Writer Don Birnam is fighting failure with a bottle of cheap whiskey, and losing.
Category: Classic Dramas
Key Largo
Key Largo, 1948, Warner Bros. Starring Humphrey Bogart, Edward G. Robinson, Lauren Bacall. Co-starring Lionel Barrymore, Claire Trevor. Directed by John Huston. B&W, 101 minutes. Frank McCloud (Humphrey Bogart), a Major in World War II, drops in on the widow …
Since You Went Away
Since You Went Away, 1944, United Artists. Starring Claudette Colbert, Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Shirley Temple. Directed by John Cromwell. B&W, 177 minutes. Everyday wife and mother Anne Hilton (Claudette Colbert) has just seen her husband Tim leave for battle, …
Mrs. Miniver
For the Miniver family, the war is looming, yet life continues to move forward. New problems, life-threatening problems, confront them. The war and tradition collide in a personal and tragic manner, as the battles ravage the lifestyle of the Miniver …
Gilda
Take a plot with high-stakes illegal gambling and hints of a past, potentially explosive, romance between a man and his bosses' new wife, combine it with some of the finest photography of its time (still noteworthy today). Add Rita Hayworth's …
Now and Forever
Now and Forever, 1934, Paramount Pictures. Starring Gary Cooper, Carole Lombard, Shirley Temple. Directed by Henry Hathaway. B&W, 83 minutes. A feckless con man in constant need of cash, Jerry Day’s (Gary Cooper) latest get-rich-quick scheme involves the daughter he …
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers, 1946, Paramount Pictures. Starring Van Heflin, Barbara Stanwyck, Kirk Douglas. Co-starring Lizabeth Scott. Directed by Lewis Milestone. B&W, 116 minutes. Three childhood friends are linked forever by the truth and lies behind a crime …
The Marrying Kind
The Marrying Kind, 1952, Columbia Pictures. Starring Judy Holliday, Aldo Ray. Directed by George Cukor. B&W, 92 minutes. Down on their luck and ready to go their separate ways, Florence “Florrie” (Judy Holliday) and Chet (Aldo Ray) Keefer stand before …
Where the Sidewalk Ends
Where the Sidewalk Ends, 1950, 20th Century Fox. Starring Dana Andrews, Gene Tierney. Directed by Otto Preminger. B&W, 95 minutes. A good cop with a bad temper, Detective Mark Dixon’s (Dana Andrews) habit of roughing up the questionable characters he …
Daisy Kenyon
Daisy Kenyon, 1947, 20th Century Fox. Starring Joan Crawford, Dana Andrews, Henry Fonda. Directed by Otto Preminger. B&W, 99 minutes. Daisy Kenyon (Joan Crawford), a successful magazine illustrator, is having an affair with Dan O’Mara (Dana Andrews), a married attorney. …
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