Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

I thought that I would never do this but I am plugging a Broadway show. The Broadway stage had once been fertile ground for talent and scripts for the motion picture industry. Now it seems the opposite is true. Most of Hollywood’s legends came from this once in a moment of history thing […]

If there was ever a more “old Upper Westside” picture ever made, it would be news to me. The play and the movie are set on the upper westside. The characters live on the Upper Westside (131 Riverside Drive on 85th street I am so sure). The film makers chose to shoot […]

This was the fourth and final film pairing Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall and it is great. Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart) travels to a run-down hotel on Key Largo to visit the family of a friend who died bravely in his unit during WW II. His friend’s widow, Nora (Lauren Bacall) and wheelchair bound father, […]

Paper Moon
Ah, the ’30s, simplier times. The depression was dragging on but the air waves were full of tunes like “Keep Your Sunny Side Up” or “Happy Days Are Here Again”. The contrast of the music to what is happening in this picture is stark. Desperation, poverty and bitterness, […]

Architect Larry Coe (Kirk Douglas) is missing something in life. He has a wife and family and a successful practice. It’s not until he becomes embroiled in an affair with beautiful Maggie Gault (Kim Novak), a neighbor with her own family, that he finds what he has been missing. She is in a […]

An underated western with subtle comic overtones and elements of suspense. This picture has a great script by Waldo Salt, One of the “Hollywood Ten”. David Harvey (William Holden) is a widower with a young son, Davey. They live on an isolated Ohio farm. He wants his son to be raised in the […]