GREAT OLD MOVIES

ONE FATAL HOUR (aka Two Against the World /1936). Director: William C. McGann. This is a superior remake of Five Star Final , which starred...

SMART GIRLS DON'T TALK (1948). Director: Richard L. Bare. Linda Vickers (Virginia Mayo, pictured) gets involved with gambling bigwig an...

AND NEVER LET HER GO (2001 telefilm/2 part, 4 hour mini-series). Director: Peter Levin. Based on Queen Ghoul Ann Rule's true-crime book...

BOSTON BLACKIE GOES HOLLYWOOD (1942). Director: Michael Gordon.  Reformed thief Boston Blackie (Chester Morris) is suspected of stealing a...

THE LOST WORLD (1960). Director: Irwin Allen. " Eaten alive! Horrible! Horrible! " Colorful and loose adaptation of Sir Arthur...

THE CAPTAIN'S KID (1936). Director: Nick Grinde. Aunt Marcia Prentiss (May Robson) doesn't want little Abigail (Sybil Jason) hangin...

EASTWICK (ABC TV series/2009). Based on the film The Witches of Eastwick , this has three women in the same town encountering the mysteriou...

STUDIO ONE: THE ROCKINGHAM TEA SET (1950). Director: Franklin J. Schaffner. " You''ll never be rid of me! Never!" For cur...

VIOLENT SATURDAY (1955). Director: Richard Fleischer.  While a group of criminals gather in Bradenville to plan and commit a robbery, we a...

WHO NEEDS SLEEP? (2006 documentary). Director: Haskell Wexler. The famous cinematographer Haskell Wexler [pictured] put together this film w...

THE SECRET OF THE WHISTLER (1946). Director: George Sherman.  Artist Ralph Harrison (Richard Dix) is married to a wealthy, ill woman (Mary ...

A JOB TO KILL FOR (2006 telefilm). Director: Bill Corcoran. Jennifer Kamplan (Sean Young) has been brought in to bring an advertising agenc...

EARTH VS. THE SPIDER (1958). Director: Bert I. Gordon.  A gigantic spider who's been snacking on luckless folk who wander into his cav...

THE NOTORIOUS BETTIE PAGE (2005). Director: Mary Harron. Bettie Page (Gretchen Mol) travels from Nashville to New York City in the 1940...

SNOWBOUND (2001). Director: Ruben Preuss. After she is attacked by a man in a parking garage, Liz (Monika Schnarre) tells her best friend, ...

JUST ASK MY CHILDREN (2001 telefilm). Director: Arvin Brown. Brenda and Scott Kniffen (Virginia Madsen; Jeffrey Nordling) get caught up in ...

PRETTY POISON (1996 telefilm). Director: David Burton Morris. If you're going to remake a movie, at least make pretty certain that it...

EVERYTHING SHE EVER WANTED (2009 Lifetime telefilm/4 hour, 2 part mini-series). Director: Peter Svatek. Based on a true-crime book by An...

MURDERS IN THE ZOO (1933). Director: A. Edward Sutherland.  Zesty little horror thriller is certainly enlivened not just by a variety of a...

TOO LATE TO SAY GOODBYE (2009). Director: Norma Bailey. Rob Lowe [pictured] stars as Rob Corbin, accused of murdering his wife, Jenn (Stefa...

KIRBY FIVE-OH! Celebrating 50 Years of the "King" of Comics . TwoMorrows Publishing; 2008. Essentially a special issue of The Kirb...

REPUBLIC STUDIOS: BETWEEN POVERTY ROW AND THE MAJORS . Richard M. Hurst. Scarecrow Press. Updated 2007. This book looks at Republic studios,...

JUDGE JEANINE PIRRO (Fox 2008). Last year with little fanfare this new court-TV show slipped into the line-up with allegedly tough New York...

THE WALKING DEAD (1936). Director: Michael Curtiz.  After John Ellman (Boris Karloff) is framed for murder by criminals and executed, he...

THE STAIRCASE MURDERS (2007 telefilm). Director: Tom McLoughlin. Real-life novelist Michael Peterson (supposedly successful and supposedly ...

HUNT THE MAN DOWN (1950). Director: George Archainbaud. A busboy named Kincaid (James Anderson) becomes a hero during an attempted robbery,...

THE PATSY (1928). Director: King Vidor. Pat Harrington (Marion Davies) lives with her loving father (Dell Henderson) and a mother (Marie Dr...

BEHIND THE MASK (1932). Director: John Francis Dillon.  Jack Quinn (Jack Holt) is a secret service agent who goes undercover as a crook, ev...