The CinemaScope adaptation of Lloyd C. Douglas' best-selling novel is alternately impressive, faltering, and finally disappointing. Despite the magnitude of such early scenes as the Roman slave market ...

From George Feltenstein: “The film went into production in mid-1953 when the ‘widescreen boom’ was already infecting Hollywood. “THE ROBE” (the first film released in CinemaScope) had not yet been ...

The first feature western under the CinemaScope label, The Command has a fundamentally sound cavalry-versus-Indians plot and highly charged action footage. The first feature western under the ...

CinemaScope and rip-roaring adventure mate perfectly in Hell and High Water, a highly fanciful, but mighty entertaining action feature [from a story by David Hempstead]. CinemaScope and rip-roaring ...

The great Lauren Bacall passed away yesterday, one of the last surviving stars of the Golden Age of Hollywood (some perspective: now all the actors referenced in the song “Vogue” are dead). Bacall was ...