Another Old Movie Blog

I’m happy to announce the forthcoming publication of my next book, which is non-fiction, an exploration of children’s middle-grade and teen ...

Strike Up the Band (1940) is a rollicking pastiche of M-G-M Americana, which is probably a genre, but at the very least, a profitable theme...

  Happy 4th of July!   May our democracy never die.

Recently, we bid farewell to Janis Paige, after an extraordinary 101-year run.   Her career may have spanned only 60 of those years (“only” ...

Today is the 80th anniversary of D-Day, when the gallant gave all to defeat fascism, and in the bloody hours, gave hope and inspiration to t...

Richard LaGrand made his film debut in 1943 when Gildersleeve’s Bad Day (1943) was released a couple of months before his 61 st birthday. ...

photo by JT Lynch A recent outing to my local symphony hall brought together two loves…classical music and classic cartoons.  Many of you ha...

Night Train to Munich (1940) is an astonishingly lighthearted escaping-the-Nazis caper with disarming wit and considerable humor, yet it is...