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Family Plot (1976)

Family Plot (1976)

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Family Plot (1976) Director Alfred Hitchcock’s final film was not as good as Frenzy (1972) nor as bad as Marnie (1964). It stars William Devane and Karen Black as a couple of kidnappers whose paths cross another couple (Bruce Dern and Barbara Harris) that defrauds people with a fortune teller/clairvoyant setup. The ransoms for those Devane/Black kidnap must be paid in diamonds! The most memorable scenes are those featuring Ms. [...]
ELMER GANTRY (1960)

Elmer Gantry (1960)

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Elmer Gantry (1960) Burt Lancaster and Shirley Jones (Supporting) won Oscars for their acting in this powerful (also nominated) film starring Jean Simmons about religious sham artists or not. Arthur Kennedy and Dean Jagger also star. Director Richard Brooks won a Best Writing Oscar; Andre Previn’s (Gigi (1958) among others) Score was nominated. Purchase this DVD now [...]
THIN MAN THE (1934)

Thin Man The (1934)

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Thin Man The (1934) A terrific comedy and a great hit generating a handful of sequels. The most memorable of the many William Powell-Myrna Loy pairings IMO as the husband-and-wife detective team (Nick and Nora Charles). "The Thin Man" actually refers to a murder victim! Powell and Director W.S. Van Dyke were nominated for Oscars (the first nomination for each of them). The film received a Best Picture nomination; writers Frances [...]
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

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The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957) O.K. now everybody whistle. A long film about “keeping a stiff upper lip” following orders and leadership earned David Lean his first Best Director Oscar (though Howard Hawks was originally asked to direct it). Can you image Cary Grant (as was originally planned) in lieu of William Holden? Alec Guinness received his only Best Actor Oscar; Sessue Hayakawa his only nomination. This Academy Award [...]
WILD ORCHIDS (1929)

Wild Orchids (1929)

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Wild Orchids (1929) This average Greta Garbo silent was directed by Sidney Franklin who would earn his only Oscar nomination as a director some years later with The Good Earth (1937) but then went on to produce many Oscar nominated films including his Best Picture winning Mrs. Miniver (1942) the same year he picked up the Irving G. Thalberg Award. What makes this particular film somewhat extraordinary are its elaborate sets and high production [...]
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three

Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three

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Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume Three Purchase this DVD Collection now at Other Men’s Women (1931) – is a fairly simple and straightforward drama – a love triangle involving Grant Withers Mary Astor and Regis Toomey – but there’s something about it probably its train action sequences and some energetic acting which makes it appealing and interesting enough entertainment to want to watch it through to the end. That it was [...]
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford won the second of his record four Best Director Academy Awards for this Depression era drama from John Steinbeck’s novel about the Joads and other families of Oklahoma sharecroppers whose decades old farms were destroyed by the Dust Bowl their migration west (in an overloaded jalopy-truck) to California a place purported to be “the land of milk and honey” and their disillusionment about the American [...]
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Prairie Law (1940)

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Prairie Law (1940) Directed by David Howard writing credits include: Bernard McConville (story) and Doris Schroeder & Arthur V. Jones (screenplay). This below average B Western is about the unique justice of the wild West including water rights the conflicts between farmers and cowmen a crooked judge and (of course) a hero. Brill Austin (George O’Brien) is a rancher who freely offers his springs’ water to the new settlers even though [...]
SHE DONE HIM WRONG (1933)

She Done Him Wrong (1933)

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She Done Him Wrong (1933) This first pairing of Mae West and Cary Grant who was still trying to "find" himself as an actor led to another in I’m No Angel (1933). But this is really West’s film (her first starring role) Grant is merely a pretty boy she uses. She famously "sings" three songs in it and this is the film in which her Lady Lou character utters "Why don’t you come up sometime and see me?" [...]
Ship of Fools (1965)

Ship of Fools (1965)

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Ship of Fools (1965) Vivien Leigh’s last film! A star studded extravaganza this time on a cruise ship during the time just before World War II. Story-lines include Ms. Leigh as a lonely forty-something woman hoping she’s still desirable but trying to keep her dignity about it; Simone Signoret who’s on her way to prison romances the ship’s doctor (Oskar Werner) to get narcotics; Jose Ferrer is an anti-Semitic German [...]
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