The long-unseen Joan Crawford and Robert Montgomery film Letty Lynton returns to the screen after 90 years in a vault.

The most exciting time in Hollywood was arguably the ephemeral period before the stingy rules implemented by the industry. Before the adoption of the Hays Code, the guideline that major studios ...

It doesn't take a film noir decetive to spot it.

About 20 years ago I was in a kind of partnership with another film historian who told me that, no, there wasn’t a market for a book on pre-code movies. I can only wonder what he thinks today after ...