Movies, especially modern movies, changed for us when we saw Casablanca (1942) the first time. That’s not to say we don’t like modern cinema; indeed, we were treated to some real gems in 2022...
https://silverscreenings.org/2022/12/28/how-casablanca-ruined-us-for-other-movies/
The 1960 Italian film Two Women (La ciociara) is a tough watch. It doesn’t start out that way. Like other terrible things in life, events begin as an undesirable yet manageable problem, only to...
https://silverscreenings.org/2019/05/01/sophia-loren-the-confines-of-war/
We inherited several traits from our paternal grandmother, among them a love of calorie-rich food and an admiration for the actor James Garner. Our grandmother would Drop Everything if Garner ma...
https://silverscreenings.org/2018/06/07/planning-a-great-gutsy-escape/
Look at the people in the above photo. These are actors portraying refugees in a fashionable nightclub in French Morocco during WWII. This photo was taken in Soundstage 7-8 at Warner Bros. Studio...
https://silverscreenings.org/2017/12/14/the-beautiful-refugees-of-casablanca/
Remember that rule in Creative Writing 101 about every story having a Beginning, a Middle and an End? We (as in, yours truly) are fond of this formula; it’s what we’ve come to Expect. But not...
https://silverscreenings.org/2017/12/07/the-human-comedy-the-1943-original-vs-the-2015-reboot/
They say it was the longest military campaign of World War II. The Battle of the Atlantic was a struggle to control shipping routes from Great Britain and North America to continental Europe. As ...
https://silverscreenings.org/2016/09/14/to-sink-a-battleship/
You know those unpleasant times in life, such medical issues, the loss of a loved one, or a parade of rotten luck? Of course you do, and we’re guessing you went on with life anyway, determined ...
https://silverscreenings.org/2016/07/27/starring-joan-crawford-as-france/
*This post is one great big spoiler. There’s a neat villain bait-and-switch in the 1954 drama The Caine Mutiny. This film, based on the novel by Herman Wouk, is about a crew on an aging minesw...
https://silverscreenings.org/2015/04/14/fred-macmurray-villain-in-remission/
This post is part of the Dueling Divas Blogathon. *SPOILER ALERT* We never tire of the WWII adventure The Guns of Navarone (1961), a grand spectacle of a film based on the Alistair MacLean novel�...
https://silverscreenings.org/2015/01/30/gregory-peck-vs-david-niven-the-german-army/