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393,676 | 2,483,625 | 43,232 | 6 | That's Short For Schuyler | Though it was a nice play on words the character Sky King did not get his moniker from his reliance on air travel , it was simply short for Schuyler . Nevertheless it's a great handle and suggestive of all kinds of romantic fantasies about air travel . The last name King was also an interesting choice . One of the larg... |
392,926 | 2,483,625 | 35,565 | 6 | Nothing Can Stop The Army Air Corps | I was lucky enough to get to see this recruiting film on TCM this morning with James Stewart this morning . Before going off to Europe and flying several bombing missions over Axis territory in the next four years , Stewart stopped by Warner Brothers long enough to make this recruitment film . What's ironic here is tha... |
396,115 | 2,483,625 | 35,550 | 6 | It's When He Gets Home The Trouble Starts | When Johnny Comes Marching Home Again finds Allan Jones as a hero soldier on home with some well earned leave , not only from combat , but from a bond tour where shapely débutante Marla Shelton has been sticking to him like glue . He's a fighting man under his real name , Johnny Kovacs , but everybody knows him under t... |
394,541 | 2,483,625 | 87,174 | 6 | A Curvacious Hostage | Imagine Kirk Douglas's character of Lomax from The War Wagon years later presumably after he'd spent that much reduced share from that robbery and you've got Handsome Harry Holland . Kirk is still a charmer , but now is just a bit tired of putting up with some of the people he has to deal with . Case in point where he ... |
395,392 | 2,483,625 | 43,170 | 6 | WWWWild Bill WWait For Me ! ! ! | That Andy Devine always yelling at Wild Bill Hickok to slow down and allow his to catch up . Hickok's appaloosa Buckshot had a lot less weight to carry than Andy's trusty pinto steed Joker , given the handicap allowance , Andy was right to complain . This television series had nothing to do with the story of the real J... |
393,690 | 2,483,625 | 43,175 | 6 | The TV Show Takes The Rap For Radio | I don't think I've seen any Amos ' n Andy Shows for over 40 years now , but I still remember them from television and the history behind them . Early television was stuck for creative programming and what better programming than to bring successful radio programs over to television . There certainly was no more success... |
396,475 | 2,483,625 | 60,565 | 6 | A Sincere Project , Hampered By Lack of Interest | Johnny Tiger was a film that Robert Taylor hoped would help him transition to older more mature roles . He's a man of academia who's taken a position on a Seminole Indian reservation in Florida . While there , he encounters the charming and reckless title character played by Chad Everett . Everett is the grandson of th... |
393,964 | 2,483,625 | 52,970 | 6 | Bob's been working on the railroad | Robert Taylor arrives in Africa to survey a route from Mombasa to Lake Victoria for a railroad . Of course British policy against the slave trade has some of the locals up in arms and the fact that Taylor makes it clear his company will not be permitting the transport of slaves makes him a few enemies , chiefly Gregoir... |
394,971 | 2,483,625 | 35,361 | 6 | Grass Skirts ? The Better To See Betty Grable's Legs | I'm not sure but that Song of the Islands was had been done before December 7 , 1941 and definitely before US servicemen started bleeding and dying in the South Seas . There certainly is no mention of World War II at all in this escapist Betty Grable film where she's poaching on Dorothy Lamour's south sea territory . I... |
395,906 | 2,483,625 | 43,134 | 6 | Help and Cooperation | The White Tower is an allegorical film about the need for cooperation among people and nations . It's no accident that this film was made during the early years of the United Nations when there was so much hope for its success . Maybe we will be one world , one day if we all cooperate . The story takes place in Switzer... |
394,201 | 2,483,625 | 25,893 | 6 | Oh , Give Me A Home Where The Buffalo Roam . | This is one of a group of westerns that Randolph Scott's home studio of Paramount assigned to him . Filmed previously as a silent and taking use of a lot of the action sequences from the silent version , Thundering Herd's source was one of Zane Grey's novels . This is not the Randolph Scott we became acquainted with po... |
392,892 | 2,483,625 | 52,915 | 6 | British Elvis Goes In The Military | Poor Elvis Presley . Had he realized he could have done his military obligation and not have to put a career on hold , he might very well have become a British subject . Elvis's being drafted into the army was world wide news back in the day and the British sought to take advantage of it with this film , Idle On Parade... |
