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The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)

The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Falcon and the Co-eds (1943) This seventh film in the Falcon series This was the second of four Falcon features produced by Maurice Geraghty in which his brother Gerald was a contributing writer; he assisted Ardel Wray with adapting her story based on the Michael Arlen character. In this B crime mystery drama directed by William Clemens Tom Conway plays Tom Lawrence aka The Falcon and actress Isabel Jewell (among others) joins series [...]
Journey for Margaret (1942)

Journey for Margaret (1942)

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Journey for Margaret (1942) This film is the credited screen debut of Margaret O’Brien the title character and also stars Robert Young Laraine Day Fay Bainter and Nigel Bruce. It was directed by W. S. Van Dyke (The Thin Man (1934)). The film begins with an American reporter (Young) and his pregnant wife (Day) arriving in London from war torn Europe. They’ve been chased out of each country invaded by the Germans as they fell with [...]
Dawn Patrol The (1938)

Dawn Patrol The (1938)

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Dawn Patrol The (1938) A thrilling remake of the 1930 Howard Hawks’s film about World War I flying aces and the leaders who must send these men on dangerous missions. This one features a terrific cast including Errol Flynn Basil Rathbone David Niven Donald Crisp and Barry Fitzgerald (among others). Director Edmund Goulding used some footage from the original movie. Similar to the (later) Clark Gable film Command Decision (1948). This one [...]
NETWORK (1976)

Network (1976)

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Network (1976) "I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore" (#19 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Movie Quotes list) says the Best Actor Oscar winner Peter Finch (the first posthumous winner his last film) in this Oscar winning story by Paddy Chayefsky which looks behind the scenes into the world of network television. Faye Dunaway and Beatrice Straight swept the Actress Oscars that year making this only the second [...]
MY SON MY SON! (1940)

My Son My Son! (1940)

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My Son My Son! (1940) Directed by Charles Vidor and written by Lenore Coffee (Four Daughters (1938)) this lengthy father & son (melo)drama features Madeline Carroll Brian Aherne Louis Hayward Laraine Day Henry Hull and Josephine Hutchinson (among others). The words which sum up this film are actually spoken by Day’s character about 90 minutes into it – “it’s all so complicated”. There are just too many [...]
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Mysterious Doctor The (1943)

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Mysterious Doctor The (1943) Directed by Ben Stoloff with an original screenplay by Richard Weil this tame almost comical B movie ‘thriller’-mystery is set in the moors of England during World War II. The residents of the small town of Morgan’s Head are a superstitious lot who fear the wrath of a long dead miner whose headless body is said to still haunt a local tin mine (e.g. as a ghost); this keeps them from working in the [...]
RACHEL AND THE STRANGER (1948) – FULL REVIEW!

Rachel and the Stranger (1948) – full review!

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Rachel and the Stranger (1948) – full review! Directed by Norman Foster this 80 minute drama gives one a real sense of the role of women in the pioneering days of the old West. Times were a lot different then and women were expected to do chores from sun up to sundown with little thanks or appreciation while their menfolk cleared the land farmed it and caught or killed something for her to cook as their dinner. Loretta Young plays Rachel [...]
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Garden of Eden The (1928)

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Garden of Eden The (1928) A young Viennese girl Toni LeBrun (Corinne Griffith) determined not to stay in her current situation living with her aunt and uncle working in their pretzel bakery earns a correspondence course degree as an opera singer. She decides to leave her small town life traveling to Budapest to answer an ad from the Palais de Paris. However the ad was a sham – a way to get girls for cheap stage shows and more for its [...]
JANUARY 2005 – CANADIAN ACTORS

January 2005 – Canadian Actors

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January 2005 – Canadian Actors Saturday January 1 – Reunited theme 6:00 PM Psycho (1960) 8:00 PM Casablanca (1942) 10:00 PM Same Time Next Year (1978) – only listed here because it’s a TCM premiere; I’m not recommending it. 12:15 AM My Favorite Wife (1940) – an hilarious Oscar nominated story co-written by Leo McCarey (Going My Way (1944)) about a woman (Irene Dunne) who returns after seven years from being thought [...]
Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

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Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969) George Roy Hill made a name for himself directing this essential buddy picture pairing heartthrobs Paul Newman and Robert Redford together for the very first time in this Western (adventure crime comedy; even biography). Hill would direct them again in his Oscar winning Best Picture The Sting (1973) four years later. Newman plays Cassidy the business end of their partnership and Redford (more than 11 [...]
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