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GOLDEN BOY (1939)

Golden Boy (1939)

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Golden Boy (1939) Thanks to Barbara Stanwyck who believed the young actor could pull off the title role William Holden burst on the screen as violinist Joe Bonaparte (his star making role) with a talent for boxing which is exploited by the promoter-manager Tom Moody (Adolphe Menjou); he uses his mistress-assistant Lorna Moon (played by Stanwyck) to seal the deal by seducing the would-be prizefighter. Directed by Rouben Mamoulian who also [...]
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Girl Said No The (1930)

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Girl Said No The (1930) … not to be confused with the 1937 film of the same name … Directed by Sam Wood with dialogue by Charles MacArthur this A.P. Younger story was adapted by Sarah Y. Mason into a below average romantic comedy that’s likely to offend men and women alike. It’s not only sexist in the worst way but lead actor William Haines’s character practically forces the object of his desire (played by Leila Hyams) [...]
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Secret Command (1944)

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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 [...]
MADIGAN (1968)

Madigan (1968)

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Madigan (1968) This average crime drama’s production values make it feel like a made-for-TV movie and with good reason: it was produced by Frank Rosenberg directed by Don Siegel and its screenplay was written by a couple of TV series writers. One exception besides (only) sometime TV director Siegel is its motion picture cast: Richard Widmark in the title role Henry Fonda in the original title role (when the film was to be called “The [...]
Ladykillers The (1955)

Ladykillers The (1955)

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Ladykillers The (1955) NOT to be confused for the Coen Brothers-Tom Hanks remake (in name only) of 2004! Alec Guinness is the leader of a gang of unusual characters criminals who plot their next “job” while living in a boarding house run by an old (and slightly deaf?) woman played by Katie Johnson. In order not to arouse her suspicions they pretend to be musicians. However when she gets suspicious they decide that they must do away [...]
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

Death Takes a Holiday (1934)

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Death Takes a Holiday (1934) Directed by Mitchell Leisen and co-written by Maxwell Anderson (All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)) Gladys Lehman (Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)) and others this film was remade as Meet Joe Black (1998) by Martin Brest with Brad Pitt and Anthony Hopkins. Fredric March plays Death who poses as Prince Sirki a guest of Duke Lambert (Guy Standing) for a weekend in order to better understand why people fear him. The [...]
Charly (1968)

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 [...]
Cowboy (1958) – full review!

Cowboy (1958) – full review!

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Cowboy (1958) – full review! Directed by Delmer Daves and adapted from Frank Harris’s book My Reminiscences as a Cowboy by Dalton Trumbo (Roman Holiday (1953)) and Edmund North (Patton (1970)) this Western is worth a look despite the odd casting which includes Jack Lemmon in the title role as Harris and Dick York (who would become TV’s original Darrin Stephens on Bewitched) as a womanizing trail hand named Charlie. Glenn Ford is [...]
Captains of the Clouds (1942) – full review!

Captains of the Clouds (1942) – full review!

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Captains of the Clouds (1942) – full review! Directed by Michael Curtiz (who would win his only Oscar for directing the Academy Award winning Best Picture released later that same year but competing one year later Casablanca (1942)) with a screenplay co-written by Norman Reilly Raine (The Life of Emile Zola (1937)) this average war drama is credited with being James Cagney’s first Technicolor film. In fact one of the first things I [...]
LADY WINDERMERE’S FAN (1925)

Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925)

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Lady Windermere’s Fan (1925) Ronald Colman is the title character by the name of Lord Darlington in this Ernst Lubitsch silent gem. Early on Coleman tells Lady Windermere (May McAvoy) that he is in love with her. Her husband Lord Windermere (Bert Lytell) receives a letter from Mrs. Erlynne (Irene Rich) a social outcast that she must see him. When he does he is told by Mrs. Erlynne that his wife is her daughter (out of wedlock? the reason [...]
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