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394,965 | 2,483,625 | 443,567 | 4 | The Fantastic Four Of Revelation Do It Again | Purportedly this is the final film of the Left Behind series which is fundamentalist preacher and novelist Tim LaHaye's idea of what we can expect in our future in the final days of Planet Earth . If this is the case we can expect an activist presidency in every sense of the word if Barack Obama becomes president next ... |
393,721 | 2,483,625 | 36,051 | 4 | Jack London's Yellow Peril | Jack London's life was certainly colorful enough for a dozen films about different aspects of him . Sad to say though that what his life was used for in film was some wartime propaganda that put the best face on some of the least attractive parts of his character . Jack London who barely saw the age of 40 when he died ... |
396,445 | 2,483,625 | 36,075 | 4 | Treason In Texas | Roy apparently earns his title as King of the Cowboys by helping out Governor Russell Hicks of Texas track down a nest of Nazi saboteurs who are wreaking havoc across the Lone Star State . Did Congressman Lyndon B . Johnson know about this ? Herbert J . Yates put the best creative minds at Republic Pictures to work on ... |
392,928 | 2,483,625 | 36,073 | 4 | Flag Waving On the East Side | There's a split in that old gang of mine in Kid Dynamite . Some gamblers grab Leo Gorcey and take him for a ride to prevent him from fighting in an amateur boxing match that they've got bets down on . But Bobby Jordan pinch hits for Gorcey and wins . In the process though he alienates Gorcey who might wind up his futur... |
396,231 | 2,483,625 | 79,019 | 4 | Reunion Film | Not that George Peppard and George Hamilton were any kind of buddy duo in the way Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas were , but they did do two well received films together , The Victors and Home from the Hill . But for a reunion film it would have been nice if they had gotten something better than this . In fact this is ... |
393,023 | 2,483,625 | 25,426 | 4 | . . . . . . . . And there goes the audience , Ho-ho | In his brief career Ross Alexander as was the lot of so many B picture actors got the castoffs that the players higher up on the Warner Brothers food chain discarded . Watching Here Comes Carter you can see folks like James Cagney , Pat O'Brien , and Dick Powell doing the role of the fast talking press agent turned gos... |
396,420 | 2,483,625 | 60,098 | 4 | A Big Surprise For Admiral Halsey | A crack team of US Marines is sent to one of the small Phillipine islands because there's an agent there who's got some big news , but can't get it out . Almost from the beginning Captain Clem Stadler is killed in some contact with a Japanese patrol . That leaves command of the mission to fall on Sergeant Hugh O'Brian ... |
394,476 | 2,483,625 | 35,939 | 4 | Who'd a thunk it , Ava Gardner and Huntz Hall , Brother and Sister | It's the American dream for Ava Gardner and Rick Vallin as newlyweds . They get married and Vallin has a plan to leave the Lower East Side for that dream house in the suburbs . But right next to it is an old Gothic mansion of a house , something along the lines of Manderley in Rebecca . Her brother Huntz Hall with Leo ... |
393,844 | 2,483,625 | 24,771 | 4 | Gobble Incessantly When You're In The Jungle With A Turkey | In between that glittering array of memorable roles Charles Laughton created like Henry VIII , Doctor Moreau . Moulton Barrett , Emperor Nero , Inspector Javert , and Captain Bligh is nestled in his credits White Woman . It will never make the top ten of any list of Charles Laughton's greatest films . Nor will Carole L... |
395,851 | 2,483,625 | 949,731 | 4 | Overblown Outer Limits | Watching The Happening on the big screen tonight I had a feeling I was back in the Sixties looking at a souped up version of an Outer Limits episode that was given several million dollars to shoot . In fact maybe I ought to check their episode list . The strangest terrorist attack on record takes place , starting in Ne... |
395,328 | 2,483,625 | 105,608 | 4 | The Mission , Kill Crooked Cops | To Protect And Serve is the motto of Police Departments across the USA and in this case the title of a film starring C . Thomas Howell who finds himself among a lot of crooked cops . True to the blue wall of silence , Tom backs up this crew when they beat a suspect to death in their custody . He becomes part of the cre... |
396,725 | 2,483,625 | 44,289 | 4 | It's A Jungle Out There | Just as Hollywood was getting far more realistic in its depiction of Africa starting with The African Queen and King Solomon's Mines , television took up the slack with all the clichés that had been done in Africa based films . Ramar of the Jungle was filmed as a syndicated series in the last days of European coloniali... |
