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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Classic 1940s movie reviews, movie articles and information. Movie reviews from classic movies from 1940 to 1949, the Golden Age of Hollywood.
From My Collection: Lost Angel
Here’s a sample pulled from my collection of movie stills, a lovely picture of Marsha Hunt and Margaret O’Brien in Lost Angel (1943). Lost Angel was one of O’Brien’s earliest major roles, in which she plays a little girl who’s been raised…
Read more →What Happened to Carole Landis?
My sophomore year of high school I had one of the best teachers I’ve ever had during my student career. Her name was Leslie Pierce and she taught honors English. We read a lot of really boring books like “The…
Read more →The Purple Monster and Other Movie Serial Villains!
Guest blogger JSD writes: Whenever I think of movie serial villains, an image burned into my brain during my youthful years watching 1950s television pops into my consciousness. It is the image of Ming, the Merciless, the cruel yet cool…
Read more →Fort Apache (1948): Classic Movie Review
Movie Review of the 1948 classic Fort Apache: Director: John Ford Writers: Frank S. Nugent, James Warner Bellah Photography: Archie Stout, William H. Clothier Editor: Jack Murray Cast: John Wayne, Henry Fonda, Shirley Temple, John Agar, Ward Bond, Pedro Armendáriz,…
Read more →The Red House: A Guest Movie Review
Guest blogger Richard Finch presents this review of the classic thriller The Red House: *** Country: US Director: Delmer Daves A strange family living in self-imposed isolation, carefully guarded family secrets, an eerie forest rumored to be inhabited by spirits,…
Read more →Abbott And Costello Meet Frankenstein: Ten Things To Know About The Movie
Here are 10 trivia facts about Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein from 1948, which originally appeared as our Mystery Movie Quiz on our Facebook page. There are hundreds of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to…
Read more →Cat People (1942): A Classic Movie Review
Cat People (1942): A Classic Movie Review Val Lewton‘s steamy thriller Cat People details the fast-moving romance between all-American ship builder Oliver (Kent Smith) and the sexy-but-shy Serbian fashion designer Irena (Simone Simon). They meet at a zoo, where Irena…
Read more →Celluloid Superman: Paramount Cartoons from the Fleischer Studio
Guest blogger John McElwee writes: It’s 1941. You’re Paramount, newly in receipt of a white-hot fad off comic pages and radio — only this one flies and lifts up passenger trains. How in deuce will you translate that to a…
Read more →Out of the Past (1947): Movie Review
Guest blogger Dave writes: If you watch only one film from the noir genre in your lifetime, make sure that one film is Out of the Past (1947). Every fundamental element used in the making of a great noir film…
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