GREAT OLD MOVIES

THE CRIME DOCTOR'S COURAGE (1945). Director: George Sherman.  Gordon Carson (Stephen Crane) has had two wives die of accidents during ...

FLIGHT PLAN (2005). Director: Robert Schwentke. Jodie Foster is splendid, as usual, as a woman who boards a plane with her young daught...

THE CRIME DOCTOR'S WARNING (1945). Director: William Castle.  Clive Lake, an artist (Coulter Irwin), seeks Dr. Robert Ordway's (Wa...

THE PERILS OF NYOKA (1942). 15 chapter Republic serial. Director: William Witney.  This is a rousing, well-done cliffhanger serial that...

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TALES THAT WITNESS MADNESS (1973). Director: Freddie Francis. An anthology of horror tales tied to a psychiatric clinic presided over by ...

THE HEIRESS (1949). Director: William Wyler. " Yes, I can be very cruel. I have been taught by masters ." In Washington Sq...

THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE . Carolyn Keene. # 2 in the Nancy Drew Mystery Series. Published 1930. NOTE: Occasionally Great Old Movies will look a...

NANCY DREW AND THE HIDDEN STAIRCASE (1939). Director: William Clemens.  Loosely based on The Hidden Staircase , this uses many of the elem...

IT'S A GREAT LIFE . 1954 TV series. Shown on American Life TV. Before she was Aunt Bee of Mayberry, Frances Bavier was the mainstay (alt...

IT HAPPENED IN HOLLYWOOD (1937). Director: Harry Lachman. Tim Bart (Richard Dix) is a western star in silent pictures who has a real apprec...

ROAD TO PERDITION (2002). Director: Sam Mendes. The graphic novel this film was based on was probably more effective, because Road to Perdit...

SUPERMAN: DOOMSDAY (2007). Director: Bruce Timm. A few years ago DC Comics published a long storyline that criss-crossed all the books in w...

TORTURE GARDEN (1967). Director: Freddie Francis. Screenplay by Robert Bloch.  Several people go backstage at a sideshow exhibit and are g...

EMPIRE FALLS (2005). HBO mini-series. Directed by Fred Schepesi. Screenplay by Richard Russo, from his novel. This must be a pretty dumbed...

COLONEL EFFINGHAM'S RAID (1946). Director: Irving Pichel. Okay, you'd think that any film with Charles Coburn, Joan Bennett, Donal...

THE TWO MR. KISSELS (2008). Lifetime cable premiere. Director: Edward Bianchi. This is based on a book about the true-life murders of two ...

" I'm ready for my close-up ." SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950). Director: Billy Wilder. A down-on-his-luck screenwriter, Joe Gi...

KNEE DEEP (2007). Director: Michael Chandler. [Shown on PBS' Independent Lens .] An interesting documentary about a young man who is a...

NANCY DREW -- DETECTIVE (1938). Director: William Clemens. Although the "original" screenplay is attributed to Kenneth Gamet , ...

MR. SARDONICUS (1961). Director: William Castle.   In the TV show Wiseguy , an entire story arc centered around a nutty guy who was obse...

ROSEANNA MCCOY (1949). Director: Irving Reis. " Don't talk with your knife in your mouth! " Hollywood's look at the famou...

MITZI GAYNOR RAZZLE DAZZLE THE SPECIAL YEARS DVD. This DVD devoted to the talents of singer/actress Mitzi Gaynor has been released in hono...

THE EXORCIST (1973). Special Edition DVD with extra footage. Director: William Friedkin. Although billed as “the scariest movie ever made...

EXORCIST II: THE HERETIC (1977). Director: John Boorman. Richard Burton plays a priest who is assigned by the Vatican to investigate th...

THE EXORCIST III (1990). Director: William Peter Blatty . “[God] goes waltzing through the universe like some kind of cosmic Billie Burke...

THE BATMAN VS DRACULA (2005). Director: Michael Goguen . This is a feature-length animated film using the latest incarnation of The Batman...

THE THREE STOOGES GO AROUND THE WORLD IN A DAZE (1963). Director: Norman Maurer . The Three Stooges are the servants of the great-great-gr...