394,346 | 2,483,625 | 79,770 | 4 | Bleak , Bleak , Bleak | Quintet marks the only venture of both Paul Newman and director Robert Altman into the realm of science fiction . It was said of Newman that he could not do comedy , but he tried until he finally scored a real success in that genre with Slap Shot . But the failure of this film left him gun shy and he never tried it aga... |
393,316 | 2,483,625 | 71,110 | 4 | The Stewardess Is Flying The Plane | Airport 1975 gets as many as four stars for the nice special effects and for the efforts of a whole lot of high priced talent headed by Charlton Heston to keep a straight face while getting through this improbable story . Karen Black who's Heston's gal pal is the chief stewardess on a transcontinental flight when Dana ... |
394,194 | 2,483,625 | 24,674 | 4 | Feudin ' Mountain Families Go West . | The Haydens and Colbys are two mountain families who've had such a long term feud , everyone's forgotten what it started over . Never mind when Pop Colby ( Noah Beery , Sr . ) shoots Grandpa down in cold blood , Dad Hayden takes an unorthodox and cowardly approach in some eyes , he calls in the law . The Haydens move w... |
396,124 | 2,483,625 | 59,431 | 4 | Marriage Sank Without A Trace | The only reason this film gets as high as four is for all the talent involved . If Frank and Dean had sung in this film it might have rated higher . But the plain fact is that Marriage on the Rocks just ain't that funny . Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin are best friends and partners in an advertising agency . Sinatra is ... |
395,321 | 2,483,625 | 44,040 | 4 | No Rooting Interest | Sirocco was one of those independent productions that Humphrey Bogart's Santana productions did for Columbia Pictures after Bogey's long term contract with Warner Brothers expired . Bogey had a mixed record of success and Sirocco didn't exactly set the movie world on fire . The story takes place in Damascus after World... |
394,663 | 2,483,625 | 86,034 | 4 | No Stopping 007 | With his usual sophisticated aplomb Roger Moore saunters right through another way out adventure as 007 . A man with a license to kill , James Bond should have given serious consideration to shooting the writers of this film . Granted that Bond films are not to be taken seriously , I found Octopussy to be completely ri... |
395,684 | 2,483,625 | 26,291 | 5 | Coming Comedy Style | This was one interesting comedy short that TCM happened to be broadcasting this afternoon . It's Bob Hope , but a Bob Hope not seen before . At the time this was made Hope was still a Broadway star and I'm sure did this one at Warner Brothers New York studio . It looked like old ski nose was trying to find his particul... |
396,512 | 2,483,625 | 52,587 | 5 | The Nautilus Saves The Day | Five years after the Nautilus the first atomic powered submarine made its debut , the nuclear submarine was still a unique enough weapon of war that films could be made about them . Such was this low budget science fiction thriller entitled simply The Atomic Submarine that came from Allied Artists . Dick Foran is the s... |
394,916 | 2,483,625 | 35,244 | 5 | Duke played like a piccolo . | A common thread running through Cecil B . DeMille films is the leading lady having two men getting their hormones in an uproar over the leading lady . You've got Joel McCrea and Robert Preston rivals for Barbara Stanwyck in Union Pacific , Gary Cooper and Preston Foster over Madeline Carroll in Northwest Mounted Police... |
396,262 | 2,483,625 | 26,267 | 5 | A Man's Gotta Do , What A Man's Gotta Do | If John Wayne didn't say that in The Dawn Rider he should have because the film is a tale of mixing bringing a killer to justice and getting a little payback vengeance in the process . Wayne arrives home just in time to witness his father being killed in an express company holdup . He only knows that the killer wore a ... |
394,384 | 2,483,625 | 35,259 | 5 | Bud and Lou's MGM debut | With the money that Abbott and Costello made in their films at Universal to save that studio from going bankrupt , L . B . Mayer decided he wanted some of that himself . So Universal was probably paid a lot of cash to loan them out for the first of three films . MGM dusted off the old show Rio Rita which was a smash Br... |
396,949 | 2,483,625 | 35,317 | 5 | The Riddle Of The Dancing Men | Accurate bomb sighting was a McGuffin for many a World War II story . Air power was a new thing and you certainly wanted to be able to hit what you were aiming at and do the most damage at the same time when you were dropping explosive devices from thousands of feet in the air . Many a film plot was about bomb sights .... |
394,509 | 2,483,625 | 43,899 | 5 | Melodramatic Fantasy | Many a man might give up just about anything for a tumble with Ava Gardner . But what would Ava give up , would she give it all up for a man she truly loved ? That questioned is answered if not to everyone's complete satisfaction in Pandora and the Flying Dutchman . Ava's character of Pandora Reynolds , cabaret singer ... |
