Wednesday, July 30, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY, JULY 29, 1939

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T his might surprise you: three of the stories in this week's issue have to do with drugs, and two of them are set in the 19th century...
Sunday, July 27, 2014

Pre-Code Parade: THE LAST FLIGHT (1931)

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B efore you had the crazy Vietnam veteran, you had the Lost Generation. A gap of some wars separates the two. The Lost Generation came of ...
Saturday, July 26, 2014

DVR Diary: LAST OF THE COMANCHES (1953)

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A ndre de Toth is the fourth horseman of Fifties Westerns, trailing Anthony Mann, Budd Boetticher and Delmer Daves. He may be best known f...
Thursday, July 24, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY, JULY 22, 1939

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I t was presumably the height of prestige for a pulp writer to get a serial published and cover-featured in Argosy . You can imagine write...
Tuesday, July 22, 2014

Pre-Code Parade: HARD TO HANDLE (1933)

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J ames Cagney had been absent from first-run screens for seven months when Mervyn LeRoy's comedy opened in January 1933. Back when studi...
Sunday, July 20, 2014

On the Big Screen: DR. STRANGELOVE or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb (1964)

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T he story goes that Peter Sellers was supposed to play four roles in Stanley Kubrick's nuclear-war comedy. The versatile actor was al...
Thursday, July 17, 2014

Real Pulp Fiction: ARGOSY, JULY 15, 1939

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W illiam Dieterle's Juarez . the latest of Warner Bros.'s prestigious biopics starring Paul Muni, was released in the spring of 19...