Princess Yang Kwei Fei
I was in ninth grade when I first saw this film. It was late Spring, the second week in a row that my father, brother, and I all drove down… Read more »
Tag: 1950s
Vengeance Valley
“The Skipper” was how I knew Burt Lancaster as a kid. His real name was unmanageable to a three year old. He was just “The Skipper” because that’s what his… Read more »
Magnificent Obsession
I don’t believe this is Douglas Sirk’s best film. Still, it’s my favorite. It probably has something to do with my background in Catholicism (CCD every Tuesday night). Films that… Read more »
Gunfight At The O.K. Corral
“We’re playing two pre-Freudian fags. We’re in love with each other and we don’t know how to express ourselves that way-we just kind of look at each other and grunt… Read more »
Rancho Notorious
“Cinemascope is not for men, but for snakes and funerals.”-Fritz Lang Rancho Notorious (1952) is not unique in its inversion of the traditional female role in Westerns. Nicholas Ray’s Johnny… Read more »
Houdini
George Marshall is perhaps best remembered for directing the James Stewart comedies Destry Rides Again (1939) and Pot O’ Gold (1941). Marshall’s career as a film director spanned over fifty years, and made… Read more »
Edge Of The City
On the surface Edge Of The City (1957) may appear to be just another “white liberal” Hollywood production from the fifties but from the vantage point of 2020, and in… Read more »
Shane
George Stevens’ film Shane (1953) presents itself in modern criticism as an artifact of an American bygone age. Upon its initial release it received acclaim amongst a sea of A-list… Read more »
The Flame & The Arrow
By 1950, Jacques Tourneur had made a name for himself as one of the most versatile and economic of filmmakers working in Hollywood. He had helmed such acclaimed titles as… Read more »
Sissi
In Ardmore, not far from the Bryn Mawr Film Institute, is a video store called Viva Video: The Last Picture Store. This is one of the last proper video stores… Read more »
