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June Bride (1948)

June Bride (1948)

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June Bride (1948) This above average comedy with a screenplay by Ranald MacDougall (Mildred Pierce (1945)) features Robert Montgomery as a former war correspondent looking for work. He reluctantly accepts a job to write an article for a women’s magazine about a typical American wedding even though its editor is a former lover Bette Davis who’s playing the typical “married to her job” successful but single career woman [...]
ONE TWO THREE (1961)

One Two Three (1961)

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One Two Three (1961) An hilarious Billy Wilder film. East meets West capitalism and communism explained and some fast talking by the film’s star James Cagney. A must see! Cagney plays a Coca Cola executive in West Germany near the wall (that used to be). He and his wife (Arlene Francis) "babysit" Cagney’s boss’s (Howard St. John) daughter (Pamela Tiffin) who behaves irresponsibly and falls in love with East German [...]
MARIE ANTOINETTE (1938) – FULL REVIEW!

Marie Antoinette (1938) – full review!

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Marie Antoinette (1938) – full review! Directed by W. S. Van Dyke with a screenplay written by Donald Ogden Stewart (The Philadelphia Story (1940)) Ernest Vajda and Claudine West (Mrs. Miniver (1942)) this average historical drama earned Norma Shearer her last (Best Actress) and Robert Morley (in his film debut) his only (Supporting Actor) Oscar nomination(s). Cedric Gibbons’s Art Direction and Herbert Stothart’s (The Wizard of Oz [...]
TORRENT (1926)

Torrent (1926)

August 29, 2014 // 1 Comment

Torrent (1926) The title refers to a flood that occurs in the small town where most of the film’s action takes place. It draws the two romantic leads closer and the special effects are pretty good given the time the film was made. This Greta Garbo silent drama her first American (MGM) film also stars Ricardo Cortez as the son of a domineering mother played by Martha Mattox. The wealthy matriarch Dona Bernarda Brull (Mattox) is upset about [...]
SPRINGFIELD RIFLE (1952) – FULL REVIEW!

Springfield Rifle (1952) – full review!

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Springfield Rifle (1952) – full review! Directed by André De Toth (The Gunfighter (1950)) with a screenplay by Frank Davis (A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)) and Charles Marquis Warren that was based on a story by Sloan Nibley this average yet colorful (in a cinema-graphic sense) Western stars Gary Cooper as Major Kearney who eventually gets to use a fast loading model of the titled gun to shift the balance of power against some horse [...]
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Real Glory The (1939)

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Real Glory The (1939) This Samuel Goldwyn (co-)produced Henry Hathaway directed action adventure film will remind classic movie fans of the director’s The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935) which like this one also stars Gary Cooper and even Gunga Din (1939) released almost 9 months earlier that same year. This one is set in the Philippines some distance from Manila in lieu of the British Colony of India in 1906 (shortly after the San [...]
GLENN MILLER STORY THE (1953) – FULL REVIEW!

Glenn Miller Story The (1953) – full review!

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Glenn Miller Story The (1953) – full review! This fictionalized biography of the titled arrangement composer trombone player and famed band leader won Leslie I. Carey (The Mississippi Gambler (1953)) an Academy Award for Best Sound Recording. The Joseph Gershenson-Henry Mancini Score was also nominated (the first nominations for either) as was the Story and Screenplay by Valentine Davies (It Happens Every Spring (1949)) and Oscar Brodney [...]
JUDGE PRIEST (1934) – FULL REVIEW!

Judge Priest (1934) – full review!

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Judge Priest (1934) – full review! Not one of John Ford’s better films in fact it’s quite dull for most of the first hour which might explain why the director felt the need to remake this comedy drama as The Sun Shines Bright (1953) with Charles Winninger. This one features Will Rogers in the title role and a screenplay by Dudley Nichols and Lamar Trotti. The cast also includes Tom Brown Anita Louise Henry Walthall David Landau [...]
BURN ‘EM UP O’CONNOR (1939)

Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939)

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Burn ‘Em Up O’Connor (1939) Directed by Edward Sedgwick based on Sir Malcolm Campbell’s novel “Salute to the Gods” screenplay by Milton Merlin & Byron Morgan this film features the ever annoying Dennis O’Keefe in the title role first name Jerry as an obnoxious country bumpkin that becomes a race car driver. The underrated Nat Pendleton is the highlight of the film playing (as usual?) the dumb sidekick of [...]
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Manhattan Melodrama (1934)

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Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Directed by W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man (1934) & San Francisco (1936)) & George Cukor (My Fair Lady (1964)) uncredited with a screenplay co-written by Joseph L. Mankiewicz (All About Eve (1950)) this film is reported to be the one that Myrna Loy fan John Dillinger went to see at a Chicago theater after which he was gunned down by the FBI. Arthur Caesar’s Original Story won an Oscar. It also contains the [...]
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