In this 1952 film noir thriller, Joan Crawford plays a successful playwright seduced by a murderous Jack Palance. “It’s a masterpiece of suspense,” says Foster Hirsch, author of Hollywood and the ...

Often considered the beginning of the end for the Golden Age of Hollywood (which had some wild stories of its own), the 1950s ...

The 1950s were a varied cinematic decade, boasting spectacle filmmaking, genre fare, and more realistic, character-driven films. Much of this creativity was probably the result of studios having to ...