"Lover Come Back" is vintage Doris Day-Rock Hudson romantic comedy material, the second of three pictures they made together. (The others are "Pillow Talk" of 1959 and "Send Me No Flowers" of 1964.) Screenwriters Stanley Shapiro and Paul Henning did such a good job they [..]

Elvis Presley stars in a rare dramatic role where he plays a troubled young man from a dysfunctional family who later goes to college to become a writer in "Wild in the Country." The King of Rock-and-Roll turns in a good performance and even sings a [..]

One of the best World War II action-adventure films to ever come out of Hollywood is "The Guns of Navarone." This well-crafted story of an Allied commando unit's efforts to destroy a German fortress that threatens the Allies' ships in the Aegean Sea contains some [..]

"One, Two, Three" is a political comedy film where James Cagney plays a Coca-Cola executive who gets the job as head of Coke's Western European operations in Berlin. He finds out that his boss' daughter is married to a hard-core communist, which could jeopardize his job. The film [..]

Debbie Reynolds stars as a widow lady who relocates her family from New York City to the Arizona Territory in 1911 in the western comedy film "The Second Time Around." Director Vincent Sherman ("The Young Philadelphians" 1959) instilled good production values in this entertaining fare. [..]

"The Misfits" is a contemporary western movie with an off-beat story about a group of eccentric people thrown together by circumstance. The film was well directed by John Huston ("The Maltese Falcon" 1941), from a screenplay by Arthur Miller. Huston handled a diverse cast headed by Clark Gable [..]

The Best Picture of 1961 is....."West Side Story." This musical romantic drama stars Natalie Wood and Richard Beymer as members of rival gangs who fall in love, earning their friends' enmity. Directors Robert Wise and Jerome Robbins paid close attention to detail in bringing [..]

The story of Robin Hood has had many versions over the years, but the definitive motion picture on this topic is the 1938 release of "The Adventures of Robin Hood." Errol Flynn personifies the Saxon knight rebelling against Prince John, helped out by Maid Marion, played by [..]

Gene Autry and the local town folk fall victim to greedy land developers in "Man From Music Mountain." Besides the drama, there is plenty of music from Autry and co-stars Smiley Burnette, Carol Hughes, Sally Payne, and Polly Jenkins and her Plowboys. (Carol Hughes' daughter Kay [..]

"Bringing Up Baby" is an over-rated screwball comedy about a paleontologist who is in trouble because he loses a valuable dinosaur bone and somehow gets stuck taking care of a leopard named Baby. It was a failure with critics and the public alike when it was released [..]