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393,545 | 2,483,625 | 52,745 | 7 | To Become A Painter | Back when I was 14 I saw A Dog of Flanders and viewing it today showed it is a fresh and appealing as I remember it . Young David Ladd is Nello Daas the aspiring young artist who lives with his elderly infirm grandfather , Donald Crisp . The two of them take in a cruelly treated dog and name it Patrasche after the dog ... |
396,799 | 2,483,625 | 113,501 | 7 | A Conservative Is A Liberal Who's Been Mugged | Just Cause takes some of the best parts of three films , Cape Fear , A Touch of Evil and Silence of the Lambs and mixes it together to come up with a good thriller of a film . Sean Connery is a liberal law professor , married to a former Assistant District Attorney , Kate Capshaw and he's a crusader against capital pun... |
393,668 | 2,483,625 | 43,090 | 7 | The Psycho / Phantom of Union Station | Union Station is the locale of a kidnapping and in its labyrinth of tunnels that bare no accidental resemblance to the catacombs of Rome , the victim , Allene Roberts , is snatched and held captive by Lyle Bettger . Allene is the blind daughter of wealthy industrialist Herbert Hayes and since the crime happened on rail... |
393,625 | 2,483,625 | 43,081 | 7 | Why Won't They Let Those Kids Grow Up ? | One of Jane Powell's more popular musicals was this turn of the last century classic , Two Weeks With Love . With music and atmosphere set in the Theodore Roosevelt era , Two Weeks With Love is good entertainment and marked Debbie Reynolds's breakthrough film . The Robinson family headed by Louis Calhern and Ann Hardin... |
392,852 | 2,483,625 | 43,123 | 7 | Cagney the Cadet | James Cagney wrote in his autobiography that the only films he watched in his retirement years continually were the musical ones . He regretted he didn't do more of them . So do I , so should we all . While The West Point Story isn't the greatest film Cagney ever did at Warner Brothers , it's far from the worst and I f... |
395,067 | 2,483,625 | 60,588 | 7 | Battling the Osama Bin-Laden of his day | American screen icon Charlton Heston heads an otherwise all British cast in this recreation of the battle of Khartoum in early 1885 . Heston plays General Charles Gordon known to the British public as Chinese Gordon for his years of service in the Orient before arriving in the Middle East . Gordon never married , devot... |
396,003 | 2,483,625 | 95,781 | 7 | Will That John Henry Lee Ever Reform ? | Director Burt Kennedy took the same foursome of Texas Rangers from the Over The Hill Gang of 1969 and now has given them a new quest . Captain Richard Widmark is on the trail of Willie Nelson , an old war buddy from the Confederate Army and now a bank robber , who's back to his old tricks again . Only this time some yo... |
393,810 | 2,483,625 | 78,492 | 7 | Those Old Cavalry Flicks | Watching The Wild Geese puts me so in mind of those old John Ford cavalry flicks . Not surprising since the Director Andrew McLaglen learned his trade while on the set of those films with his father Victor McLaglen . A fine cast was assembled here for this film . Richard Burton , Roger Moore , and Richard Harris certai... |
395,511 | 2,483,625 | 52,905 | 7 | The Footprints Of A Gigantic Hound | Peter Cushing and Christopher Lee took a break from their usual horror cycle at Hammer Films to do the most famous of the Arthur Conan Doyle Sherlock Holmes series , The Hound Of The Baskervilles . It's not as big a leap as one might think because an integral part of the plot has Sherlock Holmes investigating a legenda... |
396,346 | 2,483,625 | 52,911 | 7 | A Labour Of Love | I waited until I watched Private's Progress to get a feel for these characters from where they originated before writing about I'm All Right Jack . The only question was how did at least two of the repeating characters get out of the jackpot they were left in the previous film in order to be characters here . By all ri... |
396,042 | 2,483,625 | 25,920 | 7 | To Sing My Love Songs To | Twenty Million Sweethearts is out of that era of wonderful musical entertainment that Warner Brothers did the very best of in the Thirties . It's a musical about radio during that quarter of a century when it was the most popular entertainment medium . Dick Powell and Ginger Rogers play a pair of young hopefuls eager t... |
394,341 | 2,483,625 | 87,079 | 7 | A Knave Certainly , A Traitor Very Likely | Concealed Enemies is a fine PBS docudrama about the Alger Hiss case and the first nationwide notice of a freshman Republican Congressman from California named Richard M . Nixon . Had it not been for the Hiss case and the surrounding publicity , Nixon said himself he probably would never have run for president . He migh... |
