Other Reviews
Other Reviews
This is a “catch all” page for capsule reviews or full synopses of films which do not fall into one of the other categories on this site. They may be “Great Movies”, or just fun to watch films which were NOT directed by Alfred Hitchcock, NOR were they Academy Award Best Picture winners, NOR are they considered Essential or Obscure by me, the author of this content. However, they may be (or may have been) listed as TCM Picks occasionally.
- ‘G’ Men (1935) – full review!
- 20000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
- 20000 Years in Sing Sing (1932)
- 3:10 to Yuma (1957)
- 49th Parallel (1941)
- Absent Minded Professor The (1961)
- Across the Pacific (1942) – full review!
- Action in the North Atlantic (1943) – full review!
- Actress The (1953) – full review!
- Adventures of Don Juan (1948) – full review!
- After the Thin Man (1936)
- Ah Wilderness! (1935) – full review!
- Airport (1970)
- Alamo The (1960)
- Alexis Zorbas (1964)
- Alfie (1966)
- Algiers (1938) – full review!
- Alibi Ike (1935)
- All My Sons (1948) – full review!
- All This and Heaven Too (1940)
- All Through the Night (1941)
- Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse The (1938) – full review!
- Anchors Aweigh (1945)
- Angel Face (1952) – full review!
- Anna Christie (1930)
- Anne of the Thousand Days (1969)
- Annie Get Your Gun (1950) – full review!
- Annie Oakley (1935) – full review!
- Arrangement The (1969) – full review!
- Arrowsmith (1931) – full review!
- Baby Doll (1956)
- Baby Face (1933) – full review!
- Bachelor in Paradise (1961) – full review!
- Bachelor Party The (1957) – full review!
- Back From Eternity (1956) – full review!
- Band Wagon The (1953)
- Barefoot Contessa The (1954)
- Barkleys of Broadway The (1949)
- Barretts of Wimpole Street The (1934)
- Becky Sharp (1935)
- Bells Are Ringing (1960)
- Bells of St. Mary’s The (1945)
- Berlin Express (1948)
- Best Man The (1964) – full review!
- Between Two Worlds (1944) – full review!
- Beyond Tomorrow (1940)
- Big Heat The (1953)
- Big Sky The (1952) – full review!
- Bill of Divorcement A (1932) – full review!
- Billy Budd (1962) – full review!
- Billy Rose’s Jumbo (1962) – full review!
- Black Book The (1949)
- Black Fury (1935) – full review!
- Blood on the Sun (1945)
- Blume in Love (1973)
- Body Snatcher The (1945)
- Boom Town (1940)
- Bordertown (1935) – full review!
- Born to Be Bad (1950) – full review!
- Born to Dance (1936) – full review!
- Born to Kill (1947) – full review!
- Bride Came C.O.D. The (1941)
- Bridges at Toko-Ri The (1955) – full review!
- Brigadoon (1954)
- Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935) – full review!
- Brother Orchid (1940)
- Buck Privates (1941)
- Bud Abbott Lou Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
- Buddy Holly Story The (1978)
- Bullitt (1968)
- BUtterfield 8 (1960) – full review!
- Bye Bye Birdie (1963) – full review!
- Cabin in the Sky (1943)
- Caddy The (1953) – full review!
- Call Me Madam (1953)
- Canterville Ghost The (1944)
- Captain Horatio Hornblower R.N. (1951) – full review!
- Captains of the Clouds (1942) – full review!
- Carefree (1938)
- Carmen Jones (1954)
- Casanova Brown (1944) – full review!
- Catered Affair The (1956)
- Charly (1968)
- Cheyenne Social Club The (1970) – full review!
- Chinatown (1974)
- Cimarron (1960) – full review!
- Cincinnati Kid The (1965) – full review!
- City for Conquest (1940) – full review!
