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GIGI (1958)

Gigi (1958)

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Gigi (1958) Of all the films which won the Best Picture Oscar one has to wonder how this ho hum musical earned all nine Oscars for which it was nominated. Was it just a weak year or did The Defiant Ones (1958) and Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958) cancel each other out as well? It’s a mystery. Director Vincente Minnelli the Original Song “Gigi” its Musical Score and Adapted Screenplay were among the other Oscar winners. Leslie Caron [...]
MALE ANIMAL THE (1942)

Male Animal The (1942)

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Male Animal The (1942) This is a very funny film about the lives we choose offering one woman a peek at what things may have been like if she’d chosen differently. Olivia de Havilland married the more stable intellectual played by Henry Fonda. However during college she’d been courted by a football jock played by Jack Carson. Carson returns to campus where Fonda is now a tenured professor to cheer the current team during homecoming [...]
PATCH OF BLUE A (1965) – FULL REVIEW!

Patch of Blue A (1965) – full review!

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Patch of Blue A (1965) – full review! Directed by Academy Award winning Cinematographer Guy Green (Great Expectations (1946)) who also adapted Elizabeth Kata’s novel “Be Ready With Bells and Drums” this above average drama features Shelley Winters’s second Best Supporting Actress performance (The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)). This time she plays the unsympathetic role of a white trash mother to a sightless 18 year old [...]
Gun Law (1938)

Gun Law (1938)

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Gun Law (1938) George O’Brien plays Marshal Tom O’Malley in this B-Western directed by David Howard and written by Oliver Drake. He happens upon the notorious Raven (Edward Pawley) in the desert and discovers that he’s the target of the outlaw’s plans. But after getting the drop on the Marshal the Raven drinks some bad water and dies. After O’Malley is saved from a similar fate by a Parson and his daughter Ruth (Rita Oehmen) he decides [...]
CATLOW (1971)

Catlow (1971)

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Catlow (1971) This one is as much ‘comedy’ as Western with Yul Brynner (looking every bit his 51 years and then some) in the title role an outlaw who’s only partially being pursued by his old friend the Marshal Ben Cowan played by Richard Crenna though he’s more enthusiastically chased by a vengeful killer played by Leonard Nimoy. It was directed by Sam Wanamaker; its screenplay by Scott Finch and J.J. Griffith was based on the novel by [...]
WHILE THE CITY SLEEPS (1956) – FULL REVIEW!

While the City Sleeps (1956) – full review!

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While the City Sleeps (1956) – full review! Directed by Fritz Lang with a screenplay by Casey Robinson (Captain Blood (1935)) this slightly above average crime drama behind the scenes media expose features an all star cast that includes Dana Andrews Rhonda Fleming George Sanders Howard Duff Thomas Mitchell Vincent Price James Craig Ida Lupino and Robert Warwick among others. It’s interesting to see how the media and police worked [...]
Confidential Agent (1945)

Confidential Agent (1945)

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Confidential Agent (1945) Directed by Herman Shumlin Robert Buckner (Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)) adapted the screenplay from the Graham Greene (The Fallen Idol (1948)) novel of the same name. Unfortunately this war time drama fails to connect. In fact it leaves one feeling that it could have been better given the cast … perhaps Greene’s story is to blame. There’s evidence of some serious editing however to get the film in under [...]
HERE COMES MR. JORDAN (1941)

Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)

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Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941) Harry Segall won an Academy Award on his only Oscar nomination for this original story a fantasy romance comedy that also earned screenwriters Sidney Buchman and Seton I. Miller their only Oscars. Director Alexander Hall received his only nomination as did Supporting Actor James Gleason. Lead actor Robert Montgomery the film and it’s B&W Cinematography were also nominated. It was later remade as Heaven Can [...]
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You Can’t Escape Forever (1942)

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You Can’t Escape Forever (1942) Very fast moving drama/comedy with a special cast of well known actors; one of several remakes of Hi Nellie! (1934). Directed by Jo Graham Roy Chanslor’s story was treated by Fred Niblo Jr. (The Criminal Code (1931)) & Hector Chevigny. George Brent is a newspaper editor driven by his ear twitching hunches; Charles Halton is his assist who is intent on replacing him (competing for Brent’s [...]
STOLEN LIFE A (1946) – FULL REVIEW!

Stolen Life A (1946) – full review!

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Stolen Life A (1946) – full review! Directed by Curtis Bernhardt this implausible drama does feature some unique special effects earning it an Oscar nomination (one of several including awards for Nathan Levinson) which allow Bette Davis to appear as twin sister characters. Having become acquainted with some identical twins in my life I know that the premise put forth in this story – that one twin could pose as another remaining [...]
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