Michael's Moviepalace: Viewing Classic Movies

In the 1960s, Italian producer Dino De Laurentiis decided to make a series of movies based directly on the books of the Bible. This film, ba...

In 1970, a trip directly from the earth to the moon is considered too dangerous for humans, but a three-person crew is about to take off fro...

The poet Orpheus is at a poet's café in Paris, feeling ignored by the newer, hipper poets (I'm tempted to call them "beatniks...

Based on the testimony of detective Charlie Chan, Steve McBirney is sentenced to death for murder, but he manages to shoot his way out of th...

We first see young Arthur Hawke in late December, working as a coal truck driver for his family's Kentucky business. He has just gotten ...

During a symbolic foot-washing ceremony at a church in Mexico City (probably for Maundy Thursday during Easter week), the wealthy Francisco ...

An urbane older man (Sir Cedric Hardwicke) tells us he's famous then ushers us into a projection room. He's the devil, though he adm...

CHARLIE CHAN IN SHANGHAI (1935) On a ship to Shanghai, detective Charlie Chan (Warner Oland) plays leapfrog with a group of children and sin...

Married couple Adolphe Menjou and Genevieve Tobin enjoy evenings out with friends Edward Everett Horton and Mary Astor, who seem to have a c...

This property has a long history. Ruth McKenney wrote a series of stories which appeared in The New Yorker in the 1930s about herself and he...