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LOVE LETTERS (1945) – FULL REVIEW!

Love Letters (1945) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Love Letters (1945) – full review! Let me apologize in advance if this synopsis is not up to my normal high standards; I watched this film six months ago when it premiered on TCM in August 2006 and have done my best to recall it all this time later (which is not my normal practice). I believe that the following gives an accurate “feel” for the elements of its plot if not the letter perfect detail one can usually expect from my [...]
OKLAHOMA! (1955)

Oklahoma! (1955)

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Oklahoma! (1955) If you’ve never seen this don’t miss it! I find it unbelievable that none of its songs (from Richard Rodgers and Oscar Hammerstein II) made AFI’s 100 Top Movies Songs of All Time list. Shirley Jones’s first film won Oscars for Best Music and Sound Recording and it’s Editing & Color Cinematography were also nominated. It features a terrific cast including Gordon MacRae Rod Steiger (in his only [...]
Jour se lève Le (1939) - full review!

Jour se lève Le (1939) – full review!

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Jour se lève Le (1939) – full review! Directed by Marcel Carné with a screenplay by Jacques Prévert (Children of Paradise (1945)) this average foreign language drama (also known as Daybreak (1940)) stars France’s biggest star Jean Gabin as a factory worker named François who commits murder and then reflects on why he did it while the police close in on him in his apartment. Jules Berry stars as Monsieur Valentin his victim; [...]
MORTAL STORM THE (1940)

Mortal Storm The (1940)

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Mortal Storm The (1940) This is a pretty good film about the power of fascism illustrated by how it changes a family and a pre-World War II town in Europe. But what makes this movie so special in my mind is its cast. Frank Morgan is a professor who’s the head of the family which includes Margaret Sullavan and Robert Stack. James Stewart is dating Sullavan and Robert Young is friends with he and Stack. Bonita Granville and Maria Ouspenskaya [...]
White Banners (1938)

White Banners (1938)

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White Banners (1938) Directed by Edmund Goulding with a screenplay co-written by Lenore J. Coffee (Four Daughters (1938)) Abem Finkel (Sergeant York (1941)) and Cameron Rogers this above average drama features Fay Bainter’s only Oscar nomination in the Best Actress category. Typically a Supporting Actress Bainter won the Academy Award in that category while losing Best Actress to her co-star Bette Davis for Jezebel (1938). In this film Bainter [...]
GAY DIVORCEE THE (1934)

Gay Divorcee The (1934)

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Gay Divorcee The (1934) In the old days if your marriage wasn’t working you could hire a correspondent someone with whom your husband could catch you in order to obtain a divorce. Ginger Rogers is just such a gal so her Aunt (Alice Brady) hires an Italian (played by Erik Rhodes) who’s actually a happily married man himself as the professional to do the trick. But there is a mix-up and American dancer Guy Holden (Fred Astaire) is [...]
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Get-Away The (1941)

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Get-Away The (1941) Jeff Crane (Robert Sterling) is a tough guy who leads with his mouth and bluster. For committing a crime he’s shown being processed into a prison run by Warden Alcott (Henry O’Neill) and given a cell with another hard case Sonny Black (Dan Dailey). We’re then treated to several typical prison flick scenes (could be from The Big House (1930) also looks similar to the sets used in Brute Force (1947)) including a food [...]
MAGNIFICENT OBSESSION (1954)

Magnificent Obsession (1954)

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Magnificent Obsession (1954) One of the early Douglas Sirk soapers has Jane Wyman (Johnny Belinda (1948) who received her last of four Best Actress Oscar nominations) as a woman whose husband’s death (and her subsequent blindness!) was in part caused by a reckless wealthy playboy played by Rock Hudson. That’s the simplest part of this otherwise convoluted ( unbelievable) and almost religious-based story which begins with [...]
Caddy The (1953) – full review!

Caddy The (1953) – full review!

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Caddy The (1953) – full review! Directed by Norman Taurog (Skippy (1931)) with a story by Danny Arnold who also wrote the screenplay with Edmund Hartmann this Jerry Lewis & Dean Martin comedy is full of laughs especially if you like Lewis’s antics: his many voices & physical humor. If you’re a fan of golf you will enjoy seeing Ben Hogan & Sam Snead (among others) swinging the clubs. The cast also includes Donna Reed [...]
DALLAS (1950) – FULL REVIEW!

Dallas (1950) – full review!

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Dallas (1950) – full review! Directed by Stuart Heisler (who’d received his only Oscar nomination for Tulsa (1949) for Special Effects) and written by John Twist this needlessly complex and talky Western with a B movie feel that includes some comedy (intentional or otherwise) might please only fans of its lead actor Gary Cooper who plays a familiar role as a wronged man waging a solo battle of revenge. Coop plays Blayde [...]
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