The Best Picture of 1949 is....."All the King's Men." This political drama movie is the story of the rise and fall of a politician patterned after the colorful Huey Long (1893-1935), Governor and U. S. Senator from Louisiana. Director-screenwriter Robert Rossen skillfully crafted this fast-moving drama adapted from [..]

"Wicked Little Letters" is a black comedy film about anonymous poison pen letters written to law-abiding residents of a small town in England. A police investigation ensues, which took on special urgency when an elderly woman dies from a heart attack after reading one of the profanity-laced missives. [..]

"A Dangerous Man" is an action movie telling the story of a former Army Special Forces soldier released from prison after serving six years for a crime he did not commit. However, he soon becomes entangled with a group of Chinese criminals causing trouble. [..]

"Little Man Tate" is a drama movie about a seven-year-old boy who is a child prodigy. His mother allows him to go to a summer camp for gifted children, hoping to give him experiences of life around other young geniuses. This excellent story was well-crafted by Jodie Foster [..]

"Sorrowful Jones" is the first of four films that Bob Hope and Lucille Ball appeared in together. This picture is more of a drama than the other three, but does have plenty of one-liners for Hope to deliver. Director Sidney Lanfield ("Swanee River" 1939) [..]

"Shadow of a Doubt" is a psychological thriller movie about a man from Newark, New Jersey, visiting relatives in Santa Rosa, California, where his niece slowly becomes suspicious that he is a serial killer on the run from the law. Director Alfred Hitchcock applied all of his signature [..]

"The Critic" is the story about a theater critic in London in the 1930's who lures a struggling actress into a blackmail scheme with dire consequences. This slow-moving film gets bogged down in a morass of sloppy directing by Anand Tucker and a tedious screenplay by [..]

"Best Sellers" is a comedy-drama film about a young woman who inherits a failed publishing company from her father. She attempts to revive the firm's fortunes by talking one of its most popular authors of the past into releasing something new, or something old, as he [..]

"Hang 'Em High" is a western film where Clint Eastwood plays a man who survives a lynching by a gang of nine men and later is offered a deputy marshal job, under the condition that he bring in the men for trial and not seek revenge on his [..]

Doris Day and Danny Thomas star in "I'll See You in My Dreams," the biography of lyricist Gus Kahn, composer of such songs as "Making Whoopee" and "I'll See You in My Dreams." Director Michael Curtiz ("Noah's Ark" 1928) put together a winsome musical comedy from a decent [..]