GREAT OLD MOVIES

NIAGARA  (1953). Director: Henry Hathaway. " For a dress like [Monroe's] , you better start making plans at about 13 ." -...

HELL'S ISLAND  (1955). Director: Phil Karlson. Mike Cormack (John Payne) is a former D.A. now working as a security guard. He is hir...

DEAR WIFE (1949). Director: Richard Haydn. In this sequel to Dear Ruth , Bill Seacroft (William Holden) is happily married to Ruth (Joan C...

THE LIVES OF ROBERT RYAN . J. R. Jones. Wesleyan University Press; 2015. Robert Ryan was never quite in the front rank of iconic movie s...

WALL STREET COWBOY (1939). Director: Joseph Kane. Roy Rogers, playing himself in this "modern" western, never actually gets to...

Jonah Hill and James Franco TRUE STORY  (2015). Director: Rupert Goold. Disgraced New York Times  reporter Michael Finkel (Jonah Hill)...

VALLEY OF THE DOLLS  (1967). Director: Mark Robson. Three young women either in, or on the fringes of, show business endure heartbreak o...

The Scarab (Lionel Atwill) vs Captain America (Dick Purcell)   CAPTAIN AMERICA  (15 chapter Republic serial/1944). Directors: Elmer Clif...

Sean Connery and Gina Lollobrigida WOMAN OF STRAW  (1964). Director: Basil Dearden. " You can  be such a nice man, Mr. Richmond, ...

INVASION U.S.A. (1952). Director: Alfred E. Green. A group of people in a bar, including Vince Potter (Gerald Mohr of Redhead from Manha...

SEAN CONNERY A Biography . Christopher Bray. Pegasus; 2011. Less a biography than a career study -- Bray had virtually no access to eith...

The male leads -- or pigs -- of The Loft THE LOFT  (2014). Director: Erik Van Looy. Vincent (Karl Urban of Star Trek Into Darkness ) g...

Sean Connery looking diabolical THE GREAT TRAIN ROBBERY  (aka The First Great Train Robbery /1978). Director: Michael Crichton. In day...

Geraldine Fitzgerald and David Farrar THE LATE EDWINA BLACK  aka The Obsessed /1952. Director: Maurice Elvey. " There's not m...

The "lobster-clawed dragon" has Flash in its clutches FLASH GORDON  (13 chapter Universal serial/1936). Director: Frederick St...

ALFRED HITCHCOCK: The Man Who Knew Too Much . Michael Wood. New Harvest/Houghton Mifflin; 2015. This slender volume from the ICONS serie...

Sally Eilers and Matty Kemp THE CAMPUS VAMP  (1928). Director: Harry Edwards. " If that blonde vamp takes Matty from Sally, I...

GUNN  (1967). Director: Blake Edwards. Screenplay by Edwards and William Peter Blatty. " My theory is that the human race is just a t...

SINISTER  (2012). Writer/director: Scott Derrickson. " I'd rather cut my hands off than write a book for fame or money ." ...

Cornel Wilde THE WALLS OF JERICHO  (1948). Director: John M. Stahl. " Whatever possessed him to marry such a creature ?" ...

Blanche Sweet and Charles Hill Mailes THE PAINTED LADY  (1912). Director: D. W. Griffith. In this short silent film the older of two s...

William Devane and Cathy Lee Crosby THE DARK  (1979). Director: John "Bud" Cardos. Los Angeles is beset with a series of hor...

Barry Nelson confronts Barry Nelson with John Harvey  THE MAN WITH MY FACE  (1951). Director: Edward Montagne. Charles Graham comes ho...

LAUGHING ON THE OUTSIDE, CRYING ON THE INSIDE: The Bittersweet Saga of the Sock-It-To-Me Girl . Judy Carne with Bob Merrill. Rawson Assoc...

VARAN THE UNBELIEVABLE  aka Daikaiju Baran  Japanese version/1958. Director: Ishiro Honda. Two scholarly students looking for a rare spe...

Jason Statham as Parker PARKER  (2013). Director: Taylor Hackford. Back in the sixties author Donald Westlake (writing as Richard Star...

LIGHTNING STRIKES TWICE  (1951). Director: King Vidor. " You're not in love with him, you're in love with the smell of murd...

Laurence Harvey and Jean Simmons LIFE AT THE TOP  (1965). Director: Ted Kotcheff. " You say you want a better life, but when you ...