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395,902 | 2,483,625 | 86,884 | 5 | Give Peace A Chance | Robert Mitchum plays the title role of The Ambassador and in this case he's the American Ambassador to Israel . He's got the notion in his head that if he can get the Arab and Israeli students dialoging , it might lead the way to eventual peace . Of course there are malevolent forces on all sides that don't want to see... |
395,458 | 2,483,625 | 25,091 | 5 | Courtroom Melodrama Fails to Ignite | Evelyn Prentice was the third film that William Powell and Myrna Loy made together . It's hardly up to the standard that Manhattan Melodrama or The Thin Man were . Myrna in the title role is far from Nora Charles . She's a dutiful mother , but a neglected wife of her husband John who is an ace criminal defense attorney... |
396,551 | 2,483,625 | 25,101 | 5 | Unfashionable | The next to last film in William Powell's hiatus at Warner Brothers between his long stints at Paramount and MGM was Fashions of 1934 . He got to work with two Warner Brothers institutions for the one and only time , Bette Davis and Busby Berkeley . Powell probably knew he would be leaving shortly and plays his part in... |
396,763 | 2,483,625 | 44,735 | 5 | Minstrel Show Biography | Probably because the songs of Stephen C . Foster were in the public domain and therefore cost penny pinching Herbert J . Yates not a dime , Yates decided to do a minstrel show musical comedy with the life of Stephen C . Foster to hang the story on . The songs of Stephen Foster retain their beauty to this day , sad thou... |
393,114 | 2,483,625 | 36,037 | 5 | The Film That Won World War II ? ? ? ? ? | In his memoirs Henry Fonda hated this film above all others that he did in his career . That's taking in quite a bit of territory because Fonda did some dreadful stuff in the seventies like Tentaccoli with a giant octopus . A lot of this was done for the money and Fonda with five wives certainly had much expenses in al... |
393,320 | 2,483,625 | 78,918 | 5 | Made With The Best Of Intentions | Bushido Blade is a film that kind of got lost with all the hoopla surrounding the Shogun TV mini-series . Commodore Perry's opening of Japan deserved a better treatment than what it got here . No reflection on the cast , they certainly try hard enough . And the making of the film is a service of sorts because America i... |
393,009 | 2,483,625 | 25,472 | 5 | Who's Looking To Blow Up The Panama Canal ? | One of the very few Spencer Tracy Fox films that is available is Marie Galante . In it Spence plays an American agent working out of the Canal Zone in Panama and trying to stop a plot from blowing the canal up and incidentally trapping the American fleet as it is steaming through . Complicating matters is Ketti Gallian... |
395,490 | 2,483,625 | 36,001 | 5 | A Very Silly Story | Deanna Durbin was blossoming quite nicely into adulthood by the time His Butler's Sister was made . A pity that a whole bunch of talented people were wasted on this one . Deanna's traveling east to live with her stepbrother , Pat O'Brien , and she thinks he's rich . He's not rich , he just works for the rich , specific... |
394,371 | 2,483,625 | 236,493 | 5 | The Last Assignment Is The Last Straw | Luckless Brad Pitt can't seem to work off a debt that he owes crime boss Gene Hackman in an unbilled role . Four years earlier he got into a fender bender with Hackman right at the moment that Hackman was carrying someone in the trunk of his car . Only because it was a live someone , Hackman got off with a few years in... |
393,324 | 2,483,625 | 79,013 | 5 | I'll See You In C-U-B - | According to the Citadel Film series book on Sean Connery , Sean violated a rule that both he and Charlton Heston normally follow , never take an assignment on an unfinished script . The cameras were rolling on the players before the final script was done and the results clearly show it . Cuba as a film certainly had p... |
395,146 | 2,483,625 | 25,455 | 5 | The Rodeo Racket | In this low budget oater from Monogram we've got John Wayne helping U . S . Marshal Gabby Hayes bring down some bank robbers in the very act of same . Gabby liked the way young man handled himself so he takes him on as an undercover agent to smash a rodeo racket . You heard it folks , a rodeo racket . This bunch comes ... |
394,426 | 2,483,625 | 35,958 | 5 | Makin Island , Hollywood Style | The campaign of Makin Island which was the very first piece of Pacific Island we invaded against the Japanese in World War II . It serves as the basis for this film . Not much of an island the island was directly between the Hawaiian Islands and a place called Guadalcanal . The theory was get in , destroy the Japanese ... |
