Well, there’s roughly seven weeks to go on the calendar, and it looks as though Inside Out 2, Deadpool & Wolverine, and Despicable Me 4 will take home top honors in the 2024 box office race, proving yet again that…
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The Real-Life Plot to Kidnap Mary Pickford
George Clooney plays a ’50s film star who’s kidnapped in the new movie Hail, Caesar!, but in 1925 crooks plotted to abduct silent screen heroine Mary Pickford and hold her for ransom. Guest writer Patrick Downey shares the remarkable true-crime story.
Read more →Corsican Brothers, The Big Caper and More Buried Classics
Double Dose Of Doug: Douglas Fairbanks, Jr. tackles two roles in the 1941’s The Corsican Brothers, the Edward Small (The Man in the Iron Mask) production based on the Alexander Dumas novel. He plays the siblings who are separated and…
Read more →This Week In Film History, 08.28.11
September 1, 1902: A milestone in the evolution of the cinema is marked with the release of George Méliès’ fantastic Voyage to the Moon. August 28, 1912: “King of Comedy” Mack Sennett leaves Biograph and forms Keystone Film Company with…
Read more →Angels Over Broadway (1940): Classic Movie Review
Guest blogger Dave writes: This film is not what I expected… at all. From the title I expected Angels Over Broadway (1940) to be a light, fun, maybe even a heartwarming type of film (why did I have visions of a…
Read more →The Mark of Zorro (1920): A Guest Movie Review
The Mark of Zorro (1920) Directed by Fred Niblo Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Marguerite De La Motte, Noah Beery Produced by Douglas Fairbanks Pictures California’s natives are being oppressed. The Spanish Governor and the armies are merciless with the poor and some…
Read more →That Zorro, What A Guy
You can have your Douglas Fairbanks, your Alain Delon, and your George Hamilton, too. For my money, Zorro, the masked swashbuckler, will always be Guy Williams. That’s because he’s also the Zorro I grew up with. Yes, whenever TV showed…
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