Whether in a close-up of the glamorous Marlene Dietrich or an alluring wide shot of the Morrocan desert, Von Sternberg’s ability to create a visually stunning image stands unmatched in the annals of film history. Josef von Sternberg might be known for his string of …
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For five seasons in the late 1950s and early 1960s, Dick Powell hosted and produced his own Western television show. Officially named Dick Powell’s Zane Grey Theatre, most of the episodes were loosely based on the popular Western novelist Zane Grey who Powell had …
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The Hollywood Blacklist in the 1950s really cut short a lot of interesting careers and forced promising talent to relocate to other countries. This is what happened to director Cy Endfield who was just getting some public and critical attention in 1950 with two film …
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I recently watched Ingmar Bergman’s classic The Seventh Seal for the first time. To be brutally honest, I didn’t enjoy it that much. Maybe it was because I watched it with my roommates who mistook it as a horror flick when we brushed past it …
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