Click here to visit Joe Dante's Trailers From Hell web site to view the original trailer for Jerry Lewis' The Disorderly Orderly with commentary by John Landis. 

The retro movie web site The Cinementals takes us back 50 years in time to May 19, 1962 when Marilyn Monroe made her memorable last public appearance. The occasion was a birthday celebration for President John F. Kennedy at Madison Square Garden and featured her cooing her seductive version of "Happy Birthday". Click here for film clips and photos. 

Here's a look at entertainment icon Dick Clark's first dramatic movie role as a high school teacher in the 1960 hit Because They're Young, co-starring fellow up-and-comers Tuesday Weld, James Darren, Michael Callan and Doug McClure. The trailer is a hoot, with typical over-the-top narration and sex starved teens trying to get it on without damaging their reputations. The film is largely forgotten today, but it did produce a smash hit instrumental theme song by Duane Eddy, who made an appearance in the movie. Click here to view 

Jennifer Garlen of the wonderful retro web site The Cinementals provides an intriguing analysis of how scenes set in graveyards play a pivotal role in John Ford's Westerns. Click here to view 

Cinema Retro's Steve Saragossi, writing for the web site The Screen Lounge, delves into the past for a tribute to the great 1970s action flick The Taking of Pelham One Two Three starring Walter Matthau and Robert Shaw. Click here to remind yourself why some movies should never be remade. 

On her blog, writer Sydney Levine pays homage to the great movie theaters of her youth. Click here to read- it may bring back a few memories for you, as well, if you are from her neck of the woods.  

At age 92, Ray Harryhausen is still going strong, basking in accolades from generations of movie fans and filmmakers. The special effects genius is celebrated on the MovieMaker web site with columnist Kyle Rupprecht taking a look back at the most notable films of his career. Click here to read 

The Huffington Post has compiled a gallery of suggestive posters for cinematic sex comedies. Some of them are pretty anemic, while a few are truly over-the-top. (The poster for American Pie demands you to "Fill that sticky hole!" ) Many are from grade B comedies no one even remembers, if they heard of them at all. Still, it's a fun browse through pseudo porn. Click here to view 

Here's something irresistible for retro movie lovers. Video magic maker Jeff Desom has created a time lapse tribute to Alfred Hitchcock's Read Window that covers all the highlights of the film, strictly from the point of view of James Stewart, who obsessively observes the action going on in the apartments that face his own. It's a fairly amazing creation.

The Hollywood Reporter uses a cinematic time machine to revisit the summer of 1975 when Jaws became an international blockbuster and a young director named Steven Spielberg became a household name. Click here to read