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Guest blogger Kim Wilson writes: I recently wrote a review of The 39 Steps, and based on the comments it elicited I came to the conclusion that Alfred Hitchcock’s pre-Hollywood films are often overlooked or even forgotten. I’m sure there…
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Guest blogger Priscilla writes: How would you do without the electric lights to which you are so accustomed? What if you had only fires and gas lights to see by after sundown? Even better – or more terrifying – what…
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Believe it or not, yours truly actually had this planned well before the unfortunate passing of Ms. Elizabeth Taylor. A co-worker strongly recommended the film to me a while back, and it sounded like something right up my alley, so…
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It’s interesting how some of the best Hollywood movies of the early ’50s—thinking specifically of Singin’ in the Rain and 1950’s Sunset Blvd. but several others fit the bill as well—seized the moment to look back acidly on the transition of…
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Pollster Fred MacMurray gets mixed up with homicidal hillbillies, glow-in-the-dark grannies, and a hidden fortune in the zany 1945 comedy Murder, He Says, co-starring Helen Walker, Porter Hall and Marjorie Main. Check it out, we says!
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I enjoy college football — specifically, USC Trojan football — but I never watch pro football. Instead, I spent my Super Bowl Sunday enjoying another great American pastime, the Randolph Scott Western. Westbound is one of the seven late ’50s…
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Guest blogger Anna Työrinoja writes: Better to be king for a night than schmuck for a lifetime. The Robert De Niro and Martin Scorsese collaboration has brought us some of the best films in history. Someone might argue with me…
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Way Down East (1920) Directed by D.W. Griffith Starring Lillian Gish and Richard Barthelmess Produced by D.W. Griffith Productions Anna Moore lives (Lillian Gish) with her mother in the country. The poor family needs money and Anna heads off to visit…
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In 1945 John E. Rankin, the long serving, bombastic, and racist congressman from Mississippi stated “one of the most dangerous plots ever instigated for the overthrow of this government has its headquarters in Hollywood … the greatest hotbed of subversive…
Read more →How did you fare with your first round of Academy Awards predictions? If you check out 2011 Oscars! Academy Awards Predictions by Movie Irv, you’ll see our resident cinema guru did pretty well. Now, let’s check in with Irv as…
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