Dane Clark

A Romantic’s Noir: Borzage’s Moonrise

Dec 28, 2018 Nathanael Hood 0

By 1948, Frank Borzage, early Hollywood’s supreme romanticist, had fallen by the wayside. The man who’d won the very first Academy Award for Directing in 1927 and a second in 1932 was now struggling to […]

DESTINATION TOKYO: A Classic Example of the 1940s Propaganda War Film

May 27, 2014 Jill Blake 0

The Retro Set is proud to continue its relationship with Warner Archive Instant with a look at one of the archive’s most compelling–and controversial–wartime dramas, Destination Tokyo, directed by Delmer Daves. Disclaimer: This post discusses Japanese racial stereotypes […]