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The film industry was largely founded by Jews who wanted nothing to do with their Jewishness.

Remastered and on Blu-ray from Kino Lorber is William Dieterles The Turning Point, a noir film at the intersection of several crossroads in Americas early 50s.

Instead of an original story with a loose historical setting, this tale is an adaptation of the 1864 novel “Wives and Daughters: An Everyday Story” by Elizabeth Gaskell.

Frank Capras America is always on the edge of madness and nightmare. The deeper you dig into his Arsenic and Old Lace, the darker and queasier it becomes.

Five years of the sexual conduct witch-hunt have destroyed scores of lives and careers in film, music and the media.

James Whales pre-code comedy/romance, By Candelight is a perfect example of Depression-era escapism into Art Deco consumer porn.

RKO left Val Lewton alone to make his movies, and the results saved the studio from bankruptcy and resulted in a run of timeless films that still entertain, provoke, and chill.

RKO left Val Lewton alone to make his movies, and the results saved the studio from bankruptcy and resulted in a run of timeless films that still entertain, provoke, and chill.

There are wild numbers in the raunchy pre-code 1934 musical Murder at the Vanities but

Commentary Who is Joseph I. Breen? Most people have never heard of the man whom “Variety” called “one ...