Overlooked Films: Frank Sinatra in Richard Sale's SUDDENLY (1954)
Suddenly caught my eye at the library because it looked like a noirish thing with Frank Sinatra. But I got REALLY interested when I saw that it was written by pulp writer and several-kinds-of-novelist...
View ArticlePulp Gallery: WEIRD TALES 19, 20 & 21 (1925)
See the first eighteen issues HERE.More weirdness coming soon.
View ArticleForgotten Books: COME EASY - GO EASY by James Hadley Chase
There’s nothing fancy about James Hadley Chase’s prose. The narrator of Come Easy - Go Easy tells his tale in simple I did this and she did that fashion. The strength here is in the story. While the...
View ArticleOverlooked Films: LIght the Fuse ... Sartana is Coming! (1970)
Hey, I don’t know much about Spaghetti westerns, but I know what I like, and I DO like this Sartana character. This particular entry in the series wasn’t too bad, either, but left me thinking there are...
View ArticleComic Gallery: PHANTOM LADY (1947)
First appearance in her own mag.More P.L. coming soon!
View ArticleTomorrow: THE VIRGINIAN "Cast Favorites" Marathon on INSP
It's true. Tomorrow, Saturday April 27, INSP will air an all-day Virginian marathon, with stars reminiscing about the series, the actors and their favorite episodes. There's never-before-seen footage...
View ArticleToday! Robert Redford is among the guest stars on THE VIRGINIAN "Cast...
Here's the line up:1:00 pm James Drury presents The Mountain of the Sun2:30 pm Sarah Lane presents The Beloved Outlaw4:00 pm Roberta Shore presents The Evil That Men Do (with Robert Redford)5:30 pm...
View ArticleArt Gallery: ELLERY QUEEN Comics (1949)
See Ellery's earlier comic book cover appearances HERE.
View ArticleThe Life-Size Lone Ranger
This 6-foot poster was a giveaway to Wheaties eaters in 1957. Don't you wish you'd eaten your Wheaties?
View ArticleOverlooked Films: THE SHADOW in "International Crime" (1938)
I expected to hate this movie. After all, I didn’t think much of the first in the series, The Shadow Strikes (reviewed HERE), and I’d heard that in this one, The Shadow doesn't even bother to don his...
View ArticleEdgar Awards Banquet: It's today!
This is an amazing event. Wish I was going! I'm rooting for Teresa Solana and Tom Piccirilli for their EQMM stories.
View ArticleForgotten Books: WHAT PRICE MURDER by Cleve F. Adams (1942)
Like his friend Raymond Chandler, Cleve F. Adams cut all of his pulp detectives (several of whom later became book detectives) from the same cloth. And some are more the same than others. As with...
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