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Secret Command (1944)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Secret Command (1944) This B movie action drama featuring home-front espionage intrigue during World War II received an Academy Award nomination for Special Effects. Directed by Edward Sutherland with a screenplay by Roy Chanslor that was based on a story by John and Ward Hawkins it stars Pat O’Brien as Sam Gallagher who’s returned home to see his brother Jeff (Chester Morris) and get a job working at shipyard. After witnessing [...]
They Live By Night (1949)

They Live By Night (1949)

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They Live By Night (1949) An excellent Nicholas Ray directed film noir starring Farley Granger Cathy O’Donnell and Howard Da Silva. Like all film noirs Granger plays a somewhat innocent man who gets caught up in circumstances which he seems hopeless to avoid that get him deeper and deeper in trouble with the law. O’Donnell is his love interest who’s also the sister of one of the criminals (Da Silva) with whom he gets involved. [...]
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Love (1927)

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Love (1927) One of many films based on Leo Tolstoy’s novel Anna Karenina this silent is one of two versions featuring Greta Garbo in the title role (the other is a “talkie” Anna Karenina (1935)). Directed by Edmund Goulding with continuity assistance provided by the great Frances Marion this slightly above average drama also features Garbo’s frequent leading man John Gilbert as Captain Alexei Vronsky and Brandon Hurst as [...]
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Young Bess (1953)

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Young Bess (1953) An historical account (however fictionalized) about Queen Elizabeth I from childhood to assuming the throne upon “Bloody Mary’s death. Jean Simmons plays the title role the daughter of Henry VIII (Charles Laughton) and Ann Boleyn (Elaine Stewart) shown briefly before meeting her fate. An uncredited baby then child actress (Noreen Corcoran) plays Bess during the years when the King was systematically eliminating his [...]
RED RIVER (1948)

Red River (1948)

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Red River (1948) This is a very good Howard Hawks Western starring John Wayne Montgomery Clift Joanne Dru and Walter Brennan. Wayne is a hard driving task master trying to get his herd of cattle from point A to point B; Clift is his adopted son who’s not so sure there isn’t a better way to run things and rebels. John Ford Wayne’s usual director for this genre is reported to have said "I didn’t know the guy could [...]
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Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK)

August 29, 2014 // 1 Comment

Movies about the Ku Klux Klan (KKK) Ever since the release of legendary director D.W. Griffith’s controversial epic The Birth of the Nation (1915) based on Thomas F. Dixon Jr.’s (play and) novel titled The Clansman: An Historical Romance of the Ku Klux Klan and featuring silent star Lillian Gish and future Oscar winner Donald Crisp (among others) classic Hollywood seems to have avoided taking on the KKK to expose its wicked acts or its [...]
COWBOY AND THE LADY THE (1938)

Cowboy and the Lady The (1938)

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Cowboy and the Lady The (1938) Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by H.C. Potter with a story by Leo McCarey & Frank Adams and contributions from several other writers including S.N. Behrman & Sonya Levien (State Fair (1933)) who received the screenplay credits this average romantic comedy won an Academy Award for its Sound; its title song and Score were Oscar nominated. According to Goldwyn biographer A. Scott Berg McCarey told a [...]
VERTIGO (1958)

Vertigo (1958)

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Vertigo (1958) The title means dizziness or describes a confused state of mind this is a film about that and obsessive love which many critics say was director Alfred Hitchcock’s best though only in retrospect since it wasn’t initially very well received. It was the last of the four collaborations between "Hitch" and James Stewart. The blonde this time was played by Kim Novak (because Vera Miles was pregnant and [...]
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What Every Woman Knows (1934)

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What Every Woman Knows (1934) Directed by Gregory La Cava (My Man Godfrey (1936) & Stage Door (1937)) this J. M. Barrie play was adapted by Monckton Hoffe (The Lady Eve (1941)) John Meehan (Boys Town (1938)) and James K. McGuinness. It stars Helen Hayes (The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)) Brian Aherne (Juarez (1939)) Lucile Watson (Watch on the Rhine (1943)) Donald Crisp (How Green Was My Valley (1941)) and Henry Stephenson among others [...]
Wagon Train (1940)

Wagon Train (1940)

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Wagon Train (1940) Academy Award nominated best assistant director Edward Killy led this transition from RKO B Western veteran George O’Brien to Tim Holt in the leading role. Written by Bernard McConville with a screenplay by Morton Grant it’s also the only one I can remember in which crooner Ray Whitley is shot and killed. Whitley who wrote his own songs and played Holt’s amiable singing sidekick in several such Westerns plays wagon [...]
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