Robert Walker Articles
Claudette Colbert Q&A Pt.2: SINCE YOU WENT AWAY, Cecil B. DeMille Movies, MIDNIGHT
Claudette Colbert/James Robert Parish Q&A Pt.1: 'The Claudette Colbert Business' A follow-up to the previous question: Which roles did Claudette Colbert want — whether at Paramount or elsewhere — that she didn't get? Colbert knew her limitations (because of her sophisticated look and being French-born), so, once a star, she stayed away from seeking parts that would be too far afield from her screen type. [...]
Michael Bay's TRANSFORMERS 3 Recyled Scene from Michael Bay's THE ISLAND?
Filmmakers have oftentimes recycled scenes from other movies. For instance,Leo McCarey's [not Sam Wood's] 1952 anti-communist drama My Son John used bits from Alfred Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train made the year before. Robert Walker, one of the stars in both movies, had died before filming on My Son John had been completed. Now, it sure looks like in Transformers: Dark of the Moon Michael [...]
Alfred Hitchcock on TCM: I CONFESS, STRANGERS ON A TRAIN
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 [...]
WHAT IF THEY LIVED? Q&A with Phil Hall
Marilyn Monroe WHAT IF THEY LIVED? Movie Stars Who Died Too Young How did the idea for What If They Lived come about? The idea for the book was percolating for years. I was always curious about what could have happened if stars like Marilyn Monroe, James Dean, John Belushi and Bruce Lee had not died not died so young – could their stellar power [...]