Author Archives: Jeff Kuykendall
For Your Height Only (1981)
For Your Height Only (or: For Y’ur Height Only, as the opening titles would have it) at long last realized the Filipino midget James Bond spoof that audiences around the world craved for two decades. And once you have seen … Continue reading
The Secrets of Isis: “The Lights of Mystery Mountain” (1975)
Andrea Thomas (Joanna Cameron) seems like an ordinary high school science teacher, albeit one who keeps a pet raven in the classroom. Yet, as the opening credits tell us, on an archaeological dig in Egypt she uncovered a mystical amulet … Continue reading
Posted in Late Night TV
Tagged 70's, Action, Egypt, Fantasy, Saturday Morning TV, Superhero
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Nightmare Alley (1947)
They didn’t call them noirs then; they were just crime pictures – cheap, pulpy, sensationalistic. The papers turned up their noses but audiences flocked to them, so studios kept making them. But if we didn’t have crime pictures as deeply … Continue reading
Posted in Theater Smoking Gun
Tagged 40's, Carnival, film noir, hard boiled, psychic, Tarot
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