Sharing the Screen With Kirk Douglas
Count the candles. 103. Yes Kirk Douglas is 103 years young today. Each year since starting up Mike’s Take On the Movies I set aside December 9th to celebrate the […]
Christopher Columbus (1949)
Four hundred and fifty seven years in the making, The Rank Organization finally brings the story of explorer Christopher Columbus to the screen. When it comes to historical drama’s and […]
A Novel Idea…. The Next Chapter.
Never judge a movie by it’s book cover. In my never ending search for movie memorabilia I frequently hit book shops and thrift stores and inevitably find myself looking at […]
Time for a Holiday …. The Poster Gallery
I for one always take two consecutive weeks off my job every summer from the car dealership where I am employed here in Ontario, Canada and for the past four […]
The Devil’s In Love (1933)
A dash of romance, adventure in the French Foreign Legion and a murder mystery makes for a thoroughly enjoyable seventy minutes in this early talkie that sees some unusual casting […]
I Married a Witch (1942)
Long before Elizabeth Montgomery made witches attractive, Veronica Lake made them downright sexy in this hilarious comedy from director Rene Clair that stars a befuddled Frederic March who gets tangled […]
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 Lives of Robert Ryan by J.R. Jones
Am I surprised that there is finally a biography in the bookstores on Robert Ryan? Not at all thanks to TCM and what I think is a bit of a […]
A Gallery of Hydes
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The Big Noise (1944)
I finally got around to watching a Laurel and Hardy movie. Something I haven’t done in what has to be 20 plus years and I can’t give you an answer […]
The Desperate Hours (1955)
In what proved to be his last role as a gangster, screen icon Humphrey Bogart doesn’t disappoint in this tense crime drama from top flight director William Wyler. Teaming up […]