- Clash By Night (1952)
- Cleopatra (1934)
- Cleopatra (1963)
- Cockeyed Miracle The (1946)
- Cocoanuts The (1929)
- Colorado Territory (1949) – full review!
- Come and Get It (1936) – full review!
- Come Blow Your Horn (1963) – full review!
- Come Live With Me (1941)
- Comedians The (1967)
- Comrade X (1940) – full review!
- Conformist The (1970)
- Conquest (1937)
- Country Girl The (1954)
- Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell The (1955)
- Cover Girl (1944) – full review!
- Cowboy (1958) – full review!
- Crowd Roars The (1938)
- Cry ‘Havoc’ (1943) – full review!
- Daddy-Long-Legs (1919) – full review!
- Dallas (1950) – full review!
- Damsel in Distress A (1937) – full review!
- Dangerous (1935) – full review!
- Dark Angel The (1935) – full review!
- Dark Command (1940) – full review!
- Darling Lili (1970) – full review!
- Death of a Cyclist (1955) – full review!
- Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
- Desk Set (1957)
- Desperate Journey (1942)
- Destination Tokyo (1943)
- Detective Story (1951)
- Devil’s Disciple The (1959)
- Disraeli (1929)
- Dive Bomber (1941) – full review!
- Divorce American Style (1967)
- Divorcee The (1930)
- Dr. Cyclops (1940)
- Dr. Ehrlich’s Magic Bullet (1940)
- Dream Wife (1953) – full review!
- Drowning Pool The (1975)
- Each Dawn I Die (1939) – full review!
- Easter Parade (1948)
- Edge of the City (1957)
- Enchanted Cottage The (1945) – full review!
- Entertainer The (1960)
- Escape (1940)
- Escape from Fort Bravo (1953) – full review!
- Evelyn Prentice (1934) – full review!
- Facts of Life The (1960) – full review!
- Family Affair A (1937) – full review!
- Farewell to Arms A (1932)
- Fastest Gun Alive The (1956)
- Father Goose (1964)
- FBI Story The (1959) – full review!
- Fighting 69th The (1940)
- Fighting Seabees The (1944) – full review!
- Firecreek (1968) – full review!
- Five Came Back (1939) – full review!
- Flying Down to Rio (1933)
- Flying Tigers (1942)
- For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
- Forbidden Planet (1956)
- Fountainhead The (1949)
- Freshman The (1925)
- Front Page The (1931)
- Front The (1976)
- Gabriel Over the White House (1933)
- Gambit (1966)
- Garden of Allah The (1936)
- Gaslight (1940) – full review!
- Gathering of Eagles A (1963) – full review!
- Gay Divorcee The (1934)
- Gazebo The (1959) – full review!
- General Died at Dawn The (1936)
- Genevieve (1953)
- George Washington Slept Here (1942) – full review!
- Georgy Girl (1966)
- Germania anno zero (1948)
- Glenn Miller Story The (1953) – full review!
- Gold Diggers of 1935 (1935)
- Gold Is Where You Find It (1938) – full review!
- Golden Boy (1939)
- Goldwyn Follies The (1938) – full review!
- Good Guys and the Bad Guys The (1969) – full review!
- Good News (1947) – full review!
- Goodbye Girl The (1977)
- Graduate The (1967)
- Great Lie The (1941)
- Great Waltz The (1938)
- Green Dolphin Street (1947) – full review!
- Green Pastures The (1936)
- Guardsman The (1931)
- Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957) – full review!
- Guys and Dolls (1955)
- H.M. Pulham Esq. (1941)
- Hallelujah! (1929)
- Hang ‘Em High (1968)
- Hangmen Also Die! (1943) – full review!
- Hard Way The (1943)
- Harvey Girls The (1946)
- Hasty Heart The (1949) – full review!
- Hatari! (1962)
- He Walked By Night (1948)
- He Who Gets Slapped (1924) – full review!
- Heaven Can Wait (1978)
- Hell is for Heroes (1962) – full review!
