Director Billy Wilder’s Double Indemnity is an outstanding and definitive film noir which received seven Academy Award nominations and even today can still be found in the top thirty of the American Film Institute’s greatest...
Following the huge commercial and critical success of Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid in 1969, the many fans of the film eagerly anticipated another teaming of Paul Newman, Robert Redford and director George Roy Hill. But for...
The Way We Were is a thoughtful and believable love story for adults set in part against the background of the HUAC (House Un-American Committee) hearings. In fact, it was one of the first major film productions to tackle the...
The Western movie genre was for decades the mainstay of Hollywood production. Over 2,000 silent westerns were made prior to 1929 and around 4,000-plus were released between 1930-1970. The majority were more myth than the reality...
Bud Abbott and Lou Costello had been the number one comedy duo in movies throughout the 1940s. But as the new decade began, the duo’s comedy – which had perfectly fitted the war years – now seemed dated. Exactly as A&C...