Gerda Maurus

You know when I said I’d see you on the New Year? I accidentally lied. First of all, important notice: World O’ Crap has moved! Hackers hacked, that’s all I know. Now World O’Crap is at a new blog address. Go! Enjoy! And now, some lovely Gerda Maurus for your between-holiday enjoyment. Few of these…

Spies (1928)

Fritz Lang’s magnificent Spies (1928) is so obviously the precursor to the post-modern spy thriller that I can’t help but wonder why more people don’t discuss it.  One of the things that is so fabulous about the film is that it rarely delves into stereotype, but that is most certainly because the now-well-known elements of…

Frances Marion & Fred Thomson

Frances Marion and “The Wind” at Mythical Monkey Writes About the Movies “Even for Talkies, the Women Who Wrote Worked Silently” by Cari Beauchamp “Hollywood Pioneer Frances Marion: The Most Renowned Female Scriptwriter of the 20th Century” by P. Ryan Anthony.

Short Subject, Feature Film: Okay, Jose & Broadway Melody of 1936

Welcome to the first installment of Short Subject, Feature Film, a name that took hours to come up with, so feel free to bask in its genius. First up is the short, an early Technicolor romp called “Okay, Jose” starring my friend and yours, El Brendel: If you’re wondering how 1935 Technicolor could look so…