Gregory Peck followed his Oscar-winning turn in To Kill a Mockingbird (1962) with the title role of an Air Corps psychotherapist who uses whatever means necessary to connect with his troubled patients and help them to adjust to life after combat […]

In his fourth western, Kirk Douglas finds a role that fits his personality to a tee, one which allows him to jaunt and joke, sing and dance, prove his worth as a dramatic actor and display his newfound acumen in […]

Of the two well-known baseball musicals (1958’s Damn Yankees is the other), I prefer this frothy MGM vehicle.  To me, Take Me Out to the Ball Game (1949) has better songs, livelier humor, a better feel for the national pastime and, most […]

One of my favorite films from 1937 is the comedy / drama / romance/ adventure History is Made a Night, with Charles Boyer and the incomparable Jean Arthur.  It’s a movie that cannot easily be pigeonholed because it does so […]

Soon after Jason Alexander found fame as George Costanza on the wacky TV series “Seinfeld,” he made this charming romantic comedy in which he portrays overweight shoe salesman Bernie Fishbine, who falls in love with a pretty Italian psychology student. […]

The vast majority of movies about murder concentrate on the crime and / or the resolution of the case, which is quite understandable.  Few, however, go past the crime to depict with any depth the disruptive aftereffects which always follow. […]

U.S. military services usually aid movies with military themes and situations, even if those agencies object to particular elements in the script (the best example of this is The Caine Mutiny; the Navy demanded and received a prologue stating that […]