Tarzan of the Movies 2: THE ROMANCE OF TARZAN (1918)
The Romance of Tarzan is a lost film, and by most accounts that's not too great a tragedy. Burroughs didn't authorize it, but the studio went ahead anyway, claiming it was based on the second half of...
View ArticleForgotten Books: RED HORSE (Executioner 226) by Will Murray
I’m a big fan of Don Pendleton’s Executioner books (1-15 and 17-38) and Steve Mertz’s entries (43, 48, 52, 62, 64, 67, 73, 76, 92, 94 and the unnumbered opus Dirty War), which are very Pendletonesque,...
View ArticlePERRY MASON Goes to the Movies (again)
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View ArticleForgotten Books: CAPTAIN BLOOD, etc. (again)
Alex Raymond's original art for the movie poster (below)I was in the mood for Blood again (it happens every few years), so I reread Captain Blood, this time with my ears. Was it even better as an...
View ArticleCliffhanger Serials: THE PHANTOM OF THE WEST (1931)
According to IMDb, the basic story is this: A young man's father is murdered and the man convicted of the crime escapes prison, leaving a note intimating that seven local men know the real killer's...
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