Frederic March played the definitive Dr. Henry Jekyll in the 1931 horror film "Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde." He displayed quite an acting range portraying the kindly English doctor who develops a drug that releases a person's evil side, and then uses it on himself, bring out [..]

The Best Picture of 1930-1931 is....."Cimarron." This western epic drama tells the story of an adventurous newspaper editor who moves west to Oklahoma in 1889 with his wife and all of the drama that he and his wife experience in the news business over the next [..]

James Cagney got his big break in the motion picture business in "The Public Enemy." He plays a young man who rises to the top of the criminal underworld in Prohibition Era Chicago, gaining attention from both law enforcement and rival gang leaders. This movie, along with "Little [..]

"Bullitt" is a crime thriller movie where Steve McQueen plays a police detective who pursues a group of mobsters after they kill a witness he's been assigned to protect. Peter Yates ("Summer Holiday" 1963) tightly directed this action-filled picture, well-known for a memorable car chase scene through [..]

The Best Picture of 1968 is....."Oliver!" This musical drama film is the story of Oliver Twist, a 9-year-old orphan boy who falls in with the wrong crowd, a group of street urchin pickpockets led by the Artful Dodger. When one of Oliver's intended marks takes pity on him [..]

"On Her Majesty's Secret Service" is the sixth in the 007 movie series and tells the story of James Bond once again experiencing problems with Ernst Stavro Blofeld. In this film, Sean Connery has left the series and Eon Productions has hired Australian actor George Lazenby to replace [..]

"Marlowe" is a neo-noir movie starring James Garner as Los Angeles private detective Philip Marlowe, who has been hired by a young woman from Kansas to find her missing brother. This movie never really takes off due to unfocused direction by Paul Bogart and a mediocre screenplay [..]

"The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie" is something of a psychological study of a teacher at a girl's school and her six favorites in the class. Maggie Smith's layered performance of Jean Brodie, who is noted for displaying signs of narcissism, won her the Oscar for Best [..]

Elvis Presley's second-to-last movie was quite an engaging affair. "The Trouble with Girls" is the story of a traveling entertainment group's visit to a small town in Iowa in 1927. Director Peter Tewksbury ("Stay Away, Joe" 1968) put together the film with good production values, including creative filming [..]

"Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice" is a comedy-drama film about two couples dealing with the shifting mores of the 1960's. One couple, Bob & Carol Sanders (Robert Culp and Natalie Wood), return home from a retreat with a willingness to look into subjects like open marriage. [..]