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445,339 | 1,048,771 | 35,941 | 6 | Enjoyable entry in the Gildersleeve series . . . | This time it's jury duty for The Great Gildersleeve and he's chosen as foreman in GILDERSLEEVE'S BAD DAY . Harold Peary uses his radio characterization of the foolish man to great effect , making the most of a script that puts him into amusing but absurd situations , very few of which have anything to do with reality .... |
447,665 | 1,048,771 | 214,904 | 6 | A brief look behind the scenes . . . | Apparently Warner Bros . went all out to promote its ANTHONY ADVERSE which was one of their most lavish historical romances back in 1936 . A few details about sets and costumes and some nice glimpses of actresses Olivia de Havilland and Gale Sondergaard talking about their experience of making the film . Both actresses... |
446,942 | 1,048,771 | 35,937 | 6 | Interesting little psychological thriller . . . a little ahead of its time . . . | RICHARD DIX was never one of my favorite actors , relegated as he was to mostly the kind of B films that played the lower half of double bills . Here he has a role reminiscent of the Wolf Larsen character in Jack London's THE SEA WOLF , although not quite as vicious on the surface . It's not exactly a complex role for ... |
445,856 | 1,048,771 | 25,423 | 6 | Early Ford and early Steiner with mixed results . . . | THE LOST PATROL plods along in the desert sun accompanied by a Max Steiner score that gives some life to the proceedings , as a small group of British cavalry gets lost on the hot desert sands and takes refuge in an oasis . VICTOR McLAGLEN is head of the patrol and he's his usual blustery self and BORIS KARLOFF is a Bi... |
447,973 | 1,048,771 | 48,967 | 6 | Joan suffers and suffers but it's a fan's delight . . . | JOAN CRAWFORD was approaching that phase of her career where women of " a certain age " don't have much of a choice in being able to find good scripts . If they do , it's usually a bit of a comedown from the kind of roles they were offered in their heyday . AUTUMN LEAVES is no exception . While it's by no means a disas... |
447,498 | 1,048,771 | 51,418 | 6 | Simple little horror film is earnestly acted and quite effective . . . | While I concede that this little horror flick gains distinction from being one of STEVE McQUEEN's earliest acting efforts , it's amusing to note that at IMDb it has attracted more comments than other much worthier films from the 1950s which are left with something like two pages of comments at the most . I guess its st... |
445,732 | 1,048,771 | 75,222 | 6 | Fun filled Mel Brooks movie about " silent movies " . . . | If you're a Mel Brooks fan , you've probably heard of SILENT MOVIand my advice is to see it if you haven't yet . It's one of his more brilliant and inventive ideas and it gets the wacky screen treatment you expect from Brooks . Naturally , it's not really silent . There is a very well-timed background score ( no , not ... |
447,292 | 1,048,771 | 486,822 | 6 | Scary mix of teen angst and horror works pretty well . . . | DISTURBIA is a hip tale about a restless teen ( SHIA LaBEOUwhat a name ! ! ) under house arrest after punching his Spanish teacher and forced to wear a leg bracelet that sets off an alarm if he goes outside his restricted bounds . When his mother deprives him of entertainment as further punishment , he starts spying on... |
445,344 | 1,048,771 | 35,855 | 6 | Pleasant entry in the Falcon series . . . | TOM CONWAY seemed to be settling comfortably into his Falcon role ( inherited from brother George Sanders ) by the time he made THE FALCON AND THE CO-EDS . The setting is the quaint Blue Cliff School for Young Ladies and The Falcon is there to solve the murder of a professor . The cast is an attractive one - - and once... |
447,323 | 1,048,771 | 29,217 | 6 | Good , gutsy 1930s melodrama about gangsters . . . | Warner Bros . gave BETTE DAVIS a gutsy role as a feisty " clip joint " gal who defies the crime boss ( Eduardo Ciannelli ) and the D . A . ( Humphrey Bogart ) when she finds herself part of a crime ring under investigation for its illegal activities . Davis gives her usual competent performance as the strong-willed gir... |
447,363 | 1,048,771 | 40,200 | 6 | Calgary's rodeo during Stampede Week is the highlight . . . | Featured on the Errol Flynn Signature Collection for THE ADVENTURES OF DON JUAN , this Oscar winning short deals with a nostalgic look back at the early beginnings of Calgary when wagons , stagecoaches , horses and colorful Indians ruled the day . The festivities include square dancing , mock trials for horse thieves ,... |
445,661 | 1,048,771 | 311,335 | 6 | Pleasant enough Traveltalk documentary from James A . FitzPatrick . . . | This is the sort of educational short we used to see in school auditoriums about various places throughout the world . The locale here is Alaska , and the Technicolor photography is inviting enough to keep viewer's interested in some colorful glimpses of various seaports and fishing villages , the sparkling blue waters... |
447,685 | 1,048,771 | 447,854 | 6 | Not as awesome as the original but the animation is excellent . . . | I have to give this one a mixed review - - the good with the bad . Those Disney animators deserve credit for trying to be as true to the source material as they could possibly be . The animation shows they did their homework in getting as close to natural movement of the animals as possible and the art work is often st... |
