Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

A private detective is being set up to take a murder rap. he is being framed and the only one who believes him and the only one he can trust is his secretary. This is the premise for Dark Corner, a nice little noir from 20th Century Fox. What is also nice about this picture […]

This is the Jihad of all “indictment of Hollywood”, “this business of ours called show chews them up and spits them out” and “this town is mean in spite of the palm trees” pictures ever made. It angered a few people, studio heads who came to believe that director Billy Wilder had bitten hard […]

Joan Crawford was always good at playing a victim. A victim of love, circumstance, mental illness, mean sisters and mean daughters. In Mildred Pierce she is great at playing the victim—a victim of love and of a mean daughter. This was her first picture at Warner Brothers after being let go by […]

I love this picture. It was a constant employee selection, on the screen at the store. You have double the Bette, how great is that? Nobody was better at playing evil, wicked, b - word, women that Bette Davis. Not only does she give a great performance as one of the meanest sisters ever played […]

This is a perfect picture for the kids and adults will definitely not be disappointed.� This movie was only available on VHS and as people started replacing their VCRs with DVD players this picture got taken out less and less which was a shame. I do not recall one disappointed viewer and although it […]

This picture falls into a category that we made up at the store.� It is called tawdry noir.� This picture is the epitome of tawdry noir.� It is also a great movie and was a regular on the screen at Movie Place.
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The story follows three kids and the paths they take.� […]

One day in the early 1940’s, Howard Hawks’ wife was looking through a magazine when she came across an advertisement that featured a striking young woman. She shows him the picture and the ball starts rolling. Just before this event, Ernest Hemingway had a bet with Mr. Hawks. The bet was that […]

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