Even from a young age, it was pretty clear that Tom Powers (James Cagney) and Matt Doyle (Edward Woods) weren’t on the road to becoming fine, upstanding citizens. They got their start working f… more →
The Hollywood Revuewrote 1 week ago: Waterloo Bridge (La Donna che non si deve amare) – USA 1931 Directed by: James Whale. Starring: Mae … more →
wrote 1 week ago: PLOT (spoiler alert!!!): As youngsters, Tom Powers (James Cagney) and his lifelong friend Matt Doyle … more →
wrote 1 month ago: With Boris Karloff in Frankenstein (1931). I never got to meet or interview Mae Clarke, but I did co … more →
wrote 2 months ago: Before I began working on this post, I’d seen Lady Killer (1933) only once – many years ago. And in … more →
wrote 4 months ago: Finest Christmas gift this year was the Universal Monsters Blu-Ray, which got slapped into the Maids … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Apparently, the Road to Ruin is a very slippery slo … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Sex sells, the old saying goes. It also employs, or at least it did in movies made before enforcemen … more →
wrote 6 months ago: Even from a young age, it was pretty clear that Tom Powers (James Cagney) and Matt Doyle (Edward Woo … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Frankenstein/Bride of Frankenstein Toward the end of Halloween I became interested in the Frankenste … more →
wrote 7 months ago: Greetings again from the darkness. It’s pretty easy to underestimate the importance of a couple of … more →
wrote 8 months ago: Penguin Pool Murder, besides the peculiar title (and lack of a definite article), opens like almost … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Happy Birthday! whataboutbobbed: Mae Clarke (August 16, 1910 – April 29, 1992) … more →
wrote 10 months ago: For the past little while, Mae Clarke has been a personal favorite of the Countess’s and mine. … more →
wrote 10 months ago: Comet Over Hollywood is two years old! The only problem is I’m late to my own blog anniversary … more →
wrote 11 months ago: I’d been contemplating film genres and how so many have come to overlap each other. For some r … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Frankenstein (1931) Universal Pictures / P: Carl La … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Here is what I watched last week. The Public Enemy (dir. William Wellman, 1931) Along with White Hea … more →
wrote 1 year ago: It was on this day, April 23, 1931 the movie The Public Enemy starring James Cagney was released to … more →
wrote 1 year ago: Bride of Frankenstein (1935) – The horror genre is one that is often met with dismissiveness if not … more →