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HE WHO GETS SLAPPED (1924) – FULL REVIEW!

He Who Gets Slapped (1924) – full review!

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He Who Gets Slapped (1924) – full review! Directed by Victor Sjöström who co-adapted Leonid Andreyev’s play with Carey Wilson (Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)) this silent was the first film produced by the newly formed Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM) and the first to be released featuring (Leo) the lion. Edward Arnold & Bela Lugosi (as a clown) are reported to appear uncredited as extras in this film. Paul Beaumont (Lon Chaney) is a [...]
SONG OF BERNADETTE THE (1943)

Song of Bernadette The (1943)

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Song of Bernadette The (1943) Jennifer Jones’ Oscar winning performance (the film won three other Oscars) and Best Picture nominated (and eight other nominations including Best Actor for Charles Bickford and Best Supporting Actress for both Gladys Cooper and Ann Revere. Director Henry King was also nominated. I think you have to be a "believer" to get much out of it. The cast also includes William Eythe Vincent Price and Lee J. Cobb. [...]
The Paul Newman Collection

The Paul Newman Collection

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The Paul Newman Collection Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956) The Left Handed Gun (1958) The Young Philadelphians (1959) – full review! Harper (1966) Pocket Money (1972) – full review! The MacKintosh Man (1973) The Drowning Pool (1975) Purchase this DVD Collection now [...]
PATSY THE (1928) – FULL REVIEW!

Patsy The (1928) – full review!

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Patsy The (1928) – full review! Directed by the great King Vidor this Marion Davies silent comedy also stars Marie Dressler in the comeback role credited with keeping the great dame from taking her own life and rejuvenating her career. Reportedly Vidor hadn’t considered “drama queen” Davies appropriate for comedic roles until he got better acquainted with her and her sense of humor socially at William Randolph [...]
ANNIE GET YOUR GUN (1950) – FULL REVIEW!

Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – full review!

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Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – full review! This much troubled production of the highly successful Broadway musical finally came to pass with Betty Hutton in the title role of Miss Oakley Howard Keel as her sharpshooting rival & love interest Frank Butler and Louis Calhern as showman Buffalo Bill Cody. Judy Garland had been originally cast as Annie before her physical and emotional breakdown and collapse and Frank Morgan had been Buffalo [...]
Blackmail

Blackmail (1929) – full review!

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Blackmail (1929) – full review! Directed by Alfred Hitchcock who adapted the Charles Bennett (Foreign Correspondent (1940)) play this slightly above average drama is credited with being the first British sound film. Unfortunately the sound quality is abysmal. After watching it on TCM I learned from Robert Osborne that the lead actress’s (Anny Ondra from Austria-Hungary – now Poland) lines were being dubbed in real-time (by Joan [...]
ONE HUNDRED MEN AND A GIRL (1937) – FULL REVIEW!

One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) – full review!

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One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) – full review! Directed by Henry Koster (who would receive his only Academy recognition for directing The Bishop’s Wife (1947)) this Hanns Kräly (The Patriot (1928)) story was adapted by Charles Kenyon Bruce Manning & James Mulhauser into a successful Deanna Durbin musical comedy that was nominated for a Best Picture Oscar and won the Academy Award for its Score. Kräly’s Original Story the [...]
Naked Spur The (1953)

Naked Spur The (1953)

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Naked Spur The (1953) This is one of the many great Anthony Mann directed Westerns featuring James Stewart (The Philadelphia Story (1940)) as a bounty hunter that must bring Robert Ryan (Crossfire (1947)) to justice in this Oscar nominated Story (by Sam Rolfe & Harold Jack Bloom their only Academy recognition). The struggle includes & involves a woman played by Janet Leigh (Psycho (1960)) and Stewart’s not so sure where her [...]
THIS IS THE ARMY (1943) – FULL REVIEW!

This Is the Army (1943) – full review!

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This Is the Army (1943) – full review! Michael Curtiz directed this World War II (flag-waving propaganda) Musical which was stitched together with a threadbare script and two Irving Berlin road shows (1918’s “Yip Yip Yaphank” from WW I and “This Is The Army” from WW II) to earn almost $2 million for the Army Emergency Relief fund; Casey Robinson and Captain Claude Binyon wrote the screenplay. The film won an [...]
Dial M for Murder (1954)

Dial M for Murder (1954)

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Dial M for Murder (1954) Filmed in 3-D though released after the craze had died down this thriller from Alfred Hitchcock is the first of three consecutive films in which the director used Grace Kelly as his female lead. Ray Milland brilliantly portrays a man jealous of his wealthy wife’s affections for another (Robert Cummings) so he plots to have her murdered. In addition to Milland’s chilling performance John Williams does an [...]
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