Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid is not a conventional western but more a modern “buddy film” with a western theme. It has no real discernible plot beyond a series of entertaining seriocomic vignettes basically intended to...
Our resident film historian looks back at the 1962 classic starring Gregory Peck.
Hollywood film history is littered with stories of classic movie roles that – through one reason or another – weren’t played by the actor/actress who was the first choice for the part, but were so memorably brought to life...
The first screenplay draft for Psycho, written by one of Hitchcock’s television writers, was deemed by the director to be too dull, but a second draft by Joseph Stefano excited Hitchcock. Stefano’s take on the story...
Along with Orson Welles’ Citizen Kane (1941), Alfred Hitchcock’s Psycho is probably the most familiar motion picture in the history of cinema. It has generated countless books, articles, treatises, lectures, university...