393,671 | 2,483,625 | 25,939 | 6 | Combining The Genres | Randolph Scott at this point in his career when he wasn't doing other films was learning the western genre in a series of films that Paramount's B unit was doing from Zane Grey novels . In this particular one , Rocky Mountain Mystery , Grey tried his hand at a detective story and skilfully combined the genres . Randy's... |
394,628 | 2,483,625 | 35,447 | 6 | The Marines Have Always Been Looking For A Few Good Men | Stepping into the hero / heel part that Tyrone Power specialized in while at 20th Century Fox is John Payne as the spoiled kid of a former Marine officer , Minor Watson . Payne's hoping to get out of the Marines for a nice desk job in Washington , DC , but Watson's hoping that his former sergeant Randolph Scott , now a... |
395,095 | 2,483,625 | 43,069 | 6 | Trigger & Son versus The Phantom | Trigger , Jr . finds Roy Rogers heading a traveling circus that is looking to put up at Dale Evans ranch for winter quarters . Unfortunately her father George Cleveland owns the place and he's an old circus man himself who's sworn off the sawdust . Still he lets them stay for a bit . Turns out he needs Roy around becau... |
394,374 | 2,483,625 | 87,062 | 6 | Inconvenient Allies | City Heat casts two of Hollywood's biggest box office draws of the past forty years in the same film as different types . The film is set in Kansas City of 1933 which richly earned the reputation it had back in the day of a wide open town . This was in fact the Kansas City of Tom Pendergast . Clint Eastwood is a by the... |
395,369 | 2,483,625 | 122,255 | 6 | A Cutthroat Profession | Like America when Australia decided to make its first talking motion picture it decided it should sing as well . With the exception of one player in the cast , the film was mostly made up of folks who must have primarily been stage performers . The theater in the outback must have been one cutthroat profession . Susan ... |
392,743 | 2,483,625 | 52,877 | 6 | I catch them , I don't hang them . | The Hangman finds Robert Taylor as a relentless U . S . Marshal who pursues criminals with the zeal of Lieutenant Gerard when he was hunting for Richard Kimble in The Fugitive . Barry Morse's words from that show could equally have served as Taylor's bywords , " I don't philosophize , I hunt . " Who he's hunting is the... |
394,262 | 2,483,625 | 69,834 | 6 | How would Rooster Cogburn have handled it ? | As portrayed by John Wayne , United States Marshal J . D . Cahill is a man obsessed with his work as a lawman . I guess you needed super dedication in doing that job right . Trouble is , he's neglected his two sons , Gary Grimes and Clay O'Brien who've fallen in with bad company . In fact that bad company has thought o... |
392,700 | 2,483,625 | 43,044 | 6 | A Pair Of Normal Fellows | Three Little Words purports to tell the story of the fabled songwriting team of Bert Kalmar and Harry Ruby and for the film the unlikely team of Fred Astaire as Kalmar and Red Skelton as Ruby were brought in to star . It's a good thing the real Kalmar and Ruby had a lot more chemistry than Astaire and Skelton do . But ... |
396,034 | 2,483,625 | 36,313 | 6 | Mildly Amusing , But Not To Dick Powell | Riding High marked the end Dick Powell's association with Paramount Pictures . He never went back on the Paramount lot after finishing Riding High . Seeing it now , Riding High has the look of a Bob Hope film and I have a feeling that's who the original male lead was supposed to be . My guess is that Rapid Robert was e... |
393,778 | 2,483,625 | 36,306 | 6 | Swinging World War II | Reveille With Beverly is one of Columbia Pictures all star war time contributions for the boys in the service . But not having a really big studio with a lot of contract players like MGM or Paramount , what was Harry Cohn to do . The answer is take your stars from that other medium , that of swing music . Ann Miller pl... |
396,064 | 2,483,625 | 25,330 | 6 | Cagney has some wrong ideas about class | This pre-code film starring James Cagney has him playing Jimmy Corrigan who is a private detective specializing in finding heirs to large fortunes . He's in competition with Alan Dinehart who calls himself a " geneologist " and has just about the same set of ethics Cagney has . The only difference is Cagney lacks the p... |
395,322 | 2,483,625 | 36,323 | 6 | No Americans in Africa in June of 1942 | Humphrey Bogart after scoring his big success in The Petrified Forest was signed to a long term Warner Brothers contract and only made two outside films while he was under contract for 12 years . The first was Dead End for Sam Goldwyn and the second was Sahara for Columbia . So Bogey was working with at another studio ... |
396,507 | 2,483,625 | 36,341 | 6 | Creeps You Out | This Val Lewton production from RKO could have been a whole lot better , it seems to have been butchered by bad editing . Still and all with some gaping plot holes it's a very effective thriller and is guaranteed to creep you out on viewing . Young Kim Hunter ( and her billing here is ' introducing Kim Hunter ) gets th... |