396,109 | 2,483,625 | 43,012 | 7 | When You Work For Mother Nature , You Get Paid By Father Time | Summer Stock was the third and last pairing of Gene Kelly and Judy Garland by MGM . It's sad to think that there were no others because of Judy's personal problems . She would have a breakdown and would not be before the cameras again until four year later with A Star Is Born . Judy barely got through Summer Stock . Sh... |
394,631 | 2,483,625 | 35,428 | 7 | An Eerie Parallel | Though They All Kissed The Bride dated a bit with the outbreak of World War II , it still holds up well today . Joan Crawford did a very fine job stepping in for Carole Lombard as the trucking company CEO who gets brought down romantically by the charming Melvyn Douglas . It's easy to see why Harry Cohn wanted Douglas ... |
393,644 | 2,483,625 | 43,061 | 7 | Fighting The Christmas Tree Cartel | The title of this film is completely misleading . Ain't nobody robbing from the poor to give to the rich in this Roy Rogers western . Instead Roy plays a U . S . Forestry Inspector ( they never say Forest Ranger because Roy is not in the regulation Smoky the Bear outfit ) who is guarding the evergreen forests and preve... |
393,568 | 2,483,625 | 35,413 | 7 | Bearding | It's too bad that director Mitchell Leisen wasn't working today and making Take A Letter Darling . If he did there would be a whole lot more explicit gender bending in this one . Not that this film isn't good . In fact it's witty and bright and shows Rosalind Russell at her best . In her autobiography Russell describes... |
396,359 | 2,483,625 | 35,415 | 7 | Your Presence Is Requested With Top Hat , White Tie , and Tails | Tales of Manhattan follows the story of a formal cutaway coat as it passes from owner to owner and the consequences to all that come into possession . The original owner , Charles Boyer , is an actor having an affair with Rita Hayworth and husband Thomas Mitchell finds out about it with some dire consequences for Boyer... |
394,214 | 2,483,625 | 95,855 | 7 | The Drowned Wife | Perry Mason : The Case of the Lady in the Lake finds America's most formidable defense attorney taking on David Hasselhoff as a client who is being accused of the murder of his wife . Hasselhoff is a retired tennis player now just hanging on in the tennis circles and is thought to have just married wife Doran Clark for... |
395,858 | 2,483,625 | 87,050 | 7 | Ya Got Trouble , Right Here In Gatlin City | Maybe if those kids in Gatlin , Nebraska had gotten a visit from Professor Harold Hill and a boys band out of it , maybe they might not have killed all their parents . This Stephen King view of the mid-west sure makes one nostalgic for The Music Man . It's one strange place that married couple Peter Horton and Linda Ha... |
392,911 | 2,483,625 | 25,955 | 7 | Too Beautiful For Words | Maybe Wake Up and Dream is not that . But that is the title of one of three songs Russ Columbo both sung and had a hand in writing for this film that was to launch his career as a musical film star with Universal Pictures . In his other feature film lead , Broadway Through a Keyhole , Columbo was not called on to act m... |
393,354 | 2,483,625 | 60,645 | 7 | Haul Out the Bathtowels | Madame X is one of the great soap opera films of all time , popular back in the day , but by the sixties that genre had really run its course . But it is given one handsomely mounted production by Ross Hunter who was the last great Hollywood producer of such drama . This film has a long pedigree . It is based on a play... |
395,785 | 2,483,625 | 35,396 | 7 | Guarding An Inheritance | Sunset Serenade finds Roy Rogers and the Sons of the Pioneers lending a hand to Helen Parrish who is the guardian of an infant who inherits a ranch . Joan Woodbury was the housekeeper in the Gale Sondergaard tradition to the previous owner and she's disappointed that she got left out of the will . Onslow Stevens is a n... |
395,454 | 2,483,625 | 44,962 | 7 | Roz Joins The Army | Never Wave At A WAC is the apparently weird combination of Buck Privates and Woman of the Year . The odd thing about it is that it actually works and still will get a few laughs from today's audience . This might have been a script offered to Katharine Hepburn , but Hepburn never really got as physical in her comedy fi... |
393,910 | 2,483,625 | 25,315 | 7 | How Charley Succeeds | It Happened One Day finds young Charley Chase , a veritable Sammy Glick of the Thirties , getting hired by a firm headed by Oscar Apfel . Two problems with that , Apfel had some unpleasant run ins with the bumptious Chase . Chase even makes an offhanded comment about marrying the boss's daughter and the other employees... |
393,911 | 2,483,625 | 25,288 | 7 | Charley Loses His Good Humor | I'll Take Vanilla refers to young Tommy Bond's preference for ice cream flavor and the spoiled young man is driving his aunt Betty Mack to her wit's end trying to please him while she's babysitting . Into their lives drives Charley Chase with his ice cream truck and while the tow of them hit it off , the hapless Charle... |
