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393,276 | 2,483,625 | 28,254 | 6 | Another Cinderella Gets Her Opera Singing Fella | Possibly if Harry Warren and Al Dubin had written a memorable hit song from this film , Sing Me a Love Song would be better remembered today . As it is the film is a pleasant enough typical Thirties story where department store clerk Patricia Ellis meets and wins the man of her dreams . Who happens to be James Melton ,... |
392,905 | 2,483,625 | 28,227 | 6 | That Aleutian Hideaway | Sea Spoilers finds John Wayne as the commanding officer of a Coast Guard Cutter on duty in the Pacific Northwest looking for seal poachers . This was the first of six films that Wayne did in 1936-1937 for Universal in an effort to broaden his acting horizons . Not one of these B films for Universal was a western . It g... |
395,703 | 2,483,625 | 50,594 | 6 | A Desperate Bargain | In Kill Me Tomorrow it was Pat O'Brien's turn to be an American actor who was past his prime as a leading man in the states to turn up in a British feature film . The idea was to give it greater marketability in the States . I well remember seeing a lot of these type of films as the bottom half of doublebills in my nei... |
394,875 | 2,483,625 | 33,159 | 6 | Very New Dealish for the Duke | Viennese surgeon Charles Coburn and daughter Sigrid Gurie arrive in America and are placed in a rural area of Oklahoma . They stay in a large old house with John Wayne and Spencer Charters . Pretty soon , despite Gurie's homesickness , they are involved in the social and political life in the area . This is the famous ... |
393,020 | 2,483,625 | 19,702 | 6 | Switching to Sound | Blackmail has the double distinction of being both Alfred Hitchcock's first sound film for British cinema . I think if they knew this would be the first the British would have had one of their great music hall stars do a musical as we did with Al Jolson and the Jazz Singer . That it turned out that Alfred Hitchcock dir... |
393,194 | 2,483,625 | 41,935 | 6 | Oil Versus Fish | I do have to wonder whether in these days of terrorism and the fluctuating oil market , a film like Susanna Pass could be made today and just who the villain is . Roy Rogers is a fish and game warden for the state of California and he weighs in with his good offices in a fight between two brothers , Robert Emmett Keane... |
394,871 | 2,483,625 | 41,915 | 6 | Sylvia Scarlett Goes West | This entry in the Tim Holt B western series for RKO takes some inspiration from another gender bending film classic the studio did back in the Thirties , Sylvia Scarlett . Though Jeff Donnell isn't Katharine Hepburn , this film has a few more laughs in it than the normal Holt western where usually the laughs are provid... |
396,587 | 2,483,625 | 41,902 | 6 | One Hopeless Marker | Sorrowful Jones is both the first time Bob Hope teamed up with Lucille Ball as a leading lady and it's his first try at a Damon Runyon character . It succeeded , but it's not as good as some of the other of Bob Hope's Forties comedies . This is a remake of Little Miss Marker where Adolphe Menjou played the role of Sorr... |
396,095 | 2,483,625 | 19,788 | 6 | Mary Should Have Dialed It Down | For her sound film debut , Mary Pickford chose what she figured would have a built in box office appeal besides her own good name , a long running Broadway play . Coquette which was authored by George Abbott and Ann Preston Bridger and directed by Abbott for Jed Harris , ran 386 performances in the 1927-1928 season . P... |
393,952 | 2,483,625 | 19,777 | 6 | On Your Marx | The creative talents of George S . Kaufman , Irving Berlin , and the Brothers Marx went into the production of the Broadway musical The Cocoanuts which ran for 216 shows in the 1925-1926 season . Of the talent involved it was the Marx Brothers who came out the winners . George S . Kaufman was one of the great wits of t... |
396,844 | 2,483,625 | 80,097 | 6 | Dudley DooRight versus Wile E . Coyote for Jessica Rabbit | I'm not quite sure why Kirk Douglas took the part of a live Wile E . Coyote in the film villain other than to say that he had now tried the slapstick comedy genre . But in this case the frustrated coyote is not matched up with the beeping road runner . His adversary is Dudley DooRight in the person of Arnold Schwarzneg... |
395,081 | 2,483,625 | 41,599 | 6 | A Most Elusive Thing | Look For the Silver Lining is a particular song favorite of mine and it was the theme song of one of Broadway's brightest stars , Marilyn Miller . Her own life , sad to say did not have too many sunny days in it after that fateful night where she lost her first husband . She died young from complications of a sinus ope... |
394,283 | 2,483,625 | 97,328 | 6 | Three Stars Make A Preposterous Story Happen | Sean Connery , Dustin Hoffman , and Matthew Broderick have talent to spare and they manage to make an impossible story jell on the screen in Family Business . The three men play grandfather , father , and son of the McMullen clan . Connery is an unregenerate criminal who offers to apologies for the life he's led . Hoff... |
