Back when TV Guide had rougher pages, more pages, and was a smaller rectangle, it had a movie section in the back with listings for all the movies showing on HBO, Showtime, and other pay channels. Each synopsis was a…
A play turned into a movie isn’t only about quotable lines such as Jerry Seymour (Reginald Gardiner) upon seeing an intimidatingly large egg: “That would discourage me enormously if I were a hen.” Nor is it entirely about the locations…
Rouben Mamoulian is the director who helped create the greatest swordfight in movie history, in The Mark of Zorro (1940), between Tyrone Power as Don Diego Vega and Basil Rathbone as Captain Esteban Pasquale. So right away, I trust his…
Gene Kelly plays Captain Jeff Eliot, who, while on leave, returns to Munich in 1947 while on leave to seek out the Lehrt family, who hid him in their cellar after he escaped from a prison camp with a few…
On January 4th, 1969, a group of thugs broke into a San Diego liquor store. Officer Harry Orwell and his partner arrived on the scene. In their attempt to stop them, Harry was shot, his partner killed. Forced to retire…
What makes old Hollywood an ever-fascinating study are the thousands upon thousands of names still to be discovered and studied, such as directors of photography that may not have been as widely-known as those who were held in high regard…
10th grade, Flanagan High School, Pembroke Pines, Florida, computer class first thing in the morning. An easy elective, but nothing to do in the first few minutes of class while attendance was taken and announcements came over the PA, so…
The title alone, Genetic Chile, sounds unnatural. What happened to the seeds as they naturally appear? Weren’t they good enough for crops and harvesting and selling the final product on the markets? Europe agrees, saying that if any food has…
Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment recently debuted Fox Cinema Archives, a new manufacture-on-demand (MOD) series which will bring several hard to find films to DVD for the first time ever. The first wave of titles includes the 1952 spy thriller,…
Growing up in South Florida, there was the mountainous garbage dump across from the Festival Flea Market in Pompano, and a corridor of car dealerships on both sides of another road, including repair shops, tire places, and other rundown businesses….