Gary Dennis’ New York City Movie Place

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 […]

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 […]

This picture is one of those pictures that is great but could have been greater. Sometimes referred to as a “film noir”, it is a great tawdry melodrama where the stakes are high - mental illness and murder.
A woman is found in a diner after collapsing, she has been wandering the streets searching […]

This picture a great example of beautiful accidents. The shear fate of casting, writing and direction that give us this movie that holds up today. And although the picture is set in a World War Two Nazi prison camp its is fairly safe viewing for the over 10 set (I saw this picture […]

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