394,055 | 2,483,625 | 43,812 | 5 | Cleaning Up The Docks | After Broderick Crawford won his Oscar for All the King's Men , Columbia Pictures put him into a potboiler called Cargo to Capetown . AFter that he did the second role that is identified with him on screen in Born Yesterday . After that one , Harry Cohn once again gave him a potboiler noir about a police lieutenant goi... |
396,530 | 2,483,625 | 61,380 | 5 | We're Poor Little Lambs who have lost Doris Day | The Ballad of Josie for Doris Day marked the beginning of the end of her film career . Her agent / husband / svengali Martin Melcher forced her into a whole lot of mediocre films because he knew and she would find out that their wealth was something done with mirrors . She had to keep working . Not that it's a bad film... |
395,916 | 2,483,625 | 70,630 | 5 | Marshaling Doesn't Give Him The Latitude To Deal With Bad Guys | Glenn Ford who was associated with some of the best westerns ever made has his last starring role in the genre in Santee . Although he would do more westerns up to almost the end of his career , he would no longer be the leading man / action hero in any of them . Ford was 57 when he made Santee and even in this one he'... |
393,163 | 2,483,625 | 35,193 | 5 | Besting The Vigilantes | Deputy U . S . Marshal Tim Holt is sent to a part of Texas where a committee of vigilantes rule the roost . They've had a kind of unofficial sanction to operate in the area as there is no regularly constituted law . But there've been complaints of late so Tim is asked to investigate and put them out of business if nece... |
392,963 | 2,483,625 | 52,662 | 5 | Aged Broadway Vehicle Reclaimed for Gable . | But Not For Me is one of the weakest of Clark Gable's later films . It is based on a 1935 Broadway play , Accent on Youth by Samson Raphaelson , the same guy who wrote The Jazz Singer . The plot revolves around a fifty something Broadway producer who gets his batteries recharged when his secretary , Carroll Baker , con... |
396,679 | 2,483,625 | 34,961 | 5 | The Rabbit Man And The Star | Part of the premise of The Lady Is Willing is that the famous can get away with anything . Picture if you will yourself who while the police are investigating reports of a baby abandoned in a boardinghouse , just up and taking the infant . That would probably land you in jail for a stretch . But for Marlene Dietrich , ... |
393,941 | 2,483,625 | 43,767 | 5 | Grandma and Grandpa Kettle | The film version of the best selling novel The Egg and I with Fred MacMurray and Claudette Colbert introduced America to the Kettle family . Marjorie Main and Percy Kilbride and their brood of 15 . They were the rural answer to Clifton Webb and Gene Tierney's Cheaper by the Dozen . Who says country folk can't do it bet... |
395,844 | 2,483,625 | 373,051 | 5 | Not My Generation's Journey | The new remake of Journey to the Center of the Earth is one far cry from Jules Verne's original novel . The classic old version from my childhood with James Mason , Arlene Dahl , and Pat Boone set during the 19th century in Verne's time is not anything you'll recognize here . Instead what you'll see is something like a... |
394,908 | 2,483,625 | 43,751 | 5 | The Texas Dilemma | The diplomatic and political machinations around the admission of Texas to the USA are incredibly complex and are touched on in this film . It would have taken a longer and better film to explain it all . I think MGM had plans for one in this , but Dore Schary was budget cutting at the time and this got B western treat... |
396,340 | 2,483,625 | 26,523 | 5 | The Lady In Red - - - - - - - - What a Personality ? | Pat O'Brien , part time critic and full time boozer , gets pulled away to Caliente in Mexico by his friend Edward Everett Horton to avoid getting married to gold digger Glenda Farrell . But it's out of the frying pan into the fire . Dolores Del Rio has a Spanish dancing act that O'Brien savagely panned one night after ... |
395,111 | 2,483,625 | 77,890 | 5 | The Old Dog Has Seen Her Day | The Magic of Lassie was the beloved collie's last appearance on the big screen . Lassie was quite the box office draw in her day , but according to the box office the day had passed . Not that the film is all that bad . Maybe if the Sherman songwriting team who gave us so many things for Walt Disney back in their day h... |
395,838 | 2,483,625 | 52,325 | 5 | A Guilty Conscience | The Tunnel of Love ran for 417 performances on Broadway for the 1957-1958 season and starred Tom Ewell and Nancy Olson . It was written by Joseph Fields and repeating their roles from the original production are Elizabeth Fraser and Elizabeth Wilson . The play didn't survive the journey to Hollywood , mainly because of... |
