My life at the movies.
Directed by Norman Z. McLeod. Starring Cary Grant, Constance Bennett, Roland Young, and Billie Burke.
Constance Bennett and Cary Grant play a carefree couple who die in a car crash but, before ascending to the afterlife, must help mousy banker Cosmo Topper, played by Roland Young, learn to live. Continue reading...
Directed by Joseph Pevney. Starring Frank Sinatra, Shelley Winters, Alex Nicol, and Raymond Burr.
Frank Sinatra plays the titular Wilson, a nightclub singer who vaults to superstardom after a break from a mobster, played by Raymond Burr. Continue reading...
Directed by Louis King. Starring Victor Mature, Piper Laurie, William Bendix, and Vincent Price.
This story of a hit-man pursuing a murder witness hiding out in Glacier National Park is not good, but may appeal to Vincent Price fans. To explain why, I must venture into spoiler territory. Continue reading...
Directed by Tony Richardson. Starring Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters, Anjanette Comer, and Rod Steiger.
Young Englishman Dennis travels to Los Angeles on a whim, boards with his Hollywood uncle, and gets a job at an upscale funeral home for pets. Continue reading...
Directed by Burt Kennedy. Starring Raquel Welch, Robert Culp, Ernest Borgnine, and Jack Elam.
Raquel Welch plays the titular Hannie, a woman who recruits a bounty hunter to train her to exact revenge on the outlaws that murdered her husband then raped her. Continue reading...
Directed by Michael Curtiz. Starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Randolph Scott, and Humphrey Bogart.
In the waning days of the Civil War, Union spy Errol Flynn travels to Virginia City, Nevada to prevent Confederate agent Randolph Scott from smuggling out millions of dollars’ worth of gold. Continue reading...
Directed by Norman Taurog. Starring William Powell, Esther Williams, Angela Lansbury, and James Gleason.
William Powell plays a newspaper man returned home from World War I to find himself unemployed and broke. He finagles a job as a corporate executive, amasses a fortune, loses it in the crash of ‘29, and finds religion. Continue reading...
Directed by Mack V. Wright. Starring John Wayne, Duke, Ruth Hall, Luis Alberni, Donald Reed, and Nina Quartero.
John Wayne plays a cavalry officer sent to encourage holders of Spanish Land Grants in California to register their titles. Continue reading...
Directed by William D. Russell. Starring Joan Caulfield, William Holden, Mona Freeman, and Edward Arnold.
William Holden plays Bill, an enlisted bomber pilot who turns up on the titular Ruth’s doorstep, believing she’s his pen-pal sweetheart, unaware her tween kid sister has written all the letters using Ruth’s name and picture. Continue reading...
Directed by Tay Garnett. Starring Lana Turner, John Garfield, Cecil Kellaway, and Hume Cronyn.
Lana Turner plays Cora, the wife of a California luncheonette owner, who lures drifter Frank, played by John Garfield, into killing her husband. Continue reading...