394,552 | 2,483,625 | 71,524 | 7 | Updating a classic | I'm sure that the reason for Billy Wilder to do a remake of The Front Page is the fact that around the time this was made , politicians running for office on ' law and order ' platforms was suddenly coming into vogue . The chief example among these was Richard Nixon and we all know what happened to him in 1974 . Seemed... |
396,689 | 2,483,625 | 45,039 | 7 | Scandalous Doings On The Mayflower | In doing a review of Plymouth Adventure we should start out by saying this is most definitely not a docudrama about the Pilgrims . This is a film adaption of a novel by Ernest Gebler in which the author threw some things in there that never happened or are the subject of much speculation . Gene Tierney's character of D... |
396,164 | 2,483,625 | 45,041 | 7 | A Nice Entertaining Western | I'm not sure , but has there ever been a film made with a less than sympathetic treatment of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police ? The Mounties have done very well cinema wise and Pony Soldier is not setting any new patterns . It doesn't have to because it's a very entertaining film . The plot has a lot of similarities t... |
395,030 | 2,483,625 | 25,219 | 7 | So Dream On For Love Is Bound To See Us Through | Not only did Dick Powell get a hit film from Warner Brothers with Happiness Ahead , but he got a radio theme song as long as he was concentrating on musicals . Breaking tradition somewhat , the film opens with Powell singing the title song Happiness Ahead . For the next several years until Powell was doing the dramatic... |
395,032 | 2,483,625 | 25,217 | 7 | Dodsworth With A Comedy Twist | Known primarily today as the debut film of Robert Taylor , Handy Andy was one of Will Rogers's typical roles as small-town druggist and cracker-barrel philosopher . But he's facing a Dodsworth like midlife crisis with wife Peggy Wood . Unlike Dodsworth , Handy Andy is played strictly for laughs . Rogers is a man in lov... |
393,687 | 2,483,625 | 106,168 | 7 | The Eyes Of Texas Are Upon You | As his film career slowed down , martial arts action hero Chuck Norris decided for a weekly television series and for nine years he had a pretty good one . It certainly helped the Texas film industry and kept employed a lot of thespian and backstage talent from the Lone Star State . The title role in Walker , Texas Ran... |
394,683 | 2,483,625 | 60,177 | 7 | The Definition of Class | At the beginning of The Young Lions Marlon Brando tells Barbara Rush how difficult it is to rise in class in Europe as opposed to America . It's one of the reasons he's thinking that Adolph Hitler and the Nazis will be a good thing for Germany . George Peppard plays a more ruthless version of the Brando character in th... |
395,525 | 2,483,625 | 36,274 | 7 | Chickens Home To Roost | I have to say I was pleasantly surprised viewing this film in the early AM and finding out how good this 48 minute feature film was for something done on a sandal string by Hal Roach , Jr . Jimmy Rogers ( who was the younger son of Will ) and Noah Beery , Jr . are a pair of down on their luck cowboys that I don't think... |
394,133 | 2,483,625 | 36,277 | 7 | . . . . . and Fala , playing himself | Seeing Princess O'Rourke last night on TCM , it was interesting to learn that interiors at the White House were shot at the real location . And while the current president was occupied by something called World War II , he found time to have his well known Scot's terrier Fala make a guest appearance . That is the real ... |
395,582 | 2,483,625 | 25,239 | 7 | Saw the premiere with Kitty Carlisle and Scott Barton | This film had been thought of as lost for about half a century when apparently Kathryn Crosby must have been rummaging through some closets and announced that Bing had a copy of this formerly lost film of his . It was restored and back in the early 1990s I saw the newly restored version with my friend Scott Barton and ... |
393,029 | 2,483,625 | 529,754 | 7 | Tricky Lawyers | This particular Bonanza episode deals with a very sharp defense attorney getting a coldblooded killer off . The attorney is John Archer and the killer is Perry Lopez . Lopez and two sidekicks are a trio of nasty thugs who murder Alex Montoya in a barbershop on some really slight pretext . There's no doubt about that Lo... |
394,114 | 2,483,625 | 25,124 | 7 | Utterly Charming Musical | Even with Ruby Keeler's tinny voice and the fact she doesn't dance a step , Flirtation Walk is an utterly charming musical from the Thirties with Dick Powell at the height of his lyric tenor period . West Point's image has done very well by Hollywood . The West Point Story and The Long Gray Line are the other two big f... |
394,515 | 2,483,625 | 51,666 | 7 | Walden Family Values | For whatever reason the producer's decided that God's Little Acre should be set in no specific time rather than in the dust-bowl thirties where and when it belongs , it kept the film from being a great film . It's still a good film to watch , but it misses greatness by a length . Erskine Caldwell wrote this and set in ... |
