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447,732 | 1,048,771 | 131,482 | 7 | Manhattan gets the James A . FitzPatrick treatment . . . | This is undoubtedly one of the best of the FitzPatrick Traveltalk series . It spotlights a lot of NYC landmarks , beginning quite appropriately with the Statue of Liberty - - and proceeding to the famous bridges , Wall Street , Trinity Church , the 3rd Avenue El , the Bowery , Chinatown , the Flatiron building , the Em... |
445,862 | 1,048,771 | 51,378 | 7 | French film noir doesn't get any better than this . . . | POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEADA couple plot a well planned murder only to have unforeseen events blow up in their face . The murderer ( MAURICE RONET ) gets stranded in an elevator when he goes back into the office building to retrieve a rope he used for climbing into an executive's window . The plot takes a double spin when ... |
446,036 | 1,048,771 | 117,381 | 7 | Edward Norton delivers the chills . . . ( POSSIBLE SPOILERS AHEAD ) | PRIMAL FEAR is a good old-fashioned thriller with a modern twist . The plot concerns an altar boy accused of killing a clergyman who molested him and a sleazy lawyer who sees a chance to make tabloid news by taking the case . What he doesn't know is that his client can be just as cunning as he is . RICHARD GERE seemed ... |
446,738 | 1,048,771 | 48,944 | 7 | Pleasant cast does wonders with slight comedy | Olivia de Havilland spent most of her post-Oscar years in serious dramas , so it's nice to see her looking so radiantly lovely in a technicolor comedy , enjoying herself in a comedy for a change . Paris is the setting and the color photography is excellent . The slight story concerns de Havilland seeking to prove to he... |
446,798 | 1,048,771 | 90,490 | 7 | The saga continues - - in good form . . . | NORTH AND SOUTH , BOOK II has to be one of the best TV mini-series ever made about the Civil War . Everything about it is epic , including the battle scenes and the scope of the story which uses the Civil War background in an interesting way . Many real-life personalities are woven into the story of love and friendship... |
446,876 | 1,048,771 | 51,411 | 7 | The Big Country is the grand-daddy of overblown westerns . . . | GREGORY PECK's innate ability to play a man of integrity is never better utilized than it is by director William Wyler for THE BIG COUNTRY . In fact , Wyler is able to draw expert performances from all of the male leads , who really do exceptional work here . It's the men who dominate the film and Wyler gives them all ... |
447,833 | 1,048,771 | 109,642 | 7 | Stephen King's story works even better on film . . . | KATHY BATES is the title character , an aging woman from a fishing village in Maine with a dark past and a daughter ( JENNIFER JASON LEIGH ) with whom she shares a dark secret . It's based on a Stephen King novel that has been fleshed out with deeper characterizations , some excellent vistas of New England providing re... |
447,119 | 1,048,771 | 79,073 | 7 | Gothic elegance and grandeur with ravishing John Williams score . . . | Anyone who thinks that this sort of Gothic horror can only be done best in B & W hasn't seen Dracula with Frank Langella in the title role and Sir Laurence Olivier as Van Helsing . It starts with a well-staged storm at sea , accompanied by some of John Williams ' most bombastic music , before settling down to become th... |
445,796 | 1,048,771 | 40,202 | 7 | Semi-documentary style and authentic locations gives the film a gritty look . . . | CALL NORTHSIDE 777 is a fascinating semi-documentary filmed in realistic style by Henry Hathaway and featuring a fine central performance by JAMES STEWART , as a newspaper reporter anxious to prove that an innocent man is still serving time for a crime he never committed . Others in the cast do their standard good work... |
445,328 | 1,048,771 | 67,482 | 7 | Very funny , cleverly written story gives Matthau and May great roles . . . | A NEW LEAF is so consistently side-splittingly funny that it always puzzles me that Elaine May sought an injunction from Paramount when they released the film and it opened at Radio City Music Hall . She was fighting them to take her name off the film up until the last minute because she said it was not her version . W... |
447,190 | 1,048,771 | 469,641 | 7 | A narrow focus vs . a wider horizon . . . | Some will call it the strength of the film - - the fact that it deals almost exclusively with two of the trapped police officers beneath the rubble rather than giving us a broader view of the tragic event . Others will lament the fact that it never widens its horizons to show us a more complete picture . Whatever , Oli... |
447,764 | 1,048,771 | 40,662 | 7 | Lean's wonderful follow-up to " Great Expectations " . . . | After the experience of seeing GREAT EXPECTATIONS on the big screen , I looked forward to what David Lean would do with OLIVER TWIST . I wasn't disappointed - - it's possibly the best version of the Dickens tale that I've ever seen with all the Victorian-era darkness and poverty serving as a rich background to a number... |
