Drums Along The Mohawk
John Ford’s technicolor frontier epic Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) offered Depression era audiences a sense of relief and inspiration. The film, set in New York during the Revolutionary War,… Read more »
John Ford’s technicolor frontier epic Drums Along The Mohawk (1939) offered Depression era audiences a sense of relief and inspiration. The film, set in New York during the Revolutionary War,… Read more »
Wealthy Manhattan socialite Alison Courtland (Claudette Colbert) wakes on a train with no recollection of how she got there. This isn’t the first such episode for Mrs. Courtland, or so… Read more »
Marilyn David (Claudette Colbert) is just an average poor little working girl, a typist living alone in New York City. Every Thursday she sits on a bench in Central Park… Read more »
Cecil B. DeMille’s The Sign Of The Cross (1932) is one of the most infamous of Hollywood’s pre-Code era. In a film that owes more than a little to Henryk… Read more »
David O. Selznick’s production Since You Went Away (1944) is the essential wartime “weepie”. Selznick based the film on Since You Went Away: Letters to a Soldier from His Wife… Read more »
Today Mark Sandrich is best known for his film Holiday Inn (1942). However Sandrich produced and directed dozens of films from the mid-twenties through to the late forties, with musical… Read more »
The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) is one of Ernst Lubitsch’s most important pre-code operetta films because it marks the beginning of his collaboration with Miriam Hopkins. While Hopkins is very good… Read more »
Four Frightened People (1934) is an underrated entry in director Cecil B. DeMille’s filmography. It may lack the scope and grandeur of The King Of Kings (1927) or Cleopatra (1934)… Read more »
Midnight (1939) is the first of three films written by Billy Wilder and Charles Brackett that Mitchell Leisen directed. Midnight is a screwball comedy of mistaken identities that in the… Read more »
In Douglas Sirk’s melodramatic thriller Thunder On The Hill (1951) Godliness and faith are entirely the providence of women. What’s remarkably proto-feminist is that this enclave of the faithful is… Read more »