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ALEXIS ZORBAS (1964)

Alexis Zorbas (1964)

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Alexis Zorbas (1964) aka Zorba the Greek (1964) Anthony Quinn picked up his last Academy Award (Best Actor) nomination in the title role (and his career’s signature performance) playing opposite Alan Bates in this above average drama about an uptight Englishman who meets the titled ‘joie de vivre’ Greek that changes his life. Bates’s character is a writer who receives a small inheritance an abandoned mine on the Greek island of [...]
HIS KIND OF WOMAN (1951)

His Kind of Woman (1951)

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His Kind of Woman (1951) Howard Hughes was the executive producer of this film-noir crime drama thriller (with some comedic elements); John Farrow (Wake Island (1942)) was its director. It was written by Frank Fenton and Jack Leonard and stars Robert Mitchum Jane Russell Vincent Price Tim Holt Charles McGraw Marjorie Reynolds Raymond Burr Leslie Banning Jim Backus Philip Van Zandt John Mylong and Carleton Young. Mitchum plays a ‘down on his [...]
M (1931)

M (1931)

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M (1931) This excellent early film by director Fritz Lang and starring Peter Lorre is a classic thriller. It’s the story of a serial child killer on the loose whose crimes are disrupting things so much the “Mob” is as interested as the police in solving the case and catching “M”. Sequences and suspense play out like an early Hitchcock film including memorable imagery and a trial scene with speech near the end that [...]
Lady Eve The (1941)

Lady Eve The (1941)

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Lady Eve The (1941) Directed by Preston Sturges the whole cast is terrific and includes (many from Sturges’ other great films): Henry Fonda Barbara Stanwyck Charles Coburn Eugene Pallette William Demarest Eric Blore and Al Bridge (uncredited). The script was Oscar nominated. Added to the National Film Registry in 1994. #55 on AFI’s 100 Funniest Movies list. #26 on AFI’s 100 Greatest Love Stories list. Fonda is a wealthy naive [...]
On the Town (1949)

On the Town (1949)

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On the Town (1949) This lively above average Musical comedy was directed by Stanley Donen and one of its stars Gene Kelly. It was written by Adolph Green & Betty Comden (The Band Wagon (1953)) and showcases the many talents of Kelly Frank Sinatra Betty Garrett Ann Miller Jules Munshin and Vera-Ellen. Its Musical Score which includes the Leonard Bernstein hit “New York New York ( it’s a wonderful town)” among others won [...]
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The Lodger (1927) – full review!

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The Lodger (1927) – full review! Directed by Alfred Hitchcock this silent feature is an early example of the director’s skill in creating suspenseful situations while keeping a (spoiler) secret to the end. The cast is small but it includes Ivor Novello in the title role a popular matinee idol of the time. The story is very simple: a murderer who dubs himself “The Avenger” leaving a calling card on each of his victims is [...]
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 [...]
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)

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Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954) I didn’t know how talented Howard Keel (from TV’s Dallas) was until I saw this essential Musical a sleeper hit for MGM (the studio had thought their Gene Kelly-Van Johnson-Cyd Charisse production of Brigadoon (1954) would be their big hit that year causing the production qualities of this one to suffer). The story is about a family of mountain men the Pontipee’s whose eldest son Adam [...]
IT’S A WONDERFUL WORLD (1939)

It’s a Wonderful World (1939)

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It’s a Wonderful World (1939) An unusual unsympathetic ‘hot head’ role for James Stewart combined with Claudette Colbert as a non-typical weak character a poet who becomes an effusive gushing girl in Stewart’s presence makes this comedy less enjoyable than I’d hoped it would be. Plus instead of the great dialogue one might expect from a Ben Hecht-Herman Mankiewicz story the two seemed to be out of their element in [...]
Roaring Twenties The (1939)

Roaring Twenties The (1939)

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Roaring Twenties The (1939) This is an excellent film about three World War I Army buddies whose lives change dramatically when they return from the war and get involved in crime to varying degrees. Eddie (James Cagney) initially works as a cab driver sharing his old friend’s (Frank McHugh) taxi. But through a speakeasy owner a woman named Panama (Gladys George) Eddie gets involved in the illegal alcohol business (e.g. during Prohibition). [...]
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