Written by James M. Tate / 9/29/2024 / No comments / cult , disaster , fifties , fred f. sears , kathryn grant , melodrama , race against time , william leslie
KATHRYN GRANT 'THE NIGHT THE WORLD EXPLODED' WILLIAM LESLIE
Year: 1957 Rating: ** There's a scene in otherwise underrated b-movie director Fred F. Sear's 1950's science-fiction disaster fl...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/24/2023 / No comments / airplane , bert convy , billy crystal , burgess meredith , disaster , doug mcclure , george maharis , martin milner , misty rowe , peter graves , season hubley , seventies , susan strasberg , tina louise , tv movie
GEORGE MAHARIS SABOTAGES THE TV-MOVIE 'DEATH FLIGHT'
George Maharis up to no good for DEATH FLIGHT Year: 1977 Rates: ***1/2 Killing two birds with one stone... the death of ROUTE 66 star George...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/12/2023 / No comments / 3D , bess armstrong , creature , dennis quaid , disaster , eighties , franchise , joe alves , lea thompson , louis gossett jr. , sequel , shark , simon maccorkindale
DUTIFULLY DEFENDING THE DEADLY DISASTER OF 'JAWS 3D'
Title: JAWS 3D Year: 1983 Rating: *** Just when you thought it was safe to go back... to Sea World!? A Deadly New Attraction, indeed, and w...
Written by James M. Tate / 12/16/2022 / No comments / anthony carbone , barry primus , corey allen , disaster , ensemble , jaws-clone , mia farrow , rick moses , robert forster , rock hudson , roger corman , seventies , suspense
ROCK HUDSON, MIA FARROW AND ROBERT FORSTER IN 'AVALANCHE'
Rock Hudson in Avalanche YEAR: 1978 Rates: ***1/2 Yes it's another of many 1970's JAWS clones, even though AVALANCHE is a wannabe I...
Written by James M. Tate / 7/16/2022 / 1 Comment / david warner , disaster , ensemble , george kennedy , seventies , susan blakely , suspense , sybil danning
SUSAN BLAKELY FLYING HIGH INTO 'THE CONCORDE: AIRPORT 79'
year: 1979 rating: *** A jet plane, like the ones in the AIRPORT films, can’t do much. But unlike those bulky airliners, a hot rod can do p...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/18/2022 / No comments / action , disaster , irwin allen , joseph cotten , paul stewart , robert colbert , robert wagner , rosemary forsyth , science-fiction , seventies , stuart whitman , susana miranda , tv movie , warner archives
IRWIN ALLEN'S 'CITY BENEATH THE SEA' WITH STUART WHITMAN
Title: CITY BENEATH THE SEA Director: Irwin Allen Year: 1971 Rating: *** Between his b-science-fiction series and a-list disaster films, Irw...
Written by James M. Tate / 3/06/2022 / No comments / anne francis , dana andrews , disaster , efrem zimbalist jr. , joe mantell , john kerr , joseph pevney , keenan wynn , melodrama , rhonda fleming , romance , sixties , troy donahue , warner archives
FLASHBACK TO WARNER'S AIRLINE DISASTER 'THE CROWDED SKY'
John Kerr with Joe Mantell & Dana Andrews in THE CROWDED SKY Year: 1960 Rating: ***1/2 In one of the most bizarre airplane disaster film...
Written by James M. Tate / 12/30/2021 / No comments / 2021 , ada mckay , disaster , jennifer lawrence , leonardo dicaprio , mark rylance , meryl streep , netflix , new , political , satire
LEONARDO DICAPRIO & JENNFER LAWRENCE IN 'DON'T LOOK UP'
Title: DON'T LOOK UP Year: 2021 Rating: **1/2 Adam McKay's DON'T LOOK UP is as much a satire of the gigantic-falling-space-rock-...
Written by James M. Tate / 6/03/2021 / No comments / alexander knox , dana andrews , disaster , janette scott , kieron moore , nuclear , race against time , science-fiction , sixties
DANA ANDREWS ATOMIC UNDERGROUND 'CRACK IN THE WORLD'
Dana Andrews in CRACK IN THE WORLD Year: 1965 Rating: **** Not really a mad scientist but more an impatient one, with a soft yet distingui...
