This Halloween, HE's coming for you! Staying in this all hallows eve? No night of fright is complete without a viewing the 1978 cult-classic film, Halloween. Directed by horror favorite, John Carpenter, and starring a then-unknown Jamie Lee Curtis, Halloween tells the story of an escaped psychiatric patient hell-bent...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Murder! Alfred Hitchcock’s Murder! is an example of all the pieces fitting together, but the completed puzzle is still a little lopsided. The film is about a young aspiring actress who is caught red-handed standing over the murdered body of her...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Rainbow Valley In college, I took this class that was, in part, about the evolution of the American West. In the class, we discussed the era of the cowboy and the bandit and how it was romantic, but clashed quite clamorously...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Lady Vanishes And yet again, the film directed by Hitchcock is the best one I’ve seen in quite some time. The Lady Vanishes surpasses even the half dozen other early Hitchcock’s I’ve watched on FlixFling. This film was simply wonderful. ...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Sword Of Lancelot Sword of Lancelot is a retelling of the classic Arthurian story of Guinevere and Lancelot's torrid affair. Personally, I have always loved Arthurian stories -- the magic, the chivalry, the gratuitous violence. This particular version, however, I did...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Beat the Devil When I read the description for Beat the Devil, I could hardly believe it. The film stars Humphrey Bogart and Peter Lorre and was directed by John Huston. The last time I saw these three names together, I...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Abbott & Costello's Jack and the Beanstalk What an education in classic comedy I’m getting! Last week, I watched my first Laurel and Hardy and now onto Abbott and Costello! Jack and the Beanstalk is a retelling of the classic tale...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Flying Deuces After watching The Flying Deuces, I have dedeuced (heh, get it?) that Laurel and Hardy are similar to The Three Stooges; they are like anchovies – you either like them a lot or you don’t at all. I,...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Skin Game While The Skin Game sounds like a film that I shouldn’t admit to have watched in polite company, it is actually the exact opposite. The phrase “the skin game” refers to dirty antics that can take place during...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews A Star Is Born When you think A Star is Born, you may think of the film starring Judy Garland, or the later Barbara Streisand movie. Indeed, Judy and Babs pop into my mind when I think about A Star is...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Nosferatu Nosferatu is the original cinematic representation of a vampire. It is the tomb from which crawled Buffy, Angel, Twilight, and the Vampire Diaries, though it may be difficult to see the resemblance. Nosferatu is the 1922 adaptation of Bram Stoker’s...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet The Adventures of Ozzie and Harriet was a long-running TV show starring “America’s Favorite Family,” The Nelsons. From 1952 to 1966, The Nelsons, the archetypal American nuclear unit graced TV screens across the country. The...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews A Farewell To Arms If A Farewell to Arms were about 45 minutes longer, it would be termed an epic love story. As it is, it leaves me wanting more, wishing that intimate parts of the couple’s relationship were given more...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Of Human Bondage In most cases, when characters seem confused about the direction their lives are headed, they drop what they are doing, quit the jobs their parents wanted them to get, and go on journeys of self-discovery, often moving to...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews My Favorite Brunette In the beginning of My Favorite Brunette, we find Bob Hope in an unlikely place – prison, awaiting execution on death row. Immediately, my interest was piqued. When reporters arrive to hear his story, Hope’s Ronnie Jackson tells...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Dick Van Dyke Show As I watched The Dick Van Dyke Show, I could not help but think of AMC’s Mad Men. Rob Petrie and Don Draper, both dapper men in the media business, are products of the urban work...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Number 17 My admiration for Alfred Hitchcock grows each time I see one of his early films. Made in the 1930s in England, they all seem to have small budgets and very limited equipment lists. And yet, because of his direction,...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Nothing Sacred After being exposed as a fraud, New York reporter Wallace Cook is on the hunt for a gripping story to put him back on top. He thinks he finds it in Hazel Flagg, a Vermont woman dying of radium...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Little Princess Other than The Bachelor and the Bobby-soxer, this was only second Shirley Temple movie I’ve seen. Despite my lack of due diligence, I classify The Little Princess as a must-see. It is about Sara Crewe, a pampered but...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews His Girl Friday In His Girl Friday, Cary Grant stars as Walter Burns, an ardent newspaperman who is fighting and scheming to get his lead reporter to stay with the paper. Of course, his motivation is not strictly professional, since his...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Borderline To be honest, the only thing I know Fred MacMurray from is Double Indemnity, and for that reason, I always associate him with gritty film noir. So when I saw the description for Borderline, I was expecting murder, inner monologues,...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews Sabotage Another early Hitchcock film, Sabotage is about, well...
FlixFling contributor, Alexandra Gibson reviews The Man Who Knew Too Much In 1934, Alfred Hitchcock made The Man Who Knew Too Much. In 1956, he remade it, though I have no idea why, as the original is thoroughly captivating. The film begins at Winter Olympic-type games...
Click here to watch Gothic Industrial Nosferatu now This 63 minute DVD features the classic Gothic Horror Film Nosferatu to music by some of the top Gothic Industrial Bands ever, such as Christian Death, Electric Hellfire Club and more....
Click here to watch Young Bill Hickok now Relay station agent 'Wild' Bill Hickok is assigned to protect a secret shipment of gold. He entrusts the job to his friends Gabby and 'Calamity' Jane Canary, who transport the gold disguised as horse herders. Jane has eyes...
Click here to watch Young and Innocent now Adapted from the Josephine Tey novel "A Shilling for Candles," this smooth thriller stars Derrick De Marney as Robert Tisdall, an innocent man on the run for a murder he didn't commit. Aided by young and beautiful Erica...
