Nov 25, 2022
Someone has been killed, and the identity of the killer seems obvious. Maybe a little TOO obvious? That's the set-up for 1947's CROSSFIRE, which is ostensibly about a murder but ends up being more about the motive. One of Hollywood's first serious examinations of prejudice as a social issue, we're here to break it all...
Nov 18, 2022
Seventy-five years ago, Rex Harrison and Gene Tierney starred in a gothic romantic comedy (??) about a British widow who moves to the seaside with her American daughter and falls in love with the ghost who is haunting her new home. George Sanders pops in to prove that all living men are trash. It's 1947's THE GHOST AND...
Nov 11, 2022
SMASH-UP: THE STORY OF A WOMAN stars Susan Hayward as a successful nightclub singer who weds a struggling songwriter. She happily gives up her career for him, but when he hits the big time, she turns to the bottle. It's sort of like a star was born during a lost weekend, if you catch our drift. If only she had a...
Nov 4, 2022
Seventy-five years ago, a house was torn asunder because the irascible patriarch had never been baptized. That, and the two oldest children almost killed their mother, a boy is possessed by his father's demonic pants, and the dog has been misgendered. 1947's LIFE WITH FATHER was a lot, and we're here to talk about...