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STRAWBERRY BLONDE THE (1941)

Strawberry Blonde The (1941)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]
DOUBLE INDEMNITY (1944)

Double Indemnity (1944)

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Double Indemnity (1944) The penultimate film noir other than perhaps The Maltese Falcon (1941). Fred MacMurray plays Walter Neff an insurance salesman seduced by Barbara Stanwyck’s Phyllis Dietrichson (AFI’s #8 villain) into killing her husband (Tom Powers). Edward G. Robinson is the claims manager Barton Keyes who is assigned to investigate. Noted character actor Porter Hall also appears as a kind of witness to the "act". [...]
Stand By For Action (1942)

Stand By For Action (1942)

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Stand By For Action (1942) Laurence Kirk’s “A Cargo of Innocence” was transformed by Captain Harvey Haislip and R.C. Sherriff (Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)) into a World War II story about a Navy destroyer that rescues a boatload of babies and two pregnant women while on its way to covering a rear admiral’s convoy’s flank in the Pacific. Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld (1936)) co-produced and directed this [...]
FATHER GOOSE (1964)

Father Goose (1964)

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Father Goose (1964) One of Cary Grant’s last roles (actually his second to last) has him playing a grizzled island dweller whose idyllic home just happens to be a key location for monitoring Japan’s military strength in the Pacific during World War II. So he’s convinced by Trevor Howard’s character a Commander in the British Navy to keep track of the Japanese presence (e.g. count airplanes he sees) in the region. However [...]
BURN ‘EM UP O’CONNOR (1939)

Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)

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Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939) Directed by Edward Sedgwick based on Sir Malcolm Campbell’s novel “Salute to the Gods” screenplay by Milton Merlin & Byron Morgan this film features the ever annoying Dennis O’Keefe in the title role first name Jerry as an obnoxious country bumpkin that becomes a race car driver. The underrated Nat Pendleton is the highlight of the film playing (as usual?) the dumb sidekick of [...]
RHAPSODY IN BLUE (1945) – FULL REVIEW!

Rhapsody in Blue (1945) – full review!

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Rhapsody in Blue (1945) – full review! Directed by Irving Rapper with a screenplay co-written by Howard Koch (Casablanca (1942)) & Elliot Paul from Sonya Levien’s (Interrupted Melody (1955)) story this fictionalized biography of George Gershwin captures the spirit of the great composer’s passion and features much of his varied music including the titled composition. Robert Alda (father of Alan) plays Gershwin (in his film [...]
ADVENTURES OF HUCKLEBERRY FINN THE (1939)

Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The (1939)

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Adventures of Huckleberry Finn The (1939) Produced by Joseph Mankiewicz and directed by Richard Thorpe with a screenplay by Hugo Butler that was based on the classic novel by Mark Twain this average adventure drama features Mickey Rooney in the title role. Huck lives with the widow Douglass (Elisabeth Risdon) and her sister Miss Watson (Clara Blandick); their Black slave Jim who’s a big part of the story is played by Rex Ingram. [...]
CORNERED (1945)

Cornered (1945)

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Cornered (1945) Directed by Edward Dmytryk (Crossfire (1947)) this film is a mess. First it stars Dick Powell (!) as a blustering ex-P.O.W. Canadian pilot (!). After the war he’s bent on trying to find the man who killed his wife of only 20 days (must have been some woman!). The plot is unbelievable and so confusing with so many twists and turns you’ll get whiplash trying to keep up if you’re even interested enough to try. Plus [...]
ACE IN THE HOLE (1951)

Ace in the Hole (1951)

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Ace in the Hole (1951) aka The Big Carnival (1951) Predating other such (similar and) prescient films as A Face in the Crowd (1957) Network (1976) and even (to a lesser degree) It Should Happen to You (1954) this Billy Wilder produced and directed drama accurately captures the kind of media circus that would become common around a tragic event which draws the kind of gawking public that is fascinated by train wrecks. Unfortunately the [...]
MYSTERIOUS LADY THE (1928)

Mysterious Lady The (1928)

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Mysterious Lady The (1928) Directed by Fred Niblo with treatment and continuity provided by Bess Meredyth (A Woman of Affairs (1928)) this Greta Garbo silent’s plot is remarkably similar to Mata Hari (1931) which features a woman spy who’s pursued by her foreign handler while she falls in love with her prey. The print I saw on TCM was pretty scratched up. Tania Fedorova (Garbo) is the titled woman who happens to be alone in the [...]
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