Check out all of the posts tagged with "1930s".
Director Richard Benjamin’s 1984 period crime action comedy City Heat is a fairly damaging moment in the careers of Burt Reynolds and Clint Eastwood as both stars are forced to flounder desperately in a vacuum […]
Famed, all-time-great American author F Scott Fitzgerald’s last, struggling drink-sodden years as a 1930s pre-World War Two Hollywood scriptwriter, and his torrid affair with witty young English columnist Sheilah Graham while his wife Zelda is in an […]
Take almost the entire MGM comedy team (Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy, Jimmy Durante, Lupe Velez, and The Three Stooges), throw them into an all-star film in which virtually every comedy director on the lot […]
Dove Linkhorn: ‘What are you doing here, Kit?’ Kitty Twist: ‘I run the candy concession.’ Despite the film’s original release public relations hysteria as really hot stuff, director Edward Dmytryk’s would-be shocking 1962 movie proves […]
Producer-director John Baxter’s 1941 concerned social drama is a showcase for the young Deborah Kerr, who became a movie star as Sally Hardcastle the mill girl, in this early British realist film of the Walter Greenwood […]
Co-writer/ director Dee Rees’s 2017 Mudbound is extremely worthy and exceptionally well made and finely acted. It is a serious-minded work that deals with an urgent topic of race hatred and is an Oscar contender […]
Director Edward Dmytryk skillfully turns Harold Robbins’s best-selling novel into its exact movie equivalent – a compulsively trashy epic film with an escapist Hollywood story and glossy cardboard characters. The 1964 tells a romantic drama […]