Clockwork Orange A (1971)
Clockwork Orange A (1971) Warner Home Video Trailer Purchase this DVD now at or buy the Blu-ray Disc [...]
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The Doris Day Collection Volume 2
The Doris Day Collection Volume 2 Romance on the High Seas (1948) – full review! My Dream Is Yours (1949) – full review! On Moonlight Bay (1951) I’ll See You in My Dreams (1951) – full review! By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953) – full review! Lucky Me (1954) Purchase this DVD Collection now [...]
Actresses in Oscar’s Best Picture Winners
Actresses in Oscar’s Best Picture Winners As a follow-up to my related essay on lead actors there have been several actresses who have appeared in more than one movie that has won the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences highest award (e.g. the Best Picture Oscar) but Meryl Streep is the only one to have acted in back-to-back winners (The Deer Hunter (1978) Kramer vs. Kramer (1979)). Ms. Streep has thus far appeared in a total of [...]
Goodbye Girl The (1977)
Goodbye Girl The (1977) Neil Simon’s Oscar nominated story about a struggling actor (Richard Dreyfuss) who’s rented an apartment from a man that left his girlfriend dancer (Marsha Mason) and her daughter (Quinn Cummings) behind in it with predictable yet funny & entertaining results. Dreyfuss was the youngest actor ever to win the Best Actor Oscar at that time; Mason Cummings and the film itself also received Oscar nominations. [...]
Sabrina (1954)
Sabrina (1954) Directed and co-written (with Samuel Taylor & Ernest Lehman) by Billy Wilder this essential romantic comedy stars Humphrey Bogart William Holden and Audrey Hepburn in the title role. It’s a love triangle featuring the three leads which was later remade with Harrison Ford Greg Kinnear and Julia Ormond. This film which won an Oscar for Edith Head’s B&W Costume Design received five other Oscar nominations [...]
Back From Eternity (1956) – full review!
Back From Eternity (1956) – full review! Produced and directed by John Farrow (Wake Island (1942)) in the same year that he’d win his only Academy Award sharing the Best Adapted Screenplay Writing Oscar for Around the World in Eighty Days (1956) this remake of director Farrow’s earlier RKO film Five Came Back (1939) features the same Richard Carroll story but this one’s screenplay was written by Jonathan Latimer instead. It’s a [...]
Sing Your Way Home (1945)
Sing Your Way Home (1945) Anthony Mann directed this below average musical comedy written by William Bowers from a story by Edmund Joseph and Bart Lytton. Fortunately at least for director Mann and writer Bowers better things were in their futures. The Allie Wrubel-Herb Magidson song “I’ll Buy That Dream” did receive an Academy Award nomination the last for Magidson who’d received his Oscar for “The [...]
Casanova Brown (1944) – full review!
Casanova Brown (1944) – full review! One of the rare remakes that’s better than the original (though I don’t really know since I’ve not seen Little Accident (1930) nor Little Accident (1939)); surely the cast alone makes this version superior (though the original original did feature Douglas Fairbanks Jr. Anita Page Zasu Pitts and Roscoe Karns among others)? Plus this one did receive Academy Award nominations for its B&W Art [...]
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943) Produced and directed by Sam Wood (Kings Row (1942)) with a screenplay by Dudley Nichols (The Informer (1935)) that was based on the novel by Ernest Hemingway this above average adventure drama features a romance between its stars Gary Cooper and Ingrid Bergman. Cooper plays idealist Robert Jordan who has a talent for blowing things up and an yen for being where the action is. So in 1930 he’s in Spain where a [...]
Foreign Affair A (1948)
Foreign Affair A (1948) Directed by Billy Wilder with a screenplay he co-wrote with Charles Brackett and Richard Breen (adapted by Robert Harari) that was based on David Shaw’s story this essential comedy drama romance stars Jean Arthur Marlene Dietrich and John Lund. The clever screenplay writing was nominated for an Oscar as was the film’s B&W Cinematography. Arthur plays Congresswoman Phoebe Frost who along with others (played [...]