395,962 | 2,483,625 | 60,120 | 5 | The Appaloosa of Our Eye | The Appaloosa is a film that was made at a time when Marlon Brando's career was in the doldrums . Either films were not money makers though critically good like Reflections in a Golden Eye or they were outright duds like this one . It's not a horrible western , just not a terribly good one . Even Brando's One Eyed Jack... |
396,647 | 2,483,625 | 16,672 | 5 | Crawford as a T-Girl | The Boob features the talents of George K . Arthur as a naive country boy who is trying very hard to impress a young lady Gertrude Olmstead , but she can't see him for beans , much preferring the slick talking city guy Antonio D'Algy . He even puts on a big cowboy outfit , but Olmstead laughs at him , saying he's just ... |
395,973 | 2,483,625 | 44,557 | 5 | An Itch To Scratch | Don't Bother To Knock finds airline pilot Richard Widmark flying with more than the safety of his passengers on his mind to New York . He's on a mission to confront Anne Bancroft who's given him a ' let's call it a day ' letter . Anne works as a singer in a posh New York nightclub attached to one of the fancier hotels ... |
393,802 | 2,483,625 | 25,371 | 5 | Tragic Romance Along the Navajo Trail | In viewing Laughing Boy today I counted elements of Camille , Romeo and Juliet and Duel in the Sun in the plot of this Indian love story . Ramon Novarro plays the title role and he's a Navajo from way off in the rural part of the reservation . Lupe Velez is also a Navajo , but an orphan who is the live in mistress of W... |
393,755 | 2,483,625 | 51,436 | 5 | Widening the Screen , for the Battle of New Orleans | This was the last film that Cecil B . DeMille had anything to do with . He originally planned to direct this remake of his 1938 film The Buccaneer , but ill health prevented him from doing so . So apart from a brief prologue and a production credit saying the film was presented by him , DeMille left the producing to go... |
393,356 | 2,483,625 | 52,027 | 5 | Spencer Tracy's turn at Hemingway | Ernest Hemingway's books have been filmed by Hollywood with varying degrees of success . Such stars as Gary Cooper , Gregory Peck , Tyrone Power , Rock Hudson , and Humphrey Bogart have taken a turn at being Hemingway heroes . I guess it was Spencer Tracy's turn to do it now . I'm not sure that any actor no matter how ... |
395,727 | 2,483,625 | 24,805 | 5 | Guarding An Inheritance | Neath The Arizona Skies finds John Wayne as the guardian of little Shirley Jean Rickert who is a half Indian little tyke who stands to inherit some really big bucks because property her Mother left before she died has oil on it . Dad's been out of the picture for some time and most believe he's dead . The Duke thinks o... |
396,815 | 2,483,625 | 44,488 | 5 | Catering Bandits | Carson City has the distinction of two real western characters hiring the fictional character played by Randolph Scott to build a railroad from Virginia City to Carson City . William Sharon ( Larry Keating ) is getting very tired of having his gold shipments held up by a gang of bandits who also cater when they do a ho... |
393,809 | 2,483,625 | 59,674 | 5 | Liz and Dick and Eva Marie | Another story about middle-aged anxst . Only this time we have Richard Burton as an Episcopal minister leading a humdrum life as the head of a religious school . He's bored with his marriage too , to Eva Marie Saint . Into his life comes single mom Elizabeth Taylor who is raising her son Morgan Mason out of wedlock and... |
394,757 | 2,483,625 | 44,537 | 5 | Who's Got the right of way ? | The Denver and the Rio Grande is purportedly the story of the construction of that line financed by Dean Jagger , designed by J . Carrol Naish and constructed by Edmond O'Brien . They meet some stiff opposition from the the bad railroad where Sterling Hayden and Lyle Better run things . With some elements taken from fi... |
393,270 | 2,483,625 | 36,755 | 5 | The Riffs Will Strike With A Blow , That Leaves You Low | The Sigmund Romberg-Otto Harbach-Oscar Hammerstein , II operetta from the Twenties , The Desert Song is given an update and World War II worked into the plot about the Caucasian leader of the Riff tribesmen of Morocco in revolt against the French Colonial government . It's in this version that the real Riff leader from... |
396,533 | 2,483,625 | 36,725 | 5 | Happy Trails Begin | In a joint book about Roy Rogers and Dale Evans that I recently read , it seems as though Herbert J . Yates at Republic Pictures had the idea that Roy could use a regular female singing star , the better to boost the audiences for his number one B picture cowboy at the time . He had under contract one Frances Octavia S... |
395,461 | 2,483,625 | 52,148 | 5 | One of the ' Sickest ' Films of All Time | When the original script of The Roots of Heaven was shown to John Huston , he had it in mind for William Holden to star in it . It seemed like a natural given Holden's interest in conservation . Errol Flynn remarked in his memoirs that he was looking forward to co-starring with Holden . But Bill Holden backed out of th... |
