Movies ‘Til Dawn

Let’s put a button on this bizarre, embarrassing and absurd week–I speak of events on the world stage–with something that makes absolute, delicious sense. Here’s Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth doing the ‘Shorty George’ from ‘You Were Never Lovelier’ (1942). Watching this perfection is like drin...

Actor Keith Baxter never achieved the level of respect and stardom that other British actors of his generation–Albert Finney, Robert Shaw, Richard Burton–did. But his superb turn as Prince Hal in Orson Welles ‘Chimes At Midnight’ will forever assure him a place in movie history. Here he is, sit...

Yesterday I posted an interview with Rock Hudson in which he speaks about his collaboration with director Douglas Sirk. One of the eight films they made together was

Douglas Sirk directed Rock Hudson in eight films– Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952), Taza, Son of Cochise (1954), Magnificent Obsession (1954), Captain Lightfoot (1955), All That Heaven Allows (1955),&n...

This weekend we watched Fritz Lang’s classic crime drama ‘M’, starring Peter Lorre as a child molester/murderer. The film is still shocking. Cinematically it’s filled with technical achievements years ahead of the times. Dramatically it’s perverse, scary and ultimately moving in a quite horrifi...