It feels a bit peculiar to finally watch Sand , a film that I sought for two decades years before giving up on it some five years ago. As is...

Alexander Knox, a great actor all but forgotten by history, gave inarguably his two greatest performances in 1944. In a way it’s a s...

Stephen King gave an interview once where he was foolishly challenged with a question about literary history. I don’t know why, but journali...

Of all the riffs on this particular episode of American mythology, 1957’s big-budget  Gunfight at the O.K. Corral is my favorite....

No Sad Songs for Me is an atypical postwar Hollywood tearjerker. A woman learns she is dying of cancer and decides to withhold her progn...

Edward G. Robinson was flying high in 1939, confident and comfortable in his position near the top of the Hollywood heap. His box off...

In Douglas Sirk’s 1956 soaper There’s Always Tomorrow , Fred MacMurray’s perfect family learns the hard way that fathers nee...