Bogey plus Bacall added up to one of the all-time great film noir thriller in Howard Hawks’ adaptation of Raymond Chandler’s The Big Sleep, which opened 69 years ago this week. Don’t sleep after clicking this box, or you’ll miss out on more fascinating bits of movie trivia.
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Jackie Chan has called “Police Story” his favorite of the many action-packed movies he’s made. See why Chan’s 1985 cop saga remains a jaw-dropping classic today…we bet it’ll be one of your favorites, too!
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Fabled screen beauty and three-time Oscar winner Ingrid Bergman was born 100 ago this week. In this classic post, Jay Steinberg looks back at the storied career and stormy personal life of the Swedish-born star of Casablanca and other gems.
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From White Heat to Point Break to The Departed, the lawman going undercover to infiltrate a criminal gang has been a Hollywood genre staple for decades. This week we’d like you to vote for which undercover cop movie you think is the best.
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Before they were Bowery Boys or East Side Kids, Leo Gorcey, Huntz Hall and company made their Hollywood debut as the Dead End Kids 78 years ago this week, in the Humphrey Bogart crime drama Dead End. Spread out, you mugs, for more movie trivia by clicking here.
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What can Salma Hayek and Julie Taymor’s beautiful 2002 biopic of Frida Kahlo reveal to us about the “suffering artist” cliché? A lot, as it turns out…especially if you wind up struggling to provide a decent answer to that question.
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An amnesiac WWII veteran finds himself facing a court martial for treason and goes on the lam to clear his name in The Clay Pigeon. Guest writer Laura Grieve takes aim at the 1949 RKO thriller, which starred real-life couple Bill Williams and Barbara Hale.
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It was a heart attack, not sunlight or a stake, that claimed the life of Bela Lugosi 59 years ago this week. To honor the screen’s most famous Dracula, we offer this classic list by Movies Unlimited founder Jerry Frebowitz of 10 facts about the horror legend.
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To mark the 20th anniversary of The Usual Suspects and Kevin Spacey’s Academy Award-winning turn, we’d like to know which of the two-time Oscar winner’s screen roles–from suburban everymen to evil grasshoppers to Bobby Darin–is your favorite.
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Has it really been 20 years since audiences first asked the question “Who is Keyzer Soze?” with the premiere of the hit caper film The Usual Suspects? No need to interrogate us for more Hollywood facts; we’ve got a week’s worth of trivia inside.
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