It’s been a crazy couple of weeks for me between my grad school semester wrapping up, work, my wife’s trip to China, family issues, Roger Ebert’s passing, travel, and my pervasive drinking problem, but, on top of that, I was also given a Liebster Award from Karen over at Shadows Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Hjalmar Poelzig … Boris Karloff Dr. Vitus Werdegast … Bela Lugosi Peter Alison … David Manners Joan Alison … Julie Bishop Karen … Lucille Lund Directed by Edgar G. Ulmer The Black Cat: Reveling in Horror It’s been a couple of days since I watched Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Flash the Wonder Dog… Flash Jim Robbins … John Horsley Molly James … Marceline Day Otto Von Krantz … Noah Beery Reverend James … Henry B. Walthall The Chief … Mischa Auer The Flaming Signal: Taking a Tropical Bite Out of Crime “You can take Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Professor Wagstaff … Groucho Marx Baravelli … Chico Marx Pinky … Harpo Marx Frank Wagstaff … Zeppo Marx Connie Bailey … Thelma Todd Jennings … David Landau Horse Feathers: Giving It the Old College Try Every comedy team in the first half of the century Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Kent … Robert Montgomery Morgan … Chester Morris Butch … Wallace Beery The Big House: Breaking Out Human cruelty, as deep a field as it is, has almost never been better exemplified than in America’s prison system. Barbaric conditions are the norm, as men are Read more
Hey! If you visit this site and live in the city of Toronto, you’ll be probably be interested to know that the Toronto Film Society is doing a series on Pre-Code films May 10th to the 12th at the Carlton Cinema (map). The Toronto Film Society Pre-Code Festival looks like Read more
The Particulars of the Picture Jimmy … Frankie Darro Patsy … James Cagney Thompson … Dudley Digges Dorothy … Madge Evans Judge Gilbert … Arthur Byron Directed by Archie Mayo The Mayor of Hell: Reforming the Reformers Reeducation or punishment? As I’ll go into moreso next week with The Big Read more
Groucho Chico Harpo Zeppo Thelma Todd And… Maurice Chevalier? Monkey Business: Cruising for Craziness “I want gaiety! I want laughter! I want ha-cha-cha-cha!” Let’s start off with an important note for whenever I talk about the Marx Brothers movies on this site. On Monkey Business, you will notice this at Read more
I’m about halfway through the bottle of wine. I promised myself that when I went the solo route with blogging that I would attempt to make it more personal, and when the news broke about the death of Roger Ebert earlier today, I knew I’d either have to fulfill that Read more
Ann Vincent Barbara Stanwyck Dick Ives James Rennie Price Baines Ricardo Cortez Georgie Evans Clive Butterworth Ives, Sr Claude Gillingwater Margie True Natalie Moorhead Illicit: Can Sex Survive Marriage? “We’re both a riot in our underwear!” There are probably few movies that can serve as such definitive proof in how Read more