The seventh of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn’s nine films together, Pat and Mike has Hepburn playing Pat Pemberton. An accomplished athlete and physical education teacher at a California University, who excels at tennis, golf and just about every other…
Released in 1945, Without Love is the third of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn’s Nine films together. Based on a play by Philip Barry and a screenplay by Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story) Spencer Tracy plays Patrick Jamieson, a…
Released on August 27, 1953, Roman Holiday is probably best known as the film that introduced American audiences to Audrey Hepburn. Director/producer William Wyler (Ben-Hur) had originally wanted Elizabeth Taylor for the role of Princess Ann (‘Anya Smith’) but Hepburn…
Clint Eastwood’s third directorial effort, 1973’s Breezy concerns a May – December romance between Frank Harmon (William Holden) a jaded, middle-aged square and Edith Alice ‘Breezy’ Breezerman (Kay Lenz), a free-spirited, hippie teenager with a good heart. Having lost her…
The last of the Mickey Rooney/Judy Garland Backyard Musicals, Girl Crazy was preceded by Babes in Arms (1939), Strike Up the Band (1940) and Babes on Broadway (1941). Each movie allowed the young stars to show off their singing, dancing…
Strike Up the Band was the second of four Backyard Musicals Mickey Rooney and Judy Garland made together between 1939 and 1943. When the film was released in 1940, Rooney was in the midst of a three year reign as the top…
The River was the third of the so-called “save the farm” movies of 1984-85. Like Places in the Heart and Country we are treated to a gutsy, young farm family who come together to keep their land in the face…
Hot off her Oscar winning turn in Coal Miners Daughter, Sissy Spacek stars as Nita, the divorced mother of two small boys, who works virtually day and night as a telephone operator in a little house, in a nowhere Texas…
Released in the fall of 1995, Showgirls became the first big budget, wide release “NC-17” rated film. Despite the presence of director Paul Verhoeven and screenwriter Joe Eszterhas–both coming off the massive success of 1992’s Basic Instinct–and massive hype, Showgirls…
A frenzied parody of the underrated Airport series (which, incidentally, had already parodied itself by 1980 with the atrocious Concorde: Airport ‘79), many of the gags used in Airplane! have been copied and reworked countless times over the past forty…