Guilty Pleasures: Lust in the Dust

1984 Comedy Western

From New World

Directed by Paul Bartel

Starring

Tab Hunter

Divine

Lainie Kazan

Geoffrey Lewis

Henry Silva

Cesar Romero

Nedra Volz

Courtney Gains

Gina Gallego

Woody Strode

From the 1940s: Duel in the Sun

1946 Western

From Selznick International

Directed by King Vidor

Starring

Jennifer Jones

Gregory Peck

Joseph Cotten

Lionel Barrymore

Lillian Gish

Herbert Marshall

Walter Huston

Charles Bickford

Harry Carey

Butterfly McQueen

Joan Tetzel

Scott McKay

Tilly Losch

Sidney Blackmer

James Stewart

He was an actor about whom I would say... I feel like a Jimmy Stewart movie.  I wonder if one is playing.  I didn't talk like that all the time about other actors although there are a few.  At the heart of it all is that I could count on Jimmy to deliver the goods... always.  His body of work is really astonishing.  He was quite an actor and quite a movie star.  We tend perhaps to think it's either/or but he had a healthy appetite for both.

Movie Biographies: To Walk with Lions

1999 Movie Biography

From 20th Century Fox

Directed by Carl Schultz

Starring

Richard Harris

John Michie

Kerry Fox

Ian Bannen

Hugh Quarshie

Honor Blackman

Geraldine Chaplin

From the 1950s: Vera Cruz

1954 Western

From United Artists

Directed by Robert Aldrich

Starring

Gary Cooper

Burt Lancaster

Denise Darcel

Cesar Romero

Sarita Montiel

George Macready

Ernest Borgnine

Charles Bronson

Henry Brandon

Jack Elam

Morris Ankrum

Guilty Pleasures: The Sun Also Rises

1957 Drama 

From 20th Century Fox

Directed by Henry King

Starring

Tyrone Power

Ava Gardner

Mel Ferrer

Errol Flynn

Eddie Albert

Gregory Ratoff

Robert Evans

Juliette Gréco

Vera-Ellen

Without a doubt she is best-remembered as the dancing sensation of 1954's most popular film, White Christmas, and should one forget that, it will be on again next December and all the Decembers afterwards to remind you.  Watching this woman dance, most especially in this film, thrills me.

From the 1950s: Creature from the Black Lagoon

1954 Sci-Fi Drama

From Universal-International

Directed by Jack Arnold

Starring

Richard Carlson

Julie Adams

Richard Denning

Antonio Moreno

Whit Bissell

Nestor Paiva

Ricou Browning

Ben Chapman

Mel Ferrer

It's kind of sad when a Hollywood actor-producer-writer-director's greatest claim to fame is the superstar actress he was married to.  He was the one with more fame when they met but neither of them was prepared for her blinding success.  He took over her career and her life.  She liked the protection, security and devotion.  But as he  protects her from the bad guys, who protects her from him?