Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume One
Forbidden Hollywood Collection Volume One Waterloo Bridge (1931) – full review! Red-Headed Woman (1932) – full review! Baby Face (1933) – full review! Purchase this DVD Collection now [...]
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Gunga Din (1939)
Gunga Din (1939) Based on a Rudyard Kipling poem this is a very entertaining adventure film with an excellent cast including Cary Grant Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Victor McLaglen Sam Jaffe (in the title role) Eduardo Ciannelli and Joan Fontaine. Directed by George Stevens after Howard Hawks was removed when Bringing Up Baby (1938) bombed at the box office; it was added to the National Film Registry in 1999. Oscar nominated for its Cinematography (the [...]
I Married A Doctor (1936)
I Married A Doctor (1936) There is a lot of good dialogue in this adaptation of Sinclair Lewis’s Main Street about small town gossip. Directed by Archie Mayo the screenplay was written by Harriet Ford Harvey O’Higgins and Casey Robinson (Captain Blood (1935)). Carol (Josephine Hutchinson) is a woman from Chicago who marries hometown doctor William Kennicott played by Pat O’Brien and tries to adapt to life in Williamsburg a [...]
Lucky Me (1954)
Lucky Me (1954) Jack Donohue directed this lifeless musical comedy starring Doris Day Robert Cummings the insufferable Phil Silvers Eddie Foy Jr. Nancy Walker and Martha Hyer (among others). While Ms. Day is her perky pretty self the screenplay by Irving Elinson Robert O’Brien and James O’Hanlon (from a story by O’Hanlon) and the songs are forgettable. The highlight of the film is Day’s “Superstition Song” at [...]
Great McGinty The (1940)
Great McGinty The (1940) Writer Preston Sturges finally got his chance to direct (by practically giving his script away) and ended up winning the Academy Award for Best Writing Original Screenplay for this comedy about big city politics that unfortunately is uncomfortably similar to the Chicago machine that has given us our 44th POTUS. It stars the underrated Brian Donlevy in the title role as an ambitious thug that works his way from a street [...]
McLintock! (1963) – full review!
McLintock! (1963) – full review! Directed by Andrew V. McLaglen with an original screenplay by James Edward Grant (The Sheepman (1958)) this John Wayne-Maureen O’Hara comedy Western will have you laughing out loud. Besides being another successful pairing of these two the film also boasts a deep cast of familiar character actors including Wayne’s son Patrick Stefanie Powers Jack Kruschen Chill Wills Yvonne De Carlo Jerry Van [...]
Thing from Another World The (1951)
Thing from Another World The (1951) A sci-fi classic later remade by John Carpenter as The Thing (1982) with Kurt Russell. A large round object has crash landed in the Arctic which is then explored by the Military personnel who maintain a remote research outpost there. Kenneth Tobey plays the Captain in charge who must balance base safety with the scientists’ need to investigate their mysterious find frozen in ice. Fairly dated but [...]
Twelve O’Clock High (1949)
Twelve O’Clock High (1949) Is the ultimate definitive example of military leadership and (if one can believe an IMDb trivia item) it’s even used by a couple of different branches of the U.S. Armed Forces for training officers. This World War II drama features Gregory Peck – in an Academy Award nominated (Best Actor) role – as General Frank Savage who’s assigned to take over a “daylight precision bombing” unit during the [...]
Casablanca (1942)
Casablanca (1942) “Here’s looking at you kid” what can one say about a movie proclaimed to be the best ever? Of course the film’s cast is outstanding! Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Sydney Greenstreet Peter Lorre S.Z. Sakall and John Qualen. This Best Picture Oscar winner actually should have competed with Mrs. Miniver in 1942 since it premiered in New York in November of that year. [...]
June 2005 – Ingrid Bergman
June 2005 – Ingrid Bergman Wednesday June 1 – Steve McQueen – Part One 12:15 PM Beg Borrow Or Steal (1937) – decent B movie with a full review! 8:00 PM & 11:30 PM Steve McQueen: The Essence of Cool (2004) – a TCM premiere! 9:30 PM Bullitt (1968) Thursday June 2 – Steve McQueen – Part Two 7:30 AM The Kennel Murder Case (1933) – Directed by Michael Curtiz (Casablanca (1942)) adapted by Robert [...]