Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on July 22, 2024

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Sing, Cowboy,...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on November 8, 2021

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Cowboy Canteen...   read more

Classic Film & TV Cafe Posted by Rick29 on March 15, 2021

Jack Lemmon and Glenn Ford. The incredibly versatile Delmer Daves directed three of my favorite Westerns from the 1950s, a decade in which the genre flourished. Each film is decidedly different from the other. The Hanging Tree (1959) is a tale about self-forgiveness and the power of love. 3:10 to...   read more

Flickers in Time Posted by Beatrice on May 3, 2020

Midnight Cowboy Directed by John Schlesinger Written by Waldo Salt from a novel by James Leo Herily 1969/US IMDb link Repeat viewing/Amazon Instant One of 1001 Movies You Must See Before You Die I have always loved this movie.  Somehow I came out of it exhilarated rather than depressed, making...   read more

Comet Over Hollywood Posted by on October 7, 2019

It’s no secret that the Hollywood Comet loves musicals. In 2010, I revealed I had seen 400 movie musicals over the course of eight years. Now that number is over 600. To celebrate and share this musical love, here is my weekly feature about musicals. This week’s musical: Cowboy From...   read more

Carole & Co. Posted by carole_and_co on May 23, 2018

Four years ago, Media History Digital Library added the 1930 to 1940 run of Silver Screen to its array of uploaded classic fan magazines, and I promised I'd mine it for Carole Lombard research. As you may know, real life got in the way. (It also didn't help that I...   read more

The Stop Button Posted by Andrew Wickliffe on November 20, 2016

Midnight Cowboy gets to be a character study, but doesn’t start as one, which is an interesting situation. About forty-five minutes into the film, which runs just shy of two hours, Midnight Cowboy chucks the narrative urgency. Maybe not chucks, maybe just shuts down, because it does take the film...   read more

Phantom Empires Posted by Clayton on July 27, 2016

My Top Ten Cowboy Stars - Yep, another o' them internet lists... 7/27/2016 0 Comments I've found it common on film blogs to make lists, so this year I've done a few, just for the fun of it. Recently I've been watching   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 19, 2016

When most people think of famous Hollywood fathers they think of the men whose children followed in their profession ( e.g. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Danny Thomas ) or actors who are famous for being family men ( Paul Newman, Fred MacMurray ). I think the best testament...   read more

Silver Scenes - A Blog for Classic Film Lovers Posted by The Metzinger Sisters on June 19, 2016

When most people think of famous Hollywood fathers they think of the men whose children followed in their profession ( e.g. John Wayne, Kirk Douglas, Robert Mitchum, Danny Thomas ) or actors who are famous for being family men ( Paul Newman, Fred MacMurray ). I think the best testament...   read more

Christy Putnam Posted by Christy Putnam on August 12, 2015

Robert Mitchum’s Summer Under The Stars Celebration–The One and Only Noir Cowboy Blood on the Moon Where a woman’s bullet kills as quick as a man’s! When there’s blood on the moon, death lurks in the shadows…. Tomorrow, Robert Mitchum is honored with a Summer Un   read more

The Man on the Flying Trapeze Posted by David on September 26, 2012

Vaudeville team (and real-life couple) Ray Mayer and Edith Evans. For their story, click here.   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 18, 2012

The film stars Jon Voight as a naive Texan and Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo, the bum who initially cons him and eventually befriends him. Voight comes to New York expecting to make money off of rich city women as a male hustler. However, his callowness leaves him broke. That’s...   read more

4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on September 18, 2012

The film stars Jon Voight as a naive Texan and Dustin Hoffman as Ratso Rizzo, the bum who initially cons him and eventually befriends him. Voight comes to New York expecting to make money off of rich city women as a male hustler. However, his callowness leaves him broke. That’s...   read more

True Classics Posted by Brandie on May 13, 2012

by Georgie Lawrence The first film I remember going to see at the movie theater was a re-release of Pinocchio (1940). My aunts took my cousins and me to go see it, and we were so excited. The one thing I wanted, more than anything, was a bag of popcorn. It...   read more

The Movie Rat Posted by Bernardo Villela on April 14, 2012

Here’s a short I was reminded about recently by a post my cousin made on Facebook. There are a few reasons I decided to post it. In light of my recent trip to the Disney parks clearly the great shorts of the studio era. Here’s one that exemplifies Disney’s style...   read more

The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on April 3, 2012

How does one even begin to describe the films John Travolta made in the late 1970s and early 1980s? The Boy in the Plastic Bubble, Saturday Night Fever and Staying Alive may be remembered more as “what were we thinking, loving this?” films than total classics, that’s not to say...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Google profile on September 11, 2010

About MeBlogger, Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog and more. Please add my Google profile to your circles. It was very common back in the day for established musicians to grace the silver screen with a cameo in a motion picture. There are a few notable appearances...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

I'm chipping away at my 2019 Cinema Shame challenge. This year I gave myself the goal to watch 10 movies from my birth year 1980 for the very first time. I'm hoping I can tackle a few reviews this summer so I can keep up! Oh boy. I'm not even...   read more

Out of the Past - A Classic Film Blog Posted by Raquel Stecher on November 30, -0001

I'm chipping away at my 2019 Cinema Shame challenge. This year I gave myself the goal to watch 10 movies from my birth year 1980 for the very first time. I'm hoping I can tackle a few reviews this summer so I can keep up! Oh boy. I'm not even...   read more