GREAT OLD MOVIES

THAT HAGEN GIRL  (1947). Director: Peter Godfrey. " Well, what are we going to talk about now ?" A middle-aged couple, Minta...

Truman Capote MURDER BY DEATH  (aka Neil Simon's Murder By Death /1976). Director: Robert Moore. " As a man you are barely pa...

THE OTHER SIDE OF NETFLIX' MAKING A MURDERER I confess that I only watched the first episode of Netflix'  Making a Murderer  non...

Margo CRIME WITHOUT PASSION  (1934). Produced, written and directed by Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur. Reading a note: ""I...

Wissler, Bartlett, Bond, and Switzer THE GAS HOUSE KIDS IN HOLLYWOOD  (1947). Director: Edward L. Cahn. In the third and last "Ga...

Glen Gordon THE ADVENTURES OF DR. FU MANCHU . 1956 television series. A second crop of episodes from this short-lived series has bee...

Natalie Portman as Jackie JACKIE  (2016). Director: Pablo Larrain. Jacqueline Kennedy was the most famous, admired, and influential wo...

Something rotten's in this "Lake" ANNUAL LGBT ROUND-UP. Well, in honor of Gay Pride, here is Great Old Movies ' annu...

John Hansen  THE CHRISTINE JORGENSEN STORY  (1970). Director: Irving Rapper. From his early childhood on, George Jorgensen (John Hanse...

Vito Russo VITO  (2011). Directed by Jeffrey Schwarz. This superb documentary looks at the life, activism and career of Vito Russo [1...

Pierre Deladonchamps STRANGER BY THE LAKE  (aka L'inconnu du lac /2013). Written and directed by Alain Guiraudie. At a gay cruisin...

Roberto Aguire and Robin Williams BOULEVARD  (2014). Director: Dito Montiel. In an early scene in this study of a closeted married man...

Christian Slater KING COBRA (2016). Written and directed by Justin Kelly. Sean (Garrett Clayton) reinvents himself as Cobra films'...

Carmen does her thing! THAT NIGHT IN RIO  (1941). Director: Irving Cummings. " If I can't be happy with another man's wif...

Genevieve Tobin and Hardie Albright THE NINTH GUEST  (1934). Director: Roy William Neill. A group of people who know and who often veh...

John Ashley HOT ROD GANG  (1958). Director: Lew Landers. John Abernathy III (John Ashley) lives with his two dotty aunts, Abigail (Hel...

Anthony Forwood and Betty Ann Davies THE MAN IN BLACK  (1949). Director: Francis Searle. A fellow who calls himself "The Man in B...

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Jackie Moran HAUNTED HOUSE  (1940). Director: Robert F. McGowan. In a small town a handyman named Olaf (Christian Rub) is on trial for...

Billy Griffith DEVIL  GODDESS  (1955). Director: Spencer Gordon Bennett. In the last of the "Jungle Jim" movies -- or the la...

George Mitchell as the syndicate chief FALLGUY  (1962). Director: Donn Harling. Young Sonny Martin (Ed Dugan) is driving along the hig...

Magneto BRING ON THE BAD GUYS! [Top to bottom: Magneto; Fu Manchu; Dr. Mabuse; Fantomas. Not pictured: Diabolik]. This week we look at...

FANTOMAS . Marcel Allain and Pierre Souvestre. Introduction by John Ashbery. First published 1911. Penguin Classics. This is the first i...

Rene Navarro and Renee Carl FANTOMAS: IN THE SHADOW OF THE GUILLOTINE  (aka  À l'ombre de la guillotine /1913). Director: Louis Feui...

Henry Brandon as the Mysterious Dr. Fu Manchu DRUMS OF FU MANCHU  (15 chapter Republic serial/1940). Directors: William Witney; John Eng...

FANTOMAS  (1964). Director: Andre Hunebelle. " I have committed most of most of my crimes wearing the faces of my victims ." ...

Dead or only resting? Dr. Mabuse THE DEATH RAY MIRROR OF DR. MABUSE  (aka  Die Todesstrahlen des Dr. Mabuse / The Death Ray of Dr. Mabus...

Christopher Lee as Fu Manchu: check out those nails! THE FACE OF FU MANCHU  (1965). Director: Don Sharp. A number of bodies turn up de...