447,188 | 1,048,771 | 455,900 | 7 | Haunting portrait of an enigmatic beauty . . . | GENE TIERNEY was a girl with sculptured high cheekbones , full lips , a sultry air of glamor and exotic cat-like green eyes . She photographed gorgeously in Technicolor ( as her studio soon found out ) , but it was in a couple of B & W classics that she really made her mark ( LAURA and THE RAZOR'S EDGE ) . She was the ... |
446,587 | 1,048,771 | 482,571 | 7 | Dark tale of magician rivalry takes many twists and turns . . . | Perhaps there is such a thing as a story taking too many twists and turns , and not all of them credible . That's the major fault of THE PRESTIGE which pits two very ambitious magicians ( HUGH JACKMAN and Christian BALE ) against each other in a manner that hasn't been seen on the screen since Laurence Olivier and Mich... |
447,976 | 1,048,771 | 48,380 | 7 | Probably one of the liveliest , most genial service comedies ever made . . . | Once in awhile MR . ROBERTS creaks a little and shows its stage origins , but most of the time we're so involved in the story of Lt . Roberts who tries to be a moral compass for the bored men aboard a cargo ship that never sees any action during World War II . HENRY FONDA reprises his stage role and does a good , if no... |
445,945 | 1,048,771 | 455,824 | 7 | Sprawling epic needed a tighter focus but still has some great moments . . . | Baz Luhrmann has done with Australia what David O . Selznick managed to do with DUEL IN THE SUN - - he's created a sprawling epic of a canvas for a narrow storyline about a woman who needs a man to keep the villains from double-crossing her in a land deal . It's the kind of story every B-western had in the old days , u... |
447,655 | 1,048,771 | 17,136 | 7 | Futuristic science fiction epic is imaginatively staged by Fritz Lang . . . | The first great sci-fi film is still amazing for the sets and special effects - - primitive as they may seem to day's fans - - especially if viewed in the sort of pristine print seen on TCM these days . German expressionism is in full swing from the opening scene of workers reporting for a shift change in the city of t... |
445,316 | 1,048,771 | 55,928 | 7 | The first and one of the best of the James Bond films . . . | A good story , eloquent settings , gorgeous photography , Calypso music in the background , Jamaican seaports and fancy hideaways , exotic spies and SEAM CONNERY in his first stab at the James Bond role in DR . NO . It's a good hour-and-a-half before we meet the clever Dr . No . ( JOSEPH WISEMAN ) and the palatial sple... |
446,965 | 1,048,771 | 413,300 | 7 | Spidey still spins a mean web . . . but the romance is wearing thin . . . | First of all , let me say that the romantic angle is played up more so in SPIDER-MAN 3 than it was in the other Spider-Man films , which is a distinct handicap for what is primarily an action film based on the famous comic book characters . It seems to drag noticeably in all of the quietly played scenes between TOBEY M... |
446,371 | 1,048,771 | 381,061 | 7 | Smashing action sequences but the gambling scenes are too lengthy . . . | First , let me say that DANIEL CRAIG makes a very believable James Bond and is certainly up to the demands of all the action sequences . What he seems to lack ( in between all the brawls and stunts ) is the sort of charm that characterized Roger Moore and Pierce Brosnan when they weren't engaged in stunts . He has pier... |
445,439 | 1,048,771 | 240,558 | 7 | In the groove . . . | As an example of the jitterbug craze that swept America during the early ' 40s , GROOVIE MOVIE is about as good a movie short as possible . The various dances are filmed from odd angles ( including beneath a glass floor to show all the intricate steps and patterns ) . The dancers are nimble youngsters who obviously kno... |
447,565 | 1,048,771 | 48,191 | 7 | Fascinating but overwrought performances . . . | SUSAN HAYWARD has some strong , searing scenes full of fireworks in I'LL CRY TOMORROW - - as does JO VAN FLEET as her overbearing stage mother - - but there are times when you just wish Daniel Mann would keep the theatrical melodramatics a bit more under his control . The story of a confessed alcoholic singer is an unp... |
447,310 | 1,048,771 | 63,671 | 7 | Early Bogdanovich thriller really hits the mark . . . | Tight , suspenseful , full of cross-cutting scenes to follow the unfolding of two stories that are about to merge into one , TARGETS is the last major feature film that BORIS KARLOFF made , and it's one of his best during the latter part of his career . He's a man about to retire from the picture business , a horror fi... |
447,668 | 1,048,771 | 129,672 | 7 | Saw the original broadcast . . . and now it's a nostalgic view of early TV . . . | In reviewing this , I've taken into consideration that this was done live back in 1957 , when the world and I were much younger , and live television was much more primitive . Still , it's fascinating to view it again and see it from a different perspective . And yet , one can't help thinking how much technology has im... |
445,836 | 1,048,771 | 48,233 | 7 | Absorbing western tale with spectacular Wyoming scenery and good cast . . . | JUBAL takes about forty-five minutes to set up its tale of revenge and murder and lust in the dust , but once the plot gets into high gear it becomes highly watchable until the conclusion . GLENN FORD is an unhappy man on the run who's taken in by rancher ERNEST BORGNINE and his wife VALERIE FRENCH , earning his pay as... |
