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Roger Ebert called it "clunky and awkward." Mick LaSalle of the San Francisco Chronicle said "everything that made it hot stuff in 1955 seems dated today." The contemporary film critics aren't likely to take in "Picnic" when Friends of the Fox bring the movie to the Bob Hope Theatre on Friday as part of its classic cinema series.

Lt. Commander Ken White spends the post-WWII years toiling in a dull desk job, increasingly haunted by an incident that happened on the Tiger Shark, a submarine under his command, on the last day of the war.

"The Miracle at Morgan Creek" In Preston Sturges's high-energy screwball, a nice small-town girl - the awesomely named Trudy Kockenlocker - wakes up after a farewell dance for soldiers and finds herself married and pregnant.

Over the long Memorial Day weekend, I let my sons stay up past their bedtime to watch movies.

The 10 warning signs listed online by the Alzheimer's Association include not recognizing oneself in the mirror and giving large amounts of money to telemarketers.

You can relive a 1974 classic in 1080p this July. The Towering Inferno will be released on Blu-ray on July 14.

I decided it was time to hit the movie theatre to catch some fluff for a couple of hours.

Long before Tom Hanks ruled romantic comedies, or Brad Pitt dazzled audiences with his baby face, William Holden was the "Golden Boy" of Hollywood.

UNION STATION is a solidly made, entertaining suspense film about an observant secretary who teams with the police to solve a kidnapping.

Stalag 17 is a 1951 play by Donald Bevan and Edmund Trczinski about World War II prisoners of war.

While there are hundreds of excellent examples of film noir in the American movie canon, there are few that are as memorable as Billy Wilder's 1950 masterpiece "Sunset Blvd." starring William Holden as a ...

If she were a category on Jeopardy, the answer would be: She's had roles opposite Paul Newman, Clint Eastwood, Dean Martin, Jerry Lewis, Ginger Rogers and William Holden.

Sam Peckinpah's famously bloody, balletic, slo-mo 1969 Western has more to do with the Vietnam era than frontier days-probably not a bad reason for screening it now.

There's a line in one of my favorite movies, Billy Wilder's "Stalag 17" which might explain the howls of protest from the right.

William Holden stars as handsome drifter Hal Carter, who arrives in the hometown of his old college friend Alan on the day of the big local picnic to hit him up for a job.

Back in 1960, the world of Suzie Wong may have seemed exotic, titillating, even a little shocking, but global awareness and a severe loosening of social mores in the intervening 44 years has turned Richard ...

"Sunset Boulevard" is the name of a classic movie that brilliantly addresses the value of yesterday and today, and life and death in Hollywood.

The gathering place for a merry band of Three Percenters. Saturday, February 14, 2009 Who said it? "Give that man a kewpie doll!" - William Holden as Sgt.

The PBS special "Hitman: David Foster & Friends" is a tribute to the multi-Grammy-winning songwriter/producer featuring performances with Andrea Bocelli, Josh Groban, Michael Buble and many others.

It was one of my great maturing moments as a young man: the first time I sat down and watched Lumet and Chayefsky's Network .