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396,916 | 2,483,625 | 34,857 | 2 | This Has To Be Seen To Be Believed | If you were looking to take out a contract on Hitler , would you hire the trio of Ward Bond , Paul Fix , and Warren Hymer ? I'm glad this film is preserved if only for the fact it is the best example of World War II propaganda film run totally amuck . I can't believe it was taken seriously even back in 1943 . The plot ... |
396,029 | 2,483,625 | 34,902 | 2 | It's Not Easy Dealing With An Invisible Agent | When a bunch of Nazis come calling on Jon Hall at his print shop in New York City , they seem to know all about him and the background he has tried to hide . Seems as though an ancestor of his was none other than Claude Rains who as John Griffin invented that invisibility formula that had the entire United Kingdom on e... |
394,810 | 2,483,625 | 419,946 | 2 | Vince McMahon Has No Shame | After the first 10 minutes or so of The Marine when John Cena after singlehandedly rescuing three fellow Marines from Al-Queda execution in the best Sly Stallone / Arnold Schwarzenegger fashion and then got himself a discharge for his trouble for disobeying an order , I knew this one was going to be a Thanksgiving trea... |
395,940 | 2,483,625 | 25,699 | 2 | A priesthole in the wild west | Watching this film today I got the feeling this thing was missing about 10 to 15 minutes or so from the beginning of the story . John Wayne rides up on this trading post / saloon out in the middle of nowhere to meet with the owner about some robberies . All he sees is the signs of a massacre , some dead bodies , signs ... |
395,982 | 2,483,625 | 53,142 | 2 | How Do You Say Gobble Gobble Gobble In Korean ? | I'm sure that Operations Dames was a favorite at the drive-ins back in the day . There's absolutely nothing in the way of a plot that you might miss if you were otherwise preoccupied . And if you needed to get in the mood for other activities you did have some curvaceous cuties on screen to get you in the mood . Otherw... |
396,661 | 2,483,625 | 910,936 | 2 | A Couple Of Stoners Turn Rambo | Don't look for anything to terribly sophisticated in Pineapple Express . In fact the nuggets of humor to be mined here are few and far between . Maybe I'm old fashioned , but the notion of a minor league drug dealer and his number one customer as heroes is just a bit bizarre for my taste . But that's what happens when ... |
394,545 | 2,483,625 | 26,075 | 2 | It Can't Get Too Much Dumber Than This | This film may very well have been Brian Donlevy's worst film . Had it been done at Warner Brothers , Jack Warner would have punished Humphrey Bogart by casting him in Donlevy's unbelievable role . The problem is that this film can't make its mind up . Donlevy is a stone killer like he was in the film that launched him ... |
394,284 | 2,483,625 | 52,929 | 2 | Classical Camp From Carradine | We don't see too much of John Carradine , but we sure hear a lot from him as the disembodied voice of the Invisible Invaders coming to a planet near you . Carradine's a scientist who is killed in a lab explosion . His cadaver is then used by a group of aliens who are invisible to communicate with fellow scientist Phill... |
393,449 | 2,483,625 | 35,453 | 2 | Did They Know About Lucky Luciano's Contribution To The War Effort | I see so far I'm in a minority here for some folks are finding all kinds of murky and mysterious meanings in Tomorrow We Live . All I'm looking at is a Grade Z piece of melodramatic claptrap . Poor Ricardo Cortez's career had come to a pretty pass here for a guy who was the last player billed OVER Greta Garbo back in s... |
394,829 | 2,483,625 | 36,241 | 2 | It's a gay story folks | Jane Russell and her bosoms got most of the publicity from this film and fortunately for her she got into other better pictures and had a career . The same could not be said for Mr . Beutel . But Jane and her cleavage is superfluous to the story . This is about two middle-aged gay men , Walter Huston and Thomas Mitchel... |
395,361 | 2,483,625 | 71,627 | 2 | An Extra Vacancy In The Graveyard | John Carradine , John Ireland , and Faith Domergue who as players all saw better days in better films got together for this Grade G horror film about life imitating art in a mysterious mansion . For Carradine it was in those last two decades of his career that he appeared in anything on the theory it was better to keep... |
395,833 | 2,483,625 | 491,005 | 2 | Rats Becoming Ravenous | Kaw is a film that is ripped off outrageously from Alfred Hitchcock's classic , The Birds and from the Lou Diamond Phillips science fiction theatrical release Bats from about 10 years ago . Whereas Hitchcock set his classic film on the Northern California coast and had all kinds of the avian creatures suddenly becoming... |
