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...
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...
Following the 1962 Cuban Missile Crisis, which brought the world to the brink of a nuclear apocalypse, America’s fear of nuclear annihilation grew exponentially to such an extent that many families constructed fallout...