GREAT OLD MOVIES

SNAKES AND LADDERS.  Dirk Bogarde. 1978; Chatto and Windus. By the time this book came out, Bogarde had already written one autobiograph...

Anthony Forwood and Betty Ann Davies THE MAN IN BLACK  (1949). Director: Francis Searle. A fellow who calls himself "The Man in B...

Dane Clark THE GAMBLER AND THE LADY  (1952). Directors: Patrick Jenkins; Sam Newfield, Written by Sam Newfield, After getting out of j...

Christine Norden BLACK WIDOW (1951). Director: Vernon Sewell. A man is thrown out of a car and onto a highway, but he survives to sho...

Dane Clark PAID TO KILL (1954). Director: Montgomery Tully. In a variation of the old plot about a man hiring someone to kill him and t...