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Classic Films in Focus: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 18, 2014

Fritz Lang directed Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) quite late in his career, almost forty years after he got his start making silent films in Germany, but this courtroom noir has a lot in common with the director’s earlier pictures, especially in terms of suspense. Like M (1931), Fury (1936) read more

Classic Films in Focus: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 18, 2014

Fritz Lang directed Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) quite late in his career, almost forty years after he got his start making silent films in Germany, but this courtroom noir has a lot in common with the director’s earlier pictures, especially in terms of suspense. Like M (1931), Fury (1936) read more

Classic Films in Focus: BEYOND A REASONABLE DOUBT (1956)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 18, 2014

Fritz Lang directed Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956) quite late in his career, almost forty years after he got his start making silent films in Germany, but this courtroom noir has a lot in common with the director’s earlier pictures, especially in terms of suspense. Like M (1931), Fury (1936) read more

Classic Films in Focus: SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 15, 2014

As the third and final Ray Harryhausen movie to feature the legendary hero, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) arrives fairly late in the special effects icon’s canon; his last feature, Clash of the Titans (1981), would come just a few years later. While Harryhausen, working as both a prod read more

Classic Films in Focus: SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 15, 2014

As the third and final Ray Harryhausen movie to feature the legendary hero, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) arrives fairly late in the special effects icon’s canon; his last feature, Clash of the Titans (1981), would come just a few years later. While Harryhausen, working as both a prod read more

Classic Films in Focus: SINBAD AND THE EYE OF THE TIGER (1977)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 15, 2014

As the third and final Ray Harryhausen movie to feature the legendary hero, Sinbad and the Eye of the Tiger (1977) arrives fairly late in the special effects icon’s canon; his last feature, Clash of the Titans (1981), would come just a few years later. While Harryhausen, working as both a prod read more

Classic Films in Focus: MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 12, 2014

King Kong (1933) gave rise to a whole host of subsequent gorilla movies, beginning with The Son of Kong (1933), but Mighty Joe Young (1949) merits special attention because it marks the feature film debut of one of the greatest innovators in special effects history, Ray Harryhausen, who worked on th read more

Classic Films in Focus: MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 12, 2014

King Kong (1933) gave rise to a whole host of subsequent gorilla movies, beginning with The Son of Kong (1933), but Mighty Joe Young (1949) merits special attention because it marks the feature film debut of one of the greatest innovators in special effects history, Ray Harryhausen, who worked on th read more

Classic Films in Focus: MIGHTY JOE YOUNG (1949)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 12, 2014

King Kong (1933) gave rise to a whole host of subsequent gorilla movies, beginning with The Son of Kong (1933), but Mighty Joe Young (1949) merits special attention because it marks the feature film debut of one of the greatest innovators in special effects history, Ray Harryhausen, who worked on th read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 11, 2014

Given its focus on the settling of Oklahoma and the founding of Tulsa, The Oklahoma Kid (1939) almost certainly has its fans in the Sooner State, but for the most part this Warner Bros. Western is a fairly routine oater, with plenty of stock characters and plot elements to amuse the matinee crowd. I read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 11, 2014

Given its focus on the settling of Oklahoma and the founding of Tulsa, The Oklahoma Kid (1939) almost certainly has its fans in the Sooner State, but for the most part this Warner Bros. Western is a fairly routine oater, with plenty of stock characters and plot elements to amuse the matinee crowd. I read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE OKLAHOMA KID (1939)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 11, 2014

Given its focus on the settling of Oklahoma and the founding of Tulsa, The Oklahoma Kid (1939) almost certainly has its fans in the Sooner State, but for the most part this Warner Bros. Western is a fairly routine oater, with plenty of stock characters and plot elements to amuse the matinee crowd. I read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE SET-UP (1949)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 8, 2014

With Robert Ryan as his punching bag protagonist, director Robert Wise delivers one of film noir’s most staggering blows with The Set-Up (1949), an unsparing revelation of boxing’s dark side and the bloodthirsty nature of the crowd. Playing out in real time, The Set-Up follows Ryan’ read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE SET-UP (1949)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 8, 2014

With Robert Ryan as his punching bag protagonist, director Robert Wise delivers one of film noir’s most staggering blows with The Set-Up (1949), an unsparing revelation of boxing’s dark side and the bloodthirsty nature of the crowd. Playing out in real time, The Set-Up follows Ryan’ read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE SET-UP (1949)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 8, 2014

With Robert Ryan as his punching bag protagonist, director Robert Wise delivers one of film noir’s most staggering blows with The Set-Up (1949), an unsparing revelation of boxing’s dark side and the bloodthirsty nature of the crowd. Playing out in real time, The Set-Up follows Ryan’ read more

Classic Films in Focus: SHOW BOAT (1936)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 4, 2014

James Whale is best remembered today as the director of horror films like Frankenstein (1931), but he also made the 1936 adaptation of Show Boat, the successful Kern and Hammerstein musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel. It was neither the first nor the last big screen rendition of the story; L read more

Classic Films in Focus: SHOW BOAT (1936)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 4, 2014

James Whale is best remembered today as the director of horror films like Frankenstein (1931), but he also made the 1936 adaptation of Show Boat, the successful Kern and Hammerstein musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel. It was neither the first nor the last big screen rendition of the story; L read more

Classic Films in Focus: SHOW BOAT (1936)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Mar 4, 2014

James Whale is best remembered today as the director of horror films like Frankenstein (1931), but he also made the 1936 adaptation of Show Boat, the successful Kern and Hammerstein musical based on Edna Ferber’s novel. It was neither the first nor the last big screen rendition of the story; L read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 26, 2014

Like other Hammer adaptations of literary classics, director Terence Fisher’s 1959 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles takes many liberties with its source material but strives to retain the essence of the original’s appeal. Making the best-known and most adapted of the Sherlock Hol read more

Classic Films in Focus: THE HOUND OF THE BASKERVILLES (1959)

Virtual Virago Posted by Jennifer Garlen on Feb 26, 2014

Like other Hammer adaptations of literary classics, director Terence Fisher’s 1959 version of The Hound of the Baskervilles takes many liberties with its source material but strives to retain the essence of the original’s appeal. Making the best-known and most adapted of the Sherlock Hol read more
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