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443,126 | 819,382 | 41,088 | 6 | The Ghost At The Banquet . | It's an unusual movie for MGM , known best for its family movies . Think " Little Women " and " Meet Me in St . Louis . " This is pretty dark stuff , visually and otherwise . Van Heflin is a contractor in a Los Angeles suburb , when Los Angeles still had suburbs . He's evidently the kind of contractor who's best at tur... |
442,073 | 819,382 | 78,490 | 6 | Nature vs . Culture . | At the beginning of the film Michael Moriarty , a correspondent in Vietnam , is writing a letter to his wife ( Tuesday Weld ) , describing how the elephants are thought to be used as pack animals for the VC , so US choppers have been ordered to chase them and destroy them . " You see , " he writes , " in a word where f... |
442,548 | 819,382 | 60,636 | 6 | Los Angeles in its decadent period . | This script about two high-school kids - - one a genius ( Roddy MacDowell ) and the other a nubile blond airhead ( Tuesday Weld ) . MacDowell , close to 40 at the time of shooting , looks about as much like a high schooler as I do . Weld , on the other hand , reminds me a lot of Irene Revok , this succulent , shy blond... |
441,627 | 819,382 | 115,736 | 6 | Nifty B Thriller | With very little effort you could visualize this on the screen of some neighborhood theater - - The Ritz or the Bijou or the Mayfair - - in , say , 1949 . Only then it would be in black and white . The credits take about 90 seconds to unroll . It stars people like Edmond O'Brian and Adele Jergens and Marie Windsor and ... |
442,740 | 819,382 | 35,438 | 6 | Colorful training camp romance . | The plot is nothing much new . An older , experienced aviator ( Preston Foster ) is hired as a civilian instructor at Thunder Bird Airfield in Arizona . His missions : ( 1 ) To shepherd a class of American , British , and Chinese novices through primary flight training , and ( 2 ) to woo an old girl friend , Gene Tiern... |
443,563 | 819,382 | 31,983 | 6 | Unexpected Verisimilitude . | Vernon and Irene Castle were genuine historical figures whose dancing , and whose other commercial enterprises , became a craze in 1911 and lasted for some years . Vernon's contribution ended with his death in a flying accident during World War I . From what I can gather , this film sticks fairly closely to the facts ,... |
442,495 | 819,382 | 39,776 | 6 | Entertaining buddy comedy . | It's the kind of relaxed , enjoyable , self-referential episode we expect in the " road " series of Bob Hope and Bing Crosby . It fills the usual template . Two greedy , cowardly , libidinous show-business guys get thrown out of a circus and find themselves stowing away on a ship bound for Rio de Janeiro . ( Brazil , l... |
442,100 | 819,382 | 83,232 | 6 | Wayward Brothers . | Post-war Los Angeles is nicely evoked in this story of two brothers - - Desmond Spellacy ( Robert DeNiro ) and Tom ( Robert Duvall ) . Plenty of grand old gas-guzzling Fords . Vacant lots that are now undoubtedly buried under a Starbucks or a Nieman-Marcus . Five-dollar cat houses that smell like old paint . And both D... |
442,862 | 819,382 | 57,254 | 6 | Huston Takes a Vacation | It's an easy-going , mildly entertaining mystery , the solution of which is given before the ending . The mystery itself could have been cooked up by Sir Arthur Conan-Doyle as a neat Sherlock Holmes short story . This one is rather dragged out . There's a subplot involving a French businessman and Dana Wynters that has... |
443,132 | 819,382 | 80,437 | 6 | Sam's War | These comments are based on the restored version , now available on DVD . It's Sam Fuller's story of a small group of infantrymen from the First Division , Mark Hamill , Robert Carradine , Bobby De Cicco , and Kelly Ward , led by their sergeant , Lee Marvin . The battles , and the rests between battles , takes us from ... |
442,152 | 819,382 | 804,815 | 6 | Possibly the most disgusting episode ever . | This is the one about Al's toilet . Not a " commode , " not a " lavaratory , " not a " washroom , " not a " loo , " not a " dunnie " - - a toilet . Unsatisfied with the one in his house , which flushes with a feminine whoosh , and always has a jar of vinegar on the medicine-cabinet shelf , he decides to build his own b... |
442,173 | 819,382 | 115,759 | 6 | Engaging waste of time . | There are so many stupid action movies out there - - mind-numbing , explosion-filled , cartoonish , slow-motion-bodies-falling , gore , ugly guns , special f / x , mismatched heroic couple of mixed sex , wisecracking villain - - and I've SEEN so many that I'm beginning to be able to tell the difference between them . T... |
442,296 | 819,382 | 62,153 | 6 | Hit or Miss Satire Of 60s Phenoms . | Kind of fun . An episodic , jet-propelled satire of just about everything in the contemporary newspapers . The President of the US ( Lyndon B . Johnson at the time , briefly glimpsed walking his hound dogs on the White House lawn ) is a troubled man . He recruits a psychoanalyst ( James Coburn ) . Johnson was REALLY tr... |