395,410 | 2,483,625 | 51,591 | 6 | Another Trek Through Hostile Indian Country | Escort West finds Victor Mature as a former Confederate escorting his young daughter out to Oregon territory . They meet up with a troop of cavalry at a stagecoach station , some of whom are hostile . Not nearly as hostile as Faith Domergue who lost a fiancé during the Civil War who is accompanying her sister Elaine St... |
396,296 | 2,483,625 | 79,271 | 6 | Both Sides of the Moral and Immoral | Hardcore is the mirror image of Boogie Nights . Whereas Boogie Nights the pornography industry is seen from the participant's point of view , Hardcore shows it from the outside . It's not a pretty picture . Though the film itself doesn't come off in many ways , no question that George C . Scott's performance in the lea... |
394,632 | 2,483,625 | 44,855 | 6 | Overall Creative Vision Lacking | Neither the RKO 1935 version of Roberta or MGM's 1952 Lovely To Look At are anything like the original show on Broadway . RKO eschewed a male lead singer opposite Irene Dunne and went with Randolph Scott . In and of itself that necessitated change as the vocal chores got divided up between Irene Dunne and Fred Astaire ... |
396,935 | 2,483,625 | 44,863 | 6 | Murky Melodramatic Macao | When the haphazardly put together His Kind of Women turned into a big hit for RKO , Howard Hughes decided to team Robert Mitchum and Jane Russell again . This time instead of a resort in Baja California , the location was to be the orient , in the Portugese colony of Macao . Like in His Kind of Woman , Howard Hughes co... |
393,338 | 2,483,625 | 44,828 | 6 | Sahara redux | A good remake of Sahara with Broderick Crawford leading the cast of competent if not name performers . Crawford was still in the glow of his two star quality performances in All The King's Men and Born Yesterday . Broderick Crawford is a cavalry sergeant leading a patrol in the Arizona desert and they're attacked . As ... |
395,685 | 2,483,625 | 44,825 | 6 | My Resistance Is Low | Substitute Victor Mature for the part that Robert Mitchum normally played in these RKO films of the Fifties and you've got The Las Vegas Story . Wonder what Mitch was doing at this time ? Nothing terribly groundbreaking in this film . Jane Russell and Vincent Price arrive back in Las Vegas where Jane used to be a singe... |
394,015 | 2,483,625 | 36,097 | 6 | Conning For Your Clients . | This film has a singularly appropriate title because the larceny is equal to the music in this very short B musical from Universal . There's also equal parts of comedy and chicanery here as well . Leo Carrillo is a former bootlegger who's now a respectable hotel and nightclub owner and running up really respectable deb... |
394,957 | 2,483,625 | 44,903 | 6 | An Aussie Icon | If any kind of biographical film was to be made about Annette Kellerman , champion swimmer from the turn of the last century , MGM was the only studio to do it . They had the only star qualified and the only studio that gave said star her own set . If Annette Kellerman hadn't blazed the trail , Esther Williams could no... |
393,222 | 2,483,625 | 36,105 | 6 | Quite A History | A little research will yield some interesting results sometimes . Let's Face It was originally a very risqué comedy from the Roaring Twenties entitled Cradle Snatchers . It was written by Norma Mitchell and Russell Medcraft and produced on Broadway by Sam Harris and ran 332 performances in 1925 . It concerned some coll... |
395,713 | 2,483,625 | 25,132 | 6 | Familiar Ground | I have to imagine that in order for MGM to justify using two of their top leading men with Joan Crawford , their parts in Forsaking All Others would have to have been built up considerably . The original Broadway production of this comedy that ran 110 performances in 1933 starred Tallulah Bankhead and it was strictly h... |
395,854 | 2,483,625 | 86,859 | 6 | From Evil to Spoiled | Against All Odds is an less than effective remake of Out of the Past that RKO noir classic that starred Robert Mitchum , Jane Greer , Kirk Douglas and Rhonda Fleming . Not that the players in this film are bad , far from it . But the whole basic structure of the story was completely changed . What made Out of the Past ... |
393,679 | 2,483,625 | 426,371 | 6 | It's A Suite Life | To be all of about 12 and living the life of luxury in a permanent suite at a five star hotel . That's the premise of The Suite Life Of Zack and Cody starring real life identical twins Cole and Dylan Sprouse . They play Zack and Cody Martin whose mom , divorced from their Dad is the hotel lounge singer and played by Ki... |
396,938 | 2,483,625 | 44,893 | 6 | When He Doesn't Sing | Any excuse like Meet Danny Wilson you can get to hear Frank Sinatra sing some great old standards is something to take advantage of . Problem with Meet Danny Wilson is that when Sinatra stops singing , he's really one obnoxious boor in this film . Singer Frank Sinatra and his accompanist piano player Alex Nicol are mak... |
