Directed by Michael Curtiz, Virginia City is a black-and white-Western, featuring Errol Flynn and Miriam Hopkins, who get star billing above the title.
Virginia City (1940): Michael Curtiz Western, Starring Errol Flynn, Miriam Hopkins, Humphrey Bogart, Randolph Scott
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John Wayne: Movie Star–Wayne Vs. Humphrey Bogart, Clark Gable, Cary Grant
April 14, 2011 by
John Wayne stands in sharp contrast to Clark Gable and especially Robert Taylor, who were literally the creations of MGM’s publicity machine.
High Sierra (1941): Raoul Walsh’s Crime Noir Melodrama, Starring Ida Lupino and Bogart in Career-Defining Performance
September 11, 2010 by
Raoul Walsh’s extremely well directed and acted 1941 film noir is co-scripted by W.R. Burnett and John Huston, based on Burnett’s novel. Featuring Ida Lupino, who got star billing, and Humphrey Bogart in a career-making part, the movie was shot on location at Whitney Portal, close to Mount Whitney.
Movie Genres: War Films–Conventions, Values, and Myths
August 12, 2008 by
In these articles, American war films are analyzed thematically, in terms of unit-ideas that deal with basic issues: individual versus community, community versus society, stability versus change, integration versus anomie, the sacred versus the profane, and the public versus the private domain. These core ideas, stated as conceptual opposites (theses and anti-theses), have recurred in most WWII films.
