Wings of Danger (1952) does feature an ex-pat American pilot in Britain suspecting that his small cargo airline employer is involved in some shady business, but that really doesn’t compare. I’m sorry. Mid-’50s drive-in suspense B-flick producers just didn’t know from REAL entertainment, did they?
#1 by lyzard on March 26, 2008 - 9:50 pm
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HA!! Not only do I pour scorn and derison upon you for reviewing a film that features neither skeleton-suited men nor sex-demoned women, I also challenge your dismissal of Zachary Scott, who gave us one of the screen’s indelible skunks as Joan Crawford’s husband in Mildred Pierce; a performance which includes one of the greatest bits of physical acting ever, in the way his eyes slip sideways as he utters the immortal line, “We weren’t expecting you, Mildred. Obviously.”
#2 by Nathan Shumate on March 26, 2008 - 9:56 pm
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Fine. He wasn’t in anything that *I* particularly remembered. Mainly because he didn’t ever get possessed, or wear a skull mask. Happy?
#3 by lyzard on March 26, 2008 - 10:18 pm
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I’m always happy when I’m being a smug, know-it-all, smartarse.
#4 by KeithA on March 26, 2008 - 10:48 pm
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Don’t worry, by sheer coincidence, my next movie turns out to be Phantom of Soho, which features, oddly enough, a killer in a skull mask.
#5 by Blake Matthews on March 27, 2008 - 10:17 am
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Only people like Jackie Chan and Jet Li can do things like storm the villain’s hideout without a gun. Heck, if cinema has taught us anything, it’s that Jet Li can storm an entire French police station without a gun and come out victor.
#6 by KeithA on March 27, 2008 - 10:46 am
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Speaking purely for myself, I don’t really see that Van’s aversion to marriage needs any further explanation beyond its presence, and possibly a final scene of him flying off into the sunset with “Freebird” playing.
#7 by Nathan Shumate on March 27, 2008 - 11:40 am
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Big deal. So could Lou Costello.
#8 by Blake Matthews on March 27, 2008 - 11:54 am
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True, although I must shamefacedly admit that the French are making better martial arts films than us Americans, so what does that say?
#9 by Elizabeth the Ferret on March 29, 2008 - 12:04 am
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“He started acting in 1944 with the lead in The Mask of Dimitrios (1994),”
Shouldn’t that be 1944?
#10 by Nathan Shumate on March 29, 2008 - 8:57 am
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Yes. Yes, it should be. And now it is.