South of St. Louis (1949)
By 1949 leading man Joel McCrea had pretty much settled into the western on a permanent basis. This time out he’s surrounded by a top notch cast in technicolor for […]
Shockproof (1949)
I had noticed this film was listed in the TCM guide for January 2016 and had every intention of making an attempt to watch it. That notion was cast in […]
It’s Only Money (1962)
Frequent collaborators Jerry Lewis and director Frank Tashlin teamed for the sixth of their seven outings with this tale of a lost heir to a fortune who turns out to […]
The Colossus of New York (1958)
Some titles like the recently viewed Daimajin and this low budget effort are films that it has taken me years to finally see for the first time. I grew up […]
Zachary Scott : Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad by Ronald L. Davis
Reading bios on actors who are not household names can be quite enlightening at times. The reasons can vary and with this book it’s in part because we often associate […]
Born to Be Bad (1950)
This RKO feature from director Nicholas Ray plays like a Noir film with some of the genre’s key elements. But it’s perhaps the single most important feature of a Noir […]