395,239 | 2,483,625 | 44,916 | 7 | The Fountain Of Youth In Your Water-cooler | Monkey Business Cary Grant's second film with Ginger Rogers and his fourth and final film for director Howard Hawks has him reaching back into some of the lunacy of his previous work like Arsenic and Old Lace . Not since that madcap piece was Grant ever so frantic on the screen . Ginger Rogers doesn't yield one inch of... |
396,100 | 2,483,625 | 44,925 | 7 | Old Mother Riley Drags The Robot | Mother Riley Meets the Vampire was the last of a series of films in which actor Arthur Lucan starred in drag as Old Mother Riley . Lucan's character was an endearingly funny one and popular in the British Isles for a couple of generations . Only his death the following year prevented more films from being made . For th... |
394,298 | 2,483,625 | 51,688 | 7 | A Question of Honor | My vote has always been that of all the great stars identified as western heroes , none was more upright than Joel McCrea . In fact whenever he tried to vary that character , the results usually weren't that good . Even in comedy parts like his films with Preston Sturges , he's still an honorable man , albeit caught up... |
393,057 | 2,483,625 | 71,607 | 7 | The Herbie Mystique | From the racing circuit to the streets of San Francisco was the second stop on Walt Disney's Herbie odyssey . And the Magic Kingdom recruited an old villain from another some other films to be the fall guy in Herbie Rides Again . Our magical Volkswagen is now in the care of Mrs . Steinmetz played by Helen Hayes . As it... |
396,462 | 2,483,625 | 36,057 | 7 | Vagabond Crusader | This curious film is one of the James Cagney films I like the best . For a Cagney film it's slow . I think Cagney was nostalgic for the period in time when he was growing up and Johnny Come Lately captures that slower pace of life people enjoyed before World War I . Cagney plays Tom Richards who was a newspaperman befo... |
395,712 | 2,483,625 | 60,011 | 7 | The Kids Stand Their Ground | The Monroes was an unfortunately short lived series that never found its audience in the year it was on television . My guess is the expense of shooting the show completely on location in Wyoming was a factor in its cancellation . The Monroe family had homesteaded a piece of ground that was in the middle of a pair of f... |
396,373 | 2,483,625 | 36,038 | 7 | The Duke Goes Wildcatting | Spanish American War Veteran John Wayne hitches a ride on oil magnate Albert Dekker's private railroad car just as he's putting the moves on traveling school teacher Martha Scott . That sets off a rivalry between them both professional and personal as Wayne gets under Dekker's skin . Dekker's the big kahuna in Oklahoma... |
395,642 | 2,483,625 | 36,094 | 7 | Who Is Killing The Great Ladies of Burlesque ? | Barbara Stanwyck got to really show her versatility in Lady of Burlesque doing a couple of numbers that did make me wonder why she didn't try to do a full blown musical . Of course she had the best of inspiration in a book that was partially written by the one and only Gypsy Rose Lee . Gypsy needed a ghostwriter , but ... |
393,433 | 2,483,625 | 71,288 | 7 | Cattle Come to Kaui | Having been to Hawaii and actually going through the famous Parker ranch on the big island , I'm in a better position to comment on this film now than before . The Castaway Cowboy is one of two films James Garner made for the Disney studio in the Seventies . He's a Texas cowboy who got himself shanghaied in San Francis... |
394,097 | 2,483,625 | 529,603 | 7 | Measuring the Speed of Light | In the entire run of the Bonanza series twice the Cartwright clan ran into true life human beings who when they were running the Ponderosa , who resided in Virginia City . One was an episode about Mark Twain where Howard Duff played the legendary American writer in his early years . The other was this episode which inv... |
393,727 | 2,483,625 | 25,546 | 7 | Who Is Killing The Bobbies of London ? | There's a guy in between the World Wars London who's going around knocking off London bobbies with a sword cane . Henry Stephenson and Lewis Stone can't figure it out at all . One of the murders happens at a time when cracksman Robert Montgomery has stolen a very valuable diamond and Scotland Yard links the two crimes ... |
393,677 | 2,483,625 | 51,290 | 7 | The Lawman Came When The West Was Young . . . . . . . . . . . | At the same time John Russell was playing ranch owner Nathan Burdette , trying to free his no good brother Claude Akins from sheriff John Wayne in Rio Bravo he was working the other side of the law on television . These years were probably the high point of Russell's career , his most noted screen role and his most fam... |
