The Victors/The Execution of Pvt. Slovik
Movie poster courtesy of The Passionate Moveie Goer blogWar films follow an evolutionary path over time. Those made during the conflict will be propagandised in so far as to say "We fight for right!"...
View ArticleBilly Budd
"Billy Budd". This is an adaptation of anovella by Herman Melville and stars Peter Ustinov (who also directed) as Captain Vere, Robert Ryan as Master-at-ArmsClaggert, and Terence Stamp as Billy...
View ArticleThe Dark Side of Mother Goose
The premise of "THE NIGHT OF THE HUNTER" is deceptively simple - a maniac chases two children across the countryside in pursuit of stolen money. A moralistic play on the axiom of money is the root of...
View ArticleOrigins
I've often thought about what were the origins for my love of the cinema. I believe I can thank my Mother for kindling the spark that started the fire. Way back in the sixties when we lived in Topeka,...
View ArticleTHE SEA WOLF
"THE SEA WOLF" is based on a novel by Jack London and takes place in the late 1800's aboard a seal hunting ship called the "Ghost”. It stars Edward G. Robinson, John Garfield, Ida Lupino, and Gene...
View ArticleLets all go to the fair
If you haven't noticed already, I punctuate a good number of these writings with rememberances of times gone by. Well, I've been working on one that came to me after viewing some old monster movie...
View ArticleTHE INCREDIBLE SHRINKING MAN
During the 50’s, the studios discovered a gold mine in combining insects with nuclear fallout, which resulted in the mutation of gigantism and lead to them terrorizing the human population. While this...
View ArticleBallad of a Soldier
Early in my Naval career I was stationed at San Diego, which we affectionately called “Sand Dog”, and there were two things that preoccupied a sailors liberty time…getting drunk and trying to get...
View ArticleDecision Before Dawn
This review is of a film that I first viewed as a young lad on "NBC Saturday Night at the Movies" back in the sixties. It didn't make much of a ripple when it was released in 1950 and afterward was...
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