Director: Howard Hawks Writers: Jules Furthman and Leigh Brackett Stars: John Wayne, Dean Martin, Angie Dickinson, Ricky Nelson and Walter Brennan Synopsis: When gunslinger Joe Burdette (Claude Akins) kills a man in a saloon, Sheriff...

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Director: John Ford Writers: James Warner Bellah and Willis Goldbeck Stars: John Wayne, James Stewart, Lee Marvin, Vera Miles, John Carradine, and Andy Devine Synopsis: Liberty Valance, a dangerous cowboy, threatens the residents of a...

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

The Birth of a Nation (1915) is a film that actively promotes a racist ideology that allowed whites to convince themselves that they were ‘disenfranchised’ victims of African-Americans. Its enormous popularity with...

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...

Like many D.W. Griffith films, Intolerance: Love’s Struggle Throughout the Ages (1916) has the rhythm of a poem. Unlike The Birth of a Nation (1915), which sought to tell an epic tale...

I will be watching and reviewing all of the films included on AFI’s 100 Years…100 Passions list. The list contains the 100 greatest love stories in American cinema and I plan to...