Click here to watch The Skin Game now Read a Review of this Film Based on a successful play by John Galsworthy, and adapted by Hitchcock and his wife Alma Reville, this dramatic study of the British class system stars Edmund Gwenn as Mr. Hornblower, a Scotsman...
Click here to watch The Flying Deuces now Read a Review of this Film In this Laurel and Hardy comedy classic, Ollie falls in love with Georgette, an innkeeper's daughter, only to discover that she is already married to handsome and dashing Foreign Legion officer Francois. Heartbroken,...
Click here to watch The Little Princess now Read a Review of this Film Based on Frances Hodson Burnett's popular children's book and stage play, this lavish Victorian drama features Shirley Temple in her first Technicolor film. The irresistibly charming Temple stars as Sara Crewe, a wealthy...
Some classic new titles to the FlixFling library share a common thread - they all take classic novels and bring them to life on screen. Read more about these great stories below: Anna Karenina (1948) Our first example is Julien Duvivier's 1948 version of Leo Tolstoy's...
Click here to watch The Painted Desert now Read a Review of this Film Western pardners Jeff and Cash find a baby boy in an otherwise deserted emigrants' camp and clash over which is to be “father.” They are still bitterly feuding years later when they own...
Click here to watch The Dick Van Dyke Show: Hustling the Hustler now Buddy Sorrell's brother, “Blackie” Sorell, from whom Buddy has been estranged for a long time, shows up at the Alan Brady Show's offices one day while Buddy is out. Learning that he's Buddy's...
Click here to watch Stan Laurel Shorts Collection now Mud and Sand – Rhubarb Vaselino lives in a small village, when he and his friend, Sapo, enter a bullfighting contest, Sapo dies, but Rhubarb kills three bulls and becomes a local hero earning money. Two years...
Click here to watch Nothing Sacred now Read a Review of this Film In this classic screwball comedy, Carole Lombard stars as Hazel Flagg, the plucky gal from Vermont who mistakenly believes she's dying of radium poisoning. Unscrupulous journalist Wally Cook brings Hazel to New York city...
Click here to watch Of Human Bondage now Read a Review of this Film Philip Carey is a sensitive but unsuccessful artist living in Paris who abandons his fanciful ambitions and enrolls in a London medical school. Despite a slight physical deformity, he overcomes his awkwardness and...
Click here to watch Murder! now In this suspenseful who-done-it adapted from the novel "Enter Sir John" by Clemence Dane, famous thespian Sir John Menier is selected to serve on the jury of a murder trial. Although he does not believe the young actress Diana Baring...
Click here to watch Number 17 now Read a Review of this Film Based on a play by prolific writer and journalist Joseph Jefferson Farjeon, this comedic yet suspenseful remake of a 1928 silent film follows the adventures of Detective Gilbert Fordyce in his efforts to capture...
Click here to watch My Favorite Brunette now Read a Review of this Film In this lively spoof of 1940's private eye thrillers, San Francisco baby photographer Ronnie Jackson sits on death row and recalls how his unfulfilled ambitions to be a hard-boiled detective led to his...
Click here to watch My Pal Trigger now Considered to be the best and most beloved of all Roy Rogers' films, this rousing and tuneful Western follows the fictional tale of the legendary horse Trigger, from his birth to becoming Roy's trusty mount. The adventure begins...
Click here to watch Popeye & Friends now Starring: Popeye: Spooky Swabs Patriotic Popeye Spree Lunch Nearlyweds Ancient Fistory Taxi-Turvy Popeye For President Assault and Flattery Fright To the Finish Bride and Gloom Gopher Spinach Foghorn Leghorn: Crowing Pains Casper the Friendly Ghost: Fright From Wrong...
Click here to watch Popeye Cartoons now "Well, blow me down!" In 1919, Elzie Crisler (E.C.) Segar created "The Thimble Theater," a long-running comic strip featuring the adventures of Olive Oyl, her brother Castor Oyl, and her boyfriend Ham Gravy. On January 17,1929, Segar introduced a new...
Click here to watch My Pal Trigger now Considered to be the best and most beloved of all Roy Rogers' films, this rousing and tuneful Western follows the fictional tale of the legendary horse Trigger, from his birth to becoming Roy's trusty mount. The adventure begins...
Click here to watch Little Rascals Shorts Collection now Click here to Read a Review Our Gang Follies of 1938 – The gang is putting on a show with Alfalfa billed as “King of the Crooners.” But Alfalfa abandons the show saying his crooning days are over,...
Click here to watch His Girl Friday now Based on the 1931 play "The Front Page" by Ben Hecht and directed by Howard Hawks, this fast-paced screwball comedy stars the impeccable Cary Grant as Walter Burns, the unscrupulous editor of a Chicago tabloid. Rosalind Russell co-stars...
Click here to watch Beat The Devil Now Read a Review of this Film In this sly satire on British imperialist pretensions, Billy Dannreuther receives a confidential tip regarding uranium mines in Kenya. He devises a scheme to buy up the land as cheaply as possible, but...
A Star Is Born Read a Review of this Film Esther Blodgett is a farm girl who leaves her small-town life with dreams of becoming a successful Hollywood movie star. She soon discovers that achieving stardom is more difficult than she had ever dreamed. Unable to find...
A Farewell to Arms Read a Review of this Film While working with the Italian Army, American ambulance driver Lt. Frederick Henry meets and falls in love with outspoken British nurse Catherine Barkley. They would stop at nothing to be together, but their intense relationship is...