The Captive City (1952)initiated by sumit4all on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044476/) It's strange how this Wise movie influenced "Invasion of the body snatchers".The construction is exactly the same:a car belting with a couple inside:close shots on their faces,full of fear.They take r ....
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Hell Is a City (1960)initiated by sonali on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0053900/) I watched Hell is a City on DVD again the other day and was struck by how fresh and undated the story and acting still appears. It was a breakout Brit film for 1959/60- with its semi-documentary appro ....
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Big City Blues (1932)initiated by sumit4all on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0022676/) Perhaps to underscore the quick pace of life in New York, "Big City Blues" moves along at a hectic sixty three minute pace, and tries to cram as much action as it can into that amount of time. Willow ....
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Radio City Revels (1938)initiated by anil on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0030651/) This is a fictional film based on a fictional story about a real place in a real city , with real people playing the roles of some of the fictional characters and using their own name as the character ....
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Virginia City (1940)initiated by rajni on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033226/) I loved this movie even though it is true Boggie was terribly miscast. But Scott is wonderful as the Rebel officer and Flynn is great, even poignant at times as the Union officer, particularly when th ....
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Lost City of the Jungle (1946)initiated by Kins on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038703/) This is a sad film to watch as it's star, the great Lionel Atwill died halfway through filming. Due to the disjointed way serials are filmed, Atwill is seen intermittently throughout the proceedings w ....
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Dark City (1950)initiated by Muhammad on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0042379/) Dark City is a well crafted film. Most film noir fans will love it. It was released in 1950 and Stars Lizabeth Scott and Charlton Heston.Heston plays a gambler (Danny Haley) who along with two friends ....
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The Atomic City (1952)initiated by sonali on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0044382/) In this cold war thriller, Gene Barry plays Frank Addison, an atomic scientist at Los Almos (aka The Atomic City) whose son Tommy is kidnapped by communist agents. The kidnappers demand from Addison t ....
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City That Never Sleeps (1953)initiated by Muhammad on September 16, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045631/) Unless you've the skill of an O. Henry, it's pretty ridiculous to talk about the spirit of a city, even as a generalization. But when that "spirit" takes human form and joins the local police force, r ....
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The Lone Ranger and the Lost City of Gold (1958)initiated by Kins on September 17, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0051876/) A wounded Tonto standing alone to protect three innocent lives. A devious woman masterminding a deadly plot. Racial tension. Smart Indians.These are things we rarely if ever saw in the TV series, b ....
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Union City (1980)initiated by sumil_M on September 17, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0081687/) Wonderful low key film about a husband so obsessed with having a few sips of his milk stolen that he fails to pleasure his beautiful young wife for so long that she does it herself in a wonderfully to ....
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Gordon of Ghost City (1933)initiated by TrueMagic on September 17, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0024077/) As the roving range detective, battling rustlers with a ghost town hideout, Buck Jones is ideally cast in the first of his four serials for Universal. Madge Bellamy is the feisty heroine and former si ....
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The Marshal of Mesa City (1939)initiated by Raghu on September 17, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0031630/) A low budget movie about a corrupt sheriff, a pretty school marm, and a drafted marshal is a likely recipe for the routine. MOMC not only avoids the routine but also raises itself above many "A" weste ....
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The Carson City Kid (1940)initiated by prakash on September 17, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0032312/) Carson City Kid, The (1940) *** (out of 4) Shockingly good "B" western has Roy Rogers playing the title role. He goes out West to search for the man (Bob Steele) who killed his brother and finds him r ....
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City of Fear (1959)initiated by Raju on September 17, 2008 (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0052696/) Pulpy, wildly overwrought, but entertaining co-feature from Columbia has a pre-"Ben Casey" Vince Edwards starring as a convict who breaks out of San Quentin with a container he thinks is "a pound of 1 ....
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