A tale of murder, deceit, and identity change in post WWII America, The House on Telegraph Hill is tautly directed by Robert Wise and well-acted by the entire cast. Valentina Cortese, the Italian actress, plays Victoria Kopwelska, a Polish woman imprisoned in a Nazi concentration camp at the end of World War II. Desperate to […]

Shot in semi-documentary style, which was innovative at the time, House on 92nd Street is an effective dramatic thriller about the smashing of a Nazi spy ring operating the U.S.   1945’s The House on 92nd Street Covert surveillance helps the FBI discover the presence of some suspicious individuals in New York City.  William Eythe plays […]

Twentieth Century Fox A remake of 1933’s “The Greeks Had a Word for Them,” Fox’s hugely popular “How to Marry a Millionaire” was the first Hollywood comedy to be shot in Cinemascope. Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable, and Marilyn Monroe play three models of modest means who rent an expensive Manhattan penthouse and pose as women […]

The Howards of Virginia, like most Hollywood films about the Revolutionary War, was a commercial failure that even mega-stars like Cary Grant could not help. The story takes place in the capital city of Williamsburg, Virginia, where Matt Howard (Grant) dedicates himself to the causes of Life, Liberty and the Pursuit of Happiness. His faithful […]

In this late romantic comedy in Cary Grant’s glorious career, the star scored still another box-office smash, this time opposite Sophia Loren. Grant plays Tom Winston, a widowed father who packs himself and his spoiled kiddies off to a ramshackle houseboat. Meanwhile, Sophia Loren’s Cinzia Zaccardi, trying to break loose from her tyrannical father (Eduardo […]