As Hollywood humanitarians go, few come close to matching Paul Newman’s achievements, and, for that alone, his recent passing demands our attention. But Newman also happened to be one of the screen’s most magnetic leading men and our key male movie star of the 1960s. The wonderful surprise of his career was that he was [...]

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After many months of anticipation, my big night on Turner Classic Movies at last arrived!  And it was even better than I imagined it would be.  Host Robert Osborne said wonderful things about SCREEN SAVERS and mentioned me and the book’s title over and over again.  He also showed the book cover to viewers.  Mr. [...]

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Anthony Mann’s thriller The Tall Target is similar in spirit and style to his contemporary film noir works of the late 1940s, including T-Men and Raw Deal. A crackerjack suspense film produced by MGM, The Tall Target also happens to be an uncommonly effective piece of historical fiction and a uniquely vivid period piece. It’s [...]

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After months of anticipation, this Monday, September 22nd, is the night that Turner Classic Movies pays tribute to John DiLeo’s latest film book SCREEN SAVERS: 40 REMARKABLE MOVIES AWAITING REDISCOVERY. Host Robert Osborne selected the five films to be shown, and he will be introducing them on the air. The evening begins with PORTRAIT OF [...]

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Anthony Mann’s second western, The Furies (1950), is an operatically volatile, incest-laden vehicle for daddy Walter Huston and daughter Barbara Stanwyck. Next came Devil’s Doorway, an elegy for the American Indian. Hollywood was at last treating Native Americans with respect and compassion. Released in the summer of 1950, Delmer Daves’s Broken Arrow, a film that [...]

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