BATTLE OF THE LAST PANZER 1969 (GOODTIMES)

Obscure WW2 film.

Spanish WW2 film that seems to have been lost in the pages of film history. It's a passable effort about a rag tag group of German soldiers who are fighting for thier lives in a tank and trying to get back to their lines.

Stelvio Rosi stars as Lt. Hunter, a German soldier who is in charge of the small group, and who seems to be losing his grip on sanity as the war rages on and on.

He and his men invade a small French town after the American forces led by a soldier named Lofty (Guy Madison) leave. He decides to pursue the soldier and takes three hostages. A bartender, a doctor and the bartenders sexy wife played by Erna Schurer.

Things get a little complicated when she falls for Hunter and that starts more trouble. I did like this movie and was very pleased to see one of my top Euro Goddesses in it. That always makes a movie better.

There is no nudity in this movie, but Schurer shows enough to perk a mans interest and she looks great in every scene she is in. They just don;t make women like this anymore.

If you're a fan of WW2 films I suggest you check it out. It's no classic, but it's good and a bit different.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Glori-Anne Gilbert is 55, and Shari Eubank is 77.

DEVIL'S DIARY 2007 (TUBI)

I really enjoyed this offbeat film.

A young girl discovers a book in the cemetary and all the pages are empty.

The girl, Ursula (Magda Apanowicz) is a very picked upon high school student. She discovers that whatever she writes in the book comes true, and the book thrives on hate.

In just a very few days Ursula has completely changed and is using the book for revenge. She has a sexy cheerleader named Heather (Miriam McDonald) suffer a terible accident by having both legs broken. One male student looses his eyes and the other is burned in a horrible accident involving chemicals.

In a bizarre twist in the film another cheerleader named Georgia (Deanna Casaluce) manages to steal the book from Ursula. She in turn writes things and becomes totally evil. She kills Ursula in a disturbing way and the it's up to Ursula's best friend Dominique (Alexz Johnson) to obtain the book, but this proves very difficult, and when she finally does...well lets just say things don't work out well.

This is a very dark film about an ancient evil that just suddenly appears and then seems indestructible. It's well made and the young women are all very attractive and that never hurts any film.

I would easily recommend this to any horror fan. I don't know if this is available anywhere but streaming at this point..but check it out anyway.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Adrienne Barbeau is 79, and Dawn Wildsmith is 61.

OBSESSIONS 1969 (CULT EPICS) BLU-RAY

The first Dutch movie in English is also a very good one.

The story is simple enough. A young man named Nils (Dieter Geissler) rents an apartment and a picture on the wall falls off.

Nils peaks thru the hole and sees a man and a woman haing sex. He slowly developes an obsession with peeking and he sees many things...things that drive him to get a key made for the apartment next door.

He enters when the man leaves and finds guns, money, women tied up and more. He is slowly pulled into a web of crime he cannot escape. His beautiful girlfriend Marina (Alexandra Stewart) is a reporter working on a murder story and she discovers that Nils' obsession may have more clues to the crime she is investigating.

All does not end well and the film is very noirish in nature. Bernard Herrman did the score for this film, and it will remind you of "Psycho" in some spots, but it reallt serves the movie well.

This is a very well done movie that will keep your attention right up to the final shot. I liked it sa lot and found it also brought me back to a great period of history...the late 1960's...good stuff indeed.

The presentation on Blu-ray is beautiful and I recommend this disc.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Elizabeth Hurley is 59, Andrew Stevens is 69, and Luciana Paluzzi is 87.

RIP BETTY ANNE REES 1943-2024

The very striking actress has died.

If you watched a lot of TV in the 70's as well as movies you knew who this woman was.

Some of her TV roles were in shows like "Adam-12", "The Incredible Hulk", "Medical Center", "Mod Squad" and "Mannix".

Her film roles included "Unholy Rollers", "The Deathmaster" and "Sugar Hill". I just re-watched Sugar Hill this weekend. Betty Anne Rees passed away on June 3, 2024 at the age of 81.

CRIME WAVE 1954 (WARNER)

Good little film noir.

Gene Nelson stars as an ex-con named Steve Lacey who has been living a quiet life with a wife and good job. One night all that comes to an end.

A wounded former cellmate comes to his apartment after being shot in a botched hold-up, and the police track the man to Steve's apartment. He is promptly arrested by Lt. Sims (Sterling Hayden) and from there things only get worse.

The wounded man, who died in the apartment had two friends named "Doc" Penny (Ted de Corsia) and Ben Hastings (Charles Bronson) who also know Steve and force him to help them in a planned bank robbery.

It gets darker and darker for Steve and his wife Ellen (Phyllis Kirk) as there seems to be no way out.