395,267 | 2,483,625 | 25,580 | 6 | Shirley Away From Fox | The only Shirley Temple appeared away from Fox studios was in this loan out film to Paramount co-starring Gary Cooper and Carole Lombard . After Fox became 20th Century Fox , Darryl F . Zanuck would not lend out his biggest star and America's biggest star during those years . Now and Forever was made slightly before Te... |
393,529 | 2,483,625 | 51,261 | 6 | Bronco , Bronco , Tearing Across The Texas Plains | Bronco was a western television series that got rushed to market when Clint Walker walked out on Cheyenne during a contract dispute with Warner Brothers . It's star was one Orville Whipple Hungerford , III , better known to us kids as Ty Hardin . Hardin certainly didn't have the looming presence of 6'6 " Clint Walker a... |
393,682 | 2,483,625 | 51,247 | 6 | A Couple of Hip Private Eyes | Although at the time it was on the air 77 Sunset Strip was primarily known as the vehicle that launched Edd Byrnes into short lived teen idol stardom . Looking back however 77 Sunset Strip set a pattern of Warner Brothers television detectives , it spun so many copycat shows . At 77 Sunset Boulevard was quartered the p... |
394,489 | 2,483,625 | 44,673 | 6 | The Medieval Gauntlet | The famous Hitchcockian McGuffin that everyone is looking for is a medieval jewel encrusted knight's gauntlet said to have belonged to a warrior saint who defeated the Moors in battle back in the day . The fact that the Moors never got to the French Riviera in and around Monte Carlo is of minor importance . It's an obj... |
395,423 | 2,483,625 | 25,532 | 6 | Murder On A Budget | Murder on the Blackboard is the second of three Hildegarde Withers stories that Edna May Oliver and James Gleason were teamed for . Today the charm of these two people , two of the best character actors that movies ever saw carry this rather dated and melodramatic story . One of the teachers at Edna's school , Barbara ... |
394,485 | 2,483,625 | 253,754 | 6 | The New Praetor ' s Intentions | Star Trek : Nemesis is to date the last of the Star Trek films based on one of the Gene Roddenberry series . It's open to speculation whether we'll see another one . It would be disappointing indeed if more did not come out to satisfy the legion of fans out there . Nemesis finds Captain Jean Luc Picard and his crew sen... |
396,041 | 2,483,625 | 35,969 | 6 | Doing This Film Was Murder He Says | In 1942 Dick Powell signed a contract with Paramount Pictures on condition that he vary his roles and would occasionally do some dramatic films which Warner Brothers had refused to cast him in . But his first film for them was Star Spangled Rhythm and his bit part in that wartime musical was with Mary Martin doing prob... |
393,101 | 2,483,625 | 114,116 | 6 | Uncle Bill For The Defense | The last of the contracted Perry Mason television movies is The Case Of The Jealous Jokester where Dyan Cannon plays television mom of Harriet Nelson family values with a comic twist and who is one real hellcat off the stage . Mean , manipulative , and vindictive to all around her , Cannon is probably one woman who rea... |
394,333 | 2,483,625 | 36,004 | 6 | Bud And Lou On The Slopes | Hit The Ice was Universal Studio's attempt to cash in on the popularity of 20th Century Fox's Sun Valley Serenade which mixed swing music with Sonja Henie's ice skating . Universal didn't have an ice skater of the caliber of Sonja Henie , but they did have Abbott & Costello and Costello on the ice was a sight to see . ... |
396,568 | 2,483,625 | 25,464 | 6 | John Dillinger Died For This Film | Manhattan Melodrama is a trivial pursuit game all in itself . Consider the number of things it's known for . 1 . The only teaming of Clark Gable and William Powell . 2 . The first teaming of William Powell and Myrna Loy . 3 . A popular song that didn't get popular from this film . 4 . A famous gangster being shot to de... |
396,099 | 2,483,625 | 35,957 | 6 | The Battle For Guadalcanal | War correspondent Richard Tregaskis's memoir of the battle for the strategic island of Guadalcanal provides the basis of this film with a solid cast of players . Tregaskis himself is played unnamed in the film by Reed Hadley , who's rich narrative voice greatly enhances the film . Guadalcanal Diary unfortunately has no... |
394,704 | 2,483,625 | 25,409 | 6 | A Spirited Lass | Very rarely was Katharine Hepburn cast as the Scot she was by descent . Our most popular image of her was with that clipped Bryn Mawr accent , cool , elegant , and sophisticated . She only played two Scots in her life Queen Mary Stuart who if truth be told was more French than Scots and the gypsy waif in The Little Min... |
