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2013 (22)

05/17/13 - The Untouchables (1987) with Kevin Costner
04/26/13 - Mirage (1965) with Gregory Peck
04/16/13 - The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946) and FIlm Noir
04/05/13 - Diamonds are Forever (1971) with Sean Connery
03/30/13 - White Witch Doctor (1953) with Robert Mitchum and Susan Hayward
03/23/13 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948) with Humphrey Bogart
03/16/13 - Tortilla Flat (1942) with Spencer Tracy and Hedy Lamarr
03/09/13 - Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
03/02/13 - The Night of the Generals (1967)
02/25/13 - The Music Man (1962)
02/23/13 - Show Boat (1951)
02/21/13 - 42nd Street (1933)
02/17/13 - Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) with James Cagney
02/15/13 - The Best of Warner Brothers: 20 Film Collection: The Musicals
02/12/13 - A Star is Born (1976) with Barbra Streisand
02/05/13 - The Night of the Hunter (1955) with Robert Mitchum
02/01/13 - Cabaret (1972) with Liza Minnelli
01/26/13 - Boris Karloff Triple Feature (1937-1939)
01/21/13 - Since You Went Away (1944) with Claudette Colbert and Jennifer Jones
01/15/13 - A Slew of New on Blu-Ray from Warners!
01/09/13 - The Jazz Singer (1927) with Al Jolson
01/04/13 - Deadline at Dawn (1946) with Susan Hayward and Paul Lukas

2012 (73)

12/29/12 - The Night of the Iguana (1964) with Richard Burton and Ava Gardner
12/26/12 - Kidnapped (1960)
12/20/12 - Skyfall (2012)
12/15/12 - Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
12/10/12 - Deathtrap (1982)
12/05/12 - Berlin Express (1948)
12/04/12 - Force of Arms (1951) with William Holden
11/29/12 - Dracula (1931)
11/22/12 - The Desert Fox: The Story of Rommel (1951)
11/15/12 - The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
11/09/12 - CHiPs ’99 (1998)
11/03/12 - Red Dust (1932) and Mogambo (1953) Revisited
10/31/12 - Hotel Reserve (1944)
10/25/12 - Dark Victory (1939)
10/18/12 - High Noon (1952)
10/10/12 - Hell in the Pacific (1968)
10/04/12 - Princess O’Rourke (1943)
09/27/12 - Anthony Adverse (1936)
09/21/12 - The Wrath of God (1972)
09/19/12 - The Lost Patrol (1934)
09/12/12 - Notorious (1946)
09/07/12 - The Hanging Tree (1959)
09/03/12 - Showdown (1973)
08/28/12 - The Mystery of Edwin Drood (1935)
08/23/12 - Mrs. Miniver (1942)
08/16/12 - Billy Budd (1962)
08/11/12 - Full Metal Jacket 25th Anniversary Blu-Ray (1987)
08/06/12 - The Sea Hawk (1940)
07/31/12 - Singin’ in the Rain 60th Anniversary Ultimate Collector’s Edition
07/27/12 - The Devil Makes Three (1952) and Black Hand (1950)
07/23/12 - Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)
07/17/12 - In the Heat of the Night (1967)
07/10/12 - The Dark Past (1948)
07/05/12 - The Great Lie (1941)
06/30/12 - Stand In (1937)
06/27/12 - The Three Musketeers (1973) & The Four Musketeers (1974)
06/21/12 - Macao (1952)
06/16/12 - The Journey (1959)
06/12/12 - The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
06/09/12 - Juggernaut (1974)
06/04/12 - The Awakening (1980)
05/29/12 - Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
05/19/12 - Love on the Run (1936)
05/15/12 - Dropped Names, Famous Men and Women As I Knew Them (2012) – A Memoir by Frank Langella
05/10/12 - The Island of Lost Souls (1932)
05/06/12 - The Scarlet Empress (1934)
05/02/12 - Camelot (1967)
04/28/12 - Great Expectations (1946)
04/25/12 - Westward the Women (1951)
04/19/12 - Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
04/14/12 - The Strange Woman (1946)
04/09/12 - Captain from Castile (1947)
04/05/12 - A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
04/02/12 - The Unsuspected (1947)
03/28/12 - Mr. Lucky (1943)
03/23/12 - Casablanca: 70th Anniversary Edition
03/19/12 - Inside the Third Reich (TVM 1981)
03/14/12 - 20,000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
03/11/12 - It (1927)
03/08/12 - It’s Quiz Time Again!
03/06/12 - Sherlock Holmes Faces Death (1943)
03/02/12 - The Pearl of Death (1944)
02/27/12 - Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
02/24/12 - You Can’t Get Away with Murder (1939)
02/19/12 - Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
02/16/12 - Thirteen Women (1932)
02/11/12 - The Invisible Man (1933)
01/31/12 - Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
01/28/12 - The Prince and the Pauper (1937)
01/24/12 - Tall Story (1960)
01/18/12 - The Naked Jungle (1954)
01/15/12 - Dog Day Afternoon (1975)
01/07/12 - The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)