446,477 | 1,048,771 | 59,825 | 7 | Taut suspense . . . Lancaster's thriller never runs out of steam . . . | THE TRAIN delivers a taut suspense tale that could have been told in less than the two hours and thirteen minutes it takes to expand on an incident wherein French railroad engineers did their part in halting some of the German plans during the occupation . It takes place during World War II in 1944 , shortly before the... |
446,540 | 1,048,771 | 48,513 | 7 | Delightful comedy at a boy's military school gives Heston a change of pace . . . | Before CHARLTON HESTON parted the Red Sea as Moses , he took time out to work on a delightfully original little comedy called THE PRIVATE WAR OF MAJOR BENSON , nicely photographed at St . Catherine's Military Academy in Anaheim , California , and giving Heston one of his rare comedy roles . He's a good sport about doin... |
447,918 | 1,048,771 | 63,811 | 7 | Rugged western deserves more attention . . . | CHARLTON HESTON steps away from his " Moses " and " Ben Hur " characterizations to give a solid performance as a Montana cowhand who gives shelter to a woman and her boy in his log cabin during a snowy Montana winter . Visually , the film is a standout with gorgeous vistas of snowy landscapes and the chill of winter fe... |
447,054 | 1,048,771 | 346,468 | 7 | Star-studded even elevated by presence of Olivia de Havilland . . . | Despite the muted tone of the 75th Academy Awards , there were some outstanding moments and here are a few of the observations I care to make on the whole affair : 1 ) Adding not a bit of class to the televised event was CAMERON DIAZ , busily chewing gum and staring vacantly at some of the old-time presenters , as thou... |
445,769 | 1,048,771 | 101,516 | 7 | Big , stylish period gangster film has great performance by Beatty . . . | Just when I thought James Cagney's " top of the world , ma ! " performance in WHITE HEAT was the definitive portrait of a psychopathic hood , along comes BUGSY with Warren Beatty as an even more insane , over-the-top hoodlum just as cold blooded ( possibly more so ) than Cagney's Cody Jarrett . Beatty is just as menaci... |
445,377 | 1,048,771 | 110,308 | 7 | The last word in film noir seduction . . . | I wasn't expecting anything quite as riveting as this ' 96 film that reminds me of the sort of femme fatale story Hollywood loved to show us in the ' 40s ( DOUBLE INDEMNITY , POSTMAN ALWAYS RINGS TWICE ) where a devious female takes charge of the plot . Must be the performance of LINDA FIORENTINO that made me sit up an... |
446,778 | 1,048,771 | 40,863 | 7 | Donald enjoys outdoor picnic until the bees show up . . . | A better than usual DONALD DUCK short , TEA FOR TWO HUNDRED was nominated for a Best Short Subject Oscar back in ' 48 , and it's full of clever plot ideas and good animation . An army of bees resides near Donald's picnic tent and are soon in evidence when he spots them marching along toward their hives . He decides to ... |
447,456 | 1,048,771 | 343,737 | 7 | The murky world of CIA deception as seen by one family man . . . | Before I go on to praise the good points of THE GOOD SHEPHERD , I should mention at the start that the film badly needed some judicious editing . There are many scenes that go on for too long a time and are badly in need of some artful editing to get the point across just as well . Aside from length , everything else a... |
447,752 | 1,048,771 | 28,816 | 7 | Delightful screwball comedy with Sturges at his best . . . | JEAN ARTHUR as a down on her luck secretary ( who pays $7 a week for an apartment ) is suddenly blessed with a luxurious hotel suite and a sable coat thanks to the whims of fate in this delightful ' 30s-era comedy co-starring EDWARD ARNOLD ( a bit too bombastic for my taste ) and RAY MILLAND ( charming and debonair as ... |
446,040 | 1,048,771 | 56,195 | 7 | Not your standard western fare . . . more of a noir western . . . | KIRK DOUGLAS finds trouble wherever he goes in LONELY ARE THE BRAVbeaten up by a one-armed man in a bar fight , confronting police officers with his fists , landing in jail , escaping and finding himself taking a beating from tough jailer GEORGE KENNEDY . He takes time out for some sweet talk with GENA ROWLANDS ( her d... |
447,920 | 1,048,771 | 28,773 | 7 | Sidney Kingsley's play is still stage-bound , but riveting . . . | With William Wyler at the director's helm , Lillian Hellman writing the screenplay , and Richard Day's stage-bound but artful sets , DEAD END has plenty of fine ingredients going for it . And the cast is great - - JOEL McCREA , SYLVIA SYDNEY , WENDY BARRIE , HUMPHREY BOGART , CLAIRE TREVOR , MARJORIE MAIN , ALLEN JENKI... |
447,228 | 1,048,771 | 56,197 | 7 | World War II never looked so authentic . . . | THE LONGEST DAY is an expensive World War II epic that leaves you with the feeling that you know what D-day , the 6th of June was really like for American soldiers . On the other hand , it leaves you with the feeling that somewhere around the bend another great movie star or film personality is about to make another ap... |
447,831 | 1,048,771 | 13,486 | 7 | Chaplin's comic timing is amazing in the brick worker sequence . . . | Altogether amazing little short with the comic at his best as a brick layer who is late on the job and presents a flower to his monstrous boss ( MACK SWAIN ) . Swain looks so much like Billy Gilbert that I thought that's who it was at first . Swain orders him immediately to work and the fun starts . A particularly amus... |
