Cabaret

Cabaret (1972) wasn't the world's first offbeat musical, and it's far from the last. It certainly got the ball rolling, encouraging everything from Rocky Horror to Repo! The Genetic Opera to explore the genre's more sordid side. Bob...

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Call of the Wild

In Call of the Wild (1935) Jack Thornton (Clark Gable) heads to the Alaskan Yukon and gets hooked on two things - finding gold and getting a winning hand at the card table. Neither seems to be coming his way until he rescues a sled dog from being s...

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Cameraman, The

Buster Keaton is considered one the greatest comedians of the silent film eras. He could do and say more with the movement of an eyeball, than some could accomplish using all of their facilities. He'd made 82 films before signing on with MGM an...

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Captive Wild Woman

Universal's most well-known monster movie’s include Dracula, The Mummy, Frankenstein's Monster and even Creature from the Black Lagoon's Gill Man has his fans. Undoubtedly few people are familiar with the “Ape Woman.” The trilogy ...

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Casablanca

It All Happens At Ricks Cafe  Since it screened at the theater in 1943, the story of lovers Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) and Ilsa Lund (Ingrid Bergman) in Casablanca has made cinematic history. The World War II drama about Europeans fleein...

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Cat and the Canary, The

An old, dark house. A lunatic on the loose. A fortune people will do anything to get their hands on. These are the ingredients comprising one of Universal's earliest screen shockers, 1927's silent feature The Cat and the Canary. You may be ...

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Cat People

Cat People (1942), starring Simone Simon and Kent Smith, is a shining example of the sort of innovation producer Val Lewton brought to the horror genre. Pretty much just given a title and asked to create a movie from scratch, Lewton seized the oppo...

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Christmas in Connecticut

We forget that Christmas movies need not necessarily be all about Christmas. The genre tends to get a bum rap, the work of crass comedies filled with holiday hokum and phony sermons about the yuletide spirit. 1945's Christmas in Connecticut man...

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Chuck Berry: Hail! Hail! Rock 'N' Roll

It's sad to see the definition of "rock 'n' roll" currently being stretched to the breaking point. In any retailer's electronics section are scores of albums by people who can  play instruments but who can  hardly be ...

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Citizen Kane

Citizen Kane (1941) is an enigma. Movie fans in general seem to ignore it when talking about their favorite films, yet it continually shows up as #1 or in the top five on TOP MOVIES OF ALL TIME lists. Clearly, it's not a warm and fuzzy film. Bu...

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