Samuel Fuller, who died in 1997 at age 85, was one of the great American film directors, but it took a while for the world to realize it. He's best known for low-budget genre films of the type that have routinely been dismissed as B movies. But his
Month-Long Celebration of Hollywood Stars Includes a Fred Astaire/Gene
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Gifted, silky-voiced chanteuse whose glamorously icy exterior made a marvelous contrast with the inner fire of her sultry, often fierce singing style. Horne made her debut as a chorine at New York's Cotton Club in 1933 and is best remembered in films
"Kiss of Death," starring Richard Widmark as a giggling villain who shoves an old woman in a wheelchair down a flight of stairs, was anything but for the actor's career.
It marked his film debut, earned him an Oscar nomination (he lost to Edmund Gwenn
The first time we asked you to share your favorite big-screen bad guys, the request was pretty much met with a collective shrug. But then reader Rob Bleiberg pushed us to ask again, so we did - and were nearly buried under all the responses. Why the
Cyd Charisse was not the greatest of movie stars. When she sang, she was dubbed. When she spoke, she was on cue, at best. But when she danced, there was no need for artifice. A couple of dozen times in the 1950s, she moved across a screen to music and
Oakley Hall's 1958 novel Warlock, a re-imagining of the Gunfight at the OK Corral, was a Pulitzer Prize finalist, made into a cult movie with Henry Fonda and Richard Widmark, and blazed a trail for much of the best modern fiction of the American west.
The incredible who? M. Night what? This is , a weekly round-up of cool movie events taking place beyond the multiplexes. We cover things like festivals, retrospectives, and special screenings -- and if you know of something coming up that ought to be
New DVDs celebrate some of the greatest moments in the history of the Boston Red Sox and the New York Mets.
THE BIG TRAIL (1930) / FOX WESTERN CLASSICS (1950-1954). If the Main Library's summer film program of classic Westerns doesn't satisfy your yen for sagebrush sagas (see Movie Missives in this section), check out these four titles from 20th Century