How Bette Davis Saved My Life

Charles Laughton gives another acting clinic on facial expressions and underplaying emotions as a comedy device. His 1935 performance as Marmaduke (LOL) Ruggles, a loyal English butler gambled away to some zany Americans, played by Mary Boland and Charlie Ruggles (a coincidence), to go and serve in the "wild west" of 1901's Red Gap is a classy classic comedy that never wastes a scene and is hi. la. ri. ous! YouTube Facebook

Bad Bette is best, but Bette is Bette. So, Bette is always better than the rest! "The Corn Is Green" was one of her first roles as an almost saintly educator who teaches a young man and his Welsh coal mining town the value of education. Facebook YouTube

Think of Fred MacMurray's Paul Sheridan as Walter Neff's (Double Indemnity)dumb, slightly younger nephew who learned nothing from Uncle Dummy about shady blondes! Kim Novak co-stars as said blonde . This is her film debut and she smokes up the screen with her low, raspy voice and outfits! Catch Fred Macmurray in his last film noir. Don't sleep on this sleeper! YouTube Facebook

There aren't enough geometric shapes to describe the romantic "entanglements" in this picture. This ground breaking, dramedy French film by master director/actor Jean Renoir will have you laughing and SMH! Facebook YouTube

Brown Paper Bag is an homage to one our favorite film genre's, film noir. But, it is told from the rare perspective of a black man as the hero/protagonist in 1940's Hollywood. Archie Glass (Rasheed Stephens) arrives in Hollywood with stars in his eyes to only have them immediately exchanged for black marks for all the beatings he takes by not only racist but criminal thugs too as he searches for a missing white starlet. This well done independent film is a not to miss, on pins and needles gem!

It's Burt and Clark...Gable that is-the one and only. This straight forward male soap opera that takes place during WWII on a subamrine full of men, men, men, men, men is riveting and groundbreaking. The nail biting, don't look away "Run Silent, Run Deep" is a clinic in leadership, loyalty, perseverance and patriotism! We salute the U.S Navy and Military! Facebook YouTube

Our first Hitchcock film! This 1947 cerebral, sleeper, "flop" is a movie about men and women in lust and love disguised as a "whodunnit" murder mystery! Gregory Peck stars as defense lawyer to accused murderess, Valli, and husband to devoted wife, Ann Todd. Whom will he chose? YouTube Facebook