GREAT OLD MOVIES

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Dean Jagger and Glenn Ford THE BROTHERHOOD OF THE BELL (1970 telefilm). Director: Paul Wendkos.Screenplay by David Karp. In one of the...

Clifton Young tries to put one over on Bogie DARK PASSAGE (1947). Director: Delmer Daves. Vincent Parry (Humphrey Bogart), who was co...

Michael Landon as teen wolf             I WAS A TEENAGE WEREWOLF (1957). Director: Gene Fowler, Jr. " This is mo...

Odd duo: Gary Conway and Whit Bissell I WAS A TEENAGE FRANKENSTEIN  (1957). Director: Gene Fowler, Jr. The descendant of Professor Fra...

Randolph Scott and Nancy Carroll HOT SATURDAY (1932). Director: William A. Seiter. Ruth Brock (Nancy Carroll) works in a bank and has ...

Terence Fisher THE CHARM OF EVIL: The Life and Films of Terence Fisher . Wheeler Winston Dixon. Scarecrow Press; 1991. Introduction by J...

MERRILY WE GO TO HELL (1932). Director: Dorothy Arzner. Heavy drinking reporter Jerry Corbett (Fredric March) falls for the lovely and u...

DARK ROMANCE: SEXUALITY IN THE HORROR FILM . David J. Hogan. McFarland; 1986. Don't be scared off by the sub-title: this is a very r...

THE TIME TRAVELERS (1964). Written and directed by Ib Melchior. Scientists have built a window into the future, but it turns out that i...

THE AFFAIRS OF JIMMY VALENTINE (aka Unforgotten Crime /1942). Director: Bernard Vorhaus. Radio host Mike Jason (Dennis O'Keefe of H...

End of the World? CHICKEN HEART Lights Out radio episode.  The days when families would gather around the radio to listen to shows li...

THE EARTH DIES SCREAMING (1964). Director: Terence Fisher. In a small village in England, people suddenly drop dead in the middle of ev...

Taylor Kitsch [sic] as John Carter. JOHN CARTER (aka John Carter of Mars /2012). Director: Andrew Stanton. Disney Studio. Civil War ve...

Richard Basehart HE WALKED BY NIGHT (1948). Director: Alfred L. Werker. A cop is murdered in L.A. and the hunt is on. There's no m...

BABY FACE (1933). Director: Alfred E. Green. " Where would I go -- Paris? I got four bucks !" " Are you really thinkin...

I LOVE THE ILLUSION: The Life and Career of AGNES MOOREHEAD . Charles Tranberg. BearManor Media; 2007. In this excellent biography by th...

Tallulah Bankhead THE CHEAT (1931). Director: George Abbott. " If you're trying to appeal to my better nature, it's hopel...

Maurice Chevalier and Hayley Mills THE CHILDREN OF CAPTAIN GRANT /aka Les Enfants du capitaine Grant , 1867. Jules Verne.  IN SEARCH O...

GOING TO PIECES: THE RISE AND FALL OF THE SLASHER FILM, 1978 - 1986 . Adam Rockoff. McFarland; 2002. When such films as Halloween  and F...

LOVE CRIME (aka Crime d'amour/2010). Director: Alain Corneau. Isabelle (Ludivine Sagnier) is assistant to Christine (Kirstin Scott Th...

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  -- ...