When originally released, Henry Hathaway’s Call Northside 777 was heralded as a triumph of noir realism. As the first Hollywood feature shot on location in Chicago, the film was part of the vanguard of studio-produced […]
James Stewart, like most famous actors, did not pop on the scene and immediately gain recognition for his stirring performances. He had to pay his dues for several years. In Hollywood’s early days, most actors […]
God bless public television. The public funded, by-the-bootstraps programming of the ’80s and ’90s, produced a seemingly endless wonderland of high-caliber, star-studded productions that, oh-so-cleverly, had education, not mere entertainments, at its core. From that […]
We love Warner Archive Instant and so should you! Where else can you get a sexually liberal (and white hot) Barbara Stanwyck, Jimmy Cagney as a gangster-turned-movie-star (I know, I know) and Eleanor Powell proving […]
“What really makes a classic film a classic?” Ahhh. The age old question. Classic film fans have mulled it over for years. We’ve argued about it, fought about it, unfriended “friends” online in a fit […]
Majestic, epic in visual scope, complex and meditative, The Man From Laramie is probably Anthony Mann’s most mature and reserved western. That’s not to say it doesn’t offer up the director’s signature action, unpredictable violence […]
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