GREAT OLD MOVIES

Dick Powell and Rosemary Lane HOLLYWOOD HOTEL  (1937). Director: Busby Berkeley.  Saxophonist Ronnie Bowers (Dick Powell of Susan Slept Here...

Lesley-Anne Down and Tommy Lee Jones THE BETSY  (1978). Director: Daniel Petrie.  "It's not the stock, it's not the money -- it...

Lana Turner and Van Johnson WEEKEND AT THE WALDORF  (aka  Week-End at the Waldorf /1945). Director: Robert Z. Leonard. Colorized .  The stor...

KISS TOMORROW GOODBYE (1950). Director: Gordon Douglas. Ralph Cotter (James Cagney) escapes from prison with the help of Holiday Carleton...

Sandra Dorne MARILYN  (aka  Roadhouse Girl /1953). Writer-Director: Wolf Rilla.  Colorized .  George Saunders (Leslie Dwyer) owns a combinat...

WHEN JOHNNY COMES MARCHING HOME (1942). Director: Charles Lamont. War hero Johnny Kovacs (Allan Jones) is feted when he comes home on le...

PARK ROW (1952). Director/Writer/Producer: Samuel Fuller. This labor of love for Samuel Fuller about the newspaper business takes a while t...

Margaret Rutherford as Madame Arcati BLITHE SPIRIT (1945). Director: David Lean. Based on the play by Noel Coward, who also produced th...

Francis Lederer, Donald Buka, Joan Camden STOLEN IDENTITY  (1953). Director: Gunther von Fritsch.  Colorized .  In post-war Vienna American ...

Charles Boyer and Danielle Darrieux MADAME DE (1953/AKA The Earrings of Madame de ). Director: Max Ophuls. To pay off her debts, Comtesse L...

David Durand and Bette Davis BAD SISTER  (1931). Director: Hobart Henley.  Colorized . The Madison family are beset with a series of problem...

Ida Lupino and Edmond O'Brien THE BIGAMIST (1953). Director: Ida Lupino. " How could a man like you, successful, respected, get in...

John Carroll and Vera Ralston THE FLAME  (1947). Director: John H. Auer. Colorized .  George MacAllister (John Carroll of Zorro Rides Again ...

Fritz Kortner and Anna May Wong CHU CHIN CHOW  (1934). Director: Walter Forde.  Colorized .   Now here is a weird one! Chu Chin Chow  was or...

Jean Simmons and Katina Paxinou UNCLE SILAS (aka The Inheritance /1947). Director: Charles Frank. Caroline Ruthyn (Jean Simmons) finds hers...

THE UNSUSPECTED (1947). Director: Michael Curtiz. " I detest scenes not of my own making ." Roslyn, the secretary of radio st...

Horst Buchholz DIE HALBSTARKEN  (aka  Teenage Wolfpack /1956). Director: Georg Tressler.  Colorized .  A youth gang (of sorts) in post-war G...

WILD RIVER (1960). Director: Elia Kazan. Chuck Glover (Montgomery Clift), a representative of the Tennessee Valley Authority, tries to pers...

JUBILEE TRAIL (1954). Director: Joseph Kane. A dance hall gal who calls herself Florinda (Vera Ralston) and a "nice" gal named Ga...

THE LAW AND THE LADY (1951). Director: Edwin H. Knopf. " At my age a good cook is more important than a husband." -- Marjorie Mai...

Great Old Movies  is on temporary hiatus while I finish up a new book project. Work, work, work! We will be back in the new year if not befo...

Claudette Colbert and Robert Ryan THE SECRET FURY  (1950). Director: Mel Ferrer. Colorized version. Ellen Ewing (no relation to J. R. Ewing)...

Wendy Craig, James Fox, and the servant's shadow THE SERVANT  (1963). Director: Joseph Losey. Colorized version .   Tony (James Fox), a ...

Richard Denning and Catherine Craig SEVEN WERE SAVED  (1947). Director: William H. Pine.  Colorized version .  Captain Jim Wilson (Russell H...

Linda Darnell and Dana Andrews in the cockpit ZERO HOUR  (1957). Director: Hall Bartlett. Colorized version .   Ted Stryker (Dana Andrews) h...

Toni Collette and Nicholas Hoult JUROR # 2  (2024). Director: Clint Eastwood.  Justin Kemp (Nicholas Hoult of Dark Places ) is chosen for a ...

Yvette Mimieux, Elizabeth Allen, Charlton Heston DIAMOND HEAD  (1962). Director: Guy Green. Widower King Howland (Charlton Heston) is a weal...