She melted Bogart’s heart in High Sierra and was the love interest for Gary Cooper’s Sergeant York and James Cagney in Yankee Doodle Dandy. We remember film and TV actress Joan Leslie, who passed away this week at 90.
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Ex-circus performer and chorine Zita Johann becomes the “kept woman” of gubernatorial candidate Paul Cavanagh, only to take the blame for a murder she didn’t commit to save his career. Guest writer Danny Reid exposes The Sin of Nora Moran, a little-seen 1933 drama.
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It’s beginning to look a lot like Halloween, so it seems like a good time to check out this classic MovieFanFare collection of 15 classic fight film moments. From The Phantom of the Opera to Psycho to The Blair Witch Project, it’s a terror trip not to be missed.
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For decades a mysterious, Sasquatch-like man-beast has been said to roam the swamps of southwestern Arkansas…and movie screens, as well. Guest writer Rick29 takes a look at the legend of the Boggy Creek Monster, its cinematic career, and the annual festival held in its honor.
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He guarded Dracula’s coffin and tormented Frankenstein’s Monster, but yearned for the dramatic roles that won him acclaim on Broadway. In this classic Scene Stealers salute, we trace the life and stormy screen career of the wide-eyed and often maniacal Dwight Frye.
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Zombies were a horror movie staple long before Night of the Living Dead turned them from supernatural servants to flesh-eating fiends. Vote in this week’s poll for your favorite pre-1968 “walking dead” flick: White Zombie, Zombies of Mora Tau, and more.
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It was 75 years ago this week that writer/director/star Charlie Chaplin’s bitingly funny send-up of Hitler’s rise to power, The Great Dictator, opened to commercial and critical acclaim worldwide, despite being banned in Germany. Find more classic movie moments inside,
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Hot on the heels of last week’s review of Galaxy of Terror, writer Fred Burdsall concludes his classic twin bill of Roger Corman-produced sci-fi/horror flicks with a visit to the 1982 shocker Forbidden World, starring Jesse Vint and June Chadwick.
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She’s a telephone lineperson by day, an aerobics instructor by night, and now–thanks to a cursed sword–a mistress of the martial arts. Guest writer Todd Liebenow dons black pajamas and legwarmers to review the 1984 actioner Ninja III: The Domination.
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You’re the judge and jury in MovieFanFare’s Character Witness column. This time we compare Faye Dunaway as Diana Christensen in Network and Joan Crawford in Mommie Dearest. Read our arguments, then hand down your ruling in the comments.
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