Western summary: The violent men (1955) This spring I wrote about observing here Forty guns (1957) for the first time. Forty guns was a standout western directed by Samuel Fuller, and starring Barbara Stanwyck at the helm of a top cast. The fact that I finally caught up on this film has prompted me to watch it...
Classic Film Journeys: Marcy McGuire - Iowa and California Marcy McGuire Marcy McGuire was an actress and singer who started working in the entertainment industry as a teenager. She was born Marilyn Jeanne McGuire on February 22, 1926 in Kansas City, Kansas, to projectionist James McGuire and his wife Annona. Her parents divorced during her childhood. In...
Silverscreen standards: The wolf man (1941) Chaney's werewolf form makes him monstrous but retains enough of his humanity to be unsettling, especially since we can see his very human eyes in the monster's face. When asked to choose a favorite from among the classic Universal monster films, I always choose The wolf man (1941). As much as...
Silents are Golden: 8 Great Silent Movie Books for Your Library Maybe it's because of those title cards, but it's because of a love of silent movies and a love of reading around Silent films seem to go hand in hand. If you're new to early cinema books and would like to know where to start, I...
Let's face it creature feature fans. We may love the monsters, but we also enjoy hunting. Van Helsing, Hellboy, Solomon Kane, and yes, the Scooby Gang are some of the most well-known monster hunters of this particular breed, but at the top of my list is Carl Kolchak. If it weren't for this fictional newspaper reporter who...
"Rule 1 for private investigators: Always make an advance deposit before the client changes your mind." We all love Philip Marlowe. He's the essence of film noir distilled into a single character, and he's responsible for more classics than most on-screen detectives combined. The list of actors who have played him is mind-blowing as it is star-studded:...
Western RoundUp: Western Film Book Library – Part 6 It's been over a year since my last Western Film Book Library contribution, and I've made some interesting additions to my library in the meantime, so this seems like a good time for a fresh look at some Western genre books ! For those new to this topic,...
Silverscreen standards: bomb (1933) With her locks tousled, Lola wakes up to another day of chaos and early-morning studio calls. played differently bomb (1933) would be a tragic drama about the relentless pressure and manipulation faced by a young actress in 1930s Hollywood, and certainly that was a reality many stars, including Jean Harlow, knew all too...
Silence is golden: A closer look at it – the sheikh (1921) One of the big screen sensations of the early 1920s, the sheikh (1921) is the kind of silent film that is almost to easy to scoff at: it's melodramatic, it's cheesy, it's based on a flowery romance, and it contains a lot of the over-the-top...
Treffen Sie Professor George Edward Challenger, einen klugen und schroffen Mann mit einem abenteuerlichen Geist, aber unmöglichem Verhalten. Er macht seinem Namen alle Ehre, indem er eine Herausforderung für alle ist, denen er begegnet, während er gleichzeitig Kollegen und Feinde herausfordert. Er ist ein kräftiger Charakter, der eine „voll aufgeladene Batterie voller Kraft und Vitalität“ ist, wie...
The band's track "Future Days" has an important connection to the video game and the TV series Pearl Jam...
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