Jack Palance lights Joan Crawford's fire in 1952's "woman in jeopardy" film noir, "Sudden Fear."
I watched Sudden Fear
starring Joan Crawford for the first time in years, with r… Read More
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A fun take on classic movies
 Lizabeth Scott & Humphrey Bogart team for 1947's film noir, "Dead Reckoning."
Humphrey Bogart's Dead
Reckoning was released in 1947 by Columbia Pictures, the same year as
B… Read More
Humphrey Bogart & Lauren Bacall in 1947's "Dark Passage," the duo's third film.
The 1947 WB film noir Dark Passage is highly entertaining, but
the whirlwind story is filled with back to… Read More
Jeanne Crain and Ethel Waters star in 1949's then controversial race drama, "Pinky."Jeanne Crain as "Pinky," who "passed" up north, but feels the boundaries of race more overtly back ho… Read More
Annie gets her due--at last!--with the first Ann Sheridan biography.It's noteworthy that Ann Sheridan,
from Hollywood’s golden era, is getting her first biography some 57 years after
h… Read More
Rhonda Fleming & Arlene Dahl as sisters, one good & one bad, and both are"Slightly Scarlet!"
Slightly Scarlet,
a latter day film noir from ’56, teams starlets Rhonda Fleming a… Read More
Gene Tierney thinks she has troubles as a kleptomaniac in "Whirlpool." Wait till she meets Jose Ferrer's hypnotist!
20th Century Fox upper
middle class luxury meets lurid film noir via a ch… Read More
Anne Bancroft & Shirley MacLaine, superb as long-time friends facing middle-age in 1977's "The Turning Point."
The Turning Point
was not only Shirley MacLaine’s 1977 movie co… Read More
In 1950's "Harriet Craig," that Ming vase moves around more than a planchette on a Ouija board, much to her consternation! Joan Crawford calls it a 'vah-z.'
Harriet
Craig is a 1950 remake o… Read More
Steve McQueen tries to keep his cool as "The Cincinnati Kid."
There were many talented
hands involved with the poker playing epic, 1965’s The Cincinnati Kid. However, Steve McQueen is… Read More
Jane Fonda & Michael Caine as a not-so-happy couple in 1967's "Hurry Sundown."
Otto Preminger's notorious
race drama Hurry Sundown was badly
reviewed and a box office underperformer bac… Read More
Veteran star Fred MacMurray & starlet Kim Novak in 1954's film noir, "Pushover."
The
tale of an authority figure going bad for big bucks and a beautiful broad is
nothing new. In its tim… Read More
(L) Joan Fontaine as conniver Christabel in 1950's "Born to Be Bad."(R) Carol Burnett from her TV show, spoofed this noir soap as "Raised to Be Rotten!"By the end of "Born to Be Bad," everyo… Read More
Jackie Collins' "Hollywood Wives" was a mini-series hit for ABC in 1985.
Hollywood
Wives was Jackie Collins’ most popular novel, of the many that she
churned out for decades. With Dyn… Read More
Ann Sheridan in 1950's "Woman on the Run," her first post-WB film.
Upon its release, Woman on the Run was likely considered a
B+ vehicle for veteran glamour girl Ann Sheridan. Facing the &l… Read More
The Two Chief Inspector Barnabys: John Nettles as Tom Barnaby & Neil Dudgeon as John Barnaby. Nettles played Tom for 14 years, then Neil took over as his cousin. "Midsomer Murders"… Read More
Jane Wyman is the governess who wears "The Blue Veil" from 1951.
The Blue Veil is a most straightforward
melodrama, a tearjerker tale of a life-long governess, of what was once called
a "wo… Read More
Charles Boyer & Irene Dunne sparkle like champagne in 1939's "Love Affair."
The Leo McCarey comedy-drama, Love Affair, came out in 1939, often cited as Hollywood's golden
year in cinema… Read More
Dan Dailey & Betty Grable shine as a showbiz couple in 1947's "Mother Wore Tights."
The musical
comedy/drama Mother Wore Tights was
of Betty Grable's greatest hits and the biggest movie… Read More
Jimmy Durante & "The Great Rupert!"
Even
back in 1950, the small-budget film The
Great Rupert was considered sentimental and far-fetched. Yet its
good-natured story and clever special e… Read More
Nathan Lane & Robin Williams make a fine pair in 1996's "The Birdcage."
Though The Birdcage is a film from 1996, it’s
as timely as ever. Interesting that nearly three decades late… Read More
Ava Gardner & Tyrone Power as Ernest Hemingway's troubled lovers Brett Ashley & Jake Barnes in 1957's "The Sun Also Rises."
The last hurrah of the
studio system, as demonstrated by… Read More
Stuart Whitman stars in 1964's "Shock Treatment." Whitman reminds me of a young Colin Farrell here, in this tawdry thriller set in a sanitarium.
Shock Treatment is one of t… Read More
Bette Davis & Olivia de Havilland go head to head in 1964's southern gothicsuspense film, "Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte."
Hush… Hush, Sweet Charlotte
was a follow-up to the surp… Read More
Albert Dekker, here as the crazy one of twin brothers, and starlet Susan Hayward, in 1941's "Among the Living."