442,062 | 819,382 | 364,457 | 6 | Pretzel Logic . | Gerald Sanford , the writer , has given us a story about an unhinged officer of the law ( Hopper ) who kidnaps a rootless crime victim ( Argento ) and keeps her in a cell in his basement , where she must earn " points " to gain privileges . So far , nothing much original . " The Collector " had more going for it . But ... |
442,403 | 819,382 | 25,335 | 6 | Early , inexpensive , relaxed Ford / Will Rogers | If you want to see what the Hollywood world was like before everyone became politically correct , this one is worth seeing . Hear Hattie MacDaniel sing about " the darkies " . Watch Stepin Fetchit as he explains that he's not wearing his shoes because he's saving them for when his feet wear out . Watch the small Kentuc... |
443,207 | 819,382 | 123,363 | 6 | Mme . La Farge and her damme knitting ! | It's pretty good , actually , and long enough to have some of Dickens ' subplots and subincidents covered in more detail . Plus it was filmed in England and Bordeaux . Yet , without knowing exactly why , I think I'd prefer the 1935 version with Ronald Coleman . It's a little tough on the endurance factor to sit through... |
442,640 | 819,382 | 34,162 | 6 | Plot Overboard ! | Jack London led a life easily as interesting as most of his characters . Started out as an oyster pirate near Oakland , then a writer , journalist , and socialist in - - well , all over the place , London , Alaska , the Orient , and back to the artists ' colony in Carmel , California , before it became unaffordable for... |
442,221 | 819,382 | 29,682 | 6 | Diverting trifle . | Cary Grant , Constance Bennett , and Roland Young in an amusing comedy about two ghosts ( Grant and Bennett ) showing banker Young how to have a good time . It takes them the entire movie to do it . Until the last five minutes , Young still seems stuffy and flustered by the antics he's been involved in . A lot depends ... |
441,657 | 819,382 | 44,953 | 6 | Good cast in Western journey . | After World War II , Jimmy Stewart's career seemed to stall . He was no longer the piping-voiced naive youngster , and it's difficult to believe that his war experiences hadn't affected his real character in some way . This was one of a series of Westerns Stewart made under the direction of Anthony Mann , one of the be... |
442,256 | 819,382 | 44,954 | 6 | Tense , Cheap Train / Crime Drama . | There's something about Charles McGraw that is in its own quiet way unspeakable . The guy seems hardly human . Of medium height , blocky , with a voice that sounds like a subwoofer on acid , and a face that is made not of flesh but some sort of igneous rock , maybe quartz . Punching him in the nose would only break you... |
442,142 | 819,382 | 119,467 | 6 | Sleep disorders . | Interesting murder / love story , set in the Australian outback . Way out in the outback . A road picture in which a reckless young couple are pursued by both the police and a gangster who wants something they've taken from him . Simple enough so far . The problem is that the couple seem to be ahead of the people track... |
443,570 | 819,382 | 115,685 | 6 | Pretty Amusing Story of Roles . | I can't remember much of " La Cage au Folles " , the , um , mother of this film except that Marcel Bozuffi was extremely funny in demonstrating the way men walk . But this remake is funny on its own terms . You may or may not leave prancing to " We Are Family " but there are scenes that are almost certain to make you c... |
442,544 | 819,382 | 67,128 | 6 | Gangsters in Newcastle | Kind of complicated revenge movie . Michael Caine is Carter , a London gangster who learns his brother Frank has been murdered in their home city of Newcastle . Against the advice of his London friends he returns home , sees to his brother's funeral , discovers his brother's murderers and their accomplices one by one ,... |
442,493 | 819,382 | 401,997 | 6 | Pretty good spy story . | Chris Cooper is Robert Hanssen , a traitor working within the FBI and selling secrets to the Russians . The FBI knows about the billions of dollars of damage he's done and the lives that he's had sacrificed , but they need more solid evidence to put him away for good . They recruit Eric O'Neill ( Ryan Phillippe ) , a n... |
441,623 | 819,382 | 100,143 | 6 | A Random Walk Down Biscayne Blvd . | You know what this reminds me of ? Godard's " Breathless , " one of the first of the shockingly original Nouvelle Vague flicks of the early 60s . I remember first seeing " Breathless " with some friends in a theater in Ithaca , NY , and emerging arguing about what it meant . I don't mean trying to identify any great lo... |