446,850 | 1,048,771 | 20,572 | 6 | Transitional silent / sound Lloyd film is semi-successful overlong comedy . . . | Sound technology was new in 1929 - - brand new - - and WELCOME DANGER , originally filmed in silent mode , was re-filmed with sound , the crude sound of the ' 20s which alternates between being loud one moment and soft the next , forcing a constant hand on the volume if you wish to keep track of the painfully banal dia... |
447,692 | 1,048,771 | 82,779 | 6 | Especially , if no one suspects you . . . | Agatha Christie's ' Murder Is Easy ' gets off to a brisk start with Helen Hayes as a little old lady on her way to Scotland Yard to report a series of murders in her village . She describes the look that made her realize who the murderer is and tells Bill Bixby , " If no one suspects you , murder is easy . " Shortly af... |
445,719 | 1,048,771 | 44,419 | 6 | Kirk Douglas leads dangerous expedition in Indian territory . . . | If ever a sprawling tale about an expedition up the Missouri river to trade furs begged for Technicolor photography , THE BIG SKY is it . Based on the novel by A . B . Guthrie , it has KIRK DOUGLAS in the lead as the head of the expedition but most of the footage belongs to young DEWEY MARTIN in his first big screen ro... |
445,420 | 1,048,771 | 300,556 | 6 | Another Michael Crichton science fiction novel that strains credibility . . . | Some of the comments here make TIMELINE seem like the worst science fiction story ever to hit the screen . While the logic is flawed - - in fact , non-existent at times , especially with regard to time travel - - the presentation by Richard Donner does have some solidly entertaining moments . Unfortunately , he fails t... |
445,816 | 1,048,771 | 120,894 | 6 | Stylish vampire thriller shows the dark side of Law . . . | Not a run of the mill vampire movie by any means , although JUDE LAW plays his usual deeply disturbed character , a doctor who stalks women he sees as suitable to seduce . Sure of himself , he decides to play a cat and mouse game with detectives investigating the case . Law uses his hypnotizing gaze with good effect . ... |
447,006 | 1,048,771 | 86,461 | 6 | Dennis Quaid carries the film with fine performance . . . | TOUGH GUY is another boxing film that is somewhat reminiscent of the old Kirk Douglas film , CHAMPION , except that the character DENNIS QUAID plays is not stepping on people in his way up the ladder of success . Instead , Quaid plays an aspiring country singer in need of cash who decides to compete in the " Tough Man ... |
446,233 | 1,048,771 | 29,161 | 6 | Who're you gonna call when you need ghostbusters ? . . . | Decades ahead of " Ghostbusters " , this Mickey Mouse cartoon was an extra feature on the ICHABOD AND MR . TOAD feature from Disney , about a quartet of ghosts in a spooky old house bored out of their wits with nobody to scare . A newspaper ad advertising the services of ghostbusters Mickey , Donald and Goofy , catches... |
447,435 | 1,048,771 | 131,600 | 6 | A picturesque and colorful ode to tulips . . . | Tulips take center stage in this James A . FitzPatrick Traveltalk short focusing on Holland , the land of tulips . We glimpse a profusion of floral landscapes surrounding various homes in Holland ; a floral parade through the center of town ; scenes of windmills and a variety of tulips , both originating in Holland som... |
446,238 | 1,048,771 | 55,822 | 6 | Pleasant but thin story idea wears even thinner as it goes on . . . | The Caribbean cruise ship and island backgrounds help make CALYPSO CAT worth watching , but the plot is standard Tom and Jerry stuff with not a single original element to make it stand out from the other T & J cartoons . Jerry is a mouse aboard a cruise ship , determined to derail Tom's romance with a flirtatious cat .... |
445,908 | 1,048,771 | 29,159 | 6 | Diverting little mystery is welcome entertainment as a B-film . . . | MGM seldom delved into atmospheric B-film mysteries depicting " London By Night " , since those kind of thrillers were usually made by studios like RKO and Universal during the ' 30s and ' 40s . But this atmospheric mystery , filmed entirely on the MGM back lot , is a welcome diversion that graced the bottom half of do... |
447,703 | 1,048,771 | 44,449 | 6 | Anthony Dexter does dual role in tale by Dumas . . . | In an attempt to capitalize on Dexter's first film for Columbia , VALENTINO , the studio promptly gave him another assignment in which he would emulate the silent screen star who made his mark in sand and sandal epics . Not only that , they gave him a dual role requiring the actor to carry the film . It's only half-suc... |
446,741 | 1,048,771 | 36,807 | 6 | Murky Victorian melodrama has a " Gaslight " connection . . . | That HEDY LAMARR was one of the great beauties of the screen goes without saying . But whether she had the acting abilities to play a woman being driven slowly out of her mind by a calculating doctor husband ( PAUL LUKAS ) still remains questionable . There is no evidence in EXPERIMENT PERILOUS to suggest that she woul... |
