Destry (1954)
If Alfred Hitchcock can famously remake his own The Man Who Knew Too Much than what’s to prevent Raoul Walsh from redoing High Sierra as a western called Colorado Territory […]
Buffalo Bill (1944)
William A. Wellman directs and Joel McCrea takes the title role in this entertaining Hollywood version of the true story of Buffalo Bill Cody. True? I have absolutely no idea […]
Angels Over Broadway (1940)
Based on the title alone and the casting of the undeniably photogenic Rita Hayworth, I had myself convinced to give this musical from Columbia Pictures a shot. Turned out it […]
The Dark Mirror (1946)
Can the gentleness that Olivia de Havilland constantly brings to the screen really have gone bad? …. Sort of. In the same year that director Robert Siodmak directed the Noir […]
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Theodora played by beautiful Irene Dune lives in Lynnfield Connecticut. She’s a young lady raised in the midst of a whole troop of “cackling old hens.” Things are about to […]
Immortal Sergeant (1943)
“Henry Fonda was the gifted, tough and classy kind of leading man that I most enjoyed working with.” This from Maureen O’Hara’s autobiography “Tis Herself. Far from an all out […]
Joan of Paris (1942)
This RKO production is a first of sorts for various reasons. Paul Henried was making his Hollywood debut with this tale of five downed flyers trying to make contact with […]
Secret of the Incas (1954)
If ever there was an actor who could have played Indiana Jones in the fifties, it had to be Charlton Heston! Heston plays a very Indiana Jones like character here […]
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