442,144 | 819,382 | 111,742 | 6 | Pass the wolfbane . | Well , Jack Nicholson is no Lawrence Talbot . In a way that's too bad because the original wolfman was trashy fun . This one is more ambitious and expensive , and it kind of loses its way . The first half is a treat , and is witty too . Nicholson plays his schleppy character , someone without daring or imagination . It... |
442,287 | 819,382 | 196,216 | 6 | Rambling but successful comedy . | It's divided into three parts . ( 1 ) Woody and an inept gang set up a cookie store as a front , to be run by Woody's wife , Tracy Ullman , while they tunnel through the store's basement into the bank next door . ( 2 ) The robbery fails but the cookie store succeeds beyond anyone's imagination and Woody and Tracey beco... |
442,722 | 819,382 | 100,151 | 6 | Cosmos Through the Looking Glass . | Three people meet , walk around , and talk on Mont-St . - Michel . They are an American poet in exile ( John Heard ) , a frustrated politician ( Sam Waterston ) , and a disillusioned physicist ( Liv Ullman ) . It's sort of wintry and bleak at Mont-St . - Michel , which looks as imposing and impenetrable from the inside... |
441,823 | 819,382 | 31,507 | 6 | Exciting Story of Western Outlaw . | Henry Hull , as a newspaper publisher and Jesse's friend , is giving the speech at Jesse James ' burial . " We're PROUD of Jesse around here , " he shouts . " I reckon all America's a little proud of him . I dunno why . Maybe it's because he was bold - - and lawless - - the way we all like to be , once in a while . " N... |
442,355 | 819,382 | 22,905 | 6 | Soap , Politics , in About That Order . | Those of us who came of age when Barbara Stanwyck projected an image of hand-shaped steel on screen - - a lesbian , a stern matriarch , or whatever - - may not be aware of how fragile and accommodating she was in her earlier films . Never a sex symbol or an actress who shot out the lights , her performances were always... |
442,364 | 819,382 | 31,514 | 6 | Worth seeing once . | The story is almost rudimentary . An honest plain-speaking working man , Francois , is in love with a fresh-faced young Francoise , but she begins hanging around with an older man burdened with a diabolically sinister face , Valentin . The older man travels around with a trained dog act and a pretty but worn assistant ... |
443,005 | 819,382 | 51,542 | 6 | Serious , almost plausible , historical drama . | What an arrogant society we are . We stand at the pinnacle of knowledge . We know everything there is to know , except there's the small business of filling in the dots . Of course the fact is that every generation feels the same way . No matter how stupid they are , every cohort of scientists and moralists manages to ... |
443,354 | 819,382 | 164,184 | 6 | The evolution of enmity | It's easy to make somebody look villainous . You give him a grim dark face , something along the lines of Bela Lugosi , deprive him of any sense of humor , have him speak with an accent , and light his face from below with a hideous green key light . While you're at it , make him a full foot shorter than his American c... |
442,041 | 819,382 | 58,262 | 6 | Great Communicator Beats Beautiful Woman ! | John Cassavetes is a teacher at a school for the blind . Confronted by two hit men , Lee Marvin and Clu Gulager , he waits stoically for the flood of bullets that shortly follow . The dead man's resignation surprises the killers and they determine to find out why he didn't try to run . As it turns out , Cassavetes was ... |
443,589 | 819,382 | 164,181 | 6 | Tortuous trip through the supernatural . | Not having seen the credits , I first thought this was a Steven King story . Kevin Bacon and his wife , Katheryn Erbe , attend a Friday night party at the house of their Chicago neighbor . Half drunk , Bacon allows himself to be hypnotized by his sister-in-law , Ileana Douglas . She induces the trace by suggesting he i... |
441,806 | 819,382 | 263,265 | 6 | Updated Faust . | You can't help wondering how many times this story has been told in print , on stage , and in film . Weren't there independent redintegrations of this Medieval plot by Marlowe and Goethe ? This version comes to us from Steven Vincent Benet and Archibald MacLeash , updated to the current time . It's entertaining still b... |
442,422 | 819,382 | 82,640 | 6 | The Torso Has a Life of its Own . | D . H . Lawrence's tale of class distinctions and nature versus culture turned into soft porn , but pretty good soft porn as these things go . Sylvia Krystel is Constance Chatterly whose wealthy , titled husband , Shane Briant , returns to their vast estate from World War I only half a man , confined to a wheelchair , ... |
442,146 | 819,382 | 53,455 | 6 | Wrecks are Great . | Sometimes you can't help wondering why certain occupations produce so many accomplished writers - - pilots , seamen , and doctors , for instance . Maybe pilots tell good stories that are made into films because - - let's face facts - - what goes up must come down , one way or another . Doctors also can tell gripping st... |