393,550 | 2,483,625 | 35,944 | 2 | Chains , My Baby's Locked Up In Chains | Arline Judge and Roger Clark head a no name cast in this Grade B flick about a woman's prison . This one ought to be seen back to back with Caged to note the difference between what an A film and a B film treatment of the same subject . I'm not sure I should dignify Girls in Chains by calling it a B film . By the way ,... |
392,891 | 2,483,625 | 51,432 | 2 | The Borg From Deep In Planet Earth | Were it not for the presence of two men who scored great success later on television , Ed Nelson on Peyton Place and Leonard Nimoy on Star Trek , The Brain Eaters would have no reason to be remembered . Then again with your half eaten cerebrum it would be impossible to remember this film anyway . It's not monsters from... |
394,105 | 2,483,625 | 482,606 | 2 | They Don't Cotton To Strangers In That Neighborhood | What starts out as a night where Scott Speedman is expecting some nookie and kanoodling with Liv Tyler in a nice little rural hideaway turns into a desperate fight for their lives as some folks with masks start raising all kinds of trouble . Some people just don't like strangers in their neighborhood . There certainly ... |
396,851 | 2,483,625 | 112,817 | 3 | Finding Meaning In The Obscure | Well maybe I'm just a Philistine but I certainly have to dissent from all the rave reviews this film has gotten . It happens I like my westerns traditional , John Ford , Howard Hawks , Delmar Daves , Burt Kennedy , those guys make westerns . Jim Jarmusch makes weird . So does Johnny Depp who I salute for having the art... |
394,439 | 2,483,625 | 35,080 | 3 | Flirting With Pneumonia | When Allan Jones had to do Moonlight In Havana , he must have cursed the day he decided to leave MGM because he didn't want to be behind Nelson Eddy all the time . He also must have wondered what happened to the studio where in fact he had done Showboat and The Boys From Syracuse . This is one of the dumbest plots I've... |
393,501 | 2,483,625 | 43,828 | 3 | Just what did Ava's Grandma do that was so terrible ? | My Forbidden Past has Ava Gardner as decadent New Orleans belle living with her great aunt Lucile Watson and her cousin Melvyn Douglas . She's got a yen for Yankee doctor Robert Mitchum who is doing research over at Tulane University . They break things off and Mitchum goes away and returns with a bride , slatternly Ja... |
394,783 | 2,483,625 | 70,653 | 3 | What Was The Point Of All This ? | Scorpio was a film Burt Lancaster didn't think too much of according to a recent biography and after viewing it I can certainly see why . On the plus side Lancaster got to work with former co-stars Alain Delon from The Leopard and with Paul Scofield from The Train , both films considerably better than Scorpio . Too bad... |
394,593 | 2,483,625 | 52,256 | 3 | A Really Secret Mission | Submarine Seahawk is one of those films that you or I could put together with some stock footage and a knowledge of all the clichés involved in making a submarine motion picture . The U . S . S . Seahawk has a mission and it looks like a suicide one . Under new skipper John Bentley , they're to go into a secret Japanes... |
395,857 | 2,483,625 | 43,626 | 3 | Road Gangs for Wayward Youth | Heart of the Rockies is one of two films that Republic Pictures put out with this title . The first was a Three Mesquiteer film with Max Terhune , Crash Corrigan , and Bob Livingston . It was infinitely superior to this Roy Rogers epic . I sincerely hope that this film did not play in any of the prisons because if it d... |
393,174 | 2,483,625 | 61,080 | 3 | There's something about a Jewish Indian | One of the classic episodes of the Beverly Hillbillies involved a group of movie Indians over at the Clampetts for vittles . They brought some native American cuisine over to the Clampetts and when Granny asked what kind of Indian fish dish it was , chief extra Benny Rubin said gefilte fish . Jewish Indian , good for a... |
394,382 | 2,483,625 | 61,144 | 3 | Another Rebel Who Doesn't Believe In Surrenders | Like Ethan Edwards in that much better western The Searchers , Joseph Cotten's Temple Cordeen doesn't believe in surrendering . He's taken no notice of the surrender at Appomattox and in fact when we first meet him , he's hanging a Yankee journalist who had the temerity to tell the black people on Cotten's Texas ranch ... |
396,135 | 2,483,625 | 43,542 | 3 | Jeff Chandler wins the Maureen O'Hara handicap | Back in the 1940s Universal studios big star was Maria Montez who hit a gold mine in those Arabian sand and sandal epics with Jon Hall and Sabu . A whole set was built for her and her films . Now boss Carl Laemmle at Universal was always practical and why waste those sets . So Universal made a whole lot of those films ... |
395,256 | 2,483,625 | 26,432 | 3 | Small Town School Marm | May Robson , two years after her Academy Award nominated performance in Lady for a Day , got roped into doing this film about a school principal in small town USA . The premise is actually an interesting one and you can follow the concept from a film like Grand Old Girl right up to a television series like Boston Publi... |