- Here Comes the Groom (1951) – full review!
- Hi Nellie! (1934) – full review!
- High Society (1956)
- His Kind of Woman (1951)
- Holiday Affair (1949)
- Hollywood Canteen (1944) – full review!
- Home from the Hill (1960) – full review!
- Hondo (1953) – full review!
- Hot Millions (1968) – full review!
- Hour of the Gun (1967) – full review!
- House on 56th Street The (1933) – full review!
- How the West Was Won (1962) – full review!
- Hurricane The (1937) – full review!
- Hush… Hush Sweet Charlotte (1964)
- Hustler The (1961) – full review!
- I Love You Again (1940)
- I Never Sang for My Father (1970) – full review!
- I Want You (1951) – full review!
- I’ll Cry Tomorrow (1955)
- Importance of Being Earnest The (1952) – full review!
- In Name Only (1939)
- In This Our Life (1942)
- Interiors (1978)
- Intermezzo: A Love Story (1939)
- Invisible Stripes (1939)
- It Should Happen to You (1954) – full review!
- It’s a Wonderful World (1939)
- It’s Always Fair Weather (1955) – full review!
- It’s Love I’m After (1937)
- Ivanhoe (1952)
- Jimmy the Gent (1934)
- Johnny Eager (1942)
- Joker is Wild The (1957) – full review!
- Jour se lève Le (1939) – full review!
- Journey The (1959) – full review!
- Juarez (1939)
- Judge Priest (1934) – full review!
- Julia Misbehaves (1948) – full review!
- June Bride (1948)
- Kameradschaft (1931)
- Kid From Brooklyn The (1946)
- Kid Glove Killer (1942)
- Kim (1950)
- King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
- Kiss Me Kate (1953)
- Kiss The (1929) – full review!
- Kitty Foyle (1940)
- Knute Rockne All American (1940)
- La Strada (1954)
- Lady in the Lake (1947)
- Last Gangster, The (1937) – full review!
- Last Hurrah The (1958)
- Last Picture Show The (1971)
- Last Train from Gun Hill (1959) – full review!
- Left Handed Gun The (1958)
- Les Girls (1957)
- Light in the Piazza (1962)
- Lili (1953) – full review!
- Little Women (1949) – full review!
- Logan’s Run (1976)
- Lonelyhearts (1958) – full review!
- Lost Patrol The (1934)
- Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938) – full review!
- Love Letters (1945) – full review!
- Loved One The (1965)
- Lover Come Back (1961)
- Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) – full review!
- Lusty Men The (1952) – full review!
- Macao (1952)
- MacKintosh Man The (1973)
- Madame Curie (1943) – full review!
- Madame X (1966)
- Madigan (1968)
- Magnificent Obsession (1954)
- Magnificent Yankee The (1950)
- Male Animal The (1942)
- Man from Laramie The (1955) – full review!
- Mannequin (1937) – full review!
- Marie Antoinette (1938) – full review!
- Marked Woman (1937) – full review!
- Masque of the Red Death The (1964)
- Mata Hari (1931)
- Maytime (1937)
- McLintock! (1963) – full review!
- Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956) – full review!
- Merry Widow The (1934)
- Midnight Lace (1960)
- Million Dollar Mermaid (1952) – full review!
- Min and Bill (1930) – full review!
- Miracle in the Rain (1956) – full review!
- Miracle Woman The (1931) – full review!
- Mogambo (1953)
- Morning Glory (1933)
- Mourning Becomes Electra (1947) – full review!
- Mr. Skeffington (1944)
- Murder at the Gallop (1963)
- Murder By Death (1976)
- Murder on the Orient Express (1974)
- Music Box The (1932) – full review!
- Mutiny on the Bounty (1962)
- My Name is Nobody (1973)
- Mystery of Mr. X The (1934) – full review!
- Never on Sunday (1960) – full review!
