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What worth a glimpse into an archive?
Gene Hayworth works at the university library here in Boulder and has many duties, one being that he manages various subscriptions for the faculty. He recently set up a trial with Entertainment...
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A Forgotten Film to Remember: Kind Lady
Ever since reading Good Night, Sweet Prince, a biography of John Barrymore by his comrade in revelry, Gene Fowler, I have been fascinated with the Barrymore family. Handsome, tragic John has become my...
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Johnny Mercer Goes Hollywood: Old Man Rhythm (1935) and To Beat the Band (1935)
Johnny Mercer is one of the finest lyricists the United States has ever produced, contributing “Moon River”, “Fools Rush In” and “Days of Wine and Roses” to the Great American Songbook. Before he...
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Movie mapping: Counting my horror film steps
Because I spend an inordinate amount of time sitting on my can, I try to get out into the real world and get some exercise. I used to run a bit but I’ve slowed it down in the last year or so and I’m...
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Regrettable Viewing Experiences? I’ve Had a Few!
I follow a lot of people on Twitter and one of the most active and notable is Will McKinley who runs the excellent Cinematically Insane blog. Will has been a guest on TCM as well as TCM’s Official...
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Okay, Here’s Everything
When I write my posts here at the Movie Morlocks, I try my best to work whatever is on the schedule that day into my piece. You may have noticed a phrase I use with alarming regularity (seriously, go...
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Kill da wabbit
So—later this week, TCM will be running Night of the Lepus. It’s been on TCM before—but usually relegated to the late night TCM Underground slot. This Wednesday it’s on at 6pm Eastern where decent folk...
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Shakespeare in Love and Me
Today on TCM, one musical after another is on the schedule and I’ve written up musicals here so often that I have to take a break from the singing and dancing and move a little further down the...
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The Trek to Stardom for the Stars of ‘Star Trek’
When Leonard Nimoy died at the end of last week, many from my generation mourned the loss by posting photos and quotes related to Mr. Spock, Nimoy’s iconic television character, to social media...
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That’s Entertainment: The Band Wagon (1953)
Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse stroll through Central Park together without saying a word. Their silence continues past a bustling outdoor dance floor, but their steps begin to sync in rhythm. Then...
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This week on TCM Underground: THE VISITOR (1979)
Jesus Christ sends an old man in a fishin’ hat to Earth to stop a corporate cabal from using telekinetic children to take over the world. I think. Cast: John Huston (Jerzy Cosolwicz), Lance Henriksen...
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Superhero Saturdays on TCM: BATMAN (1943)
BATMAN is coming to Turner Classic Movies! The revered DC superhero is making his network debut on Saturday, March 7th and viewers will able to tune into TCM every morning (7AM PST – 10Am EST) for the...
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Give That Franchise the (Re)Boot!
Earlier last week, the legendary Leonard Nimoy died and fellow Morlock Suzi Doll wrote up a great piece on all the Star Trek actors here shortly after. Now the great producer Harve Bennett has died,...
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Harold Lloyd 101
On a recent business trip, I took my team out to dinner and had some fun telling them some of the absurdly implausible anecdotes from my peripatetic life (I was bit by a giraffe! Picasso’s lover bought...
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Requested Snapshots from the Archive
Two weeks ago I sniffed around the Entertainment Industry Magazine Archive. Although the trial access period expired last Friday, I did snag a handful of screen-grabs for films that will be playing on...
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Tracy & Hepburn, Bogart & Bacall, Powell & Loy, and . . . . Sothern & Raymond?
I am enjoying the films associated with TCM’s Star of the Month for March, Ann Sothern. Every Wednesday night, TCM will air a number of Sothern movies, totaling 35 in all. Though primarily b-movies or...
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Border Incidents: Ride the Pink Horse (1947) and The Hanged Man (1964)
“He hadn’t wanted to come here. He’d wanted it less and less as the bus traveled further across the wasteland; miles of nothing, just land, empty land. Land that didn’t get anywhere except into more...
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This Week on TCM Underground: THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976)
A hooded killer strikes terror into the heart of post-World War II Texarkana… THE TOWN THAT DREADED SUNDOWN (1976). Cast: Ben Johnson (Captain J. D. Morales), Andrew Prine (Deputy Norman Ramsey), Dawn...
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Bold! Noble! Daring! BATWOMAN (1968)
After writing about the 1943 BATMAN serial last week that is currently airing on TCM Saturday mornings (7 AM PST/10 AM EST) I was motivated to revisit one of my favorite Batman spoofs, THE BATWOMAN...
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I Know That Actor From This One Movie
Many times when I watch a movie, I’m more than familiar with all the actors involved. Oh, not every single actor, mind you, not the dozen or so with a line or two, but every supporting player and...
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