Defiant Success

Anatole Litvak's Sorry, Wrong Number  opens with invalid heiress Leona Stevenson (Barbara Stanwyck) trying to get in contact with her ...

Henry Hathaway's Kiss of Death  opens with a department store jeweler getting robbed. It's a quick operation for hoodlum Nick Bian...

Edgar G. Ulmer's Detour  opens with piano player Al Roberts (Tom Neal) lamenting over the end of his relationship with singer Sue Harv...

Anthony Mann's Side Street  opens with the narration of police officer Walter Anderson (Paul Kelly), talking about the many lives with...

1942 saw the release of two film noirs starring Alan Ladd and Veronica Lake. The first was This Gun for Hire , which firmly put Ladd and L...

John M. Stahl's Leave Her to Heaven  appears to be your usual run of the mill melodrama from Hollywood's Golden Age, complete with...

Human perseverance is an amazing thing. The willpower to survive is something unlike anything else. It's what separates us from other cr...

All the President's Men . The Insider . Almost Famous . These are a few of the prominent films that focus on the world of journalism. ...

So get this. Aaron of Criterion Blues , Kristina of Speakeasy and Ruth of Silver Screenings decided to team up and do a blogathon toget...

Simoa of The Ellie Badge  is hosting a blogathon where the subject is Academy Award-nominated actress Gene Tierney. Admittedly I'm n...