394,786 | 2,483,625 | 35,862 | 6 | Saving The Diamond Hitch | False Colors is an above average entry in the Hopalong Cassidy series . Young Tom Seidel , a ranch hand on Cassidy's Bar 20 spread is gunned down without any apparent reason . But there's a big reason it turns out , young Seidel is the heir to two thirds of the Diamond Hitch ranch in another part of the state . It seem... |
393,748 | 2,483,625 | 51,406 | 6 | Do You Believe in Magic in a Young Girl's Heart ? Jimmy Stewart sure does . | It took Bell , Book , and Candle almost a decade to get from Broadway to the screen . John Van Druten's play ran for 233 performances during the 1950-1951 season and served as a starring vehicle for the then married Rex Harrison and Lilli Palmer . I'm sure that the Shepherd Henderson that Harrison portrayed must have b... |
393,245 | 2,483,625 | 25,345 | 6 | Inheriting A Feud | Bert Wheeler and Robert Woolsey get themselves stuck with little Spanky McFarland . They're a couple of itinerant magicians and the last thing they need is a kid . But this might be a pot of gold because Spanky just could be the heir of the Milford estate in Kentucky . But what the boys don't know is that in passing th... |
396,601 | 2,483,625 | 51,429 | 6 | Oedipus Alive And Well On The Riviera | The trio of David Niven , Deborah Kerr , and Jean Seberg star in Otto Preminger's Oedipal drama Bonjour Tristesse . With those Givenchy gowns featured , how did Audrey Hepburn miss this film ? Based on the Francoise Sagan novel , this is one strange tale of a playboy father , the daughter who adores him and the woman w... |
396,667 | 2,483,625 | 962,726 | 6 | Go Wildcats | Never let it be said at the Magic Kingdom that they miss an opportunity to make that extra buck . For the final version of High School Musical , the Disney crowd released it to the theater instead of television . The decision was a no-brainer , the various road company High School Musical performers have been doing gre... |
394,961 | 2,483,625 | 44,475 | 6 | Captain Blood's Identity Theft Problem | Harry Cohn must have wanted to do Captain Pirate and it's predecessor Fortunes of Captain Blood very bad because he had to have shelved out some big bucks to Jack Warner for that footage he used in a flashback sequence in this film . Might have been interesting had he gotten Errol Flynn along with the movie . Not that ... |
394,224 | 2,483,625 | 36,824 | 6 | We Build So That Others Can Fight . . . . . . . . . . . " We Fight For What We Build " | Before writing this review I took a quick look at Wikipedia and the article they have on the Seabees . Despite the fanciful story that Borden Chase wrote here about how the service was founded , the Seabees were actually an idea already thought of by Admiral Ben Morreell the Chief of Navy Supply even before Pearl Harbo... |
392,890 | 2,483,625 | 1,222,818 | 6 | Hatching Pete Or Channeling Cyrano | Disney Studios new teen comedy Hatching Pete is about two high school kids who both are their team's Chicken Mascot . Only one claims credit for it while the other does the work . I suppose that Cyrano De Bergerac is well in the public domain so no one will be suing the Magic Kingdom any time soon . But I suspect that ... |
394,281 | 2,483,625 | 36,777 | 6 | Anna May Wong anyone ? | Dragonseed is a whole lot like that other far better film of a Pearl Buck novel , The Good Earth . Since both came from the MGM studio the two films have the same look to them and in many ways this is another generation of the family depicted in The Good Earth facing new problems of the Japanese invasion . Of course if... |
393,765 | 2,483,625 | 70,948 | 6 | We're Off To See The Wizard , the Wonderful WiZard ( of ) Oz | Zardoz is one of the most ambitious films ever undertaken . It may have been a little too ambitious for its own good . There's a whole lot to keep in your head and it does take away from the enjoyment of the film . It's an interesting alternative telling of the Garden of Eden story with a mixture of the Wizard of Oz . ... |
393,693 | 2,483,625 | 52,047 | 6 | This Is Not a Good Mix | Though this is not a good film for Bob Hope , it has one redeeming feature . It gave American audiences exposure to the great French comedian , Fernandel . Fernandel almost was given the role of Passepartout the French valet to David Niven in Around the World in 80 Days . In fact he was going to learn English for the r... |
394,216 | 2,483,625 | 36,748 | 6 | Enter Mr . Peck | This tribute to Russian resistance in World War II gave Gregory Peck his opportunity for a starring film screen debut . No walk-ons , or bit parts are in Peck's career resume . He was billed a star from the beginning . Not that Days of Glory was the greatest of debuts . In fact it was only in his second film , The Keys... |
395,473 | 2,483,625 | 44,519 | 6 | Who's Smuggling The Gold From Cripple Creek And Why ? | There's one well organized ring of gold smugglers operating out of the gold strike camp of Cripple Creek , Colorado . There's so much gold being smuggled out of the place that the Secret Service is concerned . Remember the USA was on the gold standard back then . So the Secret Service assigns agents George Montgomery ,... |
