After a string of excellent little pictures for Republic like personal favorites Hellfire (1949) and The Showdown (1950), Bill Elliott signed a six-picture deal with Monogram (later to become Allied Artists). These six films, which included Kansas Territory (1953), while certainly…
Read more →Guest blogger Elizabeth writes: Probably W.C. Fields’ best-known film, The Bank Dick, produced by Universal, is usually considered his greatest effort onscreen. William K. Everson writes that it is “quite possibly his finest work,” and that “it is even less concerned with…
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Guest blogger Colin McGuigan writes: The western is a film genre that often gets a raw deal in the image stakes. And it’s not just a matter of waning box-office popularity in recent times. It’s rarely afforded the respect that other genres…
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Guest blogger Matthew Coniam writes: In his essay The Decline and Fall of the Movie, Leslie Halliwell uses the following quote from Jonathan Swift to encapsulate his attitude to the cinema, and in particular to explain how his love of…
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“When an American cracks up, he opens a window and shoots up a bunch of strangers. When a Japanese cracks up, he closes the window and kills himself.” – Richard Jordan in The Yakuza The Yakuza (1974) has a pretty…
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Guest blogger Paul Castiglia writes: The 1970s and ’80s were a wonderful time to grow up for a classic comedy kid like me. In those years, nostalgia for old movies was fostered by regular airings on TV stations (I think…
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What is the greatest gumshoe movie ever made? That’s a pretty tough question to be sure. Fortunately, MovieFanFare reader Sal LaRosa can help. He’s come up with the following list of his own personal picks for the best detective flicks….
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Guest blogger Sark writes: Good TV shows have strong female characters. The greatest shows have women who steal the series and leave lasting impressions. This is a list of my personal favorite of all those wonderful ladies who have graced…
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What are the best films ever made? It’s a difficult question to answer, but a number of you readers did just that when we asked for reader submissions a few weeks back. Here’s what Mike Frank had to say about…
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A few weeks back, MovieFanFare featured a post that would give readers the opportunity to submit their own guest post about whatever film-related topic they wanted to discuss. The response was terrific, and many of you sent in lists of…
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