MovingPictureHistoryBlog

Film rarely gets more noir than Edgar G. Ulmer’s Detour , a wide-awake nightmare of unforgiving fate and dead-end fatalism that may be t...

Every so often, a motion picture will stake out a territory and lay eternal claim to it. Such is the case with Day for Night , a warm-hear...

How's this for an entrance? In the opening minutes of D.O.A., Edmond O'Brien staggers into a police station, asks directions to ...

The disreputable doctor who cracks wise and drinks heavily, but sobers up when the chips are down. The golden-haired prostitute who brighten...

Despite what you’ve heard from four or five four generations of nightclub comics and impressionists, James Cagney always insisted that he...

It’s the kind of grand Old Hollywood story that, if not true, should be. Filmmaker Howard Hawks claimed on several occasions, to a variet...

In an age when radio talk shows, all-news cable networks and seemingly infinite arrays of internet websites offer round-the-clock reports ...