393,490 | 2,483,625 | 60,942 | 5 | Soldiers on the Pampas have needs | Savage Pampas is a film with an unusual setting for the English speaking world , the pampas plains of Argentina at the end of the 19th century . The film is based on a novel Pampa Barbera and was filmed in Argentina before . Robert Taylor is a captain in command of a garrison on the frontier , a whole lot like the Amer... |
395,646 | 2,483,625 | 35,034 | 5 | Tense Gentlemen on the High Tension Wires | Edward G . Robinson and George Raft are a couple of linemen . Robinson is the foreman of the crew and a bit of a lug when it comes to the opposite sex . Raft however is a smooth operator . They both meet Marlene Dietrich at a clip joint , the Code euphemism for a bordello . Robinson falls for her and Dietrich's looking... |
392,731 | 2,483,625 | 35,016 | 5 | Mr . Deeds Gets Assertiveness Training | If The Magnificent Dope had been made over at Paramount it would have been a musical film for Bing Crosby . Of course Bing would never have played the kind of rube that Henry Fonda was in this film , but the premise is something he used in a whole lot of his films . Remember he had the idea of only having to work on ho... |
392,917 | 2,483,625 | 52,235 | 5 | A Little Romance Added To The Theater | Although Susan Strassberg has been unfairly compared to Katharine Hepburn from the original Morning Glory , it's not quite a fair comparison . Forgetting that there is no one like Hepburn , Strassberg does do a decent job with the material given in Stage Struck . The problem is that the story has been changed and not f... |
393,637 | 2,483,625 | 61,015 | 5 | Matrimony On Their Minds | Spinout is somewhere in the middle of the pack of the Elvis Presley cinema output . It's an amiable comedy with the King about a singer with a group who is a celebrity racer . Along the lines of Paul Newman before and Tom Cruise afterwards . I don't include Steve McQueen because that man was serious about the sport and... |
393,650 | 2,483,625 | 43,673 | 5 | Drought On The Range | In Old Amarillo finds Roy Rogers working for cattle baron Pierre Watkin as a range detective investigating a drought that is plaguing all the ranches in the Amarillo area . The foreman of the Watkin ranch , Roy Barcroft , has got a few schemes of his own to take advantage of the drought and clean up in a bad cattle mar... |
396,899 | 2,483,625 | 35,049 | 5 | A Blue Collar Romantic Comedy | I wonder if the Red Circle Cab Company run by William Bendix and Joe Sawyer from Brooklyn ever ran into that Harlem based outfit the Fresh Air Taxi Company run by Amos Jones and Andy Brown . Now that might have made an interesting film . Bendix's Tim McGuerin is a blue collar knockabout guy who never forgets his roots ... |
396,496 | 2,483,625 | 34,846 | 5 | A Mild Farewell | This innocuous comedy that marked the farewell performance of Norma Shearer on the big screen has quite a history to it . It was a French play by Jacques Deval , adapted for the stage by P . G . Wodehouse among others . It ran for 152 performances in 1927 on Broadway and starred the legendary Jeanne Eagels with Leslie ... |
395,069 | 2,483,625 | 61,107 | 5 | Stealing What's Locked Up in the Grey Cells | Paul Newman nuclear physicist has volunteered for an unusual espionage mission . He's to fake a defection in order to get close to East German scientist Ludwig Donath and find out what advances he personally has given the Soviet bloc . As he says to agent Mort Mills , he's one of the few people in the world who would k... |
394,499 | 2,483,625 | 52,472 | 5 | Waikiki At The Warner Back Lot | Before Steve McGarrett had Danno booking them , before Thomas Magnum started sleuthing out of the guest house of the Robin Masters estate , this duo of Anthony Eisley and Robert Conrad had a detective agency in Honolulu in this first television series to be based out of the Aloha State , Hawaiian Eye . Looking back if ... |
395,706 | 2,483,625 | 26,388 | 5 | To Scoop Or Not To Scoop | With Bette Davis doing a role that Glenda Farrell or Joan Blondell was used to doing and George Brent standing in for James Cagney or Pat O'Brien , Front Page Woman is about a sob sister columnist wanting to prove she's as good at investigative reporting as the man she loves . Brent's a good guy all right , but he cert... |
394,938 | 2,483,625 | 52,462 | 5 | A Disappointment To His Fans | The Deputy had a fatal gimmick to start with when it debuted on television in 1959 . It's star was to be movie legend Henry Fonda who played a US Marshal . But note the title of the series , the one who carried the show for the most part was his deputy in one particular town in his jurisdiction , Allen Case . Case was ... |
396,656 | 2,483,625 | 52,449 | 5 | Gunfighter / Lawyer | Seeing the kind of success that Warner Brothers was having with Sugarfoot with a young lawyer as a protagonist , Dick Powell's Four Star Production came up with the idea of a gunfighter giving up his weapons and studying for the bar and passing same . Peter Breck was the gunfighter / lawyer and he happens to settle in ... |
