Duel On the Mississippi (1955)
Just a few years shy of William Castle’s emergence as a showman of the macabre, he directed numerous low budget efforts including this “B” unit project released by Harry Cohn’s […]
Casting the Western Songs of Marty Robbins
Back when Country Music could be found in the Country & Western section of your local music stores, one name that was bound to have a number of LP’s in […]
How Do You Spell Holiday?
For the next week or so I’m spelling it beginning with an R for road trip as I head to the province of Nova Scotia to visit family. Yes Mike’s […]
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
One of the more identifiable movie roles for ‘The Love Goddess” Rita Hayworth, Miss Sadie Thompson was originally released in 3D to cash in on the 50’s craze and allow […]
Wrapping Up My Second Year On Line
“Made it Ma. Top of the world.” Two straight years on line with at least one posting per day. Getting something on here has become part of my daily routine […]
Twilight’s Last Gleaming (1977) Burt Lancaster in the Seventies
Burt Lancaster and tough guy director Robert Aldrich (The Dirty Dozen) had a long association together that began on Apache back in 1954 and then on to Vera Cruz in the […]
The Bridges at Toko-Ri (1954)
William Holden won an Oscar for the 1953 film Stalag 17 and in ’54 would star in two films opposite Grace Kelly. This Korean war epic and The Country Girl […]
The Wonderful Country (1959)
Iconic Robert Mitchum does double duty here as both the star of this south of the border western and the film’s executive producer. Along for the ride is director Robert […]
Charles McGraw : Tough Guy With the Gravel Voice
This article on the career of Charles McGraw appeared in The Dark Pages special edition dedicated to the classic 1946 film The Killers. Looking back I find it comical that […]
Chandler (1971)
I hate to do this to the legendary Warren Oates but this film is a mess. For years that’s pretty much what I have heard from other sources but I […]
Talking His Kind of Woman (1951) while in St. Lucia
Talking about the famed Mitchum/Russell film while vacationing.
