Director Arthur Pierson’s modest 1947 youth-oriented B-movie crime drama Dangerous Years stars Billy Halop, Scotty Beckett, Richard Gaines and Ann E Todd, but, though far from negligible, it is really only remembered because Marilyn Monroe makes her first on screen […]
Director Harmon Jones’s 1951 comedy As Young as You Feel stars Monty Woolley in excellent role for him (although it was intended for Clifton Webb) as an old employee John Hodges, who is angered at […]
Let’s Make It Legal (1951) is a fairly bubbly and charming Fifties romantic comedy film, with a good cast giving it a boost. Claudette Colbert and Macdonald Carey star, and Marilyn Monroe has a brief […]
‘Rooney Runs Riot on the Roller Raceways!’ Director Tay Garnett’s 1950 The Fireball stars Mickey Rooney as orphan Johnny Casar, who flees from Father O’Hara (Pat O’Brien)’s orphanage school, becomes a champion star on roller skates, […]
Director Thorold Dickinson’s dark and downbeat 1951 thriller Secret People is a sluggishly handled, unusually colourless Ealing Studios drama of intrigue, which suffers from a lack of suspense, a surfeit of ideology and a low […]
The 1932 short film The Chimp is a delightfully funny three-reeler from Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, who hilariously wreck the circus and share a bed with Ethel the gorilla. ‘Mr Hardy’s aesthetic nature thrilled […]
Writer-producer-director-editor-stars John Lennon and Yoko Ono’s surreal 1972 music film and pseudo-documentary Imagine is poignant home movie footage of the life of John Lennon and Yoko Ono, composed to music from Lennon’s historic Imagine album and Yoko’s […]
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