by A.C. Miller We would like to welcome our newest contributor to the fold, A.C. Miller, author of the Young Adult Dystopian novel, Nimbus. A.C. is a massive cinephile—especially films with Gene Tierney and Humphrey Bogart. When […]
The Rounders is a comedy-western starring Glenn Ford and Henry Fonda, based on a novel by Max Evans. Ford and Fonda respectively play Ben and ‘Howdy,’ two cowboys who make a living rounding up and […]
Based on the same autobiographical novel by Earl Hamner, Jr. that inspired classic television series The Waltons, Spencer’s Mountain is the story of a simple, loving family man Clay Spencer (Henry Fonda) and his dealings […]
Richard Fleischer’s 1968 film The Boston Strangler is based on a real life horrific string of grisly murders in the Boston area in the early 1960s. Adapted from Gerold Frank’s book of the same name, […]
The true terror behind Sidney Lumet’s Fail Safe (1964) isn’t that things went wrong, it’s that they went right. True, a mechanical error sent the signal for American flight crews to drop nuclear bombs on […]
Today is James Maitland Stewart’s birthday, and in case you didn’t know, the Retro Set is a huge Stewart fan. (Don’t believe us? Check out his tag.) And in celebration of the birthday boy (it’s his 107th), […]
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