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FRANK SINATRA – THE EARLY YEARS

Frank Sinatra – The Early Years

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Frank Sinatra – The Early Years Double Dynamite (1951) an RKO title that not too subtly refers to the assets of its top billed Howard Hughes discovery Jane Russell is a subpar comedy that was directed by Irving Cummings (In Old Arizona (1928)) and written by Melville Shavelson from a story by Leo Rosten. It’s about an ordinary bank clerk (third billed Frank Sinatra) that improbably receives a gambling windfall from a bookie (Nestor [...]
BILLY BUDD (1962) – FULL REVIEW!

Billy Budd (1962) – full review!

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Billy Budd (1962) – full review! Better known today as a two-time winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award Peter Ustinov also produced directed and/or wrote a handful of other films in which he usually appeared as an actor as well. Bringing this classic Herman Melville seafaring novel about good vs. evil to the big screen was his last production; Ustinov directed it played one of the main characters and (along with DeWitt Bodeen) [...]
GETTING NAKED OR CRYING FOR AN ACADEMY AWARD OR NOMINATION

Getting Naked or Crying for an Academy Award or nomination

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Getting Naked or Crying for an Academy Award or nomination When it comes to getting an Academy Award nomination – and even winning the Oscar – actresses who take off their clothes can enhance their chances and actors that cry on screen can improve their odds. Both of these ‘acts’ demonstrate an actor’s “commitment to the role” and they can get rewarded for taking such a risk. Think I’m being cynical read on: Obviously nudity [...]
Bad and the Beautiful The (1952)

Bad and the Beautiful The (1952)

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Bad and the Beautiful The (1952) A must-see told through a series of three flashbacks it’s the story of a couple of young film-makers their rise to power & its corrupting influence those they help & those they "step on" along the way and the aftermath for those involved. Kirk Douglas plays the producer who along with his director (Walter Pidgeon) found the way to the top of their industry. The lives he affects include an [...]
Death of a Cyclist (1955) – full review!

Death of a Cyclist (1955) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Death of a Cyclist (1955) – full review! aka Muerte de un ciclista (1955) María José (Lucia Bosé Miss Italy 1947) and Juan Fernandes Soler (Alberto Closas) are returning from their illicit affair weekend in the country in her car when she hits and injures the titled bicyclist on a desolate wet roadway. They stop and Juan is unsure whether the accident victim has been mortally wounded or can be saved (e.g. with proper medical attention) [...]
TESTAMENT DES DR. MABUSE DAS (1933)

Testament des Dr. Mabuse Das (1933)

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Testament des Dr. Mabuse Das (1933) aka The Testament of Dr. Mabuse (1933) This is a very unique crime-horror film by director Fritz Lang and a recommended one! Though you may be lost as I was initially it doesn’t take too long to figure out what is going on: the titled character (Rudolf Klein-Rogge) has plans to create havoc and destroy order in the World (not unlike Hitler?). However his detailed instructions have to be carried out by [...]
Political Campaign Films

Political Campaign Films

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Political Campaign Films Why “Political Campaign Films” and not just “Political Films”? Well the second term is a bit to vague and perhaps all encompassing depending upon your point-of-view. And I believe there may be some insight to be gained into politics if we examine how political campaigns have been portrayed throughout the years in classic film. As our society has changed and our sources for news have grown the [...]
Pygmalion (1938)

Pygmalion (1938)

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Pygmalion (1938) Directed by Anthony Asquith and lead actor Leslie Howard this original screen version of the George Bernard Shaw play that was later made into the better known musical and Academy Award winning Best Picture My Fair Lady (1964) (with Rex Harrison & Audrey Hepburn) features Howard (Berkeley Square (1933)) in the role of the tremendously self confident linguist Professor Henry Higgins and Wendy Hiller in the role of the cockney [...]
VOYAGE TO THE BOTTOM OF THE SEA (1961)

Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)

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Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961) Produced & directed by Irwin Allen (The Sea Around Us (1952)) who also wrote the story & co-wrote the screenplay with Charles Bennett (Foreign Correspondent (1940)) this big budget production’s special effects are a joke; the movie couldn’t even manage an Oscar nomination in 1961 a year in which only two films were nominated in the Best Effects category! Not only are its effects below [...]
SISTER KENNY (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

Sister Kenny (1946) – full review!

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Sister Kenny (1946) – full review! Produced directed and co-written by the Academy Award winning screenwriter Dudley Nichols (The Informer (1935)) who adapted Elizabeth Kenny’s autobiographical novel And They Shall Walk (co-written with Martha Ostenso) along with actor Alexander Knox (Wilson (1944)) and Mary McCarthy this above average biographical drama about the Australian nurse who helped discover the treatment for infantile [...]
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