Sincerely Yours (1955)

Liberace’s brief stint as a leading man was preordained to be short lived. Loathed by critics of both cinema and music, the flamboyant Liberace was more entertainer than actor and could hardly carry a feature length film. That’s why Sincerely Yours (1955), his first and only starring vehicle, spends most of its nearly two-hour runtime…

The Secret Garden (1949)

Mary Lennox (Margaret O’Brien) is a young British girl living in India during a cholera epidemic. Her parents and servants have died, and Mary is left alone in the house. When she’s found by a British officer, she hardly seems to realize anything is wrong; her parents were barely part of her life and, though…

The Elsewhere Files

Things you should be doing instead of checking SBBN: Fitzcardboardaldo: Herzog’s classic rendered in cardboard. Follow it up with the making-of documentary The Corrugation of Dreams. Charles Laughton spent time in Texas in 1953 with his one-man show, as well as working on a revelatory new interpretation of Othello. The BFI has more, as well…