Robert Mitchum ca. late 1940s. Robert Mitchum movies ‘The Yakuza’ & ‘Ryan’s Daughter’ on TCM On Aug. 12, Turner Classic Movies’ “Summer Under the Stars” series is highlighting the career…
The Best Years of Our Lives: Blockbuster with Teresa Wright, Fredric March, Myrna Loy, and Michael Hall. Teresa Wright: Missing out on ‘Duel in the Sun,’ but scoring with ‘The…
Polly Bergen publicity shot ca. 1960s. Polly Bergen: Actress on Richard Nixon’s ‘enemies list’ (See previous post: “Polly Bergen: ‘First American Woman President.’”) As discussed in the previous post, despite…
Polly Bergen became the “first U.S. woman president” in the 1964 comedy Kisses for My President. Polly Bergen movies: ‘First woman U.S. president’ dead at 84 Emmy Award-winning actress Polly…
Janet Leigh movies: The Manchurian Candidate 1962, with Frank Sinatra. Janet Leigh would have turned 85 on Friday, July 6. In her honor, Turner Classic Movies is showing eight Janet…
Kirk Douglas is Turner Classic Movies’ Star of the Month of September. Though hardly a great film actor – or even a good one – Douglas has had one of…
Jane Greer in Out of the Past: Femme fatale in classic film noir. Today is neither Jane Greer’s birth nor death anniversary. Even so, Turner Classic Movies is devoting Saturday evening/night…
Matte painting tecniques displayed in Forbidden Planet. A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer release, Fred M. Wilcox’s 1956 science-fiction classic Forbidden Planet was seemingly inspired by William Shakespeare’s The Tempest. Cyril Hume was credited…
Clint Eastwood in Dirty Harry. Don Siegel Movies: From Alien Pods to Clint Eastwood From March 17 through April 13, New York City’s Film Forum (website) will be screening a…
Robert Siodmak’s 1957 political drama The Devil Strikes at Night asks whether serial killers are any worse than socially sanctioned mass murderers.
Pretty Poison with Tuesday Weld and Anthony Perkins: Noel Black-directed cult crime classic. Cult movie classic Pretty Poison filmmaker Noel Black has died Noel Black, best remembered for the 1968…
Does Ridley Scott’s 1982 dystopian thriller Blade Runner deserve its classic status? Harrison Ford, Sean Young, and Rutger Hauer star.
An experimental cult classic and a Glenn Ford star vehicle are among new DVDs featuring long-unseen titles with a little-known John Wayne connection.