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Tuesday, 6 April 2021

Hot Cars (1956)



 

A family man needs money for his sick son, and decides to keep a job at a used car lot despite realizing it is selling stolen cars. 

Acceptable low-budget crime drama is mildly effective with some touches of Noir and a Les Baxter score. 



 

Sunday, 19 July 2020

I Bury the Living (1958)



A cemetery director discovers that by arbitrarily changing the status of plots from empty to occupied on the planogram causes the death of the plots' owners.

Good, above-average horror tale with an imaginative plot and a simple, but surprising twist ending.

Halliwell (no star): "Unusual enough to be encouraging, sloppy enough to disappoint even mystery lovers."

Maltin***: "Crisp little chiller..."