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Real Glory The (1939)

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Real Glory The (1939) This Samuel Goldwyn (co-)produced Henry Hathaway directed action adventure film will remind classic movie fans of the director’s The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) which like this one also stars Gary Cooper and even Gunga Din (1939) released almost 9 months earlier that same year. This one is set in the Philippines some distance from Manila in lieu of the British Colony of India in 1906 (shortly after the San [...]
CAMELOT (1967)

Camelot (1967)

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Camelot (1967) This musical adaptation of the Tony Award winning musical play (of the same name) by Alan Jay Lerner from T.H. White’s "The Once and Future King" was directed by Joshua Logan. It earned three Academy Awards – for Art Direction-Set Decoration Costume Design and Music Scoring of Music Adaptation or Treatment – in addition to Oscar nominations for Cinematography and Sound. However its lead actors: Richard Harris as [...]
UNKNOWN THE (1927)

Unknown The (1927)

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Unknown The (1927) A Tod Browning directed Lon Chaney silent classic! In this horror drama Chaney plays a criminal who hides his identity by wrapping up his arms such that he appears as an armless man attraction in a traveling circus. He has a helper (John George) the only other one who knows the truth that helps him wrap and unwrap his arms. But he can feed himself and throw knives his act with his feet! He falls in love with his assistant [...]
PATCH OF BLUE A (1965) – FULL REVIEW!

Patch of Blue A (1965) – full review!

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Patch of Blue A (1965) – full review! Directed by Academy Award winning Cinematographer Guy Green (Great Expectations (1946)) who also adapted Elizabeth Kata’s novel “Be Ready With Bells and Drums” this above average drama features Shelley Winters’s second Best Supporting Actress performance (The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)). This time she plays the unsympathetic role of a white trash mother to a sightless 18 year old [...]
Deliverance (1972)

Deliverance (1972)

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Deliverance (1972) A terrifying film which reinforces negative southern stereotypes. Burt Reynolds Jon Voight Ned Beatty and Ronny Cox are "city folk" whose "shoot the rapids" vacation is marred by encounters with "country folk". Features "Dueling Banjos". Written by James Dickey. Received Oscar nominations for Best Picture and Editing as well as for producer/director John Boorman. Several scenes were [...]
Dr. Strangelove Or How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)

Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963)

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Dr. Strangelove Or: How I Learned To Stop Worrying And Love The Bomb (1963) So very funny. Peter Sellers who received his first (of two) Best Actor Oscar nomination plays three different characters (including the somewhat insane ex-Nazi title role and the President of the United States!) but is perhaps upstaged by George C. Scott as the slightly off-kilter General ‘Buck’ Turgidson who rationalizes the killing of millions of innocent [...]
D.O.A. (1950)

D.O.A. (1950)

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D.O.A. (1950) Dead On Arrival. A terrific film I’m glad I saw thanks to a recommendation from a friend. Edmond O’Brien is a victim of a slow-acting poison who must track down his own killer! Directed by (five time Academy Award nominated cinematographer) Rudolph Maté and written by Russell Rouse & Clarence Greene. Added to the National Film Registry in 2004. Within the first few minutes of the film O’Brien’s [...]
DUDE COWBOY (1941)

Dude Cowboy (1941)

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Dude Cowboy (1941) This Tim Holt B Western was written by Morton Grant and directed by David Howard. The story revolves around counterfeiting and Holt is joined by his frequent sidekicks Ray Whitley as Smokey who sings at least 3 songs intermixed with the ‘action’ and Lee ‘Lasses’ White as (Professor) Whopper (Hatch) who provides the comic relief along with Helen Holmes who plays Aunt Althea Carter a fairly refined woman that’s [...]
Escape (1940)

Escape (1940)

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Escape (1940) This is actually a very good film with Robert Taylor as an American who is trying to free his mother (Alla Nazimova) from a concentration camp with the help of a German officer’s (Conrad Veidt) mistress played by Norma Shearer. Nazimova plays a German actress who had been living in the United States. When she returns to her native country to sell her home she is held for treason by the fascists now in charge. Taylor comes to [...]
SCARAMOUCHE (1923)

Scaramouche (1923)

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Scaramouche (1923) Directed by Rex Ingram this Rafael Sabatini novel was adapted by Willis Goldbeck and was later remade with Stewart Granger Mel Ferrer Richard Anderson Eleanor Parker Nina Foch & Janet Leigh (among others) by George Sidney in a much different adaptation that was released in 1952. Having not read the novel I can only assume that this was a more faithful telling though somewhat less entertaining than the remake. The [...]
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