Believe it or not, Casablanca is 70 years-old. No matter what age you are, chances are the film has a special place in your life. Time magazine writer Ben Cosgrove pays tribute to what many believe is the most perfect screen romance in history. Click here to read

Joe Dante's Trailers From Hell site presents the original theatrical trailer for A Hard Day's Night with commentary by Allan Arkush. You can also view the trailer without commentary track. Click here to view

Jessica Beal plays Vera Miles in the new film Hitchcock.

Many retro movie fans think that Vera Miles has never received the praise she deserved for so many remarkable performances. Perhaps Miles plays some part in this because she refuses to give interviews regarding the high profile movies she has appeared in. On the movie blog Hill Place, Shaun Chang has a fitting tribute to Ms. Miles and postures that her career never fully recovered from having been replaced by Kim Novak in Hitchcock's Vertigo. Nevertheless, she is back on theater screens today (sort of), being portrayed in the new film about the legendary director and the making of Psycho. Click here to read

Here we go again with a look at some of the most bizarre movie descriptions, provided by Cablevision, one of the largest American cable TV companies.

Reflections in a Golden Eye: "An army major with a lusty wife feels homosexual in the 1940s South." 

Well, that pretty much sums it all up...can't imagine how much more you would want to say about this complex John Huston film that starred Elizabeth Taylor, Marlon Brando, Brian Keith and Julie Harris.  The description doesn't include instructions as to how one can feel homosexual but it apparently is much the same as feeling a cold or a headache coming on. Based on the synopsis, feeling homosexual must also have something to do with residing in the South in the 1940s. Thus, if you resided in Fargo, North Dakota during that time period, you apparently had to "feel" straight, whether you liked it or not. 

Woody Allen had befriended his idol Groucho Marx in 1961. However, word reached Groucho years later that the Woodman was carrying a grudge because Groucho had not answered his letter. Groucho finally responded in a rambling and witty 1967 letter that sought to patch things up. The plan worked and the two comedy geniuses resumed their friendship. Click here to read the letter.  

Click here to visit Joe Dante's presentation of the original trailer for Alfred Hitchcock's Frenzy. You can watch it with or without the commentary track by Josh Olsen. For an in-depth report on the making of the film, see Gary Giblin's extensive article (complete with deleted scene photos) in Cinema Retro issue #24. 

We've been sent a wealth of amusing and politically incorrect advertisements from previous decades that are sure to be offensive to some segment of today's (thankfully) more enlightened society. Yes, retro lovers, these ads were not only taken seriously at the time, but never generated any significant complaints! More to come...

One of the great films of the 60s spawned one of the great scores of all time by Elmer Bernstein.  Click here to revel in a United Artists theatrical trailer created in the late 1960s for reissues of the film.

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