443,050 | 819,382 | 88,933 | 6 | If You Fill It , They Will Swim . | If you like " Field of Dreams " you ought to get a kick out of this Twilight-Zone fantasy too . They both follow a similar trajectory . Similar , in fact , to Twilight Zone's " Kick the Can " episode , in fact , from which both may be derived . The director , Ron Howard , hasn't taken any chances here in this sentiment... |
441,697 | 819,382 | 22,867 | 6 | Slow story , nice direction . | There's nothing new about the story . Naive young Emma Bovary married older man , finds he's not very exciting , leaves older man , finds younger man , drops mescaline , smokes rainbow , paints political slogans on body , goes back to older man - - no , he dies , that's right , of a " self-inflicted gunshot wound " - -... |
443,137 | 819,382 | 94,608 | 6 | No Means No . | This is a pretty decent movie in its direction ( Jonathan Kaplan ) and its principal performances ( Jodie Foster , as a gang-rape victim , and Kelly McGillis is the prosecuting Assistant District Attorney ) . In the opening scene we see Foster running out of a bar and onto a highway , sobbing , her dress torn . She's b... |
441,956 | 819,382 | 48,667 | 6 | S . A . C . wants YOU ! | Interesting story of Dutch Holland ( James Stewart ) and his wife ( June Allyson ) and their involvement with the Strategic Air Command of the U . S . Air Force in the post-war years . Holland , an ex bomber pilot , is now a successful third baseman for the St . Louis Cardinals and has just signed a contract for sevent... |
442,670 | 819,382 | 76,804 | 6 | Above Average Bronson | This time around , Bronson is a Russian major sent to the USA to eliminate a renegade Stalinist who is activating human time bombs . It's a kind of Manchurian Candidate times twelve . Bronson's double-agent assistant is Lee Remick . The plot , though not hard to follow , is a bit intricate and involves the solution of ... |
442,110 | 819,382 | 159,365 | 6 | War is all hell . | There's a stunning scene towards the end when Jude Law approaches his long-lost girlfriend , Nicole Kidman , on a snowy path through what appears to be an archway of rock pinnacles all dusted with white . Law is hardly more than a scrawny black scarecrow in a slouch hat . Not recognizing him after a year's absence she ... |
443,315 | 819,382 | 381,505 | 6 | Caligian Teen Comedy | It's better than it has a right to be . Kimberley Joyce ( Wood ) with " the face of an angel " persuades two of her classmates to sue for sexual advances a disliked English and Drama teacher at their elite high school , so that his reputation is ruined ( even if they lose , as Wood figures out ) and they achieve an ear... |
441,804 | 819,382 | 228,750 | 6 | Interesting Story of Hostage Negotiations . | David Morse is an engineer captured and held hostage for ransom by a corrupt group of revolutionaries in the fictional South American country of Tecada or Tecate or San Placebo or someplace . Morse is taken to a remote camp where a few other captives are being held for the same purpose . Man , are these revolutionaries... |
443,194 | 819,382 | 285,175 | 6 | Nostalgie de la Boue | Havoc ( 2005 ) The Shadow of Sixteen Candles . , 16 June This comment may contain spoilers A lot of people seem not to have enjoyed this film very much . I'm not sure why . Yes , the rich girls seemed phony but lots of teenage girls sound similar in their speech . It comes across as so stylized as to be stilted , yet i... |
442,687 | 819,382 | 51,622 | 6 | Only Half a Man . | This is the original " The Fly . " I never did see David Cronenberg's remake except for a few snippets , but those snippets convinced me that Cronenberg was following his usual impulse to make the viewer's skin crawl . Some of us don't really need that . If we want our skins to crawl all we have to do is get out of bed... |
442,946 | 819,382 | 48,696 | 6 | Above Average Example of the Genre . | Professor Deemer ( Leo G . Carrol ) and two of his colleagues have holed up in a lab out in the desert where they are experimenting with a new non-organic nutrient that will feed the world as its population explodes . The experiment goes awry - - don't they all ? - - and Deemer's colleagues both contract a fulminating ... |
442,983 | 819,382 | 34,277 | 6 | Long , prepossessing WB Flynn Western | As a film unto itself , " They Died With Their Boots On " rolls right along in the mainstream of Errol Flynn's action movies for Warner Brothers . It's effectively directed and attractively shot , although it really would have benefited from glorious Technicolor . They could have called in Natalie Kalmus who would have... |
