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As we’ve written many times before, we welcome reader emails — good, bad or indifferent. The latest missives are actually pretty good. Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie guys, here to give our ever alert (and opinionated) readers the day’s spotlight. First up is regular reader Mike Sheridan, who offers this about the […]
What an astonishing career was had by Gary Cooper. He began making silents in the mid-Twenties, and wound up appearing in nearly 120 titles of which he was the star of more than 80. (He died of cancer at the age of 60 in 1961.) Hello, everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers, your classic movie […]
Have you ever wondered where the conceptual boilerplate of the time-honored Western movie comes from? Our favorite guest contributor and Books 2 Movies maven, Larry Michie, has the answer. Hello Everybody, Joe Morella and Frank Segers here again with our favorite topic, Classic Movies. Here’s Larry……… The conventions of motion picture Westerns have long […]
Hello everybody. Joe Morella and Frank Segers here. With our pal Larry Michie. Larry further muses on Hemingway Novels to screen. “In 1957 came a film version of Hemingway’s first novel, a classic that enraptured millions of readers and defined what came to be known as ‘The Lost Generation.’ Unfortunately, on the big screen […]
The importance of Being Ernest. Hello everybody. This is Mister Joe Morella and Mister Frank Segers here again at the Classic Movie Blog. without MRS Norman Maine. Today we welcome our regular guest contributor, Larry Michie, literary man of the world and former television editor of Variety. Larry muses most on a most puzzling classic […]