D isney studios would survive the war years by producing war and training films for the government and executed among other subjects the mob...

H arry Langdon   (1884-1994), with the assistance of the directors   Harry Edwards   and   Frank Capra , produced films that now rank as mas...

W hen it comes to the American musical, the man who would stake his claim to being responsible for the biggest production numbers in the his...

A t times he was a lovable lout, a curmudgeon with charm, the gentlest of giants and never left home without his acerbic tongue. A definitiv...

C all  Rod Steiger  a character actor and never expect another Christmas card from the man again and given the actor would secure awards for...

I talian-born cinematographer  Nicholas Musuraca  (1892-1975) was a shadowy yet truly exalted figure of film noir and despite the longevity ...

T he utilization of flashback in film noir is one of the genre's most crucial devices. Given the main action has already taken place and...

I n 1972, the statutes of the Film Reform of 1963 were amended so as to give more active encouragement to production with grants being being...

D irector  Shirley Clarke  (1925 - 1997) was known and revered for her approaches to and takes on the ghetto sub-culture. Her impressive fea...

N yrki Tapiovaara , who was killed at the age of 28 behind Russian lines just before the end of the Winter War would acquire a posthumous re...

I n 1926, Sergei Eisenstein returned to Leningrad to direct Oktyabr ( October ,1927) and the city where he had lived through the first eigh...

I n his three years at Warners, director  William A. Wellman  (1896-1975) would turn out an impressive seventeen pre-code films, most notabl...

I f direct politics was not possible, a sort of indirect protest indeed was. This was most evident in the actions of America's so-called...

D uring the era that McCarthyism made a devastating impact on Hollywood, stars who had dallied with any other line of thought - and all such...

P erhaps the most diplomatic way to approach the shambling dinosaur-like movies of the Sixties is with a clear understanding that the indust...

L atin America's cinema, since the arrival of the first projectors and films at the turn of the century, was completely dominated from a...