395,792 | 2,483,625 | 26,273 | 7 | Bickering Buds | John Wayne and Eddy Chandler play a strange combination of friends in The Desert Trail . Wayne's a fast living rodeo cowboy and Chandler is gambler / conman . They fight a whole lot about everything , cards , liquor , women . There kind of a western version of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien . When Wayne decides he's not ... |
393,378 | 2,483,625 | 26,275 | 7 | Jimmy and Pat take to the skies | The real founders of the buddy film James Cagney and Pat O'Brien after making their debut in Here Comes the Navy essentially reprise their roles in Devil Dogs of the Air for the Marines . O'Brien is the no-nonsense flight instructor for the Marines who's written to an old Brooklyn pal James Cagney urging him to join th... |
394,922 | 2,483,625 | 52,545 | 7 | Funny film with dated cameos . | Bob Hope plays his usual dimwitted cluck who in this film happens to be an insurance salesman . Only Hope , one step from being given the boot and desperate to sell a policy , would sell one to Jesse James . Jesse being the smart guy he is decides this is has potentiality . He can fake his own death and lay low for a w... |
394,062 | 2,483,625 | 167,423 | 7 | Just Another Agensky Family Outing | I'm willing to bet that Kirk Douglas liked this project so much he decided to do it again with his own son and grandson . Diamonds is a story that finds Kirk in pursuit of some diamonds he hid away in the house of an old hoodlum friend in Reno , Nevada . Back in the day Douglas was a boxer by trade and this was a payof... |
393,079 | 2,483,625 | 44,030 | 7 | Spared No Expense | When MGM acquired the rights to Show Boat for the Arthur Freed unit , no expense was spared in making this one of the most expensive films the studio had ever produced . A whole riverboat was constructed as well as the Natchez landing was completely built on a location on a lake which served as turn of the last century... |
393,623 | 2,483,625 | 43,968 | 7 | Paris is All of These Things That They've Left Unsaid . | One of Jane Powell's best musicals for MGM is Rich , Young and Pretty and Ms . Powell winds up all three and married to boot . She and father Wendell Corey and housekeeper Una Merkel are in Paris where Wendell is on business for the United Nations where he works . But he wasn't always a high powered diplomat . After th... |
396,776 | 2,483,625 | 78,158 | 7 | Mad Scientists Use Alien Kids | This is a fine sequel to one of Walt Disney's better family projects Escape from Witch Mountain . The adult stars are Bette Davis and Christopher Lee as an old dowager financing a mad scientist in some nefarious experiments . These two happen on the alien kids from Witch Mountain , Kim Richards and Ike Eisenman , when ... |
394,209 | 2,483,625 | 95,626 | 7 | Mormon Blood Feud | Messenger of Death opens with a pair of assassins murdering nine members of a Mormon family , all of them wives and children of Charles Dierkop . This piques the interest of Charles Bronson who is an investigative reporter for the Denver Tribune . He goes out there to the hinterlands of western Colorado to investigate ... |
396,022 | 2,483,625 | 26,262 | 7 | Making Money With Hell | Dante's Inferno was Spencer Tracy's final film for Fox before settling in at MGM where his career really took off . It was probably one of the biggest budget films Fox had ever done up to that time with two disasters and a dream sequence of hell . Tracy plays a ship stoker and would be con man who gets fired off his sh... |
393,838 | 2,483,625 | 43,992 | 7 | The Ties That Bind | The Brothers Canfield , Randolph Scott , Peter Thompson , Jerome Courtland , and John Archer ; are all Confederate veterans who get into a brawl with some Union soldiers who were drunk and started it . One of the Union men is killed . The Canfields flee via the Santa Fe railroad going west . Randolph Scott stays to wor... |
394,648 | 2,483,625 | 26,266 | 7 | Better By Halves | Watching the classic MGM version of David Copperfield , I couldn't help but feel that too much was cut out of this film . It would have been better done in two parts with one part strictly dealing with David's childhood up to the point where he comes into the custody of his great aunt Betsy Trotwood . Another film woul... |
393,596 | 2,483,625 | 382,625 | 7 | Rocking Christianity to the Core | So what's all the fuss about ? Tom Hanks is a visiting American professor of Theology in Paris and Audrey Tautou is a cryptologist with the French police . Hanks is accused of murdering Tautou's grandfather and she believes him when he says he's innocent . The investigating detective , Jean Reno , has another agenda go... |
