Forgottten Movies: THE GLENN MILLER STORY

Jimmy Stewart and June Allison make a wonderful couple in this story of the life and death of band leader, Glenn Miller. To my mind it is o...

Forgotten Movies: MAGIC TOWN

Directed by William Wellman in 1947 this is probably the first movie about polling, a subject which caught our attention so much last month....

Forgotten Movies: MOVIE, MOVIE

From IMDB: Directed by Stanley Donan in 1978, three movie genres of the 1930s are satirized in this spoof of the traditional double feature...

Forgotten Movies: Brother's Keeper

This 1992 documentary, directed by Joe Berrlinger and Bruce Sinofsky, broke the mold of what came before it because---well, listen to the di...

Forgotten Movies: HIGH AND LOW

This is a brilliant, thrilling film made by Kurosawa in 1963. An executive is poised to take over a company on the brink of financial disast...

Forgotten Movies: Seconds

This movie got a second life a few years back when it was briefly rereleased in arthouses. A very untypical outing for Rock Hudson and perha...

Forgotten Movies: Cat Ballou

Cat Ballou starred Jane Fonda and Lee Marvin in a movie that seemed more fun back in the sixties. Catherine's father is killed and she ...

The Hedgehog

Although this movie was made only a year ago, I am confident that almost no one here saw it and so I am counting it as a forgotten movie. It...

Forgotten Movies THE GREY FOX

I am so glad the terrific Richard Farnsworth got to star in a movie in 1982 that was so suited to his strengths. A fellow spends most of his...

Forgotten Movies: That Cold Day in the Park

Ah, Sandy Dennis. No one ever brought a stranger presence or delivery to a film. This is an early Altman film. (You can see most of it on yo...

Tuesday's Forgotten Movies: Ruby in Paradise

Kind of an amazing debut in 1993 for Ashley Judd and one of those summer indie movies which makes things bearable. I was reminded of this l...

Forgotten Movies: Suddenly

The fabulous Sterling Hayden plays the sheriff of a small town called Suddenly, which is along a railroad line where the President will soon...

Forgotten Movies: Alice Adams

ALICE ADAMS was based on a novel by Booth Tarkington and directed by George Stevens. It contains a great scene of the problems of summer hea...

Forgotten Movies: Bernice Bobs Her Hair

Read this story last week and remembered that a TV movie had been made of it--albeit not the best casting. Shelly Duvall was too odd an actr...

Forgotten Movies: Eyewitness

William Hurt is not the most consistent actor for me, but he came out nowhere like a cannon ball with Eyewitness, Altered State and Body Hea...

Forgotten Movies: Obsession

DePalma, borrowing heavily from Hitchcock's Vertigo, made this film in in 1976. (It is possible I hadn't seen Vertigo at that poin...

Forgotten Movies: Rachel, Rachel

Margaret Laurence is one of my favorite Canadian writers and this movie comes from her book, A Jest of God . This was the first movie Paul ...

THE MORE THE MERRIER

This is surely one of the most delightful movies to come out during the war years-and it actually makes good use of it. Jean Arthur, in an a...

Forgotten Movies: A Letter to Three Wives

Joseph Mankiewicz directed this film in 1949. It was based on a novel by John Klempner and the script with writing help from Vera Caspary. I...