446,352 | 1,048,771 | 82,089 | 6 | An air of deja vu hangs over the plot line of " Body Heat " . . . | There's plenty of heat generated in BODY HEAT and most of it comes from the steamy situations set up by director Lawrence Kasdan and , in her debut film role , KATHLEEN TURNER , who turns up the heat even more with a dynamic performance as " the femme fatale " . But all of the material will seem familiar if you've ever... |
447,748 | 1,048,771 | 86,423 | 6 | Robert Duvall's journey to redemption . . . his Oscar-winning role . . . | TENDER MERCIES is a simple story of a country western singer's rise from the depths of drunken despair to respectability again after meeting a woman ( TESS HARPER ) with whom he falls in love , marries and is encouraged to try his hand at music again . ROBERT DUVALL is Mac , the washed up singer , now the handyman at t... |
447,112 | 1,048,771 | 82,085 | 6 | Another DePalma thriller that owes a lot to Hitchcock . . . | BLOW OUT deserves more attention than a lot of other thrillers from the ' 80s , partly because it's taut with suspense most of the time and owes a lot of its chill to JOHN LITHGOW's performance as a cold-blooded psychotic killer . It's also one of JOHN TRAVOLTA's best early roles as a soundman looking for " the perfect... |
446,657 | 1,048,771 | 48,261 | 6 | Good film noir but something is amiss . . . | RALPH MEEKER makes a credible Mike Hammer , even though there are times when I thought what a great role this would have been for either KIRK DOUGLAS or HUMPHREY BOGART . Meeker was a handsome actor who never quite made it in Hollywood after some stage work , notably as the drifter in PICNIC on Broadway in the role tha... |
447,097 | 1,048,771 | 36,777 | 6 | Tasteful version of Pearl Buck story . . . offbeat casting is intriguing . . . | It may be disconcerting to see blue-eyed Caucasian actors playing Orientals , but once this initial distraction is over , the story of DRAGON SEED takes over and it's an engrossing one . Film's chief flaw is the fact that Pearl Buck's story is overlong - - and so is the film . Chinese villagers have to flee the enemy ,... |
447,008 | 1,048,771 | 55,892 | 6 | Touching drama about mental affliction . . . fine performances but slow moving . . . | KEIR DULLEA and JANET MARGOLIN are a couple of youngsters needing guidance because of their mental illness and finding inspiration in each other to help them confront the issues bothering them . HOWARD da SILVA gets away from his usual villainous role to play a sympathetic psychiatrist at the asylum . An independent fi... |
446,180 | 1,048,771 | 114,369 | 6 | ( POSSIBLE SPOILER ) . . . Serial killer story within a " Law and Order " format . . . | Watching SEVEN , you almost expect a beer commercial to interrupt at any moment because it's like watching a harder-edged , slightly grittier , mean streets version of LAW AND ORDER with a more experienced detective ( MORGAN FREEMAN ) conducting a sort of balancing act with his footloose , craving for action sidekick (... |
447,839 | 1,048,771 | 48,356 | 6 | Low-budget movie was a huge success at the time . . . | MARTY was written by one of America's most talented playwrights at a time when live TV was doing plays by writers such as Paddy Chayefsky . His MARTY was an overnight sensation when Rod Steiger played him in a made for TV movie . And that's what the film feels essentially like - - a glorified made for television piece ... |
446,137 | 1,048,771 | 40,577 | 6 | Fluffy romantic comedy from Colubmia for Evelyn Keyes and Glenn Ford . . . | After giving Evelyn Keyes the star treatment in JOLSON STORY , her studio failed to promote her in anything but some innocuous follow-up films with the exception of one or two films . This is one of the better ones . THE MATING OF MILLIE is a frolic that was probably turned down by Rita Hayworth and given to GLENN FORD... |
446,394 | 1,048,771 | 63,522 | 6 | Seems tame today but still delivers chills . . . | Since ROSEMARY'S BABY came upon the scene so many years ago , we've had a great many supernatural tales ( THE OMEN , THE SIXTH SENSE ) to name just a couple of the more recent scary titles , that it's no wonder someone viewing this for the first time might feel cheated . The audiences of ' 68 were used to this kind of ... |
445,444 | 1,048,771 | 29,087 | 6 | Dietrich looks great throughout Russian revolution . . . | No matter that the world is crumbling around her , MARLENE DIETRICH is always ready for her close-up . She gets plenty of them in KNIGHT WITHOUT ARMOR , a sort of poor man's " Dr . Zhivago " with overtones of " The 39 Steps " and other such thrillers thrown in . ROBERT DONAT is the dashing hero and he looks fine , alth... |
447,769 | 1,048,771 | 29,082 | 6 | Norman Krasna and Groucho Marx on the script ! ! . . . so what happened ? | I really only know FERNAND GRAVET from his playing of Johann Strauss in THE GREAT WALTZ and was not overly impressed with his by-the-numbers impersonation of the great music master . So , truth be told , I wasn't expecting much from this little comedy co-starring him with JOAN BLONDELL , another so-so actress who occas... |
445,893 | 1,048,771 | 44,518 | 6 | Interesting B & W images from the man who did " The Red Balloon " . . . | Although this was an award-winning French film that won honors as Best Short Film at the Cannes Film Festival , there's really nothing that memorable about this B & W odyssey about a wild stallion and a small boy who tames it . The background music is pleasant , the photography is pleasing enough and the boy is a natur... |
