Classic movie articles featuring movie articles from the 1930s 1940s and 1950s
It was only a matter of time. Warner was first to throw their hat into the studio on-demand ring, introducing a wide array of famous and not-so famous films available in the DVD-R format. The Warner formula for mixing much-desired…
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“I made more lousy pictures than any actor in history.” So said the man who would eventually be voted number one in an American Film Institute poll of the greatest screen actors of all time. It may have been…
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When I was a kid, way back in the midst of the Seventies, movie viewing was restricted to visits to the cinema or the schedules of three TV channels. That’s right, kids, there was a dark time in our history…
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Where on television today can you find short subjects starring Betty Boop, Laurel & Hardy, Our Gang or Flash Gordon? Hollywood studios stopped producing short subjects altogether in the late 1950s as television became a household fixture, but in their…
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Here’s a quick recommendation for sci-fi fans seeking a vintage fix: Z.P.G. (Zero Population Growth) is a seriously underrated gem directed by Michael Campus. Campus has precious few other helming credits, with The Mack and The Education of Sonny Carson…
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On November 5, 1938, some 71 years ago, the Mohawk Theater opened in the small western Massachusetts town of North Adams. These days, the community is anticipating, and actively involved, in its future re-opening. Once part of the E.M. Loew…
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Long before McMillan and Wife and Hart to Hart graced the TV airwaves, William Powell and Myrna Loy ruled the roost at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios with a series of movies based on the Dashiell Hammett detective novel, The Thin Man.
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Nearly everyone is familiar with MGM’s movie based on L. Frank Baum’s The Wonderful Wizard of Oz, but how have other filmmakers portrayed Dorothy, her fantastic friends, and the Emerald City? Follow the history of Oz since the 1939 musical here.
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If you were a “kid” growing up in the United States or Canada in the nineteen-forties, you probably spent many a Saturday afternoon at your local movie house. For twenty-five cents you got admission to the theater, a box…
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