393,859 | 2,483,625 | 78,970 | 7 | A Tempestuous Leader Changed Generals Like Socks | Winston Churchill who rallied his nation and may very well have saved civilization by keeping the UK fighting against Nazism until the Soviet Union and the USA entered the war , had some serious flaws as a military strategist . There was only one way of beating Hitler , go right through the front door of Western Europe... |
393,536 | 2,483,625 | 25,520 | 7 | Connie And Connie | Don't be misled by the title of the film . Moulin Rouge does not take place in Paris at all . It's a pleasant backstage musical comedy story though no one will mistake it for 42nd Street . It gives Constance Bennett a chance to imitate Fifi d'Orsay and play a dual role as twin sisters . Once upon a time Connie and Conn... |
395,696 | 2,483,625 | 44,782 | 7 | Bing Under The Live Oak Tree | This is the second of two films Bing Crosby partnered with Jane Wyman after their stunning success in Here Comes The Groom . This time Paramount gave them color and Ethel Barrymore and the results are a treat . Bing's a successful stage actor who's about to marry his leading lady , Jane Wyman , when he discovers he's g... |
393,215 | 2,483,625 | 51,267 | 7 | Role Model For Pleasantville ? | Like a lot of stars of the big screen as their careers wound down , so many turned to television where probably they secured their reputations for posterity . Donna Reed is a case in point . I don't think Donna Reed ever thought that Donna Stone was anything challenging , not to a woman who had won an Oscar for playing... |
394,363 | 2,483,625 | 44,774 | 7 | Dino & Jerry Go Airborne | With more of an accent on comedy than romance , Jumping Jacks turns out to be more of a Jerry Lewis than a Dean Martin picture . Usually Dean got one or two good songs in one of their films , here he got none and didn't even bother to record any of the material written by Mack David and Jerry Livingston . But Jerry got... |
392,903 | 2,483,625 | 44,762 | 7 | He Shinnied Up The Stalk To Slay A Giant In His Den | Bud Abbott and Lou Costello always had a good following among children , but in their careers I think you could say that they only made one film that could be designated for kids . Jack and the Beanstalk was that one film . It was part of a two picture independent deal from Warner Brothers , the second film being Abbot... |
393,264 | 2,483,625 | 51,327 | 7 | Springboard of a Legend | Wanted , Dead or Alive was a star vehicle in the truest sense of the term . It was a western calculated to exhibit the talent and charisma of its star , Steve McQueen . It lasted for three seasons before McQueen decided to devote full time to the big screen . McQueen was after some of the most dangerous fellows in the ... |
394,994 | 2,483,625 | 44,753 | 7 | The Reel Jim Bowie | After a decade at Paramount Sue Carol negotiated a new studio contract for Alan Ladd at Warner Brothers . Sad to because her husband's greatest film was ready for release at Paramount and they had no great urgency to feature him in the publicity . But that's another story . Alan Ladd became another one of a good list o... |
395,942 | 2,483,625 | 25,440 | 7 | That Gabby's a Drag | Unlike with most major film stars , John Wayne spent such a long apprenticeship in B westerns that you can't really put his pre-Stagecoach work with Stagecoach and beyond . It's like two different players altogether . Bearing in mind that you can't apply the same standards of Lucky Texan with that of The Searchers , Lu... |
395,425 | 2,483,625 | 44,579 | 7 | Gritty War Drama | Producer Stanley Kramer and Director Edward Dmytryk deliberately chose a cast of unknowns who later did move on to varying degrees of success in the film industry , most notably Lee Marvin , for the cast of Eight Iron Men . It's a tense situation for this squad in some small town on the Italian front in World War II . ... |
394,464 | 2,483,625 | 25,452 | 7 | Sending Hitch on his way | Although Alfred Hitchcock made several better films than this , including the 1956 remake , The Man Who Knew Too Much is a milestone film for the rotund master of suspense . It was the first film that got him noticed outside the United Kingdom , it led to bigger budgets for Hithcock to work with in British film industr... |
395,935 | 2,483,625 | 44,566 | 7 | Movie Star On the Faculty | Imagine the surprise when the faculty and students of a small college discover that a prim and proper English professor was in fact a silent screen star . It's discovered when Clifton Webb's old co-star , Ginger Rogers is hosting a program showing some of their old films . The man she calls her Dreamboat . I suppose it... |
396,185 | 2,483,625 | 25,413 | 7 | Stan And Ollie On The Barbary Coast | The Live Ghost finds Stan and Ollie back in the days of the Barbary Coast where having a crew shanghaied was a matter of course . But gruff captain Walter Long is having an especially hard time because of the rumors his ship is haunted . He gets Stan and Ollie to help him sucker a crew into being shanghaied and for goo... |
