Civil War veteran Ethan Edwards (John Wayne), who fought for the Confederacy, returns home to Texas and the family ranch several years after the war has ended. Nobody has any idea why Ethan is home, but he quickly finds himself…
Originally envisioned by Warner Brothers as a B-movie project, Rebel Without A Cause director Nicholas Ray began shooting the movie in black-and-white film stock. That is, until studio head Jack Warner realized that James Dean was a star in the…
Inside Daisy Clover, a fictional tale about a child star in the 1930’s, stars Natalie Wood as Daisy Clover. A fifteen-year-old tomboy, she lives with her senile mother Lucile (Ruth Gordon) on the beach, selling forged autographed pictures of movie…
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Largely considered to be one of the best films to come out of Hollywood in the 1940’s, Joseph L. Mankiewicz’s The Ghost and Mrs. Muir still manages to be a deeply affecting love story more than sixty years after its…
Conceived by Jerome Robbins, Leonard Bernstein and Arthur Laurents as a contemporary musical adaptation of Romeo and Juliet, West Side Story made its Broadway debut on September 26, 1957. Presenting the story as a contemporary musical resulted in an intriguing…
LOS ANGELES (July 7, 2011) – Five decades after its historic debut, a timeless classic returns to dazzle audiences young and old. Based on the hit Broadway musical of the same name, the iconic film WEST SIDE STORY returns in…
20th Century Fox | 1947 | 96 mins. | Not Rated I’m sure every reviewer will write this, but it needs to be emphasized before I actually discuss the film. Despite the color cover and the text on the back…