One of my favorite things about the snappy programmers cranked out by studios like Warner Bros is that they often feature players who deserve a brighter spotlight. They don’t have the booming personas of the big stars, and they are often called the “poor man’s” version of som read more
One of my suspense genre pet peeves is the plot that requires the protagonist to miss obvious red flags and continue to plunge into danger. It’s hard to root for someone who doesn’t have a lot of common sense. Danger Signal, which recently made its DVD debut from Warner Archive, manages read more
Share This! A girl with a heart of ice! Has anyone ever seen a film where Virginia Mayo is by far the lead star? There aren’t a whole lot of them so the answer may be in the negative on that one. Among those films which at least on the surface feature Mayo in the lead role is 1949’s Flaxy Martin. read more
I have adored actress Gigi Perreau ever since I saw her remarkable performance in a bit part for Enchantment (1948). She played an orphaned girl (who would incidentally grow up to be Teresa Wright) and her ability to project heartbreak, courage and charm with just a few words both touched and impres read more
Zachary Scott: Hollywood’s Sophisticated Cad Ronald L. Davis Release Date: July 24, 2013 (Reprint); February 27, 2006 (Original printing) University Press of Mississippi Softcover, 238 pages Last summer, the University Press of Mississippi reprinted Ronald L. Davis’ biography of charact read more
Classic film aficionados remember Zachary Scott as the suave con artist Monte Beragon in Mildred Pierce, or the suave con artist opposite Joan Fontaine in Born to Be Bad. A career foiled by typecasting is Scott’s life, and author Ronald L. Davis’ biography lives up to the title of layin read more
The cad you love to hate. Smooth-talking, darkly handsome and effortlessly sophisticated, Zachary Scott excelled at roles that depicted him as the charming cad you love to hate. In most of his nearly 40 Hollywood features, Scott was cast as the villain who achieved his nefarious ends through the use read more
