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FORTUNE COOKIE THE (1966)

Fortune Cookie The (1966)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Fortune Cookie The (1966) This above average comedy marked the first of many successful pairings of Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau. It was written by its director Billy Wilder & I.A.L. Diamond (The Apartment (1960)). Whereas Matthau won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor (on his first of three Oscar nominations; the other two were for Best Actor) Wilder & Diamond’s Story & Screenplay (written directly for the screen) [...]
LOVE LETTERS (1945) – FULL REVIEW!

Love Letters (1945) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Love Letters (1945) – full review! Let me apologize in advance if this synopsis is not up to my normal high standards; I watched this film six months ago when it premiered on TCM in August 2006 and have done my best to recall it all this time later (which is not my normal practice). I believe that the following gives an accurate “feel” for the elements of its plot if not the letter perfect detail one can usually expect from my [...]
ROAD HOUSE (1948)

Road House (1948)

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Road House (1948) Here are my thoughts about screenwriter-producer Edward Chodorov’s Road House (1948) – starring Ida Lupino Cornel Wilde Celeste Holm and Richard Widmark (in his third film) – which was directed by Jean Negulesco. The title was unfortunately reused for a Patrick Swayze –vehicle some 40 years later so I thought that reviewing this classic might help those who’ve only seen the 1989 movie to forget. Although it features a [...]
THEODORA GOES WILD (1936) – FULL REVIEW!

Theodora Goes Wild (1936) – full review!

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Theodora Goes Wild (1936) – full review! Directed by Richard Boleslawski with a screenplay by Sidney Buchman this average screwball comedy earned its titled star Irene Dunne her second of five (without ever winning!) Best Actress Academy Award nominations. Editor Otto Meyer earned the first of his two nominations. If the viewer can get through the positively annoying scenes (like Melvyn Douglas’s endless whistling) in the [...]
TULSA (1949)

Tulsa (1949)

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Tulsa (1949) Producer Walter Wanger and director Stuart Heisler shared a Special Effects Academy Award nomination for the action in this average (Technicolor) romance drama set in 1920’s Oklahoma; it begins like an advertisement for the titled city and the oil business but ends by making a case for land conservation. Lovely Susan Hayward plays Cherokee Lansing the daughter of a rancher that was accidentally killed by oilmen such that she [...]
Blume in Love (1973)

Blume in Love (1973)

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Blume in Love (1973) It’s a comedy romance set in California during the Vietnam era when free love was hip and social responsibility was topical or at least made one feel guilty if they weren’t committed to making the world a better place. Produced written and directed by Paul Mazursky (Bob & Carol & Ted & Alice (1969)) who also plays a divorce lawyer in Beverly Hills it stars George Segal Susan Anspach Kris Kristofferson [...]
Casablanca (1942

October 2004 – archive

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

October 2004 – archive Friday October 1 – Dick Foran (The Singing Cowboy) Day plus these fine films: 10:00 PM Casablanca (1942) – "Here’s looking at you kid" – what can one say about the film proclaimed to be the best film ever? Of course the cast is outstanding! Humphrey Bogart Ingrid Bergman Paul Henreid Claude Rains Conrad Veidt Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre. Actually should have competed with [...]
Beg Borrow or Steal (1937)

Beg Borrow or Steal (1937)

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Beg Borrow or Steal (1937) Frank Morgan plays a cheap “snizler” Ingraham Steward operating out of the South of France. His estranged wife Agatha (Janet Beecher) and daughter Joyce (Florence Rice) are just “getting by” in the States on what he sends but his daughter is engaged to a “well to do” young man Horace Miller (Tom Rutherford). His wife and the wealthy mother (Cora Witherspoon) of the young man are [...]
MAYTIME (1937)

Maytime (1937)

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Maytime (1937) Directed & co-produced by Robert Z. Leonard (The Great Ziegfeld (1936)) with a screenplay by Noel Langley this musical romance drama marks co-stars Jeanette MacDonald and Nelson Eddy’s third (of nine?) film together. They’re joined in the cast by John Barrymore Herman Bing Rafaela Ottiano and Sig Ruman (among others). Herbert Stothart’s Score and Douglas Shearer’s Sound Recording received Academy Award [...]
Petticoat-Larceny-1943

Petticoat Larceny (1943)

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Petticoat Larceny (1943) B-movie child star Joan Carroll plays a minor in the care of Ruth Warrick like the previous year in Obliging Young Lady (1942). Paul Guilfoyle (One Crowded Night (1940)) plays “Tinhorn” Foster the notorious figure and Al Bridge & Cliff Clark policeman from the Falcon Series appear uncredited. A precocious little girl radio star Joan Mitchell (Ms. Carroll) is bored with the stories’ scripts [...]
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