AND SO BEGINS THE HILARIOUS ADVENTURE OF PROFESSOR DAVID HUXLEY AND MISS SUSAN VANCE, A FLUTTER-BRAINED VIXEN WITH LOVE IN HER HEART! There are some people who love making the argument that sometimes the critics are ”wrong” whenever a panned movie becomes a box-office hit. As if this is a competition over who’s right and … Continue reading Bringing Up Baby: David, Susan and the Big Cat
ACTION… EXCITEMENT… ROMANCE… FILL THE SCREEN! In the 1920s, Sean Thornton (John Wayne) arrives in Ireland where he reclaims his family’s farm, starts a feud with a local landowner and falls in love with his sister (Maureen O’Hara). John Ford won his fourth and last directing Oscar for another collaboration with Wayne, but not a … Continue reading The Quiet Man
I read Agatha Christie’s famous mystery novel (originally published as “Ten Little Niggers”) when I was a teenager and it remains a favorite. Dark, elegant and incredibly fast-paced, it still had a mild sense of humor that made it incredibly entertaining. In her autobiography, Christie expressed a sense of satisfaction: “I wrote the book after … Continue reading And Then There Were None: Trapped on an Island
