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Wedding Night The (1935)

Wedding Night The (1935)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Wedding Night The (1935) Directed by King Vidor with a screenplay by Edith Fitzgerald that was based on an Edwin Knopf story this average romantic drama was producer Samuel Goldwyn’s third and last attempt to make a Greta Garbo-like actress out of Anna Sten. However even starring her opposite (his one-time leading contract actor) Gary Cooper didn’t succeed and she soon left Hollywood. This film isn’t bad but it’s also not [...]
SNOW WHITE AND THE SEVEN DWARFS (1937)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937) Walt Disney’s first full length animated feature film features an Oscar nominated Score by Frank Churchill (among others) that includes: "Some Day My Prince Will Come" (#19 on AFI’s 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time) "Whistle While You Work" and "Heigh Ho". Mr. Disney also earned an Honorary Award from the Academy. The film is #49 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movies List [...]
THE BLONDE BOMBSHELL

The Blonde Bombshell

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The Blonde Bombshell What is it about these particular women? All three were successful blonde actresses of their time they were sex symbols that played ditzy characters each was linked personally and/or professionally with both Clark Gable and William Powell and all three died tragically prematurely. Of course it is in part because they died prematurely that we remember them so fondly – there are no pictures images or memories of them as [...]
MACAO (1952)

Macao (1952)

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Macao (1952) Robert Mitchum Jane Russell and William Bendix star in this film-noir drama set in the titled Far East port city. The three meet briefly before their ship docks in Macao. A local police Lieutenant Sebastian (Thomas Gomez) suspects that loner Nick Cochran (Mitchum) has been sent to entice a locally successful American Vincent Halloran (Brad Dexter) and fugitive from his native country’s justice system to leave the city towards [...]
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Guys and Dolls (1955)

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Guys and Dolls (1955) Though I wouldn’t rate it as one of my favorite musicals I think the first scene with Marlon Brando and Jean Simmons in the mission where they make “the deal” is worth the price of admission. What great dialogue! Any doubts I had about Brando in the role were erased after watching it even though his singing was pretty hard to bear. Frank Sinatra & Vivian Blaine also star in this Joseph L. Mankiewicz [...]
KID FROM BROOKLYN THE (1946)

Kid From Brooklyn The (1946)

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Kid From Brooklyn The (1946) Samuel Goldwyn produced this Technicolor remake of the Harold Lloyd comedy The Milky Way (1936) for his contract star Danny Kaye; Norman Z. McLeod directed while Don Hartman (Road to Morocco (1942)) and Melville Shavelson adapted the earlier film’s story. The plot is virtually identical to the original (follow the link above for more details) except that it adds several theatrical numbers for Vera-Ellen and [...]
WOMAN OF THE YEAR (1942)

Woman of the Year (1942)

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Woman of the Year (1942) This essential romantic comedy won a Best Writing Oscar for Michael Kanin & Ring Larner Jr. (on their first nominations) in part because of a great scene at a baseball game (and some other great repartee) which mark this first pairing of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn (who received a Best Actress nomination as well). Hepburn & Tracy play newspaper writers working for the same paper. When they meet Tracy is [...]
PSYCHO (1960)

Psycho (1960)

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Psycho (1960) What kind of director kills off his star (played by Janet Leigh) less than half way into his film? Only Alfred Hitchcock could (get away with it) of course. And what a killing too! You won’t turn your back on the door to the bathroom when showering for a while after watching this shocker. From the stinging violin music to the murder itself this much copied masterpiece has no peer. Its imagery was/is so memorable that it [...]
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Keep ‘Em Rolling (1934)

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Keep ‘Em Rolling (1934) This is a story of a man and his horse;-) Walter Huston plays a somewhat wild Sergeant in the pre-World War I cavalry. He gets busted down to Private after yet another drunken brawl. Shortly thereafter a new wild horse gets brought to the base and Huston has found a kindred soul. He works tirelessly to train the horse something only he could do and is so consumed with the task that he stops drinking and lets [...]
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On the Waterfront (1954)

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On the Waterfront (1954) This Best Picture Oscar winner was Best Director Elia Kazan’s justification for “ratting” on friends and colleagues to the House Un-American Activities Committee. This crime drama’s (thinly veiled) story is about the onset of the Waterfront Crime Commission’s hearings on union crime and underworld (vs. communist) infiltration. Five acting Academy Award nominations with Brando (Terry Malloy [...]
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