The French Connection (1971)
- Feb 22, 2008
FP068: “Do You Pick Your Feet in Poughkeepsie?!”
One of New York’s finest cities gets its big moment with the above line of dialogue, snarled at a perp by the out-of-control “Popeye”...
Zardoz (1974)
- Feb 15, 2008
FP067: Guilty Pleasures No. 2
It's been way too long since we rummaged around the back of our several cinematic closets to bring to you some films we love, but will...
It Happened One Night (1934)
- Feb 8, 2008
FP066: The Walls of Jericho!
With the Academy Awards only a couple weeks away, what better film to chronicle than the one that made the first "Grand Slam", garnering...
High Noon (1952)
- Jan 25, 2008
FP065: “Do Not Forsake Me, Oh My Darlin’…"
Director Fred Zinnemann made only one western during his career, but what a western! An excruciatingly simple and straight-forward tale,...
The Hustler (1961)
- Jan 18, 2008
FP064: “Play Pool, Fast Eddie…”
Robert Rossen's scalding tale of drunken love and billiards is as powerful today as it was forty some years ago. Paul Newman, Piper...
Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
- Jan 11, 2008
FP063: “WE BELONG DEAD!"
James Whale's 1935 follow-up to his film Frankenstein is a tour-de-force of gothic story-telling and all around ghoulish fun. Karloff...