445,286 | 1,048,771 | 56,218 | 7 | Dated political thriller is still stunning to watch . . . | An eerie fact is that a film dealing with the assassination of a presidential candidate came out just shortly before the real-life assassination of President John F . Kennedy . LAURENCE HARVEY always had a rather sleep-walker kind of expression on his unlined face and here it serves him well as a man who has been hypno... |
446,674 | 1,048,771 | 56,217 | 7 | When the legend becomes fact , print the legend . . . nice character-driven tale . . . | A rich assortment of town characters directed in fine style by John Ford makes THE MAN WHO SHOT LIBERTY VALANCE one of his most entertaining western tales . It's the saga of a tenderfoot from the east ( JAMES STEWART ) who gets some rough treatment from the town's legendary villain , Liberty Valance ( LEE MARVIN ) , an... |
445,272 | 1,048,771 | 28,757 | 7 | Fontaine in distress . . . but there are compensations . . . | First of all , in defense of JOAN FONTAINE , it must be said that Ginger Rogers would have been terribly miscast as Alyce , the young British lady who has the title role . Fontaine makes a fetching picture as the heroine here , but her acting inexperience shows badly and her dancing is better left unmentioned . Fortuna... |
447,750 | 1,048,771 | 44,121 | 7 | Early sci-fi movie still delivers the chills . . . | I understand from some of the comments here that the remake of THE THING was much more graphic and detailed than the ' 51 film , but sometimes the power of suggestion is more effective in providing chills than a more literal rendering of them . Such is the case with many of the older films , especially among the scienc... |
445,572 | 1,048,771 | 90,925 | 7 | Mark Harmon shows his dark side as Ted Bundy . . . | Dark and disturbing as it is , this is still a well worth watching made-for-TV movie ( shown originally in two parts ) that gives MARK HARMON one of his best roles as serial killer Ted Bundy , the charming man who fooled most of the people most of the time while he continued a murder spree that lasted far too long . Th... |
447,106 | 1,048,771 | 473,705 | 7 | Mature political thriller provides gripping entertainment . . . | It's a pleasure to report that STATE OF PLAY revives my interest in political thrillers . This one starts out with a suspenseful killing on a dark and rainy night in an alley and never lets go of a grip on the attention . The actors all have great help from a well-written , tightly paced script that affords all of them... |
446,673 | 1,048,771 | 40,724 | 7 | Sprawling cattle drive saga makes excellent western drama . . . | RED RIVER is a western drama revolving around the intense bitterness between two men , and comes to a climax when MONTGOMERY CLIFT ( in his first role ) is pitted against his guardian JOHN WAYNE , after a cattle drive during which the two have various disagreements over Wayne's ruthless handling of life and death matte... |
447,279 | 1,048,771 | 21,079 | 7 | Occupational hazards of being a gangster . . . Robinson's tough guy snarls his way to stardom . . . | Despite the obvious drawbacks of being an early talking film with a mostly silent background for the soundtrack ( except for the bullets ) and some snappy dialog ( ' 30s style ) , LITTLE CAESAR holds the attention like a magnet because of EDWARD G . ROBINSON's tough guy persona as he snarls his way up the rungs of the ... |
446,154 | 1,048,771 | 48,449 | 7 | Delightful cartoon highlights a singing frog . . . | Anyone who's ever had a frog in his voice should enjoy this endearing cartoon from Chuck Jones . Not only is the frog beautifully animated when he goes into his song and dance routines , but the songs range from " Hello , Ma Baby " to an operatic aria from " The Barber of Seville . " The simple story has an unusual pre... |
445,356 | 1,048,771 | 59,578 | 7 | Another gritty Leone western is a buddy flick for Eastwood and Van Cleef . . . | This is another iconic spaghetti western so popular in the mid-'60s due to Sergio Leone's direction of CLINT EASTWOOD and LEE VAN CLEEF , two mesmerizing actors in another western scored by the talented Ennio Morricone . This time the two men are bounty hunters , presumably hunting guilty men for the same reason - - ex... |
446,653 | 1,048,771 | 39,017 | 8 | Clever , brisk and thoroughly entertaining . . . | There's not a second of screen time wasted in telling the tale of the Star of Rhodesia diamond that is stolen aboard an express train - - and , of course , Sherlock Holmes , Dr . Watson and Insepctor LeStrade are all aboard the train , having been advised that someone is going to make an attempt to steal it . This low-... |
447,322 | 1,048,771 | 35,169 | 8 | Zany fun . . . overflowing with Sturges madness ! | THE PALM BEACH STORY is not to be confused with reality . It's a zany romantic comedy given full speed treatment by director Preston Sturges who brought screwball comedy to an art form . His script , full of hilarious one-liners that fly by almost too fast to catch , is acted to perfection by CLAUDETTE COLBERT , RUDY V... |
