Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

[ March 22, 2008; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] The Bad and The Beautiful was a constant on the screen at Movie Place. I could watch it over and over. It is up there in number of repeated viewings with Sweet Smell Of Success Some of you know how I feel about Sweet Smell Of Success. It was […]

[ July 4, 2007; 12:00 am to 2:00 am. ] “Tell me Colonel Tibbets, how do you feel?” asks a reporter. � “How do you think I feel” is the terse and incredulous response from Colonel Paul Tibbets (Robert Taylor). Colonel Tibbets has just come back from one of history’s most famous flights, and events, ever.� Colonel Tibbets was the pilot of the Enola […]

[ March 4, 2008; 12:00 am to 1:30 am. ] This is one of my favorite pre code pictures and was a constant in the Movie Place viewing schedule. It’s got everything a pre code picture should have – sex (pre-marital, illicit and adulterous), violence and drug abuse. The production code would have forbidden all that good stuff. As movies […]

[ June 21, 2007; 7:45 am to 9:45 am. ] This is one of the best films that Howard Hughes tried to ruin.� The principal photography was completed but Mr. Hughes kept asking for more scenes to be shot. Scenes of Robert Mitchum getting beaten up in various stages of shirtlessness and scenes of Jane Russell heaving her bosom in various stages of costume […]

[ June 13, 2007; 12:01 am to 2:01 am. ] This was yet another Movie Place favorite.� We all loved Jack Palance and Ida Lupino.� I mean who doesn’t.� We all loved the tawdry nature of the story and some of you might remember “tawdry” was a favorite genre at Movie Place.� We also loved Clifford Odets and movies about
Hollywood.� […]

[ June 4, 2007; 4:00 am to 6:00 am. ] Anybody who was a Movie Place customer, anybody who walked into the store, anybody who knows me knows how I feel about Robert Mitchum. In my opinion Robert Mitchum was the most under revered actor from the “golden age” of Hollywood. The fact that this man, whose natural abilities were tremendous, only recieved one Oscar […]

[ June 23, 2007; 12:00 pm to 1:59 pm. ]