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 Another entry in Japan's Toho Studios series of 1960s spy adventures, parts of this feature were used and re-dubbed for Woody Allen's spoof WHAT'S UP, TIGER LILY? Tatsuya Mihashi once again plays the devil-may-care Agent Kitami of Interpol. This time he's tracking down a kidnapped scienti read more

 LAST COMISKEY director Matt Flesch's latest production is an examination of a true baseball lifer, a man who had several connections to the greats--and the great moments--of the game. JEFF TORBORG: A WONDERFUL BASEBALL LIFE covers a decades-long MLB career that involved stints as a player read more

A Closer Look At: Cabiria (1914) In 1914, most films ranged from one to three reels long–half an hour or less. But as filmmakers were growing more confident about telling longer, more complex stories, the occasional hour-long film was released. Arguably, it was Italy that really got the ball read more

 Little Grover (Peter Robbins) was taking a flight on some tethered weather balloons when he decided to cut the ropes and really soar in 1963's A Ticklish Affair. This brought Officer Key (Gig Young) and a fleet of patrol cars out trying to chase him down...a difficult task to do with San Diego read more

On the heels of my “Things I Learned from Classic Movies” post, here comes another Something Completely Different! On Christmas Eve 2024, my Pre-Code Crazy/Film Noir Files pal Kristina (author of the Speakeasy blog) invited me to participate in a cinematic scavenger hunt of sorts. Like the fellas read more

8 Classic Movies That Are Perfect For A Summer Movie Marathon On July 15, 2025July 15, 2025 By CarolIn Uncategorized A few years ago, I did a thing on Instagram where I would post a different summer movie every day on my Classic Hollywood page, for read more

One of the things I enjoy most about classic film is taking cinematic deep dives into genres with which I’m unfamiliar. During the pandemic shutdown, I discovered westerns, which resulted in adding a whole new group of movies to my list of favorites – including Yellow Sky (1948), Red River (1948), read more

What Makes a Classic Movie Classic?Inquiring Minds Want to Know I’m so excited to share this podcast episode with you all! I was honored to be a Special Guest on the We Need 2 Talk podcast where we chatted about — you guessed it — classic movies! Podcast hosts Kristy & read more

TCM is going pre-Code crazy. Again!! On Monday, June 23, for reasons that I can’t quite figure out (but why look a gift cable channel in the . . . screen?), TCM is serving up a veritable smorgasbord of pre-Code features on Monday, June 23rd. If you love pre-Code like I do – and I’ll bet you do read more

We Are Half-Way Through 2025! – a blogging update On June 5, 2025 By CarolIn Uncategorized Hey folks! So May was a crazy month. So crazy, in fact, that I didn’t manage to do my SECOND TIME ROUND post, and indeed only published one article read more

Katharine Hepburn, on her mother at Bryn Mawr (who was absolutely awesome and worked with Margaret Sanger for women’s rights) read more

William Morris agent Larry Fitzgerald, from an interview in David Rensin’s The Mailroom: Hollywood History from the Bottom Up (via lynnelemon)(via noyoudontoprah-deactivated20130)

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13 Things You May Not Know About The Killers (1946) Ask any noir fan for a list of their favorite films from the classic era, and The Killers (1946) is likely to appear. It’s a stellar example of this shadowy period of filmmaking, featuring such noir tropes as the femme fatale, the hapless fallen read more

There’s something about the opening of Brief Encounter (1945) that lets you know you’re in for a different kind of movie-watching experience. The very first image is one of a speeding train roaring out of a train station, whistle blaring and steam chuffing. Seconds later, we hear the distinctive read more

Back Street (1932), directed by John Stahl, announces itself early on as belonging in the wronged illicit woman tearjerker canon. Charming Ray (Irene Dunne) enjoys befriending traveling salesmen at a beer hall in Cincinnati before the turn of the twentieth century, but all they do in return is try t read more

One of nature’s most powerful killing machines is loose. Not only is it the deadliest in its class, but the fastest, too. Beyond its physical abilities are its lethal personality traits: it is unpredictable, paranoid and deadly aggressive. That’s the key to the 1981 British horror thriller Venom read more

Charles Bronson as Colton.When her husband is framed for murder (by his grandfather, no less!) and tossed into a Mexican prison, Ann Wagner (Jill Ireland) becomes determined to free her man. She engages a border bush pilot named Colton (Charles Bronson) to fly her husband to freedom, but his first a read more

A Closer Look At: Lois Weber’s Shoes (1916) Some of the most powerful silent films were crafted with surprising realism, especially in the early years that we often assume are full of “stagey” acting and hokey melodrama. The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912), The Italian (1915), Regeneration read more

Her lips are as red as a rose, her skin as white as snow and though we can’t see her hair, the dark wimple wrapped around her head and throat is as black as ebony. In the 90 years since she was introduced in Walt Disney’s 1937 animated classic Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, she has remained read more

A Closer Look At: True Heart Susie (1919) True Heart Susie and her beloved pet cow Some of the best films of the silent era weren’t necessarily grand epics, experimental dramas, or high-budget adventures. Some were simple, quiet stories, focusing on just a few carefully-sketched characters. read more