Proudly sponsored by The Running Guide for Beginners! Learn to RUN now!

Also sponsored by The Best Hiking Gear for Top Hiking Gear Reviews!

Search Results for other_reviews

Champion (1949)

Champion (1949)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Champion (1949) This exceptional boxing drama is notable for its many firsts: Kirk Douglas (in the title role) earned the first of his three Best Actor Academy Award nominations Arthur Kennedy received the first of his five Supporting Actor nominations screenwriter Carl Foreman got his first Oscar nod and cinematographer Franz Planer earned the first of his five – none of these men ever took home the gold but editor Harry Gerstad did (the [...]
Notorious (1946)

Notorious (1946)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Notorious (1946) One of Hitchcock’s most acclaimed (discussed & analyzed) films. It certainly contains terrific characterizations by its three lead actors: Cary Grant (inexplicably ignored by the Academy) Ingrid Bergman and Claude Rains (whose performance did receive a nomination). The love story within is what distinguishes this thriller from his others. Grant’s character must convince the woman he comes to love (Bergman) to [...]
Mrs.-Miniver-1942-200x300

1942

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

1942 1942 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees) (winners listed first in bold print) Best Picture Mrs. Miniver (1942) 49th Parallel (1941) Kings Row (1942) The Magnificent Ambersons (1942) The Pied Piper (1942) The Pride of the Yankees (1942) Random Harvest (1942) The Talk of the Town (1942) Wake Island (1942) Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Best Actor in a Leading Role James Cagney Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) Walter Pidgeon Mrs. Miniver (1942) [...]
No Picture

1929-1930

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

1929-1930 1929-1930 Academy Awards (Oscar winners and nominees) (winners listed first in bold print) Best Picture All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) The Big House (1930) Disraeli (1929) The Divorcee (1930) The Love Parade (1929) Best Actor in a Leading Role George Arliss Disraeli (1929) Wallace Beery The Big House (1930) Maurice Chevalier The Big Pond (1930) Ronald Colman Bulldog Drummond (1929) Ronald Colman Condemned (1929) George Arliss [...]
TIME OF THEIR LIVES THE (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

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

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

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 [...]
Joe-Louis-Story-The-1953

Joe Louis Story The (1953)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Joe Louis Story The (1953) The highlight of this below average biography about the titled championship boxer is the authentic fight footage used throughout the film. However even this is less than ideal given its presentation without narration or fight commentary. In fact not only is the overall sound quality poor and Joe Louis’s historical boxing record is hard to follow (explicit dates win/loss records and even the boxer’s age are [...]
MAY 2005 – ORSON WELLES

May 2005 – Orson Welles

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

May 2005 – Orson Welles Sunday May 1 – Based on Lillian Hellman 8:00 AM Dark Victory (1939) – newly updated capsule review! 10:00 AM Les Girls (1957) – all new capsule review! 12:00 PM Walk Don’t Run (1966) – Cary Grant’s last film a remake of The More The Merrier (1943) 2:00 PM Bell Book and Candle (1959) – the inspiration for TV’s Bewitched series? A publisher played by James Stewart is [...]
CARBINE WILLIAMS (1952)

Carbine Williams (1952)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Carbine Williams (1952) 44 year-old James Stewart plays a man in his early 20’s through his mid-40’s (and beyond?) something he was asked to do quite often throughout his career. His characterization is good though he is clearly not youthful enough physically to play the title character in the first third of the film. Chameleon actress Jean Hagan on the other hand ages much more believably (perhaps because she was only 30 at the [...]
GAZEBO THE (1959) – FULL REVIEW!

Gazebo The (1959) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Gazebo The (1959) – full review! Directed by George Marshall based on a story by Alec Coppel (The Captain’s Paradise (1953)) with a screenplay by George Wells (Designing Woman (1957)) this slightly above average black comedy crime story is intricately written to cleverly tie everything together before its end making for a satisfying entertaining film. Leads Glenn Ford and Debbie Reynolds are supported by Carl Reiner and John McGiver [...]
LAST TRAIN FROM GUN HILL (1959) – FULL REVIEW!

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) – full review! The title of this above average Western refers to a train that Kirk Douglas’s Marshal Matt Morgan must make at the end of the drama. But first the lawman wait most of the day for the train and then face a gauntlet to get to the station with his prisoner – Earl Holliman as Rick Belden – much like Van Heflin had to with Glenn Ford in 3:10 to Yuma (1957). Whereas Ford was the [...]
1 2 3 … 153

Copyright © 2020 | Powered by ClassicFilmGuide.com Classic Film Guide

Proudly sponsored by The Running Guide for Beginners! Lose Weight now!

Also sponsored by The Best Hiking Gear for Top Hiking Gear Reviews!