393,845 | 2,483,625 | 71,402 | 7 | The Vigilante Goes Into Business | The Death Wish films are not my favorite Charles Bronson works . But there's no doubt that Bronson attained his enduring popularity on the strength of the five films in the series . In this the original Death Wish , Charles Bronson introduces us to Paul Kersey , successful architect and family man with wife Hope Lange ... |
394,555 | 2,483,625 | 44,658 | 7 | Never Look A Gift Horse In The Mouth | This is the only film I know that dealt with Anglo-American destroyers for naval base leases trade that Roosevelt and Churchill made before America entered World War II . Monetary transactions were forbidden by the Neutrality Act so FDR came up with the idea to give up 50 aged American destroyers in turn for leases on ... |
395,450 | 2,483,625 | 94,226 | 7 | If Capone Puts One Of Your's In The Hospital , You Put One Of His In The Morgue | Not that I'm complaining mind you because The Untouchables is a quality motion picture that got Sean Connery an Oscar for a lifetime of work , but one fine day we just might get the real story of Eliot Ness and his Untouchable squad of Treasury agents . For those who are fans of Brian DePalma's film it's no more accura... |
396,168 | 2,483,625 | 35,884 | 7 | If Erich Von Stroheim didn't exist Hollywood would have had to invent him | This 1943 World War II film is Billy Wilder's second directorial effort and it's a pretty good outing . According to a recent biography of Wilder , Cary Grant was offered the lead and turned it down , saying he didn't feel like going on location in the desert near Yuma , Arizona in August . The part then fell to Franch... |
394,520 | 2,483,625 | 36,840 | 7 | Frenchman's Creek In Cornwall ? | The absolutely gorgeous color cinematography and the Academy Award winning sets are the main reason that you should Frenchman's Creek today . The players definitely take second place to those outstanding features . The plot at least as it has been altered by the Code is handled with as much skill as the cast can muster... |
395,302 | 2,483,625 | 36,836 | 7 | GI Fantasy | Four Jills in a Jeep was inspired by a book that Carole Landis wrote about the tours she made with USO overseas at the beginning of American participation in World War II . Besides Carole , the other three performing with her on this tour were Kay Francis , Mitzi Mayfair and Martha Raye . When 20th Century Fox did this... |
396,736 | 2,483,625 | 59,740 | 7 | Getting Katie A Monument | Feisty Katie Elder has passed on and her sons have arrived in Clearwater , Texas for her funeral . Katie's four sons are played by John Wayne , Dean Martin , Earl Holliman , and Michael Anderson , Jr . and three's a certain amount of hostility directed towards them from some quarters . And a bit of fear evident in the ... |
393,713 | 2,483,625 | 120,856 | 7 | The Eternal Jungle Man | Casper Van Dien joins a long list of actors / athletes to essay the part of Edgar Rice Burroughs famous man of the jungle . As far as looks go he certainly fits the role , loincloth and all . Tarzan is as eternal on the screen in his history as Sherlock Holmes . Both of them if you remember were brought up to date duri... |
393,182 | 2,483,625 | 44,486 | 7 | Lord Olivier's mid-life crisis | This filming of Theodore Dreiser's Sister Carrie focuses more on Laurence Olivier's character of George Hurstwood more than on the title character that Jennifer Jones portrays . In the novel , Carrie is not quite as good a girl as Jennifer portrays her . But that is probably due to 1950s conventions and David O . Selzn... |
395,922 | 2,483,625 | 44,502 | 7 | When You Run Out Of Places , Home Is All You Have Left | In a recent biography of Barbara Stanwyck we are told that Stanwyck overcame her natural conservatism to do this adaption of a Clifford Odets play . Many changes were made to overcome not only Stanwyck's qualms , but those of RKO studio owner Howard Hughes about the work of the left leaning Odets . Clash By Night was o... |
396,880 | 2,483,625 | 70,915 | 7 | I Got The Sheriff | White Lightning is the first of two appearances Burt Reynolds made as Gator McKlusky , moonshiner with a mission . He's got a year to go on a rap for running illegal whiskey , but gets word of the death of his kid brother , arrested and later found drowned in a lake in another county . He decides to help the Feds get t... |
395,674 | 2,483,625 | 70,928 | 7 | Me Nanu . . . . . . . You Jane | When Coach John Amos and his assistant Tim Conway go looking for athletic talent for Merryvale College , they say they'll travel anywhere . And in The World's Greatest Athlete they go to East Africa in search of a legendary jungle boy raised in the wild whose athletic prowess is beyond belief . The subject of their sea... |
