


Murder, He Says (1945)
Supposedly Fred MacMurray stepped in to this eerie tale of backwoods madness as a Bob Hope substitute over at Paramount and in the end, he delivers a hilarious performance while […]

Dead End (1937)
Some films from yesteryear just seem to play better to today’s modern audiences and I would number Dead End among them thanks to the strong direction of William Wyler and the […]

Mom On the Movie Poster and More
For Mother’s Day it’s time to highlight the one who for most all of us is our first love. Is there a favorite on screen Mother that instantly comes to […]

Johnny Come Lately (1943)
“If I were thirty years younger.” To see Marjorie Main look James Cagney up and down with a hunger in her eye and deliver that line is alone worth the price of admission to […]

Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Though the characters of Ma and Pa Kettle first appeared in the Fred MacMurray – Claudette Colbert winning comedy The Egg and I, it is here in the first of […]

Trivial Pursuit : Silver Screen Edition Part 2
Putting on my Alex Trebek mustache once again I have selected another card featuring a variety of topics and questions meant to exercise your mind in the art of movie […]

Love On The Run (1936)
When MGM loaned out Clark Gable to Columbia and so called tyrant Harry Cohn as some sort of punishment, Gable got the last laugh and a little statuette to go […]

Meet Me In St. Louis (1944)
Time for another monthly assignment with Kristina from Speakeasy. With all due respect to the other films she pointed me to (see here), this one far outshines the others in […]

Mrs. O’Malley and Mr. Malone (1950)
Every now and then casting directors strike gold. When you take two of cinema’s best character players and put them in the leading roles of a fast moving murder mystery […]