GREAT OLD MOVIES

HAPPY HALLOWEEN . We've got a fresh crop of Halloween horrors this week at Great Old Movies : two Brian De Palma shockers; a modern...

Who's the bigger bitch? Vincent Price and Carol Ohmart HOUSE ON HAUNTED HILL  (colorized/1959). Produced and directed by William Ca...

Best Buddies? Chucky and little Alex Vincent CHILD'S PLAY  (1988). Director: Tom Holland. A very nice widow named Karen Barclay (...

Ethan Hawke REGRESSION  (2015). Written and directed by Alejandro Amenabar. In 1990 Detective Bruce Kenner (Ethan Hawke of Sinister )...

Tyrone Power and Kim Novak THE EDDY DUCHIN STORY  (1956). Director: George Sidney. Eddy Duchin is a brash, talented pianist who comes...

CARY GRANT, DARK ANGEL  Geoffrey Wansell. Arcade; 2016. This updated version of Wansell's biography of Grant is a coffee table trad...

Hank Stratton and Helen Hunt MURDER IN NEW HAMPSHIRE: THE PAMELA WOJAS SMART STORY  (1991 telefilm). Director: Joyce Chopra. Pamela S...

Nicole Kidman TO DIE FOR  (1995). Director: Gus Van Sant. " You're not anybody in America unless you're on TV. " --...

Robert Ryan ACT OF VIOLENCE  (1949). Director: Fred Zinnemann. Frank Enley (Van Heflin) is a respected man with a wife, Edith (Janet ...

Wife vs. mistress: Ann Harding and Myrna Loy WHEN LADIES MEET  (1933). Director: Harry Beaumont. NOTE: Some plot points are given away ...

Greer Garson and Joan Crawford WHEN LADIES MEET  (1941). Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Successful novelist Mary Howard (Joan Crawford)...

Miriam Hopkins and Frances Dee BECKY SHARP  (1935). Director: Rouben Mamoulian. Becky Sharp (Mariam Hopkins), a charity case in a fin...

Miriam Hopkins SAVAGE INTRUDER  (aka Hollywood Horror House /1970). Written, produced, and directed by Donald Wolfe. A maniac is runn...

MIRIAM HOPKINS: LIFE AND FILMS OF A HOLLYWOOD REBEL . Allan R. Ellenberger. University Press of Kentucky; 2018. Miriam Hopkins is long ...

Veronica Lake and Fredric March I MARRIED A WITCH  (1942). Director: Rene Clair. In the 17th century, the witch Jennifer and her fath...

Kim Novak with Pyewacket BELL BOOK AND CANDLE  (1958). Director: Richard Quine. Shepherd Henderson (James Stewart) lives in Manhattan...

Irving Berlin THIS IS THE ARMY  (aka Irving Berlin's This Is the Army /1943.) Director: Michael Curtiz. There were several all-st...

Arnold Schwarzenegger THE TERMINATOR  (1984). Director: James Cameron. In the year 2029 Los Angeles and the world are in the midst of...

THE PURPLE DIARIES: Mary Astor and the Most Sensational Hollywood Scandal of the 1930s . Joseph Egan. Diversion; 2016. In the 1930s act...

Sam Jaffe and Sterling Hayden THE ASPHALT JUNGLE  (1950). Director: John Huston. " Crime is only a left-handed form of human end...

George Nader, Esther Williams, John Saxon  THE UNGUARDED MOMENT  (1956). Director: Harry Keller. High school music teacher Lois Conwa...