Kathleen Winsor’s best-selling novel Forever Amber was made into a lush big screen entertainment by Otto Preminger in 1947. It was necessary to tone down the more erotic passages of Winsor’s novel, but the film was popular with the public. Linda Darnell plays the role of the 17th century femme fatale.  Suppressed by her Puritan […]

Director Billy Wilder was criticized by some for the comedic elements in A Foreign Affair, set in Berlin right after WWII.  These reviewers accused Wilder of moral bankruptcy, challenging him to prove what could be funny about the Nazi war guilt, the bombed-out city, the postwar European black market, and so on. These elements are […]

This handsomely produced sci-fi is based on Shakespeare’s “The Tempest,” transformed into a classic of its kind due to groundbreaking Oscar-nominated special effects. Space men travel to a planet ruled by expatriate Dr. Edward Morbius (Walter Pidgeon), who has built a kingdom with his daughter Alta (Anne Francis) and obedient robot Robby. The good doctor […]

classic fish out of water tale, Footloose, directed by Herbert Ross, centers on Ren McCormick, an energetic adolescent who loves musical, vividly played by the young and charming Kevin Bacon

classic fish out of water tale, Footloose, directed by Herbert Ross, centers on Ren McCormick, an energetic adolescent who loves musical, vividly played by the young and charming Kevin Bacon