Good morning! Hopefully you all are rested and refreshed after that extra hour of sleep. If not, we’re going to let Rodgers and Hammerstein give you some Monday morning adrenaline in the form of the rousing “Oh, What a Beautiful…
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Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn Find Laughs and Love in “Desk Set”
Talk about computer dating! Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn teamed up on the silver screen for the eighth time in 1957’s Desk Set, a hilarious comedy classic. Here’s the synopsis: Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy star in this spry comedy…
Read more →Guest Review: The Underrated Western “Gun Glory”
Philip Yordan‘s western novel Man of the West was brought to the screen in beautiful Cinemascope as Gun Glory (1957) with the great Stewart Granger taking on the lead role of Tom Early. It is 1880s Wyoming, and Early has just…
Read more →Looking Back At the Underrated Gene Kelly Vehicle “The Happy Road”
Gene Kelly was at the peak of his career in the early 1950s, making such memorable musicals as Summer Stock, An American in Paris, Singin’ in the Rain and Brigadoon. One side adventure he took away from musicals was a…
Read more →The Caine Mutiny: What Lies Beneath a Man
Herman Wouk (who is remarkably still with us as of this post at 103), was the author of a book that garnered a Pulitzer Prize: The Caine Mutiny. This would have put it on the radar for a film version…
Read more →Guest Review: Me and the Colonel
“In life, there are always two possibilities….” It is quite common to find a film that begins terrifically, loses a bit of its appeal midway through and then flounders at the end. But it is rare to find a film…
Read more →Hopping Hilarity With Jimmy Stewart and “Harvey”
With Easter upon us, one rabbit-centric film to watch today hopped out at us.. We are of course talking about the 1950 comedy Harvey starring Jimmy Stewart in a side-splitting performance that has become a true comedy classic. Based on…
Read more →James Stewart’s “Bend of the River” Remains the Definitive Western
Now available on Blu-ray from KL Studio Classics, the 1952 Western Bend of the River stars James Stewart as Glyn McLyntock — a former outlaw who is now working clean as a wagon scout on a perilious mission to assist…
Read more →Guest Review: Ivanhoe (1952)
Sir Walter Scott’s 1819 epic medieval novel Ivanhoe was brought to the big screen in 1952 as a gorgeous Technicolor adaptation released through Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios. Like many medieval films of the era, it combined romance, drama, and a good deal of…
Read more →Create-A-Caption: Giant
It has been far too long since we have had any James Dean content on this page for you to enjoy, so we are rectifying that right now! For this week’s Create-A-Caption, we are focusing on the 1956 classic Giant….
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