Another Old Movie Blog

The Great Dictator (1940) straddles absurdity and warning.  The monologue Chaplin delivers at the end is shockingly timely today, and yet i...

The Impatient Years (1944) is an example of the kind of movie that is hardly ever made anymore, but was a staple of Hollywood’s heyday: cur...

Never forget January 6th.  Hold it in the same vein of warning, mourning, and determination to right the wrong as we do with September 11th ...

Welcome to 2026, and our annual celebration of Public Domain Day! This year, movies from 1930 that are now in public domain include: Bet...

  Thank you for the pleasure of your company.  Ginger Rogers, David Niven, and I (not pictured -- I must have been parking the car) wish you...

Classic film stars have been caricatured in many animated cartoons, even Christmas cartoons as noted in t his previous post of Toyland Premi...