Tips from Chip

Steve Honeywell at 1001plus and I agreed to continue to do a monthly review of a film the other picked for us.  We did 12 in 2015 and we wi...

Sullivan’s Travels was written and directed by Preston Sturges, a man known for his comedy (The Lady Eve, The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek.)  ...

Crossfire was a nominee for Best Picture in 1948 and had four other nominations, including Director, Screenplay, and Best Supporting Actor ...

The story of how It’s a Wonderful Life went from box office failure to Christmas classic is well known.  When I was younger, though, I didn...

The Maltese Falcon is often named as the first true film noir to come out of Hollywood .   This is debatable, especially since this story ...

The Ox-Bow Incident, both novel and movie, made large impacts when they came out.   The novel was the first book published by Walter Van T...

White Heat is a movie that James Cagney made after he got over his concern of being typecast as a gangster.   He may not have gotten comple...

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre was a bit of a revelation for me.   I had seen Humphrey Bogart in several films, but he seemed to always p...

Look at pretty much any movie-related person’s or publication’s list of the greatest films of all time and you will find Casablanca at or ...

This is the third version of Pride and Prejudice that I saw.   I had seen the 2005 version a couple of years prior, and before that I had se...

The movie 49 th Parallel was an attempt by the British government to use propaganda in a way to benefit their war effort.   Nazi Germany ha...

I have always planned to write about Miracle on 34 th Street as the movie for the number 34.   When I started this endeavor I didn’t think ...

The Third Man is one of the three must see Orson Welles movies.   The other two are Citizen Kane (1941) and Touch of Evil (1958).   Unlike t...