The Intriguing Everyman: Cult Star Stuart Whitman
There is a rugged sensuality about Stuart Whitman with his thick black hair and that sexy cleft in his strong chin. I’ve been totally gone gaga over the man for as long as I can remember. Although he...
View ArticleQuote of the Day! Tony Rome (1967) You’ve got a pussy, and it smiles?
TONY ROME (1967) Directed by Gordon Douglas, Frank Sinatra takes to the screen as the slick private detective in 1960s Miami, looking for Sue Lloyd’s stolen diamond pin, after she sleeps off a bender...
View ArticleChapter 3 – Queers and Dykes in the Dark: Classic, Noir & Horror Cinema’s...
The subtle gay gangster films of the early 1930s – Little Caesar 1931, The Public Enemy 1931 and Scarface 1932 “Criminals should not be made heroes… The flaunting of weapons by gangsters will not be...
View ArticleChapter 2 – Queers and Dykes in the Dark: Classic, Noir & Horror Cinema’s...
THE LAND OF MORAL AMBIGUITY: HOLLYWOOD & THE HAYS CODE “Pictures shall not infer that low forms of sex Relationships are the accepted or common thing…” Prior to the Production Code, LGBT characters...
View ArticleThe Film Score Freak –“like a circle in a spiral”
THE WINDMILLS OF YOUR MIND One of the composers who has always been able to trace my heart to that sentimental place and transport my soul to a romantic kind of ache is Oscar-Winner Michel Legrand....
View ArticleWhat A Character Blogathon 2021: Actresses of a Certain Character
I’m an ordinary person in an ordinary life-Mildred Dunnock Once again my favorite blogathon has rolled around, giving me the chance to pay tribute to the great character actors who add a certain depth...
View ArticleBRIDES OF HORROR – Scream Queens of the 1960s! 🎃 Part 4: The Dark...
BARBARA STEELE – BLOODY WELL BELOVED – The role Barbara Steele plays in the legacy of Italian Gothic cinema of 1960s achieving cult status, is arguably her most recognizable contribution to the...
View ArticleJohn Carradine “I am a ham!” Part 2
Carradine found himself accepting ludicrous parts in Poverty Row and low-budget chillers in order to fund his ambitious theatrical productions, by the 1960s he was degraded by taking on roles just to...
View ArticleChapter 5 – Queers and Dykes in the Dark: Classic, Noir & Horror Cinema’s...
There is only one possible end. We are monsters. I don’t like monsters. Diabolique, directed by Henri-Georges Clouzot, based his film on Pierre Boileau and Thomas Narcejac’s novel “Celle qui n’était...
View ArticleTHE PRICE OF DECADENCE AND LIBERATION: Seduction and Isolation: A Dual...
L’Avventura 1960: Antonioni’s Haunting Exploration of Alienation and Desire in Post-War Italy READ PART 1 QUEENS OF EVIL 1970, HERE SPOILER ALERT! Michaelangelo Antonioni made the statement at Cannes:...
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