Category Archives: Film

Sinister Cinema: Sam Invades Manchette Territory

Posted on March 23, 2021 by Don

Terry Zobeck pops along the news from The Rap Sheet that unbeknownst to us Sam Spade moved to France and is about to get into some 1960s colonial action, as in a Jean-Patrick Manchette novel! Well, hell, I wasn’t expecting … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: At Last, “Roadhouse Benny” Enigma Explained

Posted on February 26, 2021 by Don

Remember back in 2012 when a bunch of us heard the name Jack Benny and “wireless hero” during a screening of Roadhouse Nights from 1930? Only problem was that Jackson wasn’t supposed to be on the radio before 1932. In … Continue reading →

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Hammett: Blue Bloods Blurb

Posted on February 16, 2021 by Don

Both Evan Lewis and Brian Wallace alerted me to a major Hammett/Falcon cameo in the cop show Blue Bloods. “Friday night, February 12, 2021,” Brian reported. “Season 11, Episode 7 — ‘In Too Deep.’Alison Gable (Erin Neufer) is introduced to … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Does Continuity Matter?

Posted on January 18, 2021 by Don

For those who enjoy chewing the fat about books and writers, in email the noted book and pulp collector Kevin Cook and I recently got off on another little thread that might interest some of you: Kevin: Of course the … Continue reading →

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Hammett: More “Silver Eyes”

Posted on October 21, 2020 by Don

And today Evan Lewis tosses up yet another newsprint appearance for the Op yarn “The Girl with the Silver Eyes,” Pittsburgh, December 1936. Plus some ads from Allentown blurbing an October 1938 reprint for this primo Op adventure in that … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Brooding Over John Hancocks

Posted on September 16, 2020 by Don

Just got a note in from the famed and maniacal Autograph Hound Brian Leno, who says: Last night some guy was selling about 70 or so signed postal covers. Good stuff too, so I got my trigger finger ready and … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: A Fistful of Autos

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Don

Like Clint Eastwood in a Spaghetti Western, Brian Leno saddles up every day and tracks down one John Hancock after another. He doesn’t turn them in for bounty, however. If Leno guns down a signature, he keeps it: Got a … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: Count Zaroff

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Don

And here’s Brian Leno once again — Brian plays the game of tracking and hunting down the most elusive John Hancocks lurking in the sweaty climes of the Internet jungles: Leslie Banks was the evil (but cool) Count Zaroff in … Continue reading →

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Rediscovered: Freddie Mills Leads the Pack

Posted on August 1, 2020 by Don

Autograph Hound Saturday once again. Kind of snuck up on me. I mentioned the other week that Brian Leno has been collecting signatures like hell recently — on top of collecting like hell his whole life — and he’s here … Continue reading →

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Sinister Cinema: A Fistful of Fisher

Posted on June 17, 2020 by Don

Pulps in the Movies. On Sale Every Wednesday. And does our resident pulp/film buff John Locke have a title for you today: I Wake Up Screaming. Yeah, we all get that feeling, right? — now maybe more so than ever. … Continue reading →

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