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Last Angry Man The (1959)

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Last Angry Man The (1959) Paul Muni received a Best Actor Academy Award nomination for this his final film role; the film’s B&W Art Direction-Set Decoration was also Oscar nominated. Directed by Daniel Mann and based on the novel by Gerald Green it was adapted by Richard Murphy (The Desert Rats (1953)). The drama also marks the screen debut of Billy Dee Williams. Muni plays Dr. Sam Abelman an aged cantankerous Jewish doctor that lives [...]
HARD WAY THE (1943)

Hard Way The (1943)

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Hard Way The (1943) Joan Leslie stars as a woman with average (singing) talent that Jack Carson wants to make a star. Carson and partner Dennis Morgan are traveling vaudeville song & dance men with marginal talent themselves and Carson thinks he’s discovered just what their act needs – this “kid” with spunk. Ida Lupino playing Leslie’s sister uses Carson’s interest in (attraction to) her sister to help [...]
Taking of the Pelham One Two Three The (1974)

Taking of the Pelham One Two Three The (1974)

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Taking of the Pelham One Two Three The (1974) Though I never read the recommended book I loved this film about a gang of armed men who hijack a subway train in New York City. It stars Walter Matthau as the police lieutenant trying to battle a criminal mastermind (Robert Shaw) and his cohorts played by Martin Balsam Hector Elizondo and Earl Hindman. James Broderick is the motorman Lee Wallace is the Mayor Doris Roberts his wife Jerry Stiller is [...]
GUESS WHO’S COMING TO DINNER (1967)

Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967)

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Guess Who’s Coming to Dinner (1967) This film is an essential comedy drama about a progressive father and mother who are forced to face their own ideals when their daughter wants to marry a Black doctor. The cast is spectacular from top to bottom including Spencer Tracy receiving his last Best Actor Academy Award nomination (posthumously) for his final role and Katharine Hepburn (her second of four Best Actress Oscar wins) as the married [...]
TWO FOR THE SEESAW (1962) – FULL REVIEW!

Two for the Seesaw (1962) – full review!

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Two for the Seesaw (1962) – full review! Directed by Robert Wise this William Gibson (The Miracle Worker (1962)) play with a screenplay by Isobel Lennart (The Sundowners (1960)) was made into a pretty good if talky romance drama by its leads Robert Mitchum and Shirley MacLaine. The two play a couple of lonely souls from different worlds he from Nebraska in the midst of divorcing his wife of 12 years and she from the artist Greenwich [...]
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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938)

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Angels With Dirty Faces (1938) Directed by Michael Curtiz with a story by Rowland Brown (The Doorway to Hell (1930)) this essential crime drama features not only one of several James Cagney-Humphrey Bogart pairings but also one of several James Cagney-Pat O’Brien pairings as well. Ben Hecht and Charles MacArthur are said to have been uncredited contributors to the John Wexley-Warren Duff script. Cagney received his first Best Actor Academy [...]
American Beauty (1999)

American Beauty (1999)

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American Beauty (1999) I had to finally rent this after all the hullabaloo I’d heard about it. It was very good for me primarily because I identify so much with the Kevin Spacey’s Oscar winning characterization of a man who quits his job. A story about life in the suburbs that is if you live on the Left Coast! Won the Best Picture Best Director (Sam Mendes his film debut) Cinematography and Screenplay Writing Oscars. Annette [...]
HURRICANE THE (1937) – FULL REVIEW!

Hurricane The (1937) – full review!

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Hurricane The (1937) – full review! Produced by Samuel Goldwyn and directed by John Ford this James Norman Hall/Charles Nordhoff novel was adapted by Oliver H.P. Garrett and features a screenplay by Dudley Nichols that was rewritten by Ben Hecht (though he didn’t receive a screen credit). One of the early disaster movies following San Francisco (1936) it still preceded Oscar’s Special Effects category by a couple of years. It [...]
The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

The Films of Alfred Hitchcock

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The Films of Alfred Hitchcock References: The Films of Alfred Hitchcock by Harris & Lasky; imdb.com; afi.com The Lodger (1927) – full review! Easy Virtue (1928) The Ring (1927) – full review! The Farmer’s Wife (1928) – full review! The Manxman (1929) – full review! Blackmail (1929) – full review! (photo) Juno and the Paycock (1930) – full review! Murder! (1930) The Skin Game (1931) – full [...]
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Man Who Walked Alone The (1945)

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Man Who Walked Alone The (1945) This minor B comedy drama earned an Academy Award nomination for its Score by Karl Hajos (Summer Storm (1944)). It was directed and written (with Robert Lee Johnson) by Christy Cabanne and stars Dave O’Brien and Kay Aldridge a rarity because some of its supporting cast members (Guinn ‘Big Boy’ Williams Dick Elliott and Tom Kennedy for example) may be better known to movie mavens today than its [...]
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