Was there any one else better to play Billy Buck, John Steinbeck’s trusted ranch hand, surrogate father figure to a ten year old boy and a smoldering fantasy man for the boy’s mother than Robert Mitchum? No, there was not, and still there is no one.
The longest and costliest movie shoot in the history […]
Joan Crawford was always good at playing a victim. A victim of love, circumstance, mental illness, mean sisters and mean daughters. In Mildred Pierce she is great at playing the victim—a victim of love and of a mean daughter. This was her first picture at Warner Brothers after being let go by […]
This picture is what I will label a “gem”. It is one of the most touching stories about children ever put to screen. Produced on a what is politely called a modest budget. The picture, however, looks beautiful. This is due to the input photographer Ruth Orkin had with her co-director / producer / cinematographer […]
Turner Classic Movies is showing two Lucille Ball pictures back to back that are very much worth recording and keeping. The genesis of Lucy Ricardo is in both these pictures. Both pictures are perfect for the kids as well.
In Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949), a bookie by the name of Dick Richmond (William Holden) uses […]
A private detective is being set up to take a murder rap. he is being framed and the only one who believes him and the only one he can trust is his secretary. This is the premise for Dark Corner, a nice little noir from 20th Century Fox. What is also nice about this picture […]
This picture is a rarity. A sports themed film noir. It also turned out to be Humphrey Bogart’s last picture.
Mr. Bogart plays jobless sportswriter Eddie Willis. Biting the bullet and selling out by going to work for corrupt fight promoter Nick Benko (Rod Steiger), Eddie is hired to promote Benko’s current protege, an […]
One of the greatest cold war pictures. However this one almost strikes a balance, there is evil in both ideologies. Sure, commies are a bad and ruthless bunch but so can the mother of a much decorated war hero be as well. After the much despised by his troops Captain Raymond Shaw returns from […]
This is the Jihad of all “indictment of Hollywood”, “this business of ours called show chews them up and spits them out” and “this town is mean in spite of the palm trees” pictures ever made. It angered a few people, studio heads who came to believe that director Billy Wilder had bitten hard […]
Joan Crawford was always good at playing a victim. A victim of love, circumstance, mental illness, mean sisters and mean daughters. In Mildred Pierce she is great at playing the victim—a victim of love and of a mean daughter. This was her first picture at Warner Brothers after being let go by […]
Humphrey Bogart plays the quintessential Navy Captain who is losing his marbles. In one of the most tragic and sympathetic performances of a man breaking down sanity-wise on a witness stand, Mr. Bogart moved the studio crew to a thunderous round of applause when the scene was finished. The film took a year […]
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