Humphrey Bogart plays the quintessential Navy Captain who is losing his marbles. In one of the most tragic and sympathetic performances of a man breaking down sanity-wise on a witness stand, Mr. Bogart moved the studio crew to a thunderous round of applause when the scene was finished. The film took a year […]
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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 […]
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 […]
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.
The story follows three kids and the paths they take. Young, orphaned and wealthy, […]
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 […]
“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 […]
I am departing from the non-political world of the motion picture industry and it’s history and urge everyone to sign this petition. If only to hopefully save the American film that is slowly disintergrating, a cabinet level post such as this would be tremendous. Like the rain forests and glaciers, there are pictures that will […]
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