Another Old Movie Blog

A Face in the Crowd (1957) chronicles its era, lambastes it, and foreshadows future evils of an unchecked demagogue. Perhaps it also m...

January 1st has become yet another reflection of our media-conscious society in its being heralded as Public Domain Day.   This achieved...

Lionel Barrymore was Ebenezer Scrooge for a generation.  For another generation, he became Mr. Potter, perhaps a deeper, more disturbed, ...

Anne Shirley from Screen Guide , May 1942.  A brief blurb laments her recent divorce from John Payne, but supports the young mother and...

Have a listen to my favorite Halloween tradition -- "The War of the Worlds" as heard on October 30, 1938 on the Mercury Theater ra...

James Stewart's dazed expression at the panicked customers demanding all their deposits in the aftermath of the 1929 stock market c...

In September 1928, a gentleman named H. J. Pepper, 60 years old, retired hotelkeeper from Manitoba, Canada, and now eager silent movie ...

Before he was a Hollywood actor, Fred MacMurray was a saxophonist and a singer who entertains us here with the timely tune from 1930:  ...

Since You Went Away (1944) is a tribute to the American home front during World War II, its cozy, meandering plot glowing with quiet mome...