GREAT OLD MOVIES

Powerhouse combo: Welles and Robinson THE STRANGER (1946). Director: Orson Welles. Wilson (Edward G. Robinson), who works for an Alli...

NIGHT NURSE (1931). Director: William A. Wellman. " For a beginner, you're not doin' so bad. " Lora Hart (Barbara St...

IDA LUPINO: A BIOGRAPHY . William Donati. 1996; University Press of Kentucky. Coming from a famous theatrical family, Ida Lupino had sho...

People often email me about great and not-so-great movies that they saw years ago, want to see again, but whose titles and stars they just c...

THE BRIDES OF DRACULA (1960). Director: Terence Fisher. A young French woman, Marianne (Yvonne Monlaur), on her way to a girls school t...

ROCK HUDSON, FRIEND OF MINE . Tom Clark, with Dick Kleiner. Pharos books; 1989. Tom Clark was professionally involved with actor Rock Hu...

MAN BAIT (aka The Last Page /1952). Director: Terence Fisher. The British film The Last Page was given the zestier title Man Bait  -- ...

FROM THE TERRACE (1960). Director: Mark Robson. " I guess he hated me so much he couldn't even stand to be alive on the day I ...

Walter Woolf King and Eric Blore SWISS MISS (1938). Director: John G. Blystone. " A swiss miss went scheeing down a mountain sid...

NIGHTMARE (1964). Director: Freddie Francis. Produced and written by Jimmy Sangster. " You may have been all kinds of a gay boy be...

DAMON AND PYTHIAS (aka Il tiranno di Siracusa /1962). Director: Curtis Bernhardt. Pythias (Don Burnett) leaves hi...

Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck THERE'S ALWAYS TOMORROW (1956). Director: Douglas Sirk. Produced by Ross Hunter. Clifford Grov...

RASPUTIN, THE MAD MONK (1966). Director: Don Sharp. " This is only a house -- and she has all of Russia !" Rasputin (Christo...

DROPPED NAMES: FAMOUS MEN AND WOMEN AS I KNEW THEM . Frank Langella. HarperCollins; 2012. In this unconventional memoir, actor Frank Lan...

BUTTERFIELD 8 (1960). Director: Daniel Mann. " Let's face it -- I was the slut of all time !" Gloria (Elizabeth Taylor) ...

Hudson and Day PILLOW TALK (1959). Director: Michael Gordon. " It's like being around a pot belly stove on a frosty morning. ...

THE MAN IN HALF MOON STREET (1945). Director: Ralph Murphy. Dr. Julian Karell (Nils Asther), doctor and painter, has fallen in love wit...

Anton Diffring gets a little pop-eyed and who can blame him? THE MAN WHO COULD CHEAT DEATH (1959). Director: Terence Fisher. Dr. Georg...

ADVENTURES OF CAPTAIN AFRICA 15 chapter Columbia serial (aka Adventures of Captain Africa, Mighty Jungle Avenger /1955). Director: Spencer ...

HAMMER, HOUSE OF HORROR: Behind the Screams . Howard Maxford. Overlook Press; 1996. This over-sized coffee table book loaded with photog...

RE-ANIMATOR (1985). Director: Stuart Gordon. H.P. Lovecraft's "Herbert West, Reanimator," which appeared in several instal...

SECONDS (1966). Director: John Frankenheimer. " We lived our lives in a polite, celibate truce ." Middle-aged Arthur Hamilt...

Paul Newman as Lew Harper THE DROWNING POOL (1975). Director: Stuart Rosenberg. Private detective Lew Harper (Paul Newman) is contact...

Stanwyck, Henderson [above] and Carlson ALL I DESIRE (1953). Director: Douglas Sirk. Produced by Ross Hunter. Naomi Murdoch (Barbara S...

HOW TO BE A MOVIE STAR: ELIZABETH TAYLOR IN HOLLYWOOD . William J. Mann. Houghton Mifflin Harcourt; 2009. Mann has decided not to write ...

HERCULES, SAMSON AND ULYSSES (aka Ercole sfida Sansone/ 1963). Writer/director: Pietro Francisci.  Handsome Hunk Hercules (Kirk Morris)...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK PRESENTS: AN ILLUSTRATED GUIDE TO THE TEN-YEAR TELEVISION CAREER OF THE MASTER OF SUSPENSE . John McCa...

Burton and Taylor get the bird [atop Taylor's head]                                                                                ...