- Night and Day (1946)
- Night Must Fall (1937)
- Night to Remember A (1958)
- Nobody Lives Forever (1946) – full review!
- Not as a Stranger (1955) – full review!
- Nothing Sacred (1937)
- Objective Burma! (1945)
- Odds Against Tomorrow (1959) – full review!
- Of Human Bondage (1934)
- Of Human Hearts (1938) – full review!
- Oklahoma Kid The (1939)
- Old Acquaintance (1943)
- Old Dark House The (1932)
- Old Maid The (1939)
- On Borrowed Time (1939) – full review!
- On the Town (1949)
- One Hundred Men and a Girl (1937) – full review!
- Opposite Sex The (1956) – full review!
- Out of the Fog (1941) – full review!
- Pal Joey (1957) – full review!
- Paper Lion (1968)
- Passage to Marseille (1944) – full review!
- Pat and Mike (1952)
- Patch of Blue A (1965) – full review!
- Patsy The (1928) – full review!
- Patterns (1956) – full review!
- Pawnbroker The (1964)
- Peeping Tom (1960)
- Period of Adjustment (1962) – full review!
- Peyton Place (1957)
- Phantom Lady (1944)
- Picture Snatcher (1933)
- Pirate The (1948)
- Pocket Money (1972) – full review!
- Possessed (1947) – full review!
- Princess and the Pirate The (1944) – full review!
- Princess O’Rourke (1943)
- Private Life of Sherlock Holmes The (1970)
- Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex The (1939)
- Prize The (1963) – full review!
- Prizefighter and the Lady The (1933)
- Professionals The (1966)
- Quality Street (1937)
- Quo Vadis (1951)
- Rachel and the Stranger (1948) – full review!
- Raintree County (1957) – full review!
- Rancho Notorious (1952)
- Red-Headed Woman (1932) – full review!
- Reflections in a Golden Eye (1967)
- Requiem for a Heavyweight (1962)
- Rhapsody in Blue (1945) – full review!
- Ride the High Country (1962)
- Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
- Road to Utopia (1946)
- Roberta (1935)
- Romance on the High Seas (1948) – full review!
- Romeo and Juliet (1936)
- Room Service (1938)
- Royal Wedding (1951)
- Russians Are Coming the Russians Are Coming The (1966)
- Sandpiper The (1965)
- Saratoga Trunk (1945) – full review!
- Sayonara (1957)
- Scaramouche (1923)
- Scarface (1932)
- Scarlet Pimpernel The (1934) – full review!
- Sea Wolf The (1941)
- Secret Garden The (1949) – full review!
- Seven Men From Now (1956)
- Seven-Per-Cent Solution The (1976) – full review!
- Seventh Cross The (1944) – full review!
- Shanghai Gesture The (1941)
- Sheepman The (1958) – full review!
- Shenandoah (1965)
- Shootist The (1976)
- Shop on Main Street The (1965) – full review!
- Side Street (1950) – full review!
- Silk Stockings (1957)
- Singing Nun The (1966)
- Single Standard The (1929) – full review!
- Sister Kenny (1946) – full review!
- Skyscraper Souls (1932)
- Slender Thread The (1965)
- Slight Case of Murder A (1938)
- Small Town Girl (1936) – full review!
- Smash-Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
- Smilin’ Through (1932)
- Smilin’ Through (1941)
- Some Came Running (1958) – full review!
- Song is Born A (1948)
- Sons of the Desert (1933) – full review!
- Sorry Wrong Number (1948) – full review!
- Southerner The (1945) – full review!
- Spiral Staircase The (1946)
- Spirit of St. Louis The (1957)
- Splendor in the Grass (1961)
- Spoilers The (1942)
- Springfield Rifle (1952) – full review!
- Spy Who Came In from the Cold The (1965)
- Stage Door Canteen (1943) – full review!
- Stand-In (1937) – full review!
