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One Crowded Night (1940)

One Crowded Night (1940)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

One Crowded Night (1940) Should be re-titled “One Coincidence After Another!” Never have I seen a film with so many improbable coincidences one after the other until I threw up my hands in disgust. If this was a comedy it might actually have been funny. Anne Revere and Paul Guilfoyle were the only names I recognized before I watched the film though I also recognized J.M. Kerrigan when I did. Directed by Irving Reis with a screenplay [...]
Catered Affair The (1956)

Catered Affair The (1956)

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Catered Affair The (1956) Jane Hurley (Debbie Reynolds) is engaged to marry Ralph Halloran (Rod Taylor). Her mother Agnes (Bette Davis) who didn’t have a big wedding herself would like to live vicariously through her daughter sparing no expense for Jane’s wedding. This not only frustrates Agnes’s working class husband Tom (Ernest Borgnine) who struggles to figure out how he’ll ever be able to afford it but also her [...]
STRAWBERRY BLONDE THE (1941)

Strawberry Blonde The (1941)

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Strawberry Blonde The (1941) Directed by Raoul Walsh starring James Cagney Olivia de Havilland Rita Hayworth (in the title role) & Jack Carson and set in a simpler time (around the turn of the 20th Century) this slightly above average romantic comedy drama contains some unusual elements (Cagney’s character is a budding dentist!) but is basically a story about appreciating what you have. Carson as Hugo Barnstead marries Virginia Brush [...]
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)

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The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956) This remake by director Alfred Hitchcock of his 1934 film employs James Stewart Doris Day Bernard Miles Brenda de Banzie Daniel Gélin as Louis Bernard Alan Mowbray and Reggie Maldar (playing the Peter Lorre character from the first) among others. Stewart and Day are "married with child" (Hank played by Christopher Olsen) learn a secret on vacation causing Hank to be kidnapped. The many memorable scenes [...]
Great Everyman Actors

Great Everyman Actors

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Great Everyman Actors Two prolific actors who specialized in playing ordinary men often put in extraordinary circumstances AND historical persons “known” to most Americans were Gary ‘Coop’ Cooper and James ‘Jimmy’ Stewart. Both men generated a lot of “good will” for themselves the way they conducted themselves off-screen (at least for most of their lives) as well. Although John Wayne earned a Congressional Medal [...]
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1950) – FULL REVIEW!

Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – full review!

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Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – full review! This much troubled production of the highly successful Broadway musical finally came to pass with Betty Hutton in the title role of Miss Oakley Howard Keel as her sharpshooting rival & love interest Frank Butler and Louis Calhern as showman Buffalo Bill Cody. Judy Garland had been originally cast as Annie before her physical and emotional breakdown and collapse and Frank Morgan had been Buffalo [...]
DIRTY DOZEN THE (1967)

Dirty Dozen The (1967)

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Dirty Dozen The (1967) Winning the Academy Award for Best Special Effects this World War II fantasy film includes an all star cast led by Lee Marvin who trains a band of convicted criminals on a mission deep in enemy territory. The cast includes John Cassavetes (Supporting Actor Oscar nomination) Charles Bronson Ernest Borgnine Jim Brown Richard Jaeckel George Kennedy Robert Ryan Telly Savalas Clint Walker and Donald Sutherland. #65 on [...]
CIMARRON (1931)

Cimarron (1931)

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Cimarron (1931) I have to say that this Academy Award Best Picture winner dates badly especially the acting. I know that The Front Page (1931) was also nominated for Best Picture that year a film I thought was far superior to this one. It is however clearly better than another of the nominees I’ve seen Trader Horn (1931) although that one did provide quite an educational adventure (into Africa) for the time. This film has several old [...]
VOGUES OF 1938 (1937) – FULL REVIEW!

Vogues of 1938 (1937) – full review!

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Vogues of 1938 (1937) – full review! Directed by Irving Cummings (In Old Arizona (1928)) and written by married couple Bella & Sam Spewack (My Favorite Wife (1940)) I found this early Technicolor Musical to be better than I thought it would be not great but entertaining. It’s also a mild comedy with a romance subplot featuring Warner Baxter (who’d won a Best Actor Oscar for In Old Arizona (1928)) Joan Bennett and Helen [...]
Becky Sharp (1935)

Becky Sharp (1935)

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Becky Sharp (1935) Directed by Rouben Mamoulian with a screenplay by Francis Edward Faragoh (Little Caesar (1931)) this drama is noteworthy for two things: it features Miriam Hopkins’s only Oscar nominated performance (Best Actress) she plays the title role; and it’s the first features length 3-strip Technicolor film which looks it despite a restoration. Other than that it’s a terribly dated drama about a sassy [...]
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