Director Howard Hawks puts his own ‘Ball of Fire’ (1941) to music, with the help of guest stars Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Lionel Hampton, and Tommy...
Randolph Scott takes the lead in Westbound, a Western that unusually stakes its colours to the Union, rather than Confederate, side of the fence. Scott is...
Captain Horatio Hornblower was a straightforward naval adventure, based on three novels by C. S. Forester, about the heroic 19th-century British seafarer. The story sails with...
In the mid 40’s, Danny Kaye was just hitting his stride, as his third starring feature The Kid From Brooklyn amply demonstrates. The musical comedy remake...
“Made it, Ma. Top of the world!” White Heat was the last explosion of the Warner Bros. gangster movies, a decade after their ’30s heyday and...
At the age of 13 Fredric March was producing his own plays, but on leaving high school he worked in a bank before World War I...
James Cagney made his name at the start of the sound era playing gangsters under contract to Warner Bros making classics such as Public Enemy and...