Schindler's List is a 1993 historical movie.  The film follows Oskar Schindler,  a German industrialist who saved more than a thousand mostly Polish Jew refugees from the Holocaust by employing them in his factories during World War II. It stars.

I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars.

This is a very intense movie that shows what went down when the ( Read more... )

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington is a 1939 film about a naive, newly appointed U.S. Senator who fights against government corruption.  The film was controversial when it was first released, but successful at the box office, and it made Stewart a major star.  It was also loosely based on the life of Montana U.S. Senator Burton Wheeler.  Mr. Smith Goes ( Read more... )

I recently watched Bringing Up Baby, a 1938 comedy film starring Katharine Hepburn and Cary Grant. The film tells the story of a paleontologist in a number of predicaments involving a scatterbrained heiress and a leopard named Baby ( Read more... )

I recently watched The Bishop's Wife, a 1947 film directed by Henry Koster and starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven ( Read more... )

I recently watched Holiday Affair, a 1949 film starring Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh and Wendell Corey. The film allowed Mitchum to briefly depart from his typical roles in film noir, Western films and war films, and his casting was intended to help rehabilitate his image following a notorious marijuana bust ( Read more... )

I recently watched Sabrina, the 1954 black and white version, not the 1995 remake with Harrison Ford. This picture stars Humphrey Bogart, Audrey Hepburn, and William Holden and, I believe, far outshone the remake. Hepburn and Bogart both shined. Their performances were great and you talk about screen presence and star power. These two showed why ( Read more... )

I recently watched People Will Talk, 1951 black and white comedy/drama that stars Cary Grant and Jeanne Crain, with supporting performances by Hume Cronyn, Finlay Currie, Walter Slezak and Sidney Blackmer ( Read more... )

I recently watched Fury At Sundown, a classic black and western made in 1957. This is the story of a good man condemned by a town who believes he has done a bad thing and therefore is bad. The drive behind this belie is the typical town tycoon who has the money to throw at everything that comes his way, except our good man who refuses to be ( Read more... )

I give this movie 5 out of 5 stars

I recently watched Gentleman's Agreement a 1947 drama. It concerns a journalist (played by Gregory Peck) who poses as a Jew to research an exposé on the widespread distrust and dislike of Jews in New York City and the affluent communities of New Canaan and Darien, Connecticut. It was nominated for eight Academy ( Read more... )

I recently watched The Tin Star, a 1957 Western starring Henry Fonda and Anthony Perkins, in one of Perkins' first roles. The film has become one of the classics of the genre. The supporting cast includes Lee Van Cleef ( Read more... )