This is a very well made and gritty film that actually has an ending much different than most of the genre. All of the actors do a great job, especially Hayden as the toothpick chomping cop who seems much harder than he really is.

The cast also includes Jay Novello, James Bell, Hedrick Young, Dub Taylor and Timothy Casrey whose performance is typical Carey and unforgettable. I highly recommend this movie for any fan.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Marilyn Hanold is 86, and Shandi Finnessey is 46.

RIP MARIA DE ARAGON 1942-2024

I have just received word of this beautiful actress passing away.

De Aragon acted in about a dozen movies. I have seen some of them ahe her beauty made them much better. She made one of the best villians in her movies.

Her genre credits include "Wonder Women", "The Cremators" and "Blood Mania". I liked all of those movies.

Some of her other credits included "Teenager" and "When The Wind Dies" as well as the uncredited part of "Greedo" in "Star Wars" back in 1977.

The lovely Maria De Aragon passed away on April 30th, 2024 at the age of 81.

ATTACK 1956 (MGM)

Excellent war film directed by Robert Aldrich.

This story takes place near the end of WW2. Jack Palance stars as Joe Costa, the leader of a National Guard Infantry that is sent in to various places to set up observation posts.

He learns that Captain Cooney (Eddie Albert) is in charge of the area they are assigned. When Costa and his men get pinned down by Germans and some of them get killed, Costa asks Cooney for backup, and gets none. Costa swears revenge for this.

Cooney is a coward who will do anything to avoid a confrontation with the enemy. He is, however fully supported by Lt. Col. Clyde Bartlett (Lee Marvin).

Things spiral more and more out of control as more men die because of the cowardly Cooney, and the final showdown between Costa and Cooney proves to be brutal and sad in a way.

The ending is downbeat and very unexpected and I swear, everyone in the cast gives the performance of a lifetime, including William Smithers in his film debut, and his role of Lt. Harry Woodruff is key to the film.

The rest of the outstanding cast includes Robert Strauss, Richard Jaeckel, Buddy Ebson, Peter Van Eyck, Steven Geray, and Strother Martin.

Catch this film if you can. You won't be disappointed.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Gionna Daddio is 30, Tane McClure is 66, Ursula Buchfellner is 63 and Boz Scaggs is 80.

009-1: THE END OF THE BEGINNING 2013 (TOKYO SHOCK)

Every once in a while I find a film that really impresses me and this is one of them.

I had never heard of this before and that is a shame considering it's eleven years old now. But, what a show it was!!

I will not write about this objectively since I find that hard to do with movies like this. I stumbled on this film from a trailer on TUBI and as soon as I set eyes on the stunning leading lady Mayuko Iwasa I KNEW I hace to watch this.

First off this was the live action adaptation of Shotaro Ishinamori's spy heroine "009-1" on it's 75th anniversary. I have never read any of these stories, but I found the movie well made.

It's a very violent film that takes place sometime in the future where two world powers, The Eastern Block and The Western Block are always at war and the small land in between them is called "J-Country" and it's used as a battleground by both sides.

Our heroine 009-1 is a cyborg and is sent to rescue a scientist who has been kidnapped by a gang of rebels. She is beautiful, very fast and almost indestructible. After finally rescuing the scientist, only to have her kidnapped again, 009-1 begins to remember her past and how she was changed into a half woman/half machine by corporate doctors.

This film is full of beautiful women,but then again I think Japanese women are some of the most beautiful in the world anyway. It has a lot of violence, some very erotic scenes and some great surprises.

One of those surprises is one of 009-1's weapons. Her breasts are very high powered machine guns, and she does use them a few times. These scenes are incredible, yet they show no nudity. I haven't seen breasts like those since "Mausoleum" and Bobbie Bresee's gut munchers!!

I HIGHLY RECOMMEND this movie. They just don't make movies like this here in the states and the actresses are far more attractive than almost anyone in the US in my opinion.

The cast also includes Minehiro Kinomoto, Nao Nagasawa, Mami Abe and Aya Sugimoto.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY TO...

Anna Kournikova 43, Mick Foley is 59, Pamela Susan Shoop is 76, and Tom Jones is 84.

RIP ARMANDO SILVESTRE 1926-2024

The legendary Mexican actor has passed away.

His acting career started in 1947 and he managed over 200 credits to his name.

If you read this blog you know he was a favorite for Mexican horror cinema fans. A small sample of his credits include "Tarzan And The Mermaids", "White Orchid", "Santo Vs. The Zombies", "Neutron Vs. Dr. Corante", "Doctor Of Doom", "Wrestling Women Vs. The Aztec Mummy", "Island Of The Dinosaurs", "The Batwoman", "Night Of The Bloody Apes" and many, many more.

He passed away on June 3, 2024 at the age of 98.