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A year after they starred together in Stagecoach, John Wayne and Claire Trevor are paired again for director Raoul Walsh’s 1940 Republic Western. Walter Pidgeon also stars as Will Cantrell who changes his profession from […]
Director Joshua Logan’s heated and touching 1955 romantic drama is a high-powered version of William Inge’s Pulitzer prize-winning play about sexual turmoil in a small Kansas town. All the star players grab their chances to […]
Director Michael Curtiz’s archetypal action-packed 1939 Western pairs Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland again for the fifth of their nine movies together. In his first Western, Flynn (who thought that he was miscast in […]
William Inge won the 1962 Oscar for his Best Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen for Splendor in the Grass (1961), this original 1961 tale about adolescent sweethearts whose lives are shattered when their […]
Nasty little killer fur-ball aliens, fleeing from an inter-galactic jail pursued by two shape-shifting extra-terrestrial bounty hunters, invade Dee Wallace Stone’s Kansas farm in co-writer/ director Stephen Herek’s engagingly infantile 1986 Gremlins-style sci-fi horror comedy. […]
Writer-director Richard Brooks’s gruelling 1967 movie version of Truman Capote’s 1966 bestselling true-crime ‘non-fiction novel’ about the brutal, senseless murder of a family in rural Kansas is extremely gripping, authentic and realistic, but also thankfully avoids […]
‘I called up Orson Welles who was in Rome and said: Hey, what do you think of this title, Paper Moon. There was a long pause and he says: That title is so good you […]