Returning for its third and final season in September 1972, Night Gallery retained Rod Serling as host, but executives at NBC demanded changes. The episode number was reduced to 15 and the runtime was reduced from 60 to 30 minutes….
Five years after The Twilight Zone ended, Rod Serling returned to television with a new anthology series, Night Gallery. While the Twilight Zone was largely focused on science fiction, The Night Gallery tended toward the macabre. Once again Rod Serling…
Released in 1971 (the same year as Dirty Harry and Play Misty for Me), the gothic melodrama The Beguiled was a disappointment at the box office. Based on the novel A Painted Devil by Thomas P. Cullinan, The Beguiled is…
Accompanied by special ‘for adults only’ notices when it opened in 1962, Tennessee Williams’ Sweet Bird of Youth had been cleaned up considerably for the big screen. Though much of the ugliness of the stage version has been excised by…
In 1964, with the success of Whatever Happened to Baby Jane? the Grand Dame Guignol genre began. Director Robert Aldrich (Twilight’s Last Gleaming) had cast aging stars Joan Crawford and Bette Davis in leads, created a hit, and in the…
In a career that spanned five decades and roughly 142 films, John Wayne became one of the biggest stars of the silver screen. Released in 1953, Hondo is probably Wayne’s most beloved film not directed by John Ford or Howard…