Classic Cinema Zone

Start your New Year off right by checking out the offerings from Turner Classic Movies this January. Every Wednesday this month, TCM will put the spotlight on Angela Lansbury with airings of classics like 1944′s Gaslight and National Velvet , which featured Elizabeth Taylor in her breakthrough performance, 1945′s The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1948′s State of the Union , and 1962′s excellent espionage thriller, The Manchurian Candidate , with Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. … Read Full Post

Start your New Year off right by checking out the offerings from Turner Classic Movies this January. Every Wednesday this month, TCM will put the spotlight on Angela Lansbury with airings of classics like 1944′s Gaslight and National Velvet , which featured Elizabeth Taylor in her breakthrough performance, 1945′s The Picture of Dorian Gray , 1948′s State of the Union , and 1962′s excellent espionage thriller, The Manchurian Candidate , with Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey. … Read Full Post

Thanks to the Criterion Collection, Alfred Hitchcock ‘s The Lady Vanishes becomes the first film from his British period to be released on Blu-ray. A delightful and witty comedic thriller, the movie focuses on a beautiful young woman, Iris Henderson (Margaret Lockwood), traveling across Europe by train. While on board, she meets a charming spinster (Dame May Whitty), only to be hit in the head with a flowerpot meant for her companion. … Read Full Post

Alfred Hitchcock’s career spanned across six decades and over 50 feature films. The acknowledged “Master of Suspense” practically invented the thriller and was a brilliant technician who deftly blended sex, suspense and humor into the genre.

Two of Alfred Hitchcock ‘s classic thrillers, Rebecca (1940) and Notorious (1946), are tentatively scheduled to be released on Blu-ray by MGM on January 24, 2012. Both movies featured two of Hitch’s most notable leading ladies . Rebecca starred fellow Brit Joan Fontaine as the blushing new bride of an aristocratic widower, Maxim de Winter (Laurence Olivier). After meeting de Winter in Monte Carlo, she rushes into marriage and goes back to live at his country estate, where his rather unpleasant housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers (Judith Anderson), grows increasingly hostile to her presence. As the second Mrs. de Winter grows more fearful for her life, she starts to uncover what really happened to the first. … Read Full Post

This past Saturday, the Los Angeles Film Critics Association announced that actress Doris Day will receive their Career Achievement Award alongside other Critics Award winners on Dec. 11th. The multi-talented girl next door was one of the biggest box office draws in the 1950s and 1960s, ably performing in dramas, romantic comedies and even thrillers. She starred opposite some of the top leading men of her day, including James Stewart in Hitchcock’s The Man Who Knew Too Much , Rex Harrison in Midnight Lace and Cary Grant in That Touch of Mink . … Read Full Post

Classic movies reviews by genre – comedies, romances, dramas, suspense, thrillers, science fiction, biographies, children’s movies, horror films, musicals and westerns. The place to go if you’re browsing to find the best classic movies in every genre.

Classic movies reviews by genre – comedies, romances, dramas, suspense, thrillers, science fiction, biographies, children’s movies, horror films, musicals and westerns. The place to go if you’re browsing to find the best classic movies in every genre.

‘The Third Man’ takes place in post-war Vienna, a film noir classic set among the ravaged buildings, political squabbling and desperate lives of refugees. Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten and Trevor Howard star in the Graham Greene thriller.

This collection showcases the talent of the controversial British filmmaker and includes Victim starring Dirk Bogarde, the heist thriller The League of Gentlemen , an interracial murder mystery Sapphire and All Night Long , a jazz version of Othello .