The Cameraman has some very good, often isolated, scenes, but I don’t think it’s Buster Keaton at his best.
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney is maybe a little too low-key, but it has some nice moments, and Joan Crawford’s rather good in the title role.
Blood on the Moon has kind of lousy title, but everything else about it is top-notch—from strong direction by Wise to several very strong performances, particularly by Mitchum.
Split Second probably has too many characters and is a little preposterous—only more so in today’s post-atomic age—but it has its fair share of tense ticking-clock moments.
Dark of the Sun is far from perfect, but it tackles some difficult, complicated, even brutally violent issues, and it features a really solid performance by Rod Taylor.
Boasting the thinnest of premises for the lousiest of jokes, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh is remarkably tedious from its opening jump-shot to the ref’s final whistle.
Even by mid-’80s Brian De Palma standards, Body Double is a bit much. The movie plays like both a fawning homage to, and a smriking pardoy of, Alfred Hitchcock. It’s almost worth watching for the ridiculousness of its filmmaking alone, but I would hesitate to call it a good movie.