442,033 | 819,382 | 38,057 | 6 | Immanent Justice | Edward G . Robinson is a timid bank cashier suffering from low self esteem . He's married to a shrew and takes refuge in his weekend painting , which he deems unfit for display except to friends , of which he seems to have exactly one , and THAT one so distant that he isn't even aware of Robinson's love of painting . R... |
442,900 | 819,382 | 90,130 | 6 | Car chases car , boat , person , woolly mammoth , etc . | The first time I saw this , about ten years ago , I thought it was pretty cool . Zippy car chases , nicely staged , up and down stairs in Hamburg , in and out of passageways , and so forth . Three - - count ' em - - three gorgeous women . Gene Hackman and Matt Dillon , a couple of engaging actors . And it had an intere... |
443,319 | 819,382 | 42,994 | 6 | Shoot Lovely Ducks ! | Well , it's identifiably a Hitchcock movie , but you have to watch it a little carefully to be sure . There are no dramatic set pieces , no mind-boggling crane shots , no screaming violins in the score , and the touches of humor are sparse and more understated than usual . The story is basically a murder mystery genera... |
442,124 | 819,382 | 38,048 | 6 | Flynn Western is Full of Action and Color . | There are these bad guys in 1870s Texas , see , led by the wealthy Paul Kelly and the underhanded Victor Francen from New Orleans . What they and their henchmen have been doing is rustling cattle by the horde , or by the herd , whichever you prefer . Then they run the stolen cattle across the Mexican border , rebrand t... |
442,787 | 819,382 | 48,729 | 6 | Hollywoodized Version of an Incredible Story . | In the early 50s , Audie Murphy and his ghost writer published a book of Murphy's unbelievable exploits in Italy , France , and Germany during World War II . Murphy , still in his teens , won about every decoration for valor that the human mind can dream up - - and he earned them too . The experience wrecked him . He m... |
442,045 | 819,382 | 53,351 | 6 | Heroism and Cowardice . | This is one of those perilous journey semi-Westerns . In 1916 , Major Gary Cooper is the awards officer during the pursuit of Pancho Villa into Mexico . After witnessing two battles he recommends five men for the Congressional Medal of Honor - - enlisted men Michael Callan , Richard Conte , Van Heflin , and Dick York ;... |
442,088 | 819,382 | 131,325 | 6 | Often funny satire of Hollywood . | This intermittently and sometimes very funny send up of cheap movie making was written by , and stars , Steve Martin . He's pretty good , and so are the other performers . Loved Eddie Murphy as the loser / brother of Kit Ramsey . The film is efficiently directed . The humor , as in a lot of Steve Martin's stuff in The ... |
443,135 | 819,382 | 119,375 | 6 | Film Blanc | Two Swedish policemen , one of them Stellan Skarsgard , arrive in northern Norway to help solve the murder of a high-school girl . The killer is almost trapped but escapes into the fog along the shore . By mistake , Skarsgard shoots and kills his partner . He invents a story in which the girl's murderer shot his partne... |
442,349 | 819,382 | 36,112 | 6 | Blimp v . Zeppelin . | I only was able to catch this in sections but thought it was worth recommending . I saw the first half hour some years ago and it struck me as a little boring , but having more recently seen the last half hour it seems to me to have more appeal than I'd originally thought . It's a flag waver , a little pedantic , but i... |
442,981 | 819,382 | 119,365 | 6 | Upscale Brit Crime Thriller | It's not as bad as I'd expected . It's one of those British crime dramas in which people walk around in Saville Row suits , visit Paris and Spain at will , and drive Jaguars - - and the plot centers around a fake Rembrandt painted by Jason Patric , who is double crossed by a couple of co-conspirators and aided by art e... |
441,980 | 819,382 | 58,150 | 6 | Some of what glitters is gold . | Sean Connery , as James Bond , with the help of Pussy Galore ( Honor Blackman ) prevents Goldfinger ( Gert Frobe ) from irradiating all the gold stored at Fort Knox , Kentucky , and thereby rendering the basis of America's credit untouchable , along with that of much of the rest of the world . An international monetary... |
442,654 | 819,382 | 42,980 | 6 | The Gentleman Vanishes . | Sort of a nifty mystery about a woman , Jean Simmons , whose brother , David Tomlinson , vanishes from their hotel at the Paris Exposition of 1896 . As in Hitchcock's " The Lady Vanishes , " the concierge and staff deny having seen him . They claim Simmons arrived alone . Simmons pokes around but all the signs of Tomli... |
441,735 | 819,382 | 53,318 | 6 | Dinner Chimes at Cabeza de Loco . | Neat set decoration on display here as Aunt Violet Venable ( Hepburn ) takes Dr . Cucrovitz ( Clift ) on a tour of Sebastian's , her deceased son's , botanical gardens while trying to persuade him to perform a lobotomy on her niece Cathy ( Taylor ) who is making a nuisance of herself . The indoor gardens are a vast pla... |
