The Greatest Story Ever Told

Perhaps a certain fatigue was setting in at the time of the premiere, only a few years after another Jesus epic, King of Kings (1961). This one was targeted by…

Bedknobs and Broomsticks

During the London Blitz, three children are evacuated to a small village where they’re staying with the eccentric Eglantine Price (Angela Lansbury), a woman who turns out to be a…

Planet of the Apes: Man is a Beast

Kim Hunter, Charlton Heston and Roddy McDowall. Photo: 20th Century Fox The basic concept of this wildly successful movie is Pierre Boulle’s idea of a future where space travelers end…

Fright Night Part 2

Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) has managed to stop believing in the supernatural, but then the sister of the vampire he and Peter Vincent (Roddy McDowall) killed three years ago arrives…

Fright Night 

17-year-old Charley Brewster (William Ragsdale) discovers that his new neighbor (Chris Sarandon) is a vampire, but no one believes him, except perhaps a legendary vampire hunter... on TV. The 1980s…

How Green Was My Valley: The One That Beat Kane

Roddy MacDowall and Walter Pidgeon. Photo: 20th Century Fox Hollywood sure appreciated taking lessons from John Ford in all matters social realistic. He received an Academy Award for portraying the…

Battle for the Planet of the Apes

The fifth and concluding chapter in the original Planet of the Apes series presents apes as eloquent and bright as the ones in the first movie, a gigantic leap from…

Conquest of the Planet of the Apes

The third, fourth and fifth films in this Planet of the Apes series explore how apes came to rule the Earth. In the near future, in the year of 1991,…

Escape From the Planet of the Apes

In this third part in the Planet of the Apes series, Zira (Kim Hunter), Cornelius (Roddy McDowell) and a colleague of theirs (Sal Mineo) journey to present-day Earth; as one…