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BLACK BOOK THE (1949)

Black Book The (1949)

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Black Book The (1949) aka Reign of Terror (1949) Directed by Anthony Mann with a screenplay by Aeneas MacKenzie and Philip Yordan (Dillinger (1945)) this noirish fictionalized historical drama focuses on the time period just after the French Revolution dubbed the ‘reign of terror when silver-tongued Maximilian Robespierre (played by Richard Basehart) used the people’s confusion and nearly became France’s new dictator. Robert [...]
TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE DAS (1933)

Testament des Dr. Mabuse Das (1933)

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Testament des Dr. Mabuse Das (1933) aka The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) This is a very unique crime-horror film by director Fritz Lang and a recommended one! Though you may be lost as I was initially it doesn’t take too long to figure out what is going on: the titled character (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has plans to create havoc and destroy order in the World (not unlike Hitler?). However his detailed instructions have to be carried out by [...]
TOM DICK AND HARRY (1941)

Tom Dick and Harry (1941)

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Tom Dick and Harry (1941) Silly comedy especially its dream sequences that will make you wonder how Ginger Rogers earned a Best Actress Oscar (in her film that directly preceded this one Kitty Foyle (1940)). Bo Derek must have watched this film to learn how to “act” (e.g. demurely chewing a pinkie finger in her mouth to show that her character’s “thinking”). Thank goodness Rogers redeemed herself the following year [...]
NOBODY LIVES FOREVER (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

Nobody Lives Forever (1946) – full review!

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Nobody Lives Forever (1946) – full review! Directed by Jean Negulesco and written by W.R. Burnett (Wake Island (1942)) this stylish crime drama features John Garfield as Nick Blake a con-man who finds himself falling in love with his latest patsy Gladys Halvorsen played by a remarkably attractive (leggy) Geraldine Fitzgerald. The cast also includes: Walter Brennan as Pop Gruber an aging grifter from Blake’s past Faye Emerson as Toni [...]
Dangerous (1935) – full review!

Dangerous (1935) – full review!

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Dangerous (1935) – full review! Directed by Alfred Green and written by Laird Doyle this slightly above average drama features Bette Davis’s first Academy Award winning Best Actress performance on her second consecutive Oscar nomination. Franchot Tone plays Don Bellows an architect that has everything going for him. He has a beautiful fiancé Gail (Margaret Lindsay) and he’s about to begin a landmark project that will give his [...]
Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)

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Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967) The DVD contains this opening statement: “The restoration you are about to see replicates Director John Huston’s original stylized color design which uses muted color and a warm golden tone to reflect the atmosphere and drama of the story. The feature appeared in theaters for just one week with this original color design before the studio imposed a full color treatment for general release which did [...]
Peter Pan (1953)

Peter Pan (1953)

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Peter Pan (1953) According to Michael Barrier’s The Animated Man: A Life of Walt Disney: Disney had bought Paramount’s rights to the James M. Barrie story in October 1938 and had signed a contract with the copyright owner – the Hospital for Sick Children in London – in January 1939. But because of World War II and for various other reasons it wasn’t until the fall of 1951 that Disney’s writers finally nailed down an acceptable [...]
APRIL 2007 – RITA HAYWORTH

April 2007 – Rita Hayworth

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April 2007 – Rita Hayworth The Desperate Hours (1955) – an all new essential capsule review! Francis (1949) – a TCM premiere! Mannequin (1937) – an all new full review! Moby Dick (1956) – all new comments in TCM Picks! The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) – an all new review! Homicide Bureau (1939) – a TCM premiere! Juvenile Court (1938) – a TCM premiere! The Actress (1953) – an all new full review! [...]
FIRST HUNDRED YEARS THE (1938)

First Hundred Years The (1938)

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First Hundred Years The (1938) Though the title is rather nebulous this comedy drama begins as a somewhat early look at the concept of a wife as the breadwinner in a marriage and evolves into a lighthearted exploration of the traditional (sex) roles. In fact Robert Montgomery plays David Conway who’s essentially a kept husband by his wife Lynn Claymore Conway played by Virginia Bruce. Lynn is a successful New York-based theatrical agent [...]
DR. JACK (1922)

Dr. Jack (1922)

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Dr. Jack (1922) Directed by Fred Newmeyer with a story co-written by the great Hal Roach this Harold Lloyd silent teams the comedian with his future wife actress Mildred Davis. Davis plays the daughter of a wealthy man (John T. Prince) whose doctor Dr. Ludwig von Saulsbourg (Eric Mayne) lives (off him) handsomely by telling him that his daughter is sick so that he can treat her. Lloyd is titled character actually Dr. Jackson a country doctor who [...]
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