I just finished watching all four of RKO's Dick Tracy movies. These are solid little movies, with stlyish noir details and brisk compel...

March has long been associated with "Madness", but that's of a sports nature. My madness has nothing to do with dribbling (...

I've caught a few of the vintage RKO Falcon movies on Turner Classic Movies from time to time over the years, but recently they ran m...

I have been familiar with the "Dead End Kids" (perhaps more famously known as the "Bowery Boys") for many years, but ...

I'm a sucker for Arthur Conan Doyle's The Hound of the Baskervilles . When I'm asked what my favorite novel is I usually give...

I don't remember when I first happened to see The IPCRESS File , but I do know I thoroughly enjoyed it. The 1965 movie is an adaptati...

Spent a lazy afternoon recently enjoying some classic movies, which much to my surprise had some exceedingly similar themes, police corru...

The Parallax View is a movie I've heard of but never seen. I caught it the other day and was in the mood for some offbeat mystery (e...

I don't know why I picked this creaky old movie to record, but I'm glad I did. The Thirteenth Chair is a 1929 mystery movie whic...

One of my local public television stations presented Murder, My Sweet , 1944 film noir effort a few weeks ago and I snapped up the chance...