Written by James M. Tate / 5/26/2021 / No comments / airplane , dane clark , disaster , ensemble , farrah fawcett , george maharis , george mccowan , hugh o'brien , mystery , robert stack , seventies , sonny bono , thriller , tv movie
FARRAH FAWCETT SERVES AIRLINE MYSTERY 'MURDER ON FLIGHT 502'
Farrah Fawcett in Murder on Flight 502 Rating: **** Different than most airline disaster flicks in that a gun's drawn literally minutes ...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/06/2021 / No comments / action , bernard braden , british , cult , disaster , edward judd , gene anderson , geoffrey frederick , janet munro , julie samuel , leo mckern , michael caine , nuclear , sixties , val guest
VAL GUEST DIRECTS DISASTER IN 'THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE'
THE DAY THE EARTH CAUGHT FIRE Released in 1961 A rat-a-tat dialog hybrid of THE FRONT PAGE and the doomsday-anticipation of THE DAY THE EART...
Written by James M. Tate / 1/03/2021 / No comments / abraham sofaer , action , byron haskin , charlton heston , creature , disaster , eleanor parker , fifties , melodrama , romance , william conrad
ANTS MARCH ON MELODRMA IN BYRON HASKIN'S 'THE NAKED JUNGLE'
Charlton Heston & Eleanor Parker Year: 1954 Rates: *** No Killer Ant movie is as strange (or as lacking of ants) as Byron Haskin's T...
Written by James M. Tate / 4/20/2020 / No comments / disaster , ensemble , george c. scott , jean rasey , robert wise , roy thinnes , seventies
GEORGE C. SCOTT HEADING FOR DISASTER IN 'THE HINDENBURG'
title: The Hindenburg year: 1975 cast: George C. Scott, William Atherton, Roy Thinnes, Burgess Meredith rating: *** 1970's Disaster ...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/06/2019 / No comments / biker , buddy ebsen , cindy daly , cop , disaster , donna miles , ensemble , robert conrad , ronald jacoby , seventies , sue lyon , tommy lee jones , tv movie , vera miles
SUE LYON AND ROBERT CONRAD IN 'SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5'
Sue Lyon has a king of beer on Interstate 5 in 1978 The TV-Movie SMASH-UP ON INTERSTATE 5 beat SATURDAY NIGHT FEVER to the double boogie per...
Written by James M. Tate / 2/06/2019 / No comments / action , dana andrews , disaster , fifties , geoffrey toone , linda darnell , melodrama , peggy king , sterling hayden , suspense , thriller
DANA ANDREWS SOARING IN 'AIRPLANE' ORIGIN 'ZERO HOUR!'
Fallen Angel couple Linda Darnell & Dana Andrews year: 1957 "It's an entirely different kind of flying" albeit not &q...
Written by James M. Tate / 11/07/2018 / No comments / disaster , ensemble , jack warden , michael caine , peter boyle , sally field , sequel , shirley jones , telly savalas , veronica hamell
CAINE VERSES SAVALAS IN 'BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE'
Villains of Beyond The Poseidon Adventure While not as bad a sequel as you might have been led to believe, BEYOND THE POSEIDON ADVENTURE...
Written by James M. Tate / 9/16/2018 / No comments / action , disaster , faye dunaway , gregory sierra , irwin allen , john guillermin , mike lookinland , o.j. simpson , paul newman , robert vaughn , seventies , steve mcqueen , susan flannery , william holden
STEVE MCQUEEN FIRES PAUL NEWMAN IN 'THE TOWERING INFERNO'
Steve McQueen w/ Don Gordon & Paul Newman YEAR: 1974 THE TOWERING INFERNO stars Paul Newman and Steve McQueen… actually vice versa...
Written by James M. Tate / 8/26/2018 / No comments / anne francis , dana andrews , disaster , efrem zimbalist jr. , joe mantell , john kerr , joseph pevney , keenan wynn , melodrama , rhonda fleming , romance , sixties , troy donahue , warner archives
SOARING MELODRAMA OF 'THE CROWDED SKY' W/ DANA ANDREWS
Efem Zimbalist Jr and Karen Green YEAR: 1960 Now this is an "entirely different kind of flying, altogether..." A classic line...
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LANCE GUEST WITH ROBERT PRESTON IN 'THE LAST STARFIGHTER'
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