American military movies: Besides depicting the Civil War, D.W. Griffith’s landmark 1915 feature The Birth of a Nation had the Ku Klux Klan saving heroine Lillian Gish. From ‘The Birth …
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True Grit 2010 movie review: Far superior to the 1969 John Wayne version, as Joel and Ethan Coen Western is much more than the sum of its parts.
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Tyrone Power: Q&A with researcher Maria Ciaccia about one of the biggest film stars of the 20th century Among the romantic leading men of the studio era, Tyrone Power, 20th …
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The 1959 MGM version of Ben-Hur is best remembered for its chariot race, which happens to be an imitation of the superior 1925 race for that studio’s mammoth – and …
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Malvin Wald screenplay: The Naked City 1948 with Barry Fitzgerald and Dorothy Hart. The Naked City (1948) screenwriter Malvin Wald Screenwriter Malvin Wald, who received an Academy Award nomination for …
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Film noir New York: Sweet Smell of Success with Burt Lancaster and Tony Curtis. Whenever I think of film noir, I – somewhat incongruously – immediately picture murder and mayhem …
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If remembered at all, the name Franchot Tone usually comes up only when someone lists Joan Crawford’s series of husbands. Never mind the fact that Franchot Tone appeared in about …
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June Haver: Hollywood actress who briefly became a nun has died Actress June Haver, the blonde star of several popular 20th Century Fox musicals such as Irish Eyes Are Smiling …
Go West Young Man (movie 1936) review: Made after the strict enforcement of the Production Code, this amusing Mae West comedy features several surprisingly risqué situations.
Marc Lawrence: Prolific film gangster and blacklisted House Un-American Activities Committee witness who kept on going all the way to the 2000s.