Young Mr. Lincoln (John Ford, 1939)

I was exhilarated by John Ford's Young Mr. Lincoln when I saw it recently, finding all the things I loved about Steven Spielberg's ...

Capsule Reviews: Other Men's Women, The Lovers on the Bridge, The Lady Eve, The Purchase Price

Other Men's Women (William A. Wellman, 1931) Mary Astor herself called this picture a piece of cheese, but cheddar can be mighty sharp. ...

The Wrong Man

Alfred Hitchcock always was a cruel and calculating director. Even his most affecting pictures -- Vertigo , Notorious -- have the disturbin...

The Grapes of Wrath

There may have been better America directors before John Ford, and there were certainly better ones after, but no other director so complete...