393,931 | 2,483,625 | 43,959 | 7 | Hostages Of A Volatile Bunch Of Outlaws | In the film Rawhide things start out like any other day for Tyrone Power who plays the son of the stage line owner spending some time at one of the way stations learning the business from grizzled old timer Edgar Buchanan . A stage stops by and Susan Hayward and toddler are among the passengers . But when a passing cav... |
394,220 | 2,483,625 | 70,481 | 7 | An Unusual Getaway Animal | One Little Indian is the first of two westerns that James Garner and Vera Miles made for Walt Disney Productions in the middle Seventies , the second being The Castaway Cowboy . Vera has less to do in this film as James Garner spends most of his screen time with the actor playing the title role , young Clay O'Brien . T... |
396,385 | 2,483,625 | 61,259 | 7 | The Missing Generation | More due to changing times than anything else , The Guns Of Will Sonnett only lasted two seasons . Walter Brennan got to star in his third and final television series and the only one that was dramatic , the previous two being comedies . The premise involved was a simple one . Grandfather and grandson wandered the west... |
393,804 | 2,483,625 | 43,914 | 7 | His Final Service To His Profession And His Client | Spencer Tracy's only venture into the noir genre finds him playing James P . Curtayne , an alcoholic criminal lawyer who is living with daughter Diana Lynn . She's essentially put her life on hold to take care of her father . Friends from his old neighborhood ask him to defend their son , James Arness , who is being ch... |
393,667 | 2,483,625 | 87,985 | 7 | Call Out The Wolverines | The scenario depicted in Red Dawn didn't happen as we all know . The Cold War ended with a fadeout instead of a bang , the USA did not get invaded . At first glance Red Dawn seems like a quaint and ancient propaganda piece , but it still raises some interesting issues . Note how the invasion of America happened . Lots ... |
395,952 | 2,483,625 | 26,328 | 7 | Charlie At The Eye Doctor | The greatest man at his art of ventriloquism made a series of shorts with his most popular alter ego during the Thirties . Even now it is amazing the way Edgar Bergen creates in that wooden dummy , a real character in Charlie McCarthy . This very funny short subject has young Charlie McCarthy being sent to the optometr... |
394,544 | 2,483,625 | 43,887 | 7 | Tribute to the Silent Service | I like submarine films , but in watching them one has to realize that there are only so many plot situations and each film seems to cover just about all of them . In fact the officers and men of the U . S . S . Thunderfish during what little spare time they had were watching another Warner Brother submarine adventure ,... |
395,702 | 2,483,625 | 52,700 | 7 | Orson's finest hour | Both the novel by Meyer Levin and the movie came out at the time that Nathan Leopold was granted parole after serving over 30 years of a life sentence for killing Bobby Franks . The film itself is a B picture with an out of place , fiftyish jazz score that is distracting . Other than some antique vehicles and kids danc... |
394,789 | 2,483,625 | 26,121 | 7 | From The Working Class Studio , A Film For The Working Man | During the Thirties Warner Brothers had the reputation of being the working class studio and it was films like Black Fury that made for Warner Brothers that reputation . It was rare indeed to see another studio take stories about ordinary working people . Mostly they concentrated on the middle and upper classes because... |
393,414 | 2,483,625 | 87,928 | 7 | Affirmative Action For Idiots | Police Academy and the subsequent films in the series is a guilty pleasure of mine . The films are puerile , vapid , stupid , gross beyond belief and I laugh my Glutteus Maximus off at them . So apparently did a large part of the American movie going public . The premise for the film is right at the beginning off scree... |
394,093 | 2,483,625 | 52,722 | 7 | Those Tricky Little People | As a lad I well remember the kind of campaigns Walt Disney used to publicize his films . He used all the available outlets he had such as his Mickey Mouse Club show or the Walt Disney Wonderful World of Color television shows . If Walt Disney could have worked it out , he'd have plugged Darby O'Gill and the Little Peop... |
394,358 | 2,483,625 | 52,724 | 7 | No Winter Wonderland For These People | Day Of The Outlaw casts Robert Ryan as a tough westerner who resents the homesteaders like Alan Marshal fencing off the open range . But in Marshal's case , he's got other resents going as well since he's married to Tina Louise who once had a fling with him . He has every intention of doing something about it legally o... |
396,454 | 2,483,625 | 43,821 | 7 | An English version of Green Acres with uranium . | In one of his last feature films Douglas Fairbanks , Jr . plays American expatriate Donald Drake who has inherited a farm in Sussex where he has brought his new bride to settle . Kind of an English version of Green Acres . His bride is also an American , Yolande Donlon . She's very much like Eva Gabor and there are the... |