395,386 | 2,483,625 | 43,482 | 3 | Muffle Those Drums | Barbara Payton is who keeps those drums a beating in the Deep South . She's the mistress of a southern plantation which is a cut down version of that other Georgia plantation , Tara . In the film's prologue she and husband Craig Stevens are entertaining two old friends from West Point , Yankee boy Guy Madison and Barba... |
392,859 | 2,483,625 | 78,812 | 3 | Not A Great Film To Go Out On | During the making of Avalanche Express , Robert Shaw died and I'm sure the producers must have been in a quandary . They decided to salvage as much footage as they could with longshots and rears . Shaw's voice was weak so whole scenes were dubbed . The result was an 85 minute action adventure story with a lot of holes ... |
393,719 | 2,483,625 | 78,801 | 3 | Actors Boredom Transferred To The Audience | If Ashanti had been a serious attempt at a film about the institution of slavery , still prevalent in third world countries the film might have been better received . Instead it turns into a star studded disaster of a movie where the stars came in , said their lines , and picked up their paychecks without much convicti... |
395,631 | 2,483,625 | 60,848 | 3 | Maybe the creators were on some of the product | Poppies Are Also Flowers is an all star amalgamation of two previous films on the narcotics trade . Sharp eyed fans of the cinema will spot plot elements from those two Forties era films , To The Ends Of The Earth and Port of New York . Of course both those films were infinitely better . Still a whole bunch of internat... |
393,323 | 2,483,625 | 43,264 | 3 | Oh Captain , My Captain | Adventures of Captain Fabian has the distinct aroma of tax write-off about it . Errol Flynn and friend William Marshall who was married to Ginger Rogers at one time , filmed this in France and released it through Herbert J . Yates's Republic films . In this case Yates might have been wise to put wife Vera Hruba Ralston... |
396,030 | 2,483,625 | 78,740 | 3 | If Not For The Courage Of The Fearless Crew , The Concorde Would Be Lost | The real star of the last of the Airport films is that big supersonic carrier the French created called The Concorde . If you bear in mind that the whole film is dedicated to showing what that needle nosed plane could do in the sky , than the whole film kind of makes sense . But if you're expecting some serious drama h... |
393,252 | 2,483,625 | 52,862 | 3 | Two Directors Or Maybe Two Cooks For This Thanksgiving Feast | Steve McQueen has certainly a lot of loyal fans out there . He certainly was a charismatic fellow , one of the most charismatic the big screen ever knew . But even McQueen can't save this turkey of a film , shot with what looks like a brownie camera in the actual locations in St . Louis . McQueen's a new kid with no cr... |
393,262 | 2,483,625 | 925,306 | 3 | Cortes In The Land Of The Lost | I'll bet none of you knew that the famous Conquistador Hernando Cortes made a preliminary scouting expedition to Mexico before taking on the Aztecs . Good thing he did because he would never have known about those T Rexs that inhabited one particular valley where the locals revered them as gods . That was understandabl... |
395,632 | 2,483,625 | 78,350 | 3 | Houston , We've Got A Problem | The Swarm was one of Irwin Allen's later disaster films where he was forever trying to top what he did in The Towering Inferno . In fact he creates something of an inferno in this film . African killer bees have arrived in the USA and are proving to be most hardy creatures . Their calling card to the United States is t... |
394,148 | 2,483,625 | 133,046 | 3 | What Did Helen Mirren Learn | Certainly one of the most respected players in English speaking world is Helen Mirren . Previous to the Best Actress Oscar she got for last year playing Queen Elizabeth II she was probably best known for being Scotland Yard police inspector Jane Tennyson in Prime Suspect when those episodes reached the American side of... |
393,708 | 2,483,625 | 79,153 | 3 | To Get The Richest Man | Sophia Loren is out for revenge and the FBI wants to get one of the world's richest men who is a Howard Hughes like recluse . This guy put out a hit on her husband who was blown up in a laboratory with a mail bomb . What to do , but call in the FBI in the person of Vincent Gardenia . But getting the Hughes like gazilli... |
394,523 | 2,483,625 | 44,936 | 3 | It Took a Long Time to get that Gold from the French | Mutiny has to be down at the bottom of the list of the films of Edward Dmytryk . It's a story that takes place during the War of 1812 where U . S . Navy Captain Mark Stevens is given a mission to get a big shipment of French bullion to build a fleet . Stevens gets a cashiered former British naval captain Patric Knowles... |