443,072 | 819,382 | 137,363 | 6 | Friends and Neighbors | Jeff Bridges plays a professor at George Washington University in Washington , DC , living a peaceful , suburban existence with his girl friend and his son . He teaches a course in " Terrorism , " which , in reality , would have to be called " Selected Social Problems " or something like that . His deceased wife was an... |
442,302 | 819,382 | 49,291 | 6 | God's in Bogie's Corner Tonight . | Humphrey Bogart is a sports writer who is hired as a publicity agent for the Argentinian behemoth , Toro Moreno , a new boxer being promoted by the greedy , unfeeling , and corrupt Rod Steiger and his squad of thugs . Bogart needs the money and does the job . Moreno is not too quick on the uptake . He thinks he's as go... |
442,082 | 819,382 | 58,100 | 6 | Diverting H . G . Wells Fantasy . | Lionel Jeffreys is Dr . Cavor , a loony English inventor who takes Edward Judd and Martha Hyer along on a trip to the moon in 1899 in a sphere propelled by his anti-gravity paste ( " cavorite " ) . The moon , at first , looks rather like the imaginations of 1964 would picture it - - barren , mountainous , and dark . Th... |
442,026 | 819,382 | 75,029 | 6 | Midstream for Eastwood . | There are about three minutes of genuine pathos in this film and they come at the very end . Clint Eastwood , as the eponymous outlaw , has been pursued across half the nation by bounty hunters , law officers of various types , and Union soldiers . He's just been involved in a gunfight against impossible odds and thoug... |
443,360 | 819,382 | 272,207 | 6 | Polished example of cop film | Just think about how far we've come in the years since " The New Centurions , " when it had to be explained to us that police officers could have problems at home and were sometimes imperfect in the execution of their jobs . There may be drearier locations to film in than the ones dug up for this film but it's hard to ... |
442,783 | 819,382 | 16,039 | 6 | Surprisingly - - Okay . | I hadn't been expecting much , so it came as a pleasant surprise to find this was a rather well-done flick . Instead of Annie the Dinosaur , I got " King Kong " in nascent form . The guy doing the special effects , Willis O'Brien seemed to be developing his craft here . The dinosaurs , while obviously models moving in ... |
443,578 | 819,382 | 107,556 | 6 | Suspenseful Airplan-in-Jepeordy Movie . | Rather nicely done for the genre . Scott Bakula is flying a small Cessna from Pago Pago to Norfolk Island and finds himself lost over the wide Pacific due to instrument malfunction . No ships around - - not that anyone knows where he is - - and the only other traffic is an Air New Zealand Boeing passenger plane , pilot... |
441,680 | 819,382 | 49,096 | 6 | Funny Danny Kaye . | Danny Kaye made a couple of amusing comedies in the 1940s . He always played himself , the bumbling , stuttering coward . He's the same here , although the setting is now Medieval England and his character is mistaken for a court jester or , at times , for a Robin Hood figure called The Black Fox . The plot is too comp... |
442,739 | 819,382 | 107,613 | 6 | Familiarly Heartwarming . | Matt Dillon is a divorced , working-class New Yorker who pines to chip in with his buddies and buy a bowling alley . The thing holding him back is that he is disgorging money to his ex-wife Annabella Sciorra . Dillon is also hooked up with a nurse , Mary Louise Parker , while Sciorra has bonded with her professor Willi... |
442,791 | 819,382 | 758,757 | 6 | Challenging Adult Story of American Terrorists | A lot of reviewers seemed to despise this inexpensive but thoughtful movie . The fons et origo of their hatred ( because that's what it is ) is the spouting of anti-government notions by the three or four terrorists to which the movie introduces us . It's probably a good idea to keep in mind that the description of eve... |
442,893 | 819,382 | 46,963 | 6 | Emblematic 50s movie . | To get the bad stuff out of the way , the film is as talky as a staged play , it's formulaic , dated , the characters have about one-and-a-half dimensions , and there's little real doubt about who's going to win the race to become Tredway's ( or it it Treadmill's ) next president . But I kind of like it . Talky , yes ,... |
443,406 | 819,382 | 104,231 | 6 | The Adventures of Joseph and Shannon . | Not a fairy tale . Not like " The Quiet Man " anyway . It's the straightforward tale of two Irish folks - - Joseph Donnelly ( Tom Cruise ) and Shannon Christie ( Nicole Kidman ) . There are three dramatic episodes : the miseries in the Ireland of 1898 where everyone is subject to the English landlord's whim , a spell i... |
