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Eric Linden: A Bad Lot
What is the most upsetting sequence in Gone with the Wind (1939)? There are a lot of dramatic set pieces in that famous movie, but the scene that I immediately flash on is the one where Vivien Leigh’s...
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ANTIQUE SLANG WORD OF THE DAY: "Italian Football"
In the spring and summer of 1919 terrorist bombs, some sent through the mails, exploded all up and down the East Coast. One went off outside the home of Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer in...
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LON CHANEY: Losing Yourself
When Charles Laughton ended his stupendous run of character parts in films of the 1930s by playing Quasimodo in The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), he found a painfully innocent agony within that role,...
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IT'S AN OLD, OLD, OLD, OLD WORLD
In 1963, It’s a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World was made for $9 million and brought in over $60 million. Today the epic three-hour comedy is remembered not so much for being a great film (it wasn’t) or even...
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ROBERT MITCHUM: A Constant Motion of Escape
“You just sit there and stay inside yourself,” Kirk Douglas says to Robert Mitchum in Out of the Past. “You sure are a secret man,” his girlfriend observes in the same movie. Then a cab driver tells...
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THE KIPLING OF THE BOWERY
By 1903 Owen Kildare had led a remarkable life, which he described in his memoir that year, My Mamie Rose: The Story of My Regeneration. It’s an excellent firsthand account of what life on the Lower...
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