393,251 | 2,483,625 | 24,675 | 5 | You'll Live Through It | In the one and only film Gary Cooper and Joan Crawford made together , unless you count their joint cameo in It's A Great Feeling , it's one very old fashioned wartime soap opera set in the United Kingdom during World War I and then in France . Howard Hawks maybe was the wrong director for this film . It might have bee... |
396,855 | 2,483,625 | 36,692 | 5 | Deanna's lovely voice | Can't Help Singing featuring Deanna Durbin singing those wonderful Jerome Kern-E . Y . Harburg songs either solo or with Robert Paige is nice musical entertainment . So entertaining it can even be forgiven some very illogical plot premises . Deanna's the daughter of a United States Senator who's run away from home to c... |
396,302 | 2,483,625 | 79,813 | 5 | Spreading The Ramone Gospel | If you're not a fan of the post disco music scene that The Ramones represented you're probably not going to like Rock " N " Roll High School . And if you do nothing that I or any other reviewer says will influence you in the slightest degree . There's no plot in this anarchistic film by Roger Corman , but that's part o... |
396,104 | 2,483,625 | 44,370 | 5 | What A Built | Doris Day as Ethel ' Dynamite ' Jackson gets a letter from the State Department saying that she's been chosen to be an American representative at an Arts Festival in Paris . The letter was supposed to go to Ethel Barrymore instead . Doris had written the State Department about a work permit visa to work at a nightclub ... |
393,891 | 2,483,625 | 24,592 | 5 | Rescuing Paul Fix | Henry B . Walthall goes to bat for John Wayne after an overzealous sheriff charges him with a crime during a rodeo . Henry likes Wayne's riding skill and he reminds him of his lost son who fled after being accursed of a murder and hooked up with a murderous gringo gang South of the Border . Wayne repays Walthall's kind... |
394,199 | 2,483,625 | 36,636 | 5 | Gypsy Rose Lee in the frozen north . | Randolph Scott tones it down a might , but he continues in the role he had in The Spoilers as a con man in Alaska . He's running a gambling establishment in Malamute and has taken great pains to establish his identity as HONEST John Calhoun . Up pops Gypsy Rose Lee an old girl friend who heads a group of chorus girls w... |
393,309 | 2,483,625 | 421,199 | 5 | When Giants Roamed The Earth | Back in ancient Sumeria when supernatural creatures were roaming the Earth with the descendants of Adam and Eve , they mated with humans and created a race of giants . But when the Deity decided to flood the Earth they were lost . All except one who was mummified and dad in the person of Navid Negahban has come back to... |
395,984 | 2,483,625 | 59,418 | 5 | Made Up as he went along | In his autobiography , Charlton Heston spent more time talking about this film than any other . Some other commentator said that it looked like someone took over the direction . The commentator was very observant . Heston had to take over the direction because Sam Peckinpah just lost interest and began indulging in all... |
393,905 | 2,483,625 | 59,453 | 5 | The Man In The Gray Suit | Mister Buddwing , a curious made up name for the lead character , finds James Garner as a man who wakes up in Central Park without a clue as to who he is . All he has are a couple of scraps of paper with a phone number on one , an address on another and the name of Grace ringing through his clouded mind . From this he ... |
394,286 | 2,483,625 | 343,737 | 5 | America Guarded By A Nest of WASPS | I came away from The Good Shepherd terribly disappointed . A really talented cast was very wasted in this fictional retelling of over 20 years of American espionage . The USA got into the spy game on a permanent basis real late . We had intelligence services during all of our Wars up to World War II . It was deemed som... |
395,375 | 2,483,625 | 266,041 | 5 | Not following the family plan | This Lifetime film involves the richest kid in a small Texas town who falls for a girl from the other side of the tracks . Much is made of the lack of identity of the girl's father , but in the end that turns out to be quite irrelevant to the proceedings . There's no anonymity in a small town like this . Maybe if young... |
395,606 | 2,483,625 | 24,902 | 5 | Starving Out A Town | Blue Steel finds sheriff Gabby Hayes on the trail of a bandit known as the Polka Dot Bandit by his distinctive polka dot neckerchief . After a robbery at a local hotel , Hayes has reason to suspect a tall stranger played by John Wayne as the bandit . But before he can act on his suspicions both of them get themselves i... |
396,814 | 2,483,625 | 79,488 | 5 | The Case of the Stuttering Gangster | Mr . and Mrs . Charles Bronson co-star in Love and Bullets . He as a cop and she as a protected witness . She needed a lot of protection . It's an average Bronson action / adventure saga , but with the unusual twist that Jill Ireland actually comes off much better than her husband does . I did enjoy her saucy portrayal... |
