With Niagara, Marilyn Monroe would receive top billing and would be do something she would never do again – be in a thriller and be a bad girl. Later roles like Bus […]
There is More to See Than Just the Falls in… – Niagara (1953)
Look Out Ladies, He Has… – The Seven Year Itch (1955)
Films are often successful for a variety of reasons and this film, like every film, is exactly the same. Three reasons stand out though more than any other – Marilyn Monroe, Tom […]
Take a Ride Down the… – River of No Return (1954)
Robert Mitchum and Marilyn Monroe star in this fairly standard western drama, written by Frank Fenton and directed by the legendary Otto Preminger. While there was no breaking of the mold here, […]
The Perfect Weapon – The Invisible Agent (1942)
Following The Invisible Woman, The Invisible Agent would take some bits from each of the films that preceded it except for one notable exception and that would be the horror element that […]
Move Over For… – The Invisible Woman (1940)
Where the first two films in the Invisible Man franchise concentrated on horror, there was absolutely none present in this film. The Invisible Woman, which you would expect to be a horror […]
Look Out, Because… – The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
The next movie in Universal’s Invisible Man cannon was The Invisible Man Returns and it would do so without Claude Rains, who was the star of that first film. Instead, taking up […]
Guess What? – We’re Not Married (1952)
There are few movies that you can call charming and it just so happens that this one happens to find itself in that very rare company. There is romance, drama and humour […]
If You Want to Come Over… – Don’t Bother to Knock (1952)
Contrary to popular opinion, Marilyn Monroe was not a stupid person. The roles she played in films were just that, pictures on the big screen that did not portray who she really […]
Really… – There’s No Business Like Show Business (1954)
When thinking about quintessential musicals, one that will always come to mind is There’s No Business Like Show Business. It is everything that a musical should be; big, bold, bright and beautiful […]
Sometimes It Pays to Take the Bus – Bus Stop (1956)
The one thing you have to remember when you are watching this movie is that it is quite dated in the ways that men have come to woo women, or vice versa, […]
