Classic Film Guide

Between Two Worlds (1944) – full review!

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Between Two Worlds (1944) – full review! A remake of Outward Bound (1930) based on Sutton Vane’s play of the same name. Directed by Edward A. Blatt with a screenplay by Daniel Fuchs (Love Me or Leave Me (1955)) this above average fantasy drama features an all star cast which includes John Garfield Paul Henreid Sydney Greenstreet Eleanor Parker Edmund Gwenn George Tobias George Coulouris Faye Emerson Sara Allgood Dennis King Isobel [...]

Gaslight (1944)

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Gaslight (1944) Ingrid Bergman won the first of her three Oscars (Best Actress in this case) on her second nomination playing a newlywed to Charles Boyer’s mysterious character. Boyer was also nominated his third of four Best Actor Academy Award nominations without a win. Bergman’s character fears that she’s going mad when strange things (including sounds) start happening at the family mansion. She finds that her new husband is [...]

Till the End of Time (1946) – full review!

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Till the End of Time (1946) – full review! Directed by Edward Dmytryk based on a Niven Busch (In Old Chicago (1937)) novel with a screenplay by Allen Rivkin this returning World War II veteran drama was released nearly 4 months before Samuel Goldwyn’s star studded The Best Years of Our Lives (1946) Oscar winner. Though this RKO film doesn’t have any real star power besides Robert Mitchum and perhaps Dorothy McGuire it deals [...]

Old Maid The (1939)

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Old Maid The (1939) Certainly worthy of some tear-jerking. Miriam Hopkins’s character spurns a soldier (George Brent) who her cousin (Bette Davis) has always liked. While comforting him before he goes off to fight in the Civil War Davis’s character becomes pregnant. When Brent is then killed Davis starts an orphanage to prevent scandal. Later out of financial need Davis seeks Hopkins now a rich widow who helps by adopting her child [...]

Leading Ladies Collection Vol. 2

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Leading Ladies Collection Vol. 2 A Big Hand for the Little Lady (1966) – produced and directed by Fielder Cook and written by Sidney Carroll (The Hustler (1961)) this above average comedy Western stars Henry Fonda and features Joanne Woodward in the title role. The exceptional cast also includes Jason Robards Paul Ford Charles Bickford Burgess Meredith Kevin McCarthy Robert Middleton and John Qualen. Fonda plays a reformed "on the [...]

Empty Holsters (1937)

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Empty Holsters (1937) Featuring Dick Foran as the "Singing Cowboy"- link with his trusty horse Smoke "the Wonder Horse". Also appearing in the film are the prolific if unknown "B"-movie stock players Emmett Vogan and Glenn Strange. *** SPOILERS *** Ace Cain (Vogan) owns everything in town except the bank which is owned by Jim Ware who also happens to have the prettiest daughter (and only woman in the film?) in town [...]

The Brothers Warner (2008)

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The Brothers Warner (2008) Written directed produced and narrated by Cass Warner Sperling this is an exceptional documentary about the men that created the movie empire that bore their name: the Warner Brothers studio (et al). The film begins at the beginning from their humble start as poor Jewish immigrants to the United States rejected by the wealthier established German Jewish bankers documenting the brothers’ early insight into Hitler’s [...]

Great Lover The (1931)

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Great Lover The (1931) Directed by Harry Beaumont (The Broadway Melody (1929)) this average drama stars Adolphe Menjou in the title role as an Italian opera star and infamous lover who “discovers” an American opera student played by Irene Dunne on his return cruise from Italy. Jean Paurel (Menjou) renowned as much for his womanizing as his Don Giovanni meets the attractive Diana Page (Dunne) asking him for lunch at the opera house [...]

Captains Courageous (1937)

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Captains Courageous (1937) Director Victor Fleming brought this Rudyard Kipling story about life and relationships on a fishing boat to the screen. It received an Academy Award nomination for Best Picture of the year; its Screenplay earned Oscar nominations for Marc Connelly John Lee Mahin and Dale Van Evry (representing Connelly’s & Evry’s only Academy recognition); Editor Elmo Veron earned his only Oscar nomination as well. It [...]

Room Service (1938)

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Room Service (1938) Directed by William Seiter with a screenplay by Morrie Ryskind this slightly above average Marx Brothers comedy also features Lucille Ball Ann Miller Frank Albertson and Donald MacBride (among others). Though the film lacks a lot of the staples of their earlier films (music Zeppo & memorable quotes besides “jumping butterballs”) it’s still an entertaining 80 minutes. Groucho plays the would-be producer [...]

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