Category Archives: Warner Archive Collection

Update #2: 10 Things I Learned at the TCM Classic Film Festival

Posted on May 11, 2013 by willmckinley

One of my favorite things about the annual TCM Classic Film Festival is meeting and interacting with the talented people who bring the channel to life. In addition to impromptu chats at screenings and during communal gatherings at the Roosevelt … Continue reading →

Posted in TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged 31 Days of Oscar, AMC, Angela Lansbury, Ben mankiewicz, Bill Hader, Club TCM, commercials on TCM, David Edelstein, Eddie Muller, Film Noir Foundation, Francois Truffaut, Friday Night Spotlight, Hollywood Tour app, Illeana Douglas, Jeff Gregor, LETTY LYNTON, Meet TCM, Pola Chagnon, Richard Steiner, Road to Hollywood, Robert Osborne, Roosevelt Hotel, Scott McGee, Sean Cameron, TCM, TCM Classic Film Festival, TCM Cruise, TCM streaming application, Ted Turner, Tom Brown, Turner Classic Movies, Warner Archive Instant | 31 Comments

GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!

Posted on January 2, 2013 by willmckinley

The year is 1931. Three undressed women catfight over the lover they share – wrestling in his bed, tearing at each other’s skimpy negligees. One of them is Louise Brooks, pansexual star of some of the sultriest silent films ever … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged "Raymond Griffith", 1931, A STAR IS BORN, Arthur Edmund Carewe, Barbara Stanwyck, Billy House, Charles Winniger, DIARY OF A LOST GIRL, Eleanor Gutchrlein, Frank Fay, Frederick Hazlitt Brennan, G.W. Pabst, GOD'S GIFT TO WOMEN, Hays Code, Joan Blondell, Joseph Jackson, Karla Gutchrlein, Laura La Plante, Louise Brooks, Margaret Livingston, Michael Curtiz, Motion Picture Production Code, Norman Maine, PANDORA’S BOX, Pre-Code Film, Safe in Hell, Sisters G, The Code, The Devil Was Sick, Warner Archive Collection, Warner Bros, Yola d’Avril | 5 Comments

THE AGE OF CONSENT (1932) from Warner Archive: Pre-Code Passion At Its Most Lustful

Posted on November 4, 2012 by willmckinley

People in old movies don’t seem to know how to kiss. Without a doubt, there are plenty of iconic lip locks from the films of the 1930s and ‘40s, often accompanied by lush orchestrations that infer burning passion. But characters … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged 1932, Aileen Pringle, Arline Judge, David O. Selznick, Dorothy Wilson, Eric Linden, Franchot Tone, Gregory La Cava, John Halliday, Motion Picture Production Code, REBEL WITHOUT A CAUSE, Reginald Barlow, Richard Cromwell, RKO, SPLENDOR IN THE GRASS, Sylvia Sidney, THE AGE OF CONSENT, Warner Archive Collection, Will Hays | 6 Comments

SAFE IN HELL (1931) from Warner Archive: When it Comes to Pre-Code, Seeing is Believing

Posted on October 13, 2012 by willmckinley

“Black & white movies are so boring and fake,” a co-worker once said to me, with an accompanying look of disgust usually afforded to those who belch audibly in public places. In my younger days, I might have taken the … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Pre-Code Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged Clarence Muse, Donald Cook, Dorothy Mackaill, Nina Mae McKinney, Safe in Hell, Warner Archive, William Wellman | 15 Comments

Vincent Price in CONFESSIONS OF A OPIUM EATER (1962) – Still Trippy After All These Years

Posted on October 7, 2012 by willmckinley

What attracted me first to CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER (1962) was the poster. Our story, courteous reader, begins in late November of 2008. I was in Framingham, Massachusetts, working on the production of a meeting for pharmaceutical sales reps. … Continue reading →

Posted in Classic Film, Warner Archive Collection | Tagged Albert Glasser, Albert Zugsmith, Allied Artists, Angelo Rossitto, CONFESSIONS OF AN OPIUM EATER, Dawn Wells, Gabriel De Quincey, Gilligan's Island, June Kim, Linda Ho, Mary Ann, Peter Tork, Phillip Ahn, Richard Loo, SEX KITTENS GO TO COLLEGE, SOULS FOR SALE, The Monkees, Thomas De Quincey, Vincent Price, Warner Archive Collection, Yvonne Moray | 12 Comments

Category Archives: Warner Archive Collection

Update #2: 10 Things I Learned at the TCM Classic Film Festival

GOD’S GIFT TO WOMEN (1931) from Warner Archive: One Kiss and You Die!

SAFE IN HELL (1931) from Warner Archive: When it Comes to Pre-Code, Seeing is Believing

Vincent Price in CONFESSIONS OF A OPIUM EATER (1962) – Still Trippy After All These Years

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