396,546 | 2,483,625 | 51,638 | 3 | Did Jack Warner Get Stuck ? | Forgetting that this film version of From The Earth To The Moon is nowhere near the spirit of the original tale Jules Verne was trying to tell , usually his work requires a big budget and a ton of good special effects . This film got neither . Looking at the credits tonight I noted it was an RKO production released by ... |
392,804 | 2,483,625 | 36,217 | 3 | Saving The Revolution | The only reason that North Star gets as high as three stars is because of the awesome amount of talent invested in this film both in front of and behind the camera . Otherwise The North Star would be down there with such efforts from World War II as Joan of Ozark and Hitler , Dead or Alive . The North Star may be the o... |
395,943 | 2,483,625 | 44,827 | 3 | The Foreign Service In Peace And War | Some nasty Thuggees have some plans for the Last Train From Bombay , it's going to be blown up because a prominent Indian nawab is on the train and the terrorists are hoping to get a nice civil war going . If you're expecting Bhowani Junction from this Grade C foreign adventure film that never got closer to India than ... |
392,996 | 2,483,625 | 25,544 | 3 | What Mystery Does It Hold ? | Mystery Mountain is a 12 part Mascot Pictures serial where silent movie cowboy Ken Maynard is trying to track down a nefarious criminal called the ' Rattler ' . This dude who when he's not walking around posing as other cast members with life like masks is busy trying to get a feud going between a railroad and a freigh... |
393,496 | 2,483,625 | 25,499 | 3 | Friends in High places . | Midnight was a film shot in New York by a whole bunch of Broadway players who had nothing else to do during afternoons when there were no matinees . By coincidence nearly the whole cast went on to Hollywood and appeared in productions better than this . O . P . Heggie plays the foreman of a jury that convicted a woman ... |
393,326 | 2,483,625 | 60,117 | 3 | DeForest Kelley Has Issues Here | I've a real affection for the A . C . Lyles westerns which gave employment to a lot of old time players who were finding work increasingly hard to get because of the decline of the studio system and in some cases a refusal to work in television . But Apache Uprising took elements from Stagecoach , Rawhide , Broken Arro... |
396,558 | 2,483,625 | 44,573 | 3 | All Those Homicides , All That Claim Jumping , And Nobody Can Figure It Out ? | The Duel at Silver Creek refers to the place where the final confrontation between the good guys led by Stephen McNally and Audie Murphy and the bad guys headed by Gerald Mohr . Mohr heads a nasty group of bad guys who go around shooting hard working prospectors after they've signed over their claims . One of them is t... |
394,160 | 2,483,625 | 60,050 | 3 | It Had Potential | John Ford's last feature film 7 Women marks an abrupt departure for the male misogynist director to direct a cast of primarily women . It had the makings of a classic , but it was in the hands of the wrong director . Maybe George Cukor should have directed it . Or maybe this story should have been done a few years late... |
394,932 | 2,483,625 | 25,373 | 3 | Wayne Versus the Frito Bandito | The most die-hard worshippers of John Wayne will cringe when they watch The Lawless Frontier . Even for a poverty row studio , this one is one stinkeroo . Unusual for a western we have a criminal who is a sex crime perpetrator . Earl Dwire plays a halfbreed white and Indian who for reasons that are not explained , pret... |
394,913 | 2,483,625 | 44,418 | 3 | Big Jim McLame | Big Jim McLain is a 1950s museum piece of a film . What previous reviewers have not mentioned is that John Wayne was a friendly witness at the House Un-American Activities Committee and he and his best friend Ward Bond were founders of a pro-blacklist group in Hollywood , the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservatio... |
394,152 | 2,483,625 | 52,131 | 3 | Hit The Road Drac , And Don't You Come Back , No More No More No More . . . . . . . . . . . . . | In a better film such as the kind Universal put out in the Thirties and Forties , Francis Lederer might have made an interesting Count Dracula . He certainly had the old world manners of the no account count from Transylvania . But in The Return of Dracula where the world's most famous vampire has gone to seek the bloo... |
394,766 | 2,483,625 | 59,878 | 3 | Where All Good Teen Idols Go | Village of the Giants based very loosely on H . G . Wells Food of the Gods is one of those classic cult films that gets worse and more enjoyable on repeated viewings . Later on Bert Gordon actually did make a straight version of the science fiction classic that was quite a bit better . But I'm sure a pile of money was ... |
396,469 | 2,483,625 | 44,177 | 3 | Any Resemblance | In retrospect it would have been impossible to do a real life story of Rudolph Valentino only 25 years after his demise . Too many interested parties were still alive at that point , including a couple of former spouses . It would have been well to wait however than to have inflicted this film on the public . Other tha... |