393,250 | 2,483,625 | 95,047 | 6 | There Aren't Any Better Places To Serve Time That We Know Of | Young Nicholas Strouse due to a combination of interesting circumstances learns he might be the leader of an alien race who while they might not have powers and abilities far beyond those of mortal men certainly he and those like him feel they're just Doin ' Time on Planet Earth . Is he the one to lead these misfits ho... |
392,844 | 2,483,625 | 36,730 | 6 | A Very Good Detective Yarn | Private Eye Sam Campbell is hired by the estranged husband of a woman whose father he's accused of killing . With a few good plot twists , he uncovers the real murderer and the reason behind that and two other subsequent killings . Don't pass up an opportunity to see character actor Jerome Cowan for once in the lead . ... |
394,132 | 2,483,625 | 421,073 | 6 | Corruption And The LAPD , Who Would Have Heard Of Such A Thing | Street Kings is another film from director / writer Don Ayer who brought us Training Day . Unlike Training Day the central protagonist of this film is the honest cop who's in a corrupt unit . Corruption and the Los Angeles Police Department seem to go hand in hand in the real world and the cinema world . Street Kings i... |
394,948 | 2,483,625 | 36,677 | 6 | As Buffalo Bill saw himself . | If William F . Cody had lived until 1944 he would have loved this film . Most of all he would have approved of the casting of Hollywood's most straight arrow hero Joel McCrea as himself . That's the image Cody liked to convey even if it wasn't exactly the truth . The real Cody was a brave enough hero all right and this... |
395,964 | 2,483,625 | 44,331 | 6 | Rita's Comeback Picture | When one talks about Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford as a screen team , one is primarily talking about Gilda . There first film , The Lady in Question had them as featured players , second was the classic Gilda , third was The Loves of Carmen with a horribly miscast Glenn Ford . It was after that one , that Rita Hayworth ... |
396,195 | 2,483,625 | 86,281 | 6 | An Old Gunfighter With A Few New Tricks | Borrowing heavily from True Grit and Rooster Cogburn and the Over the Hill gang movies , Robert Preston is old time gunfighter Ben Sunday hired out by a nun to escort some Indian orphans to a town with a soon to be infamous name of Columbine . Sister Patty Duke Astin is going to take over an old church and start a scho... |
393,112 | 2,483,625 | 36,699 | 6 | Teresa Says , " Just Gary and Me , and Baby Makes Three . " | Gary Cooper in the first half of the Forties made four films for director Sam Wood . Three of them were big budget items , Pride of the Yankees , For Whom The Bells Toll , and Saratoga Trunk . The fourth is a pleasant and innocuous little comedy called Casanova Brown . The film was adapted by Floyd Dell who wrote the n... |
396,894 | 2,483,625 | 86,379 | 6 | Stroked My Funny Bone | When Bewitched was running on television half of the plots involved Darrin's job where he and Larry Tate every week contended with yet another egotistical company president . The plot of Stroker Ace hearkens back to those days of Bewitched and it has Burt Reynolds as a NASCAR driver doing everything possible to get out... |
392,750 | 2,483,625 | 44,379 | 6 | Cold War Noir | Assignment : Paris is another of those films with a faraway location that never got past the Columbia back lot . Still it's a decent enough Cold War noir thriller . Dana Andrews is a hotshot reporter for the New York Herald Tribune assigned to its prestige international division in Paris which is headed by editor Georg... |
395,520 | 2,483,625 | 79,843 | 6 | Ben Does Bogey | Saint Jack is a film short on plot , but long on character study , at least for the title character Jack Flowers , patron saint of the working girl in Singapore . Ben Gazzara plays the title role and if you can imagine Humphrey Bogart at his most existential running a brothel , than you've got Gazzara's character . And... |
393,444 | 2,483,625 | 71,050 | 6 | Captain Marvel On The Cheap | One of the most popular of superhero comic strip characters came to us in the middle seventies in the form of a very low budget television series that only lasted for two seasons . It had actually two Captain Marvels when Jackson Bostwick left and was succeeded by John Davey for season two . Since the grownup Marvel wa... |
394,858 | 2,483,625 | 24,631 | 6 | Restless Spirits | By the thinnest of plot connections in Supernatural is millionaire heiress Carole Lombard connected to Vivienne Osbourne a serial murderess who is awaiting her execution in prison . Alan Dinehart , Osbourne's sometime boyfriend is the one who turned her in to the authorities because he was afraid . With good reason as ... |
