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The Art of Selling Movies #6
First Ever Opportunity to Read One of J.J. Hunsecker's Columns ... Only at Greenbriar!Art of ...Sweet Smell of Success,Monsieur Verdoux,Judy Garland Revisit,andCass TimberlaneFORGIVE AND FORGET?---...
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A Long, Hot Misfits Summer
More Stars Soon in Heaven ---Part TwoProblem with event movies was unwashed public needing to agree that they were indeed events. Subject matter still had to matter, doubts frankly as to whether The...
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Drama Darker Than Imagined in 1960
The Misfits a Last or Near Last for Many --- Part OneThere’s a story persistent about the night Montgomery Clift died. His assistant rapped upon a closed bedroom door to ask Monty if he’d like to...
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Watch List for 8/24/2026
Watched: Swingers from the Sixties,Over There (The Knack), Over Here (Elvis)THE KNACK … and HOW TO GET IT (1965)--- This is what director Richard Lester was up to between A Hard Day’s Night and Help!,...
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Best Liberty Show a Quarter Bought in 1966
You Don't Need the Title to Signify What This Art Represents, Which is Why I Don't Include It.Among the One Hundred:The ProfessionalsWhere it comes to first capturing favorites, timing is all. I came...
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Lightning Sketches #1
Quick-Draw J. Stuart Blackton Demonstrates His ArtSpeedy and Shorter and Welcome, AIPioneer filmmaker J. Stuart Blackton got a start in vaudeville doing what was called “lightning sketches,” artist...
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Precode Picks #10
No Such Scene in the Picture We Have Access To, But We Can Dream, Can't We?Precode: Cagney with Blondell,Welcome to Hollywood,andHave a (Hard) SeatBLONDE CRAZY (1931)--- The first starring James...
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New Category: Cartoon Carnival (#1)
I Could Have Grown to Accept Betty's Dog Ears as Half-Moon Earrings Had They Been Tendered as SuchCartoon Columns Should Be Shorter, So Here Goes ...Decided to inaugurate a series for animation, and...
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Category Called Comedy #12
CCC: Merry Clipped-Out Marxes,Bouncing Baby Sandy,Dapper Offscreen Harold, andComedies Gone Till NowKEEPSAKE MARXES--- Clippings, shavings, call these fragments what we will, but this was collecting...
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Stills That Speak #11
So Much Meat on the Hoof. Can Cornel Bring One Down?STS: Three That Speak to SurvivalBeen fasting this week. Told by You Tube that it’s a good idea. They could be wrong, in which event I’m in little...
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Two Sure-Fire and Past a Century Old
"Written by Mark Twain" Said CreditsTrue or no? --- most films improve upon novels they adapt. Why buy books for adapt to movies? Many are useful as pre-sell. Lots have a concept surefire, can’t miss....
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Ads and Oddities #12
What This Book Tells Will Surprise You Plenty. Go Get It.Ad/Odds:Drews Delight in New Book,Mac/Eddy a 60's Happening,Cooped Up Lost World Watchers,andWhat Got Looked At Twenty Years BackThey Go Way...
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Parkland Picks with Popcorn #10
POP Goes: Dick Tracy Detects, Hombre Means Man,Tides are Passionate,andGroucho Goes MotoringDICK TRACY (1945)--- Called in some quarters Dick Tracy, Detective, as if we’d need telling what Dick did...
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Film Noir #34
Noir:The Crooked Way,A Cry in the Night, andCry VengeanceTHE CROOKED WAY (1949)--- A sort of from hunger turn on the serviceman with amnesia theme used by Fox for Somewhere in the Night a few years...
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Where Bootlegs are (Were) Best #3
Here is What a Local Theatre Could Ad-Achieve in 1924. Great Art I Calls It.Boots No More ... but Still:Chaney andFordLegit ... and NotHE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924)--- Stop presses. He Who Gets Slapped is...
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Blowing Out 1973 Candles ...
When Warners Turned FiftyWarner Bros. threw an anniversary party for themselves in 1973. History went back to 1923 (or somewhere thereabouts) but owner of the pre-49 backlog was United Artists, which...
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History for Fun #2
Beware Austerity Eyes That ParalyzedFrom Fact: Doing Without Even After You WinLots imagine how great it would be to have met one or all of the Beatles. What fun to find common ground with that...
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Showmen Sell It Hot #5
Showmen:Hondo and What Happened to 3-D TV's?, PlusThe StingGlasses Given Out So Viewers Can Watch Once-Only 1991 TV Run of Hondo in 3DProducing Partners John Wayne and Robert FellowsHONDO (1954)---...
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Count Your Blessings #6
CYB:Pearl Diving at You TubeSo much technology rides current wind. I’m beginning to take miracles for granted. For instance what’s being done with Public Domain content aboard You Tube. Features,...
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Cooper v. Chinese Warlords
The General Died at Dawn (1936) An Action OddityGary Cooper continually exposes himself to mortal danger for no reason other that his love of democracy, so he says, and often, in The General Died at...
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