GREAT OLD MOVIES

THREE COINS IN THE FOUNTAIN (1954). Director: Jean Negulesco. " The prospect of waking up to an unexpected arousal of passion at my...

BODY AND SOUL (1947). Director: Robert Rossen. Screenplay by Abraham Polonsky. Charley (John Garfield) seeks a way out of his hopeless p...

MICHAEL DOUGLAS A Biography . Marc Eliot. Crown Archetype; 2012. Michael Douglas, son of movie star Kirk Douglas, was under a formidabl...

GREEN MANSIONS (1959). Director: Mel Ferrer. Abel (Anthony Perkins) comes to South American looking for treasure, and learns that a cer...

CHEAPER BY THE DOZEN (1950). Director: Walter Lang. Inspired by real events, this film takes a serio-comic (mostly comic) look at the Gi...

HAWK OF THE WILDERNESS (12 chapter Republic serial/1938). Directors: John English; William Witney. Lincoln Rand (Lane Cha...

JENNIFER JONES: THE LIFE AND FILMS . Paul Green. McFarland; 2011. Author Green makes it clear at the outset that this is less a traditio...

Red Skelton succumbs to the charms of Adele Jergens THE FULLER BRUSH MAN (1948). Director: S. Sylvan Simon. Red Jones (Red Skelton)...

Tom Hardy as Bane and Christian Bale as Batman THE DARK KNIGHT RISES (2012). Director: Christopher Nolan. " You...

SITTING PRETTY: The Life and Times of CLIFTON WEBB . Clifton Webb with David L. Smith. University Press of Mississippi; 2011. Clifton We...

A giant scientist goes after Seaview in "Leviathan" VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA . Season 2. 1965. The second season of t...

Johnny Depp as Barnabas Collins DARK SHADOWS  (2012). Director: Tim Burton. " I don't think people take meetings at the botto...

NOT YOUNG, STILL RESTLESS A Memoir. Jeanne Cooper with Lindsay Harrison. Harper Luxe; 2012. Jeanne Cooper has appeared in films and man...

Garfield and Turner THE POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE (1946). Director: Tay Garnett. Cora Smith (Lana Turner) and her husband Nick (Ceci...

Dracula (Christopher Lee) in attack mode DRACULA PRINCE OF DARKNESS (1966). Director: Terence Fisher. Two couples are touring Europe ...

Kate Winslet as Mildred MILDRED PIERCE (2011 HBO mini-series. Director: Todd Haynes. " I am never coming back to this hovel as l...

ANTHONY PERKINS: A HAUNTED LIFE. Ronald Bergan. Little, Brown; 1995. UK. This is a solid biography of the actor who became most famous ...

BLONDE VENUS (1932). Director: Joseph von Sternberg. While on a camping trip in Germany Ned Faraday (Herbert Marshall) comes across Hel...

Mrs. Davis (Fran Franklin) hurls a curse ENCOUNTER WITH THE UNKNOWN  (1973). Director: Harry Thomason. This picture posits the theory ...

Lucy and Viv try to get the "world famous Thunderbolt" to move THE LUCY SHOW Season 2 .1963. The first season of The Lucy S...

Al Pacino as Shelly Levene on Broadway GLENGARRY GLEN ROSS . David Mamet. Gerald Schoenfeld Theatre. Broadway. New York City. Directed b...

Mowbray and Douglas confer in interesting restaurant MY DEAR SECRETARY (1948). Writer/director: Charles Martin. Just before giving a ...

ISLAND OF LOST SOULS (1932). Director: Erle C. Kenton. " They are restless tonight ." After begin rescued from a shipwreck,...

Marlene Dietrich and Theresa Harris THE FLAME OF NEW ORLEANS (1941). Director: Rene Clair. In old New Orleans lady of leisure Countess...

Ethan Hunt (Cruise) faces down "Max" (Redgrave) MISSION: IMPOSSIBLE (1996). Director: Brian De Palma. Ethan Hunt (Tom Cruis...

KOLCHAK, THE NIGHT STALKER (1974 television series). After the high ratings of the two movies featuring Darren McGavin as Carl Kolchak,...

The cast of Falcon Crest FALCON CREST Season Two.  Jane Wyman is back as the ruthless matriarch and vineyard owner Angela Channing in ...

Peter Parker practices his spider powers THE AMAZING SPIDER-MAN (2012). Director: Marc Webb. The 4th Spider-Man movie goes back to ...