GREAT OLD MOVIES

THE UNSUSPECTED (1947). Director: Michael Curtiz. " I detest scenes not of my own making ." Roslyn, the secretary of radio st...

Horst Buchholz DIE HALBSTARKEN  (aka  Teenage Wolfpack /1956). Director: Georg Tressler.  Colorized .  A youth gang (of sorts) in post-war G...

WILD RIVER (1960). Director: Elia Kazan. Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift), a representative of the Tennessee Valley Authority, tries to pers...

JUBILEE TRAIL (1954). Director: Joseph Kane. A dance hall gal who calls herself Florinda (Vera Ralston) and a "nice" gal named Ga...

THE LAW AND THE LADY (1951). Director: Edwin H. Knopf. " At my age a good cook is more important than a husband." -- Marjorie Mai...

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Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan THE SECRET FURY  (1950). Director: Mel Ferrer. Colorized version. Ellen Ewing (no relation to J. R. Ewing)...

Wendy Craig, James Fox, and the servant's shadow THE SERVANT  (1963). Director: Joseph Losey. Colorized version .   Tony (James Fox), a ...

Richard Denning and Catherine Craig SEVEN WERE SAVED  (1947). Director: William H. Pine.  Colorized version .  Captain Jim Wilson (Russell H...

Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews in the cockpit ZERO HOUR  (1957). Director: Hall Bartlett. Colorized version .   Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews) h...

Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult JUROR # 2  (2024). Director: Clint Eastwood.  Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult of Dark Places ) is chosen for a ...

Yvette Mimieux, Elizabeth Allen, Charlton Heston DIAMOND HEAD  (1962). Director: Guy Green. Widower King Howland (Charlton Heston) is a weal...

John Agar and Cleo Moore HOLD BACK TOMORROW  (1955). Written, produced and directed by Hugo Haas.  In an unspecified foreign country, a form...

Joan as Eva Phillips QUEEN BEE  (1955). Written and directed by Ranald MacDougall. Colorized version .       " Really that Dr. Pearson ...

Alexis Smith, Paul Kelly, Stephen McNally  SPLIT SECOND  (1953). Director: Dick Powell. Colorized version .  Sam Hurley (Stephen McNally) ha...

The classic piano sequence SWISS MISS   (1938). Director: John G. Blystone. Colorized version.  While composer Victor Albert (Walter Woolf K...

"What a dump!" Joseph Cotten and Bette Davis BEYOND THE FOREST  (1949). Director: King Vidor. Colorized version. " You wear t...

Connie Stevens phones her shrink THE SEX SYMBOL  (1974 telefilm). ABC Movie of the Week. Director: David Lowell Rich. NOTE: This is the expa...

Bud Abbott, Dick Foran, Lou Costello IN THE NAVY  (1941). Director: Arthur Lubin. Colorized version .  Russ Raymond (Dick Powell), singing s...

The Black Abbott on the prowl THE BLACK ABBOTT  (aka  Der schwarze Abt /1963). Director: Franz Josef Gottlieb.  Lord Harry Chelford (Dieter ...

HOLLYWOOD HIGH: A Totally Epic, Way Opinionated History of TEEN MOVIES . Bruce Handy. Avid Reader Press/Simon and Schuster; 2025.   Be forew...

Bette Davis in Jezebel JEZEBEL  (1938). Director: William Wyler. Colorized version .  In pre-Civil War Louisiana, Julie Marsden (Bette Davis...