396,920 | 2,483,625 | 95,357 | 5 | What I Did For Love | When Rob Lowe decided to wear his glasses for real in this film ( in real life he's quite nearsighted ) I think it was his and director Peter Bogdanovich's homage to Cary Grant in Bringing Up Baby . Would that Bogdanovich had as good material as Howard Hawks had with Grant and Katharine Hepburn . Rob's a near do well h... |
396,658 | 2,483,625 | 95,342 | 5 | Scott Loves N . Y . - - - - - - And Who Doesn't ? | There is only one reason to see I Love N . Y . and that is for Christopher Plummer to see both as an international superstar man of the theater and in character as Cyrano de Bergerac . I just loved seeing him as Cyrano , I just wish there had been more . Outside the theater Plummer has got some other problems mostly in... |
395,453 | 2,483,625 | 43,550 | 5 | Some Historical Revision Might Be Needed | Some other reviewer made a comment that this was the worst sports biographical film since The Babe Ruth Story that starred William Bendix as the Bambino . He might not have seen the independent productions about Jackie Robinson or Joe Louis which The Babe Ruth Story also was . There's less excuse for Follow the Sun bec... |
396,729 | 2,483,625 | 35,746 | 5 | Commandos Invade Norway | In Commandos Strike At Dawn , Paul Muni is a Norwegian fisherman who does not like what the Nazis have brought in occupying his country . After a murder he resolves to leave Norway and do something about it . As Eric Toreson , Muni has his most stoic role with the exception of Benito Juarez . But his facial expressions... |
395,232 | 2,483,625 | 43,469 | 5 | Those Seminole Wars | United States Pictures which released Distant Drums through Warner Brothers was I think Gary Cooper's own production company . Looking at The Films of Gary Cooper book , I noticed about three others with same credits in the Fifties of which Distant Drums was the first . The film was shot on actual location in the Everg... |
392,740 | 2,483,625 | 53,109 | 5 | Singing And Dancing On the Waterfront | James Cagney in his autobiography said that he never ran his old films at home with the exception of the musicals . Those he ran continuously and he regretted he didn't do more of them . Which is probably why towards the end of his film career he decided on a musical which had a certain amount of potential , but went s... |
394,047 | 2,483,625 | 25,785 | 5 | A Lovable Blowhard Braggart | Spencer Tracy was busy working at Fox Studio at this time , turning out a succession of B film programmers that gave very little indication of the star he would eventually become . Fox loaned him out occasionally and they did here to MGM where he would really hit the big time . Watching The Show-Off today I thought of ... |
392,975 | 2,483,625 | 69,989 | 5 | Playing for all the marbles | Charles Cioffi , the consigliere of a jailed Mafia chieftain decides to get a war started among the three Las Vegas crime families . Knowing that Angel Tompkins , singer girlfriend of the son of a recently deceased Mafia Don , is looking for a break , he arranges a meeting with Anthony Quinn , Godfather of the third Ma... |
393,256 | 2,483,625 | 25,822 | 5 | An Interesting Experiment | Though the role of Trigger Hicks in Spitfire turned out to be disastrous commercially for RKO and did nothing to help the career of Katherine Hepburn , it's still an interesting experiment when seen today . Especially seen by fans who regard Kate as a feminist icon . Trigger Hicks is about as far as you can get for a r... |
393,926 | 2,483,625 | 443,274 | 5 | An Outdoor Summit for the sake of a Photo-Op | The malevolent forces of Islamic terrorism have one sophisticated plan to foil an international summit where President William Hurt is about to sign a treaty with several nations . It's more of a photo-op than a summit ; it looks like agreement's been reached for some new cooperation against terrorism . But the jihadis... |
396,065 | 2,483,625 | 25,826 | 5 | Milk Run film | By the time the St . Louis Kid was made Warner Brothers had gotten the James Cagney persona fixed in the mind of the movie going public . The cocky wiseacre working class hero in perpetual motion who always gets what he's after , be it money , power or a girl . Here it's a girl , but he also gets himself mixed up in a ... |
393,745 | 2,483,625 | 25,829 | 5 | A Weird Fantasy from the mind of Will Rogers | There's a famous story about President Herbert C . Hoover meeting Rudy Vallee during the midst of his term which as we know coincided with the Great Depression . Hoover supposedly said to Vallee it would be great if he could sing some hit song that would make people forget their troubles , economic and otherwise . Well... |