2011 (88)

12/30/11 - The Spiral Staircase (1946)
12/26/11 - Johnny Apollo (1940)
12/20/11 - On Her Majesty’s Secret Service (1969)
12/15/11 - My Man Godfrey (1936)
12/12/11 - The Public Enemy (1931)
12/04/11 - The Man Who Came to Dinner (1942)
12/01/11 - The Conspirators (1944)
11/27/11 - Hangover Square (1945)
11/20/11 - The Mask of Zorro (1998)
11/15/11 - Reckless (1935)
11/11/11 - Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) REDUX
11/06/11 - Night Watch (1973)
10/30/11 - Life Itself: A Memoir (2011)
10/26/11 - The Rich are Always with Us (1932) and Housewife (1934)
10/23/11 - Hud (1963)
10/16/11 - The Way West (1967)
10/11/11 - The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
10/07/11 - The Gunfighter (1950)
10/02/11 - Midsomer Murders, Rosemary and Thyme, and Fresh Fields
09/27/11 - Pursued (1947)
09/25/11 - Angel on the Amazon (1948)
09/22/11 - Confession (1937)
09/18/11 - The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
09/14/11 - Citizen Kane (1941)
09/10/11 - The Sea Chase (1955)
09/06/11 - Inherit the Wind (1960)
09/01/11 - Who Was That Lady (1960)
08/27/11 - British Agent (1934)
08/23/11 - Charade (1963)
08/20/11 - Crossroads (1942)
08/16/11 - My Name Escapes Me, The Diary of a Retiring Actor by Alec Guinness
08/08/11 - Johnny Guitar (1954)
08/02/11 - Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931)
07/28/11 - Breakthrough (1979)
07/24/11 - Conversations with Scorsese (2011) by Richard Schickel
07/12/11 - Devil’s Island (1939)
07/06/11 - The Strange Affair of Uncle Harry (1945)
06/28/11 - The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
06/24/11 - Warner Archive Roundup!
06/22/11 - Night Key (1937)
06/17/11 - The War Lord (1965) with Charlton Heston
06/10/11 - The Woman on the Beach (1947)
06/07/11 - “Dinner is Served.” – Eating in the Movies
06/03/11 - The Deer Hunter (1978)
05/30/11 - And Then There Were None (1945)
05/23/11 - King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
05/20/11 - My Forbidden Past (1951)
05/17/11 - Gods and Generals (2003)
05/14/11 - The Stranger (1946)
05/06/11 - Doc Martin Revisited
05/02/11 - The Mexican Spitfire: Complete Movie Collection (1939-1943)
04/30/11 - Classical Music in the Movies
04/25/11 - Marlene: A Personal Biography. By Charlotte Chandler
04/21/11 - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953)
04/18/11 - Born to Be Bad (1950)
04/16/11 - Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
04/13/11 - Chandu the Magician (1932)
04/09/11 - Giant (1956): A Tribute to Elizabeth Taylor
04/05/11 - Sergeants 3 (1962)
04/01/11 - Gaslight (1944)
03/30/11 - John Huston: the Unappreciated Director
03/27/11 - Rocky Mountain (1950)
03/24/11 - The Black Watch (1929)
03/23/11 - Elizabeth Taylor (1932-2011)
03/17/11 - The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
03/15/11 - Finishing School (1934)
03/14/11 - The Little Hut (1957)
03/09/11 - Dragonwyck (1946)
03/04/11 - A Day at the Races (1937)
03/01/11 - Run for the Sun (1956)
02/25/11 - The King’s Speech (2010)
02/21/11 - Dangerous Mission (1954)
02/17/11 - Sunday in New York (1963)
02/15/11 - The Elephant to Hollywood
02/12/11 - Hush . . . Hush, Sweet Charlotte (1964)
02/08/11 - The Dark Horse (1932)
02/06/11 - The Brass Bancroft Mystery Series
02/02/11 - A Heart at Fire’s Center : The Life and Music of Bernard Herrmann by Steven C. Smith
01/31/11 - John Barry (1933-2011)
01/27/11 - The Garden of Allah (1936)
01/24/11 - The Seventh Veil (1945)
01/23/11 - 2 Weeks in Another Town (1962)
01/20/11 - The Adventures of Robin Hood, The British TV series, 1955 to 1960
01/17/11 - Two Faced Woman (1941)
01/14/11 - The Secret of the Chateau (1934)
01/10/11 - True Grit (2010)
01/06/11 - It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
01/04/11 - Ship of Fools (1965)

