Another Old Movie Blog

Unlike some of the old movie houses we’ve featured, the Cape Cinema in Dennis, Massachusetts is still an operating, vibrant theater, and has...

On this Memorial Day here in the US, we turn to a unique kind of war movie. “Friendly Persuasion” (1956) shows the face of war, in the face ...

They Won’t Believe Me (1947) is film noir without too many shadows, but with an interesting understated performance by Robert Young as a s...

Now that the weather’s warming up, let’s go to the drive-in. Nothing says car culture like a drive-in movie. Above is an ad for the Air-Li...

The Secret Bride (1934) plants Barbara Stanwyck as a governor’s daughter who elopes with the charming, square-jawed do-gooder district attor...

Pushing the re-set button for a moment on our bowling alley theme (something you didn’t have to do in the days of human pinsetters, push any...

Above a newspaper spread wide in the murderous hands of Joseph Cotten hides Mr. Cotten’s face from us as he intends to hide his crimes. But...

Newsreel footage of the Nazi concentration camps were “generally received by audiences in silence or with muttered expressions of outrage,” ...

We interrupt our regularly scheduled blog post. In answer to Moira Finnie’s call for imaginary film noir dream casts ( see her post at Skein...

Eve Arden received an honorary membership in the National Education Association in 1952. “Our Miss Brooks” wasn’t real, just a radio sitco...

Despite this intriguing scene from “Double Indemnity” (1944) ( see blog post on the film her e) where Fred MacMurray and Barbara Stanwyck di...

Above is what appears to be little more than an over-the-shoulder glance at the tops of palm trees and the sign for the El Capitan Theatre. ...