- Star Witness The (1931) – full review!
- Stars in My Crown (1950)
- State Fair (1945) – full review!
- Stolen Life A (1946) – full review!
- Storm Warning (1951) – full review!
- Story of Dr. Wassell The (1944) – full review!
- Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
- Strange Love Of Martha Ivers The (1946)
- Stranger The (1946)
- Strawberry Blonde The (1941)
- Suddenly (1954)
- Suddenly Last Summer (1959)
- Summer Place A (1969) – full review!
- Sundowners The (1960)
- Svengali (1931)
- Swan The (1956) – full review!
- Sweet Bird of Youth (1962)
- Sweet Charity (1969)
- Swiss Family Robinson (1940)
- T-Men (1947)
- Tarnished Angels The (1958)
- Task Force (1949) – full review!
- Tea and Sympathy (1956)
- Teahouse of the August Moon The (1956)
- Tender Mercies (1983)
- Tender Trap The (1955)
- Test Pilot (1938)
- Testament des Dr. Mabuse Das (1933)
- Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943) – full review!
- That Uncertain Feeling (1941)
- Theodora Goes Wild (1936) – full review!
- Thief of Bagdad The (1940)
- Thing from Another World The (1951)
- Thirty Seconds Over Tokyo (1944) – full review!
- This Happy Breed (1944) – full review!
- This Is the Army (1943) – full review!
- Three Came Home (1950) – full review!
- Three Godfathers (1936)
- Three Musketeers The (1948)
- Three on a Match (1932) – full review!
- Three Smart Girls (1936)
- Thunder Road (1958)
- Till the End of Time (1946) – full review!
- Time of Their Lives The (1946) – full review!
- Titanic (1943) – full review!
- To Sir with Love (1967) – full review!
- Tom Dick and Harry (1941)
- Tomorrow is Forever (1946) – full review!
- Tomorrow the World! (1944) – full review!
- Tonight and Every Night (1945)
- Topper Returns (1941) – full review!
- Topper Takes a Trip (1938)
- Tovarich (1937) – full review!
- Trader Horn (1931) – full review!
- Tulsa (1949)
- Two for the Road (1967)
- Two for the Seesaw (1962) – full review!
- Two Girls and a Sailor (1944) – full review!
- Two Weeks in Another Town (1962)
- Two Weeks With Love (1950) – full review!
- Unholy Three The (1925) – full review!
- Uninvited The (1944)
- Unknown The (1927)
- Unsinkable Molly Brown The (1964)
- Up in Arms (1944) – full review!
- V.I.P.s The (1963)
- Valley of Decision The (1945) – full review!
- Viva Villa! (1934)
- Vivacious Lady (1938) – full review!
- Vogues of 1938 (1937) – full review!
- Voice of the Turtle The (1947)
- Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea (1961)
- Wake Island (1942)
- Waterloo Bridge (1931) – full review!
- Waterloo Bridge (1940) – full review!
- Way Out West (1937) – full review!
- Week-End at the Waldorf (1945)
- Western Union (1941)
- Westfront 1918 (1930) – full review!
- What Ever Happened to Baby Jane? (1962)
- When Ladies Meet (1933)
- While the City Sleeps (1956) – full review!
- Wild Rovers (1971) – full review!
- Winning Team The (1952) – full review!
- Without Love (1945)
- Without Reservations (1946)
- Woman of Affairs A (1928) – full review!
- Wonder Man (1945) – full review!
- Wonderful World of the Brothers Grimm The (1962) – full review!
- World of Henry Orient The (1964)
- Wreck of the Mary Deare The (1959) – full review!
- Written on the Wind (1956)
- Yakuza The (1974)
- You’ll Never Get Rich (1941) – full review!
- Young in Heart The (1938) – full review!
- Young Philadelphians The (1959) – full review!
- Yours Mine and Ours (1968)
- Ziegfeld Girl (1941)