Grand Illusion Articles

Jean Gabin was France's answer to Humphrey Bogart, many (English-language) historians have claimed. Either that, or Gabin was France's answer to Spencer Tracy. Never mind the fact that Gabin was a major international star before either Bogart or Tracy achieved Hollywood stardom. In other words, if there was someone emulating someone else, it was Bogart and Tracy who followed the Frenchman's lead so as to [...]

Montgomery Clift, I Confess Alfred Hitchcock is the focus of tonight's programming on Turner Classic Movies, which will be showing five of the director's films: Stage Fright, I Confess, Dial M for Murder, The Wrong Man, and Strangers on a Train. None of them is a masterpiece; all of them are worth your time. My favorite of the five is I Confess, partly because of [...]

Robert Taylor, Greta Garbo in Camille FILM The Awful Truth d, scr: Leo McCarey Camille d: George Cukor; scr: Frances Marion, James Hilton, Zoe Akins The Hurricane d: John Ford; scr: Dudley Nichols, Oliver H. P. Garrett The Last of Mrs. Cheyney d: Richard Boleslawski; scr: Leon Gordon, Samson Raphaelson, Monckton Hoffe Lost Horizon d: Frank Capra; scr: Robert Riskin Night Must Fall d: Richard [...]