Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

[ November 5, 2007 10:00 pm to November 6, 2007 12:00 am. ] This is THE text book film noir. It is the standard by which all others were made and measured up to. I know that this is a bold statement and borderline crazy but all “film noirs” leading up to this picture are funneled into this picture. The femme fatal in the extreme […]

[ August 3, 2007; 4:45 pm to 6:45 pm. ] This was a Movie Place favorite. It is tawdry with a capital T. It has every thing a good soap opera should have: sex, corruption, blackmail, suicide and murder. The only thing missing is drug use. It is no wonder that it was the basis for the 80’s prime time soap opera.

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[ October 14, 2008; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] I know that this is a long post but I do not want to cut it. Back in the mid late 1980’s when I first began working at Movie Place,we had a customer who knew of my longtime obsession with Robert Mitchum. Nothing wrong with that. This customer had also been the […]

[ December 22, 2007; 2:00 pm to 4:00 pm. ] One day in the early 1940’s, Howard Hawks’ wife was looking through a magazine when she came across an advertisement that featured a striking young woman. She shows him the picture and the ball starts rolling. Just before this event, Ernest Hemingway had a bet with Mr. Hawks. The bet was that […]

[ September 16, 2007; 8:00 am to 10:00 am. ] Dark Passage was another constant in the Movie Place rotation of what was on the screen. It has a murder, a prison break out, a slightly insane back alley plastic surgeon, an incredibly villainous woman and a love story all rolled into one great 106 minute picture. It has everything one could possibly […]

[ 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 […]

[ July 22, 2007; 4:00 pm to 6:00 pm. ] Not only is High Sierra a great picture it is a landmark Bogart picture. He is not playing a smarmy second banana in a Cagney film, he is coming into his own. He proves without a doubt that he can carry a picture effortlessly. This movie was written by John Huston and it was […]

[ July 22, 2007; 6:00 pm to 8:00 pm. ]