GREAT OLD MOVIES

Gene Kelly and Debbie Reynolds SINGIN' IN THE RAIN  (1952). Directed by Stanley Donen and Gene Kelly. Silent movie star Don Lockwo...

David Niven and Doris Day PLEASE DON'T EAT THE DAISIES  (1960). Director: Charles Walters. Kate MacKay (Doris Day) and her husband...

Murphy, Lillian Gish, Doug McClure, Audrey Hepburn   THE UNFORGIVEN   (1960). Director: John Huston. A mysterious man named Abe Kelsey...

DARIO ARGENTO . James Gracey. Kamera Books; 2010. This interesting book looks at the oeuvre of Italian  giallo   specialist Dario Argent...

The Perfect Poirot: David Suchet HALLOWE'EN PARTY  (2011). Director: Charlie Palmer. (This is episode 2 of season 12 of Agatha Chris...

Just out in epub from Cemetery Dance publishers is another of my vintage horror novels, Fatal Beauty . This over-the-top, black comedy-lik...

The heroes of the Justice League JUSTICE LEAGUE  (2017). Director: Zack Snyder. A demonic figure named Steppenwolf (Claran Hinds) send...

DRACULA AND HIS PALS , This week Great Old Movies  looks at films starring the venerable old baddie, Dracula. You can already find revie...

Francis Lederer as Dracula THE RETURN OF DRACULA  (1958). Director: Paul Landres. When a young artist named Bellac Gordal (Norbert Sch...

Sandor Eles and Ingrid Pitt COUNTESS DRACULA  (1971). Director: Peter Sasdy. After her husband dies, Countess Elisabeth (Ingrid Pitt) ...

New Blood: Christopher Neame as a young vampire DRACULA A.D. 1972  (also known as Dracula A.D./1972). Director: Alan Gibson. A prologu...

William Marshall BLACULA  (1972). Director: William Crain. Mamuwalde. an African dignitary (William Marshall), and his wife, are on a ...

Christopher Lee as Dracula THE SATANIC RITES OF DRACULA  (1973). Director: Alan Gibson. Dracula (Christopher Lee) is alive and well an...

Jack Palance DRACULA  (aka Dan Curtis' Dracula /1974 telefilm). Produced and directed by Dan Curtis. Jonathan Harker (Murray Brown...

Thomas Kretschmann as Dracula DRACULA  (aka Dario Argento's Dracula  and Dracula 3D /2012). Director: Dario Argento. Jonathan Hark...

Woody Allen and Mia Farrow CRIMES AND MISDEMEANORS  (1989). Written and directed by Woody Allen. " When I grew up in Brooklyn, no...

TWIST OF FATE  (aka Beautiful Stranger /1954). Director: David Miller. "Johnny" (Ginger Rogers), an ex-show girl, is living on...

CHARLES WALTERS: THE DIRECTOR WHO MADE HOLLYWOOD DANCE. Brent Phillips. University Press of Kentucky; 2017. This excellent biography loo...

Michael Craig LIFE FOR RUTH  (aka Walk in the Shadow /1962). Director: Basil Dearden. " You put your personal faith before her we...

Jeanne Crain and Frank Latimore IN THE MEANTIME, DARLING  (1944). Produced and directed by Otto Preminger. Maggie (Jeanne Crain of Sta...

Nils Asther and Jane Randolph JEALOUSY  (1945). Director: Gustav Machaty. Peter Urban (Nils Asther of Storm at Daybreak ) was a succes...

Armie Hammer CALL ME BY YOUR NAME  (2017). Director: Luca Gaudagnino. In 1983 Italy, 17-year-old Elio (Timothee Chalamet) lives wit...

Behemoth, the giant bunny rabbit HAPPY BELATED EASTER from Great Old Movies .  We're taking a week off to catch up, but please enj...

PUKEY REPEATS (1946). Director: Federico Fellini. Although the studio deemed the June Allyson comedy Pukey to be unreleasable, famed It...

LIBERACE VS. LEATHERFACE (1981). Director: Toby Hooperman. Fans of The Texas Chainsaw Massacre are probably unaware that this incredib...

SHE-SERPENTS VS THE FORCES OF THE DRAGON WITCH 12 chapter Mascot serial. (1938). Director: Bebe Ford. It is not widely known that durin...

HATCHET (1966). Director: William Castle. This was Castle and Joan Crawford's unreleased follow-up to Strait-Jacket . That film mad...

CATCH THAT BLONDE! (1961). Director: Arthur Lubin. One of the rarest, least-seen movies ever made, Catch That Blonde! presents the tea...