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WINNING TEAM THE (1952) – FULL REVIEW!

Winning Team The (1952) – full review!

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Winning Team The (1952) – full review! Directed by Lewis Seiler and written by Merwin Gerard Seeleg Lester and Ted Sherdeman (from a story by Gerard & Lester) this average sports biography features Ronald Reagan as baseball pitcher Grover Cleveland Alexander (inducted in to Major League Baseball’s Hall of Fame as Pete Alexander) and Doris Day as his wife Aimee. This was Reagan’s second and last pairing with Day (the other [...]
SWEET SMELL OF SUCCESS (1957)

Sweet Smell of Success (1957)

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Sweet Smell of Success (1957) Tony Curtis plays the slimy self-loathing ambitious press agent Sidney Falco who feeds gossip to the all powerful New York columnist radio & TV media powerhouse – modeled after Walter Winchell – J.J. Hunsecker (AFI’s #35 villain) played ruthlessly by Burt Lancaster. Hunsecker treats Falco and virtually everyone else he encounters including a Senator who is beholden to him like “a poodle” that will [...]
Captain Blood (1935)

Captain Blood (1935)

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Captain Blood (1935) This is my favorite pirate movie & the film that helped Errol Flynn make a name for himself. And it’s an earlier teaming of Flynn Olivia de Havilland Basil Rathbone and director Michael Curtiz than The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) too. The film was Oscar nominated for Best Picture as was director Curtiz its Screenplay (Casey Robinson earned his only Academy recognition for adapting the Rafael Sabatini novel) [...]
THE WILD BUNCH (1969)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

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The Wild Bunch (1969) This Sam Peckinpah directed Western classic – with its star-studded cast – was dubbed a “symphony of violence” and nearly earned an X-rating when it was released but it pales in comparison to the blood guts and gore that one can see in today’s violent features. The director earned his only Academy Award nomination for collaborating on the screenplay with Walon Green who’d written the story with Roy N. Sickner. [...]
Star Wars (1977)

Star Wars (1977)

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Star Wars (1977) Written and Directed by Irving G. Thalberg winner George Lucas (American Graffiti (1973)) this swashbuckling space fantasy action picture began a franchise of films and a movie paraphernalia industry like nothing before it that’s still going strong today with the release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith in 2005. "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away …" the story follows Luke [...]
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)

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His Kind of Woman (1951) Howard Hughes was the executive producer of this film-noir crime drama thriller (with some comedic elements); John Farrow (Wake Island (1942)) was its director. It was written by Frank Fenton and Jack Leonard and stars Robert Mitchum Jane Russell Vincent Price Tim Holt Charles McGraw Marjorie Reynolds Raymond Burr Leslie Banning Jim Backus Philip Van Zandt John Mylong and Carleton Young. Mitchum plays a ‘down on his [...]
RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY (1962)

Ride the High Country (1962)

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Ride the High Country (1962) An above average Western featuring two of the genres most recognizable stars Joel McCrea and Randolph Scott (in his last film). Both men have a history together as outlaws but McCrea has gone straight and is now in charge of getting the gold from the mines to the bank. To help him he hires his old friend Scott who along with a young hothead (Ron Starr) is in town dressed up like “Buffalo Bill” and [...]
TASK FORCE (1949) – FULL REVIEW!

Task Force (1949) – full review!

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Task Force (1949) – full review! Written and directed by Delmer Daves this unremarkable war drama uses several real events concerning the development of aircraft carrier warfare from the original U.S.S. Langley and bi-plane aircraft of the 1920’s through the U.S.S. Enterprise (among others) during World War II as its backdrop (even jet fighters flying in formation are shown at the end of the picture). Initially thought to be too [...]
CRY ‘HAVOC’ (1943) – FULL REVIEW!

Cry ‘Havoc’ (1943) – full review!

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Cry ‘Havoc’ (1943) – full review! Directed by Richard Thorpe with a screenplay by Paul Osborn that was based on the play by Allan Kenward this nearly all female cast war drama tells the harrowing story of thirteen women on Bataan during World War II just prior to its being overrun by Japanese forces in 1942. Led by two veteran nurses Lieutenant Mary Smith ‘Smitty’ (Margaret Sullavan) and Captain Alice Marsh (Fay Bainter) [...]
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1931-1932 1931-1932 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees) (winners listed first in bold print) Best Picture Grand Hotel (1932)   Arrowsmith (1931) Bad Girl (1931) The Champ (1931) Five Star Final (1931) One Hour with You (1932) Shanghai Express (1932) The Smiling Lieutenant (1931) Best Actor in a Leading Role Wallace Beery The Champ (1931) and Fredric March Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931) Alfred Lunt The Guardsman (1931) Best Actress [...]
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