393,790 | 2,483,625 | 25,843 | 5 | Butterworth Flunks The Team | Philosophy Professor Charles Butterworth just can't get into the school spirit . He's gone and flunked the entire rowing team and their world tour is canceled . What to do , but bring Butterworth along on the Student Tour and tutor them and give them makeups before the big match at Oxford . And who do they get to room ... |
395,629 | 2,483,625 | 25,607 | 5 | The Hearst Parameters | Let's understand one thing before talking about Operator 13 . It is a Cosmopolitan Picture meaning it is a Marion Davies film first and foremost . And it's the kind of film that William Randolph Hearst wanted her to be seen it , as he saw her , the brave little heroine , in this case during the Civil War . Operator 13 ... |
396,743 | 2,483,625 | 43,390 | 5 | Oh Please , Wait A Minute Mr . Postman | For the life of me I can't understand why Loretta Young fought so hard to get this part . It hardly shows her to her best advantage on screen . She's terribly miscast in a role that Barbara Stanwyck could have phoned in or Joan Crawford have telegraphed . She's Mrs . Suburban Housewife to all appearances , married to B... |
394,087 | 2,483,625 | 35,605 | 5 | The Spying Honeymooners | For what she obviously knew what would be her last film with MGM , Joan Crawford saunters through the part of a newlywed bride who thinks a little espionage on her honeymoon with Fred MacMurray would be just the thing to give it some spice . Above Suspicion finds MacMurray and Crawford as a pair of newlyweds in 1939 Gr... |
395,094 | 2,483,625 | 78,836 | 5 | Bears Little Resemblance | I can't say I read the Alistair McLean novel so I have to take the word of other reviewers that the plot bore no resemblance to what McLean wrote . What's here is an average suspense thriller set in the frozen north . I did however take a look at Bear Island photographs as they bear { pun intended } to the scenery here... |
395,656 | 2,483,625 | 43,276 | 5 | An Inauspicious Debut | Along The Great Divide marked Kirk Douglas's western debut . Fortunately he made several more and they were a whole lot better than this one . Douglas is a federal marshal who with his deputies John Agar and Ray Teal breaks up a lynching of Walter Brennan who is accused of rustling and killing the son of cattle baron M... |
396,686 | 2,483,625 | 35,659 | 5 | Ankara , City of a Thousand Plots | It's now part of Hollywood lore how George Raft immeasurably aided the career of Humphrey Bogart by turning down High Sierra , The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca . After the last one I guess Raft thought he'd go for a Casablanca type story and the film of Eric Ambler's Background to Danger seemed like a good bet . If wo... |
392,674 | 2,483,625 | 43,223 | 5 | Part Of The Flying Crown Stable | Jack or Jock Mahoney as he was known depending on what point in his career he was played The Range Rider for a few seasons on television . The show was part of Gene Autry's Flying Crown stable of television shows . I remember The Range Rider because of the fact that Mahoney really did favor the old fashioned frontiersm... |
395,033 | 2,483,625 | 95,897 | 5 | Murder At The Presidio | A Military Policeman investigating what looked like a break-in at the Officer's Club at the Presidio in San Francisco is shot down . The same man also shoots an SFPD officer while fleeing the first crime . This makes the whole thing a dual jurisdiction between the Army and the local law enforcement . Hard enough normal... |
395,667 | 2,483,625 | 43,225 | 5 | Mustard and Custard | I just picked a copy of a joint biography of Roy Rogers and Dale Evans and the story behind the television series was an interesting one . Both were winding up their contracts at Republic Pictures where they didn't make much money from the studio itself . Herbert J . Yates ran a pinch penny operation to say the least .... |
394,018 | 2,483,625 | 35,474 | 5 | Judy Takes Refuge | Here's real movie trivia teaser . What is the only role that Miriam Hopkins , Betty Grable and Judy Canova did movie versions of ? The answer is that under different names they played the same part in She Loves Me Not , True To The Army , and How To Be Very Very Popular . I'm sure that the classical movie fan cannot co... |
395,340 | 2,483,625 | 95,965 | 5 | Misses The Tiomkin Score | Though James Arness and Bruce Boxleitner are a good fit for the roles originated by John Wayne and Montgomery Clift and Ray Walston stands in very well as the old-timer sidekick to both instead of Walter Brennan , the television remake of Red River sinks right to the bottom . The thing that I missed most from the origi... |
395,039 | 2,483,625 | 60,483 | 5 | What A Posse Audie Murphy Had | There's a murderous outlaw named Drago played by Morgan Woodward who keeps committing all kinds of crime in the state of Colorado and then running back to the New Mexico territory where the local sheriffs can't catch him . That's not going to stop Audie Murphy , sheriff of Lodgepole , Colorado . Woodward's robbed a tra... |