396,338 | 2,483,625 | 59,460 | 3 | Unsympathetic Characters | The Money Trap for me has the distinction of being one of the last B features I ever saw on the big screen as part of a double bill . It is a film way past its prime as a noir picture . Noir as a genre essentially died little by little as more televisions were in American homes . The kind of stories that noir does best... |
396,146 | 2,483,625 | 44,045 | 3 | Recruiting A Singing Cowboy | Slaughter Trail is a B western with some grand pretensions . But it's come down in Hollywood history for a most ignominious reason . Watching this film with it's musical score which can only be described as overbearing , I have a feeling what Howard Hughes was trying to do is recruit a singing cowboy for RKO films . Th... |
396,443 | 2,483,625 | 35,218 | 4 | Wartime Musical | Private Buckaroo is one of those wartime musicals set in the army where the plot is barely noticeable among the musical numbers . In fact I'm not sure of what the plot was . In fact this one was another of those films to incorporate a top big band into the Hollywood studio system . In this it was Harry James and his Or... |
393,873 | 2,483,625 | 105,125 | 4 | Crashing The Wedding | A really nasty tempered drunken individual in Beau Starr crashes the wedding of his nephew and confronts the father of the bride over some ancient grudges . He gets cold cocked and put to rest on a coach . But later on Starr is found with a knife in his chest and the would be bride , Heather McAdam standing over him . ... |
394,891 | 2,483,625 | 26,249 | 4 | The Lion Hearted Oaf | Whatever else you can say about Richard I , the Lion Hearted he was a mighty warrior in battle . In fact he loved wars and battles so much he spent very little time ruling his own kingdom . Remembering that his kingdom was not just England , but a good deal of what is now France , it is estimated that he may have spent... |
393,465 | 2,483,625 | 52,601 | 4 | Vic Phoned This One In | Victor Mature was always fond of telling people how bored he was in the acting profession and pretty soon he'd be out of it for the most part . He was at his most bored making The Bandit Of Zhobe an Indian Northwestern set on the real Indian frontier . He sleepwalks through this part , probably worried his paycheck wou... |
396,596 | 2,483,625 | 95,736 | 4 | Self Indulgent Brat | William Richert directed and wrote the novel as a youngster on which A Night In The Life Of Jimmy Reardon is based . Sad to say he failed to capture whatever charm there was in the book for his lead character . As River Phoenix plays him , Jimmy is spoiled , hedonistic , self-indulgent , and a liar . Maybe he should ha... |
392,710 | 2,483,625 | 43,923 | 4 | Tim Settling Down ? | Pistol Harvest , one of the later Tim Holt westerns for RKO , has Tim maybe finally looking to settle down and marry the lovely Joan Dixon and quit riding the range with Richard Martin . Her adopted father Edward Hearn is real pleased to have Tim Holt as a son-in-law and agrees to help finance the young to be marrieds ... |
396,221 | 2,483,625 | 95,532 | 4 | Angst Ridden Identity Crisis | I would bet that of all the films young River Phoenix did in his short and sweet life , Little Nikita is probably the one where he played the most normal of kids . But it's that very normality that is the basis for the shock unfolding before him . A rogue agent played by Richard Lynch who has specialized in playing rea... |
393,832 | 2,483,625 | 43,790 | 4 | Derek Avenges His Dad | It's mid 19th century Italy and Anthony Quinn pulls something of a palace coup by framing provincial governor Wilton Graff of the very treason that Quinn is perpetrating . He kills Graff in the process and sets up shop in his palace . And for some very weak plot reasons when Quinn has a chance to let the mob dispose of... |
394,486 | 2,483,625 | 61,398 | 4 | Circus Of Murders | Joan Crawford's next to last feature film Berserk finds her as boss lady of a circus where a string of murders is being committed . I will say the best thing about Berserk is the circus acts from the Billy Smart Circus where the film was shot in the United Kingdom . As for the film it's your usual slasher flick that co... |
395,448 | 2,483,625 | 60,983 | 4 | Make A Joyful Noise Unto The Lord | If the real Jeanne Deckers had never made that recording in 1963 she probably would have been a much happier person , probably still in blessed obscurity in a convent somewhere on the globe . Only probably though because she was in conflict with the church she gave her life to . At the time the film The Singing Nun cam... |