393,731 | 2,483,625 | 52,050 | 7 | Mob Lawyer Redeemed | Party Girl marked the last film Robert Taylor did under contract for MGM . He did two more on option to them after this , but this one finished his studio contract . Taylor went out on a good nostalgic note with Party Girl . This film must have had some nostalgic appeal for Taylor . It is set back when he would have be... |
393,889 | 2,483,625 | 24,647 | 7 | Who Says Trigger's the Smartest Horse in the West | At this point in his career John Wayne was doing B films for Warner Brothers and it was decided to give him a smart horse like Roy Rogers's Trigger . And what do they name the horse ? Duke . That's something Wayne must have had a hand in . Here John Wayne is an army scout and he gets Frank McHugh as an army corporal / ... |
394,929 | 2,483,625 | 44,314 | 7 | That Albanian Scoundrel | Up till recently I had never seen 5 Fingers , for some reason it is rarely shown on television . But in watching it I knew why Alfred Hitchcock had cast James Mason as villainous Philip Van Damm in North By Northwest . His role as Diello in 5 Fingers , the Albanian spy for profit , is apparently what Hitchcock saw befo... |
394,418 | 2,483,625 | 59,868 | 7 | Rock Pushing The Envelope | Let me tell you this is one special favor that Charles Boyer is asking of Rock Hudson . My guess is that Hudson's estate is keeping a lid on this one . Boyer has a daughter in Leslie Caron who is a psychiatrist by profession . He also has a colleague at work in Rock Hudson and he's concerned about his daughter . Concer... |
394,223 | 2,483,625 | 52,097 | 7 | Introducing David Ladd | Although young David Ladd had actually made a brief appearance in his father's western The Big Land the year before , it was decided that David would make a featured debut in this family picture about a father and son roughing it in post Civil War America . Alan Ladd , late of the Confederate Army , and a widower has s... |
393,971 | 2,483,625 | 44,324 | 7 | Sticks to the Personal | The actual development of the atomic bomb was documented in films like The Beginning or the End and in Fat Man and Little Boy . Above and Beyond concentrates on the pilot of the B-29 that actually did the deed . Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker play Colonel and Mrs . Paul Tibbetts who's marriage was put under an incred... |
395,871 | 2,483,625 | 24,683 | 7 | Backstage Bing | This was Bing Crosby's third feature film on his new Paramount contract and by now Paramount discovered that they didn't have to put much production values into his films . Just give Bing some good songs to sing and the picture sells itself . That was definitely the case here . Crosby was supplied with a nice score by ... |
393,806 | 2,483,625 | 59,885 | 7 | You'll Get The Iron Cross For This , Von Ryan | Von Ryan's Express which was a best selling action adventure novel in the sixties combines some of the best elements of The Great Escape and Bridge Over the River Kwai . Culture clashes abound in Von Ryan's Express , Britsh versus American , Italian versus German . Sometimes the participants seem to forget just who was... |
393,578 | 2,483,625 | 52,197 | 7 | A Man Placed In The Right Position | The Silent Enemy is a tribute to controversial British war hero Lionel Crabb who later got to be known as Buster after the American swimming champion . It wasn't medals that Crabb did his swimming for , he swam for the very survival of king and country . Laurence Harvey plays the sometimes irascible Crabb who gets assi... |
396,471 | 2,483,625 | 36,641 | 7 | The Great Examiner Holds Court Again | Sutton Vane's play Outward Bound was expanded and souped up considerably in this second screen version of the play , Between Two Worlds . The basic ideas of the play and first film have been extended and accommodated to World War II . Several new characters were introduced into the screenplay . Paul Henreid and Eleanor... |
395,422 | 2,483,625 | 59,797 | 7 | Up , Down , Flying Around , Looping The Loop And Defying The Ground | I'm one of the biggest fans of old newsreels and I don't think there are too many of us who haven't seen some of that ancient footage with all those odd contraptions showing man's attempt to fly in the early 20th century . I guess it was only a matter of time before someone got the bright idea to do a comedy from those... |
394,825 | 2,483,625 | 52,218 | 7 | Shirley steals the show | In any other year Shirley MacLaine would have walked off with the Best Actress Oscar , but NO ONE was going to take it from Susan Hayward in 1958 . In fact the film is filled with nominations , Arthur Kennedy for Best Supporting Actor , Martha Hyer for Best Supporting Actress and these were great performances . Dean Ma... |
393,371 | 2,483,625 | 52,170 | 7 | Good action , ridiculous romance | Victor McLaglen's last feature film found him trying to romance Luciana Paluzzi . McLaglen's a salvage tug captain and he's going through an end life crisis romancing young Luciana Paluzzi who's young enough to be his granddaughter . Seems that her father Roger Delgado , an innkeeper in a North Spain sea village , woul... |
