Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Jeanette MacDonald, Robert Young, Ethel Waters Directed by: W.S. Van Dyke Synopsis: In this spy thriller comedy, Homer Smith (Robert Young) is an ambitious small-town newspaper reporter from California who gets the opportunity to go abroad to report on the war. He ends up shipwrecked and comes in contact with a British Intelligence Officer, who imparts […]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Gene Kelly, Lana Turner, Vincent Price, June Allyson, Van Helfin Directed by: George Sidney Synopsis: A fun, colorful adaptation of Alexander Dumas’ classic story about D’Artagnan, a young nobleman who hopes to join the King’s Musketeers and his adventures in and around the French Court with his fellow swordsmen, Athos (Van Heflin), Porthos (Gig Young) and […]
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Starring: Lew Ayres, Laraine Day, Basil Rathbone, Walter Kingsford Directed by: Charles Lederer Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains minor spoilers for this film. Synopsis: The city of Chicago is gripped with fear after a series of unexplainable axe murders committed by seemingly insane random men on seemingly random unsuspecting women. Edwina Brown (Laraine Day) […]
Original Title: Night of the Demon Directed by: Jacques Tourneur Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Dr. John Holden (Dana Andrews) is an American psychologist who travels to England to attend a conference about the paranormal when the lead speaker is killed mysteriously. The deceased doctor’s […]
Original Air Date: February 22, 1959 Starring: Lassie, Jon Provost, June Lockhart, Hugh Reilly, George Chandler Guest Starring: Mustard Directed by: Franklin Adreon Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this episode. Synopsis: The Martin family find a stray cat on the doorstep, soaked through by a rainstorm and with a lame paw. They take the […]
English Title: Torment Svensk Filmindustri (SF) Starring: Alf Kjellin, Stig Järrel, Mai Zetterling Directed by: Alf Sjöberg Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: An early screenplay by Ingmar Bergman, Torment is the story of Jan-Erik Widgren (Alf Kjellin), a student pushed to the brink by a sadistic and cruel Latin professor […]
Charles Chaplin Productions Starring: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner Directed by: Charles Chaplin Synopsis: Charlie Chaplin’s bitingly sarcastic condemnation of fascism and the Hitler regime, presented brilliantly as comedy. Chaplin’s story takes place in the fictional country of Tomainia where a Jewish barber (Charles Chaplin), suffering from twenty years of amnesia after World War I, […]
RKO Radio Pictures Starring: Katharine Hepburn, Franchot Tone, Fay Bainter, Eric Blore Directed by: George Stevens Cat Out of the Bag Alert! This review contains some spoilers for this film! Synopsis: Set in the early 1800’s in England, a young woman named Phoebe Throssel (Katharine Hepburn) still has hopes that the man she loves, Dr. Valentine Brown (Franchot […]
Omnia Pictures Ltd. Starring: Robert Ryan, Chuck Connors, Nanette Newman, Christopher Hartstone Directed by: James Hill Synopsis: Based on stories by Jules Verne. A few of the passengers and crew of a sinking ship are rescued by Captain Nemo (Robert Ryan) in the Nautilus and taken to a fabulous underwater city built by the reclusive man. But not […]
The art of cat handling for films has been around for quite some time, but rarely do we get to see a glimpse of the craft documented in the media covering Hollywood in its heyday. But such was the case for cat handler Walter Huber, who was interviewed about his work in bringing the cat […]