HARRY O (1975) **½ by Lee Hays This paperback edition published by Popular Library, 1975, 173pp First published in 1975 © Warner Bros., Inc. 1975 ISBN: 978-0-5002-6912-5 Blurb: None. Comment: In the 1970s, in the days before home video, the only way of reliving favourite TV and movie characters outside of original broadcasts or rare…
Month: June 2023
SHAFT IN AFRICA celebrates its 50th anniversary
50 years ago, on 20 June 1973 at 9 a.m., SHAFT IN AFRICA opened in New York at the Cinerama on Broadway and 47th Street, the 59th Street Twin #2 and the RKO 86th Street Twin #2 theatres. The first 300 patrons at the Cinerama also received a copy of The Four Tops’ single from…
A new Philip Marlowe novel coming this July
On his The Rap Sheet blog, J. Kingston Pierce gave us news of a new continuation Philip Marlowe novel, The Second Murderer, to be published. The novel is written by Scottish author Denise Mina, the first female author to tackle Raymond Chandler’s character. The blurb is as follows: It’s mid-September, a heatwave has descended on the…
Film Review – TARANTULA (1955)
TARANTULA (1955, USA, 80m, PG) *** Horror, Sci-Fi dist. Universal Pictures (USA), General Film Distributors (GFD) (UK); pr co. Universal International Pictures (UI); d. Jack Arnold; w. Robert M. Fresco, Martin Berkeley (based on a story by Jack Arnold and Robert M. Fresco); pr. William Alland; ph. George Robinson (B&W | 1.85:1); m. Herman Stein,…
Book Review – MISCHIEF (1993) by Ed McBain
MISCHIEF (1993) *** by Ed McBain This paperback edition published by Coronet, 1993, 309pp First published in 1993 © Hui Corporation, 1993 ISBN: 978-0-340-60301-1 Blurb: A punk wielding a spray can is no match for a killer armed with a gun — and a deadly aim to knock off the city’s graffiti artists. One by…