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This Valentine's Day, the Pure Entertainment Preservation Society is hosting The Singing Sweethearts Blogathon to celebrate one of the most delightful romantic couples to ever grace the silver screen - Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald. I will be reviewing Naughty Marietta tomorrow but first, a loo read more

"There's no wilderness wide enough to hide a sin" When a man is separated from civilization and must contend with the forces of Mother Nature way up in the wild, wild north woods of Canada, he may discover savage instincts laying deep within him begin to emerge in his efforts to survive.  read more

Producer Irwin Allen, best known for his "disaster films" of the 1970s ( The Towering Inferno, The Poseidon Adventure ) also made a number of entertaining sci-fi and adventure films in the early 1960s, including The Lost World and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea. One of his lesser-known films of thi read more

The year is 1916. Somewhere in the Pacific Ocean, a German U-boat torpedoes a supply ship and captures its survivors. Among these survivors is Bowen Tyler ( Doug McClure ) who, with a few other surviving crew members, manages to take command of the vessel. However, he soon becomes allies with t read more

Hoorah! Someone deserves a good applause... but who? and just what did they do? If you've seen this film then you know what this mystery person accomplished. Put on your ski caps - I mean your thinking caps - and see if you can name this movie. As always, if you are not familiar with the rules to th read more

MGM had a knack for making great comedies and, during the 1930s especially, the studio was churning them out a dime a dozen. Paradise for Three aka Romance for Three was a particularly fun MGM comedy that featured the always delightful duo of Robert Young and Florence Rice. Its Alpine setting and th read more

Talk about the long arm of the law! These crime-fighters know how to handle bag-snatchers in London with their new invention. This 1-minute long 1961 British Pathé newsreel entitled Beat the Bandit showcases an amazing security case that literally sprouts arms the moment a bandit takes hold of read more

Scottish novelist James M. Barrie is today best remembered for penning the children's classic "Peter Pan" ( 1905 ), but during the turn-of-the-century he was one of the most popular playwrights in England writing such plays as "The Little Minister", "Quality Street", and "The Admirable Crichton". He read more

George O'Brien and Virginia Vale make a handsome rootin'-tootin' couple in this still from the 1940 RKO western Bullet Code.  From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Silverbanks Pictures collection. Some of these may have been sold in the past, and o read more

It's time to ring in the new year - and time to party!....just like this couple is doing. Those great pink balloons would make a festive midnight "ball drop" at your own party. Just it's too bad people don't dress up in tuxedoes anymore when they do a night on the town.  As always, if you read more

Every Christmas season for the past ten years, ABC has been airing The Sound of Music ( 1965 ), which has sparked a new holiday-viewing tradition for many. Well, nine years before Julie Andrews portrayed the real-life nun-turned-governess Maria von Trapp in the famous musical, Ruth Leuwerik took on read more

Some character actors have such larger-than-life personalities that they literally seem to step out of the screen and walk among you. To me, Connie Gilchrist has always been that type of an actress. She is instantly recognizable and, even for the briefest uncredited appearance, she would give it her read more

Once Upon a Screen, Outspoken and Freckled, and Paula's Cinema Club have once again teamed up to host the fabulous What a Character! Blogathon giving us film fans a chance to gush about those unsung heroes of the silver screen - character actors. What would classics such as Gone with the Wind b read more

TCM and Fanthom have teamed up for another year-long celebration of classic film with their Big Screen Classics which will be screened in theaters across the nation. This year, they have a few particularly juicy titles mixed in with some questionable "classics" in their line-up of films :& read more

Alas, there be no golden nuggets among this batch of films, but some of these movies are mighty entertaining nonetheless.  Can't Help Singing ( 1944 )  14k  A senator's daughter joins a wagon train en route to California in the hopes of meeting up with the lieutenant she w read more

Doris Day offers Tony Randall some candy during a break in between filming scenes from Pillow Talk ( 1959 ) in this "candid" publicity photo. This was the first of three films Day and Randall would make together. From the Archives is our latest series of posts where we share photos from the Si read more

In 1968, the adorable English-Argentinian born actress Olivia Hussey was chosen from among 500 actresses to play Juliet in Franco Zeffirelli's Romeo and Juliet after Zeffirelli had spotted her in a theater production of "The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" two years earlier. This role launched read more

"There is only one special friend here in this house for any of us. 'Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, with all thy soul, and with all thy mind'. This is the first and greatest commandment." In 1975, Diana Rigg starred in the two-hour GE Theater production In This House of Brede read more

When my sister and I first started watching some of the German/Austrian "Heimatfilms" we were unfamiliar with any of the main or supporting actors that starred in these films, but the more of them we watched the more familiar the faces became and now there are always one or two recognizable characte 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