Kirk Douglas and the Leading Ladies
Yes I’ve been celebrating the films and career of Kirk Douglas since starting this online project 5 years ago so with December 9th upon us and the cleft chinned icon […]
Taras Bulba (1962)
This Harold Hecht production with J. Lee Thompson directing comes across as if it had been intended to be the biggest spectacle of the year capturing the bulk of the […]
The Long Shadow of JAWS in Movie Posters
When Steven Spielberg unleashed the terror of Peter Benchley’s novel upon innocent movie goers in the summer of 1975, it opened up a whole sub genre in horror of animals […]
The Fog (1980)
aka John Carpenter’s The Fog Upon a long awaited revisiting of John Carpenter’s big screen follow up to his phenomenally successful Halloween and the tale of Michael Myers, I realized The Fog […]
The Stony ….. make that the Tony Curtis Poster Gallery
I for one like Tony Curtis on screen during his leading man era. He had a fun, likable presence in many a bedroom romp. Flicks like Operation Petticoat were regular […]
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 […]
Holiday Affair (1949)
Laid back tough guy of cinema and Noir poster boy Robert Mitchum in a Christmas movie? Sort of. Mitch’s home studio RKO saw fit to toss him into this romantic […]
Confidentially Connie (1953)
This energetic comedy from the studio era features the well matched Van Johnson and Janet Leigh as a young married couple expecting their first child. Van is working as a […]
The Married Couple Movie Poster Gallery
Since the dawn of cinema husbands and wives have been making movies together. Quite often it’s a case of two stars meeting on set and the love scenes they are […]
Touch of Evil (1958) An Appreciation
Amazing, brilliant, ahead of it’s time, edge of your seat……etc. I sure do love it when my sons come back from ‘the movie room” and ask if I’d like to […]
The Perfect Furlough (1959)
The tried and true formula for a romantic comedy is put to good use here casting real life husband and wife Tony Curtis and Janet Leigh for this Universal International romp. […]
