Month: November 2017

The Gauntlet (Clint Eastwood, US, 1977)

Last Updated on October 6, 2020 by rob

Boozy Las Vegas cop Ben Shockley (Eastwood), gets the job of delivering prostitute Augustina ‘Gus’ Mally (Sondra Locke) to her court appearance in Phoenix. According to Ben’s boss, chief of police Blakelock (a brief but memorably repulsive character played by William Prince), it’s ‘a nothing witness for a nothing trial.’ Unsurprisingly then, … Read the rest

The Human Vapor (Ishiro Honda, Japan, 1960)

Last Updated on October 6, 2020 by rob

Opening with a taut robbery sequence in which employees react with terror as doors and bank vaults seemingly open at will, a second robbery gets even stranger when a dead employee is found inside the locked but ransacked vault. With both keys in the hands of the authorities it’s a mystery as … Read the rest