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What's Fannie Brice (left) doing with Carole Lombard and Clark Gable? All three are either at a preview or premiere of Clark's 1938 movie "Test Pilot." I'm not certain what theater this was taken at, but it almost certainly was taken at a theater...and that's the basis of today's entry.Yesterday, we read more

The other day I was watching my DVD of MAJOR DUNDEE, Sam Peckinpah's flawed Western epic. The DVD version I have of this picture contains scenes not included in the theatrical release. Which made me wonder--what is the "official" version of the film...if there is such a thing? Just about every mov read more

The other day I was watching my DVD of MAJOR DUNDEE, Sam Peckinpah's flawed Western epic. The DVD version I have of this picture contains scenes not included in the theatrical release. Which made me wonder--what is the "official" version of the film...if there is such a thing? Just about every mov read more

Mabel Normand is determined to make it in the movies. This is her audition scene from Mabel’s Dramatic Career. She demonstrates her dancing abilities (no one could do a zany dance like Mabel) but is in danger of losing her balance. Ford Sterling comes to the rescue (or does he?) but the look read more

Gory Christmas to all, and to all a good fright! ‘Tis the season for the holiday Beer And A Movie Crossover! Gabe brought over two great beers, and we decided to watch Black Christmas, both the 1974 original and the 2006 remake. I’m beginning suspect we may need to do more research before choosing read more

Here is re-release footage of famed western showman Buffalo Bill Cody. It also comes with a snotty title card informing the audience that the footage was taken before movies were “the perfect art of today.” Ha! And again, Ha! Cody was, of course, instrumental in romanticizing the Ameri read more

While I do watch many new films, and have annual awards and will discuss current cinematic topics. Part of my desire to create my own site was to not have an agenda forced upon me that was not my own. This allows me to discuss films from all periods of history whenever I see fit. Recently my Short F read more

I have to confess that I do not have just one favorite silent film director. However, since I have used films from DeMille, Leni and Vidor in this challenge, I decided to go with another one of my favorites, Tod Browning. Best remembered today for Freaks and Dracula, Browning formed a successful c read more

To me, the best actor in American cinema circa 1915-1920 was Sessue Hayakawa. His understated acting and brooding good looks should have ensured him leading man status but the racial politics of the time prevented it. Like most Asian performers in Hollywood, Hayakawa found himself typecast into th read more

Due in part to the inferior medical technology of the time, the silent era has more than its fair share of performers and directors who suffered untimely deaths. And then there was always… murder. I could have taken Valentino, William Desmond Taylor or John Gilbert but I decided to draw some read more

1926 was the best year for silent films. 1915 is a close runner-up but ’26 boasts What Price Glory? Beau Geste, Flesh and the Devil, Sparrows, Don Juan, The Sea Beast, The Scarlet Letter, Tell it to the Marines, The General, The Great Gatsby, Son of the Sheik, The Strong Man, The Black Pirat read more

Many people’s quest to “have a good time at a party” is often thwarted due to a variety of reasons – either by unpleasant people they happen to run into, the party ends up being the ever-common term: lame, or, the most common, they indulge too much. Be it whatever substance read more

Esther Williams (August 8, 1921 – June 6, 2013), was an competitive swimmer and MGM movie actress. Williams set multiple national and regional swimming records in her late teens as part of the Los Angeles Athletic Club swim team. Unable to compete in the 1940 Summer Olympics because of th read more

Previously I had written about the conundrum of when to turn off a film. However, if there is one mark of delineation I drew there it’s that Netflix has somewhat changed my approach to that whole question. With Netflix, or any other service that gives you movies at the touch of a button, the t read more

So this is a fairly big day for the Movie Rat, through sheer coincidence. Not only is my contribution for the Children in Films Blogathon up but I also have a guest post on underrated comedies for Rupert Pupkins Speaks, Brian Saur‘s blog, which is a great reflection of the fact that he’s read more

How many of you have thought of the hypothetical question of who would play you in a movie of your life? It’s not the most unique query in the world. I assume there are a few. I gave it the occasional thought when I was younger, but never thought about it again until recently when asked. More read more

Happy Passover/Lent/Easter! My good friend Gabe over at the blog Beer And A Movie allowed me to write a guest blog for him. If you’re not already following him, Gabe is a film-and-beer-expert who writes witty reviews of movies and thematically-appropriate craft beers. For my review, I attempte read more

Happy Passover/Lent/Easter! My good friend Gabe over at the blog Beer And A Movie allowed me to write a guest blog for him. If you’re not already following him, Gabe is a film-and-beer-expert who writes witty reviews of movies and thematically-appropriate craft beers. For my review, I attempte read more

While cinema has always been the director’s medium, it is not the painter, but the so-called ‘paint’ that makes people flock; in other words, it has always been the actor that lured an audience into the movie theatre. And of course, it’s never just any ordinary actor, but, of read more

Welcome to “Could it be a movie?,” a segment in which TMP reads stuff and tells you whether or not the written materials would make good movies. In this installment, we look at two stories from a 1979 issue of Ellery Queen’s Mystery Magazine. “Early Warning” Who wrote i read more