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 In his essay that's included with the new Blu-ray for 1957's Monster from Green Hell , Don Stradley asks "Would the hardworking souls who made B movies back in the 1950s believe we'd still be discussing their work 70 years later?" It's a reasonable question: these movies were made on the cheap and were never intended to be anything more than disposable entertainment, created for quick thrills and the hopes of making a couple of bucks so the filmmakers could do it again. But something happened that these entrepreneurs never could have predicted: we fell in love with their movies. We didn't fall in love with them because they were slick and polished, we fell in love with them because they were rough and raw. They featured actors that didn't feel like gleaming stars of Tinsel Town, but real people. The films offer unabashed spectacle, or the dime-store equivalent thereof. We love these movies because we can see the fingerprints of the creators who made t...

Our latest Fresh Flavors Super Show is HUGE and includes everything from super heroes to homemade horror movies!  Reviews mentioned in this episode: Final Justice Gold Diggers of 1933 The Three Musketeers Ghost Riders The Capture Dancing Pirate Repeat Performance We are viewer supported! To unlock the entire Collecting At Midnight series plus collection tours and over 100 EXCLUSIVE EPISODES, visit Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight ! CerealAtMidnight.com Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight Facebook.com/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite

The Film Detective waves their magic wand over another fascinating piece of cinema history to bring new life to Dancing Pirate , a 1936 musical adventure shot in color and with a new star at the forefront.  This mid-thirties curiosity seeks to answer the questions that keep us up at night: what if a well-to-do 19th century dance instructor were kidnapped and put into service aboard a pirate ship? Avast, me hearties, ye need wonder no more. For 83 pleasant minutes, Dancing Pirate  delivers light swashbuckling thrills and well-choreographed dancing spills in a enjoyable (if forgettable) tale that is more remembered for its technical achievements and supporting cast than for being a box office or critical success.  Actor, dancer, and stage-star Charles Collins makes his feature debut as the lead in this film from the aptly-titled Pioneer Pictures, an independent production house with a focus on color cinema in a time when audiences seemed indifferent to a move away from stan...

It's a great time to be a John Sturges fan. At the time of this writing, many of the director's films are being restored and given high definition and Ultra HD upgrades from the previous DVD editions, offering the best home media presentations to date for modern film fans. The last few years alone have seen the restorations of  Underwater! , Last Train from Gun Hill, Bad Day At Black Rock, and  The Great Escape , with even more planned for the coming months. There's never been a better time for cinephiles to discover or re-evaluate the work of an under-praised filmmaker who may not have had a particular auteur style, but was a master all the same. Now the preservationists at The Film Detective have added another film from the Sturgis library to our shelves: 1950's The Capture . The Capture is a wonderful film that plays to the strengths of its director and defies categorization by equally serving elements of crime, romance, western, and noir. The story begins with an in...

Our latest new release spotlight has Beatles, cowboys, cold-blooded killers, comedy legends, and the most iconic sleuth in history! Review of The Fabulous Dorseys Ebay.com/usr/cerealatmidnight Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight CerealAtMidnight.com Facebook/CerealMidnight Twitter: CerealMidnight Instagram: CerealMidnight Letterboxd: CerealAtMidnite Shop: CerealAtMidnight.Threadless.com

Hailing from the glory days of the "Big Band Musical," The Fabulous Dorseys  recounts the meteoric rise of Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, two brothers who soared to the heights of stardom together, then publicly split, only to achieve even higher fame individually. Modern audiences might be surprised to learn that The Dorseys sold something in the neighborhood of 110 million albums, making them household names and some of the most successful musicians not just in their era, but also of the last 100 years. Comparisons to Taylor Swift are not unfounded. EVERYONE knew The Dorseys, and their music and off-stage exploits were common knowledge.  The real story of The Dorseys is tailor-made for the movies, and only needed to be slightly fictionalized to smooth some of the rough edges. Tommy and Jimmy grew up in a small town, learned their instruments as children and quickly rebelled against the traditional constraints of "proper music," leaning into jazz and dance beats with a di...

Richard E. Cunha's 1958 low-budget creature feature gets a 4K restoration and deluxe Blu-ray treatment thanks to the fine folks at The Film Detective! Hailing from the Golden Age of the drive-in,  Frankenstein's Daughter  serves a ghastly gourmet of cinematic cheese for fans to feast upon. The plot finds the famed Dr. Frankenstein's grandson picking up the gruesome work of his ancestor in 1950's Los Angeles. For starters, he's developed a serum that turns people into hideous, invulnerable freaks, and one of the first scenes in the movie gives us lead actress Sandra Knight (the future Mrs. Jack Nicholson) in gruesome makeup effects that accompanies the title screen. Not content to stop there--wouldn't be much of a villain if he did--our evil scientist is also constructing a monster made from the parts of dead people that will obey his every whim and kill on command. If dead bodies don't supply themselves, he's more than willing to help people to their dem...

Turhan Bey has never been more charming than he is in 1948's The Amazing Mr. X , aka The Spiritualist , a gorgeously-shot atmospheric chiller from Poverty Row .  The plot concerns Alexis (Bey), a con artist who operates under the guise of a spiritualist, seeking to separate wealthy customers from their riches with the promise of communion with deceased loved ones, or glimpses of the future. Not unlike a stage magician, he employs sleight-of-hand and more than a few tricks of the trade in his profession, which we're allowed to see fairly early in the film. He's a charlatan, but he's also played with such ageless European charm by Turhan Bey, an Austrian-born actor of Turkish and Czech-Jewish descent (he was nicknamed "Turkish Delight" because of his smooth qualities) that we can't help but find ourselves rooting for a character that would, in any other movie, be the villain.  Alexis seeks to work his unique magic on a widow (played by Lynn Bari, a curvy act...

The Film Detective has just served up another outstanding slice of retro awesomeness with their new Blu-ray of FLIGHT TO MARS (1951), featuring a stunning new restoration and special features from Ballyhoo Motion Pictures! Full details about the film and the features in this review! Want EVEN MORE Cereal At Midnight? We've got you covered! Support us on Patreon and gain access to our huge vault of exclusives, which includes over 90 videos that aren't available anywhere else. Find out more at Patreon.com/CerealAtMidnight! Purchase here: https://amzn.to/2VlcFUo

Brand new on Blu-ray, Giant from the Unknown  hails from that golden age of backyard B-movies both wonderful and bizarre, the fabulous '50s! As film historian Tom Weaver notes in his excellent (and quite funny) audio commentary, there were so many low-budget monster movies made during the 1950s that the market was not merely saturated, it was actually destroyed by being over-served. Lucky for us, these films still exist and often retain every bit of the charm and imagination that can still cause curious cinema searchers to seek them out and enjoy their many wonderful qualities. This is exactly the sort of fun and fanciful mid-century genre picture that Cereal At Midnight was born to appreciate.