Director Jack Hively’s 1942 Paramount Pictures film noir Street of Chance is based on the 1941 novel The Black Curtain by Cornell Woolrich and stars Burgess Meredith, Claire Trevor, Louise Platt, Sheldon Leonard, Frieda Inescort […]
Director Robert Florey’s 1933 Warner Bros American pre-Code melodrama film The House on 56th Street stars Kay Francis as Peggy Martin Van Tyle aka Peggy Stone, a wronged woman sent to prison for 20 years […]
Kay Francis frequently co-starred with William Powell, first teaming in Street of Chance (1930) after producer David Selznick fought for the pairing, ending up making seven films together. Director John Cromwell’s 1930 Paramount Pictures American pre-Code […]
Director Francis Martin’s 1933 American pre-Code comedy film Tillie and Gus stars W C Fields, Alison Skipworth, Baby LeRoy, Julie Bishop, Phillip Trent, and Clarence Wilson. It is the precious first encounter between spectacular old sourpuss Fields and impressive young […]
Tillie’s Punctured Romance (1914) is notable as the first feature-length comedy in all of cinema. Producer-director Mack Sennett threw everything he had into the movies’ first feature-length silent comedy, the 1914 Tillie’s Punctured Romance, in […]
Director A Edward Sutherland’s 1928 silent circus comedy film Tillie’s Punctured Romance stars W C Fields, Louise Fazenda, Chester Conklin and Mack Swain. Sadly, this film is presumed lost. W C Fields stars as a […]
Director Joseph Kane’s 1955 American Trucolor Western film Timberjack is a lumbering tale of rivalry and revenge set in the backwoods of Montana in the late 1800s. Tim Chipman (Hayden) proves that he is a […]
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