Michael's Moviepalace: Viewing Classic Movies

In the small town of Wardsley, a young woman is found in the street, unconscious. She had just come to town and a cab driver took her to the...

A group of travelers leave their ship, which is about to go through the Panama Canal, and instead take a sea plane that will get them to Pan...

This is the ur-text, so to speak, of my obsession with Thanksgiving fantasy films, that is, films that were run on local TV stations during ...

The title character in this animated feature set in Baghdad is Princess Zelia. As she has now reached marrying age, her father the Caliph ha...

A German town in a fairy tale past is, we are told by a narrator, old and tired, because there have been no children born there for years. T...

We are told that Simon Hart lived in a time of "great hope for human progress," which seems to be the late 19th century, with its ...

In this B-movie Arabian Nights fantasy, Sabu is a lowly stable boy in Samarkand who takes care of the caliph's elephant. When a large ye...

A little boy, living in a big house and being raised by his old aunts because his father is always traveling, would seem to want for nothing...

It's homecoming weekend at Midwestern University and English professor Henry Fonda is unsettled for two reasons. First, a student of his...

In a forest in Sweden, we see Eric (Charles Farrell) trying to tell Ingrid (Barbara Greene) how much he loves her. She replies that, though ...