Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE STRANGE CASE Of DR. Rx (1942)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE STRANGE CASE Of DR. Rx (1942): From IMDb:  "A mysterious vigilante known as 'Dr. X' strikes again.  Assigned to the case is private detective Jerry Church but...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE LAST OF MRS. CHENEY (1929)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE LAST OF MRS. CHENEY (1929): A pre-Code early talkie with Norma Shearer her most glamorous and Basil Rathbone at his most dashing. "[T]his witty and stylish caper f...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE CANARY MURDER CASE (1929): Ogden Nash famously write "Philo Vance needs a kick in the pance."  The pompous fictional detective created by S. S. Van Dine has ...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: BEHIND THAT CURTAIN (1929)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: BEHIND THAT CURTAIN (1929):  Charlie Chan was a fictional Honolulu detective created by Earl Derr Bigger in a series of six novels beginning with 1924's The House W...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (MST3K VERSION, PLUS A SPECIAL BONUS!)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (MST3K VERS...: If Joel and the bots have to sit through Bert I. Gordon's 1958 horror flick Earth vs. The Spider , then you do, too.  Gordon, a king of ...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THNK FAST, MR. MOTO (1937)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THNK FAST, MR. MOTO (1937): When Charlie Chan creator Earl Der Biggers died in 1933, The Saturday Evening Post  began looking for another writer to create a series abou...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: ROAD HOUSE (1948)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: ROAD HOUSE (1948): Following his stunning portrayal as the sociopathic killer Tommy Udo in 1948's Kiss of Death , Richard Widmark helped cement his pace as...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE MONKEY'S PAW (1948)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE MONKEY'S PAW (1948):  Be careful what you wish for. That's the moral of the classic 1902 horror story "The Monkey's Paw" by British writer W. W...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: THE MANDARIN MYSTERY (1936): Based on the EQ novel The Chinese Orange Mystery , this is the second theatrical film featuring detective Ellery Queen.  It follows The Span...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: SCATTERGOOD SURVIVES A MURDER (1942)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: SCATTERGOOD SURVIVES A MURDER (...:  There's been no end of great character actors who were able to elevate merely because of their presence; they've made bad films tol...

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951)

Jerry's House of Everything: OVERLOOKED FILM: WHEN WORLDS COLLIDE (1951): Although Philip Wylie & Edwin Balmer's classic science fiction novel was optioned for film for Cecil B. DeMille in 1933, a movie ver...