This slice of Gothic horror marked the reunion of star BETTE DAVIS and producer/director Robert Aldrich. Three years previously Aldrich had produced and directed the shocker...
In Who’s Minding the Store?, a department store provides the location for Jerry Lewis’s buffoonery, in this case working as a handyman hired away from his...
John Lee Mahin made an excellent adaptation of the popular Kern and Hammerstein musical for MGM’s expert producer of musicals Arthur Freed and the resulting film,...
In Johnny Belinda a patient, compassionate doctor (Ayres) in a rural community teaches a deaf-mute girl (Wyman) to communicate. After the young lady is brutally raped...
Eugene O’Neill’s Ah, Wilderness! served as the basis for stage musicals, and both musical and nonmusical movies. Mickey Rooney starred in both the 1935 version as...
This is the popular, sentimental recounting of the life of Chicago White Sox pitcher Monty Stratton (James Stewart), who lost his leg as a result of...
A Disney remake of the 1921 Mary Pickford original, based on the Eleanor Porter story, this is a heartwarming tale of a young girl (Hayley Mills)...
The class entry in women-behind-bars movies. As nineteen-year-old Parker sits in a car, waiting for her husband outside a gas station, she has no idea that...
Magnificent Obsession, together with All That Heaven Allows and Imitation of Life, is one of Douglas Sirk’s finest lush big-budget melodramas, enhanced by the lavish colour...
Such was the scope of epic How The West Was Won that three veteran directors were hired to direct the various segments that went into telling...
Western drama series. In 1870’s California, Murdoch Lancer and his sons Johnny and Scott are determined to keep their ranch out of the hands of land...
In Station West Dick Powell goes after noir-babe Jane Greer as he tracks the murderers of a gold shipment’s guards. Greer runs a gambling house, and...
Damon Runyon’s Times Square world of con men and hustlers populate the background in tragicomic romance The Big Street, produced by Runyon himself. Unusual roles for...
The Lost Moment was an odd, dark drama based on Henry James’s The Aspern Papers. Publisher Robert Cummings ventures to Venice in order to review a...
The early sequences found the screenplay remaining fairly faithful to the original. When the showboat Cotton Blossom docks on the lower Mississippi, the company find themselves...