393,808 | 2,483,625 | 44,402 | 6 | That Isn't Thunder Dear , It's Only My Poor Heart You Hear , And It's Applause , Because You're Mine | By the time Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer started Mario Lanza in his fourth film , the formula was wearing thin . In That Midnight Kiss , he was an opera singing truckdriver . In The Toast of New Orleans , he was an opera singing fisherman . And in The Great Caruso he was , the greatest opera singer of all . Now he was going to ... |
393,847 | 2,483,625 | 86,356 | 6 | A Most Secret Society | The Star Chamber is a film that operates under the premise that the legal system has gone awry and it's up to the judges to apply corrective action to the decisions they officially make in court . Interestingly enough Hal Holbrook who came to that conclusion as Lieutenant Briggs in the Dirty Harry film Magnum Force , i... |
396,308 | 2,483,625 | 36,600 | 6 | The Question Is Will The Angels Sing ? | And The Angels Sing is apparently Paramount's answer to Warner Brothers Lane Sisters and the series of films that they had starting with Four Daughters . The four of them are musical prodigies , but they're really not into singing . What they are into is earning enough money so their father Raymond Walburn can buy a fa... |
393,442 | 2,483,625 | 94,940 | 6 | Nice Family Film | I understand that Lou Diamond Phillips did this film and another one entitled Harley before hitting it big in La Bamba and Stand and Deliver . Someone had some good business sense because I'm they made a few dollars in the wake of the release of those other Hollywood made films . Back in the days of the studio system ,... |
394,112 | 2,483,625 | 25,037 | 6 | What If Prince Sirki Decided To Hang Out With Some Working Class Folks | The Twenties post World War I saw a great revival in spiritualism of which the play Death Takes A Holiday is most certainly part . It was hard for rational man to fathom the cost of the greatest war yet fought on the planet . People sought answers in things not comprehensible in this world . Death Takes A Holiday occur... |
394,011 | 2,483,625 | 421,238 | 6 | Rounding Up The Burns Brothers | For those of you who think the American West was a rough place to be , ought to take a look at The Proposition and what it took to bring in the famous bushrangers of the day . In fact the methods used to kill Jesse James and Billy the Kid are nothing compared to what constabulary captain Ray Winstone tries to do get th... |
393,037 | 2,483,625 | 59,518 | 6 | People Are All Right , Nations And Causes Make Us Enemies | It's probably a mistake to say that this is Frank Sinatra's only effort at directing . Truth be told , starting with Ocean's 11 , he directed about half the films he was in , whoever's name is in the credits was just a puppet . Frank was also producing as well , probably though he didn't want the public to get the idea... |
393,230 | 2,483,625 | 426,592 | 6 | Nice Superhero Satire | This is one outrageous satire on all those superhero films Hollywood has been inundating us with over the past decade and a half . On hiatus from his Nickelodeon series Drake and Josh , Drake Bell makes an appealing superhero who just can't quite get his act together . Usually on Drake and Josh , Bell leaves the comic ... |
394,557 | 2,483,625 | 51,816 | 6 | Was Sophia a Jinx ? | This is a curious film . A gritty , tough realistic movie during the action sequences at sea , but when the story shifts to land and Sophia Loren and the men her life , it's dull and lifeless . Trevor Howard and Bill Holden are men numbers three and four in refugee Sophia Loren's life . The key is the key to her apartm... |
396,826 | 2,483,625 | 44,231 | 6 | Faster than a speeding bullet . . . . . . more powerful than a Locomotive | Seeing Superman as a kid I was pretty enthralled by it as most kids were . I mean , unless he got near some kryptonite there wasn't nothing he couldn't do . But the show has had incredible power in syndication and I don't think it can be attributed to just nostalgia . The first year of black and white episodes with Phy... |
395,314 | 2,483,625 | 24,960 | 6 | Not A Team That Scored A Success | Between her first film at MGM which was her last with Maurice Chevalier , Merry Widow , and Naughty Marietta which was the debut film of her partnership with Nelson Eddy , Jeanette MacDonald did a film adaption of Jerome Kern's and Otto Harbach's Broadway show The Cat and the Fiddle . She co-starred with Ramon Novarro ... |
392,695 | 2,483,625 | 44,275 | 6 | Celebrity Disguises | Masquerade Party ran for several seasons as a summer replacement show during the Fifties . There were two hosts of it that I can remember , Robert Q . Lewis and Eddie Bracken , both pretty funny guys in their own right . This was a celebrity parlor game in the tradition of I've Got A Secret , To Tell The Truth , and Wh... |
