While typical of its ilk, The Cat and the Canary is a cut above most of the rest, due in large part to its lead in Bob Hope who always seems to […]
Making Light of a Haunted Situation – The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Where Love is Concerned… – The Sky’s The Limit (1943)
If there was one thing that Fred Astaire excelled at, other than singing and dancing, it was the romantic comedy and The Sky’s the Limit is just that, which also happens to […]
Rapping At My Chamber Door… – The Raven (1963)
Vincent Price, Boris Karloff and Peter Lorre would star in a 1963 adaptation by Roger Corman and Richard Matheson of Edgar Allen Poe’s The Raven that would end up being far more […]
Out to Sea – In the Navy (1941)
The boys are at it again and this time Bud Abbott and Lou Costello are In the Navy, bringing Dick Powell, Claire Dodd and the Andrews Sisters along for the ride. This […]
In the Army Now – Buck Privates (1941)
Having made a lot of films over the years, one of the best by comedy duo Bud Abbott and Lou Costello in Buck Privates, a movie just as funny now nearly eighty […]
Love Not Lost – Affectionately Yours (1941)
Dennis Morgan plays Ricky Mayberry, a reporter currently on break from his foreign assignments and a man who likes to date numerous women despite being married. While wooing Irene as played by […]
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 […]
Not Looking for Love – Bachelor in Paradise (1961)
A.J. Niles is completely broke and because of that, not including that he owes the government a lot of money, his latest international novel about women will be written in the suburbs, […]
Both Dancer and Detective – Lady of Burlesque (1943)
Despite being a film about burlesque, there is not a lot of it shown due to the production codes of the time, but that does not stop Lady of Burlesque from being […]
Mike Shayne and… – The Man Who Wouldn’t Die (1942)
Portraying Brett Halliday’s character Michael Shayne, Lloyd Nolan would star in a series of films with The Man Who Wouldn’t Die from 1942 being the fifth picture. The movie would also end […]
The Telltale Mind 