393,303 | 2,483,625 | 70,157 | 4 | College Of Sexual Knowledge | One of the trashier novels of the early Sixties did not reach the big screen until the middle seventies . By then the Code had broken down and a lot of subjects could have been dealt with . The Harrad Experiment by Robert Rimmer came out in the early Sixties in the beatnik era and dealt with a pair of husband and wife ... |
395,554 | 2,483,625 | 26,614 | 4 | If You Can't Figure Out Who The Villain Is . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | I'm not sure how John Wayne got to be working for Republic in this one shot deal . He was with Monogram at the time this was made and it even has some of the cast that was associated with his B westerns from Mongram like Yakima Canutt and Earl Dwire . Nevertheless this is a Republic production and I guess the Duke real... |
393,712 | 2,483,625 | 105,435 | 4 | The Ultimate Codebreaker | A college prank where one got caught and sent to prison and the other didn't forms the basis for Sneakers , a stylish , but ultimately unsatisfying thriller . Sad because it's a waste of a really talented cast . Gary Hershberger and Jo Marr area a couple of college age computer geeks from the seventies who if they had ... |
396,561 | 2,483,625 | 35,052 | 4 | Inspiration for Bewitched ? | If Bill Holden had to choose a typical part that he was trying to avoid being cast as before Sunset Boulevard , chances are he would pick his role in Meet the Stewarts as exhibit A . Holden used to call these his ' smiling jim ' roles , the decent young married or newlywed that his dual studio masters , Paramount and C... |
393,759 | 2,483,625 | 43,618 | 4 | Getting By With Charm | I don't think any player in Hollywood history lasted as long as David Niven did given most of the weak films he had to carry by dint of his incredible charm . He could act , got an Oscar for it , but most of the material he did was as light as one ply of two ply tissue paper . Happy Go Lovely is a case in point . It's ... |
395,850 | 2,483,625 | 52,478 | 4 | Ringo's Seven Shooter | This rather average western rode into the sunset after one season . As another reviewer said this was the height of the television western era and the airwaves were filled with them . Dick Powell's Four Star Production Company gave us Johnny Ringo . What I remember best was Don Durant as Johnny Ringo having a pistol th... |
394,496 | 2,483,625 | 52,453 | 4 | Cannibalized For Other Series | The Warner Brothers detective clone factory came out with a model that didn't sell . Perhaps had Jack Warner actually shot the thing in New Orleans , taking advantage of the many sights and wonders the Big Easy has to offer Bourbon Street Beat would have had a longer run . This show featured three detectives Richard Lo... |
394,769 | 2,483,625 | 70,351 | 4 | Who Wants All These Criminals To Escape | I suppose if I could figure out just who wanted all these criminals to escape and for what purpose I probably could have appreciated The Mackintosh Man a whole lot better . It's just left to the viewer that this is once again a plot by those devilish Communists to bring down capitalism . Paul Newman , with as phony an ... |
394,296 | 2,483,625 | 35,763 | 4 | Where WAS that base anyway ? | Tyrone Power's last film before going to war was this World War II epic which co-starred him with Dana Andrews and Anne Baxter and a good cast of supporting players . This did win an Oscar for Special Effects with the raid on the Nazi Submarine base . And that's what makes this thing so stupid . Where was that base ? G... |
393,990 | 2,483,625 | 25,773 | 4 | The Key To Her Heart | Although Alice Faye is in great voice and sings a very good number , Here's The Key To My Heart , in She Learned About Sailors the film itself is a rather dopey one about the romance of a café singer and Navy enlisted man when they meet in Shanghai . Shanghai was a big port of call for our Navy in Kuomintang China , we... |
393,695 | 2,483,625 | 35,735 | 4 | China , as big a picture as the nation that inspired it . | Paramount got caught short in 1943 , their big discovery Alan Ladd was about to be drafted for who knew how long . So they had to get as much work out of him as they could before Uncle Sam claimed his services . That's the only reason that Alan Ladd at the threshold of his stardom was rushed into this film . That promo... |
395,041 | 2,483,625 | 53,045 | 4 | Lynch Law In The ' Burbs | Alan Ladd gives up the city life and rat race for himself and also for dipsomaniac and nymphomaniac wife Carolyn Jones . They move out to quiet and peaceful Connecticut . Where Ladd paints out in the woods with his only true friends the town children . Jones on the other hand gets an affair going with one of the town m... |
393,935 | 2,483,625 | 25,830 | 4 | The Unmasked Lone Ranger | Sad to say this is one of the sillier of John Wayne's series of poverty row westerns for Lone Star Productions . Here he is a United States Marshal on the trail of a bandit known only , I kid you not , as the Shadow . No it's not Lamont Cranston , it's some dude who gives his orders through an open wall safe so his men... |
