The Prowler

I've been getting into director Joseph Losey's movies lately. This was a great movie. It concerns a psychotic cop played excellently by Van Heflin. While searching for a prowler he becomes acquainted with the lonely Evelyn Keyes whose husband is a late night radio host. The two embarked on an affair. Heflin gets away with murder when he claims the shot on her husband was accidental. She marries him. But when she becomes pregnant their affair will become all too obvious to the public. He comes up with a scheme the problem is she reads into his past actions. I've already been impressed with Heflin before but Evelyn Keyes was pretty good too. 3.5/5

The Moon-Spinners

I started Mary Stewart's book and found it boring. I thought well maybe the movie is better. I found it to be the worst Hayley Mills' movie she made during Disney. The movie is concerned with jewelry smuggling. The real problem is the villain isn't interesting and one-dimensonal. When that happens it's hard to be passionate for the good guy to win. I do think Hayley Mills was Disney's best child actress and she was always fun to watch in the 1960s. You should watch The Parent Trap instead.

The Animal Kingdom

Leslie Howard marries the cold manipulative Myrna Loy only to find himself going back to his more relaxed mistress Ann Harding. I loved Ann Harding in It happened on 5th avenue so it was nice seeing her in an earlier role. This was just ok. It didn't blow my mind but it was a good 3/5.

Not Wanted

This movie was mostly directed by Ida Lupino and it was co-scripted by her as well. It's about an unwed girl who gets pregnant. There's the detached pianist who knocked who up and a sweet lame guy who actually does care for her. The ending is over the top and unintentionally had me and my sister laugh. Ida Lupino was simply an awesome director and actress. She was one of the first female directors and really her work still stands well today.

The Green Man

I found the first half of this 1950s black comedy boring but once the murders happened then it got interesting. Alastair Sim plays a watchmaker who is an assasin. Then a couple discovers the bodies one of which is in a piano. Once they do they all on the case. It was an amusing black comedy. It's on Kanopy.

Raven's End

This was an ok Swedish movie from the 1960s. A writer gets his book published but the poverty of the the people around him gets to him and soon he quits his ambitions. His girlfriend gets pregnant and things get worst. The man does something very selfish in the end so it was hard for me to find him likable. Maybe that's why I think this is just ok while it's more than critically acclaimed.

The Gleiwitz Case

This DEFA movie shows the Nazis marching in on a German town near Poland. I think you have to be a history buff or something because I got lost. At least it was only 64 minutes.