Penny Green is a quiet English village, home to Mark Sabre (Walter Pidgeon) an idealistic author and publisher not-quite-happily married to Mabel (Angela Lansbury). Mabel is a bit of a town gossip, but she and her family may become the subject of the rumor mill when Nona Tybar (Deborah Kerr), a former flame of Mark’s,… Read More If Winter Comes (1947)
Elizabeth Flagg (Virginia Bruce) is a wife and mother, wed to Tyler Flagg (Walter Pidgeon), a defense attorney with a record of success and a reputation of brilliance. Tyler’s reputation for greatness is made possible by his dedication to his job, but as his career has flourished, his marriage has suffered. Elizabeth thinks they’d be… Read More Stronger Than Desire (1939)
Steve Larwitt (George Raft) is a nightclub owner who has found love with a pretty performer at one of his clubs named Brenda (Joan Bennett). Things are going smoothly for the couple for a while, until George takes misguided advice from his lawyer, Slant (Lloyd Nolan), and ends up in prison for ten years. Even… Read More The House Across the Bay (1940)
I know from my many years as a Rocky Horror Picture Show fan that “Anne Francis stars in… Forbidden Planet, wo-ho-ho-ho-hoooooa.” But I must admit, I’d never actually seen the film that the song refers to, so I decided to finally give it a watch after DVR-ing it from TCM. Anne Francis does, in fact,… Read More Forbidden Planet (1956)
Executive Suite (1954): 4/5 “It is always up there, close to the clouds, on the topmost floors of the sky-reaching towers of big business. And because it is high in the sky, you may think that those who work there are somehow above and beyond the tensions and temptations of the lower floors. This is… Read More Executive Suite (1954)
