The 1952 film noir psychological mystery thriller stars Richard Widmark and Marilyn Monroe, who gives a remarkably convincing performance in a very difficult and peculiar role as a New York City hotel’s shy-seeming unhinged babysitter. […]
Producer-director William Castle’s 1958 movie is based on a 12-handed Mystery Writers of America novel The Marble Forest, though it is credited to one writer, Anthony Boucher (as Theo Durrant). The movie tells a dull, clumsy […]
Cate Blanchett impresses as a Scottish clerk, who in 1943 goes to France, joins the resistance (led by Billy Crudup) and helps two Jewish boys. Exciting bursts of tough action enliven this routine, slackly paced […]
Writer-director Nunnally Johnson’s thoughtful 1956 drama stars Gregory Peck as Tom Rath, who lives in Connecticut but commutes to work in Manhattan. He gets a higher paid, higher stress job with a big TV network and […]
‘IT HAS NO RHYME…IT HAS NO REASON…IT DOESN’T MAKE SENSE…IT MAKES LAUGHS! ‘ Well, that is an interesting route to go. Director Mitchell Leisen’s 1937 movie is a bright, clever and fast slapstick romantic comedy […]
‘The BAD girl and the GOOD boy who went to Niagara Falls…before their wedding! ‘ Producer-director Mitchell Leisen’s 1940 romantic comedy drama Remember the Night stars Barbara Stanwyck as Lee Leander, whose shoplifting trial is […]
Cecil B DeMille’s huge 1939 epic black and white Western film Union Pacific stars Barbara Stanwyck, Joel McCrea, Akim Tamiroff and Robert Preston. It is set in 1862, when rival railroads are competing to get […]
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