Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

Strategically realeased on Christmas Eve in 1949, it is one of those slightly better than B pictures that RKO produced so many of ; they only did 6 big pictures a year and this was not one of them. The story is familiar, two strangers meet and though it seems that they will never […]

Turner Classic Movies is showing two Lucille Ball pictures back to back that are very much worth recording and keeping. The genesis of Lucy Ricardo is in both these pictures. Both pictures are perfect for the kids as well.
In Miss Grant Takes Richmond (1949), a bookie by the name of Dick Richmond (William Holden) uses […]

Both Humphrey Bogart and William Holden are too old for their roles. Mr. Bogart hated working with director Billy Wilder. No matter what, Humphrey Bogart quit work at 6:00 PM on the dot, because that was the time he started drinking his Scotch and sodas. If anyone tried to get him to work after […]

The complaint was “no American soldier would ever get a woman pregnant”. This is what was said by the Hollywood office of the War Department during World War II. The picture was completed in 1943 but Paramount held the film from being released for almost a year. However, a woman does get pregnant by […]

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 […]

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