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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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 →…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…
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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…
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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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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…
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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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Elvis certainly “had a swingin’ time” when he teamed up with the vivacious Ann-Margret and set Sin City ablaze in 1964’s Viva Las Vegas. Guest blogger Angela Petteys rolls the dice with her review of one of the King’s most popular films.
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