Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on July 16, 2015

Share This!“Aargh, matey!  Them that dies will be the lucky ones!”—— Long John Silver (Robert Newton) in one of his less endearing moments Laurence Olivier?  Spencer Tracy?  Anthony Hopkins?  Who’s the greatest film actor, you think?  Marlon Brando?  Robert De Niro?  Humphrey Bogart?  Add your own c   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on July 9, 2015

Share This! If you go to the IMDB page for the 1960 film Seven Thieves, you won’t see much in terms of commentary and reviews. There are less than twenty user review and only a few external reviews. So what gives? Is this schlock to be avoided? The answer- and...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on July 9, 2015

Share This! If you go to the IMDB page for the 1960 film Seven Thieves, you won’t see much in terms of commentary and reviews. There are less than twenty user review and only a few external reviews. So what gives? Is this schlock to be avoided? The answer- and...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on July 2, 2015

Share This! “It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God, and I’m sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be . . . a boy.”—— Loretta Young as Jane Drake in the curtain call at the end of her husband’s play As a film, Bedtime Story exists in...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on July 2, 2015

Share This! “It will be closed in the early spring by an act of God, and I’m sure Mr. Drake hopes it will be . . . a boy.”—— Loretta Young as Jane Drake in the curtain call at the end of her husband’s play As a film, Bedtime Story exists in...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on June 25, 2015

Share This! WILD! That’s How He Lived! That’s How He Loved! That’s How He Fought! Though not in the class of a B picture, it is almost assured that no one came to the set to make 1942’s Wild Bill Hickok Rides with any delusions that they were making Gone...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on June 25, 2015

Share This! WILD! That’s How He Lived! That’s How He Loved! That’s How He Fought! Though not in the class of a B picture, it is almost assured that no one came to the set to make 1942’s Wild Bill Hickok Rides with any delusions that they were making Gone...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on June 18, 2015

Share This! Destruction to all he touched or looked upon! The last time we met Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi at this site and under this byline was in The Black Cat (1934).  Well, gentle reader, in comparing that film with The Invisible Ray, made two years later and featuring...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on June 18, 2015

Share This! Destruction to all he touched or looked upon! The last time we met Boris Karloff and Bela Lugosi at this site and under this byline was in The Black Cat (1934).  Well, gentle reader, in comparing that film with The Invisible Ray, made two years later and featuring...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on June 11, 2015

Share This! 1939 is often lauded as Hollywood’s greatest year, and in a year highlighted by such films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, it is not surprising that a rather smallish film like The Amazing Mr. Williams escapes attention....   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on June 11, 2015

Share This! 1939 is often lauded as Hollywood’s greatest year, and in a year highlighted by such films as Gone with the Wind, The Wizard of Oz, Stagecoach and Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, it is not surprising that a rather smallish film like The Amazing Mr. Williams escapes attention....   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 28, 2015

Share This!She’s tempting to look at – dangerous to know! In spite of the unique quirks and challenges of the Howard Hughes era of RKO Pictures, Robert Mitchum always seemed to overcome and deliver strong product. 1950’s Where Danger Lives is no variant from most of RKO’s re   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 28, 2015

Share This!She’s tempting to look at – dangerous to know! In spite of the unique quirks and challenges of the Howard Hughes era of RKO Pictures, Robert Mitchum always seemed to overcome and deliver strong product. 1950’s Where Danger Lives is no variant from most of RKO’s re   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on May 25, 2015

Share This! “It’s funny!  It’s too funny!  Becket is the only intelligent man in my kingdom, and he’s against me.”—— King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) Musicals have always been a part of movie magic, as well as other genres, even those lying outside the standard staples of drama and comedy,...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on May 25, 2015

Share This! “It’s funny!  It’s too funny!  Becket is the only intelligent man in my kingdom, and he’s against me.”—— King Henry II (Peter O’Toole) Musicals have always been a part of movie magic, as well as other genres, even those lying outside the standard staples of drama and comedy,...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 21, 2015

Share This! Billed as containing all of the drama of the real life Hatfield and McCoy feud, in 1949 Samuel Goldwyn released Roseanna McCoy. He put together an extremely strong cast, with Raymond Massey and Charles Bickford as the two patriarchs of the McCoys and Hatfields, respectively. Additional a   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 21, 2015

Share This! Billed as containing all of the drama of the real life Hatfield and McCoy feud, in 1949 Samuel Goldwyn released Roseanna McCoy. He put together an extremely strong cast, with Raymond Massey and Charles Bickford as the two patriarchs of the McCoys and Hatfields, respectively. Additional a   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on May 14, 2015

Share This! “No law west of Chicago . . . west of Dodge City no god.” — Dr. Irving (Henry Travers) Although not much outside of women and drink, perhaps sailing, seriously interested Errol Flynn, he was possibly a little concerned about how his English/Irish/Australian accent—take your pick—would be   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on May 14, 2015

Share This! “No law west of Chicago . . . west of Dodge City no god.” — Dr. Irving (Henry Travers) Although not much outside of women and drink, perhaps sailing, seriously interested Errol Flynn, he was possibly a little concerned about how his English/Irish/Australian accent—take your pick—would be   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 7, 2015

Share This! Time Stopped in Its Tracks….When She Pulled the Trigger! Released by Eagle-Lion Films, a short lived studio of the late 1940s, Repeat Performance is among their first films. Though there are those that would object to labeling Eagle-Lion a Poverty Row studio (which according to the   read more