The Lost World (1925)
Jul 3, 2000Lost Plateau of Dinosaurs
This was the quintessential lost world film. Based on an Arthur Conan Doyle novel and featuring stop-motion animated dinosaurs from King Kong creator Willis O’Brien
First National
Seven Footprints to Satan (1929)
Mar 18, 2013Old Dark House Thriller
An Old Dark House film from the silent era. Haxan director Benjamin Christensen turns the mansion into a fantastical netherworld and creates a compulsive atmosphere of weird and fascinating happenings that is is only marred only by a contrived mundane ending
The Return of Dr X (1939)
Jan 3, 1999Mad Scientist/Medical Vampire
Not a sequel to Doctor X despite the title, The main footnote this has is that it stars Humphrey Bogart as a vampire lab assistant. Halfway reasonable despite a bad reputation.
Murder in the Air (1940)
Jun 18, 2019Air Adventure/Deadly Ray Weapon
The only Ronald Reagan film that will ever be reviewed on this site. An air adventure story typical to the era where Reagan pays a treasury agent who tries to bust a fifth column of agents trying to steal a raygun
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1942)
Jun 14, 2002Last Trumpeter Screwball Comedy
A screwball comedy with Jack Benny as a trumpeter send down from Heaven to Earth to blow the Last Trumpet who ends up getting distracted by a series of comic mishaps
The Mysterious Doctor (1943)
Jul 6, 2000Haunted Mine
Film made during World War II about the locals of small English town dealing with a haunted mine and uncovering a Nazi infiltration plot