Recommendations for TCM’s 2021 Summer Under the Stars in August …. Part 1
Each year the month of August brings the TCM Summer Under the Stars spotlight where 24 continuous hours are devoted to one actor or actress. Sure we get some of […]
Charles Durning : Law Enforcement Officer
Have you ever stopped to wonder just how many times the prolific character actor, Charles Durning, was enlisted as a member of the police force in both theatrical and television […]
Machine Gun Kelly (1958)
Between 1951 and 1957, screen icon Charles Bronson, appeared in everything from uncredited bit parts in Cukor’s The Marrying Kind to playing Igor in House of Wax to appearing as […]
X, The Unknown (1956)
Following up on the success of 1955’s The Quatermass Xperiment, Hammer Films, cast Oscar winner Dean Jagger in a very Quatermass like role as a scientist looking to put an […]
Holocaust 2000 (1977)
aka …. The Chosen ….. aka Rain of Fire So in essence what we get here is just one Kirk Douglas thriller (choose your title) that appears to have had […]
Lon Chaney Jr. In the Movies : From A to Z
Looking back, Lon Chaney Jr, is one of those actors I discovered more through books than I did actual movies as a child. What I mean by that are the […]
Richard Widmark In The Movies : From A to Z
From the moment he stepped on to movie screens in 1947, Richard Widmark, was branded a villain thanks to his Oscar nominated performance as a cold blooded killer in Kiss […]
How The West Was Won (1962)
While I’ve see this western blockbuster filmed in Cinerama a number of times I don’t believe I’ve actually seen it since my adolescent days. It played regularly on TV though […]
Seven Thieves (1960)
While it’s true Eli Wallach never got to be a member of the Seven in the now classic John Sturges western of 1960, The Magnificent Seven, (his consolation prize was […]
