Film Expression

  During film's infancy there were countless individuals that helped to elevate the medium from novelty act to legitimate art form. The ...

  During his days as a journalist in New York Damon Runyon crafted the myth of Broadway. He spent his days writing articles about the people...

  The clanging of tin cups on bars, a stampede of inmates marching back and forth inside their cells, and the scared glances from armed guar...

  William Keighley shines a light on the FBI with G Men , and by film's end he not only makes popular a colloquial nickname for the bure...

  In the reality that is Howard Hawks' Scarface the world is yours, but at a price. X marks death. There were gangster movies before th...

The idea of the reporter as a purveyor of truth in a world populated with blind sheep was a popular image during the Great Depression. They...

  The failure of law and the stifling bureaucracy of justice is the overriding theme in Bullets or Ballots , a 1930's gangster movie tha...