JINX MONEY 1948 (WARNER ARCHIVE)

William Beaudine directed this fun Bowery Boys effort.

Slip (Leo Gorcey) and Sach (Huntz Hall) find money wrapped in a newspaper in an area where a top gambler was killed the night before. Before they know it they are $50,000 richer.

This causes them boys to be sought after by the police and gangsters. The usual hijinks ensue and it's very enjoyable. Everyone who steals the money from Slip and Sach dies by being stabbed by a mysterious killer with an umbrella.

This causes Sach to have nightmares about umbrellas, and that in itself is an interesting scene. If you're a fan of these films, then I suggest you see it if you haven't already.

Good and simple escapest entertainment that will make you smile and maybe even laugh out loud.

The rest of the cast includes the usual suspects...Bernard Gorcey, Sheldon Leonard, Gabriel Dell, Donald MacBride, Betty Caldwell and Wanda McKay.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Ursula Buchfellner is 64.

PROMISES, PROMISES 1963 (KIT PARKER FILMS)

It has been decades since I saw this, and I decided to check it out again.

This is a strange, but entertaining comedy directed by character actor King Donovan. It centers on two couples, Jeff (Tommy Noonan) and Sandy (Jayne Mansfield) and Claire (Marie McDonald) and her husband King (Mickey Hargitay).

After a mix up involving a drunken night and some medication Jeff thinks he had a wild night with Claire and he also thinks King is messing around with Sandy.

This is all very light stuff, and the movie is mostly remembered for several topless scenes that Mansfield did. I enjoyed this movie as it is the kind of movie that you can just turn your brain off and smile.

The enitre movie takes place on a cruise ship and it reminded me of a 60's "Love Boat" type of situation. It's fun in an easy way and these kinds of films are needed once in a while. I think some of the best lines in the film come from actor Vic Lundin as a gigolo.

The rest of the cast includes Fritz Feld, Eileen Barton, Marjorie Bennett, T.C. Jones, Richard Dawson and Imogene Coca.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Colleen Camp is 72, Pamela Susan Shoop is 77, Tom Jones is 85, Mick Foley is 60, and Anna Kournikova is 44.

DEVIL'S ROCK 2011 (E ONE ENTERTAINMENT) BLU-RAY

This is an odd but not unlikeable horror film.

Capt. Ben Grogan (Craig Hall) and Sgt. Joe Tane (Karlos Drinkwater) are two soldiers from New Zealand sent to the Channel Islands to distract the German army from the D-Day Invasion.

What is supposed to be just an average mission turns into a nightmare as they encounter something more sinister than they could even imagine.

They are distracted by the sounds of people screaming and Grogan decides to investigate despite warnings from Tane not to. Grogan stunbles onto a grotesque scene of mangled and bloodied bodies laying all over the underground complex. Tane follows and is killed by an German soldier named Klaus Meyer (Matthew Sunderland).

Meyer gets the best of grogan as well and over the course of the next few scenes we learn that the Nazi's were using demonic magic in order to try and win the war, and imprisoned beneath them is a demon shape shifter who can take any form it pleases and it needs human flesh to eat.

This is a wild and bizarre movie that will keep your attention and it was nice to see something original fromm the 2000's. There is plenty of blood and guts for the gore fans, but I really liked the demonic aspects of the film.

The cast also includes Gina Varlas as the demon, Jessica Grace Smith and Luke Hawker. It's a snall cast and the film takes place on one night.

I will recommend this to horror fans, and I am sure most of you have seen this one already.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Robert Englund is 78.

BELATED HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Heidi Klum who turned 52 on June 1.

THE DOCTOR AND THE PLAYGIRL 1963 (TUBI)

I stumbled on this strange movie via TUBI and I figured I had nothing to lose by watching it.

This was made in 1963 and sat on the shelf until 1965 when it was finally granted a small release. A rich doctor sets women up to have sexual affairs with members of the US Government.

This leads to various problems including enemy agents trying to get information out of the girls and various sub-plots involving the doctor and his huge debt he owes a local bookie. The ending is very noirish, yet very fitting for the times.