395,112 | 2,483,625 | 52,619 | 7 | What Is Best For Everyone ? | The Best of Everything is a high gloss large screen soap opera which follows the careers of four career women , Hope Lange , Suzy Parker , Diane Baker , and Martha Hyer at a New York publishing firm . What's the best for some women is not necessarily the best for all . Presiding over this group of young fillies is wise... |
393,611 | 2,483,625 | 52,626 | 7 | Copying DeMille | Unfortunately for The Big Circus , The Greatest Show On Earth by Cecil B . DeMille set the standard for circus films that will be pretty hard to match . One hasn't come out in many years now , probably the market isn't there . Pity too , in this age of computer graphics , the potential to out DeMille DeMille is there .... |
396,817 | 2,483,625 | 26,205 | 7 | Steaming Up The High Seas | In China Seas , Clark Gable and Jean Harlow essentially take their characters from Red Dust off the rubber plantation and transplant them to the high seas . What's wild about this film is that both Gable and Harlow are supposed to be English , but do not even attempt to adopt an accent . In Gable's case he figured the ... |
393,944 | 2,483,625 | 61,407 | 7 | Wiving It Wealthily In Padua | In this production of The Taming of the Shrew it was Richard Burton's way of letting his wife Elizabeth Taylor in on his world , the world of the classics . He's wonderful as Petruchio and she acquits herself well as the shrewish Katharine . Michael Hordern is the harried father of the lovely Bianca and her older siste... |
394,427 | 2,483,625 | 35,195 | 7 | I Love Ya , Cash , So Help Me , I Love Ya . | I think with this film John Wayne's casting potential was stretched to its very limit . After his image was established , he could never have been been given a role as a heel like Pittsburgh Markham . Pittsburgh and his buddy Cash Evans ( Randolph Scott ) start out as a pair of happy-go-lucky coalminers who on a night ... |
394,733 | 2,483,625 | 43,792 | 7 | Thelma's Show | Though Gene Tierney and John Lund are the leads in this film , Thelma Ritter steals it completely as Lund's down to earth plebian mother from New Jersey . Thelma got one of her Oscar nominations for Best Supporting Actress , the second of six she was to earn in her career . Mitchell Leisen directs this charming comedy ... |
396,409 | 2,483,625 | 34,965 | 7 | Taking Over Someone Else's Caper | Now personally I don't see what Anthony Quinn was squawking about in Larceny , Inc . Edward G . Robinson and sidekicks Edward Brophy and Broderick Crawford take over a caper that Quinn has planned . Robinson serves his time in prison and Quinn gets denied parole . It's not like Quinn took a copyright out on the idea an... |
396,747 | 2,483,625 | 26,534 | 7 | Mrs . O'Hara And Her Three Sons | The Irish in Us has Mary Gordon as a buxom Irish-American mother with three proud sons . Pat O'Brien a cop , Frank McHugh a fireman , and James Cagney a man with big ideas . The O'Hara family is built along the lines of the Beebe family in three years later in Paramount's Sing You Sinners that had Elizabeth Patterson a... |
393,136 | 2,483,625 | 43,733 | 7 | Lemon Drops With Silver Bells | The Lemon Drop Kid is the second of two films Bob Hope did from stories based on Damon Runyon's colorful collection of characters , the first being Sorrowful Jones . Sidney Melbourne known to one and all as The Lemon Drop Kid for his inordinate fondness for lemon flavored candy is a fellow who lives by his wits as a ra... |
395,708 | 2,483,625 | 95,373 | 7 | The Right To Think , Still On Trial | My thoughts on this remake of Inherit The Wind and the slant that it was given arise from one thing only , the possibility in early 1988 that Pat Robertson would be a presidential candidate . The main difference between the classic 1960 version and this television one is that Matthew Harrison Brady is considering yet a... |
395,036 | 2,483,625 | 43,687 | 7 | The Greatest Athlete Of All | In a recent biography of Burt Lancaster I read that Lancaster had to learn the sport of football in order to play Jim Thorpe . It wasn't something he played growing up on the streets of East Harlem back in the Teens and Twenties . Of course Burt's natural athleticism stood him in good stead in this part . He got a bett... |
394,074 | 2,483,625 | 43,680 | 7 | The U . S . A . of the Cold War | I doubt if a film like It's A Big Country could be made in and about the America of post Vietnam and Watergate . A whole lot of the clichés presented here just aren't bought any more by large segments of the population . For whatever it's worth the film is a presentation of what we thought about ourselves in 1951 . It'... |