443,390 | 819,382 | 36,025 | 6 | Sprightly Musical From the 1940s . | Relaxed and enjoyable musical comedy . ( There are some nefarious Nazis here with evil plans but forget them . ) It's not Red Skelton's funniest comedy but he's still pretty amusing as his usual tall hick , with his goofy smile , falling over chairs , a pants-presser who impersonates someone else and gets rattled when ... |
443,270 | 819,382 | 465,551 | 6 | Not so obscure objects of desire | This wouldn't be much of a movie without the performances of the principals , namely Cate Blanchett and Judi Dench , because the story itself is a little like a soap opera . Dench is a lonely and bitter older woman , starved for love and sex . She teaches at the same school as Blanchett . Blanchett teaches art in the m... |
442,086 | 819,382 | 104,237 | 6 | Quelle Damage . | In this erotic melodrama , Jeremy Irons is tall , elegant , imperially slim , impeccably groomed and coiffed , the very model of a modern major minister . He's a distinctive looking fellow with his big , sunken eyes and thin , almost cyanotic lips . He's a member of parliament here , about to be offered a cabinet posit... |
442,113 | 819,382 | 143,893 | 6 | Post-war Quickie Warning About Guns . | It's odd to see such a time-bound short in these oh-so-modern days . It must have taken a couple of hours to shoot this . It does have Morris Ankrum as a performer , though he has no lines . It's a straightforward warning that the guns brought home from the war by discharged GIs were more than merely souvenirs . They w... |
442,716 | 819,382 | 84,805 | 6 | Slickly commercial , and funny | Unemployed actor Dustin Hoffman poses as a woman , Dorothy Michaels , and lands a part on a soap opera where he falls for another cast member , Jessica Lange . Hoffman gets into the role and begins improvising snotty remarks and put-downs against his overbearing male costars , as well as coaching Lange on standing up f... |
443,089 | 819,382 | 77,294 | 6 | Entertaining concept , nice action scenes . | Peter Hyams both wrote and directed this cynical business about flaws in the space program that first lead three young astronauts - - James Brolin , Sam Waterston , and O . J . Simpson - - to participate in a Mars landing faked on a sound stage by the program's head , Hal Holbrook . During the " return mission " , afte... |
443,088 | 819,382 | 77,293 | 6 | Where are the pros of yesteryear ? | In " The Seven Pillars of Wisdom , " T . E . Lawrence describes in the simplest terms how the Turkish army treated him when he was their captive . " They handled me unspeakably . " That could go for just about every character in " The Candy Stripers . " They do everything unspeakable to one another . And speakable too ... |
443,522 | 819,382 | 436,971 | 6 | Something's Wrong With the Entire System . | Something's wrong with the entire system , says Wilton Sekzer , an aging Vietnam vet who lost his son on . When Sekzer first learned his son had died in the WTC , his first response was a surge in patriotism and a desire for revenge . When we invaded Iraq , Sekzer emailed the government and asked that his son's name ... |
442,733 | 819,382 | 75,140 | 6 | Stylized Murder Game . | At the very opening , we see a Swiss police officer stop beside a parked car on a hillside . The officer opens the door . There is a corpse inside with a bullet hole in his temple . So what does the policeman do ? Does he go back to his own car and radio headquarters to report a homicide ? Does the police force descend... |
443,174 | 819,382 | 33,987 | 6 | Good-natured , small-scale crime drama . | Out of the Fog . The classic title for a noir , which this is not . Instead it's basically a stagy story of two quiet elderly men ( John Qualen and Thomas Mitchell ) who enjoy taking their outboard motor boat out of Sheepshead Bay for night-time fishing . Mitchell has a nagging wife ( Aline McMahon ) and a bored , im... |
442,266 | 819,382 | 104,389 | 6 | Payton's Place . | You can tell this was written by a woman . There's not a gun in the whole picture . ( Well , a suicidal gun shot in another room doesn't count . ) The plot is a fascinating web of deceit and intrigues built around having babies , holding onto a husband , maintaining an upper-middle-class lifestyle , surprise birthday p... |
442,953 | 819,382 | 313,542 | 6 | Fast , complicated courtroom intrigue . | It's a taut and tightly wound story of lawyers and entrepreneurs competing with each other to get , influence , and ultimately buy a jury so that one or the other side wins . Rachel Weisz and the other talent are as good as usual , although Dustin Hoffman has had roles that fit him more comfortably than that of the cru... |
442,340 | 819,382 | 443,453 | 6 | Kazakhstan discovers America , and vice versa . | Borat ( Sasha Baron Cohen ) is a TV broadcaster in Kazakhstan takes a trip to the United States with his roly-poly friend Azamat . His mission : To experience the greatest country on earth and acquaint its citizens with the folkways of Kazakhstan . But first he guides the viewer through his home town , all its glories ... |