394,140 | 2,483,625 | 51,887 | 5 | Bronson Turns Punk and Morey Goes Gay | For anyone who's looking for the real story of George ' Machine-Gun ' Kelly they'll be in for a disappointment . In the wake of the success of The Untouchables on television , Hollywood was rediscovering the gangster era and the criminals that were household names in the Twenties and Thirties . Both the major studios a... |
393,090 | 2,483,625 | 79,550 | 5 | Perestroika Saves The World | Meteor and When Time Ran Out marked the end of the decade of the disaster epic . I guess that Hollywood was just running out of ideas and that the formula of getting a bunch of big name players and put them in harm's way was wearing thin . You can see that just about everybody here is bored , they all say the lines wit... |
393,522 | 2,483,625 | 36,419 | 5 | Not Your Current View of Andy Johnson | Though Tennessee Johnson boasts fine performances by Van Heflin , Ruth Hussey , and Lionel Barrymore as Andrew Johnson , Eliza McCardle Johnson , and Thaddeus Stevens respectively , the wrong story about Johnson was told here . The accepted historical view of Andrew Johnson's presidency now is that had he been a bit mo... |
395,495 | 2,483,625 | 51,849 | 5 | The Movies Love Billy | I don't think Paul Newman was ever at his best in the west . Certainly not in this film . But fans of his will like it . The Billy the Kid saga has been told so often at this point on film , I don't think it's possible to write a spoiler . The actual truth has never really been told because the participants in the Linc... |
395,355 | 2,483,625 | 36,426 | 5 | Sabotaging The Saboteurs | If you want to know about Guantanamo and the precedent for all those enemy alien combatants being kept there , a viewing of They Came To Blow Up America is in order . Given the title and when it came out I found it to be more restrained in the flag waving than I thought . Not to say it doesn't have its problems and a m... |
396,191 | 2,483,625 | 44,075 | 5 | Taking On The KKK | Not that the subject matter of Storm Warning lends itself to music , but isn't it fascinating that Warner Brothers cast two of the best female musical performers in the history of film as the two leads . Sisters even . For Ginger Rogers this was hardly her first dramatic part , having won an Oscar for Kitty Foyle . But... |
394,669 | 2,483,625 | 24,838 | 5 | Studying Art In Gay Paree | Harry Gribbon former Mack Sennett Keystone Cop and Shemp Howard sometime Stooge are a pair of house painters who get a once in a lifetime opportunity for an art scholarship . All they have to do is do it under the aliases provided by James Stewart and Don Tomkins who are being forced to go to Paris and study art by the... |
395,819 | 2,483,625 | 70,825 | 5 | Let's Go to Mexico | Ann-Margret has hired John Wayne and company to find some stolen gold that her husband along with other outlaws had robbed . It's in Mexico , a four day ride according to her . So off our intrepid group goes to Mexico . Of course those other outlaws are after it also so therein lies the tale . Burt Kennedy did so much ... |
392,823 | 2,483,625 | 281,617 | 6 | Another Three Mile Island | Since this film was a product made for the Science Fiction channel you would expect to have all kinds of unearthly creatures from space or newly rediscovered earth monsters in it . For Atomic Twister you would be wrong . The title is terribly misleading . No monsters arise from a tornado . A tornado is the cause of thi... |
393,249 | 2,483,625 | 26,292 | 6 | A Place To Hone Talent | For Will Rogers last film it was a reunion of sorts because he got to play opposite Billie Burke who as we know was the widow of Will's great theatrical benefactor , Florenz Ziegfeld . Ziegfeld died quite broke as a result of the stock market crash and Burke was out in Hollywood trying to support her daughter by going ... |
394,131 | 2,483,625 | 105,126 | 6 | Kanoodle And Tell | This particular Perry Mason television film , The Case of the Reckless Romeo , is distinguished for having Geraldo Rivera play a version of himself and well on the screen . It was almost a shame to have him killed off , he was the best thing about this film . Like Geraldo in real life , Geraldo is the host of a tabloid... |
395,799 | 2,483,625 | 70,438 | 6 | Disaster Film On A Budget | The Neptune Factor deals with some scientists who live and work out of an undersea lab in the Atlantic Ocean . One fine day while their bosses , Walter Pidgeon , Yvette Mimieux , and Ernest Borgnine are up top , an earthquake occurs and the lab topples over into an underwater crevice . Though an atomic power submarine ... |
