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 […]
Kirk Douglas 1916-2020 : He Cast a Giant Shadow
More often than not when pressed by friends and associates who know I’m a student of movie history I name two actors as my all time favorites. Kirk Douglas being […]
A Family For Joe (1990)
Like many of his contemporaries, Robert Mitchum, turned to the small screen once the 1980’s came around appearing in a number of TV movies and the epic Winds of War […]
Stagecoach (1986)
There’s no need to start here with a big negative by pointing out this is a variation/remake of the 1939 John Ford/John Wayne classic. Let’s be positive and say it’s […]
Nashville Rebel (1966)
While Waylon Jennings was still a few years shy of the so called Outlaw movement of Country Music that he would be forever identified with, the title of this film is […]
Now Playing and Then Some … Fall 1991
Looking back at old newspapers can offer a fun stroll down memory lane. Pick a section. It could be that your favorite sports team was on a roll and haven’t […]
Wag the Dog (1997)
Election day is closing in on a fictitious President of the United States and the campaign is going to need a miracle of political manipulation to get him re-elected. Time to […]
The Music Video Actor
While I don’t really pay much attention to the music video anymore there was a time I frequently tuned in to the country music staion to see what was new. […]
Jack Elam : From Dastardly Villain to Comedy Sidekick?
When you watch the amount of westerns I did growing up you can’t help but begin to focus in on the guy to the left of the central villain. Actors […]
