The Harry Palmer Web Site offers this fascinating look at the making of Guy Hamilton's 1967 thriller Funeral in Berlin, the second Palmer film starring Michael Caine as the reluctant spy. To view click here

John Hartl of the Seattle Times goes against the grain and says the best year for movies was not 1939, but 1959. He cites as evidence the release of such films as Anatomy of a Murder, Porgy and Bess, North by Northwest, Some Like It Hot, Ben-Hur Rio Bravo and On the Beach. See if you agree by clicking here to read

The Chicago Tribune has a fascinating piece in which they explore the origins of three famous classic movie lines from the Clint Eastwood Dirty Harry film Sudden Impact, Paul Newman's Cool Hand Luke and Tom Hanks' Forrest Gump. Click here to read

By Lee Pfeiffer

We've received notice from an astute fan that it was 50 years ago today that filming commenced on John Wayne's The Alamo. Hard to believe it's been so long...one of my earliest memories of movie-going is seeing it repeatedly on the big screen when I was only four or five years old. Seems all classic movie goers from the Baby Boomer generation have similar fond memories. The film is not perfect, but its stature increases over the years and it remains one of the most impressive and inspirational epics of its day. Job well done, Duke..