About David Krauss
A lifelong movie buff, David possesses a special fondness for classic films from Hollywood's Golden Age. He holds a degree in film history and criticism from Northwestern University, and over the past 20 years has written film-related articles for several national and regional magazines. He's been a staff writer at High-Def Digest since 2009.
Flesh-and-blood characters, fine writing, and sensitive performances distinguish Baby the Rain Must Fall, a haunting character study from writer Horton Foote and director Robert Mulligan. Though its slow pace, lack of plot, and su...
This tuneful take on Calamity Jane, Wild Bill Hickok, and the dangerous town of Deadwood is a whole lot more wholesome than HBO’s beloved series and only for diehard Doris Day devotees. It’s a calamity, all right!
The first Hollywood film to seriously address the nature of mental illness, The Snake Pit paved the way for other harrowing portraits like The Three Faces of Eve and Sybil. It also features a raw, riveting performance from Olivia ...
Forget your troubles, c’mon get happy! Summer Stock is at last available on Blu-ray, and Warner Archive’s excellent rendering makes this modest but enormously entertaining musical a must-have for any fan of the genre.
Laughs, thrills, drama, and a doppelgänger, too! The Whole Town’s Talking has got it all, and this early gem from director John Ford and actor Edward G. Robinson will surely have you crowing as well.
The quintessential hooker with a heart of gold, Irma la Douce is a captivating character, and the film that bears her name – directed by comic maestro Billy Wilder – is often charming, warm, and clever. It’s also very long....
I, Jane Doe is a nifty little mystery that flips our hallowed justice system on its ear. It’s also a far better film than its lack of notoriety would lead one to believe.
A Strange Adventure is just that. This low-budget, mid-1950s film noir takes us on a journey, but it never quite feels as if we get anywhere.
Though it lacks the raw electricity of the 1932 Katharine Hepburn/John Barrymore version, the more sedate 1940 remake of A Bill of Divorcement employs a fine cast to tell a delicate if dated story of domestic strife and mental ill...
Watching Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas face off is the main attraction of I Walk Alone, a by-the-numbers film noir that rarely rises above the mundane. Yet thanks to these two iconic tough guys, the hard-boiled tale of betrayal ...
A Technicolor film noir with overt homosexual overtones, Desert Fury is a fascinating and wildly entertaining Golden Age anomaly that teems with tension and flirts with camp. How on Earth did this subversive, titillating flick eve...
Director Stanley Donen may be gone, but because of films like Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, he will never be forgotten. The classic frontier musical with Jane Powell and Howard Keel is one of Donen’s most beloved films, a...