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Columbus Day? Forget that. Here at the TCE it’s Columbo Day. Presenting our first glimpse of Bert, confidant of Lt. Columbo (Peter Falk) and the friendly chili slinger of Barney’s Beanery in the inaugural Columbo episode, “Ransom for a Dead Man”. The date was March 1, 1971. B read more

Golden Remembrances of: The Golden God…     Introduction… I am writing to refute the statement[1] that appears in the plot summery of, The Golden God, 1913, on the Internet Movie Data Base, that the film was never produced. This idea that the movie has no reliable documentation read more

By Fritzi Kramer on October 12, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review One of the first brand name novel-to-screen adaptations and an early California production, this was one of the most expensive films ever made when released in 1910. Mary Pickford and Henry B. Walthall play a Native American read more

10 Tips for Your Old Hollywood Celebrity Fancy Dress Party,See the stars themselves In the Golden Age of Hollywood they threw some amazing parties and that definitely included fancy dress parties. Here are some tips, some things to think about when planning your party whether it be at Halloween or read more

My article is part of a month-long celebration of Hispanic Heritage and culture and is a homage to Hispanic contributions to American Classic Cinema for Hollywood’s Hispanic Heritage Blogathon. The kindly Ram Dass from The Little Princess… I have to admit I fell in love. I was only 7 or read more

vt 3 Loves of a Psycho Cat US / 69 minutes (expanded exploitative version) / bw / World Wide Dir & Pr: Eve (aka Herb Stanley) Scr: Bill Boyd Cine: Paul Guffee Cast: Eileen Lord, Ed Garrabrandt, Frank Geraci, Dick Lord, Jake LaMotta, Arlenne Lorrance. A horror/sleaze-influenced riff on movies li read more

By Fritzi Kramer on October 8, 2014 in Blog, GIF, Humor Just want to get this out in the open: Lon Chaney is one of the best and most interesting actors of the silent era. I love his work. But the man should never, ever play the vanilla male lead. Ever. Look at that face. That face was made for mur read more

A wee little me with a wee little obsession! Can you spot a wee little me in the picture above? One of my earliest childhood memories is of my Mother taking me out for a day of shopping at our local mall and me making a beeline for the tiny, independently-owned cinema shop on the second flo read more

Recently I have found myself more often then not deciding what film to watch and somewhat randomly choosing to watch a foreign language film. However, if I actually think about it, maybe this inclination is not so random at all. In the year 2014 we waited the first 6 months for the summer blockbuste read more

Recently I have found myself more often then not deciding what film to watch and somewhat randomly choosing to watch a foreign language film. However, if I actually think about it, maybe this inclination is not so random at all. In the year 2014 we waited the first 6 months for the summer blockbuste read more

I’ve been wanting to see Gone Girl, but the laryngitis-respiratory infection cocktail I’ve got right now means that I would be an object of fear and distraction to fellow film goers, so I had to settle for an alternative. What film, I wondered, might employ a similar ambiguity about whether or not read more

I’ve been wanting to see Gone Girl, but the laryngitis-respiratory infection cocktail I’ve got right now means that I would be an object of fear and distraction to fellow film goers, so I had to settle for an alternative. What film, I wondered, might employ a similar ambiguity about whether or not read more

By Fritzi Kramer on October 5, 2014 in Blog, Feature, Silent Movie Review Husband and wife acting duo Mary Pickford and Owen Moore share the screen in this short film about marriage, infidelity and tastes of one’s own medicine. This trifle is a rare example of Pickford’s work during her stint at read more

Dick Powell in MRS. MIKE (1949) ~ A simple Canadian Romance 10/4/2014 10 Comments   This is the second of my two posts for the O CANADA BLOGATHON; read the first HERE,  if so inclined. You know what read more

Dick Powell in MRS. MIKE (1949) ~ A simple Canadian Romance 10/4/2014 10 Comments   This is the second of my two posts for the O CANADA BLOGATHON; read the first HERE,  if so inclined. You know what?  I just realised that w read more

If Carole Lombard is wearing a V-neck sweater with a rooster logo above her left breast, it means that 1) when it was taken, she was known as Carol Lombard, and 2) any Carole & Co. entry that uses it relates to her time at Pathe Pictures in late 1928 and much of '29.And that's the case here, as we e read more

The actual title of this Warner Archive Collection release is CLASSIC SHORTS FROM THE DREAM FACTORY VOLUME 3. I assume that the WAC wasn't able to use the name "The Three Stooges"--which is fitting, because in these short subjects, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard were not officiall read more

By Fritzi Kramer on October 2, 2014 in Blog, Books Anyone even slightly interested in classic film knows that this year marks the centenary of Charlie Chaplin’s motion picture debut. In the history of cinema, he enjoys recognition almost without equal. People who have never seen a second of h read more

The actual title of this Warner Archive Collection release is CLASSIC SHORTS FROM THE DREAM FACTORY VOLUME 3. I assume that the WAC wasn't able to use the name "The Three Stooges"--which is fitting, because in these short subjects, Moe Howard, Larry Fine and Curly Howard were not officiall read more

My third post for the ongoing romantic films countdown at Wonders in the Dark is live. At number five, it’s F.W. Murnau’s lovely and deceptively simple silent allegory Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans (1927): Out of context, the idea of ranking a film in which a man is seduced into plotting read more