Big Town Scandal

Big Town Scandal

After watching The Way Back I decided to do a whole series on basketball movies, given there are a couple I’d always wanted to see but hadn’t. Basketball movies have been much less prevalent than baseball movies, historically, and my knowledge is further...
The Absent-Minded Professor

The Absent-Minded Professor

The Basketball Fix seemed the perfect movie for the 50s – a nice little noir – but isn’t available for free streaming. I talked about wanting to not pay for movies while I’m trying to work through the many I already own and haven’t seen....
The Beast Must Die

The Beast Must Die

I couldn’t find an ensemble-murder-mystery-comedy for the 1960s. A Shot In The Dark came closest, but it’s not available to stream for free anywhere and when I’ve been working on finally going through all the movies I’ve bought over the years it didn’t feel right to...
Clue

Clue

I was originally thinking this series would just be Knives Out and Clue. Then I was thinking of adding Murder Mystery, and maybe I should have just left it at that, considering I didn’t like any of the other movies I hadn’t seen before enough to even finish. In any...
The Trouble With Harry

The Trouble With Harry

I couldn’t find an ensemble-murder-mystery-comedy for the 1950s, so I dropped the “murder” portion.  Or did I? Part of the “trouble” with this Harry guy is figuring out whether he was murdered and if not what did happen to him. Possibly Hitchcock’s most lighthearted...
And Then There Were None

And Then There Were None

I couldn’t find an ensemble-murder-mystery-comedy for the 1940s, so I dropped the “comedy” portion. It helped that I’d already seen and loved this movie. Plus there is some comedy provided by the drunken antics of Prince Nikita Starloff. Fans of the book (I’m proud to...