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OBLIGING YOUNG LADY (1942)

Obliging Young Lady (1942)

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Obliging Young Lady (1942) A couple of stars and several recognizable character actors make this face paced comedy tolerable. Casting Edmond O’Brien in a comedy may have been the first mistake plus some of the gags are positively juvenile. However it is probably worth seeing if only for the few and far between grins. O’Brien who plays a reporter returning from an assignment meets Linda Norton (Ruth Warrick whose first film was [...]
Gaslight (1944)

Gaslight (1944)

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Gaslight (1944) Ingrid Bergman won the first of her three Oscars (Best Actress in this case) on her second nomination playing a newlywed to Charles Boyer’s mysterious character. Boyer was also nominated his third of four Best Actor Academy Award nominations without a win. Bergman’s character fears that she’s going mad when strange things (including sounds) start happening at the family mansion. She finds that her new husband is [...]
The Falcon Out West (1944)

The Falcon Out West (1944)

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The Falcon Out West (1944) This eighth film in the Falcon series By utilizing other talents from within RKO Studios the Falcon series was given a Western locale similar to those found in so many B Westerns from the same time period with a screenplay from Morton Grant (and Billy Jones) and cinematography by Harry Wild (Army Girl (1938)). Based on the character created by Michael Arlen and directed by William Clemens it features Tom Conway as Tom [...]
Two-Faced Woman (1941)

Two-Faced Woman (1941)

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Two-Faced Woman (1941) Greta Garbo’s last film is less than it might have been; the actress seemed bored with the silly goings-on while at the same time trying too hard in other scenes (including an embarrassing dance sequence). The magical romantic chemistry and near perfect comic timing that she and co-star Melvyn Douglas exhibited in their previous film together – Ninotchka (1939) – was missing as were director Ernst Lubitsch and [...]
TIME OF THEIR LIVES THE (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

Time of Their Lives The (1946) – full review!

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Time of Their Lives The (1946) – full review! Directed by Charles Barton an Academy Award winning assistant director for Paramount and written by Val Burton Walter DeLeon John Grant and Bradford Ropes this is a different kind of Bud Abbott & Lou Costello film in that they don’t work as a team in this one. In fact as the film opens in Revolutionary War times the famous comedy duo is at odds over the same woman – a maid (Ann [...]
MY NAME IS NOBODY (1973)

My Name is Nobody (1973)

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My Name is Nobody (1973) This odd Western comedy stars Henry Fonda and Terence Hill. If you’ve never seen any of the “Trinity” comedy Westerns which feature actor Hill in the title role this is a pretty good example of one. With the added benefit of Fonda (a veteran of so many classic Westerns) and the participation from the great spaghetti Western director Sergio Leone (whose idea served as the basis for this film) this movie [...]
RAG MAN THE (1925)

Rag Man The (1925)

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Rag Man The (1925) Linda Martinez winner of TCM’s 4th Annual Young Composers Competition provided the brand new score for this silent film starring Jackie Coogan the title character … I guess it should be called “the Rag Boy”;-) Jackie Coogan plays Timothy Kelly an orphan that’s just escaped from a burning orphanage and thought to be dead. He’s a smart little kid who ends up sleeping the night in a junk [...]
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Thundering Hoofs (1942)

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Thundering Hoofs (1942) Directed by Lesley Selander and written by Paul Franklin this Tim Holt B Western features regular co-stars Ray Whitley (who sings a couple of songs with his band) & Lee ‘Lasses’ White (who provides slapstick comic relief) and a bit more intrigue than usual. Sure you know who the bad guys are in this one led by Archie Twitchell playing a lawyer and there’s a girl played by Luana Walters as usual but the plot [...]
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

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The Grapes of Wrath (1940) John Ford won the second of his record four Best Director Academy Awards for this Depression era drama from John Steinbeck’s novel about the Joads and other families of Oklahoma sharecroppers whose decades old farms were destroyed by the Dust Bowl their migration west (in an overloaded jalopy-truck) to California a place purported to be “the land of milk and honey” and their disillusionment about the American [...]
SEVEN-PER-CENT SOLUTION THE (1976) – FULL REVIEW!

Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) – full review!

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Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) – full review! Directed by Michael Curtiz with a screenplay by Warren Duff and Robert Buckner this historical drama Western was one of Warner Bros.’s first Technicolor films. Not only does it cover a subject I had not seen previously discussed the harmful practice of using hoses to wash away entire hillsides to find gold but it’s delightful to see so many known actors in color for the very first [...]
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