"Drunk Parents" is a comedy movie about a couple facing a series of financial challenges. His once successful business is on the verge of bankruptcy, their house is in foreclosure, and they have just sent their daughter to an Ivy League college. The couple escape their financial [..]

"The Man Who Came to Dinner" is a screwball comedy about a New York City radio star who slips and falls on the steps of a home of a family in Ohio. He insists on recuperating in their home during the Christmas holiday, with the family [..]

Carole Lombard's final motion picture was "To Be or Not to Be," a dark comedy about an acting troupe in Nazi-occupied Poland who use their performing talents in the resistance movement. Producer-director Ernest Lubitsch ("Ninotchka" 1939) put together this efficaciously entertaining film with screenwriter Edwin Justus [..]

"Larceny, Inc." is a gangster-comedy-holiday film starring Edward G. Robinson as a prison convict who decides to go straight, but is continually tempted to return to a life of crime. Just before he is released from Sing Sing prison, he is already approached by former "associates" to rob [..]

"Wake Island" is an action war film telling the story of the Japanese attack on the U. S. military outpost there following the Dec. 7, 1941, strike on Pearl Harbor. Director John Farrow ("A Bill of Divorcement" 1940) put together a well-paced film which maintains a [..]

"Reap the Wild Wind" is an exciting action-adventure film set in Key West, Florida, in the 1840's. The story centers around cut-throat salvagers who profit from the wrecks of transatlantic cargo ships, and also wreak havoc by attacking active shipping. Raymond Massey plays once such salvage captain who [..]

The Best Picture of 1942 is....."Mrs. Miniver." This outstanding drama depicts a middle class English family enduring the stresses and strains of Nazi Germany's bombardment of their nation during the early years of World War II. The film took home six Oscars (out of [..]

"Touch of Evil" is a crime drama film noir about kidnapping, murder, drugs, and police corruption in a town along the U. S.-Mexican border. The complex plot is too involved to summarize in this space. Orson Welles ("Citizen Kane" 1941) tightly [..]

Elvis Presley turns in a respectable performance as a young man searching for a job, and a girl friend, in "King Creole." This entertaining black and white melodrama was tightly directed by Michael Curtiz ("Casablanca" 1943), from a screenplay by Herbert Baker and Michael V. Gazzo. [..]

"The Defiant Ones" tells the story of two escaped prisoners from a chain gang, one white and one black, who are shackled together and must cooperate to survive. It stars Tony Curtis and Sidney Poitier, delivering outstanding performances under what was undoubtedly very difficult circumstances. The pair took [..]