2010 (104)

12/29/10 - True Grit (1969)
12/22/10 - Movie Commentaries – The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
12/17/10 - Joan Crawford: A Biography. By Bob Thomas
12/14/10 - Down to the Sea in Ships (1949)
12/10/10 - A Christmas Carol
12/06/10 - The Girl Who Walked Home Alone: Bette Davis – A Personal Biography
12/01/10 - Odd Man Out (1947)
11/29/10 - Strange Cargo (1940)
11/19/10 - The Heiress (1949)
11/16/10 - The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
11/14/10 - Theater of Blood (1973)
11/11/10 - Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
11/09/10 - Ocean’s 11 (1960)
11/07/10 - The Green Slime (1968)
11/06/10 - How the West Was Won (1962)
11/02/10 - The Goonies (1985)
11/02/10 - Dodsworth (1936)
10/28/10 - Scaramouche (1952)
10/26/10 - The Film Scores of Dimitri Tiomkin
10/26/10 - The Humphrey Bogart Essential Collection
10/22/10 - John Ford
10/18/10 - The Wild Bunch (1969)
10/16/10 - The Exorcist (1973)
10/14/10 - Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
10/10/10 - The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
10/09/10 - The Making of THE AFRICAN QUEEN
10/08/10 - Hail, Hail, Euphoria!
10/07/10 - Errol & Olivia: Ego & Obsession in Golden Era Hollywood
10/04/10 - King Kong (1933)
10/02/10 - The Sounds of the Golden Age…Part Two
09/28/10 - The Maltese Falcon (1941)
09/28/10 - Gloria Stuart (1910-2010)
09/24/10 - Two from George Pal
09/20/10 - Joseph Campbell and The Power of Myth with Bill Moyers
09/17/10 - The Sounds of the Golden Age
09/13/10 - They Were Expendable (1945)
09/09/10 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
09/08/10 - The Third Man (1949)
09/04/10 - Mayerling (1968)
08/27/10 - The Chalk Garden (1964) with Deborah Kerr and John Mills
08/23/10 - None But The Lonely Heart (1944)
08/22/10 - Too Much, Too Soon (1958)
08/18/10 - Hamlet (1996)
08/18/10 - Take Us With You!
08/16/10 - They Might Be Giants (1971)
08/11/10 - Yellowstone Kelly (1959)
08/09/10 - Long Live the King
08/06/10 - Who Won World War II, Anyway?
08/02/10 - ELVIS on Tour and more of THE KING
08/02/10 - Let’s Make Love (1960)
07/31/10 - Horrible Old Pirate Films
07/24/10 - Broken Arrow (1950)
07/21/10 - Address Unknown (1944)
07/19/10 - Dark Journey (1937)
