Clark Gable and Constance Bennett, two of the biggest stars in Hollywood in the early 1930s, teamed up only once for a fast-paced mystery/drama called After Office Hours (1935). This MGM release featured the King of Hollywood in a typical…
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“When it flies, someone dies!” Mystery writer Cornelia Van Gorder (Agnes Moorehead) has just rented a secluded country estate known as “the Oaks” and finds herself involved in a real-life mystery when she learns that one million dollars has been…
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Victorian London, steeped in a dark and romantic aura, has always been the ideal setting for murders and mysteries in films of the 1930s and 40s. Lurking beneath the white facade of stately manors inhabited by fashionable ladies and gentlemen…
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Every fan of the 1968 musical Chitty Chitty Bang Bang remembers inventor Caractacus Potts’ beautiful workshop, but what many do not know is that the windmill where it was filmed was once owned by Hayley Mills, the star of numerous…
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“I was a boy when I entered Mr. Rodock’s valley but when I left I wasn’t a boy anymore. I had picked up a few pointers about how men died quickly and how they kept from dying quickly; how to…
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In this guest post, Constance Metzinger reviews 1969’s The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie: “I am in the business of putting old heads on young shoulders and all of my girls are the créme de la créme” Miss Jean Brodie…
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John Barry (November 3, 1933 – January 30, 2011) John Barry is undoubtedly one of the most iconic and talented composers in cinema’s history. He is most famous for his themes to the James Bond movies and his scores to…
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“Dive! Dive!” Film producer/director Irwin Allen let audiences dive deep into the waters of adventure with Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea, his second of three feature films that he made at 20th Century Fox studios in the early…
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In the mid-1950s Walt Disney gave ABC their very first full-hour western television program – Davy Crockett. The series was such a success that the network soon launched many other similar series such as Maverick, Wyatt Earp, and Lawman. These westerns…
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“Entreat me not to leave thee or to return from following after thee, for whither thou goest, I will go and where thou lodgest, I will lodge. Thy people shall be my people, and thy God, my God.” These are…
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