395,972 | 2,483,625 | 24,916 | 6 | Horse With A Heart | In his memoirs Frank Capra gave very short shrift to Broadway Bill . In fact he only mentions it when he starts to talk about the remake of this film Riding High . The remake was in 1950 and Broadway Bill was done immediately after It Happened One Night . In just a couple of paragraphs he mentions that he did a film ca... |
395,405 | 2,483,625 | 174,168 | 6 | Early And I Mean Early Bing Crosby | The Road to Hollywood is a compilation of bits and songs from the Mack Sennett shorts that Bing Crosby appeared in during the time he was between the Paul Whiteman band and his first feature film starring role in The Big Broadcast . Probably in 1947 Bing Crosby was at the high point of his career . At that time he was ... |
396,898 | 2,483,625 | 36,416 | 6 | Down Memory Lane | For the third and final film in the William Bendix-Joe Sawyer two guys from Brooklyn series , Hal Roach decided on a trip down memory lane to the Roaring Twenties when our guys were just getting started in the cab business . Back then Bendix and Corbett were not millionaires yet , but blue collar guys in fact as well a... |
396,310 | 2,483,625 | 36,430 | 6 | An American Success Story | Most of Irving Berlin's shows on Broadway were revues and not book type shows . For that reason they're not frequently revived . All of them contain topical jokes that only history majors like myself would get now . But the extreme topicality of This Is The Army and its World War I predecessor Yip Yap Yaphank guarantee... |
394,319 | 2,483,625 | 44,144 | 6 | Life's Real Treasure | No longer the debonair and very urban leading man , William Powell was trying to move into roles more in line with his age . Powell turned 60 at the time The Treasure of Lost Canyon and was now playing an eccentric married man who's cousin , Henry Hull has been robbing him blind for years . Into his life comes young To... |
394,301 | 2,483,625 | 44,158 | 6 | Hughes showing ' em how it's done | Two Tickets to Broadway was to be Howard Hughes's answer to MGM type musicals and in fact he engaged the two leads from MGM , Tony Martin and Janet Leigh . The usual criticism was voiced with Martin being 15 years older than Leigh , but in this case it works because part of the plot is fresh faced Ms . Leigh avoiding b... |
395,327 | 2,483,625 | 36,363 | 6 | Not Quite Fred's Shining Hour | Fred Astaire returned to RKO Studios , scene of his classic films with Ginger Rogers for this last film The Sky's The Limit where he plays a a Flying Tiger pilot on a furlough in the USA doing a bond tour . Of course this bond tour isn't exactly his idea of R & R so he goes AWOL on it and quite incognito embarks on a r... |
393,225 | 2,483,625 | 297,449 | 6 | MGM shows off | This silent documentary short is a studio tour of the newly created MGM studios at the time . We get to see all the stars that were under contract at the time as well as a lot of behind the scenes people and the studio executives , topped off by Louis B . Mayer and Irving Thalberg . Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer was just getting... |
395,271 | 2,483,625 | 59,287 | 6 | The Pelican Spy | Frankie Avalon off doing his Naval Reserve training in those innocent days before Vietnam is wondering whether Annette is being true to him back at the beach with all those other hunks around . He's stationed on a tropical Pacific Isle with lots of other curvaceous cuties around . He asks one of them to bring him to th... |
395,612 | 2,483,625 | 19,563 | 6 | Twisted | In one of his last silent films , Lon Chaney plays a magician who went into a kind of exile in the Belgian Congo after a fight with a man who stole his wife left him a cripple . He's now known as ' Deadlegs ' and he's used his mastery of prestidigitation to make himself the local kingpin in his neck of the jungle . But... |
396,908 | 2,483,625 | 50,658 | 6 | It Was Fascination I Know | Love in the Afternoon was conceived and brought to the screen by Billy Wilder as a homage to his friend and mentor in Hollywood , Ernest Lubitsch . This French novel Ariane had been filmed before in fact , by the Germans just before the Nazis took over and had starred Elizabeth Bergner . Audrey Hepburn proved to be a w... |
395,657 | 2,483,625 | 33,117 | 6 | Note The Billing | Please take careful notice of the billing in the title of this film . It's about a society woman , Susan Trexel , who has taken up religion as some kind of a new fad . Ms . Trexel is rather full of herself and she would no doubt approve of the Deity getting second billing in a play about her life . Susan and God , a pl... |
395,691 | 2,483,625 | 28,269 | 6 | That's What She Played , A Small Town Girl | For most of her career Janet Gaynor did nothing , but play small town girls , the best known being Esther Blodgett . But I've seen her in films like State Fair and Three Loves Has Nancy and it's the same part , the girl from the tiny hamlet who conquers the big city and the men in it . With a title like this , there wa... |
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