The Ace Black Movie Blog

A business-and-romance drama, The Carpetbaggers is fueled by a tortuously obsessed personality. In the 1920s, Jonas Cord Jr. (George Peppar...

A delicately convoluted film noir, The Glass Key mixes politics, corruption, crime, romance and divided loyalties into a steaming brew. Sha...

A thoughtful western tackling themes of friendship and lost love, Whispering Smith packs action, tension and drama in a zesty package. ...

A B-movie crime drama, Paper Bullets (also known as Gangs, Inc. ) packs too many characters into too much plot and loses all focus. Yo...

A war drama and romance set in India, Thunder In The East aims for a Casablanca vibe but settles for methodically mixing the ingredient...

A fairly routine Western, Saskatchewan (also clumsily known as O'Rourke Of The Canadian Mounted ) examines tensions with native trib...

All movies starring Alan Ladd and reviewed on the Ace Black Movie Blog are linked below: Citizen Kane (1941, uncredited)...

An appealing post-Civil War western, The Proud Rebel is a family-friendly story of a father from the south finding both lingering resent...

A classic Western, Shane perfectly blends all the genre elements into a monumental package. The story of a mysterious gunman helping hom...