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Shirley MacLaine in an Edith Head gown. When widow Louisa May Hopper Flint Anderson Benson tries to give $211 million to the U.S. treasury, she is referred to a psychiatrist. She explains that she hates money and only wants to be happy. However, every time she marries, her current husband seems to read more

Edward G. Robinson & Margaret O'Brien.Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945).  A year after receiving a special "outstanding child actress" Oscar for Meet Me in St. Louis, Margaret O'Brien teamed up with Edward G. Robinson in this earnest family film. They portray father and daughter (along wi read more

John S Steed and Mrs. Emma Peel.1. Patrick Macnee played John Steed in 159 of the 161 episodes of The Avengers from 1961-69. The two episodes in which he did not appear were "Girl on the Trapeze" and "The Far Distant Dead," which aired in the first season. Both of those focused solely on Dr. Da read more

We thought October was the perfect month to unveil our choices for the 25 Greatest Classic Horror Films. Note that these are "classic" horror films, which means they must have withstood the test of time. Thus, you won't find any movies made after 1980. You also won't find any science fiction films, read more

Grace Kelly starred in five movies released in 1954, including Rear Window (a bona fide Hitchcock classic), Dial M for Murder, and The Country Girl (for which she won a Best Actress Oscar). Her least impressive film that year was undoubtedly Green Fire, which she made so that MGM woul read more

Geneviève Bujold as Dr. Wheeler.Bestselling author Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park, The Andromeda Strain) directed seven films during his career. They ranged from very good (Westworld, The Great Train Robbery) to very lame (Looker, Physical Evidence). From a directorial perspective, his best work ma read more

Susan Blakely as Maggie.With Airport '77 ranking 19th at the box office in 1977, it was inevitable that another Airport sequel would soon follow. Alas, The Concorde: Airport '79, which appeared two years later, turned out to be the installment that killed the series. A shoddy affair from s read more

Brando: Director and star.Movie buffs and Western fans should to check out One-Eyed Jacks (1961), Marlon Brando’s flawed, overlong—but always interesting—sole directorial effort. Brando allegedly took over the reins after getting Stanley Kubrick fired as director. It was a roc read more

1. Alfred Hitchcock's daughter, Pat, appeared in ten episodes of Alfred Hitchcock Presents. Her first appearance was in the season1 episode "Into Thin Air." Its premise was based on an urban myth known as "The Vanishing Hotel Room," which also served as the basis for the novel and film So Long at th read more

Tommy Lee Jones as Quint. To supplement his income as a director early in his career, John Carpenter penned screenplays--several of which were subsequently produced without his involvement. He wrote the Western Blood River for John Wayne's production company. It was intended as a star veh read more

Marjoe Gortner as Morgan.Is it possible to feel nostalgic about a Bert I. Gordon movie?Mr. B.I.G. was known for making movies about giant people (The Amazing Colossal Man), enormous insects (Beginning of the End), and large prehistoric creatures (King Dinosaur). He was not known making good&nbs read more

One wonders if Frank Sinatra regretted turning down the lead role in Harper (1966), one of the '60s best detective films. That might explain his decision to star in Tony Rome, another private eye picture, the following year. Although based on a novel by Marvin Albert, Tony Rome comes read more

Having recently watched John Frankenheimer's superb Seven Days in May again, I became interested in revisiting his 1977 thriller Black Sunday. I saw it during its original theatrical run--and that may have been the one and only time. To my surprise, my assessment of the film has not deviated over th read more

Ray Milland and Rhubarb.Rhubarb (1951). This occasionally diverting comedy concerns a wealthy eccentric (Gene Lockhart) who leaves his fortune to a feisty alley cat instead of his spoiled daughter. She is miffed, to say the least, and so is the old man's baseball team, a group of superstitious loser read more

Happy National Classic Movie Day! Yes, we love classic films all year long, but they get some extra love every May 16th.Not sure what classic movie to watch as part of your celebration this year?  We made a video with clips from 50 Fabulous Films produced from the silent era through the 1980s. read more

1. Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea was nominated for 11 Emmy awards from 1965 to 1967, all in technical categories. It won four Emmys for Special Photographic Effects, Cinematography, and Film & Sound Editing. The show's special effects were supervised by L.B. Abbott, the head of the S read more

In the final days of the U.S. Civil War, the Confederate Army needs to stop a stagecoach carrying an enemy spy from reaching Washington, D.C. With soldiers in short supply, the Confederates pardon five convicts whose "skills"--they're all killers--make them uniquely qualified to accomplish the missi read more

Ronald Colman (1937) and Stewart Granger (1952).When is a movie a sequel or just another adaptation of the same literary source? That can be a complex question, but it's not in the case of 1952's The Prisoner of Zenda. MGM's lavish costume adventure is a remake in every sense of the word. It uses th 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

One of the more offbeat "B" detective series of the 1940s was the Crime Doctor. Based on a Max Marcin's successful radio series, the premise has an amnesia victim study to become a renowned psychiatrist--only to learn ten years later that he was once a criminal. Armed with “insider knowledge&# read more