A hearty potato salad of mid-Fifties Midwestern Americana: class and upward striving, propriety and inner craving. Broadway director Joshua Logan, who staged the Inge play for the Theatre Guild, fully appreciates the themes, and is not blind to the scenic possibilities: the Kansas townscape from the skyscraper perch atop a …

Olivier plays the cruel and deformed monarch of Shakespeare's imagination (he has a hideous pointed nose and a humpback, but he also has a fastidious, musical manner of speech), and he directs the movie in lengthy single-takes in order to let the ripe color, the rich costumes, and the quality …

It's only natural — it's only human — that in any large and loved body of artwork, something will have to be singled out as The Essential One. For some reason in John Ford's body of work, The Searchers seems to get singled out the most. At least among the …

The story takes three hours and 39 minutes to unfold. There will be an intermission. Thank you for your attention.

Douglas Sirk heart-tugger about a discontentedly married man in midlife crisis. The one great stroke of ingenuity, the one great flash of character revelation, was to make him a trafficker in children's toys. (And Fred MacMurray's hangdogginess provides steady reinforcement.) The rest -- the return of an old flame and …

Douglas Sirk's Dallas or Dynasty prototype, with a phallic desk-top oil derrick, some eye-straining Pop Art color, some suitably comic-strip (and credence-straining) characterization. In that vein, Robert Stack and Dorothy Malone are very good, and Rock Hudson and Lauren Bacall at least look very good.