07/17/10 - The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
07/16/10 - Desperate Journey (1942)
07/10/10 - “Fire on the Up Roll!”
07/04/10 - Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944)
07/01/10 - The High Command (1936)
06/25/10 - Cheyenne Autumn (1964)
06/22/10 - Two Fellows Down the Street: A Look at Two of Frank Capra’s Best Films
06/21/10 - Bring on the Empty Horses (1975)
06/15/10 - Robin Hood (2010)
06/14/10 - Charlton Heston: In the Arena
06/12/10 - The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
06/08/10 - Kings Row (1942)
06/01/10 - TCM Spotlight: Charlie Chan Collection (1946-1947)
05/31/10 - Robert Mitchum: Baby I Don’t Care
05/31/10 - Fletch (1985)
05/28/10 - The Eastwood Factor: Extended Edition available for download
05/26/10 - Three Selected Films about the Last Days of Adolf Hitler
05/24/10 - Bandolero! (1968)
05/19/10 - Strange New World (1975)
05/17/10 - The Petrified Forest (1936)
05/13/10 - Jet Pilot (1957)
05/10/10 - The Louis L’Amour Western Collection (2010)
05/06/10 - Doc Martin – That Hilarious British TV Series
05/04/10 - Dr. Zhivago (1965)
05/01/10 - Song of the South (1946)
04/30/10 - No Time for Sergeants (1958)
04/25/10 - The Woman in the Window (1944)
04/20/10 - Gunfight at the OK Corral (1957)
04/15/10 - The Lord of the Rings on iTunes and blu…plus a giveaway!
04/13/10 - 1941 (1979)
04/09/10 - Let’s all Go to the Movies
04/08/10 - The Amazing Captain Nemo (1978)
04/06/10 - The Dark Avenger / The Warriors (1955)
04/02/10 - John Forsythe (1918-2010)
04/01/10 - In Like Flynn NEW DVD RELEASES
04/01/10 - Ripley’s Believe It or Not (1930-1932)
03/29/10 - The Brothers Warner (2008): A DVD Documentary by Cass Warner Sperling
03/23/10 - Arizona Dream (1993)
03/21/10 - The List of Adrian Messenger (1963)
03/17/10 - The African Queen (1951) RESTORATION UPDATE
03/10/10 - Von Ryan’s Express (1965)
02/24/10 - There Was a Crooked Man (1970)
02/21/10 - Four Lovely Ladies and Remembering Jean Simmons
02/15/10 - Clint Eastwood: 35 Films 35 Years at Warner Bros.
02/11/10 - Poldark (1975)
02/03/10 - Sherlock Holmes (2009)
02/01/10 - Five Horrible Old Movies
01/24/10 - Dying Room Only (1973)
01/11/10 - The African Queen (1951)
01/01/10 - Three New “G”s: Gilda the Ghost with Green Hair

2009 (64)