396,259 | 2,483,625 | 52,583 | 6 | All You Have To Do Is Ask Any Girl | Shirley MacLaine made her film debut a scant four years earlier in The Trouble With Harry and in her third film , Around the World in 80 Days , co-starred with David Niven . Reportedly they did not get along on the set , Niven felt she wasn't suited for the part of a Hindu princess and after seeing it I think you would... |
396,354 | 2,483,625 | 35,250 | 6 | Getting The Duke Out Of France | Reunion in France finds Joan Crawford as an upper class French woman happily engaged to industrialist Philip Dorn and confident that the French army will defend the Maginot Line and the Germans will be defeated once they make a move west . Of course history and the film both tell us it didn't work out that way . When s... |
392,780 | 2,483,625 | 26,261 | 6 | The Consolation Prize | We're it not for the fact that Bette Davis won her first Academy Award in Dangerous , this film would hardly be remembered by anyone except the most ardent Bette Davis fans . There were a number of films that woman carried by sheer force of nature and this is probably the best example of one . Her character of Joyce He... |
395,923 | 2,483,625 | 52,481 | 6 | Zealously Guarding Home And Hearth | Before Laramie became infamously known as the location of Matthew Shepard's murder it was best known as the title of a western set there in old west Wyoming . The premise was young Slim Sherman as played by John Smith and his younger brother Andy ( Robert Crawford , Jr . ) trying to hang on to the family ranch after th... |
395,812 | 2,483,625 | 35,279 | 6 | A Statue of Liberty Play | On my VHS box of Saboteur the film was noted as Alfred Hitchcock's first with an all American cast . Thinking about it you can make that claim for it considering the foreign locations of both Rebecca and Foreign Correspondent . Saboteur involves Robert Cummings as both the pursuer and the pursued . The police think he'... |
393,502 | 2,483,625 | 43,955 | 6 | Updating of a Prohibition era play | The Racket was originally a play on Broadway which ran for 119 performances in the 1927-1928 season and was later made into a silent film by Howard Hughes . Come 1951 and the Kefauver Senate Rackets Committee hearings in full swing , the gangster film was having a renaissance . So Hughes dusted off this old chestnut an... |
395,717 | 2,483,625 | 52,506 | 6 | A Contentious Series | Riverboat was a television that never quite developed it's audience . My guess is that the reports of the fighting on set which I well remember got more attention than the show itself . Darren McGavin who had a few film credits , most notably The Man With The Golden Arm and a half hour version of Mike Hammer that ran i... |
395,566 | 2,483,625 | 105,187 | 6 | The Great Berzini | The Public Eye was an attempt to elevate Joe Pesci to star status from respected character actor in the wake of his acclaimed Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Goodfellas . Though Pesci did give a great performance in the film , the public was not prepared to buy him as leading man status . The film is really Pesci's... |
395,449 | 2,483,625 | 52,522 | 6 | Robert Stack Takes On The Mob | Before Brian DePalma gave us his stylish telling of the tale Eliot Ness and his band of Treasury agents , the world was reintroduced to them via this television series from Desilu productions . Eliot Ness was portrayed in tight-lipped , square jawed fashion by Robert Stack and it became his career role . If Ness had on... |
394,134 | 2,483,625 | 43,885 | 6 | Oh Captain , My Captain | In the book that Michael Freedland wrote about Gregory Peck , Only the Valiant is described as the worst film Gregory Peck ever made . During those beginning years of his stardom it seems like just about every film became a classic of some kind . Only the Valiant was shot on the cheap and it shows . The book says that ... |
395,055 | 2,483,625 | 175,880 | 6 | A Biblical Plague | I was enjoying Magnolia right up to the part where a biblical type of plague came down upon all the characters in the film and I was then wondering what it was all about . Magnolia is an episodic , along the lines of director / writer Paul T . Anderson's previous success , Boogie Nights . A whole bunch of people , tied... |
395,529 | 2,483,625 | 52,718 | 6 | Preacher Dan Takes Out A Vampire | This is one of those classic cult films that get a devoted following from repeated viewings . I remember seeing it on television for the first time , hosted by that vampire fiend , Zacherley . Michael Pate is a mysterious gunfighter who seems invincible and there's a good reason for it , he's a vampire . Though he dres... |
395,786 | 2,483,625 | 26,134 | 6 | A Note of Love | Although at first glance Break of Hearts looks like Katharine Hepburn is doing another version of Eva Lovelace . Her Patricia Dane is a young struggling classical composer whose mentor is that old music master Jean Hersholt . Turns out Hersholt also mentored well know symphony conductor Franz Roberti played by Charles ... |
