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Our Town (1940)

Our Town (1940)

August 29, 2014 // 0 Comments

Our Town (1940) Directed by Sam Wood (Goodbye Mr. Chips (1939)) this Best Picture Oscar nominated drama is a pretty good adaptation of Thornton Wilder’s well known Pulitzer Prize winning play. Of course Wilder adapted it along with Frank Craven (who also appears in the film as the Stage Manager that narrates – speaking directly to the camera) and Harry Chandlee. It stars Martha Scott who received her only Academy Award recognition [...]
Citizen Kane (1941)

Citizen Kane (1941)

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Citizen Kane (1941) Orson Welles’s masterpiece film is somewhat of an unauthorized biography of publishing tycoon William Randolph Hearst (but don’t believe how he portrays Marion Davies’s character!) including his politics. It stars Welles in the title role Dorothy Comingore Joseph Cotten Agnes Moorehead Ruth Warrick Ray Collins Everett Sloane George Coulouris and Paul Stewart (among others). Herman J. Mankiewicz and Welles [...]
LOVERS AND OTHER STRANGERS (1970) – FULL REVIEW!

Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) – full review!

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Lovers and Other Strangers (1970) – full review! Produced by David Susskind directed by Cy Howard and written by Joseph Bologna David Zelag Goodman and Renée Taylor this above average and surprisingly only somewhat dated (much of it still rings true today) comedy about marriage pre-marriage dating and male-female relationships features the Academy Award winning song “For All We Know”. The writing was also Oscar nominated and [...]
OLD MAID THE (1939)

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 [...]
From Russia With Love (1963)

From Russia With Love (1963)

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From Russia With Love (1963) Directed by Terence Young (Dr. No (1962) Thunderball (1965)) with a screenplay and adaptation by Richard Maibaum and Johanna Harwood (respectively) this is the second James Bond Agent 007 (AFI’s #3 hero) film; the character and novel are from Ian Fleming. Starring Sean Connery it’s the first to feature gadget man ‘Q’ aka Major Boothroyd (Desmond Llewelyn) and is noteworthy for its villains: Rosa Klebb [...]
COLOR PURPLE THE (1985)

Color Purple The (1985)

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Color Purple The (1985) The year a picture directed itself. How else does one explain a film that received 11 Academy Award nominations (winning zero) including Best Picture yet did not receive one for Best Director. A snub of Steven Spielberg who directed several inexperienced actresses to their first and/or only nominations which would continue until he won for Shindler’s List in 1994. Oscar nominations for Whoopi Goldberg (her first) [...]
STORY OF DR. WASSELL THE (1944) – FULL REVIEW!

Story of Dr. Wassell The (1944) – full review!

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Story of Dr. Wassell The (1944) – full review! Produced and directed by Cecil B. DeMille this slightly above average biographical drama features Gary Cooper in the title role as the Navy doctor that saved the lives of nearly a dozen wounded United States sailors from the Japanese invasion of Java during World War II. Crewmen from the USS Marblehead that could not walk to board the evacuation ships under their own power were left on the [...]
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 [...]
CHAMP THE (1931)

Champ The (1931)

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Champ The (1931) This is a terrific boxing story (Best Writing Original Story Oscar) of an old fighter played by Wallace Beery and his son (Jackie Cooper) that’s his biggest fan. Beery shared the Best Actor Oscar with Frederic March (Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde). The film and its director King Vidor were also nominated. Purchase this DVD now [...]
DIVORCE AMERICAN STYLE (1967)

Divorce American Style (1967)

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Divorce American Style (1967) What a great cast what a lame movie. Produced by Norman Lear who co-wrote the story & screenplay with Robert Kaufman and directed by Bud Yorkin this disappointing comedy serves as yet another example of movie-makers’ inability to fully realize the many talents of Dick Van Dyke who with only a couple of exceptions appeared in bad movies throughout his film career. Thankfully television producers were able to [...]
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