395,483 | 2,483,625 | 52,287 | 7 | Hiring It Done | In El Dorado John Wayne has occasion to remark to Ed Asner that since he doesn't carry a gun himself he hires it done . And then the Duke went on to make some remarks about the quality of his help . But the reverse of the coin is when who you hire is too good for you to argue with . That was the problem that Sebastian ... |
395,852 | 2,483,625 | 52,445 | 7 | He Wore A Cane And Derby Hat , They Called Him Bat , Bat Masterson | One of the things about this show that lingers in my mind besides the nattily dressed Gene Barry was the fact that this show eschewed any kind of supporting cast . No sidekicks , no permanent love interests , what you got was Gene Barry as Bat Masterson taming the west in his own small way . The real Bat was quite the ... |
392,738 | 2,483,625 | 70,292 | 7 | Shooting Up A Bus | One terrible night in San Francisco in the mid seventies , a man who had a terrible secret to hide and a high position from which to tumble from took a machine gun and massacred everyone on a city bus . Of course this gets all the SFPD Homicide Squad working on it . Partnered together for convenience are Walter Matthau... |
392,818 | 2,483,625 | 26,418 | 7 | A Last Ditch Effort | Taking a look at the screen credits of Ruby Keeler and you'll find that Go Into Your Dance is not only the only film she did with her husband Al Jolson , but after five films , her first away from Dick Powell . She did two more subsequent to Go Into Your Dance with Powell , but after only one more film at Warner Brothe... |
393,422 | 2,483,625 | 202,489 | 7 | It All Belongs To Applegate | My first exposure to the Hardy Boys came courtesy of this serial from the Mickey Mouse Club . It was after seeing this that I bought a load of the Hardy Boys kids novels to read . Those two certainly did have some adventuresome lives . No doubt that later incarnations of the boys with Parker Stevenson and Shaun Cassidy... |
396,677 | 2,483,625 | 61,067 | 7 | Tarzan In Central America | David Opatoshu one of the most distinguished actors of the Yiddish Theater back in the day came to Hollywood rather late in his career . In doing so however he created a series of varied and distinguished roles . But none I liked better than his playing of international criminal David Vinaro in Tarzan and the Valley of... |
392,907 | 2,483,625 | 52,463 | 7 | A Transitional Cop Show | After his contract with MGM ran its course , Robert Taylor like a lot of the stars of the studio system , was not getting a whole lot of good film offers , mainly because fewer films were being made . What work was to be had was in television for a lot of stars and that trend would become more pronounced as time went o... |
392,877 | 2,483,625 | 43,565 | 7 | A Dangerous Business | The Frogmen is a film based on the exploits of the U . S . Navy's Underwater Demolition Teams during World War II . The primary task of these guys was to go in ahead of any island landing and clear away any obstacles put up by the enemy in the water . That meant going in ahead of the Marines as the Frogmen point out . ... |
395,037 | 2,483,625 | 26,452 | 7 | Marry for Love or Marry for Money | Hands Across the Table is the first of four films that Paramount teamed Fred MacMurray and Carole Lombard in . It's one of MacMurray's earliest film and he's playing what he would perennially be typecast as , a light leading man . That is until Double Indemnity showed just how dramatic he could be . The hands across th... |
395,268 | 2,483,625 | 34,922 | 7 | Take Your Best Shot At Joseph Cotten | While returning from a conference munitions expert Joseph Cotten and his wife Ruth Warrick are taken to a nightclub in Istanbul by the mysterious Edward Sloane where Cotten is almost killed . Magician Hans Conreid is a victim of his own slight of hand , but it's Cotten who's the target as Orson Welles as the Turkish po... |
392,689 | 2,483,625 | 34,919 | 7 | Small scale Casablanca | Joan of Paris is best known for the joint debut of both Michelle Morgan and Paul Henreid on the American cinema . Henreid is a member of the Free French flying with the RAF and he and the crew are shot down over occupied France . Henreid and the group including a wounded Alan Ladd make their way to Paris where he tries... |
394,440 | 2,483,625 | 61,122 | 7 | A ' Scathingly Brilliant ' and Very Funny Film | Rosalind Russell , Loretta Young , and Irene Dunne were the Catholic triple threat of Hollywood stardom . All of these women were prominent Catholic lay individuals and later on in their careers got to do a little outreach for their religion . I don't think Roz ever served the Catholic cause better than by playing a Mo... |
395,142 | 2,483,625 | 25,740 | 7 | Sadie Was A Lady | I'd have to describe Sadie McKee as both the typical Joan Crawford vehicle and the typical Franchot Tone vehicle . The two of them who were husband and wife when the film was made are perfectly cast in roles that typified their images in the Thirties . Crawford is the daughter of a cook on the sumptuous palatial Long I... |
