Roddy McDowall was a child star in How Green Was My Valley and Lassie Come Home, and unusually among child performers had a full adult career.
He appeared in four Planet of the Apes films plus the television series, spending years under prosthetics, and Fright Night gave him a late horror lead as a washed-up television presenter. He was a serious photographer whose archive documents Hollywood across five decades.
Barry FitzgeraldHow Green Was My Valley (1941) rates 7 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. John Ford's film about a Welsh mining family across roughly twenty years is a good film that has spent eighty-four years being the answer to…
Elizabeth TaylorCleopatra (1963) rates 6 out of 10 on the rewatch scale. It was budgeted at around two million dollars and cost forty-four, was the highest grossing film of its year and still did not break even, and Fox sold off…
Amanda BearseWilliam Ragsdale plays Charley Brewster. Fright Night operates as one of the most successful horror-comedy productions of the mid-1980s and a foundational text for the teen-protagonist-with-aging-mentor horror tradition.
Carol LynleyGene Hackman, Shelley Winters, and the founding document of 1970s disaster cinema. The Poseidon Adventure is the founding document of the 1970s disaster genre.
Charlton HestonPlanet of the Apes has one of the great endings in science fiction cinema and earns its place in the conversation entirely on the basis of that ending. The Statue of Liberty rising from the sand is the genre's most…
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