447,683 | 1,048,771 | 56,687 | 8 | Darker side of sibling rivalry . . . excellent support by Buono . . . | Traces of SUNSET BLVD's darker vision of Hollywood celebrity and other noir style films of the ' 40s and ' 50s hang over WHAT EVER HAPPENED TO BABY JANE ? It's Robert Aldrich once again conjuring up a classic sibling rivalry tale that takes place mostly in a dark and decaying mansion where two sisters must confront the... |
445,260 | 1,048,771 | 87,800 | 8 | This is the real thing . . . truly terrifying even after all these years . . . | The horror genre today has cornered the market on slasher films of all types that appeal mainly to teen-agers and young adults . But the one Wes Craven film that still stands high and above as a towering example of a great horror film is NIGHTMARE ON ELM STREET . Its great success is partly because the blurring of drea... |
447,493 | 1,048,771 | 39,208 | 8 | Tense , taut and terrific in semi-documentary style . . . | The young ARTHUR KENNEDY was one of our best dramatic actors and proves it in BOOMERANG ! by giving a realistic punch to his performance as an innocent man caught in a murder trap . The only man who can save him is attorney DANA ANDREWS , who does a fine job of pointing out weaknesses in the case and destroying the fal... |
447,496 | 1,048,771 | 66,473 | 8 | A bit overlong in getting to the big battle . . . but worth the wait . . . | Detailing the events leading up to the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor , December 7 , 1941 - - and telling the story from both the Japanese and American point of view - - TORA ! TORA ! TORA ! is most effective when it gets to the day of battle which begins with the Japanese pilots getting into their planes and... |
447,663 | 1,048,771 | 34,862 | 8 | Fred's Firecracker Dance Steals the Show ! ! . . . | What more can be said about a movie that's become a perennial Christmas favorite featuring a whole slew of Irving Berlin song and dance routines , and two of the most popular and talented stars of film musicals - - BING CROSBY and FRED ASTAIRE at their best . Well , it's a light , airy , briskly entertaining sort of mu... |
445,747 | 1,048,771 | 348,150 | 8 | Stunning effects , sturdy Superman performances , good score . . . | SUPERMAN RETURNS is a summer blockbuster that should make the majority of fans mighty happy . It looks every penny of its cost , is cast with appropriate faces in the leading roles and delivers a punch whenever the man with the cape is called into action . The soundtrack and musical score also deliver as expected to ac... |
446,742 | 1,048,771 | 360,717 | 8 | Superb visuals , stunning impact . . . if a bit overproduced . . . | No doubt Peter Jackson's superb CGI effects and handsome production values will make his KING KONG just as much of a hit with the filmgoing public as Merian C . Cooper's B & W RKO original back in 1933 . But even with the vast improvement in special effects , a superior script and some extremely well acted leads capabl... |
447,837 | 1,048,771 | 39,677 | 8 | Early British noir is a visual masterpiece . . . James Mason at his best . . . | ODD MAN OUT is the kind of film that stays within your film memory long after you've seen it - - as in my case , writing this from a memory seared by the experience of watching JAMES MASON in one of his greatest roles as Johnny McQueen , on the lam from the law after a botched robbery ends in the death of a man and he ... |
445,491 | 1,048,771 | 39,437 | 8 | Eye-popping special effects add luster to rich romantic drama . . . | Individual performances in this romantic epic are excellent - - Lana Turner , Van Heflin , Donna Reed and Richard Hart do some fine work . Even more impressive are three of the supporting players involved in a sub-plot of their own : Frank Morgan , Edmund Gwenn and Gladys Cooper . Basically a love story depicting two s... |
446,771 | 1,048,771 | 74,464 | 8 | Remarkable in detailing the life and times of Franklin and Eleanor . . . | FRANKLIN AND ELEANOR was a remarkable television mini-series that topcast BERNARD HERRMANN and JANE Alexander as Franklin Delano Roosevelt and his wife , Eleanor - - taking them through courtship and marriage to the stormy years of discontent while his political ambitions became known to her ( and eventually his indisc... |
446,389 | 1,048,771 | 64,665 | 8 | Struggle for survival in the big city . . . brilliant performances . . . | Hardly the stuff dreams are made of is this pursuit of the brass ring by a naive hustler ( JON VOIGT ) and his lame con-man sidekick ( DUSTIN Hoffman ) , soon to forge a friendship based on basic survival skills . A daring film for its time , and a foremost example of the kind of gritty landscape being explored in the ... |
446,837 | 1,048,771 | 53,172 | 8 | Improbable but hard to resist . . . the best of the Day / Hudson teamings . . . | DORIS DAY and ROCK HUDSON were at the top of their form in PILLOW TALK , and it was the beginning of a wonderful friendship that lasted through the years , until the actor's untimely death from AIDs . In this sunny romantic comedy , they share a party line ( which makes the story dated already ) , and the comedy stems ... |
