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Director Charles [Charley] H Rogers’s 1934 comedy Going Bye-Bye! steers Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy smoothly to one of their finest short films. Laurel and Hardy are key witnesses in the jailing for the rest of his […]
Director Alexander Hall’s bright, lively, strongly cast 1937 Paramount Pictures black and white movie Exclusive is an authentic-seeming melodrama about rival newspapers, enriched with showy performances from Charles Ruggles as newspaper proprietor Tod Swain and Frances […]
Director Joseph Kane’s modest and familiar but intriguing and moderately enjoyable 1936 pre-superstardom John Wayne Republic studios short black and white B-Western casts The Duke as Federal Agent John Tipton, who comes undercover to Wyoming […]
Director Steven Spielberg’s conscientious and involving if not quite inspired biographical historical drama tells the dynamite story of The Washington Post newspaper publisher Kay Graham and her gung-ho editor Ben Bradlee, who make the decision to risk […]
Director Anthony Mann’s 1961 remake of the classic 1931 Western film Cimarron, based on the novel by Edna Ferber, is slow, overblown and empty, running a plodding 147 minutes. It is a real disappointment, despite […]
‘RADIO’S DYNAMIC RACKET BUSTER…on the Screen!‘ The first film in producers William H Pine and William C Thomas’s series based on the Big Town radio series introduces The Illustrated Press’s managing editor Steve Wilson (Phillip […]
‘POLICE SLAY GAMBLING CZAR…AS EDITOR ESCAPES DEATH! ‘ Director William C Thomas’s sharp and intriguing 1947 film noir is written by Whitman Chambers and stars Phillip Reed, Hillary Brooke, Richard Travis and Ann Gillis. There are plenty of thrills […]