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WESTERNER THE (1940)

Westerner The (1940)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Westerner The (1940) This is a very good Western with an Oscar nominated script directed by William Wyler. Walter Brennan won a Best Supporting Actor Oscar playing the legendary Judge Roy Bean; Gary Cooper plays a "drifter" who tangles with (then somewhat befriends) him. Forrest Tucker Chill Wills Dana Andrews and Charles Halton also appear. Cooper new to town is suspected of being a horse thief. He is befriended by a local lady (Doris [...]
TIME OF THEIR LIVES THE (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

Time of Their Lives The (1946) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Time of Their Lives The (1946) – full review! Directed by Charles Barton an Academy Award winning assistant director for Paramount and written by Val Burton Walter DeLeon John Grant and Bradford Ropes this is a different kind of Bud Abbott & Lou Costello film in that they don’t work as a team in this one. In fact as the film opens in Revolutionary War times the famous comedy duo is at odds over the same woman – a maid (Ann [...]
Footlight Parade (1933)

Footlight Parade (1933)

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Footlight Parade (1933) This marvelous cinematic wonder was directed by Lloyd Bacon and stars James Cagney along with other veterans from Warner Bros. earlier Busby Berkeley musical extravaganzas that same year (42nd Street & Gold Diggers of 1933) like Joan Blondell Ruby Keeler Dick Powell and Guy Kibbee. Manuel Seff & James Seymour’s script includes lots of great dialogue which is delivered so rapidly (& the sound quality is [...]
MILLION DOLLAR MERMAID (1952) – FULL REVIEW!

Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) – full review!

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Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) – full review! Directed by Mervyn LeRoy (Random Harvest (1942)) with a screenplay by Everett Freeman this above average Esther Williams vehicle is a biographical drama about Annette Kellerman who despite being born with crippled legs became a championship swimmer in her native Australia achieved notoriety for being the first woman to wear a one-piece bathing suit at a public beach (near Boston) and made [...]
MOVIES ABOUT THE KU KLUX KLAN (KKK)

Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

August 29, 2014 // 1 Comment

Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Ever since the release of legendary director D.W. Griffith’s controversial epic The Birth of the Nation (1915) based on Thomas F. Dixon Jr.’s (play and) novel titled The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan and featuring silent star Lillian Gish and future Oscar winner Donald Crisp (among others) classic Hollywood seems to have avoided taking on the KKK to expose its wicked acts or its [...]
Boys’ Night Out (1962)

Boys’ Night Out (1962)

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Boys’ Night Out (1962) Directed by Michael Gordon with a story by Arne Sultan & Marvin Worth an adaptation by Marion Hargrove and a screenplay by Ira Wallach this 1960’s style romantic comedy is lightweight fun. It stars James Garner Tony Randall Howard Duff and Howard Morris as four New York businessmen and co-commuters from Greenwich who pitch in to rent an inexpensive bachelor pad for their first & future liaisons and end [...]
CINDERELLA (1950)

Cinderella (1950)

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Cinderella (1950) A Walt Disney classic that – while not as groundbreaking or charming as the company’s first full-featured animated feature Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) – can still enchant and entertain especially young (and still young at heart) girls. The movie features an Academy Award nominated Score (and Sound) including "Bibbidi-Bobbidi-Boo" which also received an Oscar nomination "So This Is Love" [...]
The Jazz Singer 3-Disc Collector’s Edition and Blu-ray Digibook

The Jazz Singer 3-Disc Collector’s Edition and Blu-ray Digibook

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The Jazz Singer 3-Disc Collector’s Edition and Blu-ray Digibook The Jazz Singer (1927) (<— click to read my review) – first time on Blu-ray; this edition includes a book with nearly 90 pages of historical extras: reproductions photos the film’s history and more to mark 2013’s year-long 90th Anniversary of Warner Bros. Studios. Special features include a commentary from film historians Ron Hutchinson and Vince [...]
WOMAN OF AFFAIRS A (1928) – FULL REVIEW!

Woman of Affairs A (1928) – full review!

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Woman of Affairs A (1928) – full review! Directed by Clarence Brown this Michael Arlen story earned Bess Meredyth an Academy Award nomination for Best Writing Achievement. The film is an above average Greta Garbo silent with John Gilbert Lewis Stone Johnny Mack Brown and Douglas Fairbanks Jr. among others. The plot follows Diana (Garbo in the title role) the carefree daughter of the Merrick family and sister to Jeffry (Fairbanks Jr.) who [...]
TALK OF THE TOWN THE (1942)

Talk of the Town The (1942)

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Talk of the Town The (1942) The Talk of the Town (1942) – is an essential comedy drama from producer-director George Stevens that features an outstanding cast: the powerhouse triumvirate of Cary Grant Jean Arthur and Ronald Colman in leading roles and a solid supporting cast headlined by Edgar Buchanan. Nominated for Best Picture it also received Oscar nominations for Sidney Harmon’s original story its Sidney Buchman-Irwin Shaw [...]
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