There’s something perversely appealing about a movie that stars Humphrey Bogart, voted the number one movie star ever by the American Film Institute a few years back, yet prevents the audience from seeing his face for 2/3 of the picture. Dark Passage does just that and, while it may not be among Bogart’s absolute [...]

The Leopard Man, directed by Jacques Tourneur, is a truly creepy and somewhat frightening film produced by the legendary Val Lewton in 1943. Lewton was an RKO producer who somehow managed to turn small budgeted horror films into mini-masterpieces of psychological terror in the 1940s. In 1943 alone, Tourneur directed this film, as well [...]