Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on February 5, 2014

Share This! “Oh, wake up, Norma—you’d be killing yourself to an empty house. The audience left twenty years ago.” —— Joe Gillis to Norma Desmond That 1950 movie Sunset Blvd. was at the time, and remains today, unique in many ways, a milestone in movie history, besides being a great...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on February 1, 2014

Share This! From the start I Take this Woman was to be Louis Mayer’s vehicle for propelling his latest star, Hedy Lamarr, into the stratosphere. He had the story already picked out along with a working title of Cinderella. He had a hand picked director in the enigmatic Josef von...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on January 25, 2014

Share This! Half a league, half a league, Half a league onward, All in the valley of Death Rode the six hundred: “Forward, the Light Brigade! Charge for the guns,” he said: Into the valley of Death Rode the six hundred. —opening of The Charge of the Light Brigade by...   read more

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

Share This! A Flaming Drama of Dangerous Love! 1953’s Ride, Vaquero! is a rather overlooked and underrated western .  On paper, it holds quite a bit of potential with a stellar cast.  Ava Gardner and Robert Taylor both star above the title, mind you.  They are supported by Howard Keel and...   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on January 14, 2014

Share This! “They talk about flat-footed policemen. May the saints protect us from the gifted amateur.” —— Chief Inspector Hubbard (John Williams) In 1948, Alfred Hitchcock, by then well established in Hollywood, had experimented in shooting an entire film, Rope, without cuts or editing, in continu   read more

Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on January 8, 2014

Share This! “If they’re mortal, they must have mortal weaknesses. They’ll be stopped, somehow.”——Gene Barry The original version of The War of the Worlds was a product of the horror/science fiction films of the 1950s following World War II and expressing latent fears of the hydrogen bomb and Russi   read more

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

Share This! Follow Matt Helm secret agent from bedroom to bedlam with guns, girls and dynamite! Although the last generation would think of the Austin Powers series as perhaps the most popular of all the humorous tongue-in-cheek parodies of the James Bond film franchise, it is not the best. That...   read more