: John Brahm

Actors: Vincent Price, Eva Gabor, Mary Murphy, Donald Randolph, …

Category: Horror

7 September 200111 October 2021 by Roog

Kronos (1957)

Rating: ★★★

Feb 1, 2022Alien Energy-Devouring Machine

A 1950s alien invader film that is driven by the quite imaginative image of a giant black alien cube marching across the countryside devouring all forms of energy

Director: Kurt Neumann

Actors: Jeff Morrow, John Emery, George O'Hanlon, Morris Ankrum

Category: Science Fiction

1 February 202214 June 2026 by Roog