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RED SHOES THE (1948)

Red Shoes The (1948)

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Red Shoes The (1948) Directed and written by frequent collaborators Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger (49th Parallel (1941)) who adapted it from a Hans Christian Andersen’s fairy tale this essential drama is the story of a young woman (Moira Shearer in her film debut) determined to make it as a prima ballerina and having the talent to make it. But of course love interrupts her quest for perfection introducing the age old [...]
Moonlight on the Prairie (1935)

Moonlight on the Prairie (1935)

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Moonlight on the Prairie (1935) The first of the Dick Foran “The Singing Cowboy” B-Westerns was directed by D. Ross Lederman and written by William Jacobs. Foran plays Ace Andrews an out of work rodeo star that saves the day for a woman – Barbara Roberts (Sheila Mannors aka Bromley) – and her son Dickie (Jones). George E. Stone provides the comic relief as Small Change who accompanies Foran’s singing of the title song and others and [...]
THREE COMRADES (1938)

Three Comrades (1938)

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Three Comrades (1938) One of the best 10 films of 1938 (according to The New York Times Guide to the Best 1000 Movies Ever Made) and one which I enjoyed thoroughly when I saw it on TCM. Robert Taylor Franchot Tone and Robert Young are the three men who all love Margaret Sullavan (who received her only Oscar nomination) in their own way. Guy Kibbee and Monty Woolley also play roles in this essential drama as do Henry Hull & Charley Grapewin [...]
Painted Desert (1938)

Painted Desert (1938)

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Painted Desert (1938) Directed by David Howard with a screenplay by John Rathmell and Oliver Drake that was based on a story by Jack Cunningham this B movie George O’Brien Western features Laraine Day (as Laraine Johnson) in one of her first films as his love interest and his last pairing with (sidekick) Stanley Fields. Director Howard writer Drake star O’Brien and singer Ray Whitley made more than a handful of these B Westerns [...]
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Winterset (1936)

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Winterset (1936) Burgess Meredith’s screen debut was directed by Alfred Santell; Meredith had starred in the Maxwell Anderson (All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)) play which received a screenplay treatment from Anthony Veiller. The film received two Academy Award nominations: Perry Ferguson’s first of five unrewarded Oscar nominations for Art Direction and for Nathaniel Shilkret’s Score (his only Academy recognition). The [...]
The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

The Falcon in San Francisco (1945)

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The Falcon in San Francisco (1945) The eleventh film in the Falcon series Some familiar actors return to the series in this one though not in recurring roles. Edward Brophy (who appeared in the first Falcon film as a detective and is a fairly recognizable character actor in his own right) plays Goldie and Rita Corday appears in her fifth (out of six total) film in the series though never as the same character. And missing from this film are the [...]
Action in the North Atlantic (1943) – full review!

Action in the North Atlantic (1943) – full review!

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Action in the North Atlantic (1943) – full review! Directed by Lloyd Bacon with a story by Guy Gilpatric additional dialogue provided by W.R. Burnett (Wake Island (1942)) and A.I. Bezzerides and a screenplay by John Howard Lawson (Blockade (1938)) this slightly above average war drama details the contributions of the Merchant Marines (“Heroes Without Uniform”) during World War II. Gilpatric’s Original Story was nominated [...]
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100 Years

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Oscar’s Best Snubbed Films  |  Gems  |  100 Years  |  AFI This is a short that was compiled by Chuck Workman celebrating “100 Years at the Movies” for the 1994 Academy Awards. It is nine minutes long; it includes clips from at least 225 movies. Here is my labor of love, the clip-by-clip detail of this much discussed short. I used a combination of information already posted on TCM’s message boards, what I found [...]
The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)

The Falcon in Hollywood (1944)

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The Falcon in Hollywood (1944) The tenth film in the Falcon series Tom Conway plays the Falcon Tom Lawrence who is on vacation in California and at the Hollywood Club track betting on the horses. He bumps into the local police Inspector McBride (Emory Parnell) and Lieutenant Higgins (Frank Jenks) who ask him if he’s seen Louie Buchanan (Sheldon Leonard). He hasn’t but shortly thereafter he does. He then meets an actress Lili [...]
Damsel in Distress A (1937) – full review!

Damsel in Distress A (1937) – full review!

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Damsel in Distress A (1937) – full review! They don’t make them like this anymore! Directed by George Stevens this delightfully funny Musical romantic comedy featuring music & lyrics from George & Ira Gershwin (respectively) stars Fred Astaire amidst the string of hit films he made with co-star Ginger Rogers with a different partner several in fact. Though Astaire’s character is again named Jerry as it was in Top Hat [...]
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