JeyamArticle (Free subscription) | 11/19/2009
... actors in the cast. Cast includes Howard Keel, Joan Caulfield, Broderick Crawford, Scott Brady, Wendell Corey, Richard Arlen, and Donald Barry. (82 minutes,’67)Black like Me: Powerful drama based on real history of journalist who took drugs that permitted him to pass for black so he might experience racial prejudice first hand. Some facets of presentation are un-contemporary, although...
Plurter Article Sharing (Free subscription) | 10/29/2009
... Well-finished Christmas time tale of war widow Leigh, with a small child, who’s helped by good guy Corey. Cast includes Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, Wendell Corey, Gordon Gebert, Griff Barnett, Esther Dale, Henry O’Neill, and Henry Harry Morgan. (87 minutes, 1949) Like Water for Chocolate: Striking and sensuous film from a novel by Laura Esquivel set in the early part of the...
Laura's Miscellaneous Musings (Free subscription) | 10/28/2009
THE KILLER IS LOOSE is a very creepy crime noir directed by Budd Boetticher . I loved the deep cast and '50s L.A. area location shooting but wasn't crazy about the plot. All in all, I found it a flawed yet worthwhile film. Joseph Cotten plays Sam Wagner, an L.A. police detective who accidentally shoots and kills the wife of a bank robber, Leon Poole (Wendell Corey), when arresting Poole....
SF Signal (Free subscription) | 10/25/2009
Another great find from Divers and Sundry : The Astro-Zombies ! Wikipedia Synopsis: The Astro-Zombies , a.k.a. Space Zombies a.k.a. The Space Vampires , is a 1969 science fiction horror film starring John Carradine, Wendell Corey (in his final film appearance), and Tura Satana. It was written, directed, and produced by Ted V. Mikels. The plot follows a disgruntled scientist who, having...