394,191 | 2,483,625 | 61,439 | 6 | . . . . . . . . a fleeting wisp of glory , called Camelot . | I wish I had seen the original Broadway production of Camelot . As a lad the Broadway cast album was a treasured staple in our house , played over and over again by my parents . Can you imagine a cast led by Richard Burton , Julie Andrews and introducing Robert Goulet as Lancelot ? So why couldn't Warner Brothers sign ... |
395,155 | 2,483,625 | 43,827 | 6 | Hope Plays For Peanuts | Haven't movie fans wondered how Bob Hope has managed to have so many glamorous leading ladies fall for the schnooky characters he played in his career ? It's a source of amazement and amusement too . But I've always thought that was part of the secret of Hope's appeal , that if he could get the glamor girl , anyone cou... |
393,362 | 2,483,625 | 52,627 | 6 | Would You Believe They Wanted John Wayne ? ? ? ? | Howard Keel says in his posthumously published memoirs that he grabbed the part of Simon Peter in The Big Fisherman to prove his versatility as an actor . Musicals were pretty much done by that time and he was free of his MGM contract . He got the role after John Wayne turned the part down . That one was an eye opener ... |
394,762 | 2,483,625 | 26,191 | 6 | For a screenwriter , too stagey | Ceiling Zero is a story about airmail pilots back when flying was itself an occupational hazard . It was written by Frank W . Wead , better known as Spig Wead whose life was later brought to the screen by John Ford in Wings of Eagles . For those who've seen Wings of Eagles , they know that Spig Wead was a navy pilot wh... |
393,425 | 2,483,625 | 43,781 | 6 | Range War Western | Big rancher Alexander Knox has married Joan Leslie former girlfriend of smaller rancher Randolph Scott . Knox is a brooding jealous sort of man and wants Scott out the territory . He hires some gunslingers headed by Richard Rober to do the job . Scott's a ' peaceable man ' in the tradition of Wild Bill Elliott , but do... |
395,103 | 2,483,625 | 26,519 | 6 | Cooking For Employment and Husband Catching | If You Could Only Cook had been made over at MGM , Jean Arthur would have had her pick of leading men like Robert Montgomery , William Powell , Robert Young , or Franchot Tone all of who might have been a bit more believable as the auto tycoon who gets tired of his stuffy board of directors and walks out on them . As i... |
393,820 | 2,483,625 | 61,024 | 6 | Ain't a Patch on the John Ford version | After seeing this version on AMC a few days ago , I took out my copy of the original from 1939 . It's the difference between a classic western and a routine action film . Director Gordon Douglas probably because there is an unwritten rule in Hollywood that no one is ever to shoot a film in Monument Valley but John Ford... |
394,637 | 2,483,625 | 52,283 | 6 | Glossy Political Soap Opera | John O'Hara whose Pal Joey was brought to the screen the year before wrote the book Ten North Frederick on which this film is based . For some reason this is a film of Gary Cooper's that is rarely shown any more . Cooper is the WASP type upper crust patrician who has some political ambition . He's a well respected man ... |
393,777 | 2,483,625 | 26,571 | 6 | Alice Gets Her Man | The title role in King of Burlesque is played by Warner Baxter who is the impresario of burlesque down on East 14 Street and Irving Place . But he aspires to higher things and won't be satisfied until he's a monarch on Broadway . For that he's willing to marry up with Mona Barrie an impoverished society girl and leave ... |
393,877 | 2,483,625 | 26,403 | 6 | The Plot Doesn't Get Too Much In The Way | Famed Broadway producer George White appeared in a second film version of his famous scandals the year after the first one . The original screen George White's Scandals introduced Alice Faye to the screen and Faye is once again featured . White appears as himself again and this time does a little hoofing in a dance con... |
393,885 | 2,483,625 | 26,393 | 6 | Puff Piece for the Federal Bureau of Investigation | When Machine Gun Kelly gave up , uttering that famous line , " Don't Shoot G-Men " , he gave the Federal Bureau of Investigation members a moniker that has survived down to this day . He also entitled an upcoming film being made at Warner Brothers about the FBI . Though the FBI had been in existence since 1908 , founde... |
393,281 | 2,483,625 | 61,170 | 6 | A Tokyo Location | I'm sure that Cary Grant was dangled the prospect of a nice all expenses paid for location shooting in Tokyo for his final film , Walk Don't Run . It's the reason he did the film I'm sure . It's not a bad film to go out on , not near as good as say The Shootist was for John Wayne , but no Cuban Rebel Girl like Errol Fl... |
