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If I don’t blog ‘em, I won’t watch ‘em. My wife, who knows my love of old mystery movies, B&W film and 40ws noir, gave me this collection for my birthday. I considered skipping the first few – well, the first 20, to be honest – and watching the ones that seemed worth the time. But that defeats the entire purpose of having a compilation of 100 movies, doesn’t it? Isn’t the point to watch them all?
In sequence?
Against your will?
Yes. This is not meant as film criticism; some entries will be short, others will be stupidly long, and I have no intention of editing any of this stuff. Life’s too short to care whether this is an A-1 quality product. In other words, this site reflects the spirit of the original material.
-- Lileks Sept. 08
(Addendum: As of 11.12.10, the project is now completed! Please bear with me as I transfer the many, many short clips to another server, since the homepage.mac URL no longer works. Sigh)
| #1: Bulldog Drummond's Revenge |
| #2: Bulldog Drummond Escapes |
| #3: Bulldog Drummond Farts Around in "Africa" |
| #4: Bulldog Drummond Get Wet in the Basement |
| #5: Bulldog Drummond Confronts the Fact that it is Not a Hat |
| #6: Bulldog Drummond Is Acting All Swiss 'n Stuff |
| #7: Dick Tracy vs. Woundbrute |
| #8: Dick Tracy vs. Frankenstein |
| #9: Dick Tracy vs. Shavepate |
#10: The Shadow Barely Does Anything Shadow-related |
| #11: The Shadow Takes a Job in Journalism |
| #12: Peter Lorre Swims in his Best Suit |
| #13: Dracula vs. the Classified Ad Receptionist |
| #14: Boris Karloff vs. The Plot |
| #15: Sherlock Holmes Draws Sweping Conclusions |
| #16: Sherlock Holmes Disappears for Most of the Picture |
| #17: Sherlock Holmes Is a Tedious Bore |
| #18: Sherlock Holmes Suspects Moriarity |
| #19: Sherlock Holmes Can't Even Afford a Soundtrack |
| #20: Sherlock Holmes Likes to Dress Up as a Sailor |
| #21: Sherlock Holmes is Scornful of a Hot Dame |
| #22: Sherlock Holmes Winds It Up |
| #23: Nancy Drew Lies to Pretty Much Everyone |
| #24: Philo Vance Takes Forever To Tell How It Was Done |
| #25: Dracula Doesn't Have Much To Do |
| #26: Frankie Says Get in the Basement |
| #27: Impact! Literally |
| #28: They, or rather He, Walked by Night |
| #29: Mickey Rooney's Trying to Get Lucky |
| #30: Friday the Dog Foils a Nazi Plot |
| #31: Worst Movie Ever |
| #32: Yes, Boss |
| #33: The Green Glove, or the Case of the Exploding Groin Kick |
| #34: Marcus Welby Might Be Insane |
| #35: She Liked Bread, and Opals |
| #36: Claude Raines is Not Convincing |
| #37: This Movie Actually Needs More Nazis |
| #38: Com viss me |
| #39: Murder with Wirepictos |
| #40: Heil Hit - uh, I mean Good for Truman |
| #41:This Whole Thing is Very Fishy To Me |
| #42: Kansas City Confidential is Very Good |
| #43: Well, heck: Detour is Very Good as well. What's going on? |
| #44: Slap-Happy |
| #45: Control-Tube and Col. Picklestash |
| #46: Slap-Happy, Continued |
| #47: Leo Gorcey is Aging Poorly |
| #48: If you've Survived Wirepictos, Try This |
| #49: It Was a Dark and Stormy Night |
| #50: These Scales Are Off, You Dirty Rat |
| #51: Like Watching a Movie During a Solar Flare |
| #52: What's in the Red House? Besides a metaphor |
| #53: The New Miracle Plastic |
| #54: It's HEDY |
| #55: Female Noir! Right? Right? |
| #56: I'll Get You, and Your Little - Oh, Guess Not; I'm Written Out |
| #57: Worst. Print. Ever |
| #58: He's Dead, Jim. Or Dreaming |
| #59: Bobble-head Robber |
| #60: Ripley's on a Tear |
| #61: Needs More Monsterism |
| #62: "Thoughtful" say the reviews. Meaning: dull |
| #63: How Many Lodgers Movies Can They Make? |
| #64: Hold that Tiger! |
| #65: Shoot to Bore |
| #66: Why isn't this better? No explanation |
| #67: Hell's Spice Rack |
| #68: Crazy Dr. Frankenstein Holmes |
| #69: Suspense! Or not |
| #70: You are seek, Polla. |
| #71: I'm bustin' outta here, see? |
| #72: Happy ending, right? Right? |
| #73: Gullible's Travels |
| #74: Bob Cummins Defies Physics |
| #75: Yeah, He's a Killing Machine |
| #76: Best Noir You've Never Seen |
| #77: Frankenstein vs. The Casting Director |
| #78: Nice Binoculars |
| #79: Spartacus is just HAMMERED |
| #80: Auto-cheat Man |
| #81: Movie on Screen! |
| #82: (Wo) Man on the Run |
| #83: Needs More Della |
| #84: Murder She Planned |
| #85: Movie I Watched |
| #86: Cyrus Redblock is a Bad Man |
| #87: As your doctor, I prescribe a murky, dull movie |
| #88: Dead Men Acting |
| #89: The Great Flamarian |
| #90: Incorporated, Inc. |
| #91: You can see Frank Sinatra's point |
| #92: 30s Workout Gear |
| #93: Baby-Face Morgan |
| #94: Mrs. Movie-star Wife tries directing |
| #95: Hey, No Fair |
| #96: Hey, No Fair AGAIN |
| #97: Johnny Strange |
| #98:Let's Pad out the Collection, Yul |
| #99:Let's Pad out the Collection some more |
| #100:Things Happened |
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