Scott's Movie Reviews – A Century of Cinema: Reviews by Scott Schirmer

The Seventh Cross (1944)

[7] Spencer Tracy stars as a concentration camp escapee in this grim, pre-World War II drama-thriller from director Fred Zinneman (A Man for All Seasons, From Here to Eternity). After breaking out of the Westhofen camp with six other Jewish prisoners, Tracy's…

October 26, 2026

Lady and the Tramp (1955)

[6] A pampered Cocker-Spaniel named Lady falls for a street mutt named Butch in Disney Animation's nineteenth animated feature, Lady and the Tramp. Lady comes from a well-off family on the good side of town, but when her owners start expecting a…

October 26, 2026

Wes Craven’s New Nightmare (1994)

[5] Writer/director Wes Craven returns to the franchise he started, providing a unique coda to the original series of seven Nightmare on Elm Street movies. New Nightmare gives us a glimpse of the meta-awareness that would be foundational to Craven's later Scream…

October 25, 2026

The Hindenburg (1975)

[4] George C. Scott stars as a German officer tasked with preventing a saboteur from blowing up the Hindenburg before it lands in America. Robert Wise (The Sound of Music, West Side Story) directs this slow-moving disaster movie, one that relies on…

October 24, 2026

Last of the Dogmen (1995)

[7] After escaped convicts are found slaughtered in the wilderness, a bounty hunter (Tom Berenger) and an anthropology professor (Barbara Hershey) travel deep into the Montana mountains to confirm a nagging suspicion that a tribe of Cheyenne 'Dogmen' have survived in isolation,…

October 23, 2026

Night of the Juggler (1980)

[6] James Brolin (The Amityville Horror) stars as a divorced dad and ex-cop whose daughter is kidnapped and held for ransom in this rough-and-tumble thriller. Night of the Juggler hits the ground running, with an elaborate opening in which we watch the…

October 22, 2026

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)

[7] After years of experimenting in various film genres, director Alfred Hitchcock finally committed to thrillers and suspense with his seventeenth feature, The Man Who Knew Too Much. A young teen girl (Nova Pilbeam) is kidnapped by spies after her parents (Leslie…

October 21, 2026

Alfred Hitchcock

Hammer Films

Disney Animation