Cy EndfieldCritiques

2022 movie #161. 1948. Reporter wants to find a secret document his friend was killed over. A bit of a sendup of a noir film. The tough guy reporter socks a woman (Barbara Billingsly, The Beaver's Mom!) on the jaw at one point. Almost everyone after this thing is murdered but him

2022 movie #14. 1957. Cut throat English dump truck drivers out race each other to earn a pay bonus. Lots of fast driving trucks on the wrong side of the road! Pretty good. Early appearances by Patrick McGoohan. Sean Connery, David McCallum and Jill Ireland.

First rate SF adventure yarn, fine special effects by Ray Harryhausen. The balloon escape at the beginning is worth the price of admission, and the rest is a lot of fun. Terrific musical score by Bernard Herrmann!

stop-motion photography with moving mattes, by ray harryhausen.