445,778 | 1,048,771 | 101,811 | 6 | Simple , warm , cosy and sentimental without being cloying . . . | There's a breath of spring feeling about ENCHANTED APRIL - - nothing deep , just a story of four women who want to escape from it all , share a villa in Italy , and find that the enchanted environment brings about small changes in each one of them in a positive manner . MIRANDA RICHARDSON is the quiet housewife who see... |
447,461 | 1,048,771 | 40,628 | 6 | Pleasant star vehicle for Lilli Palmer . . . but largely forgotten today . . . | MY GIRL TISA gave American audiences their first real glimpse of the charms of LILLI PALMER who had been making waves in Great Britain in a number of films for a decade previously . Here she has the starring role as a Hungarian immigrant dealing with the plight of survival in New York's lower East side , swarming with ... |
447,513 | 1,048,771 | 36,706 | 6 | Monogram and Toler join for enjoyable low-budget entry in the series . . . | I'll say one thing for these Charlie Chan films . There's never a shortage of murder suspects and the clues are always readily apparent to the master sleuth but not to the audience . At least , that's the usual pattern , even when Sidney Toler joined forces with Monogram for several B-picture entries in the series . CH... |
447,340 | 1,048,771 | 52,131 | 6 | Francis Lederer makes a suave Dracula . . . | With Dracula coming to live with a nice normal family in a small town in California , there's a trace of " Shadow of a Doubt " in the design of the story . He arrives by train ( a la Joseph Cotten ) in the person of FRANCIS LEDERER who has fled from Europe . He's given a cordial welcome from the family and then the fun... |
445,403 | 1,048,771 | 52,139 | 6 | Daffy Duck has trouble proving his identity . . . | Any cartoon with Mel Blanc doing the voice characterizations and produced by Chuck Jones has got something going for it , but while ROBIN HOOD DAFFY is not the funniest cartoon about the famous outlaw , it does garner a few laughs when Daffy crashes into more trees than George of the Jungle . The animation though , lea... |
446,284 | 1,048,771 | 36,715 | 6 | Visually sumptuous but the story is an empty shell . . . | Edward Ward wrote the score ( as in PHANTOM OF THE OPERA ) , George Waggner directed ( he was producer of PHANTOM ) , JANE FARRAR again plays a rival singer jealous of the new diva , and SUSANNA FOSTER is the lovely singer terrified of co-star BORIS KARLOFF , instead of Claude Rains . Other than that , any similarity b... |
445,651 | 1,048,771 | 114,194 | 6 | Christopher Walken steals interesting horror fantasy . . . | CHRISTOPHER WALKEN makes the most of his meaty role at the center of THE PROPHECY , an offbeat horror fantasy about good and bad angels and a war in heaven that involves Walken's desperate search for a dark soul on earth . VIRGINIA MADSEN is effective as a schoolteacher protecting a girl who inadvertently has the dark ... |
446,143 | 1,048,771 | 350,692 | 6 | World's greatest archer demonstrates his skill . . . | HOWARD HILL , the man who really split that arrow in THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD , is the star here in a short subject dedicated to his prowess as an archer . The short begins with three woman practicing their skill with the bow and arrow , a glimpse of olden times with scenes from ROBIN HOOD and ELIZABETH AND ESSEX ,... |
446,456 | 1,048,771 | 240,511 | 6 | Old blue eyes and Nancy carry the hour with favorite tunes . . . | Another FRANK SINATRA show from ' 66 has him opening with FLY ME TO THE MOON and closing with PUT YOUR DREAMS AWAY FOR A LITTLE WHILE . It's a breezy hour show with Sinatra looking as jaunty and comfortable before an audience as he ever did . He seems in a bouncy mood as he goes through a whole slew of his favorite son... |
445,789 | 1,048,771 | 1,073,515 | 6 | Spielberg talks enthusiastically about his films . . . | I'm not quite sure why the credits state that this was " written by Richard Schickel " because STEVEN SPIELBERG does all of the talking without notes , seemingly from the top of his head , and they seem to be his own words , not the words of a writer . He begins telling how he made home movies as a boy , and as a young... |
445,812 | 1,048,771 | 110,367 | 6 | Satisfactory version is better than the dated ' 33 classic . . . | WINONA RYDER makes an impressive Jo in Louisa May Alcott's LITTLE WOMEN , tomboyishly charming and persuasive as she matures into a fine young writer . She won a Best Actress nomination , but strangely , her career never took off as strongly as it should have after this success . Except for GIRL INTERRUPTED , she hasn'... |
447,911 | 1,048,771 | 75,406 | 6 | As overloaded with star cameos as " Ship of Fools " and twice as inflated . . . | There is such a thing as too much of a good thing - - but nobody seemed to realize this when overloading the ship with star names and then giving them little to do . Although based on a true incident , VOYAGE OF THE DAMNED gives the subject a sprawling Hollywood treatment and does what " Ship of Fools " did to Katherin... |