395,855 | 2,483,625 | 53,108 | 7 | Dealing With Warlords With Warrants | Never So Few finds Frank Sinatra as co-commander with Britisher Richard Johnson of a behind the lines detachment of Kachin native tribesmen , conducting harassing actions against the Japanese in the China-Burma - India Theater of World War II . Sinatra is working out of the Office of Strategic Services which in this ca... |
396,108 | 2,483,625 | 810,900 | 7 | The Summertime Blues | As I write this review the Walt Disney Studio has High School Musical 3 ready for its debut shortly and plans are on the boards for a High School Musical 4 in 2009 . Their demographics must be telling the Magic Kingdom that the High School Musical phenomenon is not disappearing any time soon . The main characters from ... |
393,419 | 2,483,625 | 121,982 | 7 | Country Values | The big serial for the Mickey Mouse Club in its final year was Annette , starring of course Annette Funicello . The young men of America watched Annette have a rather public puberty so Walt Disney no doubt figured in the last season of the club it was altogether fitting and proper to recognize this . Funicello plays a ... |
394,720 | 2,483,625 | 43,503 | 7 | The Racket That Pays Best | Although the star of the film in terms of first billed in The Enforcer is Humphrey Bogart , the film's main character is Ted DeCorsia in what is probably his best screen performance . Taking a lot of inspiration from Citizen Kane , District Attorney Humphrey Bogart and his two police investigators , Roy Roberts and Kin... |
395,118 | 2,483,625 | 60,754 | 7 | Bringing Down Old Satan | I'm in complete agreement with another reviewer in that this Paramount production might well have been done by the Disney Studio . It certainly has that look and feel about it . But that doesn't mean that The Night of the Grizzly can't be enjoyed by adults as well . Clint Walker and Martha Hyer are a pair of marrieds w... |
396,192 | 2,483,625 | 155,833 | 7 | Coach This One From The Sidelines | In the made for television film Legalese you will find for the only time in his career James Garner playing a villain . His Norman Keane is who they had in mind when they make all the lawyer jokes . Not that he isn't good . He's worth every penny of what a client , especially a guilty one can pay him . Garner's good al... |
395,981 | 2,483,625 | 69,958 | 7 | Their Well Ordered Lives | Probably were it not for the American Film Theater , that noble project which ultimately did fail of bringing productions of classical American works to film , we might never have seen A Delicate Balance . It's like a lot of O'Neill's work , it's all in the creation of the characters . Certainly a play which consists o... |
394,539 | 2,483,625 | 104,647 | 7 | From The Days of the Miners and Forty Niners | If the rather quirky and unique screen personality of Christian Slater is not your cup of tea , than I'd stay away from Kuffs . Reading the film credits before writing this review I learned that Kuffs was written specifically for Slater . I can't see anyone else this role of George Kuffs , amiable high school dropout w... |
394,154 | 2,483,625 | 43,435 | 7 | Not who you'd first suspect | With Cry Danger , Dick Powell said good bye to the noir genre that had served him well since his electrifying Philip Marlowe in Murder My Sweet . Hard to believe the applecheeked tenor of all those sappy Warner Brothers musicals was the tough guy in some of the best noir films ever done . His few remaining films were n... |
396,635 | 2,483,625 | 53,001 | 7 | The Most Useless Spot in the US | Lil Abner ran as a comic strip for over 20 years before being converted into a long running Broadway musical . The original production had Peter Palmer in the lead with Edie Adams instead of Leslie Parrish being Daisy Mae . It debuted in 1956 and ran for two years . Our government has determined Nevada with its contrib... |
395,223 | 2,483,625 | 35,798 | 7 | What a Fellow Does For a Friend | Randolph Scott and Glenn Ford were once outlaw pals together , but now Scott's a sheriff and young Ford is still hiring his gun out . He gets hired to pull a bank job , but is delayed getting to town and those that hired him get someone else . That leads to all kinds of complications , a lot for a film that's not even ... |
394,424 | 2,483,625 | 25,850 | 7 | Tuneful Jerome Kern classic | Sweet Adeline was presented on the Broadway stage back in 1929 and was primarily a vehicle for Helen Morgan . Morgan had just made a big hit in Kern's greatest musical , Showboat , in the supporting part of Julie LaVerne . She got such raves for that part that a whole show was built around her . I tend to think that sh... |
