Ricardo Cortez Articles

Humphrey Bogart, the most revered Old Hollywood tough guy, is Turner Classic Movies' Star of the Day this Wednesday as TCM continues its "Summer Under the Stars" film series.[Humphrey Bogart Movie Schedule.] My favorite tough guy — by far — is Edward G. Robinson. The star of Little Caesar, The Sea Wolf, House of Strangers, Key Largo, etc. is followed by James Cagney — when [...]

Groucho Marx, Thelma Todd in Norman Z. McLeod's Monkey Business Thelma Todd on TCM: THE MALTESE FALCON Schedule (PT) and synopses from the TCM website: 3:00 AM Broadminded (1931) A rejected suitor leaves town and gets mixed up in an international chase. Cast: Joe E. Brown, Ona Munson, Bela Lugosi. Dir: Mervyn LeRoy. BW-72 mins. 4:15 AM Son Of A Sailor (1933) A lovesick fool [...]

  It's Thelma Todd day on Turner Classic Movies. As part of TCM's "Summer Under the Stars" series, about a dozen Thelma Todd shorts are being shown this afternoon, in addition to six features this evening. [Thelma Todd schedule.] I'm unfamiliar with Todd's film career. I've seen her in a few supporting roles (Roy Del Ruth's The Maltese Falcon, the Marx Brothers' Monkey Business) and [...]

The Pony Express (1925) Direction: James Cruze Screenplay: Walter Woods; from Woods and Henry James Forman's story Cast: Betty Compson, Ricardo Cortez, George Bancroft, Ernest Torrence, Wallace Beery, Al Hart   The Pony Express is a rousing James Cruze Western depicting the founding of the Pony Express with a backdrop of political ambitions concerning a senator's plans to get California to secede from the United [...]