The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on April 3, 2022

I've seen just about every film that my favorite actor, Peter Cushing, has appeared in....but one that has constantly eluded me is FURY AT SMUGGLERS' BAY, a 1961 period adventure. I finally was able to see it this weekend, courtesy of a decent widescreen print on YouTube. The story is...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on April 2, 2022

NOW AND FOREVER is a 1934 Paramount film, directed by Henry Hathaway and starring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, and Shirley Temple. Despite the famous names who worked on it, the movie doesn't live up to expectations. Gary Cooper plays Jerry Day (no relation to me), a middling con artist. Jerry's...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 26, 2022

SKI TROOP ATTACK is a 1960 black & white film produced and directed by the legendary Roger Corman. I stumbled upon it recently on the Tubi streaming channel. During WWII, a (very) small American patrol is scouting in the snowy Huertgen Forest, when the Germans begin the attack to open...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 20, 2022

The spectacular German silent epic METROPOLIS is one of my favorite films of all time. I've been mesmerized and entranced by it since I first saw it as a young teenager. Seeing METROPOLIS at any time, under any circumstances, is a great experience. But seeing the restored version in a...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 19, 2022

AIR HOSTESS is a 1933 Columbia film, directed by Albert Rogell. The title role is played by Evalyn Knapp. She is Kitty, who works on the TWA airline out west. Kitty's dad was killed serving as a fighter pilot in WWI, and the airplane pilots and mechanics who are her...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 17, 2022

Akira Takarada was one of the true legends of fantastic cinema. Takarada not only appeared in the very first original Godzilla movie made back in 1954, he made several other appearances in the classic series of science-fiction/fantasy films made by Toho Studios in the 1960s. He starred in two of...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 13, 2022

IL DEMONIO is a black & white 1963 Italian film concerning a young woman named Purificata, called "Puri", played by Daliah Lavi. The story shows how Puri's strange and unearthly behavior upsets her family and her fellow villagers in a small backwater town in rural southern Italy. Puri is angere   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 12, 2022

At the beginning of this year I wrote a series of blog posts on a Sherlock Holmes Blu-ray set from The Film Detective. The set featured three of the five films in which British actor Arthur Wontner starred as Holmes. One of the Wontner-Holmes films, THE MISSING REMBRANDT, is considered...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 6, 2022

I've long been a fan of Buster Keaton--I believe THE GENERAL is one of the greatest films ever made. When it comes to information about Keaton and his films, I've long been frustrated that the many books written about him and his career are lacking in one way or another....   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on March 5, 2022

Disc Three of VCI's Santo Blu-ray box set presents two of the wildest and weirdest entries in the masked marvel's cinematic career, in widescreen and color. SANTO VS. FRANKENSTEIN'S DAUGHTER (1972) has elements of LADY FRANKENSTEIN and THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH, and it has a scene that reminds   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 28, 2022

This is a post that I never wanted to write. The sudden passing of Veronica Carlson has affected cult movie fans worldwide. It has affected me more than most, because Veronica wasn't just a beautiful actress, and a talented artist--she was a dear friend of mine. The best way to...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 27, 2022

I first encountered THE DEVIL'S MEN in its U.S. version, titled LAND OF THE MINOTAUR, on a horrible looking VHS tape back in the 1980s. My immediate judgement was that it one of the worst films Peter Cushing had ever appeared in. The Indicator home video label has gifted us...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 20, 2022

The 2021 documentary DJANGO & DJANGO, which specifically focuses on the Westerns of Italian filmmaker Sergio Corbucci, is available for viewing on Netflix. Corbucci's work is not for all tastes, but his Euro Westerns--which are dark, ironic, quirky, and violent--certainly gets one's attention.   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 19, 2022

Shout Factory has released the 1958 British horror film BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE on Region A Blu-ray. (This disc is an exclusive limited product which can only be ordered direct from Shout Factory.)Whenever anyone has written anything about BLOOD OF THE VAMPIRE, they discuss how it was influenced by th   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 17, 2022

This is my review of the second of the four discs included in VCI's Santo Blu-ray box set. It features two films starring the famed Mexican masked wrestler. SANTO VS. THE RIDERS OF TERROR (original title SANTO CONTRA LOS JINETES DEL TERROR) was made in 1970. The entire film is...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 13, 2022

The Disney+ series THE BOOK OF BOBA FETT is one of the strangest TV shows ever constructed. The proper title of it should have been THE BOOK OF VARIOUS SUPPORTING CHARACTERS FROM EVERY PLATFORM OF THE STAR WARS UNIVERSE. The first few episodes showed what happened to Fett after he...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 12, 2022

VCI Entertainment's Santo Blu-ray box set collects 8 of the monster-mashing masked Mexican wrestler's big screen adventures. The set contains four discs, with two films on each. For the purposes of this blog I'll be discussing each disc separately. For those who know about the fantastic cinematic a   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 6, 2022

The 1970 historical epic film WATERLOO is still considered by many to be an expensive flop, but I've long maintained that it has one of the greatest cinematic battle sequences of all time. Bear Manor Media has recently published WATERLOO--MAKING AN EPIC, a massive tome written by Simon Lewis that...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 5, 2022

Shout Factory's Blu-ray releases of Hammer Films titles goes on with 1963's PARANOIAC. It was originally released by Universal in U.S. and it was written by Jimmy Sangster and produced by Anthony Hinds. It was also the first Hammer film directed by Freddie Francis. PARANOIAC is one of a series...   read more

The Hitless Wonder Movie Blog Posted by Dan Day, Jr. on February 3, 2022

The Turner Classic Movies Star of the Month for January 2022 was Kay Francis, the epitome of the modern, stylish American woman for the early 1930s. MARY STEVENS, M.D. has Francis as a hard-working doctor dealing with all sorts of personal and professional problems. Mary and her lifelong friend, Do   read more