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LOVE ME TONIGHT (1932)

Love Me Tonight (1932)

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Love Me Tonight (1932) A four star delight starring Maurice Chevalier Jeanette MacDonald Charlie Ruggles Charles Butterworth Myrna Loy and C. Aubrey Smith. Added to the National Film Registry in 1990. "Isn’t It Romantic" is #73 on AFI’s 100 Top Movie Songs of All Time. Chevalier is a tailor owed money by aristocrat Ruggles so he follows Ruggles’ order of 15 suits to his chateau. There the princess (MacDonald) is being [...]
FLESH AND THE DEVIL (1926)

Flesh and the Devil (1926)

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Flesh and the Devil (1926) Directed by five time Best Director Oscar nominee Clarence Brown (including for Anna Christie (1930)) this essential silent drama co-written by Benjamin Glazer (7th Heaven (1927)) features Greta Garbo in her third American film following Torrent (1926) & The Temptress (1926) all of which were released in the same year. It’s also the first of her four pairings with actor John Gilbert their last was Queen [...]
Robbers of the Range (1941)

Robbers of the Range (1941)

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Robbers of the Range (1941) This Tim Holt B-Western was directed by Edward Killy and written by Morton Grant and Arthur V. Jones from a story by Oliver Drake. Holt plays rancher Jim Drummond who assumes the name of a notorious gunslinger named Curly Yantis (initially played by Malcolm McTaggart) in order to infiltrate J.R. Rankin’s (LeRoy Mason) gang. Rankin ostensibly working for a railroad run by Colonel Lodge (George Melford) decides to [...]
Mogambo (1953)

Mogambo (1953)

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Mogambo (1953) Directed by John Ford this better than average remake of screenwriter John Lee Mahin’s adventure drama Red Dust (1932) also stars Clark Gable in the leading male role but replaces Jean Harlow with Ava Gardner and Mary Astor with Grace Kelly as well as altering the story. Instead of Gable running a rubber plantation for its owner and having an affair with the owner’s wife Gable is a big game hunter who has a dalliance with one [...]
Star Wars (1977)

Star Wars (1977)

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Star Wars (1977) Written and Directed by Irving G. Thalberg winner George Lucas (American Graffiti (1973)) this swashbuckling space fantasy action picture began a franchise of films and a movie paraphernalia industry like nothing before it that’s still going strong today with the release of Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith in 2005. "A long time ago in a galaxy far far away …" the story follows Luke [...]
LONGEST DAY THE (1962)

Longest Day The (1962)

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Longest Day The (1962) The epic story of D-Day June 6 1944 a retelling of the Normandy invasion (France) by the Allies (e.g. troops from the United States and Great Britain among others) during World War II from across the English Channel detailing various assaults and the American British French and German perspectives (e.g. the Nazi thinking that Calais would be invaded). This essential war drama was directed by Ken Annakin Andrew Marton and [...]
One Way Passage (1932)

One Way Passage (1932)

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One Way Passage (1932) A delightful romantic comedy-drama starring William Powell and Kay Francis about two “doomed” people who meet and then fall in love on a cruise ship traveling from Hong Kong to San Francisco. Powell is being returned to San Quentin by a police officer (played by Warren Hymer) for a murder charge; Francis who is being attended to by a doctor (played by Frederick Burton) is terminally ill and not expected to live [...]
Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941)

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Mr. & Mrs. Smith (1941) A film Mr. Hitchcock directed as a favor to his close friend Carole Lombard who stars with Robert Montgomery (and Gene Raymond & Jack Carson) in this uncharacteristic screwball comedy. Predictably it’s not very good. It’s a rather thin story about a couple with an up-and-down relationship who are told that their marriage license is invalid and "humor" that follows as they each have to decide [...]
PAT AND MIKE (1952)

Pat and Mike (1952)

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Pat and Mike (1952) Directed by George Cukor and earning husband & wife writers Ruth Gordon & Garson Kanin their third and last Best Writing Oscar nomination (without a win) this comedy-romance features another successful teaming of Spencer Tracy and Katharine Hepburn. Mike (Tracy) the manager of a boxer (Aldo Ray) meets Pat (Hepburn) when he notices what a great golfer she is. He also learns that she’s quite an accomplished [...]
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Man Who Walked Alone The (1945)

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Man Who Walked Alone The (1945) This minor B comedy drama earned an Academy Award nomination for its Score by Karl Hajos (Summer Storm (1944)). It was directed and written (with Robert Lee Johnson) by Christy Cabanne and stars Dave O’Brien and Kay Aldridge a rarity because some of its supporting cast members (Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams Dick Elliott and Tom Kennedy for example) may be better known to movie mavens today than its [...]
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