446,182 | 1,048,771 | 40,552 | 6 | Rita makes tempestuous but artificial beauty as Carmen . . . | There are times when RITA HAYWORTH , with her flashing eyes , heady mane of tresses and way with castanets and Spanish dances , amply fills the role of Carmen in THE LOVES OF CARMEN . She captures the flirtatious moods and stormy temperament without any trouble at all , and yet somehow every ravishing close-up reminds ... |
447,938 | 1,048,771 | 48,140 | 6 | Two non-singers star in musical . . . results are only " okay " . . . | For some reason , I've never been a Damon Runyon fan . His characters are almost always cartoon-like ( LITTLE MISS MARKER , THE BIG STREET ) with odd names usually derived from gambling terms . Here the choreography uses a stylized approach that is probably in keeping with the cartoonish characters involved in the flim... |
446,459 | 1,048,771 | 40,471 | 6 | Buzz-Buzz uses his stinger on Donald . . . | Among a series of " bee " pictures starring Donald Duck , antagonized by a bee who likes to use his stinger , Walt Disney gets a lot of chuckles out of INFERIOR DECORATOR , with Donald unwittingly putting up wallpaper with a floral design that attracts the busy little bee . Full of energetic antics from Donald and the ... |
446,569 | 1,048,771 | 184,206 | 6 | Wartime pitch for buying bonds . . . | This is one of those patriotic shorts produced during WWII that asked patrons of the movie theater to buy U . S . Defense Bonds or Savings Bonds at the nearest Federal Reserve Bank or Post Office . Most of the full-length features made by the major studios , always included a closing credit that said something like : "... |
446,303 | 1,048,771 | 40,478 | 6 | Spy story in documentary style stars Andrews and Tierney . . . | Fox was doing several spy documentaries in the ' 40s in the style of 13 RUE MADELEINE and THE HOUSE ON 92nd STREET , and this is one of their less melodramatic stories of espionage performed in low-key style by DANA ANDREWS and GENE TIERNEY . Andrews is Igor Gouzenko , a Russian who is part of a Canadian spy ring . He ... |
446,622 | 1,048,771 | 48,248 | 6 | Burt Lancaster stars and directs himself in minor western . . . | BURT LANCASTER stars as THE KENTUCKIAN who has a yearning to go where the grass is greener and wants to leave Kentucky for a new life in Texas with his young son in tow . DIANA LYNN is a pretty schoolteacher at the schoolhouse cabin and DIANNE FOSTER is the other female lead , an indentured servant , with a yen for Lan... |
447,912 | 1,048,771 | 90,685 | 6 | Dangerfield romps through college for his kid's sake . . . | He may be brash , bombastic , crude and uneducated and doesn't get much respect - - but RODNEY DANGERFIELD gets just about all the laughs in this travesty of college life in the ' 80s . He's seen to it that it's full of memorable one-liners that are just as sassy as any he uses in his stand-up nightclub act . And he's ... |
445,937 | 1,048,771 | 36,651 | 6 | Gloria Grahame's fans should love this little gem . . . | MARY ASTOR and PHILIP DORN are the nominal stars of BLONDE FEVER , but it's perky GLORIA GRAHAME in her film debut that makes the biggest impression . " There are only two kinds of girls , " she tells the amorous Dorn . " Good girls and the other kind , and I certainly hope I'm not the other kind . " MARHSALL THOMPSON ... |
447,547 | 1,048,771 | 143,755 | 6 | A nostalgic look at a small American turn in the early 1900s . . . | Nostalgic but not exactly stimulating is my brief description of this rather quiet little short subject narrated by John Nesbitt , a tribute to his old hometown . Images of spring , firecrackers on the 4th of July , farmers ploughing the land , a boy fishing and swimming with pals , school days , high school graduation... |
447,989 | 1,048,771 | 59,793 | 6 | One of the better Disney family comedies from the ' 60s . . . | The Siamese cat not only has the title role , he steals the film ! The silly plot involves a couple of bumbling bank robbers ( FRANK GORSHIN is one of them ) , who kidnap a woman from the bank who's able to signal for help by putting her wrist watch around the cat's neck . The cat belongs to HAYLEY MILLS , who picks up... |
446,193 | 1,048,771 | 44,370 | 6 | When Doris sings " April in Paris " all is forgiven . . . | True , even for the breezy 1950s , the plot for this musical is as light as a feather - - but if you are a DORIS DAY fan , as I certainly was during these early Day films at Warner Bros . , you'll be enchanted by her way with a song - - particularly " I'm Gonna Ring the Bell Tonight " , " April in Paris " and " That's ... |
446,638 | 1,048,771 | 24,601 | 6 | Amusing comedy gets better after a slow start . . . | LAUREL & HARDY are next door neighbors ( married to DOROTHY CHRISTY and MAE BUSCH , respectively ) , both strong-minded women who remind me of the " Alice Kramden " character on " The Honeymooners " . Neither one wants their hubby to go to a Chicago convention of The Sons of the Desert , so the boys have to fake an exc... |
445,431 | 1,048,771 | 40,458 | 6 | Simple , heart-warming tale of struggling immigrant family . . . | My only complaint is that 134 minutes is too long a time to tell such a simple tale of a Norwegian family's struggle to survive in the early 1900s as seen through the wistful eyes of daughter BARBARA BEL GEDDES . IRENE DUNNE is remarkably convincing as the kindly mother with braided blonde hair and Norwegian accent , d... |