395,912 | 2,483,625 | 43,455 | 7 | Thy Will Be Done | I've always believed that David and Bathsheba was a film originally intended for Tyrone Power at 20th Century Fox , although Gregory Peck does give a good account of himself as King David , the monarch with a wandering eye . A whole lot of biblical subjects get covered in this film , adultery , redemption , sin , punis... |
395,220 | 2,483,625 | 78,790 | 7 | The Cavalry Is Looking For A Few Good Men | Tim Conway and Don Knotts proved to be so popular in the first Apple Dumpling Gang movie that the Magic Kingdom felt they had to be reteamed for The Apple Dumpling Gang Rides Again . Leaving behind the two children they were involved with in the first film , our two outlaw wannabes find themselves enlisting in the cava... |
392,899 | 2,483,625 | 18,037 | 7 | Walking A Million Miles For One Of Your Smiles | For a mawkishly sentimental play that was outdated even when it first was presented on Broadway , The Jazz Singer has had a remarkable life with now three movie versions and possibly more to come . Of course it being considered the first sound film probably has a whole lot to do with it . I doubt it would have been rem... |
393,701 | 2,483,625 | 60,862 | 7 | something's dicey about this set up . | That was Burt Lancaster's assessment of the situation as he and Lee Marvin , Woody Strode , and Robert Ryan were almost at their destination . These four soldiers of fortune have taken a job to bring back the kidnapped wife of Ralph Bellamy . And when that wife is Claudia Cardinale , well that certainly is understandab... |
395,383 | 2,483,625 | 43,389 | 7 | Under Joel's Tutelage | Young Dean Stockwell is one spoiled kid , but with his father Leon Ames running a railroad , he's hardly got time for the kid . After Dean gets lost on the New Mexico desert when his father's train stops to take on water , he's found by Joel McCrea who's the top hand of a Cattle Drive going to Sante Fe . That Cattle Dr... |
394,718 | 2,483,625 | 35,608 | 7 | Convoying Lend Lease | Raymond Massey and Humphrey Bogart as captain and first mate of a merchant marine ship , see their first ship sunk by a German U-boat . They get a second ship and with some of their surviving crew from the first ship join an international convoy taking supplies to the Soviet Union . From Halifax to Murmansk quite a flo... |
394,902 | 2,483,625 | 43,379 | 7 | A Good Sea Yarn , Two Of Them In Fact | I don't think the good citizens of the United Kingdom with their proud tradition of sea power could complain too much about the American leads in a film about one of their popular fictional heroes . You can't get too much more heroic than Gregory Peck on screen and he certainly does fit C . S . Forrester's conception o... |
395,546 | 2,483,625 | 25,681 | 7 | Will The Real Don Juan Stand Up Or Stand Out ? | In Douglas Fairbanks , Jr . ' s memoirs , he and his father decided in 1933 to go over to Great Britain together for work . Fairbanks the younger wasn't satisfied with his film career at Warner Brothers and his father was falling head over heels with the British Lady Sylvia Ashley . She became his third and last wife .... |
394,767 | 2,483,625 | 60,884 | 7 | Vindicating a Muley Bull | The Rare Breed is the second of four films James Stewart did with director Andrew V . McLaglen . This is a fictionalized account about how Hereford cattle came to the great state of Texas . In this film Stewart brought a breeding bull together with his owners , Maureen O'Hara and Juliet Mills . The question of course i... |
395,311 | 2,483,625 | 53,172 | 7 | There Must Be A Pillow Talking Rock For Doris , THERE MUST | Pillow Talk was the first of three films Rock Hudson and Doris Day teamed on . Personally , I don't think it was their best , but it's entertaining enough . Though for the life of me I can't understand what Doris did in this particular comedy to warrant an Oscar nomination . Pillow Talk doesn't stand out in that way . ... |
396,911 | 2,483,625 | 53,131 | 7 | No Givenchy Gowns In This One | The Nun's Story is the spiritual discovery that Audrey Hepburn makes to find out if she's got the right stuff to become a nun . Born in Brussels in a Belgian Catholic family headed by renowned doctor Dean Jagger , young Audrey decides to become a nun and hopes eventually to serve as a nursing sister in the Belgian Cong... |
393,039 | 2,483,625 | 60,897 | 7 | Those Farmers Have More Trouble | Do you remember how the first Magnificent Seven ended ? Yul Brynner and Steve McQueen rode off after polishing off Eli Wallach and his group of bandits . Horst Bucholtz as Chico stayed in the village and married a girl from there . The other four also stayed in six by four graves . Flash forward now to the present . On... |
394,893 | 2,483,625 | 175,447 | 7 | An Erotic Technique That Can't Be Beat | Though the acting from the Royal Shakespeare company is first rate , this version of Antony and Cleopatra is little more than a photographed stage play . And a bit long for the cinema at that . The title roles are played well by Richard Johnson and Janet Suzman . The story has been told three times in contemporary vers... |
