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So the title doesn’t have a bearing on much of anything, but who cares? It sets the tone brilliantly for this wickedly twisted noir. The film opens like other films, after the death of a beautiful young woman. Two people are getting grilled in adjoining rooms. Frankie Christopher (Victor Matur read more

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 500. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: “Blues in the Night” read more

After the immense critical and box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney Studios was bombarded with requests from his fans to show how these cartoons were created. The brass at RKO Pictures were also keen to see how the cartoons that they were distributing were read more

After the immense critical and box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney Studios was bombarded with requests from his fans to show how these cartoons were created. The brass at RKO Pictures were also keen to see how the cartoons that they were distributing were read more

After the immense critical and box-office success of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs and Pinocchio, Walt Disney Studios was bombarded with requests from his fans to show how these cartoons were created. The brass at RKO Pictures were also keen to see how the cartoons that they were distributing were read more

Hold Back the Dawn was written by the winning combination of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, but the director was actually Mitchell Leisen. That was the last time Wilder would let someone else take hold of his work. It’s actually rather meta, a film within a film. We see our director and a read more

Hold Back the Dawn was written by the winning combination of Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett, but the director was actually Mitchell Leisen. That was the last time Wilder would let someone else take hold of his work. It’s actually rather meta, a film within a film. We see our director and a read more

If Preston Sturges was a comic wordsmith than Sullivan’s Travels was his magnum opus. It has so many pieces worth talking about, despite it only running a meager 90 minutes. It is the kind of comedy that director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) would want to make, and it’s a message movie read more

If Preston Sturges was a comic wordsmith than Sullivan’s Travels was his magnum opus. It has so many pieces worth talking about, despite it only running a meager 90 minutes. It is the kind of comedy that director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) would want to make, and it’s a message movie read more

If Preston Sturges was a comic wordsmith then Sullivan’s Travels was his magnum opus. It has so many pieces worth talking about, despite it only running a meager 90 minutes. It is the kind of comedy that director John L. Sullivan (Joel McCrea) would want to make, and it’s a message movie read more

US / 88 minutes / bw / Warner–First National Dir: Anatole Litvak Scr: Robert Rossen, Elia Kazan (uncredited) Story: Hot Nocturne (unproduced play) by Edwin Gilbert Cine: Ernie Haller Cast: Priscilla Lane, Betty Field, Richard Whorf, Lloyd Nolan, Jack Carson, Wally Ford, Elia Kazan, Peter Whitney, read more

The Classic Movie Blog Association is proud to present Planes, Trains and Automobiles, running from October 19th to the 24th. Please tune into this site for the blogs and dates listed to travel around the world through classic film! All aboard! Sol Wurtzel was the executive in charge read more

Here's my second entry to this blogathon, dedicated to looking at Hollywood's favorite pastime: remakes. You can see the other entries here. ********************************************************************************* As I said yesterday -- okay, insisted -- I try not to hold grudges aga read more

O Dragão Relutante / The Reluctant Dragon (1941) Eu tinha seis anos de idade, talvez um pouco mais, e adorava as fitas de vídeo (sim, do tempo do VHS/VCR) da Disney. Cada fita vinha com algumas propagandas de outras fitas, verdadeiros trailers feitos especialmente para aqueles lançamentos read more

That serene portrait of Carole Lombard, taken by photographer John Engstead, was part of the February 1941 issue of Screenland magazine. She didn't have an overwhelming presence that month -- her comedic comeback, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," would arrive in theaters later in February -- but if you looked ha read more

That serene portrait of Carole Lombard, taken by photographer John Engstead, was part of the February 1941 issue of Screenland magazine. She didn't have an overwhelming presence that month -- her comedic comeback, "Mr. & Mrs. Smith," would arrive in theaters later in February -- but if you looked ha read more

After all melodrama I sniffled through in the pair of Francis flicks I reviewed earlier in the week, I needed something lighter, and I got it with The Feminine Touch. Francis takes a supporting role in this comedy about jealousy in romantic relationships now available on DVD from Warner Archive. Do read more

via: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83933/Moon-Over-Miami/#tcmarcp-940385-940399 Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. A reader asked if I would write about this movie, and I was only too happy to do so! Moon Over Miami is a bright, bubbling, delightful movie that sings summer and giddy rom read more

via: http://www.tcm.com/tcmdb/title/83933/Moon-Over-Miami/#tcmarcp-940385-940399 Unless otherwise noted, all images are my own. A reader asked if I would write about this movie, and I was only too happy to do so! Moon Over Miami is a bright, bubbling, delightful movie that sings summer and giddy rom read more

1941 (Steven Spielberg, 1979) Hysterical Californians prepare for a Japanese invasion in the days after Pearl Harbor. After a couple of blockbuster hits in the Horror genre with Jaws in 1975 and the Science-fiction genre with Close Encounters of the Third Kind in 1977, Steven Spielberg was hot a read more