446,034 | 1,048,771 | 28,950 | 6 | A " great escape " French style . . . intriguing but not completely satisfying . . . | For a film that has been hailed over the years as a masterpiece , GRAND ILLUSION is showing its age . I'm speaking now from a technical standpoint . The version shown on TCM has a series of scenes linked together by choppy editing , abrupt changes of scene that lack smooth narrative style . But overall , the B & W phot... |
445,666 | 1,048,771 | 28,944 | 6 | Mixed feelings about this adaptation of Pearl Buck's " The Good Earth " . . . | Although there are faults , THE GOOD EARTH manages to hold the viewer's interest in a lengthy film because of George Sidney's smoothly competent direction and the performances of PAUL MUNI , as the naive farmer Wang Lung , and to a lesser extent , LUISE RAINER as O-Lan , his peasant wife . Helpful too is the fact that ... |
447,591 | 1,048,771 | 1,205,583 | 6 | Very informative " making of " documentary on " Atonement " . . . | A behind-the-scenes look at the making of ATONEMENT is divided into several chapters dealing with various aspects of bringing the novel to life . Director Joe Wright dominates with his description of what he was trying to do in having the script follow the novel even more faithfully than it did in the first draft . He'... |
447,475 | 1,048,771 | 66,740 | 6 | Price gets his revenge in campy horror role . . . | VINCENT PRICE fans must have assumed the actor had quit playing the lead in horror films after the cycle wore itself out during the ' 50s and ' 60s , but he came back strong in this stylishly produced thriller in widescreen and color . He's a mad serial killer who intends to take revenge on a bunch of doctors and then ... |
446,947 | 1,048,771 | 40,506 | 6 | A stagey setting for a florid melodrama from John Huston . . . | While KEY LARGO is certainly no masterpiece , it IS highly entertaining , thanks largely to two larger than life performances from EDWARD G . ROBINSON ( at his mightiest ) and CLAIRE TREVOR ( who manages to steal every scene she is in as a lush past her prime as a torch singer ) . But it's not quite the sort of thing B... |
445,638 | 1,048,771 | 48,216 | 6 | Baby , you knock me out ! sizzles with original choreography . . . | Noteworthy for a couple of stunningly choreographed numbers - - namely , " Baby , You Knock Me Out ! " with CYD CHARISSE and the boxers at Stillman's Gym going through some fantastic acrobatics , and DOLORES GRAY singing " Thanks A Lot , But No Thanks " to a bevy of loose-limbed chorus boys who gyrate to the tune with ... |
446,207 | 1,048,771 | 143,786 | 6 | A look at Saturday mornings when the world was young . . . | This John Nesbitt documentary for the PASSING PARADE series is a warm-hearted look at America's love for the family automobile . It begins with the dad of the family purchasing the first car in 1900 , a horseless carriage his wife was afraid to step into - - a Columbus Roadmaster he bought for $850 . The years pass qui... |
446,754 | 1,048,771 | 143,787 | 6 | Futile efforts by the Nazis to shut down a resistance newspaper during WWI . . . | The fighting spirit of Belgium during the war years of WWI is documented in this " Passing Parade " tribute to the Belgian resistance . It documents the many instances wherein the Nazis tried to crush the spirit of the Belgian people by shutting down their newspaper , killing the various editors who inevitably came bac... |
446,851 | 1,048,771 | 40,896 | 6 | Better than usual entry with some good disguises . . . | Blackie and his sidekick , The Runt , are up to their usual tricks again , this time assuming various disguises in TRAPPED BY BOSTON BLACKIE , one of the better entries in the series . GEORGE E . STONE as The Runt has less whining and less forced comic moments than usual and even CHESTER MORRIS is less of a wise guy al... |
446,138 | 1,048,771 | 44,177 | 6 | Anthony Dexter is fictionalized Valentino in typical Hollywood bio . . . | ANTHONY DEXTER , thanks to make-up artists and costuming , makes a believable stand-in as Rudolf Valentino , the silent screen's biggest male heartthrob , but creative license had to be taken with the screenplay because many of the participants in Valentino's life threatened to sue . The result is a rather lifeless bio... |
447,406 | 1,048,771 | 59,465 | 6 | Don't meddle with the dark forces Handsomely photographed , nicely atmospheric thriller gets off to a good start with NICK ADAMS arriving at a creepy mansion . . . a nice Gothic atmosphere with plenty of fog rolling in . A gruff greeting from reclusive BORIS KARLOFF ( who wants Adams to leave immediately ) gives rise ... | null |
446,989 | 1,048,771 | 51,756 | 6 | Tom Tryon and Gloria Henry in good sci-fi B-film from the ' 50s . . . | The surprise of this little sci-fi epic is GLORIA HENRY , who manages to convey all the right expressions as the wife who comes to realize that her husband is no longer the man she married . TOM TRYON is the man who early on is attacked by an alien who takes over his body . From then on , Tryon's robot-like acting fits... |