395,938 | 2,483,625 | 26,097 | 5 | Little Caesar on the Barbary Coast | I love the story about Sam Goldwyn who said that he bought the rights to the title , Barbary Coast , and then said to the writers hired to write a story with that title . They gave him a story that made a pretty good picture . Edward G . Robinson is at his snarling best as a nineteenth century version of Little Caesar ... |
395,766 | 2,483,625 | 60,564 | 5 | Tough Mayor Versus Tough Marshal | How ironic if Tom Drake and his brother hadn't fired on U . S . Marshal Dana Andrews one of them wouldn't have wound up dead and we would have had no film called Johnny Reno . Dana Andrews plays the title role and he's drawn into a nasty local situation when that ambush happens . He brings Drake back to town to stand t... |
394,740 | 2,483,625 | 156,030 | 5 | Cowboys Halt A Coup | John Payne's first feature film western was El Paso in 1949 , but earlier on when he was under contract to Warner Brothers he did this Vitagraph Short about a Wild West Show that comes to a Ruritanian type kingdom in the Balkans . Young king Scotty Beckett is real enthusiastic about it , especially after Payne saves hi... |
395,975 | 2,483,625 | 52,969 | 5 | No Taming These Shrews | Another group of scientists on a deserted island have yet let another experiment go horribly wrong . These scientists Baruch Lumet , Ingrid Goude , Ken Curtis and Gordon McLendon have been experimenting with raising and lowering metabolism as a way of staying the aging process . But what they've done is blown up their ... |
395,997 | 2,483,625 | 69,786 | 5 | How To Make A Jewish Western | Billy Two Hats was made at a dry spell in Gregory Peck's career . He himself admitted he was taking roles just for the work and the loot and possibly the thought of doing a western shot in the Negev desert in Israel may have appealed to him . It probably would be more feasible today . In 1974 Menachem Begin and Anwar S... |
393,934 | 2,483,625 | 25,903 | 5 | A Northwestern for the Duke | Within the first 10 minutes of The Trail Beyond , John Wayne gets a chore from a friend to locate the friend's friend and his daughter in the Canadian woods , meets another friend Noah Beery , Jr . from college , gets innocently involved in a murder and is fleeing up to Canada with Beery . There's almost as much canoe ... |
394,665 | 2,483,625 | 282,521 | 5 | Lindsay Drew Gets A Clue | For this Disney Channel television movie Get A Clue , Lindsay Lohan turns Nancy Drew in everything , but name to solve the mystery of her disappearing teacher . Turns out that the teacher has a mysterious past , Ian Gomez used to be a high profile banker who was accused of embezzling ten million dollars from a bank he ... |
395,891 | 2,483,625 | 113,409 | 5 | Hobb's Lane | Films like In The Mouth Of Madness are admittedly not my cup of tea . Still when a writer of horror lives in a place like Hobb's Lane in New Hampshire , that's an open invitation to stay away . Noted Stephen King like horror story writer Jurgen Prochnow has disappeared and he's a guy who's even more secretive than J . ... |
392,857 | 2,483,625 | 69,857 | 5 | So what's wrong with a Latin Mass ? | Not being a Catholic , I think I'm a bit lost in criticizing the movie . I can't understand for the life of me what the big problem was . Not that the liberalizing tendencies of John XXIII were bad , they didn't go far enough , but they were a step in the right direction . But if older priests set in their ways wanted ... |
395,568 | 2,483,625 | 43,013 | 5 | Ambitious , But Badly Executed | It's entirely possible that the VHS that I watched of this film was badly edited because the film seemed to begin in the middle . The Cloud Brothers , Robert Sterling and John Drew Barrymore , have settled in some country where there's a nice range war in progress . They've got both big cattle baron John Litel and a gr... |
392,809 | 2,483,625 | 25,969 | 5 | The Monogram Stock Company | West of the Divide finds the Duke as a man searching for his younger brother and at the same time the people who kidnapped him and murdered their father . The film opens with a piece of good luck coming their way in the person of the dying gunman Gatt Ganns who's been hired by Lloyd Whitlock to kill rancher Lafe McKee ... |
394,198 | 2,483,625 | 25,954 | 5 | Fighting Caravans gets the B treatment | In 1931 Paramount filmed Zane Grey's Fighting Caravans and turned it into an A picture western with Gary Cooper . It was the mentality of the studio bosses back then , why waste good stock footage . So a shorter version of this same story was done three years later with Randolph Scott playing the leading role of Clint ... |
