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ESCAPE IN THE FOG starts NINA FOCH as US Army nurse Eileen Carr, who is resting at a countryside inn following a breakdown whilst serving during the tail-end of WW2.
At the beginning of this limited budget 63-minute espionage B-movie from COLUMBIA PICTURES. Our character Eileen is walking along a foggy San Francisco bridge at night when she witnesses 3 men tumble out of a taxi with 2 of the passengers attempting to kill the 3rd, during which she lets out a bloodcurdling scream - she then wakes in her hotel room and it was all a dream, but then 2 guests break down her door after hearing her scream and to her amazement one of the men standing in the doorway is the man she saw attacked in her dream, federal agent Barry Malcolm (WILLIAM WRIGHT a sort of cutprice Clark Gable, who had a relatively short career in 40s B Movies before his death from Cancer in 1949 still in his 30s).
Was her dream really a premonition?
Federal agents, Nazis, espionage, kidnappings & attempted murders - all within a barely 1 hour run time - I dont mean that as a criticism, ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a very fast moving, solid little B-Noir.
Not the most well known of 40s Film Noirs (at least not to me)
Co-starring OTTO KRUGER (a side character here but he's still top billed and a rare good guy role)
Directed by BUDD BOETTICHER (here credited as OSCAR BOETTICHER Jr) in one of his first directoral duties, He later spoke rather disparagingly of this and his other early works, calling them "nothing pictures" and while ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a definite low budget B-pic, I feel Boetticher was rather too hard on this picture, which is still an enjoyable, if minor noir, which doesnt outstay its welcome.
This also has SHELLEY WINTERS in her film debut in a uncredited, blink and you'll miss her role as a Taxi Driver who picks up our main characters from their Hotel.
6.5/10 rounded up to 7.
At the beginning of this limited budget 63-minute espionage B-movie from COLUMBIA PICTURES. Our character Eileen is walking along a foggy San Francisco bridge at night when she witnesses 3 men tumble out of a taxi with 2 of the passengers attempting to kill the 3rd, during which she lets out a bloodcurdling scream - she then wakes in her hotel room and it was all a dream, but then 2 guests break down her door after hearing her scream and to her amazement one of the men standing in the doorway is the man she saw attacked in her dream, federal agent Barry Malcolm (WILLIAM WRIGHT a sort of cutprice Clark Gable, who had a relatively short career in 40s B Movies before his death from Cancer in 1949 still in his 30s).
Was her dream really a premonition?
Federal agents, Nazis, espionage, kidnappings & attempted murders - all within a barely 1 hour run time - I dont mean that as a criticism, ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a very fast moving, solid little B-Noir.
Not the most well known of 40s Film Noirs (at least not to me)
Co-starring OTTO KRUGER (a side character here but he's still top billed and a rare good guy role)
Directed by BUDD BOETTICHER (here credited as OSCAR BOETTICHER Jr) in one of his first directoral duties, He later spoke rather disparagingly of this and his other early works, calling them "nothing pictures" and while ESCAPE IN THE FOG is a definite low budget B-pic, I feel Boetticher was rather too hard on this picture, which is still an enjoyable, if minor noir, which doesnt outstay its welcome.
This also has SHELLEY WINTERS in her film debut in a uncredited, blink and you'll miss her role as a Taxi Driver who picks up our main characters from their Hotel.
6.5/10 rounded up to 7.
Robert Patrick stars as an FBI agent out for revenge after his wife and child are murdered by a drug cartel led by main goon Titus Welliver.
Patrick & Welliver are really too good for this trash by 90's B movie producers Richard Pepin & Joseph Mehri and their PM Entertainment Group, The script is dreadful, The acting by everyone (aside from the aforementioned above) is poor.
Plenty of gunfights & explosions, which is where most of the budget goes on this type of Straight-to-video trash, Patrick looks embarrassed to be in this - coming after his career defining role as the T-2000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and we even get Mick Fleetwood - Yes, THAT Mick Fleetwood as a drug cartel boss.
It's watchable enough with very low expectations, but we've all seen this many, many times before, "Zero Tolerance" doesn't break new ground or even tries to, it is what it is, a mid 90's bottom shelf, action cheapo with a far better leading man than this kind of trash deserves.
Patrick & Welliver are really too good for this trash by 90's B movie producers Richard Pepin & Joseph Mehri and their PM Entertainment Group, The script is dreadful, The acting by everyone (aside from the aforementioned above) is poor.
Plenty of gunfights & explosions, which is where most of the budget goes on this type of Straight-to-video trash, Patrick looks embarrassed to be in this - coming after his career defining role as the T-2000 in Terminator 2: Judgement Day, and we even get Mick Fleetwood - Yes, THAT Mick Fleetwood as a drug cartel boss.
It's watchable enough with very low expectations, but we've all seen this many, many times before, "Zero Tolerance" doesn't break new ground or even tries to, it is what it is, a mid 90's bottom shelf, action cheapo with a far better leading man than this kind of trash deserves.
"JUNGLE CRUISE" is the first movie Ive seen at the Cinema since the beginning of the Covid-19 pandemic, Going in I didnt have massively high expectations, but seeing as I thoroughly enjoyed the similar in tone "PIRATES OF THE CARIBBEAN" & "NATIONAL TREASURE" series of films, in which the former (like Jungle Cruise) is based on a Disneyland ride, I expected 90 minutes or so of high adventure and family fun.
"JUNGLE CRUISE" stars Dwayne Johnson in one of his IMHO most likeable performances as a Captain of a riverboat who takes a scientist with modern, feminist views (Emily Blunt) along with her Brother (Jack Whitehall) on a journey through the jungle in search of the tree of life.
At least $200M was thrown at this flick and every penny shows - it looks great, the SFX are really well rendered, if slightly overused If im being picky, its also very easy to pick holes in an relatively weak screenplay. But this is really by-the-by, Jungle Cruise is an enormously enjoyable Disney adventure flick and its nice to see Disney portraying a character who is subtly hinted to be LGBT.
Possibly down to the Worldwide Pandemic thus far Jungle Cruise hasnt perhaps been the smash-out-of-the-park blockbuster hit it might have been Pre-covid, but Disney is more often than not great at this type of flick and gets two thumbs up from me.
"JUNGLE CRUISE" stars Dwayne Johnson in one of his IMHO most likeable performances as a Captain of a riverboat who takes a scientist with modern, feminist views (Emily Blunt) along with her Brother (Jack Whitehall) on a journey through the jungle in search of the tree of life.
At least $200M was thrown at this flick and every penny shows - it looks great, the SFX are really well rendered, if slightly overused If im being picky, its also very easy to pick holes in an relatively weak screenplay. But this is really by-the-by, Jungle Cruise is an enormously enjoyable Disney adventure flick and its nice to see Disney portraying a character who is subtly hinted to be LGBT.
Possibly down to the Worldwide Pandemic thus far Jungle Cruise hasnt perhaps been the smash-out-of-the-park blockbuster hit it might have been Pre-covid, but Disney is more often than not great at this type of flick and gets two thumbs up from me.