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

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on April 30, 2015

Share This! “If there was a law they was workin’ with, maybe we could take it, but it ain’t the law.  They’re workin’ away our spirits, tryin’ to make us cringe and crawl, takin’ away our decency.” —— Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) A man walks along an empty Oklahoma highway. ...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on April 30, 2015

Share This! “If there was a law they was workin’ with, maybe we could take it, but it ain’t the law.  They’re workin’ away our spirits, tryin’ to make us cringe and crawl, takin’ away our decency.” —— Tom Joad (Henry Fonda) A man walks along an empty Oklahoma highway. ...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on April 23, 2015

Share This! “Gentlemen, due to the fact that I have met one of the younger married women of your city, I regret exceedingly that I will be unable to autograph….” Anne (Joan Blondell) to Ken (Warren William)” Rarely do we venture into pre-code era movies, but that doesn’   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on April 23, 2015

Share This! “Gentlemen, due to the fact that I have met one of the younger married women of your city, I regret exceedingly that I will be unable to autograph….” Anne (Joan Blondell) to Ken (Warren William)” Rarely do we venture into pre-code era movies, but that doesn’   read more

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

Share This! “Are you sure this country isn’t on fire somewhere?” —— “Bill” Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inquiring about the thickness of a London fog Jack Lemmon.  Kim Novak.  Fred Astaire.  And the British, too.  Lionel Jeffries.  Estelle Winwood.  Henry Daniell.  A London setting.  A mystery-comedy about   read more

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

Share This! “Are you sure this country isn’t on fire somewhere?” —— “Bill” Gridley (Jack Lemmon) inquiring about the thickness of a London fog Jack Lemmon.  Kim Novak.  Fred Astaire.  And the British, too.  Lionel Jeffries.  Estelle Winwood.  Henry Daniell.  A London setting.  A mystery-comedy about   read more

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

Share This! Even after over seven years of existence there are more than a few genres and stars we’ve rarely if ever touched upon. One of those is Tallulah Bankhead, who is sadly probably best known today for her appearance in Hitchcock’s Lifeboat and to a much lesser extent for...   read more

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

Share This! Here they are . . . Lt. TOM KEEFER . . . the malcontent who laid the foundation for the mutiny. Lt. STEVE MARYK . . . whose damning diary sparked the mutiny. Navy lawyer Lt. BARNEY GREENWALD . . . who knew who should have been on trial. Lt. Comdr....   read more

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

Share This! Here they are . . . Lt. TOM KEEFER . . . the malcontent who laid the foundation for the mutiny. Lt. STEVE MARYK . . . whose damning diary sparked the mutiny. Navy lawyer Lt. BARNEY GREENWALD . . . who knew who should have been on trial. Lt. Comdr....   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 26, 2015

Share This! The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead! Basil Rathbone comes to mind for most as the definitive Sherlock Holmes or perhaps to a smaller and more dedicated set as the foil to Errol Flynn’s Peter Blood or Robin Hood. What true die-hards will also know is that Rathbone...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 26, 2015

Share This! The Terror Drug That Wakes the Dead! Basil Rathbone comes to mind for most as the definitive Sherlock Holmes or perhaps to a smaller and more dedicated set as the foil to Errol Flynn’s Peter Blood or Robin Hood. What true die-hards will also know is that Rathbone...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on March 19, 2015

Share This!“They named a brandy after Napoleon, they made a herring out ofBismarck and the Führer is going to end up as a piece of cheese!”  — Colonel Ehrhardt Jack Benny, who had been a successful vaudevillian and was, in the 1940s, a great success on radio, had less success in the...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 12, 2015

Share This! At some time during 1936 the powers that were at MGM decided to take perhaps their biggest star of the time, Joan Crawford, and pull out all the stops in putting her in the highest quality production. The subject matter they picked was somewhat odd to say the...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 5, 2015

Share This! Menace and Love-Madness! Plunder and Lust! Errol Flynn in the 1950s gets little mention, and perhaps justifiably so. His last contract with Warner Brother ran its course after 1953’s The Master of Ballantrae, to be followed by increasingly dire decline of the former matinee idol. T   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on March 5, 2015

Share This! Menace and Love-Madness! Plunder and Lust! Errol Flynn in the 1950s gets little mention, and perhaps justifiably so. His last contract with Warner Brother ran its course after 1953’s The Master of Ballantrae, to be followed by increasingly dire decline of the former matinee idol. T   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on February 26, 2015

Share This!“I know those law books mean a lot to you, but not out here.  Out here a man settles his own problems. —Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) to Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a milestone film in a number of ways.  Although receiving poor reviews and a disappointi   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on February 26, 2015

Share This!“I know those law books mean a lot to you, but not out here.  Out here a man settles his own problems. —Tom Doniphon (John Wayne) to Ransom Stoddard (James Stewart) The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance is a milestone film in a number of ways.  Although receiving poor reviews and a disappointi   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on February 19, 2015

Share This! Duryea! …that fascinating tough-guy of “Scarlet Street”! If one was to toss out the name Roy William Neill most would shrug and rightfully claim ignorance of the man in question. A smaller subset would know Neill as the director of most all of the Universal Sherlock Hol   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on February 12, 2015

Share This! Two great lovers of the screen in the grandest of romantic comedies! So—when or where did it happen?  Certainly not in Brooklyn as it did for Frank Sinatra and Kathryn Grayson in 1947.  Nor in Athens for Jayne Mansfield fifteen years later—wrong continent.  As for a season of...   read more