12/10/09 - The Odor of MOVIE Music
12/09/09 - Two Holiday Releases from Warner’s
11/18/09 - 70TH ANNIVERSARY DVD EDITION of David O. Selznick’s GONE WITH THE WIND
11/17/09 - The Star Trek Saga- for better or worse.
11/15/09 - 50TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION of Alfred Hitchcock’s NORTH BY NORTHWEST
11/08/09 - A Touch of Larceny (1959)
11/05/09 - North by Northwest Giveaway!
11/01/09 - North by Northwest Giveaway!
10/29/09 - Miss Marple -a Short Look-See at Her Latest Incarnation
10/21/09 - Goodbye to Dr. No
10/21/09 - Cape Fear (1962, 1991)
10/08/09 - The Esther Williams Collection, Volume 2
09/24/09 - The Wizard of Oz (1939) turns Seventy!
09/20/09 - A Study in Deception
09/13/09 - Escape from Fort Bravo (1953)
09/10/09 - Remembering 1958 and Separate Tables
09/05/09 - How De Dooooo…..
09/03/09 - The Roots of Heaven (1958)
08/21/09 - Remembering WWII, 1947, and The Bishop’s Wife
07/23/09 - Kidnapped (1971)
07/22/09 - Remembering 1934 and The Thin Man
07/07/09 - The Untouchables (1987)
06/23/09 - One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest (1975)
06/17/09 - The Passage of Time: 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea
06/16/09 - Blazing Saddles (1974)
06/09/09 - Seventy Years of Gone with the Wind
06/04/09 - David Eddings (1931-2009)
05/25/09 - Sinking the Titanic….again…..and again
05/17/09 - Catlow (1971)
05/14/09 - Poirot Is Back! (Has He Ever Left?!)
04/27/09 - Quo Vadis (1951)
04/26/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-26
04/25/09 - Bea Arthur (1922-2009)
04/24/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-24
04/23/09 - Three Comrades (1938)
04/21/09 - Max Fleischer’s Superman (1941-1942)
04/17/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-17
04/16/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-16
04/15/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-15
04/14/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-14
04/11/09 - A Selection of Five Westerns
04/05/09 - Warner Archive Collection Podcasts
04/03/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-03
04/02/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-04-02
03/31/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-03-31
03/30/09 - ‘Dr. Zhivago’ composer Maurice Jarre dies at 84
03/29/09 - Max Fleischer’s Superman: 1941-1942
03/24/09 - Remember (to save) The Alamo!
03/24/09 - The Warner Brothers Archive Collection
03/19/09 - The Miss Marple Mystery-Comedy Films with Margaret Rutherford, 1961-1965
03/17/09 - GWTW…on Blu-Ray
03/13/09 - Twitter Updates for 2009-03-13
03/12/09 - Dive! Dive!
03/12/09 - Twitter!
03/02/09 - Sleuth (1972)
02/16/09 - Dr. No (1962)
02/09/09 - The Warner Bros. Romance Classics Collection
02/04/09 - Major Dundee (1965)
01/30/09 - Seven Days in May (1964)
01/29/09 - Northern Pursuit (1943)
01/23/09 - MGM: When the Lion Roars
01/21/09 - Spellbound by Beauty (2008)
01/15/09 - Rebecca (1940)
01/12/09 - The Bridge / Die Brucke (1959)

2008 (17)

12/30/08 - The Losses of 2008
12/26/08 - Eartha Kitt (1927-2008)
12/22/08 - Robert Mulligan (1925-2008)
12/21/08 - Captain Blood (1935)
12/15/08 - Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)
12/11/08 - That Hamilton Woman (1941)
12/08/08 - Sahara (1943)
12/05/08 - Lines from the Movies of the ’30s and ’40s
12/03/08 - 12 O’Clock High (1949)
11/30/08 - The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T (1953)
11/24/08 - Them! (1954)
11/22/08 - Sabrina (1954)
11/13/08 - The Prisoner of Shark Island (1936)
11/09/08 - Niagara (1953)
11/05/08 - Herrmann’s Mysterious Island (1961)
10/28/08 - Destiny Calls: Defining Roles
10/21/08 - Some Like It Hot (1959)

The Classic Film Freak Story

There are many sites, blogs, and other creations devoted to Classic Movies and Films and all kinds of specialty sites even within that genre as well. So what makes us different? We don't aim to be imdb or anything of the like. We hope to present some thoughts on some of the lesser gems -more than a few have been forgotten- from the history of Classic Film.

We may dabble a bit as far back as the silents, but our focus is really on the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s. And we will mention Citizen Kane and Gone with the Wind from time to time, but we are more likely to mention George Sanders, Hedy Lamarr, or say Bette Davis.

And will have (and will continue to do so) diverge on rare instances into current film when there is a direct relation to Classic Movies. For example we did look at the recent Sherlock Holmes and True Grit relaunches in relation to their classic progenitors.

So sit back and read along - and contribute as you like!