Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

One of the bleakest westerns you will ever see. As far as 50’s westerns go, the family in this picture is as dysfunctional as the Lohan’s. A repressed affection withholding mother; a delusional alcoholic father lusting after the youngest son’s fiance; a sister growing old spinsterish and bitter; one older responsible, moral brother, […]

If there was ever a movie made about three returning soldiers that comes close to Best Years Of Our Lives, this picture comes close. Released in 1946 before Best Years Of Our Lives, the picture follows three soldiers coming home after serving in World War Two and the difficulties they face readjusting […]

This is THE text book film noir. It is the standard by which all others were made and measured up to. I know that this is a bold statement and borderline crazy but all “film noirs” leading up to this picture are funneled into this picture. The femme fatal in the extreme […]

I know that this is a long post but I do not want to cut it. Back in the mid late 1980’s when I first began working at Movie Place,we had a customer who knew of my longtime obsession with Robert Mitchum. Nothing wrong with that. This customer had also been the […]

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 […]