Gilda (Feb. 14, 1946)
Charles Vidor’s Gilda premiered on February 14, 1946, and went into wide release on March 15. It’s best remembered as the film that made Rita Hayworth the biggest sex symbol of the ’40s. (Not that she...
View ArticleThe Swordsman (Jan. 2, 1948)
Joseph H. Lewis’s Technicolor spectacle The Swordsman takes place in the Scottish highlands toward the end of the 17th century. Clan warfare is what the highlanders live and breathe, and no clan war is...
View ArticleThe Big Clock (April 9, 1948)
Billy Wilder’s The Lost Weekend (1945) wasn’t the only film in which Ray Milland got into trouble because of booze. In John Farrow’s The Big Clock, based on the best-selling novel by Kenneth Fearing,...
View ArticleKnock on Any Door (Feb. 21, 1949)
Knock on Any Door (1949) Directed by Nicholas Ray Santana Pictures Corporation / Columbia Pictures SPOILER ALERT. This review will discuss plot points of this film that you may not want to know if you...
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