Thrill of a Romance (1945)
During the glory years of MGM they boasted more stars then there are in the heavens and numbered Van Johnson and Esther Williams among them. In this technicolor outing from […]
Elizabeth Taylor In the Movies : From A to Z
From a child star to a Hollywood legend, Elizabeth Taylor, stepped out from the screen to become a personality known the world over. Be it her many marriages or movie […]
The Crowd Roars (1932) … and … The Crowd Roars (1938)
Though the titles may be the same, these two films offer up a totally different universe in the world of sports and also server to spotlight how one major Hollywood […]
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Seventeen years prior to unleashing the violence of Dirty Harry upon 1970’s filmgoers, director Don Siegel gave the 1950’s crowd this explosive prison drama that cast a long list of […]
Sabata (1969)
With the arrival of Leone’s A Fistful of Dollars, the so called spaghetti western genre was born and would continue to evolve and bend the accepted way westerns were filmed, […]
The Secret Invasion (1964)
Actor Stewart Granger is once again the focus here at Mike’s Take thanks to the time taken by Maddy Who Loves Her Classic Films. She’s put together a blogathon to […]
The Purple Gang (1959)
Serving as both the narrator and lead investigator in out story, Barry Sullivan takes top billing for this prohibition tale of the notorious Purple Gang that terrorized Detroit back when […]
Francis The Talking Mule (1949)
Brando’s Pick of the Month This Universal International production from house director Arthur Lubin launched the unlikely comedy of duo of Donald O’Connor and a Mule who just happened to […]
The Atomic Kid (1954)
Blake Edwards. That name was synonymous with The Pink Panther series in my house growing up laughing till I cried while watching the antics of Inspector Clouseau as enacted by the comedic […]
