Movie catholic (a.k.a., Nick's Movie Blog)

When she died in 1986, there is a good chance Rita Hayworth didn't know who she was. The Love Goddess of the 1940s and 50s was a victim ...

Robert Z. Leonard was an MGM house director for more than thirty years. Like most of the filmmakers who toiled under Leo the Lion's pow...

Douglas Sirk is rightly regarded today as the leading exponent of the so-called women's pictures of the 1950s. He's best remembered...

He told himself he was only doing it for Bessie Mae. Ever since they first worked together six years before on A Place in the Sun , ...

When I was on my initial voyage of noir discovery in the 1990s, Robert Siodmak's near perfect Criss Cross was nowhere near the top...

The year is 1976. The place, Hollywood USA. Billy Wilder, one of Hollywood's greatest writer-directors is at loose ends. His last film, ...