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Sea Hawk The (1940)

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Sea Hawk The (1940) One of the best pirate movies you’ll ever see (though not quite as good as Captain Blood (1935) in my opinion). One of the many director Michael Curtiz-actor Errol Flynn collaborations which also features great (of course) performances by Claude Rains Flora Robson Donald Crisp Alan Hale Henry Daniell Una O’Connor J. M. Kerrigan James Stephenson & Brenda Marshall (seen in some obscure films). Howard Koch and [...]

Politics (1931)

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Politics (1931) Directed by Charles Reisner this Robert Hopkins (San Francisco (1936)) story stars Marie Dressler (Min and Bill (1930)) as a woman whose outspoken views on cleaning up her city’s crime problem leads to her becoming a candidate for office against the incumbent. This comedy features a battle of the sexes political campaign as the wives in the community attempt to exert their influence on their husbands’ votes. One of the [...]

1946

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1946 1946 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees) (winners listed first in bold print) Best Picture The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Henry V (1944) It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) The Razor’s Edge (1946) The Yearling (1946) Best Actor in a Leading Role Fredric March The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Laurence Olivier Henry V (1944) James Stewart It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) Lary Parks The Jolson Story (1946) Gregory Peck The [...]

North By Northwest (1959)

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North By Northwest (1959) This is certainly my favorite from among his many movies and probably the ultimate Alfred Hitchcock film I think. It employs all the successful elements of his previous films including the use of Cary Grant as Roger Thornhill – “the innocent man unjustly accused being chased cross-country while trying to prove his innocence” and yet still manages to excite surprise and amaze us with incredible imaging [...]

Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection

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Myrna Loy and William Powell Collection Manhattan Melodrama (1934) – full review! Evelyn Prentice (1934) – full review! Double Wedding (1937) – Myrna Loy’s seventh pairing with William Powell was this Joseph L. Mankiewicz produced comedy that was directed by Richard Thorpe which features a screenplay by Jo Swerling. It’s not as good as their earlier films together (nor at least one of their later efforts – I [...]

Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962) – full review!

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Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962) – full review! Directed by Charles Walters (Lili (1953)) with a Ben Hecht & Charles MacArthur (The Scoundrel (1935)) play that was adapted by Sidney Sheldon (The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)) this below average Musical does features a lot of good circus action. It also marks the last film of this type which features Doris Day. Stephen Boyd plays her eventual love interest; Jimmy Durante plays her [...]

Point Blank (1967)

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Point Blank (1967) This is supposedly a landmark film of sorts remade by Mel Gibson as Payback (also good) in 1999. I just think it’s an enjoyable film to see certainly worth watching if you haven’t seen it (with Lee Marvin Angie Dickinson Keenan Wynn Carroll O’Connor John Vernon and James Sikking). Marvin is a man who gets out of prison after a botched job. He’d been betrayed by John Vernon who also stole his wife! So he [...]

Pirate The (1948)

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Pirate The (1948) If you believe in love at first site you might enjoy this average Musical featuring Gene Kelly Judy Garland and Walter Slezak; Gladys Cooper also appears as Garland’s Aunt Inez. Kelly plays an actor who pretends to be a notorious pirate to win orphan dreamer Garland away from her dull fiancé Slezak. The joke’s on Garland though since unbeknownst to her though known to Kelly Slezak actually IS the notorious pirate [...]

Murder! (1930)

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Murder! (1930) Herbert Marshall (in his first sound film) plays a gentleman and famous actor Sir John Menier who has second thoughts about the guilt of a young actress Diana Baring (Norah Baring) whom as a jury member he’d helped convict of murder. So before she’s to be executed for the crime he works tirelessly to prove her innocence by finding the real guilty party. Memorable scene with Marshall thinking while shaving. Another [...]

Old San Francisco (1927)

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Old San Francisco (1927) Directed by Alan Crosland with a story by producer Darryl F. Zanuck and a screenplay written by Anthony Coldeway (Glorious Betty (1928)) this average silent includes some pretty good special effects at its end recreating the city’s 1906 earthquake. The story is rather uninspired and even racist to the Chinese residing there referring to them as Mongols and portraying them stereotypically involved in criminal [...]
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