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BACK TO THE FUTURE (1985)

Back to the Future (1985)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Back to the Future (1985) Michael J. Fox and Christopher Lloyd star in this comedy sci-fi adventure about time travel "in a DeLorean?" with Crispin Glover and Lea Thompson also playing memorable roles. Directed by Robert Zemeckis (Forrest Gump (1994)) who co-wrote the screenplay which was nominated for an Oscar. The film’s Best Effects Sound Effects Editing won an Oscar; its Sound and Huey Lewis’s Original Song "The [...]
RAGING BULL (1980)

Raging Bull (1980)

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Raging Bull (1980) Perhaps director Martin Scorsese’s best film and another great boxing movie this one is a biography of Jake La Motta a middle weight boxing champion with a violent and (overall a) pretty messed up life convincingly played by Robert De Niro who won the Best Actor Academy Award. It’s based on LaMotta’s book written with Joseph Carter and Peter Savage that was scripted by Paul Schrader and Mardik Martin. Cathy [...]
Bullet Code (1940)

Bullet Code (1940)

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Bullet Code (1940) This George O’Brien B-Western was directed by David Howard and written by Doris Schroeder from a story by Bennet Cohen. O’Brien plays Steve Holden a rancher who believes that he’s shot one of his crew – Bud Mathews (Robert Stanton) – during a nighttime raid on the herd. As it turns out Bud was helping the rustlers led by Cass Barton (Harry Woods) until he learned that they were planning to kill [...]
MADAME X (1966)

Madame X (1966)

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Madame X (1966) Another Douglas Sirk like “soaper” (though this one is directed by David Lowell Rich with a screenplay by Jean Holloway that was based on the play by Alexandre Bisson) this film (like Imitation of Life (1959)) also stars Lana Turner in a role made famous in an earlier picture by a different actress (Gladys George among other versions). Turner plays a girl from the other side of the tracks that marries a rising [...]
Macario-1960

Macario (1960)

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Macario (1960) Directed by Roberto Gavaldón who also co-wrote the screenplay this foreign fantasy drama tells the story of a poor Mexican woodcutter who is unable to provide enough food to feed his family such that they are slowly starving to death. His wife and mother to his many children washes clothes in a futile effort to help make ends meet. When her self sacrificing husband says that he will no longer eat until he can afford an entire [...]
CHAMP THE (1931)

Champ The (1931)

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Champ The (1931) This is a terrific boxing story (Best Writing Original Story Oscar) of an old fighter played by Wallace Beery and his son (Jackie Cooper) that’s his biggest fan. Beery shared the Best Actor Oscar with Frederic March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). The film and its director King Vidor were also nominated. Purchase this DVD now [...]
SMILIN’ THROUGH (1932)

Smilin’ Through (1932)

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Smilin’ Through (1932) Directed by Sidney Franklin who later produced the Oscar winning Mrs. Miniver (1942) this film was nominated for a Best Picture Academy Award. It’s a story of redemption and/or about forgiveness told partially through flashbacks this film stars Leslie Howard as an old English gentleman who recalls wistfully his long lost love Moonyeen (Norma Shearer). He is a wealthy man and there is a place on his estate where [...]
Rio Grande Patrol (1950)

Rio Grande Patrol (1950)

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Rio Grande Patrol (1950) Directed by Lesley Selander and written by Norman Houston this B movie Tim Holt Western features his regular sidekick (whose head is always turned by a pretty lady) Chito Jose Gonzalez Bustamante Rafferty played by Richard Martin. The story is more involved and less formulaic than many of their nearly two dozen films which constitute a loosely connected series directed by Selander: the Holt character’s name changes [...]
Love in the Rough (1930)

Love in the Rough (1930)

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Love in the Rough (1930) The William Haines-Joan Crawford silent Spring Fever (1927) was remade with Robert Montgomery & Dorothy Jordan into this early talkie musical comedy which also features Benny Rubin J.C. Nugent and Penny Singleton (as Dorothy McNulty) among others. It was directed by Charles Reisner and features a screenplay by Joseph Farnham Robert Hopkins and Sarah Mason. Jack Kelly (Montgomery) is Dave Waters’s (Nugent) [...]
RANCHO NOTORIOUS (1952)

Rancho Notorious (1952)

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Rancho Notorious (1952) Directed by Fritz Lang with a screenplay by Daniel Taradash (From Here to Eternity (1953)) this above average Western has Marlene Dietrich playing a mysterious woman by the name of Altar Keane. Arthur Kennedy is a cowboy on a trail of revenge which eventually leads him to Altar Keane which at first he isn’t sure to which the name refers – a person place or thing. It turns out that Keane is a woman who runs a [...]
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