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SPORTS MOVIES AND THE ACADEMY AWARD FOR BEST PICTURE

Sports Movies and the Academy Award for Best Picture

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Sports Movies and the Academy Award for Best Picture As noted in February 2010 in the Personal Journal section of the WSJ there haven’t been very many sports-related movies nominated for a Best Picture Oscar. While the sport of boxing has received the most attention from the Academy only two other sports have had more than a single nominee among the year’s best over its 82 year history: America’s former and current pastimes – baseball [...]
The Renegade Ranger (1938)

The Renegade Ranger (1938)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

The Renegade Ranger (1938) A couple of years before Tim Holt would replace George O’Brien as lead in RKO’s B Westerns Holt appeared in the title role as Larry Corwin of this O’Brien – who plays Captain Jack Steele – feature directed by David Howard and written by Oliver Drake from the story by Bennett Cohen. But the real treat is Rita Hayworth appearing as Judith Alvarez who’s accused of murder by Peco City’s tax collector Ben [...]
WORLD WAR II PROPAGANDA MOVIES

World War II Propaganda Movies

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

World War II Propaganda Movies The word propaganda is defined (by the New Oxford American Dictionary 2001) as “chiefly derogatory (showing a critical or disrespectful attitude) information especially of a biased or misleading nature used to promote or publicize a particular political cause or point of view”. While movies and documentaries containing propaganda have become commonplace today the period of time just prior to and [...]
RUNAWAY BRIDES AND OTHER INTERRUPTED WEDDINGS

Runaway Brides and Other Interrupted Weddings

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Runaway Brides and Other Interrupted Weddings The musical comedy Cover Girl (1944) features Rita Hayworth in two different roles as singer-dancer Rusty Parker in the film’s present day and as her grandmother Maribelle Hicks in flashback sequences. Within both storylines her character becomes engaged to a wealthy man she doesn’t love and as a bride each leaves her groom at the altar for the poorer man she does. Watching this movie [...]
BILLY BUDD (1962) – FULL REVIEW!

Billy Budd (1962) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Billy Budd (1962) – full review! Better known today as a two-time winner of the Best Supporting Actor Academy Award Peter Ustinov also produced directed and/or wrote a handful of other films in which he usually appeared as an actor as well. Bringing this classic Herman Melville seafaring novel about good vs. evil to the big screen was his last production; Ustinov directed it played one of the main characters and (along with DeWitt Bodeen) [...]
SVENGALI (1931)

Svengali (1931)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Svengali (1931) George Du Maurier’s novel was the source for this (and many other) film’s story about the titled music teaching Maestro played by John Barrymore who hypnotizes a pretty young artist’s model named Trilby O’Farrell played by blonde Marian Marsh into a career as a successful singer. This version was directed by Archie Mayo; J. Grubb Alexander provided the screenplay. Anton Grot received the first of his five [...]
STAR WITNESS THE (1931) – FULL REVIEW!

Star Witness The (1931) – full review!

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Star Witness The (1931) – full review! Directed by William A. Wellman and written by Lucien Hubbard (Smart Money (1931)) who earned the last of his Academy recognition with an Oscar nomination for his original story this slightly above average crime drama features a career performance by Charles ‘Chic’ Sale who plays a feisty old Civil War veteran grandpa to perfection. The story’s about a family who witnesses a gang murder right [...]
FEBRUARY 2007 – 31 DAYS OF OSCAR

February 2007 – 31 Days of Oscar

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

February 2007 – 31 Days of Oscar Interiors (1978) – an all new capsule review! Cover Girl (1944) – a TCM premiere and an all new full review! Queen Bee (1955) – a TCM premiere! A Passage to India (1984) – a TCM premiere and all new comments in TCM Picks! Hangmen Also Die (1943) – an all new full review! A Gathering of Eagles (1963) – an all new full review! The Battle of Algiers (1965) – I’m [...]
MYSTERIOUS LADY THE (1928)

Mysterious Lady The (1928)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Mysterious Lady The (1928) Directed by Fred Niblo with treatment and continuity provided by Bess Meredyth (A Woman of Affairs (1928)) this Greta Garbo silent’s plot is remarkably similar to Mata Hari (1931) which features a woman spy who’s pursued by her foreign handler while she falls in love with her prey. The print I saw on TCM was pretty scratched up. Tania Fedorova (Garbo) is the titled woman who happens to be alone in the [...]
SCARAMOUCHE (1923)

Scaramouche (1923)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Scaramouche (1923) Directed by Rex Ingram this Rafael Sabatini novel was adapted by Willis Goldbeck and was later remade with Stewart Granger Mel Ferrer Richard Anderson Eleanor Parker Nina Foch & Janet Leigh (among others) by George Sidney in a much different adaptation that was released in 1952. Having not read the novel I can only assume that this was a more faithful telling though somewhat less entertaining than the remake. The [...]
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