396,138 | 2,483,625 | 44,186 | 7 | Another somebody done somebody wrong picture | Burt Lancaster usually played parts with a lot of depth to them , especially after From Here to Eternity . In fact other than Vengeance Valley , the only other film where he played a totally upright hero is Gunfight at the OK Corral . He's the orphan kid that gets taken in by rancher Ray Collins who grows up and become... |
392,777 | 2,483,625 | 86,200 | 7 | She's In Product , He's In Sales | Risky Business and All The Right Moves are the two films that launched Tom Cruise's career as brat pack film star . Unlike so many of his contemporaries from the Eighties , he's proved to have staying power and will no doubt continue to do so . All The Right Moves established Cruise as a dramatic actor , but Risky Busi... |
396,835 | 2,483,625 | 51,767 | 7 | When You Need A Temporary General | Glenn Ford and Red Buttons take a mighty big chance trying to impersonate a general . It's a court martial offense if they're caught . Although the film goes overboard in silliness at times , Imitation General is a pretty good comedy from the talented director / actor team of George Marshall and Glenn Ford who also did... |
395,917 | 2,483,625 | 51,739 | 7 | Straight From . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . | A year after winning the Oscar for Best Actor in The Bridge on the River Kwai , Alec Guinness was back to doing comedy , but with a lot bigger budgets than he was used to . His classic parts in Kind Hearts and Coronets and The Lavendar Hill Mob were done without color for instance , which was a much bigger premium for ... |
393,384 | 2,483,625 | 25,069 | 7 | Was Philo Vance Getting Into The Realm of Science Fiction ? | At one of those closed gatherings of suspects so popular in murder mysteries where a whole lot of the guests have good enough reason to do the victim in , George Meeker dives into a swimming pool and does not emerge . The disappearance is enough to call in the District Attorney , Robert McWade who just happens to be ou... |
394,438 | 2,483,625 | 36,551 | 7 | True Love On The Train | Two years after the Andrews Sisters introduced You're A Lucky Fellow Mr . Smith in Buck Privates some bright fellow at Universal Studios thought it would make a nice catchy title for a film . The result was this very nice screwball comedy with songs about yet another Hollywood heiress , this one marries a soldier . Rom... |
393,801 | 2,483,625 | 24,991 | 7 | Classical Cleo | Claudette Colbert certainly had one banner year in 1934 . An Oscar for It Happened One Night for Harry Cohn and Columbia Pictures and back at her home studio , she starred and got great reviews for Paramount's big budget item of the year , Cleopatra . As the slinky siren Queen of the Nile who got Julius Caesar's and Ma... |
393,400 | 2,483,625 | 94,889 | 7 | Shake It To The Left , Shake It To The Right | God only knows in my lifetime I've dealt with a lot of bartenders , I still do now when I go in a place and only order non-alcoholic beverage . But unless it was a topless joint where the bartenders were required to do more than pour and converse and maybe toss out an occasional drunk , I never did see one do the Hippy... |
396,517 | 2,483,625 | 94,894 | 7 | The LA Gang Wars And The Cops Who Respond | After viewing Colors you have got to wonder about what our Founding Fathers had in mind when that Second Bill of Rights was passed to amend the Constitution . I don't think this is what they had in mind concerning the right to bear arms . Colors is a film about gang wars in Los Angeles and it's seen through the eyes of... |
396,031 | 2,483,625 | 70,909 | 7 | For $1000 . 00 A Day | You can see the roots both in the plot and the special effects in Michael Crichton's Westworld that can later be found in the incredibly popular Jurassic Park series . Like Jurassic Park the protagonists of Westworld are a pair of wealthy American yuppies who are going to a futuristic vacation resort . The place is cal... |
394,668 | 2,483,625 | 24,903 | 7 | I'm Too Good For This Joint | Bolero , the film named after Maurice Ravel's classic instrumental orchestral composition is one of George Raft's very few non-gangster successes . That's because it takes advantage of Raft's other great talent , that of a dancer . It's how he started out in show business and like James Cagney , got to display that asp... |
395,589 | 2,483,625 | 44,085 | 7 | Bill Holden Had To Wait For Another War | The problem that Submarine Command had from the start is that it came out in the same year as Operation Pacific which had similar plot situations . It might be better known today if that were not the case . As it is it's not a bad action adventure film and no disgrace to its star William Holden or any of the supporting... |
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