447,819 | 1,048,771 | 39,536 | 8 | This is my kind of film noir . . . great performances from fine cast . . . | KISS OF DEATH easily ranks among the best film noirs of the ' 40s and it's widely remembered now as the first time audiences got a peek at RICHARD WIDMARK and what a fine actor he was . But it also served to remind us that when given a strong enough role , VICTOR MATURE was more than able to deliver the goods . He's ex... |
445,273 | 1,048,771 | 454,769 | 8 | One of the best bios on Flynn . . . shows another aspect of the man and his life . . . | This is an interesting and very informative , entertaining way to spend time learning about ERROL FLYNN . Aside from some penetrating comments from two of his ex-wives ( Nora Eddington and Patrice Wymore ) , there are some frank and very supportive comments on the real Errol Flynn ( if anybody really knew him ) from hi... |
446,043 | 1,048,771 | 47,528 | 8 | Anthony Quinn's brute is one of his greatest roles . . . | LA STRADA is a powerful experience , a wonderfully filmed masterpiece of its kind with tragic and comic overtones blended perfectly . Actually , it demonstrates in the end how much Zampano ( ANTHONY QUINN as a strongman ) and Gelsomina ( GIULIETTE MASINA ) really needed each other - - something he would never admit to ... |
445,292 | 1,048,771 | 338,751 | 8 | Gorgeous but basically superficial look at Howard Hughes ' life . . . | THE AVIATOR is a film as eccentric as Howard Hughes himself . It never really explains the germ phobia that possesses him since we are only given one brief scene of his mother bathing him as a boy and requiring him to spell the word " Q-u-a-r-a-n-t-i-n-e " . This is supposed to explain his lifelong fear of germs - - in... |
446,167 | 1,048,771 | 95,765 | 8 | Exquisite nostalgia that any movie fan can identify with . . . | This is such a difficult film to describe in words because all of it is heartfelt emotion . However , it must be noted that the three central performances are beyond reproach : the child Salvatore ( played with rascally charm by Salvatore Cascio ) , the brusque projectionist Alfredo ( Philippe Noiret ) and the adolesce... |
445,516 | 1,048,771 | 29,751 | 8 | McGlaglen and Temple have great chemistry . . . good John Ford touches . . . | SHIRLEY TEMPLE has always said that WEE WILLIE WINKIE was her own personal favorite among her childhood films because it gave her a chance to indulge herself as a tomboy . And because it has a good script , fine all around performances and moves along at a nice clip , it's one of the best Temple vehicles , showing exac... |
447,980 | 1,048,771 | 47,396 | 8 | In a world where nobody ever heard of window blinds . . . | While I thoroughly enjoyed REAR WINDOW and think it's among Hitch's best films , I always observe how easy it was for Stewart's character to view the lives around him . It seems that nobody in the entire neighborhood ever heard of keeping curtains or window blinds in more discreet positions . We are forced to believe t... |
445,550 | 1,048,771 | 60,665 | 8 | Brilliant cast , director , script . . . memorable Paul Scofield . . . | A MAN FOR ALL SEASONS has Sir Thomas More ( PAUL SCOFIELD ) pitted against Henry VIII ( ROBERT SHAW ) as he struggles with his conscience and religious convictions rather than give in to those who want him to support the King's desire to annul his barren marriage and wed another . He's up against all sorts of devious s... |
445,957 | 1,048,771 | 87,056 | 8 | Dandy version with George C . Scott as an ideal choice to play Scrooge . . . | If you're looking for a faithful version of " A Christmas Carol " with all of the bleakness of the original Dickens tale , you don't have to look any further than this version , filmed in Shrewsbury , England , and starring GEORGE C . SCOTT at his grumpiest . Of course , he turns into the lovable old codger for the las... |
445,294 | 1,048,771 | 44,953 | 8 | Taut , rugged western . . . grinning Ryan steals the show . . . | I never realized what a scene-stealer ROBERT RYAN could be until I saw THE NAKED SPUR . Although JAMES STEWART is the nominal big name star , it's Ryan's charming , snake-like villain who dominates this rugged western despite strong performances from the entire cast . He obviously relishes his role and is a joy to watc... |
445,269 | 1,048,771 | 36,244 | 8 | SPOILER AHEAD . . . Grim , sobering and well-acted story of vigilante justice . . . | THE OX-BOW INCIDENT was never considered a success at the time of release , especially by studio mogul Darryl F . Zanuck who never considered a film a success of any kind if it lost at the box-office . However , over the years it has become an artistic success with fans who appreciate good movie-making when they see it... |
447,664 | 1,048,771 | 456,330 | 8 | The birth of two new movie stars . . . | What this documentary does is emphasize the fact that Errol Flynn and his frequent co-star Olivia de Havilland both came along at the right time - - both clicked immediately with audiences - - and both became permanent fixtures of the romantic swashbuckler / western type of adventure film for which Flynn was famous . B... |
446,215 | 1,048,771 | 377,752 | 8 | Eloquently understated little tear-jerker . . . grounded in reality . . . | Bathed in a softly glowing palette of muted colors , DEAR FRANKIE puts three bruised characters in the forefront , surrounds them with believable supporting characters grounded in reality , and takes its time in letting a well-written script unwind as these actors draw you into the story . The idea behind the story is ... |