441,700 | 819,382 | 117,438 | 6 | Tightly plotted thriller . | Mel Gibson seems a likable sort of guy , his recent tsuris notwithstanding . It would be great to have a beer with him and have him try to explain his current predicament . As an actor , however , I find him rather bland . I keep seeing Mel Gibson instead of the character . He does a better job than usual here . He's s... |
442,957 | 819,382 | 104,427 | 6 | Man of honor . | I would guess that many people find Jack Nicholson as satisfying as I do because , like Cary Grant , he always seems to play an only slightly refracted version of the same character . Those leaping eyebrows , like twin Mount Raniers on his forehead . That toothy grin , sardonic and sadistic . Here , though , he gives a... |
441,907 | 819,382 | 85,615 | 7 | Krasnya horrorshow | For some reason I almost always watch this when it appears on cable TV . The plot , twisted and complicated as it is , is a bit hard to follow at times although it does make sense if you pay attention . But I think it's the general milieu that is evoked by the location shooting , wardrobe , makeup , and art direction t... |
441,677 | 819,382 | 102,926 | 7 | Surprisingly Effective Thriller | Jodie Foster , in a fine performance , is FBI-trainee Clarice Starling . She is assigned by the chief of the Behavioral Sciences Division ( Scott Glenn ) to interview the brilliant and cannibalistic mad psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter ( Anthony Hopkins ) in prison and try to enlist his help in capturing a currently active... |
443,124 | 819,382 | 105,112 | 7 | Patriotic Gore . | Jack Ryan ( Harrison Ford ) is a CIA analyst who saves a royal Brit or two during an attempt by some Irish patriots on their lives . A captured IRA terrorist is Sean Bean , whose brother Harrison has just killed in self defense , and Bean will never give up his quest for revenge on Ryan and his family . It's always int... |
442,361 | 819,382 | 54,518 | 7 | Pip Pip . | I can only comment on the episodes using Patrick MacNee and Diana Rigg between 1965 and 1968 . What a diverting show it was . MacNee is John Steed , the proper gentleman in bowler hat , wielding his deadly brolly . His character and appearance are perfect for a vehicle like this . It isn't so much that he was never non... |
442,093 | 819,382 | 45,679 | 7 | Tell it to the Spartans | Richard Burton gives his usual splendid , stiff , explosive performance as Lt . Col . MacRoberts , an English ( " Pommy " ) officer put in charge of Australian and New Zealand troops at Tobruk . There is some natural resentment on the part of the colonials . On top of that , Robert Newton is in his company , and Newton... |
443,223 | 819,382 | 106,856 | 7 | What happens when you love not wisely but too well . | Above-average tale of a defense plant engineer ( Michael Douglas ) who loses everything - - his job , his car , his dignity , his temper , his wife , his daughter , his life . We first see him stuck in a Los Angeles traffic jam , bumper to bumper , sweating and fretting , until he walks away from his stalled car and be... |
442,103 | 819,382 | 56,412 | 7 | Originality in abundance . | There hadn't really been anything much like this Western on the screen before Pekinpah put it there . It's not predictable , the way life is not predictable . I guess there's nothing unusual in the story of two aging gunfighters teaming up for a last job ( within the law ) with one ( Scott ) being a bit more relaxed in... |
443,020 | 819,382 | 252,444 | 7 | Long Long Trail Awinding | Missed the first ten minutes or so , and lost the reason why the three cute aboriginal girls were separated from their family . Kenneth Branaugh , in an excellent performance , distant and compassionate at the same time , makes pronouncements about " saving these people from themselves . " I gather that , as The Chief ... |
441,777 | 819,382 | 47,849 | 7 | Atmospheric , well-acted mystery / thriller | This is really a Southern movie transplanted to the Great Basin desert . I wonder , really , if the script started out with some outsider alighting from a train at a one-stop town in Mississippi . The town is hiding a mystery . The outsider is referred to as " the stranger . " Some address him as , " Boy . " The reside... |
442,095 | 819,382 | 95,647 | 7 | Nice drama , conjectural history . | Willem DaFoe is a by-the-book FBI investigator and is assisted by ex-Southern-sheriff Gene Hackman in the real-life inquiry into the deaths of three civil rights workers in Mississippi in 1964 . The three kids disappeared . No one , black or white , is willing to cooperate with the " Hoover boys " that poke around in t... |
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