They Caught the Ferry (1948) is a short highway safety film – much like the ones we used to watch in Drivers Ed. – produced by the Danish Film Commission, and directed by Carl Theodor Dreyer, the legendary auteur of The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928), Vampyr (1932), Day of Wrath (1943), Ordet (The ... read more »

One of the best, certainly one of the most unusual, episodes of the half-hour anthology series, Alfred Hitchcock Presents, was 1960′s “The Contest for Aaron Gold.” Directed by Norman Lloyd and based on a story by Philip Roth, it’s about a camp counselor, a teacher of ceramics, who observes a special talent in Aaron (Barry ... read more »

Bright Lights After Dark gives a “Happy Birthday” shout-out to one of America’s finest character actors, Mr. Dean Stockwell. He was born Robert Dean Stockwell on March 5, 1936 in North Hollywood, California, which by our calculations would make him well over 50. (Math is not one of our strong points.) Who in Hollywood has ... read more »