446,857 | 1,048,771 | 117,666 | 8 | A brilliant slice of life . . . excellent performances . . . | No film in recent years has held me as spellbound as SLING BLADE , written by BILLY BOB THORNTON ( for which he won an Oscar for Best Screenplay ) , and starring the actor in a memorable role for which he was Oscar nominated but failed to win . He becomes the character with such truth - - and such emotional underplayin... |
447,385 | 1,048,771 | 473,404 | 8 | Well documented docu-drama was never watched by Clinton . . . | The Clinton revisionists are still trying to put down this docu-drama which clearly states it's based not only on the Commission Report but on other source material . Indeed , ex-President Clinton has already gone on record saying he did not bother to watch it but looked at Sunday and Monday night football instead . So... |
446,076 | 1,048,771 | 48,673 | 8 | Fragile bittersweet romance amid gorgeous Italian settings . . . | Summertime is more of a mood piece than anything else . It captures the loneliness of a traveler in a foreign land , in this case a spinster who is hungry for love but too repressed to accept the love Rossano Brazzi offers . It has a bittersweet ending , appropriate for a thin story that sets the tone early on and ne... |
446,740 | 1,048,771 | 385,330 | 8 | Painting the forest green . . . a great behind the scenes look . . . | The newly restored DVD of THE ADVENTURES OF ROBIN HOOD contains this documentary giving the viewer a behind the scenes glimpse of what was going on in the Hollywood of 1938 as Warners prepared to make their most expensive film up until then . Rudy Behlmer , Bob Thomas and Robert Osborne do a nice job of explaining the ... |
447,215 | 1,048,771 | 36,112 | 8 | Quite wonderful , but this blimp is a bit bloated . . . | If you want to see gorgeous Technicolor , lavish sets , fine performances ( ROGER LIVESEY , DEBORAH KERR ( in three roles ) and ANTON WALBROOK , then THE LIFE AND DEATH OF COLONEL BLIMP is your ticket . But beware , it is not a perfect film . It probably appealed much more to British audiences already aware of the famo... |
447,390 | 1,048,771 | 109,707 | 8 | Ghoulishly funny . . . Depp and Landau are superb . . . | Absolutely brilliant film on the bizarre and quirky cross-dressing filmmaker Ed Wood , played with boyish enthusiasm by JOHNNY DEPP in one of his most offbeat roles . He's the anchor who grounds the film in all its believable foolishness . Equally skillful are all the surrounding performances , including MARTIN LANDAU ... |
445,757 | 1,048,771 | 461,770 | 8 | Probably the year's most enchanting romantic comedy . . . | What the world really needs in 2007 are more films with the ageless charm and wit of ENCHANTED . It's priceless entertainment from the Disney studios , providing plenty of chuckles and downright laughter as PATRICK DEMPSEY , AMY ADAMS , JAMES MARSDEN and SUSAN SARANDON go through the paces of their fairy-tale roles . W... |
445,172 | 1,048,771 | 78,872 | 8 | Magical moments . . . beautifully photographed . . . excellent score . . . | THE BLACK STALLION is a champion among horse movies . I'm not exactly fond of the genre ( although as a kid I did enjoy the MY FRIEND FLICKA , THUNDERHEAD , SON OF FLICKA and NATIONAL VELVET movies ) , but this film is unsurpassingly beautiful in the way it documents the budding friendship between a boy and a wild Arab... |
447,000 | 1,048,771 | 49,096 | 8 | Danny Kaye showcase has " the brew that is true " . . . | If you're a DANNY KAYE fan , you can't afford to miss this one . The highlight for me is the " vessel with the pestle " tongue-twisting routine that he carries off to perfection in his own inimitable way . That is , until it switches to " the flagon with the dragon " , at which point everyone is rightfully confused . S... |
446,441 | 1,048,771 | 40,369 | 8 | Fonda's martinet as central character puts a blight on the proceedings . . . | Perhaps one reason that made ' Fort Apache ' difficult to sit through for me , is the fact that Henry Fonda does a such a competent job as a totally unsympathetic , self-important , arrogant S . O . B . who through ignorance sends his cavalry to certain death . Fonda is such a martinet in manner and speech that his cha... |
446,181 | 1,048,771 | 35,916 | 8 | Dreamy Faye and the genius of Busby Berkeley in vintage lavish musical . . . | Some of ALICE FAYE's close-ups in THE GANG'S ALL HERE convince me that Technicolor was made to show off the charms of certain actresses - - as Fox well knew with such beauties as Betty Grable and Linda Darnell under contract . Faye's blue eyes get all misty-eyed when she sings a ballad - - and when she's supported by s... |
445,267 | 1,048,771 | 48,947 | 8 | A stunning comeback for Ingrid Bergman . . . Hayes deserved Oscar too . . . | The biggest conceit of ANASTASIA is the fact that the reunion scene , beautifully played by INGRID BERGMAN and HELEN HAYES , never took place in history . This is a romanticized version of what Anastasia's story should have been - - but was not . Nevertheless , giving credit where it's due , this is a completely absorb... |