446,994 | 1,048,771 | 40,919 | 6 | Amusing , but only up to a point . . . strives to be excruciatingly funny . . . | Preston Sturgess has Rex Harrison emoting at a frantic pace , so much so that the others in the cast seem barely able to keep up with him . Rudy Vallee does , and gives another one of his expert comic performances as Harrison's stuffy brother-in-law who claims to hate music . Barbara Lawrence as his sarcastic wife has ... |
446,009 | 1,048,771 | 381,434 | 6 | Musical Merry-Go-Round # 5 has Frankie Carle and His Orchestra . . . | This is one of the better Musical-Merry-Go Round shorts produced by MGM and featuring Martin Bloch introducing various bands and their best numbers . # 5 features Martin introducing nimble pianist and composer / orchestra leader Frankie Carle opening with " Sweet and Lovely , " with Carle at the piano and the orchestra... |
445,488 | 1,048,771 | 56,085 | 6 | Ambitious western aims high but falls far short of goal . . . | Of course , the best way to view HOW THE WEST WAS WON is seeing it in all its splendor on a big theater screen as intended . My review is based on the full screen presentation on AMC , but it's obvious that the film had to be much more effective as a theatrical offering . First , the flaws : A boring narration by SPENC... |
446,988 | 1,048,771 | 51,739 | 6 | A feast for Alec Guinness fans . . . | A nice chance to see ALEC GUINNESS as a mad abstract artist with KAY WALSH as his bitterly complaining friend in THE HORSE'S MOUTH . Guinness also wrote the script which has him as a mad artist - - crusty , eccentric , but sometimes lovable - - who has a knack for getting into trouble whenever he decides to splash his ... |
446,628 | 1,048,771 | 40,934 | 6 | Rosalind Russell fails to use the velvet touch . . . | ROSALIND RUSSELL is a stage actress who accidentally murders a lecherous producer ( LEON AMES ) in this melodramatic show biz story that has Russell trapped in a web of deception after killing Ames . Their stormy relationship is revealed in flashbacks as Russell thinks back on what led up to the murder . Unfortunately ... |
446,161 | 1,048,771 | 346,491 | 6 | Battle fatigue after three hours of heavy conflict . . . | Alexander is an ambitious project , whatever one may think of its shortcomings . The script has a hard time pinpointing what makes the great man tick - - and it's certainly muddled when it comes to all the conspiracy theories surrounding his youth and manhood . His mother is played by Angelina Jolie as a conniving temp... |
446,596 | 1,048,771 | 25,069 | 6 | Philo Vance solves a rather exotic mystery . . . | Not bad at all . This is an interesting tale , although the characters are strictly stereotypes and all of them used as red herrings to leave the solution nowhere in sight until you start thinking about how the story started . Then - - a glimmer of light - - and you've guessed it . WARREN WILLIAM makes an affable , bri... |
445,529 | 1,048,771 | 86,154 | 6 | Not a bad sequel . . . Perkins is still a quirky fright . . . | PSYCHO II is not a bad sequel at all , but the first mistake was filming it in color . Since it depends on your familiarity with the original story and even photographs certain scenes the same way , it would have been much more effective if filmed in glorious B & W . There's a 1980s sensibility to this version because ... |
445,305 | 1,048,771 | 56,112 | 6 | Kerwin Matthews to the rescue of a bewitched princess . . . | Produced on a modest budget but filmed in color with some primitive looking special effects , JACK THE GIANT KILLER will probably be just the right sort of entertainment for its target audience - - kids . Stalwart KERWIN MATTHEWS , who seemed to be specializing in these kind of swordplay roles for awhile in the ' 60s ,... |
446,235 | 1,048,771 | 40,947 | 6 | Neat espionage yarn done in documentary style . . . | WALK A CROOKED MILE is the sort of brisk , documentary style espionage yarn so often made during the ' 40s , using narration to tell the story of two espionage agents ( DENNIS O'KEEFE and LOUIS HAYWARD ) assigned to track down whomever is responsible for leaking top secret information developed at a nuclear plant in Ca... |
447,706 | 1,048,771 | 28,880 | 6 | Aviation film with an early Van Heflin performance . . . | FLIGHT FROM GLORY is a rather generic title for a programmer that is reminiscent of another aviation story that came two years later with a bigger budget and bigger stars - - ONLY ANGELS HAVE WINGS . And yet , it's a tightly constructed drama that gives early exposure to VAN HEFLIN , as a pilot who likes to drink too m... |
446,208 | 1,048,771 | 13,332 | 6 | Sweet , charmingly old-fashioned story of star-crossed lovers . . . | With some good cinematography and a rather unsettling background score , LORNA DOONE is a movie my father always mentioned liking very much for story and content . He must have seen it when he was in his early thirties and often mentioned it as one of his favorite novels and movies . It's the rather familiar yarn of tw... |
448,013 | 1,048,771 | 129,889 | 6 | Amusing short has doubles representing famous stars of the ' 30s and ' 40s . . . | LEE DIXON is a stunt double who gets punched in the jaw and ends up at the dentist to have a tooth replaced . He's given gas by the dental assistant and immediately imagines himself acting opposite various stars of the silver screen . Among the stars , the Deanna Durbin double is the most effective - - as well as the G... |
