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Sing Your Way Home (1945)

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Sing Your Way Home (1945) Anthony Mann directed this below average musical comedy written by William Bowers from a story by Edmund Joseph and Bart Lytton. Fortunately at least for director Mann and writer Bowers better things were in their futures. The Allie Wrubel-Herb Magidson song “I’ll Buy That Dream” did receive an Academy Award nomination the last for Magidson who’d received his Oscar for “The [...]
Alamo The (1960)

Alamo The (1960)

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Alamo The (1960) Produced and directed by John Wayne with an original screenplay from James Edward Grant (The Sheepman (1958)) this overlong epic about the famous 1836 battle against impossible odds (that one must never forget) that took place in San Antonio won an Oscar for Best Sound. The film was nominated for Best Picture as was Supporting Actor Chill Wills (his only Academy recognition) William Clothier’s (his first) Color [...]
PRIZEFIGHTER AND THE LADY THE (1933)

Prizefighter and the Lady The (1933)

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Prizefighter and the Lady The (1933) Co-produced and directed by W.S. Van Dyke with an original story by two time Oscar winner Frances Marion (The Champ (1931)) which was adapted by John Lee Mahin and John Meehan (The Divorcee (1930)) this average boxing film features real heavyweight champion Max Baer with Myrna Loy in the title roles. Ring champs Primo Carnera and Jack Dempsey also appear as themselves. Walter Huston plays an ex-manager now a [...]
Brother Orchid (1940)

Brother Orchid (1940)

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Brother Orchid (1940) Directed by Lloyd Bacon with a screenplay by Earl Baldwin from a story by Richard Connell this crime comedy drama features Edward G. Robinson in the title role aka Little John T. ‘Johnny’ Sarto a gang leader who decides to retire then tries to find class by traveling. After losing his money abroad he returns 5 years later to find things have changed in his organization now run by Jack Buck (Humphrey Bogart) who [...]
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Racket The (1928)

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Racket The (1928) Produced by Howard Hughes this terrific silent film was nominated for the first Best Picture Academy Award ever given losing to Wings (1927). It was directed by Lewis Milestone (All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)). It stars Thomas Meigham as police Captain McQuigg and Louis Wolheim (also in All Quiet on the Western Front (1930)) as mob leader Nick Scarsi. Scarsi is a crime boss who’s mildly bothered by local policeman [...]
COME AND GET IT (1936) – FULL REVIEW!

Come and Get It (1936) – full review!

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Come and Get It (1936) – full review! Noteworthy for earning character actor Walter Brennan the first of his three Supporting Actor Oscars the first year the Academy bestowed the award this average drama also earned Edward Curtiss his only nomination for Editing. Samuel Goldwyn produced this screen version of the Edna Ferber novel which was adapted by Jules Furthman (Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)) and Jane Murfin (What Price Hollywood? [...]
MARCH 2007 – GENE KELLY

March 2007 – Gene Kelly

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March 2007 – Gene Kelly Four Weddings and a Funeral (1994) – a TCM premiere! The Silence of the Lambs (1991) – a TCM premiere and an all new review! Crimson Tide (1995) – a TCM premiere! The Russians Are Coming The Russians Are Coming (1966) – an all new capsule review! Crainquebille (1973) – a TCM premiere! The Southerner (1945) – an all new review! The Lone Wolf Spy Hunt (1939) – a TCM premiere! [...]
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Of Human Bondage (1946)

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Of Human Bondage (1946) Directed by Edmund Goulding this second adaptation of W. Somerset Maugham’s novel was adapted by Catherine Turney. Paul Henreid plays a clubfooted failed artist gentleman who becomes a medical student that’s obsessed with a low class waitress played by Eleanor Parker. Alexis Smith plays a novelist friend who wishes her relationship with Henreid could develop into something more. Patric Knowles & Marten [...]
classic HOLIDAY DVD Collection Volume 2

classic HOLIDAY DVD Collection Volume 2

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classic HOLIDAY DVD Collection Volume 2 All Mine to Give (1957) – based on the true story of the Eunsons a family of Scottish immigrant pioneers who settled in Wisconsin in the 1850s this tear-jerking family drama was directed by Allen Reisner (his first such effort) from the screenplay by Dale Eunson and his wife Katherine Albert Eunson. Glynis Johns and Cameron Mitchell play the couple from Scotland that finds their way to Wisconsin only [...]
ALL THROUGH THE NIGHT (1941)

All Through the Night (1941)

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All Through the Night (1941) It’s a comedy it’s a drama it’s a patriotic war film – it’s all three! Directed by Vincent Sherman with a screenplay by Leonard Spigelgass and Edwin Gilbert. Humphrey Bogart plays a cheesecake loving New York gangster who ultimately discovers a group of Nazi’s are operating in the city and planning to blow up the U.S. Navy’s newest battleship in the harbor. Conrad Veidt plays [...]
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