Warren William, no question. He was born to play those roles.

I love Hammer's "Horror of Dracula" and "Dracula Prince of Darkness." Still, I guess I prefer the vampire in general as an archetype to Dracula specifically. Christopher Lee made an excellent Dracula. I love the Hammer films of both Frank and Drac. The Universal series started o...

Shonna, I've liked Michael Chiklis of The Shield in some of his earlier work. Would The Shield be considered excessively violent, or is my impression of it too simplistic? It's pretty violent. That said, it's a decent show, but I like seeing the line between good and evil blurred, the way it is in ...

The Big Three for me are still Wings, The Big Parade and The Crowd.

TCM has a message board?

Someone needs his assistance, so Barrymore throws the cigarette on the floor of his livin g room , and heads out the door! Did I mention he was playing a physician?![/u] You see that a lot in old movies and TV shows. I've been watching Get Smart on DVD, and Max smokes like a chimney. It's one of th...

One wonders what would this movie would have been in the hands of a lesser star and a lesser director. Likely it would have been at least 20 minutes longer, for one thing, and probably somewhat boring. But Bette Davis, just on the verge of the A-list roles that she would command for the rest of her ...

I think it was groundbreaking, but too topical to be the best film of all time. I'm not sure what i'd choose as the best film of all time, but a finalist would be "All Quiet on the Western Front," which still packs the same impact that it did when it came out.

I'm interested. My only problem might be trying to find a copy of the book in my area or the local library. Some books, especially specialty types cost quite a bit of change. I pretty much buy books used or check 'em out of the library so I kinda have to take what I can find. Your library should be...

I would love to participate if we choose books I've already read.

Someone mentioned "The Hidden Staircase," while I don't remember any of them that title sounds familiar enough that I may have read it several times, too. :o However, I read the 50s & 60s versions I think. I remember the cover art vividly. I don't know if any of the earlier stories we...

Detective Story, Ace in the Hole, Champion and The Bad and the Beautiful are classic Kirk Douglas films. I think that he become successful and self - satisfied and took less demanding roles. His role in 7 Mays in Day was later in his career and not an easy one. Burt Lancaster gave a powerful perfor...

I love that story.

Incidentally, I posted a review of an early Curtiz film in the Silents and Precodes forum yesterday.

mrsl wrote:I don't know who the girl was, but my all time favorite was the ugly girl whose face was bandaged due to plastic surgery to try to make her look like all the other people - that was a reall goodie!

The girl was Donna Douglas, later to become famous as Ellie Mae on The Beverly Hillbillies.

Speaking of Anne Francis , and why wouldn't you want to do that? I remember her being in a very short-lived TV series, Honey West in about 1966. As I recall she had some type of big cat (leopard?) as a pet and she was a detective or some-such. I watched it when it was first broadcast and I have nev...