447,945 | 1,048,771 | 71,315 | 8 | Imperfect film noir never gets near the real " Chinatown " . . . | It's surprising that for all the slavish attention to period detail that Roman Polanski puts into CHINATOWN , he lets down the audience in the finale which is supposed to take place in the actual Chinatown at night . Instead , it looks ( as the original review in The New York Times pointed out ) , more like Flatbush Av... |
447,272 | 1,048,771 | 29,222 | 8 | The most sublime of all the MacDonald / Eddy operettas . . . | Lavish must have been a word expressly invented for MGM's musical movies of the ' 30s , ' 40s and ' 50s . There is no other word to describe how richly produced this film is for the singing sweethearts . In fact , the visual splendor is so glorious in B & W that you can't help thinking how much more glorious the whol... |
445,288 | 1,048,771 | 55,871 | 8 | Classic World War II spy drama well worth watching . . . | When I hear the title THE COUNTERFEIT TRAITOR , I immediately think of my father because he often said it was his favorite spy film . Seeing it , years later , I understand why . WILLIAM HOLDEN was in the middle of a winning streak of films at this time and establishing a secure foothold on his reputation as one of Hol... |
447,181 | 1,048,771 | 308,305 | 8 | Kelly's brilliant career given a complete overview . . . | GENE KELLY was one of a kind and this documentary celebrates his faults as well as his virtues , refreshing because it's not just a gushing fan tribute to a great actor / dancer who made dancing look as macho as it did when he embraced it with his physical athleticism , the embodiment of the blue collar guy rather than... |
446,520 | 1,048,771 | 38,975 | 9 | Atmospheric old dark house thriller . . . quiet but deadly . . . | For sheer mastery in the art of black and white photography and its ability to provide the shadowy atmosphere necessary for mood , they don't come any better than this . The house alone is as much a part of the plot as the actors - - but everything clicks . . . the acting , the script , the story , the direction and th... |
446,443 | 1,048,771 | 52,618 | 9 | New DVD version is a full restoration of sight and sound . . . brilliant achievement ! | ' Ben-Hur ' is such a great film , it's a pleasure to report that the newly restored Wide Screen 4-Disc DVD version ( which includes the 1925 silent screen film with Ramon Novarro ) is right on the mark . The color has been restored to its original brilliance with every scene clearly in focus and the soundtrack gives f... |
447,234 | 1,048,771 | 338,348 | 9 | Enchantment , thrills , spectacle . . . looks great on DVD . . . | On the one hand there are many delightful moments in THE POLAR EXPRESS , not the least of which is the entire look of the film - - appealing in a way that great illustrations of children's books always are to young and old . Tom Hanks and the others enter into the spirit of the whole thing with gusto - - and all the pe... |
445,518 | 1,048,771 | 372,784 | 10 | Let's get serious . . . the real Batman has arrived ! . . . | BATMAN BEGINS lives up to what I heard about it being a " darker " version , with much less reliance on flippant one-liners or gags , the result being a more realistic feel for what might have been . From the very start , there is a nice chemistry between Alfred , the butler ( superbly played by Michael Caine ) and Bru... |
445,672 | 1,048,771 | 29,843 | 10 | Welcome to Sherwood , my lady ! | If there is any film that Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland will be remembered for ( as screen partners ) it's ' The Adventures of Robin Hood ' . It has become one of the most beloved storybook films of all time - - action , romance , majestic sets and music , a sparkling script with many juicy lines and all of the s... |
549,042 | 1,111,192 | 61,191 | 1 | Wild world of bad . | This is one bad , bad , bad film . I don't even know where to start . For one thing is it supposed to be a comedy or what . It starts so seriously , then it deteriotes into slapstick . And not very funny slapstick at that . The plot revolves around this cult who fight crime , and not very effectively I might add . At o... |
548,997 | 1,111,192 | 70,435 | 1 | A name for Yawn ! | From what I read in the tv guide it sounded like it might be a rather interesting haunted house movie . Instead it is perhaps one of the most boring movies ever filmed . The plot is muddled and really makes no sense , it is very slow paced , and there are very few instances of supernatural going ons . Instead the most ... |
548,615 | 1,111,192 | 103,060 | 1 | Even worse than the first one . | This movie is even worse than the first one , and for many reasons . This one has Shredder mysteriously alive after his fall . He finds the stuff that mutates creatures so he makes a couple of mutant monsters to fight the turtles . He also looks cooler than the first one as well . Unfortunately , though this one is aim... |
548,713 | 1,111,192 | 52,289 | 1 | Evil movie , evil cast . . . I hope a tree falls on them ! | Yes this movie features a gal named Jessica who says everything is evil and she causes trees to land on people too ( well she only causes a tree to fall once , but she does say everything is evil ) . This movie is about a farm that apparently rents out rooms to people , but offers little else in the way of entertainmen... |
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