Carl Bensen Movies

When Steve Keller (Michael Douglas) is seriously injured in a fight with a mobster, his partner Mike Stone (Karl Malden) is boiling mad. He gets madder still when it seems that the police investigation of the fight has been put on the back burner. Accordingly, Stone takes it upon himself to bring Keller's assailant to justice--and bends so many rules in the process that he loses his detective's badge and ends up pounding a beat! ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide

Flood Tide can be described as The Children's Hour gone ballistic. Michel Ray is David Gordon a sweet-faced little boy who dotes on his widowed mother Anne (Cornell Borchers) - but has a nasty, pathological penchant for lying. When a body washes up on the beach and a man is arrested, David tells a few "convenient" lies that get the fellow arrested. The owner of the adjacent beach house, Steve Martin (George Nader) returns from a trip, learns of the situation, and discusses in detail why he thinks the boy is being deceptive; he then spends the rest of the movie romantically pursuing Anne while attempting to earn David's trust and extract a confession from him that will free the unjustly convicted fellow. Flood Tide was directed by Abner Biberman, who as a former movie villain had a good grasp of what makes a sociopath tick--even a ten-year-old one. ~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide