Flat Top (1952)
Back when I was young and foolish and hadn’t yet been turned on to classic movies, “Flat Top” is exactly the sort of film I had in mind when I disdainfully sniffed about stiff, dull storytelling of...
View ArticleThe Duke of West Point (1938)
There’s a long though not terribly busy cinematic tradition of stories about young men attending military academies. In my lifetime, there has been “An Officer and a Gentleman,” “Taps” and “The Lords...
View ArticleCinema Blind Spots: The Ghost Breakers (1940)
We all have films we really, really want to see, but many of them never make it from our Blu-ray shelves to the television, and simply remain on a list for years. As an aspiring film historian, I have...
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