Another Old Movie Blog

This ad for “Typhoon” (1940) promises us a “tornado of tropic romance.” Dorothy Lamour, whose name became synonymous with the tropics, st...

Following in the wake of The Siren’s “Inevitable 20 Favorite Actors” list, here are a group of gentlemen whose presence in a movie might ma...

Henry Fonda and James Stewart found acting work early in their careers in summer stock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts. Both worked with the Un...

As we celebrate tomorrow the inauguration of our 44th President, it’s interesting to consider that there really haven’t been a lot of movies...

This was the Strand Theater of Key West, now a Walgreen’s drug store. This Duval Street institution has the distinction of being a movie th...

This post is part of the Howard Hawks Blog-a-thon over at Only the Cinema. Please have a look at the other interesting posts on this very...

Monday we join the Howard Hawks Blog-a-thon hosted by Only the Cinema . I'm discussing "Twentieth Century" (1934) with John B...

In the film “Requiem for a Heavyweight” (1962), after the punch-drunk, down and out fighter Mountain Rivera, played by Anthony Quinn, is r...

A couple of weeks ago, a reader posted a comment on my essay on “Theater Guild on the Air” from September 2008 ( see link to post here ): ...

Here is an ad for "Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo" (1944), the offering at this Loew's Poli, an MGM movie theater, on New Year'...

To get us ready to say farewell to 2008 and welcome 2009, here's a lovely version of "Auld Lang Syne" used in "Waterloo B...

Merry Christmas.