396,036 | 2,483,625 | 25,833 | 4 | For Art's Sake | A film thought lost turned up a few months ago on TCM and I finally did get to see it . Stingaree is one curious and horribly miscast film which not even the presence of favorites of mine like Henry Stephenson and Mary Boland can save . Set in Australia in the 1870s , specifically in Victoria we don't see as much as on... |
394,078 | 2,483,625 | 35,799 | 4 | Many A Heart Will Be Asleep In The Seats | When Tony Curtis did a film tribute to Cary Grant for TCM he mentioned the fact that in World War II while he was Seaman Bernie Schwartz for the U . S . Navy he saw this film and never dreamed that 18 years later he would be co-starring with Cary Grant in a submarine picture . That one , Operation Petticoat , comedy th... |
396,450 | 2,483,625 | 60,801 | 4 | Hate Me Glow | If anyone follows my reviews one will note that I always use the expression hero / heel when talking about Tyrone Power . He could be a full blooded hero or he was a hero / heel , a likable sort of guy , but one who was ruthless in getting what he wanted . You need someone of Power's ability and charm to play such a pa... |
394,917 | 2,483,625 | 53,245 | 4 | Not Going My Way | I'm sure that during his career in his later years Bing Crosby was offered the chance to repeat playing Father O'Malley as an older priest and at one point that would have been a natural fit for him . Unfortunately after this film , Bing was done with the clergy . He tries his best with Father Conroy and his best momen... |
396,118 | 2,483,625 | 53,156 | 4 | Routine B War Picture | In the short running time of 71 minutes Paratroop Command follows a small group of soldiers participating in landing in North Africa , Sicily , and Salerno which in actual time was about a year and a half . One of them , Richard Bakalyn accidentally kills one of his comrades in friendly fire and can't quite win the tru... |
392,833 | 2,483,625 | 26,007 | 4 | Parisian Decadence | In 1931 Al Jolson went back to Broadway to star in a new show Wonder Bar . It got good reviews , but as it was the middle of the Great Depression the costs proved too much and it closed after two months . Not like any great hit songs came out of it for Jolson , but Warner Brothers decided to buy it for him as a film pr... |
393,471 | 2,483,625 | 140,594 | 4 | I Miss Walter Matthau | Keeping up with the times this 1998 remake of The Taking Of Pelham One Two Three had to change certain things and deliberately changed others . One indisputable fact was that in 1998 the New York City Transit Police had ceased being a separate entity and was now just part of the NYPD . Hence Walter Matthau's character ... |
395,485 | 2,483,625 | 35,460 | 4 | As Shiftless A Group As You Could Find | I'm not sure of the appeal of this story either in the book or in the film . The group of paisanos that John Steinbeck created is as shiftless and lazy a group as you will find anywhere . Their leader Pilon played by Spencer Tracy works this whole bunch as ruthlessly as Abbott regularly did to Costello . And the Costel... |
395,909 | 2,483,625 | 190,524 | 4 | The Fantastic Four of Revelations | Let me say that I'm not talking about the Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse in the title . I'm talking about four people , Kirk Cameron , Brad Johnson , Clarence Gilyard , and Janaya Stephens who apparently out of all the people left on earth after the Rapture has occurred , have figured out who the anti-Christ is and wh... |
396,203 | 2,483,625 | 35,553 | 4 | I Am Tondelayo , the baddest girl in the East . | Everyone in this movie is overacting , even Hedy Lamarr if that's possible for her . One of the campiest , most unintentionally hilarious things ever put on screen . The plot briefly is Walter Pidgeon is both head of a rubber plantation and magistrate of a colonial area , presumably under British possession . He's gett... |
396,724 | 2,483,625 | 43,169 | 4 | Not The Kit Carson Of History | What I remember best about The Adventures of Kit Carson is that it was not for some reason , broadcast in New York City . I only got to see this show when visiting my grandparents in Rochester every summer . Little did I know what I was seeing had absolutely nothing to do with the real Mr . Carson who was quite the fro... |
395,228 | 2,483,625 | 52,941 | 4 | Charismatic , Fascistic , and Wholly Fictional | The Jayhawkers maybe unique in the annals of screen history in that as a film with a Civil War era plot it makes absolutely no mention of slavery . Nor are there any black people in this cast . What we have here in ante-bellum Kansas is the story of Luke Darcy who envisions himself as starting some kind of fascistic te... |
394,670 | 2,483,625 | 52,943 | 4 | Crisis In Midair | To start off with the title for Jet Over The Atlantic is completely a wrong one . The airliner that our passengers are taking from Madrid to New York is one of those old propeller type jobs . That's a harbinger for things to come with this film . A pity because if the producer , Benedict Bogeaus hadn't been so sloppy ,... |
