"The Crawling Eye" is typical of early science fiction films: Low budget special effects, bad acting, and predictable storyline. It tells the tale of a mysterious radioactive cloud that appears on the side of Mount Trollenberg in Switzerland. Large octopus-like creatures with a [..]

Susan Hayward delivers what is perhaps the best performance of her career in "I Want to Live!" The Academy Award for Best Actress was awarded to Hayward for her riveting portrayal of accused murderer Barbara Graham. She is in virtually every scene, capturing the [..]

Eartha Kitt and Sammy Davis Jr. star in a drama film called "Anna Lucasta." Kitt plays the title role of a woman in crisis, i.e., romantic problems and family problems. Director Arnold Laven did a good job of telling the story with a [..]

"A Night to Remember" is a disaster film about the sinking of the Titanic. Director Roy Ward Baker ("The One That Got Away" 1957) put together this very historically accurate film with good production values. It was done in the docudrama style, a genre of film [..]

"Topper Takes a Trip" is a sequel to "Topper" (1937), continuing the story of Marion Kirby (Constance Bennett), who tries to gain entry into Heaven but is told she must do a good deed on Earth. That good deed is to reunite a divorced couple, Cosmo and [..]

"The Long, Hot Summer" is melodrama movie about the Varner family in Frenchman's Bend, Mississippi, who are visited by an out-of-towner named Ben Quick. All sorts of sparks fly when Dad Varner, who owns most of the town, thinks about making Ben the head of his [..]

The Best Picture of 1958 is....."Gigi." The talented Leslie Caron stars in the title role, in which she is transformed from a tomboy teenager to a mature young woman before our very eyes. Her co-stars include Louis Jourdan as a gentleman caller, Maurice Chevalier is his uncle, Hermione [..]

"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" is a rare comedy film from Alfred Hitchcock, usually known for his dramas as the Master of Suspense. The director pulled off this screwball comedy quite well, although it is not remembered as one of the great laughfests of all time. [..]

"Meet John Doe" is a classic Frank Capra yarn about a newspaper reporter who unwittingly sparks a major grassroots political movement when she publishes a fake letter to the editor under the name John Doe. She hires an unemployed baseball player to play her John Doe, and [..]

"Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde" is the story of a scientist named Dr. Henry Jekyll who meddles with the darker side of science, as he brings out his sinister alter-ego Mr. Edward Hyde. The alter-ego's visits became longer and more crime-filled. The crisis only [..]