This film looks like a "Something Weird" release from the 80's on VHS. It's very local, and the New York sttings in the 60's is always great to see, but the movie really lacks something, but I don't know what.

The women are nice looking so maybe it's missing exploitation elements such as teaser nudity. I just don't know. Anyway, if you are the curious type you might want to check this out on TUBI before it's gone.

FATAL MISSION: EVIL FLOWERS 1988 (RARE MOVIE COLLECTOR)

A Jess Franco action film I liked, but I guess most didn't.

Christopher Mitchum stars as Derek Carpenter, an undercover CIA agent sent to South America to find a drug syndicate and destroy it.

Carpenter meets a beautiful woman named Linda (Cristina Higueras) and the two hit it off quickly. Carpenter has told her he is a photographer trying to get a story on the dangers of cocaine and heroine and it's long term effect on people.

Derek discovers that Linda's father is Luis Morel (Christopher Lee) and he happens to be one of the top drug producers in South America.

I read a lot of bad things about this movie, and while I can understand a lot of people not liking Franco and his movies, I disagree with all of the negative junk.

I found the film to be a standard, but fast moving little film and I did like the cast. Everyone worked well together. The rest of the cast includes Richard Harrison, Alicia Moro, Brigitte Lahaie, Daniel Katz and Carmen Carrion.

Check this out for yourselves and see if you agree with me or not.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Keith David is 69, and Bruce Dern is 89.

CRACKERJACK 2 1998 (TUBI)

Judge Reinhold stars as Jack Wild in this sequel to the previous "Crackerjack".

In this movie Wild must try and stop terrorist Hans Becker (Karel Roden) from killing everyone on a train he and his men hijacked in order to obtain millions from each of the very rich passengers.

After Becker and his men kidnap all of the passengers and take them to an underground tunnel bunker we find out that the real man behind this master crime is named Smith (Michael Sarrazin).

Jack Wild is even more motivated to save the passengers since his girlfriend Dana Townsend (Carol Alt) is one of them.

The performances are good in this film and it moves along at a very good pace. I enjoyed the first movie and found this one to be just a good and entertaining.

I watched this because of Alt, and was suprised by ho smoothly it flowed. The rest of the cast includes beautiful Katarina Brozova, Robert Russell, Richard Toth, Steve Fisher and Angela Madden.

If you're an action movie fan I would recommend this. It's nothing new, but it isn't boring at all.

WITCHCRAFT 14: ANGEL OF DEATH 2016 (TUBI)

One of the worst movies I have seen in a while.

A coven tricks a witch into joining them and several deaths result.

The acting is sub-sub par and there seems to be no direction whatsoever. The only good thing about this movie is Molly Doughtery who is very attractive and has a small amount of acting ability.

Avoid this like the plague.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Nikki Cox is 47, Susan Hart is 84 ,and Jamie Szantyr is 44.

BODY COUNT 1995 (ARTDUSTRY)

I found this to be an ok actioner with a decent cast and some interesting set pieces.

The film opens with an assassin Makato (Sonny Chiba) killing a drug dealer just released from jail after he is found innocent of whatever crime he had committed.

Makato is arrested after being betrayed by the person who had him kill the drug dealer. The rest of the film deals with Makato escaping from jail with the help of a gorgeous blonde assassin named Sybil (Brigitte Nielsen).

Together these two embark on a ruthless killing spree to find the traitor and some missing money. Robert Davi is Eddie Cook, a cop assigned to the case along with his partner Vinnie Rizzo (Steven Bauer).

There is an interesting and violent game of cat and mouse between the killers and the cops. I liked this movie and it seems to me this was a co-production between some US corporations and Toei Studios in Japan, which I find interesting since the film takes place in New Orleans.

I have read a lot of negtive things about this movie, but in reality when one watches this kind of movie, one should know what they are in for. I like Davi in almost any role and Nielsen as well as Cindy Ambuehl, who plays a special government agent also involved in the case are both easy on the eyes.

The rest of the cast includes Jan Michael Vincent, Eric Cordora, Jim Chemento and Mario Opinato.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Robert Powell is 81, Pat Boone is 91, and Misty Rowe is 73.