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Red Shoes The (1948)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]

That Uncertain Feeling (1941)

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That Uncertain Feeling (1941) Merle Oberon plays an overindulged unfulfilled wife whose husband (Melvyn Douglas) loves her dearly providing everything she needs except excitement so she’s not happy. She goes to see a quack psychoanalyst (Alan Mowbray) who tells her that her hiccups are symptomatic of a larger problem in her marriage. While at this “doctor”’s office she meets a loser pianist Alexander Sebastian (Burgess [...]

Walk Softly Stranger (1950)

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Walk Softly Stranger (1950) Directed by Robert Stevenson (Mary Poppins (1964)) this drama is perfectly cast with Joseph Cotten as its lead. The Manuel Seff and Paul Yawitz play was adapted by Frank Fenton. Cotten plays a man that’s been around as: a card shark a gambler a loser and a small-time thief. However he’s basically a kind non-violent sensitive person who could “fit in” in a small Midwestern town where he’d [...]

Vivacious Lady (1938) – full review!

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Vivacious Lady (1938) – full review! Produced & directed by George Stevens with a screenplay by P.J. Wolfson & Ernest Pagano that was based on I.A.R. Wylie’s story this uneven romantic comedy features Ginger Rogers in the title role and James Stewart. Watching this film I found myself both laughing out loud AND waiting for certain tired scenes to end (like the endless whistling at Rogers). Plus I don’t usually find the [...]

Search The (1948)

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Search The (1948) Montgomery Clift was nominated for a Best Actor Academy Award in his first film! He plays an American soldier in post World War II Germany that befriends a young Jewish boy (Ivan Jandl; his only film) & helps to return him to his mother (Jarmila Novotna) who is also searching for her boy. Aline MacMahon plays a bureaucrat who gets in the middle of it all. The Richard Schweizer (Marie-Louise (1944)) & David Wechsler [...]

Charly (1968)

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Charly (1968) Produced & directed by Ralph Nelson (Lilies of the Field (1963)) with a story based on Daniel Keyes’s “Flowers for Algernon” and a screenplay by Stirling Silliphant (In the Heat of the Night (1967)) this slightly above average drama earned Cliff Robertson (in the title role) a Best Actor Oscar his only Academy recognition. Charly Gordon is a retarded adult who attends a night school that’s taught by Alice [...]

Western Heritage (1948)

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Western Heritage (1948) This B movie Tim Holt Western was one of two directed by Wallace Grissell the other (Wild Horse Mesa (1947)) also featured Nan Leslie and Jason Robards (Sr.) in supporting roles in addition to Holt’s typical sidekick Richard Martin as Chito; naturally it was written (as always) by Norman Houston. Holt plays Ross Daggert who’s girlfriend Beth Winston (Leslie) is both the niece of Judge Henry Winston (Robards) [...]

Warner Bros. Ultimate Gangster Collection: Classics

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Warner Bros. Ultimate Gangster Collection: Classics Little Caesar (1931) <-link to review | link to video clip -> Little Caesar The Public Enemy (1931) <-link to review | link to video clip -> The Public Enemy The Petrified Forest (1936) <-link to review | link to video clip -> The Petrified Forest White Heat (1949) <-link to review | link to video clip -> White Heat Public Enemies: The Golden Age Of The Gangster Film [...]

The Falcon in Mexico (1944)

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The Falcon in Mexico (1944) The ninth film in the Falcon series A little different than earlier films in the series this one is the first film since A Date with the Falcon without Edward Gargan as Detective Bates and first one without Cliff Clark as the Police Inspector since The Falcon’s Brother when Clark took over the role from noted character actor James Gleason. Also a single character Manuel (Nester Paiva) who “adopts” [...]

Gentle Annie (1944)

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Gentle Annie (1944) A turn of the (20th) century Western set in Oklahoma with several well known actors including James Craig Donna Reed Marjorie Main Harry Morgan Paul Langton and Barton MacLane. Morris Ankrum and Noah Beery also appear. It’s a better than average B movie that was directed by Andrew Marton with a screenplay by Lawrence Hazard that was based on a novel by MacKinlay Kantor. Three persons wearing sugar sacks with eye-holes [...]
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