Runaway (1984)

It's been a while huh? Well i'm determined not to make this yet another blog I abandon in midstream. So here's a movie I watched over the weekend but first, I WILL do another Godzilla movie on Friday. I kind of got burned out on watching them every week. This Godzilla movie is the last of the Hesei series which will lead nicely into a couple month break. I'm sure seeing Godzilla 1984 will recharge my batteries when we start up again. I will get back to the X-movie X-travaganza starting on the 25th with X-Men United. Til then you'll notice a trend as i'll be starting to go through as many of Randolph Scott's filmography as is possible among other things.

BTW I should explain something else before I go on, If you notice I started this blog more or less in the '30s and now this movie is from the '80s. I tend to cycle through what I have and go chronologically. The way it looks right now the next cycle will end in 1980.

And now for our Feature Presentation.....

Runaway (1984)


Plot Summary

In the near future, a police officer specializes in malfunctioning robots. When a robot turns out to have been programmed to kill, he begins to uncover a homicidal plot to create killer robots... and his son becomes a target.

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

Before I get into the review at hand let me explain my absence as I haven't really had the time and whatnot to watch and review movies however in light of this i've found a few ways to make this blog even better as i've figured out how to make screencaps and thus starting soon you'll be seeing my own screencaps of the flicks i've been watching. I won't be continuing the X-Men retrospective for a couple or so weeks for various reasons but i'll continue to do some classic movies and of course the Godzilla stuff.

A Blueprint for Murder (1953)

Plot Summary

Whitney 'Cam' Cameron (Joseph Cotton) returns to Manhattan to visit his widowed sister-in-law Lynn (Jean Peters) and her stepchildren, his niece and nephew. His niece has suddenly fallen ill with a mysterious malady whose symptoms mirror those of his deceased brother. After being hospitalized, the girl seems to be rallying but quickly takes a turn for the worse and dies from the undiagnosed illness. Cam's friend and lawyer Fred Sargent (Gary Merrill) and his wife Maggie (Catherine McLeod) believe that the symptoms may suggest strychnine poisoning, and as Lynn stands to inherit a fortune if nephew Doug dies also, Cam now views her with suspicion. Despite circumstantial evidence that she murdered her step-daughter, Lynn is released for insufficient cause. When she tells him that she intends to take Doug to Europe, Cam realizes that desperate measures are needed if he is to save the boy's life

A bit of housekeeping

Posts will be scarce for a while as i'm in the grip of GTA V fever....Should be back into the swing of things in a couple weeks.

An Announcement and Special Investigator (1937)

Before we get into the review i'd like to make an announcement for a semi-regular feature that'll turn up on Sundays where I just talk about movie stuff (mostly the old time stuff) as it'll give a glimpse into my perspective on cinema history and whatnot. Another event that'll happen pretty soon is a week where i'll be reviewing recent films rather than the stuff from the vaults. Hopefully that'll be a good change up.

Anywho off to the review!

Special Investigator (1937)


Plot Summary

Bill Fenwick, (Richard Dix) criminal lawyer, is becoming a mouthpiece for mobsters, when his brother George, a Justice Department investigator, is killed by mob chief Edward Selton. (J. Carroll Naish) In atonement, Bill leaves his practice and his venal girlfriend and goes undercover in Nevada to investigate a scheme for "laundering" stolen gold bullion. He starts making progress when he pursues attractive Virginia, (Margaret Callahan) who's somehow involved with the gang; in fact, unknown to Bill, she's Selton's sister.