A Southern gothic “B” thriller, Paramount’s 1941 Amon… Read More
Joan Collins is Evelyn Nesbit in 1955's "The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing."
Based on one of the most shocking
scandals from the early 20th century, The
Girl in the Red Velvet Swing depicts… Read More
Robert Redford as "Bubber" Jackson, the object of 1966's "The Chase."
The
Chase was a slog of a southern melodrama that teemed with great
talent, but was still a great big flop when it was… Read More
"The Rains of Ranchipur." Charismatic Richard Burton & femme fatale Lana Turner give each other the eye while her husband Michael Rennie seems oblivious... This scenario seems… Read More
Olivia de Havilland as twin sisters Ruth & Terry Collins, one good & one bad, natch! From 1946's "The Dark Mirror."
For the first time, I just watched 1946's The Dark
Mirror, t… Read More
Barbara Stanwyck & Fred MacMurray, as a designer & toy maker, who are also old flames in 1956's "There's Always Tomorrow."
Director Douglas Sirk literally flipped the script with
19… Read More
Betty Grable got the call to stardom in 20th Century Fox's "Down Argentine Way."
After years of toiling away
as a child performer and later a starlet in B-musicals, Betty Grable became a… Read More
A bittersweet moment with Alan Arkin, Eva Marie Saint, & Carl Reiner near the finale of 1966's "The Russians Are Coming! The Russians Are Coming!"
The Russians
Are Coming! The Russ… Read More
"Grease" from 1978 is still the word for fun movie musicals, 45 years later!
The film version of Grease—the
original High School Musical—came out
June 15 in 1978, the summ… Read More
Jean Arthur & Marlene Dietrich square off in Billy Wilder's post-war comedy-drama, 1948's "A Foreign Affair."
Even for Billy Wilder,
setting an adult comedy-drama like A
Foreign Af… Read More
Gene Tierney & Tyrone Power are the well-cast leads in the 1946 all-star version of "The Razor's Edge."
The
Razor’s Edge from 1946 is remarkably faithful to W.
Somerset Maugham&rs… Read More
Goldie Hawn & Meryl Streep: Best frenemies in 1992's satire "Death Becomes Her."
The particulars of plastic
surgery and cosmetic enhancements had just become common knowledge when Death… Read More
Doris Day is stalked by an unseen villain in 1960's suspense film "Midnight Lace."
Midnight Lace is one of those film perennials,
the "woman in jeopardy" movie genre. Doris Day has made sev… Read More
"Thoroughly Modern Millie," a '20s musical with the '60s biggest singing movie star! That Thoroughly Modern Millie, a puffed up piece of fluff, was a huge hit in 1967 was rather amazin… Read More
Lee Tracy as a pugnacious PR man & Jean Harlow as the dervish movie diva, in 1933's screwball comedy "Bombshell." Bombshell was one of the first movies that Jean Harlow showed she had a… Read More
As "doomed" media sensation Hazel Flagg in 1937's screwball comedy classic, "Nothing Sacred,"Carole Lombard isn't playing a death scene, just a passed out one! Nothing Sacred is not on… Read More
Van Johnson, Lana Turner, Ginger Rogers, and Walter Pidgeon head a cast of MGM favorites in 1945's "Weekend at the Waldorf." MGM’s all-star confection, Weekend at the Waldorf, was rel… Read More
Shirley MacLaine stars as Louisa May Foster, who marries and loses most of her five husbands in 1964's comedy, "What a Way to Go!" One of the many '60s all-star spectaculars that was he… Read More
Lana Turner tussles with Hugh O'Brian in 1965's "Love Has Many Faces." Joan Crawford & Jeff Chandler spar/spark in "Female on the Beach." MGM grads Lana Turner and Joan Crawford faced la… Read More
As "The Farmer's Daughter," Loretta Young leads a fine cast in this 1947 romantic comedy: Joseph Cotten, Charles Bickford, and Ethel Barrymore. In my sixth decade, I finally got around to wa… Read More
Raquel Welch & Perry King make such a pretty pair in 1975's "The Wild Party." The '70s nostalgia craze resulted in a flurry of films set in the early 20th century, especially golde… Read More
1962's "To Kill a Mockingbird" may have a race trial as its dramatic centerpiece, but the heart of the film is the story of a father, through his child's eyes. The film adaptation of Harper… Read More
Janet Leigh, romanced by Robert Mitchum & Wendell Corey, 1949's "Holiday Affair." Holiday Affair was originally envisioned with bigger stars, but economical RKO settled on up and comers… Read More
Yvette Mimieux & Charlton Heston have some sibling issues in "Diamond Head." Diamond Head, the “sprawling saga” of spoiled plantation owners and struggling Hawaiian loc… Read More
The battle cry of Dolores Claiborne: "Next time, one of us is going to the boneyard!" I loved Stephen King’s suspense novel Dolores Claiborne and was pleased when I saw the… Read More
"Wait Until Dark" a 1967 suspense film written by Frederick Knott, also had a stage and film hit with "Dial M For Murder." With Alan Arkin & Audrey Hepburn. If Wait Until Dark was ever r… Read More