The Almighty has withdrawn his hitherto effusive regard for me and struck me down. My flight out here last Sunday was peaceful and uneventful. I read Nevil Shute’s new book On the Beach, a grisly description of a group of people left alive in Australia when the rest of the…
Tag: Charles Laughton
A one-off by an actor who was chilly toward children and was known to be somewhat self-involved — and he created a masterpiece. Robert Mitchum as one of the scariest villains I’ve ever seen pictured with the children he helped direct: Click here, or on the picture below, for wonderful…
Film pioneer – a delicate blossom with a titanium core. Watching over the orphaned children in Night of the Hunter: A studio portrait of D. W. Griffith’s leading lady: Behind the scenes on location in the Mojave in 1928 for The Wind: Miss Gish lived to the age of 99…