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Anthony Higgins is about to bite! After a highly-successful decade in the 1960s, Hammer Films faced a crossroads in the early 1970s. Their Gothic horror films were no longer considered scary. In fact, they appeared rather tame compared to other movies playing at your local movie theater. Thus, the read more

Today marks the 111th anniversary of Carole Lombard's birth in Fort Wayne, Indiana. While the parents of Jane Alice Peters (her birth name) probably had all sorts of aspirations for her when she entered this world, chance are becoming a "movie star" wasn't one of them. Nor did those dreams include H read more

Margaret Rutherford. The best way to approach Margaret Rutherford's four "Miss Marple" films is to forget that she's playing Jane Marple. Rutherford's films are comedies with a little mystery and her character bears only a slight resemblance to Agatha Christie's spinster sleuth. The best of Rutherf read more

Joan Hickson as Jane Marple. For many Agatha Christie fans, Joan Hickson's portrayal of Miss Jane Marple in the 1984-1992 British TV series is considered the definitive one. It's difficult to disagree, although I'm also fond of Julia McKenzie in a later television series. But whereas McKenzie showc read more

After releasing a high quality DVD of Roger Corman's 1959 production of A Bucket of Blood in 2018, Olive Films has upped its game in a big way with a Signature Blu-ray release of the film. I’ve already enjoyed the Olive Signature release of Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956), whic read more

A Time for Burning Directed by Barbara Connell and Bill Jersey 1967/USA Quest Productions First viewing/Netflix rental   An intimate look at a time that could be both then and now. Lutheran minister Bill Youngdahl believes passionately in Civil Rights and in promoting understanding between race read more

A nice image of Carole Lombard (then again, nearly all of them are). This one's from a British postcard -- here's the back......which is derived from Paramount p1202-587, likely from 1933. Here it is, albeit with a watermark:In contrast to the cropped postcard, this image -- taken from a vintage neg read more

Aurora is celebrating Hispanic Heritage Month at her site Once Upon a Screen with her sixth edition of the Hollywood's Hispanic Heritage Blogathon on September 29th. Pedro de Cordoba September 28, 1881 - September 16, 1950 Patrician Pedro de Cordoba was born in New York read more

I've analyzed Carole Lombard still images for decades, and can safely say I've never come across the one above before. The seller of this eBay item claims it's from her Paramount film "Fast And Loose" (the only movie Lombard ever made in New York, at what then was the studio's East Coast building in read more

I’m that difficult codger in the corner who, alone in all the world, wasn’t entirely bowled over by the first of Keigo Higashino’s “Detective Galileo” novels to be translated into English, The Devotion of Suspect X: I thought it was okay but nothing more than that. I’ve enjoyed several of read more

Like any good blogger, I promote my product. And while Carole & Co. has been up since June 13, 2007, many Carole Lombard fans still aren't aware of it. (I have more than 1,450 Facebook friends, and another 200-plus members through LiveJournal.) So I hype the site through business cards.But now I hav read more

US / 114 minutes / color / Cross Creek, Exclusive Media, Endgame, Jersey, Double Feature, Universal Dir & Scr: Scott Frank Pr: Danny DeVito, Michael Shamberg, Stacey Sher, Brian Oliver, Tobin Armbrust Story: A Walk Among the Tombstones (1992) by Lawrence Block Cine: Mihai Malaimare Jr Cast: Liam read more

I’ve been a big fan of actor and singer Preston Foster ever since I saw his brooding performance opposite Belita in the ice skating noir The Hunted (1948). He’s got an unusually low-key presence: charming, lightly flirtatious, always in control, but never raising his voice and rarely thr read more

The reveries of a Saturday afternoon in childhood are where A Tree Grows in Brooklyn chooses to begin and it proves a fine entry point, giving us an instant feel for the world the Irish neighborhood of Williamsburg in Brooklyn. Its contours are impoverished, even harsh, but also richly American. The read more

How many of you remember the "Carole-tennial +3!"? That's what I called my Carole Lombard blogathon in October 2011, the 103rd anniversary of her birth, back when I was in my mid-50s and was a copy editor in Virginia. Nearly eight years have passed since I hosted it; now I'm effectively in my mid-60 read more

"Swing High, Swing Low," the third of four teamings of Carole Lombard and Fred MacMurray, received a big push from Paramount. (And it paid off -- the film became the studio's biggest moneymaker for all of 1937.) Part of it included an ad in the new media sensation, Life magazine, which debuted the p read more

I've always wanted to attend film festivals, but they're few and far between where I live, and the timing has never worked out for me to get to the big one for classic movie fans, TCMFF. Luckily, my visit to my sister's new home in Toronto this month coincided with the second weekend of the Toronto read more

Carole Lombard is pictured with castmate Mayo Methot in this Columbia publicity still from 1932's "Virtue" (to be honest, I don't recall this scene in the film). It ran in an issue of Film Fun, a rather racy magazine appealing to men who liked to see women in their underthings -- and let's face it, read more

In 2011, I announced I was trying to see every film released in 1939. This new series chronicles films released in 1939 as I watch them. As we start out this blog feature, this section may become more concrete as I search for a common thread that runs throughout each film of the year. Right now, th read more

US / 49 minutes / color / Shamley, Alfred Hitchcock Productions, NBC Dir: Alfred Hitchcock Pr: Joan Harrison Scr: Charlotte Armstrong Story: Incident at a Corner (1957) by Charlotte Armstrong Cine: John L. Russell Cast: Vera Miles, George Peppard, Paul Hartman, Bob Sweeney, Leora Dana, Warren Berlin read more