Sweet Smell Of Success One of the greatest movies ever made. I have personally seen it over 400 hundred times. Clifford Odetts wrote some of the greatest dialogue ever. An extremely harsh, biting look at the world of journalism that existed once upon a time. Columnists had incredible power and their […]
I love this movie. I watched it constantly in the store. Actually this is one of my favorite movies with “Place” in the title. It is up there with Summer Place, Place in the Sun and In A Lonely Place. It is incredibly tawdry. In fact it falls into the catergorey “dictionary tawdry”.
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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 […]
This is a remake of an earlier picture that starred Claudette Colbert but now it gets the Douglas Sirk treatment. Coney Island, 1947, war widow and actress Lora Meredith (Lana Turner) meets up with a homeless African American single mother Annie Johnson (Juanita Moore). Both woman have daughters close to the same age and both […]
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 […]
After a summer of computer troubles of various sizes, after finally realizing one of many life long dreams to be a New York City tour guide (authorized by The City of New York) I am back. Sorry for the lapse.
“The only interesting thing this guy did was die in a plane crash” was supposedly said by a producer assigned to do the bio pic of the bandleader Glenn Miller. As most of us know, Mr. Miller got on a small plane in England in 1944 and flew off to Paris in an intense […]
On the eve of the D-Day invasion, an Army Major who knows where the action will take place is kidnapped in Lisbon. Drugged and smuggled out of Portugal to an “Army Hospital” our hero is aged, awakened and led to believe that he had been in a coma and World War Two has […]
Both Humphrey Bogart and William Holden are too old for their roles. Mr. Bogart hated working with director Billy Wilder. No matter what, Humphrey Bogart quit work at 6:00 PM on the dot, because that was the time he started drinking his Scotch and sodas. If anyone tried to get him to work after […]
I thought that I would never do this but I am plugging a Broadway show. The Broadway stage had once been fertile ground for talent and scripts for the motion picture industry. Now it seems the opposite is true. Most of Hollywood’s legends came from this once in a moment of history thing […]
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