GREAT OLD MOVIES

Eliot Ness and his Untouchables THE SCARFACE MOB  (1959). Director: Phil Karlson.  With bootlegging gangsters like Al Capone (Neville Brand ...

Mills, Mathers, McGuire, Hodges, Pollard SUMMER MAGIC  (1963). Director: James Neilson. Widow Margaret Carey (Dorothy McGuire of Susan Slade...

BUZZ: THE LIFE AND ART OF BUSBY BERKELEY . Jeffrey Spivak. University Press of Kentucky; 2010.  In this well-written and interesting account...

Deborah Kerr and Hayley Mills THE CHALK GARDEN  (1964). Director: Ronald Neame.  Miss Madrigal (Deborah Kerr) is the latest in a long line o...

THEY ONLY KILL THEIR MASTERS (1972). Director: James Goldstone.  Chief of Police Marsh (James Garner) investigates when a woman is found de...

Hayley Mills POLLYANNA   (1960). Director: David Swift.  Now that she has become an orphan, young Pollyana (Hayley Mills) is shipped off to ...

Jean Simmons and Burt Lancaster ELMER GANTRY (1960). Director: Richard Brooks.   " He rammed the fist of God into me so fast that I ne...

FOREVER YOUNG: A MEMOIR.  Hayley Mills. Grand Central; 2021. In this very well-written and completely absorbing memoir, Hayley Mills begins ...

Burt Lancaster and Virginia Mayo SOUTH SEA WOMAN (1953). Director: Arthur Lubin.  Through a series of misadventures Sergeant James O'He...

Ruby Keeler and Dick Powell GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933  (1933). Director: Mervyn LeRoy.  Carol (Joan Blondell), Trixie (Aline MacMahon) and Polly ...

  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...