Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

It is in color (Technicolor that is), it is big, it is fast and it is funny. The prints of this picture have been restored so it looks like it was made yesterday. Originally this picture was to be just a shot by shot remake of the Douglas Fairbanks version from 1919. However at […]

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Hold on to your hats kids but TCM is presenting some of Mr. Bogart’s greatest work. I am as you know prejudiced and think that all Humphrey Bogart pictures are worth seeing, even his circus picture Wagons Roll At Night. Luckily for you this not one of them being shown on Wednesday December […]

Back in the glorious days when there were only 7 channels from which to choose, when UHF was alternative viewing, back when most kids who were fortunate enough to have a TV in their rooms had a small black and white set (how many of you remember the slogan “a Sony for my own(y)”), at […]

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 […]

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In his recent auto biography, Tony Curtis can’t remember peoples names, he can’t remember dates but he remembers what car (model and color) he was driving at any given moment of his life and he clearly remembers the American Nazi Party marching up Second Avenue in the mid – late 1930’s. In New York […]

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 […]

There is only so much time in the world and I am going to try to not waste it here. On Wednesday April 25th Turner Classic Movies is showing a group of Humphrey Bogart pictures that are must see and essential the the appreciation of Mr. Bogart and his work.
At 8:00PM we have The […]