446,603 | 1,048,771 | 859,163 | 6 | Good popcorn movie is loaded with almost too much action . . . | A little more concentration on a witty script would have helped out when they decided to film THE MUMMY : TOMB OF THE DRAGON EMPEROR . But to tell the truth , this one in " The Mummy " series starring BRENDAN FRASER is a lot better than you would suspect from some of these reviews . Fraser gets to mouth some good lines... |
445,848 | 1,048,771 | 24,989 | 6 | Early Claude Rains in imperfect tale of a charlatan . . . | There are plenty of rough edges throughout this early CLAUDE RAINS film ( released by Gainsborough ) , before his career went into high gear at Warner Bros . during the ' 30s and ' 40s . And yet , the story of a man who starts out as a charlatan and then really begins to see tragic events unfold , does hold the interes... |
448,019 | 1,048,771 | 491,050 | 6 | All the ingredients for a good mystery during the first hour . . . | This is a review of the first installment in a two-part version of THE SITTAFORD MYSTERY on TV . Once again , although there is no Miss Marple in the original story , the writers have planted her in the midst of all the characters staying at an old inn . That's not the objection most of the comments here have to make .... |
446,721 | 1,048,771 | 73,802 | 7 | Clever , crafty C . I . A . drama , sometimes a bit too convoluted for comfort . . . | It starts out on a typically rainy day in New York with a rather pleasant looking fellow ( ROBERT REDFORD ) getting off his motorcycle and entering what looks like a fashionable brownstone apartment house in the heart of Manhattan . It soon becomes evident that this is going to be no simple story of espionage which , b... |
447,336 | 1,048,771 | 56,412 | 7 | Two great western stars in their last round-up together . . . | RIDE THE HIGH COUNTRY proves that the Old West was a dangerous place for anyone willing to transport gold from a mining town to a bank with a couple of double-crossing cronies as companions and a runaway girl to protect . JOEL McCREA and RANDOLPH SCOTT are the willing participants , a lawman and his corrupt pal , and M... |
447,786 | 1,048,771 | 26,252 | 7 | Shirley in top form . . . talented tot with abundant charm . . . | CURLY TOP is indebted to SHIRLEY TEMPLE for whatever charm it has as a vehicle for the talented tot - - and she gets to strut her stuff often enough to keep an audience happy . It's the kind of Temple film where you start getting restless when the spotlight goes to the romantic leads ( John Boles and Rochelle Hudson ) ... |
446,736 | 1,048,771 | 39,040 | 7 | Olivia de Havilland's 1946 Oscar Well Deserved | After winning her two-year court battle with Warner Bros . , OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND became a free-lancer and got her big chance when Paramount offered her TO EACH HIS OWN , a script that had already been turned down by Ingrid Bergman and Ginger Rogers . Everyone shines in this movie , from the leads ( OLIVIA DE HAVILLAND ... |
447,978 | 1,048,771 | 47,849 | 7 | Tracy steps into a sun-baked desert town bristling with secrets and hateful prejudice . . . | BAD DAY AT BLACK ROCK is a taut and terrific melodrama of a town silenced by a mean-spirited bully ( ROBERT RYAN ) and too afraid to be civil to a man who comes to the hot-baked desert town to deliver a posthumous medal to a Japanese farmer . SPENCER TRACY is the man on a mission and he doesn't know what he's in for un... |
447,151 | 1,048,771 | 35,262 | 7 | Zany fun , pure old-fashioned escapism with a string of gags for good measure . . . | This is a typical ROAD movie with the boys chasing Lamour as the audience waits to see who Dotty will wind up with . The script is pure escapist , light-hearted stuff and everyone seems to enjoy the tongue in cheek style of all the gags . Bing is his usual affable self , tossing off a few songs in the Crosby manner - -... |
448,016 | 1,048,771 | 30,637 | 7 | British version of Shaw play is concise and terrific . . . | There can be no doubt that LESLIE HOWARD was the perfect actor to play Henry Higgins in Shaw's PYGMALION - - although when watching it one can't help hearing Rex Harrison behind some of the lines , so ingrained is the Harrison performance on this particular role . But Howard shows the flair for comedy that he demonstra... |
445,700 | 1,048,771 | 316,654 | 7 | The first time was the charm . . . | Somewhere along the way , the makers of SPIDER-MAN 2 couldn't decide whether they were making an all-out action flick or a soft-core soap opera with the accent on Spidey's melancholy love affair with Mary Jane . The balance between action , humor and love story has been so skewered by what seems like the intrusion of a... |
448,080 | 1,048,771 | 734,665 | 7 | Martin Balsam shines as wax museum worker in episode directed by John Brahm . . . | John Brahm ( director of feature film classics THE LODGER and HANGOVER SQUARE ) , directed this " Twilight Zone " episode starring MARTIN BALSAM , giving it the sort of Gothic touches he gave his full-length feature films . This one is about a wax museum curator who delights in taking the customers on a tour of " Murde... |
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