Create a caption for the 1955 drama – comedy Mister Roberts starring Henry Fonda, and James Cagney
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Create a caption for the 1955 drama – comedy Mister Roberts starring Henry Fonda, and James Cagney
Read more →Of all the directors screen legend Bette Davis worked with in her storied Hollywood career, William Wyler was her favorite. They worked together three times: Jezebel (1938), The Letter (1940), and The Little Foxes (1941), and she received an Academy…
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After, dare we say, years of speculation, Fox has finally thrown their hats into the MOD ring with a lineup of vintage titles from their vaults. The program is called Fox Cinema Archives, and if the initial offerings are any…
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March 29, 1982: Katharine Hepburn wins a record-setting fourth Academy Award, and an ailing Henry Fonda wins his first, for On Golden Pond. March 31, 1915: The nascent serial genre has its first true star when Pearl White plays the hazard-plagued heroine of The Perils…
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In hindsight, it’s a little unfair that The Longest Day was destined to be released in 1962, the same year as David Lean’sLawrence of Arabia. As a result, The Longest Day will always be overshadowed by the film that is said…
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There’s plenty of great new DVD and Blu-ray releases that you’ll feel grateful for this Thanksgiving week. Before we get into this week’s offerings, let me take a second to express my gratitude for checking in with us here at…
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Guest blogger Colin McGuigan writes: The western is a film genre that often gets a raw deal in the image stakes. And it’s not just a matter of waning box-office popularity in recent times. It’s rarely afforded the respect that other genres…
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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,…
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Here are 10 trivia facts about Fail Safe from 1964, which originally appeared on our Facebook page. There are lots of pieces of behind-the-scenes information about this movie. Please feel free to comment and add more trivia we might…
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Over half a century after The Grapes of Wrath was released, we tend to forget the minor miracle that conservative prewar Hollywood produced a powerful and radical film that according to author John Steinbeck was “harsher” than his Nobel Prize…
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“Big,” “epic,” and “sprawling” are the words critics frequently use to describe this now-revered 1968 Spaghetti Western. Yet, despite its lengthy running time and visually massive backdrop, Once Upon a Time in West focuses tightly on the relationships among four…
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