396,644 | 2,483,625 | 25,948 | 4 | Should Have Been Viva Madero | I'm still not clear on how MGM got away with this film . Pancho Villa had only been dead for 10 years and his famous raid on Columbus , New Mexico almost 20 years . Surely not enough time for people to have forgotten Villa or what he did . But the most famous thing he did , raid into the USA and provide a pretext for i... |
395,540 | 2,483,625 | 95,854 | 4 | Far Fetched Set Of Circumstances | Perry Mason : The Case of the Avenging Ace is one of the more far fetched episodes where the murderer and the individual behind the murders will do anything , kill anybody to keep a particular family scandal from seeing the light of day . If you remember in Perry Mason Returns , Raymond Burr was an appellate judge who ... |
394,944 | 2,483,625 | 43,052 | 4 | Couldn't have they given Gable & Stanwyck something better ? | Gable and Stanwyck did one other film together at the beginning of talking pictures . It was called Night Nurse and Barbara was the lead and Gable an up and coming supporting player . A generation later and they're both screen legends . I would have hoped that MGM would have given them something better . It's not that ... |
395,440 | 2,483,625 | 69,833 | 4 | John Sturges Final Journey West | John Sturges who created so many classic westerns like Gunfight at the OK Corral , Hour Of The Gun , The Last Train From Gun Hill , The Law And Jake Wade , The Magnificent Seven , so many good ones really gave us a let down with his final trip west in Chino . This was also the only western he did in Europe , in Spain t... |
394,106 | 2,483,625 | 60,232 | 4 | Don't Chase After This DV | The Chase has one of the best casts ever assembled . At least three generations of Hollywood are represented here from Miriam Hopkins and Henry Hull , to Marlon Brando and Angie Dickinson , and finally to up and coming stars like Robert Redford and Jane Fonda . I'm still trying to figure what all the fuss was about . T... |
393,780 | 2,483,625 | 25,273 | 4 | No Occupation , Just A Housewife | Housewife is the kind of film that drive feminists absolutely mad in presenting the woman as fit to be nothing more than the one who keeps home and hearth for the husband . It must have been especially galling for Bette Davis who definitely did not fit the mold of the message of this film . Bette's not in the title rol... |
396,769 | 2,483,625 | 25,226 | 4 | Jimmy On the Lam | He Was Her Man finds Joan Blondell torn between two men , petty crook James Cagney who's on the lam and Victor Jory the simple Portugese fisherman who's town Cagney has taken it on the lam to . Blondell's a former working girl who's also been around the track a few too many times . But she's looking for some kind of sa... |
395,442 | 2,483,625 | 36,166 | 4 | FDR's Man In The Kremlin | One of the most controversial films ever made , Mission To Moscow was not good for anyone's career who got involved with the making . Like Song Of Russia made over at MGM , Mission To Moscow was a film made specifically to improve Soviet-American relations in facing the common enemy they had . The Soviet Union no matte... |
394,989 | 2,483,625 | 60,414 | 4 | A Peculiar Combination Of James Bond And Ralph Kramden | A Fine Madness marks Sean Connery's venture into screen comedy and while the man has had many funny moments in his film , comedy was not his strong suit . Ironically he's cast opposite Joanne Woodward who as we know was married to someone who many critics also said was not at his best in comedy . Whatever else is wrong... |
395,731 | 2,483,625 | 36,218 | 4 | The Plane , Errol , The Plane | In Northern Pursuit , the brothers Warner tried to adapt the earlier Humphrey Bogart film , Across the Pacific to a story about our neighbors to the north . What I think they were trying for was a repeat of the critical and popular success the British film , the 49th Parallel enjoyed . I'm sure Errol Flynn's name above... |
396,539 | 2,483,625 | 51,673 | 4 | An Eastern / Western | On a peaceful day in a small western town in Nebraska in 1878 , a bank robbery occurs and Marshal Emile Meyer is killed pursuing the gang . But citizen Fred MacMurray , a former marshal , kills one of the gang and wounds the one who he saw shoot Meyer . It was Robert Vaughn a young kid who was a former resident of the ... |
396,808 | 2,483,625 | 60,024 | 4 | Don't Mess With a Classic | A big mistake was made when someone got the bright idea to make a television series out of the classic film that starred Alan Ladd . It deservedly lasted only for 17 episodes . Fortunately no one's career got hurt . The whole premise of the film was Alan Ladd riding in to the valley , dealing with the villains and LEAV... |
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