Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

What Cecil B. DeMille did for the Bible, Cleopatra and the North West Mounted police he also did for the circus. The Greatest Show On Earth is the story of circus people, their hardships and their meshugas, and the inner workings of a circus. The circus in question is the actual Ringling […]

In Caine Mutiny Mr. Bogart plays the quintessential Navy Captain who is losing his marbles. In one of the most tragic and sympathetic performances of a man breaking down sanity-wise on a witness stand, Mr. Bogart moved the studio crew to a thunderous round of applause when the scene was finished. The film […]

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.
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“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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

Raoul Walsh and Michael Curtiz set the look for Warner Brothers during it’s glory days more so than any other director who worked there. They gave a studio it’s style and in my opinion had more of an impact on a studio than any other director at any other studio. Their names are synonymous with […]

There are performances that will make you say “oh that is why he (or she) works”.� I call these justification for a career performances.� Kings Row has a few of these career justifiers, in fact more than the usual picture it has some people’s best work.� It was a tremendous risk by […]

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 […]

The Bad and The Beautiful was a constant on the screen at Movie Place. I could watch it over and over. It is up there in number of repeated viewings with Sweet Smell Of Success Some of you know how I feel about Sweet Smell Of Success. It was […]