Lon Chaney was one of the greats of silent cinema. A master of disguise, he would go to extreme (and – for him – extremely painful) lengths to transform himself into The Hunchback Of Notre Dame and The Phantom Of The Opera, amongst other horror movie icons. Still, he was perhaps an unusual subject for…
The Public Enemy
James Cagney was the original movie tough guy. In his time, he was the star of various gangster classics, including Angels With Dirty Faces and White Heat, but 1931’s The Public Enemy was the first and arguably best. It became one of the most influential gangster movies of the period. Cagney plays a bootlegger who…
The Roaring Twenties / High Sierra
Here are a pair of original stills for two Humphrey Bogart classics. I am not an avid collector of film stills, and I do not pretend to know much about how to authenticate them as originals. These both appealed, however – both in terms of the images, plus I particularly like the text at the…