Greetings all and sundry! I am pleased to have the opportunity to approach and dissect in my own unique fashion one of those films that arrives with not a lot of noise and hoopla. Takes the movie going audience by storm and creates a solid touchstone for actors and actresses no one has ever heard of before and plants …
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Classic Flix Review: Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
Greetings and welcome to all and sundry. It's my great pleasure to offer a Guest Review of a film I grew up with and have seen many, many times on television. With and without commercials. Though only a few times on the big screen. One of the great World War II films. Winner of two …
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Classic Flix Review: Brute Force (1947)
Welcome all and sundry to another guest review of a film I caught quite by accident. Courtesy of Turner Classic Movies late into a dark and stormy summer night. The film Brute Force is exceptionally intriguing in more ways than one. With a screenplay by Richard Brooks, who had assisted on Burt Lancaster's earlier, The Killers, excellent direction by Jules Dassin and B&W camera …
Weekend Viewing Roundup & the Gregory Peck Marathon Update
Hello folks, hope your weekend's been great now that Monday is just around the corner. I've been enjoying a pretty relaxing three-day weekend and watched quite a bit of movies. The first snowfall finally arrived so I pretty much spent all day indoors yesterday and pretty much continued my Gregory Peck marathon, ehm. So far …
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Guest Review: The Hustler (1961)
Special thanks to my pal and regular commenter Kevin a.k.a Jack Deth for this in-depth review! First, I'd like to thank Ruth for the opportunity to offer a guest review on her wonderfully enjoyable, informative site. It's not often that one is given the chance to rave about, offer insights or generally trash a film …
Flix Character Spotlight: Peter Lorre
Peter Lorre was the epitome of the the Golden Era Hollywood character actor, providing solid support in a variety of movies and TV for more than 30 years. Born László Löwenstein in Austria-Hungary (now the Slovak Republic) in 1904, he ran away from home at age 17 and began to act in theatre. Changing his …
Weekend Roundup & Musings on Hitchcock’s SPELLBOUND
Happy Monday everybody! Hope everyone had a nice weekend and get to watch a lot of movies, unlike yours truly here who only get to see ONE film the entire weekend. But the film is one I had been wanting to see for a long time, well ever since I saw Roman Holiday and fell …
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