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US / 96 minutes / bw / Universal–International Dir & Pr: Zoltan Korda Scr: Aldous Huxley Story: “The Gioconda Smile” (1921 in Mortal Coils) by Aldous Huxley Cine: Russell Metty Cast: Charles Boyer, Ann Blyth, Jessica Tandy, Sir Cedric Hardwicke, Mildred Natwick, Cecil Humphreys, Hugh French, read more

Robert Frost: A Lover’s Quarrel with the World Directed by Shirley Clarke WGBH First viewing/Netflix rental     A reminder of a time when poetry and politics could meet and of a great American poet. This film was completed just before the poet Robert Frost died at the age of 88 in 1 read more

A Long Time Till Dawn is usually able to keep disbelief completely suspended. It’s a television play and Rod Serling’s teleplay is more ambitious than the budget or the constraints of the medium. Most of the sets are interiors and fine–a diner, a living room, a bedroom. They can e read more

Among the many things that make "My Man Godfrey" a screwball masterpiece that delights viewers more than 80 years after its initial release is the premise that Carole Lombard's character, dizzy Fifth Avenue socialite Irene Bullock, intends to make William Powell's Godfrey -- ostensibly a "forgotten read more

Unfortunately, most of A Ghost Walks is missing. What remains–some audio, a couple stills–isn’t really enough to sustain the narrative. After the cliffhanger resolution (not too noisy and apparently not injurious to Joan Woodbury), there’s some treading water while cops Kane Richmond and Joe read more

A Christmas Carol (1951) starring Alastair Sim is one of the holiday classics airing on TCM this week. TCM is starting out December with a weekend filled with holiday classics, including two versions of A Christmas Carol. There's also a great lineup of boxing movies, and two days of films from st read more

Taken for a Ride’s opening cliffhanger resolution isn’t particularly exciting–in fact, giving so much information about what’s going on outside the situation to resolve the cliffhanger makes it all procedural, instead of suspenseful–but it still almost leads to a good shootout. Joan Woodbury read more

Originally published December 8th, 2014 I was wary of watching any versions of A Christmas Carol this year after I did an entire month of various adaptations for my old podcast.  Let’s just say after you watch four of those in a row you get bored with the story.  Interestingly, in looking back read more

As I've often noted, "Vigil in the Night" isn't the easiest of Carole Lombard's films to watch, particularly for those of us who adore Carole as a comedic icon. At the same time, it's well crafted (as you would expect from a movie directed by George Stevens), and Lombard gives a performance that sho read more

TCM is airing 24 hours of Westerns starring James Stewart on Wednesday. The lineup includes The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance (1962), which costars John Wayne. TCM is winding up its November tribute to star of the month James Stewart with 24 hours of Westerns on Wednesday that include his collabor read more

  A Special Holiday Contest… Give A Gift, Get a Gift. Greetings CMH Fans and Followers!  As many of you know, Classic Movie Hub is a labor of love for me, one that I launched about five or so years ago… It started out as my final project for a web development course I took at NYU read more

Little Lady Jessica ( Margaret O'Brien ) is whispering secret words to her pal Sir Simon of Canterville ( Charles Laughton ) the ghost of Canterville Castle in this scene from The Canterville Ghost, Metro-Goldwyn Mayer's charming 1944 adaptation of the Oscar Wilde classic.  From the read more

It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World Directed by Stanley Kramer Written by William Rose and Tania Rose 1963/USA Casey Productions Repeat viewing/Netflix rental I’ve laughed at and loved this movie from the time I saw it on original release as a pre-teen.  It stands up extremely well! Just read more

During this year's Monster Bash Conference, I met the esteemed Derek Koch, the man behind the fantastic Monster Kid Radio Podcast. I informed Derek that I would love to be a guest on the show....and a few weeks later Derek called me up and we discussed the 1972 Peter Cushing-Christopher Lee film "Th read more

O Diabo e a Carne / Flesh and the Devil (1926) Nós, enquanto cinéfilos, estamos sempre fazendo escolhas. Temos de escolher nosso filme favorito, atriz, ator, diretor, roteirista, dupla e década favorita da história do cinema. E então vamos um passo adiante e temos de escolher nosso filme read more

TCM is airing a Thanksgiving Day lineup of family movies that includes Life with Father (1947) starring Irene Dunne and William Powell. If Thanksgiving is a holiday in which your family gathers to watch classic movies then you're in for a real treat this week. TCM is airing a lineup of classic f read more

The Politics of Yankee Doodle Dandy The notion for a biographical film about legendary show business powerhouse George M. Cohan had been kicking around Hollywood since the late 1930s. The father of American musical comedy claimed to be born on July 4, 1878 and began treading the boards at age eight read more

This is my entry in the Banned and Blacklisted Classic Movie Blog Association Blogathon. Click HERE for more forbidden fruit!   Lordy! From the moment moving pictures became the medium of the masses, two mostly opposing factions of society have been at odds: those who wish to moralize vs. read more

Myrna Loy and William Powell co-starred in thirteen films, and they are by far most popular for playing the adorably debauched Nora and Nick Charles in the Thin Man series. While this is understandable, the pair create the most effervescent of screen couples as hard-drinking, merry spouses, it is a read more

"Hands Across the Table" is probably my favorite Carole Lombard film made at Paramount. It has laughs (as seen in this scene, where Carole pretends to sound like a long-distance operator, to Fred MacMurray's delight), romance, even more sexual tension than a 1935 film was supposed to have, thanks to read more