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Asphalt Jungle The (1950)

Asphalt Jungle The (1950)

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Asphalt Jungle The (1950) Great film noir by director John Huston this one featuring actor Sterling Hayden’s best performance – his character leads the group of ‘specialists’ assembled for a heist (he would later play a similar role in director Stanley Kubrick’s The Killing (1956)). The crime story is based on a novel by W.R. Burnett (Wake Island (1942)); Huston co-wrote the screenplay with Ben Maddow. The cast [...]
Comparative Review of the three “Maltese Falcon” movies

Comparative Review of the three “Maltese Falcon” movies

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Comparative Review of the three “Maltese Falcon” movies This essay contains SPOILERS! Directed by Roy Del Ruth The Maltese Falcon (1931) (aka Dangerous Female (1931)) was the first film adapted from the Dashiell Hammett (Watch on the Rhine (1943)) novel of the same name (copyrighted in 1930 & renewed in 1957). It is a very good film with Richard Cortez in the role of detective Sam Spade Walter Long as Spade’s partner Miles [...]
Lilies of the Field (1963)

Lilies of the Field (1963)

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Lilies of the Field (1963) Sidney Poitier won his Best Actor Oscar on his second (and last to date) nomination playing Homer Smith an out-of-work construction worker that helps a group of foreign (East European) Catholic nuns build their church and learn to speak English. Lilia Skala earned her only Academy Award nomination (Supporting Actress) playing the head Mother Superior Maria. There are lots of wonderful touching moments and funny [...]
SO PROUDLY WE HAIL! (1943)

So Proudly We Hail! (1943)

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So Proudly We Hail! (1943) This is a movie about the brave men and women but especially the nurses who fought in the early years of World War II in the Pacific when the outcome of the war was far from being known. Claudette Colbert plays the “head nurse” a Lieutenant in charge of a group of nurses which includes Paulette Goddard (who earned her only Academy Award nomination for her Supporting role) Veronica Lake and others. The [...]
Bachelor Mother (1939)

Bachelor Mother (1939)

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Bachelor Mother (1939) Directed by Garson Kanin with a screenplay by Norman Krasna this above average romantic comedy earned Felix Jackson his first and only Academy Award nomination for his Original Story. Kanin (with wife Ruth Gordon) and Krasna received Oscar nominations for their own stories and/or screenplays with Krasna talking home the gold for Princess O’Rourke (1943) a film he also directed. This one stars Ginger Rogers in the title [...]
TOPPER TAKES A TRIP (1938)

Topper Takes a Trip (1938)

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Topper Takes a Trip (1938) Produced by Hal Roach and directed by Norman McLeod this first sequel to the successful Topper (1937) fantasy comedy has more than Cary Grant missing from it. Even though Constance Bennett as the ghostly socialite Marion Kerby Roland Young in the title role (first name Cosmo) Billie Burke as Topper’s wife Clara and Alan Mowbray as Wilkins (their butler) return from the original this one seems too focused on its [...]
YOUNG IN HEART THE (1938) – FULL REVIEW!

Young in Heart The (1938) – full review!

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Young in Heart The (1938) – full review! Produced by David O. Selznick directed by Richard Wallace adapted by Charles Bennett (Foreign Correspondent (1940)) with a screenplay by Paul Osborn this above average comedy drama features Janet Gaynor’s last role and Richard Carlson’s screen debut. It received Academy Award nominations for Cinematography (Leon Shamroy’s first of many) and Best Music Original Score & Scoring [...]
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America’s Greatest Movies

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America’s Greatest Movies AFI’s 100 YEARS…100 MOVIES (1998) – This is the American Film Institute’s list of the 100 Greatest Movies selected by AFI’s blue-ribbon panel of more than 1500 leaders of the American movie [...]
I LOVE YOU AGAIN (1940)

I Love You Again (1940)

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I Love You Again (1940) This is a very funny film definitely worth watching. It not only stars the great comedy duo from the Thin Man series William Powell & Myrna Loy but also features Frank McHugh. Directed by W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man (1934)) this comedy drama’s screenplay was written by Charles Lederer George Oppenheimer and Harry Kurnitz; Leon Gordon & Maurine Watkins’s story was based on Octavus Roy Cohen’s [...]
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Man Who Walked Alone The (1945)

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Man Who Walked Alone The (1945) This minor B comedy drama earned an Academy Award nomination for its Score by Karl Hajos (Summer Storm (1944)). It was directed and written (with Robert Lee Johnson) by Christy Cabanne and stars Dave O’Brien and Kay Aldridge a rarity because some of its supporting cast members (Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams Dick Elliott and Tom Kennedy for example) may be better known to movie mavens today than its [...]
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