394,603 | 2,483,625 | 52,365 | 6 | We're Vikings , burning , pillaging , and raping is what we do . | I doubt today we could make a film today with the opening sequence a rape of Queen Enid who is Maxine Audley by Ragnar the Viking Chief played by Ernest Borgnine . And Borgnine's supposed to be one of the good guys . She's had no kids by her late husband the king and her late husband's cousin , Frank Thring , takes the... |
395,567 | 2,483,625 | 34,881 | 6 | For Tonight We'll Merry Merry Be | I Married a Witch was a good fantasy / comedy that could have been a great one if it were not for the fact that the leading man and lady couldn't stand each other . Fredric March thought Veronica Lake was a no-talent studio creation and Lake thought March a would be rake who was put out because she wouldn't give him a ... |
393,067 | 2,483,625 | 34,882 | 6 | Hey Butcher , Hey Baker , Love's Landed a Real Haymaker | It was not planned that way , but as it turns out the film adaption of the Rodgers & Hart Broadway musical I Married an Angel turned out to be the last pairing of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette MacDonald . Nelson in fact left Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer after this film and bought his own contract out for $250 , 000 . 00 according to... |
394,210 | 2,483,625 | 43,547 | 6 | Close Air Ground Support | Flying Leathernecks finds John Wayne in the Marines again , but this time as a commissioned officer / pilot . He has an idea about better coordination with ground troops on that lovely tropic isle of Guadalcanal and he inherits a squadron that essentially become guinea pigs to test his theory out . He also inherits a r... |
393,841 | 2,483,625 | 43,526 | 6 | The Dunstans and Banks at it again | I'd like to be able to write that Father's Little Dividend is as worthy a sequel to Father of the Bride as The Bells of St . Mary's is to Going My Way . Unfortunately it did not happen that way . The whole cast is re-united for this sequel with newlyweds Elizabeth Taylor and Don Taylor expecting their first . The possi... |
394,506 | 2,483,625 | 43,461 | 6 | The Rommel Story | Though The Desert Fox is good as far as it goes and James Mason is perfectly cast as Erwin Rommel , one would hope that a fuller biographical study might be done on the screen . Erwin Rommel was one of a group of like minded military leaders in various countries who after World War I , rose to the top of their country'... |
393,041 | 2,483,625 | 43,476 | 6 | Sinatra's Last Schnook Role | Frank Sinatra's last role under his contract with RKO was this slight comedy Double Dynamite . It was also the last time he played a milquetoast schnook . Double Dynamite was started in 1948 but Howard Hughes in his infinite wisdom kept under under wraps for three years , not releasing it until Christmas of 1951 . In a... |
396,774 | 2,483,625 | 69,951 | 6 | Descending to the Same Level as Whom You Hunt | The big surprise in The Deadly Trackers is Rod Taylor's emergence as one mean and nasty villain here . Although he had played a bad guy early in his career in Hell on Frisco Bay as a contract killer , the public was used to Rod as the civilized fellow bringing a sense of order to a future world in The Time Machine . He... |
394,067 | 2,483,625 | 96,161 | 6 | The Fighting McGuinns | I'm really amazed at some of the reviews I've read on this film . It's not the greatest boxing film ever made , still it portrays both the good and the seamier side of the sport . It's a low level Rocky with a touch of an old James Cagney-Pat O'Brien film , The Irish In Us . The idea that even a top amateur can step in... |
393,098 | 2,483,625 | 53,065 | 6 | Get That Trophy Wife | The team that brought you Marty , writer Paddy Chayefsky and director Delbert Mann brought Middle Of The Night to the big screen . It was first an original drama for television with E . G . Marshall and Eva Marie Saint for the Philco Playhouse . It then went to Broadway where it ran 477 performances in 1956-57 and star... |
393,996 | 2,483,625 | 217,521 | 6 | Idolized Outlaw Father | The Great Stagecoach Robbery was one of the Red Ryder series from Republic Pictures . Though Herbert J . Yates's main star at this time was singing cowboy Roy Rogers not all of his stars sung . Bill Elliott was one of several actors to play the role comic book cowboy hero Red Ryder on the screen . He might be the best ... |
393,117 | 2,483,625 | 96,193 | 6 | Give Or Take A Lie Or Two | I appreciate Sunset the film because it gave the man who I consider the best big screen Wyatt Earp , James Garner , a chance to reprise the role . Garner played Earp back in the mid sixties in John Sturges's Hour of the Gun . That film took the unusual plot line of beginning with the famous Gunfight at the OK Corral an... |
394,927 | 2,483,625 | 43,425 | 6 | Bud & Lou Go a Feudin ' | The feud is on between the Wingfields and the McCoys when Bud Abbott discovers his clients , hopeless magician Lou Costello and the Park Avenue hillbilly Dorothy Shay are both McCoys and Costello's inherited concertina holds the secret to a treasure of hidden gold . So off they go to the Appalachins where Costello's ar... |
