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Mary Rose: The Hitchcock Film That Never Was
Guest blogger Rick29 provides a look at one of Alfred Hitchcock’s dream project that never came to be: Alfred Hitchcock saw the original London stage production of Mary Rose in 1920–and would be infatuated with it for years. Written by…
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Beyond Kit Carson: Remembering the Charm and Talent of Bill Williams
Born in Brooklyn, New York on May 21, 1915 as Hermann Wilhelm Katt, Bill Williams started his career in Vaudeville, touring the US and Europe as an adagio dancer until he joined the army in WWII. Following an honorable medical…
Read more →Finish This Sentence: Roman Polanski Is…
…a genius? A criminal? One of the greatest film directors of all time? One of the shadiest reprobates to ever walk the Earth? While most people have strong opinions on the talents and character of the man who made Rosemary’s…
Read more →Hellfighters: Not Exactly John Wayne’s Finest Moment
For today’s guest post, Rick 29 writes about John Wayne’s Hellfighters — a film that co-star Katharine Ross called “the biggest piece of crap I’ve ever done.” Here are Rick’s thoughts on the movie: Here are some interesting tidbits about…
Read more →Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Pickford Finds and More Coming Your Way
Burt is Ernest: Burt Lancaster leads the cast of Twilight’s Last Gleaming, Robert Aldrich’s much-requested, much-maligned 1977 political thriller. In it, Lancaster plays a renegade U.S. general who escapes from military prison and takes control of a missile silo in…
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Network (1976): Movie Review
When Paddy Chayefsky wrote his Oscar-winning screenplay for Network (1976) it was supposed to be satirical. Lensed through the 1976 eye I’m sure audiences found an opinion-spouting news anchor and a network devoted to developing reality-based programming as absurd. To…
Read more →Cover Girl (1944): Classic Movie Review
The 1944 classic Cover Girl is reviewed by Guest blogger Angela Petteys: While working as a dancer in a nightclub, Rusty Parker (Rita Hayworth) hears about a contest being run by Vanity magazine to find a new face for their big…
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