DVD Review: The Adventures of Tom Sawyer (1938)
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer Directed by Norman Taurog. Cast: Tommy Kelly, Ann Gillis, Jackie Moran, Victor Jory, May Robson, Walter...
Cinema Revisited: In Old Kentucky (1935)
Cinema Revisited: In Old Kentucky (1935) In Old Kentucky Directed by George Marshall. Cast: Will Rogers, Bill Robinson, Russell...
Selected Short Subject: Little Daddy (1931) Our Gang
When the Hal Roach-produced Our Gang comedies were re-edited and released to television by King World, their new distributor, there were...
Cinema Revisited: Joe E. Brown in “The Gladiator”
Directed by Edward Sedgwick. Cast: Joe E. Brown, June Travis, Dickie Moore, Lucien Littlefield, Robert Kent, Man Mountain Dean. ...
Book Review: Claire Trevor: The Life and Films of the Queen of Noir
There is a scene in William Wyler’s “Dead End” (1937), when Humphrey Bogart, playing a notorious gangster who changed his face with...
Sample chapter from my Jean Harlow book
RED DUST Director: Victor Fleming Screenplay: John Lee Mahin, Donald Ogden Stewart based on the play by Wilson Collison Producers: Victor...
DVD Review: Stingaree (1934)
Kino strikes again with another significant pre-code feature that is decidedly a lesser-known effort by director William Wellman. ...
DVD Review: Topaze (1933)
Kino’s blu ray restoration of this pleasantly amusing RKO feature, shows off John Barrymore at his mellowest and Myrna Loy at her...
Cinema Revisited: I Love That Man (1933) – a Paramount pre-code feature
I Love That Man (1933) Directed by Harry Joe Brown. Cast: Edmund Lowe, Nancy Carroll, Robert Armstrong, Warren Hymer, Lew Cody, Grant...
Cinema Revisited: The Crosby Case (1934 mystery)
THE CROSBY CASE Directed by Edwin L. Marin. Cast: Wynne Gibson, Onslow Stevens, Skeets Gallagher, Alan Dinehart, Warren Hymer, William...