Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

This is the best way to honor a legend, watch some of his best work. This the way I want to remember Paul Newman. Absolutely.
This was another constantly viewed picture at the store. It had 4 important elements; great acting, great script, great boxing scenes and great location shooting in the New […]

It’s during the war, World War Two that is, and young soldier Joe Allen (Robert Walker) is on a two-day leave in New York. There he meets Alice (Judy Garland). She agrees to show him the sights and they spend the day together. In this short time they find themselves falling in love with each […]

“There are eight million stories in the Naked City . . .” goes the phrase. It was used in closing narration for the television show of the same name. It is also the theme of this movie, the final one produced by Mark Hellinger. The idea is simple. Take a murder story from the headlines […]

This is one of the greatest pictures ever made about New York. It is, however, the greatest picture ever made about the New York City subway system. Filmed almost entirely within the subway system, this picture captures not only the realism of the day to day operations of our beloved transit system, it captures […]

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 is a nice little thriller with great direction from Ted Tetzlaff. Mr. Tetzlaff was a cinematographer who had over a hundred pictures, starting back in the silent era, to his credit. His last job as cinematographer was in 1946 when he gave Alfred Hitchcock’s Notorious that special look. The story is by writer Cornell […]

This is a tight little thriller from a very young Stanley Kubrick. His second feature length picture is only 67 minutes and it moves along very briskly. The story, told in flash back concerns an aging boxer and and a dime a dance dance hall girl. The boxer is down on […]

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