Another Old Movie Blog

Sullivan’s Travels (1941) is a madcap romp and not-so-incidental grim social commentary—a most striking combination.  Writer/director P...

Come back Saturday the 22nd when we visit the Butler and the Valet in Sullivan's Travels (1941) as part of the Butlers & Maids ...

It is rare these days for the world of the classic film fan to intersect with news of modern pop culture, for our heroes were of the ...

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...