396,114 | 2,483,625 | 36,311 | 5 | Failed Island Venture | Rhythm Of The Islands maybe one of ultimate in escapist entertainments for the movie-going public in 1943 . The Dorothy Lamour like world of the south seas that Hollywood created never existed , but we liked it just the same . But in 1943 there was news from the South Pacific every day about a war . You would never thi... |
396,728 | 2,483,625 | 79,117 | 5 | The Reluctant Nazi | Roger Moore is the Austrian commandant of a German POW camp located in the Grecian Isles in Escape to Athena . He's got a couple of favorites among the prisoners , an Italian cook in Sonny Bono , an archaeologist in David Niven and a black GI magician in Richard Roundtree . In addition USO entertainers Elliott Gould an... |
393,065 | 2,483,625 | 25,284 | 5 | Out of His League | I Sell Anything features Pat O'Brien as a fast talking auctioneer who operates from a store on Second Avenue who boasts he can sell anything to anybody . As Spot Cash Cutler , Pat has one busy afternoon when he takes in Ann Dvorak who tries to lift a watch from him because she hasn't eaten in a few days . Things like t... |
393,783 | 2,483,625 | 36,229 | 5 | The Oklahoma Kid Lite | If anyone who saw this film back in 1943 as a short subject with a Warner Brothers feature and thought this looked familiar , they were absolutely right . Even the costumes were the same for Robert Shayne and Warner Anderson playing the roles that James Cagney and Humphrey Bogart played . Of course with those guys bein... |
392,758 | 2,483,625 | 60,164 | 5 | Dino , say Mini-Series | Dino DeLaurentis was a man who thought big and somewhere in the early sixties he got the idea to do the biblical spectacle film of all time . Not just settle for one story mind you , but the whole Bible . Of course what he proposed would have been something along the lines of Erich Von Stroheim's silent film Greed whic... |
394,737 | 2,483,625 | 25,193 | 5 | Adam In Spats | For those of you who remember Dino DeLaurentis's solemn and serious film The Bible and the sight of humpy Michael Parks as Adam the idea of Adam being cast as Leon Errol is something to turn over in your mind . Errol together June McCloy as a curvaceous Eve . Errol in fig leaves and spats as Adams is quite a the treat ... |
396,718 | 2,483,625 | 51,629 | 5 | Joel Got A Randy's Script | With the officers killed , Sergeant Joel McCrea finds himself in command of a patrol that's supposed to meet up with a larger column of men at a water hole . McCrea and his patrol find that larger group of men , but they turn out to be hostile Apaches . That's the beginning of Fort Massacre , a tough and brutal western... |
395,669 | 2,483,625 | 25,166 | 5 | Oh You Nasty Man | Unlike Florenz Ziegfeld who died before MGM could properly enshrine his memory on film with The Great Ziegfeld , Ziegfeld Girl , and The Ziegfeld Follies , his rival George White wasn't about to wait until he was beyond caring . White produced two versions of his famous scandals for Fox and the film is interesting beca... |
396,213 | 2,483,625 | 25,161 | 5 | From Gangster To Romance | Gambling Lady was the first of seven films that Joel McCrea and Barbara Stanwyck would team together in . But the fact that it's the first of them is the only distinguishing feature about this rather routine film that skips from a gangster story to a romance without missing a beat . Stanwyck is the daughter of professi... |
394,082 | 2,483,625 | 44,900 | 5 | Bankrolling the Kingdom | Other than identifying the title character as an American now , The Merry Widow pretty much retains the same plot , even some of the same lines from the 1934 Jeanette MacDonald-Maurice Chevalier film . Lana Turner is the widow of the man who was the richest person in the small kingdom of Mariskova . It's estimated in f... |
396,129 | 2,483,625 | 71,566 | 5 | Canned And Banned | With a plot partially lifted from The Towering Inferno , Gold is a man made disaster of a film in every sense of the word . Ray Milland is the hard as nails South African gold mine magnate , Harry Hirschfeld . He's done something to get the gold traders mad at him because they're planning to do him dirt . John Gielgud ... |
396,279 | 2,483,625 | 963,178 | 5 | Banking Can Be A Dangerous Business | The International as it is spoken of in hushed tones by its friends and foes , is a multi-national European based bank that's into all kinds of activities , only marginally related to banking . An Assistant District Attorney from New York County , Naomi Watts , is interested in it because they launder money for organiz... |
392,913 | 2,483,625 | 44,919 | 5 | Montana Bull | Montana Belle which probably at best started out to be an average B western product from RKO got to Howard Hughes's attention because it starred his protégé Jane Russell . This make believe account of the famous female outlaw Belle Starr got cut and recut and edited down to a mess of a story if you're looking for coher... |
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