394,324 | 2,483,625 | 35,793 | 6 | This Could Be the Start of a Beautiful Friendship | In between making That Hamilton Woman and Henry V both of which could be argued were better contributions to the propaganda front of the British war effort , Laurence Olivier made this film about a Soviet engineer who designs a new type ship propeller and the government contracts with a British firm to build and instal... |
394,978 | 2,483,625 | 35,800 | 6 | A Couple Of Navy Men | Edward G . Robinson and Glenn Ford star in Destroyer , a sentimental Navy tale of two different generations of Navy men . Though the film's World War II vintage somewhat dates it , the film is still good entertainment . The film begins with news of the USS John Paul Jones being sunk in the Pacific . That news is partic... |
392,889 | 2,483,625 | 69,976 | 6 | Purvis Vs . Dillinger | Although Warren Oates makes one charismatic Dillinger in the title role of this film , the story concentrates as much on Melvin Purvis the G-Man that got him , played here by Ben Johnson . We meet Dillinger as a full blown criminal whose exploits and daring captured the public fancy in Depression Era America . With ban... |
394,335 | 2,483,625 | 53,220 | 6 | Allies Of Convenience | After a bad beginning because I could not believe the way that bounty hunter Randolph Scott was able to bring in James Best , the rest of the film fleshes out nicely to another tension filled western directed by Budd Boetticher and written by Burt Kennedy who would soon be directing features of his own . When Scott doe... |
394,567 | 2,483,625 | 35,617 | 6 | Doing Their Bit For Uncle Sam | One of Laurel and Hardy's last films was this one for MGM where they play a couple of 4Fs who still want to do their bit for the USA at war with the Axis . After getting turned down by all the armed services , Stan and Ollie return to their small town and their bicycle shop to volunteer as air raid wardens . Their bicy... |
395,222 | 2,483,625 | 25,628 | 6 | The Reader's Digest Version Of Fifty Million Frenchmen | I would not say that Bob Hope was a major star on Broadway , that eluded him until he got into films , but he was a prominent Broadway performer during the Thirties before he went to Hollywood for The Big Broadcast of 1938 . This short was made in New York probably between his run in Roberta and Say When . What Paree ,... |
393,236 | 2,483,625 | 43,371 | 6 | Just Who Is Callaway ? | Consider the time this film came out . It is one of the first feature films about the cinema's new rival , television . More specifically it is based on the renaissance of Hopalong Cassidy as an early television star . This film takes me back to when I was a lad in the early days of television when there was a need for... |
396,252 | 2,483,625 | 35,689 | 6 | Knute Rockne Joins the Army Air Corps | Pat O'Brien takes his Knute Rockne character and joins the Army Air Corps in Bombardier and he and Randolph Scott have a disagreement as far as air tactics go . Scott wants to do things as they do in the RAF where he's been an observer . Fly in low and drop bombs and avoid being shot at . O'Brien is more interested in ... |
395,432 | 2,483,625 | 104,567 | 6 | Johnny Suede , Likable But Shallow | Johnny Suede finds Brad Pitt in a character study of a would be rock and roll superstar who just can't quite get his career off the ground . In a homage to a famous Twilight Zone episode He finds a pair of classy suede shoes that seem to complete the look he keeps trying to obtain . Unfortunately it takes more than jus... |
393,351 | 2,483,625 | 96,098 | 6 | Some Inconvenient Allies | After an eleven year absence from the screen , Sidney Poitier chose to return in an action / adventure film where he plays an FBI agent in search of a killer . He's got good reason to want this guy bad . His quarry is ruthless and kills without mercy . Poitier loses a hostage and the ransom he's asked for . But some go... |
396,782 | 2,483,625 | 43,255 | 6 | Sidekicks of the Invisible Man | One thing I can say about Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man is that here we know why someone would hire Bud and Lou as anything . Bud and Lou are newly graduated private detectives from a school and a man on the run from a murder rap goes into the first office he sees that advertises what he's looking for . He... |
394,578 | 2,483,625 | 26,043 | 6 | Cashing In On It Happened One Night | A year earlier Clark Gable as a " punishment " for a recalcitrant star was farmed out to Columbia Pictures by Louis B . Mayer to make a real dog of a film about a bus trip entitled It Happened One Night . That film essentially created the modern screen comedy as we know it and made a grand slam of the major Oscar categ... |
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