Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

[ January 30, 2008; 9:30 pm to 11:30 pm. ] This has got to be the fastest paced Billy Wilder picture ever. The story unfolds like a machine gun but in a good way. James Cagney stars as the head of Coca Cola in West Germany. He has eyes on the postion of Head of European Bottling. To please his boss back […]

I am not fond of top ten lists as they are too narrow in their scope, but these are a few that should be recorded from TCM or the Fox Movie Channel or ( I can’t believe that I am saying this) put into your Netflix of Blockbuster lists. Need more? Write me!
1) Out […]

1) Stagecoach
2) Shane
3) Pursued
4) Red River
5) El Dorado
6) The Searchers
7) Rio Bravo
8)� My Darking Clementine
9) The Good, The Bad and the Ugly
10) High Noon

[ April 30, 2008; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] Face In The Crowd is one of the best picutres ever made about the abuse and dangers of celebrity and fame and how quickly it can be taken away. The power that comes with notoriety can a terrible thing with the wrong person. In this case that wrong person is Larry ‘Lonesome’ Rhodes.

An […]

[ May 25, 2008; 3:45 pm to 5:45 pm. ] This picture a great example of beautiful accidents. The shear fate of casting, writing and direction that give us this movie that holds up today. And although the picture is set in a World War Two Nazi prison camp its is fairly safe viewing for the over 10 set (I saw this picture […]

[ November 10, 2007; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] This is a tight little thriller from a very young Stanley Kubrick. His second feature length picture is only 67 minutes and it moves along very briskly. The story, told in flash back concerns an aging boxer and and a dime a dance dance hall girl. The boxer is down on […]

[ January 17, 2008; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] “Of all the gin joints in all the towms in all the world, she had to walk into mine”. Most of us know who said it and what picture it’s from. However, there are some who have never seen ome of the greatest motion pictures ever made. There is nothing I could […]

[ November 4, 2007; 4:15 am to 6:15 am. ] This was a huge favorite at the store. It is also a big personal non-Mitchum non-Bogart favorite of mine as well. If only Orson Welles was allowed to finish it the way he wanted it. There was a longer special edition video tape version years ago but as far as I know […]

[ November 3, 2007; 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. ] This was a huge favorite at the store. It is also a noir classic complete with a hero that lives by a code. The under used and severly under rated Charles McGraw stars as a Los Angeles homicide detective who is sent to Chicago to pick up a witness to a mob killing. […]

[ November 27, 2007; 8:00 pm to 10:00 pm. ] This was one of many Movie Place favorites. It has everything we love in a movie. Besides great performances, it had the suggestions of tawdriness, noir – ness. It is a picture that is not one thing, not fitting in to one category. It is a picture that makes us have […]