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George Sanders as The Falcon. A Date With the Falcon (1942) is a direct sequel to the series' first film, The Gay Falcon, with Wendy Barrie returning as Gay Lawrence's fiancée. She wants to whisk the Falcon away to get married. Instead, the debonair adventurer gets involved with an invest read more

Unlike Gone With the Wind or The Wizard of Oz, A Girl Must Live is far from being 1939’s most well-known film, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t worth seeing. I’m reviewing this film for the Fourth Annual British Invaders Blogathon, hosted by Terrence from A Shroud of Thoughts. read more

TCM is airing The Quiet Man (1952) this week during the Summer Under the Stars film festival. This romance set in Ireland stars Maureen O'Hara and John Wayne. TCM's August lineup is devoted to its annual Summer Under the Stars film festival, which offers 24 hours of films from a different actor f read more

Today, I'm writing about the great actor Lon Chaney, one of the most talented and original minds to ever appear in old Hollywood films. This article is part of The 2017 Summer Under the Stars Blogathon hosted by Journeys in Classic Film. Aug. 3 is Chaney's SUTS day. "He was someone who acted read more

TCM is kicking off its Summer Under the Stars film festival with 24 hours of Marilyn Monroe movies. TCM's August lineup is devoted to its annual Summer Under the Stars film festival, which offers 24 hours of films from a different actor for the next 31 days. This year's lineup kicks off on Tuesda read more

vt Number Thirteen Gay Street; vt The Frightened Stiff US / 88 minutes / bw / Columbia Dir: Richard Wallace Pr: Samuel Bischoff Scr: Richard Flournoy, Jack Henley Story: The Frightened Stiff (1942) by Kelley Roos Cine: Joseph Walker Cast: Loretta Young, Brian Aherne, Jeff Donnell, William Wright, Si read more

OK, so it's not a posh mansion on Hollywood Boulevard and William Haines didn't design the furnishings, but today I do now have something in common with Carole Lombard -- a home in Los Angeles.After a year and a half of being in assorted shelters, I have found housing through a charitable program. I read more

OK, so it's not a posh mansion on Hollywood Boulevard and William Haines didn't design the furnishings, but today I do now have something in common with Carole Lombard -- a home in Los Angeles.After a year and a half of being in assorted shelters, I have found housing through a charitable program. I read more

From Gordon Skene’s excellent site Past Daily, a fascinating 1969 half-hour radio interview with the one and only Lillian Gish. ====================== Lillian Gish – Despite her modesty, a star of the highest magnitude during the Silent Era of Film. Lillian Gish, a name synonymous with the ear read more

Vertigo (1958) is one of the Alfred Hitchcock-directed films airing on TCM this week. The thriller stars James Stewart and Kim Novak in a dark take of obsession. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from English director Alfred Hitchcock (there's an indepth guide read more

Today, I'm writing about director F. W. Murnau's silent masterpiece Sunrise: A Story of Two Humans (1927). It stars George O'Brien and Janet Gaynor as a married couple who quarrel and then reconcile in a 24-hour period. This article is part the 'Till Death Us Do Part: To Love, Honor and. . .Murde read more

Book Review: "Ava: A Life in Movies" This new biography of screen legend Ava Gardner is one pretty package. Authors Kendra Bean and Anthony Uzarowski, while focusing on Gardner’s “life in movies,” also smoothly weave in pertinent information on the star’s personal life read more

Errol Flynn is in the bedroom, of course. As part of an ongoing effort to make our house a more interesting and personally relevant space (as opposed to a collection of things other people chose for us or handed down), I finally got frames for the posters I bought at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los A read more

Errol Flynn is in the bedroom, of course. As part of an ongoing effort to make our house a more interesting and personally relevant space (as opposed to a collection of things other people chose for us or handed down), I finally got frames for the posters I bought at Larry Edmunds Bookshop in Los A read more

Rear Window (1954) is one of the Alfred Hitchcock-directed films airing on TCM this week. It stars Grace Kelly and James Stewart as a couple who spy a murder through an apartment window. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from English director Alfred Hitchcock read more

As one of the greatest B-films of its day, D.O.A. is framed by a crackerjack gimmick that actually pays heavy dividends. We watch a man making his way down a long corridor as the typically stringent score of Dimitri Tiomkin pounds away behind the credits. In this initial moment, our protagonist Fran read more

As one of the greatest B-films of its day, D.O.A. is framed by a crackerjack gimmick that actually pays heavy dividends. We watch a man making his way down a long corridor as the typically stringent score of Dimitri Tiomkin pounds away behind the credits. In this initial moment, our protagonist Fran read more

Rebecca (1940) is one of the Alfred Hitchcock-directed movies airing on TCM this week. It stars Joan Fontaine (left) as a newlywed who is tormented by the devoted servant (Judith Anderson) of her husband's first wife. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from Eng read more

I'm sure most of you are aware of the so-called "Dark Universe"--the attempt by Universal Studios to have their own Marvel-like multi-feature storyline featuring legendary classic monsters instead of comic book characters. I don't have too much confidence in this idea--but if Universal was smart, th read more

TCM is celebrating the Fourth of July with Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942). The patriotic musical stars James Cagney as legendary Broadway showman, George M. Cohan. Every Wednesday and Friday in July, TCM is airing a marathon of movies from English director Alfred Hitchcock (there's an indepth guide b read more