Another Old Movie Blog

My deepest thanks for the pleasure of your company in 2023, and best wishes to all for a pleasant and peaceful 2024! Happy New Year!

 A very Merry Christmas for those who celebrate! Recently, I was interviewed by Gregory Wakeman for the BBC website on The Shop Around the C...

  Christmas Eve (1947) coasts on its title and its setting on Christmas Eve to enter the hallowed sphere of yuletide movies, but it’s not v...

Stowaway (1936), which is not a Christmas movie, ends the movie with a Christmas scene in which Shirley Temple sings about what she wants f...

Today, we mark Pearl Harbor Day, the 82nd anniversary of the catastrophe that brought the United States into the worldwide fight against fas...

Auntie Mame (1958) presents one of the most concise and yet comprehensive illustrations of Christmas in yuletide filmdom. It is only one ep...

Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945) brings scenes of Christmas simplicity on the prairie as Edward G. Robinson and Agnes Moorehead raise Ma...

This is to remind you of the Zoom talk TOMORROW, Monday, November 20th, at 10:00 a.m. on my book Christmas in Classic Films.   The talk is b...

  For the next several weeks, I'm going to share chapters from my book, Christmas in Classic Films .  They have never before appeared on...

Criss Cross (1949) is a romantic triangle told noir style involving three poor souls who can’t help being themselves.  There’s a heist in t...