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

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

Share This! One of the Most Challenging Stories of Faith Ever Told! Once upon a time, Joan Collins wasn’t the queen bitch on Dynasty and Richard Burton hadn’t crumbled into the alchoholic mess which resulted in his early death in 1984. Once upon a time, dear readers, they were esteemed...   read more

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

Share This! One of the Most Challenging Stories of Faith Ever Told! Once upon a time, Joan Collins wasn’t the queen bitch on Dynasty and Richard Burton hadn’t crumbled into the alchoholic mess which resulted in his early death in 1984. Once upon a time, dear readers, they were esteemed...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on January 22, 2015

Share This! From the Depths of the Earth, He Will Rise. Long thought to be among the ranks of famous lost films within ten years of its 1933 release, The Ghoul finally came to light in the late sixties. That version, however, was missing several significant scenes and was almost...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on January 22, 2015

Share This! From the Depths of the Earth, He Will Rise. Long thought to be among the ranks of famous lost films within ten years of its 1933 release, The Ghoul finally came to light in the late sixties. That version, however, was missing several significant scenes and was almost...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on January 15, 2015

Share This! “You never really feel somebody’s suffering, you only feel their death.”—— Harry Coombes When retired, elderly widower Harry Coombes is forced from his New York City apartment, he and his cat Tonto make a leisurely, often improvisational trek across the country toward Los Angeles. To be   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on January 15, 2015

Share This! “You never really feel somebody’s suffering, you only feel their death.”—— Harry Coombes When retired, elderly widower Harry Coombes is forced from his New York City apartment, he and his cat Tonto make a leisurely, often improvisational trek across the country toward Los Angeles. To be   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on January 8, 2015

Share This!Three Violent People seems like an intriguing film at its surface- and the collateral promotional material supports this thinking. On viewing, however, you get the sense that it is really a ‘B’ picture with an ‘A’ cast. True, or no? By the standards of the day, the   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on January 8, 2015

Share This!Three Violent People seems like an intriguing film at its surface- and the collateral promotional material supports this thinking. On viewing, however, you get the sense that it is really a ‘B’ picture with an ‘A’ cast. True, or no? By the standards of the day, the   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on December 31, 2014

Share This! A Thousand Sabers Flash in Conquest! Somehow the sequel to 1934’s The Scarlet Pimpernel never takes off.  As most astute viewers will know from the get go is that the follow-up The Return of the Scarlet Pimpernel lacks any sense of star power.  Instead of Leslie Howard and...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on December 24, 2014

Share This! “We shall play a little game, Vitus.  A game of death, if you like . . . ”—— Boris Karloff to Bela Lugosi First off, to set things straight and orient any readers venturing into unfamiliar horror film territory, this Black Cat is the 1934 version with Boris...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on December 18, 2014

Share This! M-G-M THRILLS! Such a nondescript tagline should let you know right away that all is not well with MGM’s 1950 film A Lady Without Passport.  Additional language from promotional collateral at the time includes lines like, “How long can she remain,” and “That &#821   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on December 11, 2014

Share This!The fly with the head of a man!  And the man with the head of a fly! When watching The Fly, despite all that has happened earlier, much of it well done and sophisticated for a horror movie of its 1958 vintage, I always anticipate an especially favorite scene toward the...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on December 4, 2014

Share This! Villa rages! Villa lusts! Villa kills! VILLA RIDES! Name a good motion picture about the Mexican Revolution.  No, I can’t really name one either.  And after watching 1968’s Villa Rides! I still can’t.  Not that Villa Rides! is a bad picture, because it isn’t.  But   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on November 26, 2014

Share This!“I’ve always felt that I was destined for some great thing, what I don’t know. . . .  The last great opportunity of a lifetime—an entire world at war—and I’m left out of it?  God will not permit this to happen!  I will be allowed to fulfill my destiny.  His will be done.” ——...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on November 20, 2014

Share This! THRILL TO The Fabled Tree-House! — The Wild Animal Race! — The Great Pirate Attack! Disney has the rights to two features based on the famous Wyss novel.  Yes, that’s right; two!  Most of us are surely familiar with the extremely popular 1960 version produced by Disney   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on November 13, 2014

Share This! “Harry, do you know what you’re doing? You’re killing me. You’re killing me and yourself.” — Mary Bristol to Harry Fabian iNght and the City is the darkest, the most unrelenting film noir, full of despicable characters for whom no one has any sympathy and so oppressively film...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on November 6, 2014

Share This! Louise Books is one of the actresses were haven’t really touched on in our six years online, but perhaps today is the day to put that onus behind us.  Sadly, we picked one of her weaker pictures, the Philo Vance introducing The Canary Murder Case, in which to...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on October 30, 2014

Share This! “I feel I’ve had to go through the fire for some reason.  Eleanor, it’s a hard way to learn humility, but I’ve had to learn it by crawling.”— Franklin Delano Roosevelt With the recent premiere of the PBS eleven-hour The Roosevelts, An Intimate History, it seems appropriate to examine for   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on October 23, 2014

Share This! Torrid, tempestuous Irena…the spark that turned the tropics into a blazing cauldron of passions! If you look at the promotional materials for the film Fire Down Below, you’ll see some pretty big names in the cast.  Rita Hayworth, coming off her second Hollywood hiatus, takes   read more