Classic Movie Ramblings

Alfred Hitchcock’s Topaz came out in 1969 and it’s a movie that was doomed from the start for various reasons that we’ll get to later. It’s...

You Were Never Lovelier is a 1942 musical starring Fred Astaire and Rita Hayworth. It includes absolutely every ingredient you could ask fo...

The Key (1934) is one of four pre-code movies included in the Warner Archive DVD set William Powell at Warner Bros. The Key was directed b...

Ransom (AKA The Terrorists ) is a 1974 British thriller. It was shot in Norway but apparently it was felt that it was best to make the sett...

Sweet Charity is a 1969 musical directed and choreographed by Bob Fosse. It was Fosse’s first feature film. The stage version of Sweet Char...

The Undercover Man is a 1949 Columbia crime thriller directed by Joseph H. Lewis. It is obviously inspired by the Al Capone case. It had be...

The posters might suggest that Lust for Gold , released by Columbia in 1949, is going to be a western. It isn’t. Not quite. It is set in the...