Film Title: A Trip to the Moon (Le voyage dans la lune) Year: 1902 Studio: Star Film Company Silent or Talkie: Silent Genre: Science Fiction Starring: Georges Méliès Bleuette Bernon François Lallement Henri Delannoy Review It would be fairly easy,… Continue Reading
Film Title: Try and Get Me! Year: 1950 Studio: Robert Stillman Productions/United Artists Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Film Noir Starring: Frank Lovejoy Lloyd Bridges Kathleen Ryan Richard Carlson Review Try and Get Me (aka The Sound of Fury) is… Continue Reading
Film Title: Dear Murderer Year: 1947 Studio: Gainsborough Pictures Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Drama Starring: Eric Portman Greta Gynt Dennis Price Maxwell Reed Jack Warner Hazel Court Review There are scores of tense films about husbands discovering their wives… Continue Reading
Film Title: The Mugger Year: 1958 Studio: United Artists Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Film Noir Starring: Kent Smith Nan Martin James Franciscus Leonard Stone Review Right away, the title of this film jumps out as something dark and ominous… Continue Reading
Film Title: For You I Die Year: 1947 Studio: Arpi Productions Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Film Noir Starring: Paul Langton Cathy Downs Jane Weeks Don C. Harvey Review As much as I love Film Noir top to bottom, the… Continue Reading
Film Title: Uranium Boom Year: 1956 Studio: Columbia Pictures Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Drama Starring: Dennis Morgan William Talman Patricia Medina Philip Van Zandt Review The history of the Atomic Age is fairly well-known. To summarize, the United States… Continue Reading
Film Title: I Married a Woman Year: 1958 Studio: RKO Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Comedy Starring: George Gobel Diana Dors Adolphe Menjou Jessie Royce Landis Review I like the look of the 1950s. Maybe it has something to do… Continue Reading
Film Title: My Sister Eileen Year: 1942 Studio: Columbia Pictures Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Screwball Comedy Starring: Rosalind Russell Janet Blair Brian Aherne Review Classic Hollywood has no shortage of films about people who leave home in search of… Continue Reading
Film Title: Street Angel Year: 1928 Studio: Fox Film Corporation Silent or Talkie: Silent Genre: Drama Starring: Janet Gaynor Charles Farrell Natalie Kingston Henry Armetta Review In a ceremony attended by 270 people in the Blossom Room of the Hollywood… Continue Reading
Film Title: Yankee Doodle Dandy Year: 1942 Studio: Warner Bros. Silent or Talkie: Talkie Genre: Musical Starring: James Cagney Joan Leslie Walter Huston Review Directed by Michael Curtiz, Yankee Doodle Dandy was released on Memorial Day of 1942 in New… Continue Reading