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Director Henry King’s likeable and appealing 1933 romantic comedy drama provides a pleasantly pungent odour of 30s Americana, based on Philip Strong’s novel, brought to life in vivid star performances. Janet Gaynor and Will Rogers […]
Fritz Lang’s fine 1956 film noir While the City Sleeps is inspired by the Chicago Lipstick Killer, and stars Dana Andrews, Rhonda Fleming, George Sanders and Vincent Price. The great director Fritz Lang’s bizarrely plotted […]
The classic 1948 film noir thriller Call Northside 777 is excellent of its documentary-style type. James Stewart plays a real-life Chicago reporter who proved a man in prison for murder was wrongly convicted 11 years […]
Following Lewis Milestone’s 1931 classic The Front Page and the vintage 1940 Cary Grant version His Girl Friday, Billy Wilder’s delightful 1974 hit comedy The Front Page is the more than welcome third version of […]
The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]
Co-writer/director Billy Wilder delivers one of his scintillating classic film noir thrillers in 1951. Kirk Douglas stars in one of his most unforgettable roles as the archetypal all-time ruthless reporter Chuck Tatum. Tatum is a […]
Producer-director-star Clint Eastwood’s 1999 potboiler thriller has stock characters and a hokey old plot about Steve Everett, a burnt-out wreck of a journalist (Eastwood). The Oakland Tribune journalist Everett, a man consumed with desire for […]