Classic Movie Review

Retired National Park Service Archaeologist Charles M. Haecker author of On the Prairie of Palo Alto: Historical Archaeology of …

A very solid Film Noir, Panic in the Streets (1950) is a really exciting movie as Richard Widmark and Paul Douglas race to stop the plague. It is also Jack Palance's first film and it is shot on loca…

Listed among the top war films of all time, Twelve O’Clock High (1949), shows very little combat and focuses on PTSD. Gregory Peck and Dean Jagger star.

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The first time Mary Shelly's gothic horror tale was committed to film. Produced by Thomas Edison, Frankenstein (1910) is historical and a must for all classic horror fans.

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A great study in leadership as the military commander, played by Clark Gable, must accept huge loses to stop the Nazi jet program in Command Decision (1948)

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A semi-historical western with Glenn Ford and Julie Adams tells of a man being accused of being a coward for leaving the Alamo during the Texas War for Independence. Supporting cast include Neville …

A short Film Noir where Charles McGraw and William Talman face off on opposite sides of the law. Adele Jergens is a great femme fatale in Armored Car Robbery (1950)

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I am very excited to have Dr. Russell K. Skowronek join us for an episode of the Archaeology and the Movies ser…

I am very lucky to kick off the Archaeology and the Movies series with Dr. Julie M. Schablitsky. Dr. Schablitsky is the Chief archeologis…

A play with elements of Film Noir. Kirk Douglas and Lee Grant are great in this intense police drama and love story, Detective Story (1951).

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Brew Barrymore leads a talented cast as Olive, the dog that thinks she can save Christmas, after hearing Santa say he will depend on All of the Other Reindeer in Olive, the Other Reindeer (1999).

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A Christmas love story with Robert Mitchum, Janet Leigh, and Wendell Corry in a love triangle. Gordan Gebert is great as Timmy in Holiday Affair (1949)

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A wonderful Christmas love story, The Shop Around the Corner (1940) has been remade a couple of times as In the Good Old Summertime (1949), with Judy Garland and Van Johnson and You've Got Mail (199…

A bad comedy remake of The Maltese Falcon (1931) and from the same source as The Maltese Falcon (1941) the makers of Satan Met a Lady (1936) made about every cinematic mistake possible. 

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The Maltese Falcon (1931) is an early version of the Dashiell Hammett novel starring Bebe Daniels, Ricardo Cortez, and Una Merkel. It is almost as good as The Maltese Falcon (1941) version.

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A little-known but very good Film Noir with Gene Tierney, Walter Huston, and Victor Mature, The Shanghai Gesture (1941) is a very exciting must-see film.

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A lustful vixen, a dipsomaniac, a tough guy, and a dame that had nothing but bad breaks intersect in The Strange Loves of Martha Ivers (1946)

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A revolutionary piece of filmmaking by Director James Whale who brought Mary Shelly's monster to the screen. Boris Karloff is the Monster in Frankenstein (1931).

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It is a classic horror film with John Carradine and Lon Chaney Jr. as Dracula and the Wolf Man in House of Dracula (1945). Frankenstein's Monster was there too.

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