3,000 Miles of Terror!

I haven't had a lot of chances to watch movies lately, so now that I finally have a bit of a break from school, I've been trying to watch as many as possible. Although I am really detesting going out to movie theatres, I bit the bullet and used my Loew's gift card to see Casanova (2005). It was a pretty decent picture with a lot of laughs. Lasse Hallstrom never disappoints. Later at home, I watched some Val Lewton horror films like Cat People (1942), The Curse of the Cat People (1944) and The Seventh Victim (1943). They sound super cheesy and I was deadset against watching them. I could only envision people dressed in poorly made cat costumes, clawing people and pretending to be scary. But after watching a few scenes of Cat People on TCM, I was surprised! Val Lewton was given these cheesy titles and very little money by RKO and in turn made these amazingly intelligent psychological thrillers. I highly recommend watching them.

And one can not speak of psychological thrillers without mentioning the master of them all, Mr. Alfred Hitchcock. By far the best film I've seen in the past few weeks his film Saboteur (1942). I was absolutely blown away. It's about a young aircraft worker named Barry Kane (played by the hunky Robert Cummings) who is framed for sabotaging a military airbase. In the midst of a fire, a malicious man named Frank Fry hands Kane a fire extinguisher full of gasoline. It's taken out of Kane's hands by his friend Ken Mason who tries to put out the fire but instead dies when the blaze gets out of control. Fry disappears and Kane gets blamed for Ken's death and for sabotage. He goes across the country looking for Fry and escaping the police. But get this, Fry is part of a secret Nazi circle that is planning sabotage all across the US! Kane has to stop this of course and along the way picks up pretty Priscilla Lane, a fashion model and a patriotic American. They journey across the country and end up at this amazing climactic scene at the top of the Statue of Liberty. Isn't that the best plot for a movie? Why don't people make movies like this anymore? Anyways, if you get a chance watch it! It's top notch stuff and personally recommended from yours truly.