The Big Parade

The Big Parade

Viewing The Big Parade 88 years after its initial release, and 25 years following its inclusion in my upper-level course on the war film, elicited complex feelings. On the one hand, although the film still stan...
The Crowd

The Crowd

The Crowd (1928) was both a groundbreaking and courageous film for a major director to initiate at MGM in the pre-Depression era – a big budget production without major stars, almost plotless, lacking in dramat...

The Fountainhead

From Mr. Smith Goes to Washington to Dave, most mainstream Hollywood films that deal with politics have delivered a populist message. Not so with the film version of Ayn Rand’s hit novel The Fountainhead, which...

Vidor, King

b. 1894, Galveston, Texas d. 1982, Paso Robles, California Filmography Select Bibliography Web Resources Committed to the most unyielding and almost brutally positive American determination, King V...