


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 […]

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 […]

This Week in TV Guide 1965
Thanks to a sister who owns and operates an antique shop, I had a chance to look thru a few TV Guides she had in stock from the year 1965. […]

Cabo Blanco (1980)
I like to refer to this movie as “the lost Charles Bronson film.” The first reason I can come up with is that wayyyy back when I was a kid […]

The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Once Kirk Douglas achieved star status he was quite often associated with the aggressive, self destructive, brash roles thanks to Midge Kelly of Champion, Chuck Tatum of Ace in the […]

Guns of the Timberland (1960)
Give me a western with Alan Ladd and Gilbert Roland and I’m all set for a rip roaring showdown. Especially when I see screen baddie Lyle Bettger’s name in the […]

The Ruthless Four (1968)
With at least two classics of the western genre under his belt, Van Heflin joined in the exodus to Europe with an international cast for a tale of gold, greed […]

The James Stewart / Anthony Mann Poster Gallery
The careers of these two men seemed to collide at just the right time. Jimmy Stewart already had an Oscar to his name and had returned home a war hero […]

Rory Calhoun : Man of Action Poster Gallery
Rory Calhoun seemed to be an actor who could work well in most any genre that producers threw at him in the days of the studio system. During his early […]