GREAT OLD MOVIES

  Polishing up some exciting new projects. GREAT OLD MOVIES will return in July, if not sooner! 

Victoria Shaw and Cornel Wilde EDGE OF ETERNITY       (1959). Director: Don Siegel.  Near the Grand Canyon, Deputy Les Martin (Cornel Wilde ...

Kathleen Turner and Nicolas Cage PEGGY SUE GOT MARRIED   (1986).  Director: Francis (Ford) Coppola.  Peggy Sue (Kathleen Turner) is separate...

AGE OF CAGE: Four Decades of Hollywood Through One Singular Career . Keith Phipps. Henry Holt; 2022.  Author Phipps makes it clear right fro...

Dick Haymes and Vera-Ellen CARNIVAL IN COSTA RICA  (1947). Director: Gregory Ratoff.  Luisa Molina (Vera-Ellen), daughter of Costa Rican Ric...

Audrey Hepburn BLOODLINE (1979). Director: Terence Young.  " People who don't pay up end with their knees nailed to the floor ....

Olivia De Havilland and Richard Burton MY COUSIN RACHEL (1952). Directed by Henry Koster.  Philip Ashley (Richard Burton of Becket ) has bee...

Meg Tilly and Jane Fonda AGNES OF GOD  (1985). Director: Norman Jewison.  A young nun, Sister Agnes (Meg Tilly), is arrested for manslaughte...

OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND: LADY TRIUMPHANT . Victoria Amador. University Press of Kentucky; 2020. The author of this bio, a life-long De Havilland...

Hywel Bennett and Hayley Mills ENDLESS NIGHT  (1972). Director: Sidney Gilliat.  Michael Rogers (Hywel Bennett) drives wealthy people across...

Mark Stevens and June Haver OH, YOU BEAUTIFUL DOLL  (1949). Director: John M. Stahl.  Around the turn of the (last) century, song promoter L...

Warren Beatty and Faye Dunaway BONNIE AND CLYDE (1967). Director: Arthur Penn.  Bonnie and Clyde go on a crime spree robbing banks in the 1...

ANNE BANCROFT: A LIFE . Douglass K. Daniel. University Press of Kentucky; 2017.  Anne Bancroft was typical of a lot of what we might call ...

Cornel Wilde and Anne Bancroft TREASURE OF THE GOLDEN CONDOR (1953). Director: Delmer Daves.  In 18th century France Jean Paul (Cornel Wilde...

The cast of House of Gucci HOUSE OF GUCCI  (2021). Director: Ridley Scott. Maurizio Gucci (Adam Driver) is smitten with the outgoing and amb...

TALES OF MANHATTAN (1942). Director: Julien Duvuvier.  This very entertaining film is a series of tales connected by a tailcoat that prove...

Special projects have caught up with me temporarily.   GREAT OLD MOVIES  will return in May 2022, if not before.  For those who subscribe by...

Zero Mostel and Jack Gilford A FUNNY THING HAPPENED ON THE WAY TO THE FORUM  (1966). Director: Richard Lester. Music and lyrics by Stephen S...

Meredith Baxter A WOMAN SCORNED: THE BETTY BRODERICK STORY  (1992 telefilm). Director: Dick Lowry.  Betty Broderick (Meredith Baxter of The ...

Betty on trial: Meredith Baxter HER FINAL FURY: BETTY BRODERICK, THE LAST CHAPTER  (1992 telefilm). Director: Dick Lowry.  After shooting he...

POSTHUMOUS .  My latest thriller, for people who love movies, celebrities, psychos, and suspense fiction, is entitled POSTHUMOUS. Below is a...

Madeleine Stowe and Ed Harris  CHINA MOON  (1994). Director: John Bailey.  Kyle Bodine (Ed Harris of National Treasure: Book of Secrets ) is...

Grant, Lombard and Francis IN NAME ONLY (1939). Director: John Cromwell.  Alec Walker (Cary Grant) is trapped in a loveless marriage with h...

William Haines and Irene Purcell JUST A GIGOLO  (1931). Director: Jack Conway.  Lord Robert Brummel (William Haines) finds lots of female co...

WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO ORSON WELLES? A Portrait of an Independent Career . Joseph McBride. University Press of Kentucky.  What Ever Happened ...

THE BLACK ROOM (1935). Director: Roy William Neill. A dire prophecy hangs over a feudal kingdom: the younger brother will murder the older...

John Huston as Jake Hannaford THE OTHER SIDE OF THE WIND  (Released 2018). Filmed from 1970 - 1976. Director: Orson Welles. " He's ...