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Long before Patrick Swayze made the 1989 movie with the same name, Road House (1948) provided an entertaining if dangerous stop for travelers on film noir's dark highway. It isn't the first noir film a classic movie fan should see, but it provides plenty of action and interest and has held up over t read more

Long before Patrick Swayze made the 1989 movie with the same name, Road House (1948) provided an entertaining if dangerous stop for travelers on film noir's dark highway. It isn't the first noir film a classic movie fan should see, but it provides plenty of action and interest and has held up over t read more

Long before Patrick Swayze made the 1989 movie with the same name, Road House (1948) provided an entertaining if dangerous stop for travelers on film noir's dark highway. It isn't the first noir film a classic movie fan should see, but it provides plenty of action and interest and has held up over t read more

Some people might be surprised to find Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) categorized as a classic movie. Certainly it can be difficult to look back at the original film now with a clear picture of it, especially with the clutter of the later trilogy and the commercial juggernaut Lucas built from the whol read more

Some people might be surprised to find Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) categorized as a classic movie. Certainly it can be difficult to look back at the original film now with a clear picture of it, especially with the clutter of the later trilogy and the commercial juggernaut Lucas built from the whol read more

Some people might be surprised to find Star Wars: A New Hope (1977) categorized as a classic movie. Certainly it can be difficult to look back at the original film now with a clear picture of it, especially with the clutter of the later trilogy and the commercial juggernaut Lucas built from the whol read more

Born in England in 1887 with the much less sinister name of William Henry Pratt, Boris Karloff rose to lasting Hollywood fame as one of the great stars of classic horror. Although he is best remembered today as the heavily disguised and largely silent monster in James Whale’s iconic adaptation read more

Born in England in 1887 with the much less sinister name of William Henry Pratt, Boris Karloff rose to lasting Hollywood fame as one of the great stars of classic horror. Although he is best remembered today as the heavily disguised and largely silent monster in James Whale’s iconic adaptation read more

Born in England in 1887 with the much less sinister name of William Henry Pratt, Boris Karloff rose to lasting Hollywood fame as one of the great stars of classic horror. Although he is best remembered today as the heavily disguised and largely silent monster in James Whale’s iconic adaptation read more

 One of classic Hollywood's great dames, Barbara Stanwyck enjoyed an acting career that lasted well over fifty years and stretched from the early days of talking pictures to the golden age of television. Like many classic stars, Stanwyck could do it all; she appeared in comedies, melodramas, We read more

Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Undercurrent (1946) plays with the same thematic elements as other feminine thrillers like Suspicion (1941), Gaslight (1944), and Dial M for Murder (1954), but in spite of a very attractive cast the picture falls short of its genre peers. It’s an interesting and read more

Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Undercurrent (1946) plays with the same thematic elements as other feminine thrillers like Suspicion (1941), Gaslight (1944), and Dial M for Murder (1954), but in spite of a very attractive cast the picture falls short of its genre peers. It’s an interesting and read more

 One of classic Hollywood's great dames, Barbara Stanwyck enjoyed an acting career that lasted well over fifty years and stretched from the early days of talking pictures to the golden age of television. Like many classic stars, Stanwyck could do it all; she appeared in comedies, melodramas, We read more

Directed by Vincente Minnelli, Undercurrent (1946) plays with the same thematic elements as other feminine thrillers like Suspicion (1941), Gaslight (1944), and Dial M for Murder (1954), but in spite of a very attractive cast the picture falls short of its genre peers. It’s an interesting and read more

One thinks of Shirley Temple as a perpetual child, tap dancing her little heart out in those short dresses and pin curls. It comes as something of a surprise, then, to see her as a teenager in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), but it's a pleasant surprise. She's a very good comedienne in a ve read more

Marion Morrison became John Wayne.  During the studio system era, film actors and actresses changed their names for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they chose new names for themselves, but often names were selected for them by studio executives and directors. The studios exerted at least par read more

One thinks of Shirley Temple as a perpetual child, tap dancing her little heart out in those short dresses and pin curls. It comes as something of a surprise, then, to see her as a teenager in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), but it's a pleasant surprise. She's a very good comedienne in a ve read more

Marion Morrison became John Wayne.  During the studio system era, film actors and actresses changed their names for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they chose new names for themselves, but often names were selected for them by studio executives and directors. The studios exerted at least par read more

Marion Morrison became John Wayne.  During the studio system era, film actors and actresses changed their names for a variety of reasons. Sometimes they chose new names for themselves, but often names were selected for them by studio executives and directors. The studios exerted at least par read more

One thinks of Shirley Temple as a perpetual child, tap dancing her little heart out in those short dresses and pin curls. It comes as something of a surprise, then, to see her as a teenager in The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947), but it's a pleasant surprise. She's a very good comedienne in a ve read more