396,335 | 2,483,625 | 25,718 | 7 | Gee , Now Who Didn't Think They Were Talking About Barbara Hutton ? | The Richest Girl in the World in 1934 meant Barbara Hutton . Her exploits made her the Paris Hilton of the day . Did anyone seriously think that by titling the lead character Dorothy Hunter that RKO wasn't trying to cash in on Hutton's reputation ? Miriam Hopkins as Dorothy Hunter is naturally concerned with both priva... |
393,830 | 2,483,625 | 521,148 | 7 | The Original Slaughter On Tenth Avenue | This Bell Telephone Hour show is a salute to the music of Richard Rodgers and it was hosted by Ray Bolger , a performer for whom Richard Rodgers was key in his rise . Other guests included Howard Keel and Dolores Gray , each of whom did a medley of Rodgers songs . Keel in fact was in road company productions of Oklahom... |
396,400 | 2,483,625 | 52,817 | 7 | Making Up For The Year Of Silence | Released two months before his demise , For The First Time proved to be Mario Lanza's last film . While it's not the young Lanza in his prime , booming out Be My Love , it's still a good film to go out on . It's a Cinderella type fairy tale of a concert singer / Prince Charming who meets and falls for a deaf girl and s... |
395,528 | 2,483,625 | 60,463 | 7 | Vladimir , Answer the Phone | Just think that if Doris Day had not for some reason named her dog , Vladimir there might have been no plot at all for this Frank Tashlin comedy . That might have been bad because this was the best of Doris Day's films in the late sixties as she was beginning a downward drop in her box office appeal . The Glass Bottom ... |
394,625 | 2,483,625 | 87,222 | 7 | Torturer In Chief | In 1984 the film The Evil That Men Do was very relevant because of the news coming out of El Salvador . During the Cold War the USA supported some pretty nauseating folks , El Salvador's regime was one of them . The unnamed Central American country where the action takes place is El Salvador . Charles Bronson is a reti... |
394,566 | 2,483,625 | 43,153 | 7 | Hitting That Elusive Note | As I write this review we are fortunate to have all three stars from Young Man With a Horn still with us . All three of them give magnificent performances . Too bad the story was such a cop out . The novel that this is based on has the character of Rick Martin die in the end just like Bix Beiderbecke on whom he was bas... |
394,551 | 2,483,625 | 26,073 | 7 | Little Sure Shot Gets Her Man | Annie Oakley ( 1860-1926 ) born in dire poverty and without spending one day in a school room , became one of the great feminist icons of all time . Talk about taking a man on in his game and beating him . It was not press agent ballyhoo about her prowess as a rifle shot . This romanticized biographical film captures t... |
392,771 | 2,483,625 | 52,792 | 7 | The FBI For Richer Or Poorer | In the tradition of G-Men , The House On 92nd Street , The Street With No Name , now comes The FBI Story one of those carefully supervised films that showed the Federal Bureau of Investigation in the best possible light . While it's 48 year director J . Edgar Hoover was alive , it would be showed in no other kind of li... |
395,932 | 2,483,625 | 35,552 | 7 | Y'all Ain't Just . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | Whistling in Dixie finds Red Skelton as radio detective the Fox and gal pal Ann Rutherford away in Georgia where Red's kind of faked an illness so he and Rutherford can get away and maybe get married down there . Rutherford has another agenda as well . Her old sorority sister Diana Lewis has sent her a pre-arranged sig... |
394,656 | 2,483,625 | 26,055 | 7 | That Windmill Windup | Alibi Ike is a mildly amusing baseball comedy based on Ring Lardner's character of a pitcher with an excuse for everything . It's a pretty good example of Joe E . Brown's hayseed type character at the height of his popularity . And of course because A Midsummer Night's Dream was held up in release , Alibi Ike marks the... |
396,831 | 2,483,625 | 60,491 | 7 | What do Hawaii and Poland have in common ? | From the day Captain Cook arrived on those beautiful islands , Hawaii like Poland was cursed because of geography . Poland situated between two gigantic European powers just became a pawn in the eternal military and diplomatic chess game . Hawaii located where it is between North America and the Orient , when sea trave... |
395,254 | 2,483,625 | 26,056 | 7 | Alice Tries To Get A Fellow | Showing her versatility Katharine Hepburn gets her best part since her Oscar winning Morning Glory in the title role of Alice Adams . Alice and Eva Lovelace are worlds apart . Eva leaves her small town in search of fame and fortune in the theater . But poor Alice just wants to compete with the rest of the girls in her ... |
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