Going against one’s nature can either lead to unexpected good things or very foreseeable bad things and in this film, Barbara Stanwyck’s character Kathy does just that to marry the man she […]
When Life Takes a Turn – Crime of Passion (1957)
A Muse and Her Man – Down to Earth (1947)
Terpsichore, one of the nine muses of Greek mythology, the goddess of dance and chorus, has heard about a Broadway musical being put on about her life by producer Danny Miller. Of […]
When You Know You Know – B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
With Van Heflin and Barbara Stanwyck in the lead, B.F.’s Daughter turns out to be a pleasing drama that sees the two in and out of love with each other, the former […]
And the Band Played On – Titanic (1953)
There are those that will view this film and think about nothing about what may or may not have been historically accurate and those that will compare it to the version before […]
Obsession and Oil – Blowing Wild (1953)
The year 1953 would see quite a few big releases from the likes of Stalag 17 to Peter Pan to Calamity Jane and more and amongst all of those films would be […]
To Live and To Love – The Other Love (1947)
Barbara Stanwyck plays a woman who is dying which is never easy, whether one knows about it or not. Planning for the future, much less having a future, is almost impossible to […]
Love that Wounds – East Side, West Side (1949)
Betrayal at the hands of a loved one is never easy, much less forgiving them and yet, that is exactly what Jessie Bourne did when her husband cheated on her. Love it […]
To Do What She Must – No Man of Her Own (1950)
No Man of Her Own, a film that is more drama than noir and starring Barbara Stanwyck, finds her playing a single woman who is pregnant and heading home on the train […]
Home is Where the Heart Is – All I Desire (1953)
All I Desire stars Barbara Stanwyck in fine form as a woman who, after leaving her family ten years earlier in a bid to make it big and escape the small town […]
A Bloody Trail – Tower of London (1939)
While there are certainly overtones of horror throughout the film, Tower of London is more of a historical drama than anything else with a little bit of action interspersed throughout. That is […]
