EPISODE # 12: GOLD DIGGERS OF 1933 is one of the best movies to come out of 1930s Hollywood.
It takes place in New York City at the height of the Great Depression. Four showgirls scheme for that next role in a Broadway musical …
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
EPISODE # 11: Arguably the greatest movie ever made about Hollywood, Billy Wilder’s masterpiece SUNSET BOULEVARD (1950) is a tremendously entertaining combination of noir, horror and black comedy. An aging silent film queen refuses to accept that her stardom has ended, and she hires …
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
EPISODE # 10: Made during the Depression, when America desperately needed to feel good, Shirley Temple is a ray of sunshine in her role as the young orphan, Rebecca, who auditions for a spot on a radio show. Today, she still ranks as the …
Safety Last (1923)
EPISODE # 09: This is Harold Lloyd’s comic masterpiece, and is the film that gave us the most iconic image of the silent era: Harold dangling from a clock on a skyscraper. Even today, SAFETY LAST(1923) is considered one of the greatest film comedies …
Breakfast at Tiffany’s (1961)
EPISODE # 08: New York City “it girl” Holly Golightly (played by Audrey Hepburn) laughs and parties her way through Manhattan as she searches for a suitable (aka filthy rich) man to marry. Along the way, she meets a not-rich but gorgeous neighbor man …
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
EPISODE # 07: Travel back to the foggy London streets of 1894 for the exciting exploits of the world’s most famous private detective. This follow-up to The Hound of the Baskervilles is even better than its predecessor. Basil Rathbone gives a marvelous performance as …
The Lost World (1925)
EPISODE # 06: Before KING KONG, GODZILLA, or JURASSIC PARK, this ambitious 1925 silent film was the first feature to unleash ‘stop-motion’ animation on an astonished public, with a story adapted from the novel by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. This was the first feature-length …
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
EPISODE # 05: Alice Faye was a HUGE star in the 1940s, but is largely unknown today. Did James and Lara succumb to her big blue eyes and honey voice in 1943’s HELLO, FRISCO, HELLO? And is John Payne one of the hottest piano-playing …
Top Hat (1935)
EPISODE # 04: TOP HAT is not a movie you watch for the plot so much as to experience the star power and the chemistry of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. In this rapid-fire review that was recorded at the historic Los Angeles Theatre …
City Lights (1931)
EPISODE # 03: Charlie Chaplin, playing his iconic Tramp character, falls in love with a blind flower girl…and hilarity ensues? What happens when one person writes, stars, edits, and directs a movie? And is the ending of this film possibly the GREATEST ending ever? …