Tonight’s film is this 1948 documentary made by the National Farm Labor Union about the terrible labor practices of DiGiorgio Farms in the San Joaquin Valley, one of the worst of all the farm em
Like many people, I love Sam Fuller. His movies were so before their time with their focus on violence and the filth of society in a way that was usually impossible during the Hays Code era. ThereR
1972 was a great year for films, in no small part because of the revival of the mafia movie. But let’s be clear–this had nothing to do with The Valachi Papers, starring Charles Bronson. Th
5 Card Stud, from 1968, stars Dean Martin as a professional gambler in the 1880s West. He’s part of a card game. A guy cheats. The other gamblers, outside of Martin, decide to lynch the cheat. T
My month is pretty much occupied with watching the Robert Mitchum collection on Criterion Channel. Last night, that was the 1958 film Thunder Road, a real favorite of mine but one I hadn’t seen
This is one of the truly most reprehensible pieces of government propaganda I have ever seen produced by the United States. This is Milton Eisenhower narrating a 1942 film (I know the link says 1943,
I showed the 1903 Edison film Emigrants Landing at Ellis Island for my students the other day and realized I had never put it up here. Just watching the 2 minutes of immigrants entering America is wor
Went back to the Budd Boetticher/Randolph Scott trough last night to check out 1959’s Ride Lonesome. May watch another of their collaborations tonight. What better way to spend an evening? One o