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393,823 | 2,483,625 | 44,070 | 7 | The Stars Come To Travis | Starlift is a pleasant and interesting throwback to those all star musical pictures that every studio was putting out during the World War II years . When you've got such stars as Gary Cooper , James Cagney , Doris Day , Gordon MacRae , and Randolph Scott , etc . , in the film and with such people as the Gershwin Broth... |
394,787 | 2,483,625 | 36,427 | 7 | Knocking the Axe Out Of the Axis | They Got Me Covered is one of two films Bob Hope did on loan out from Paramount to Sam Goldwyn . After that Goldwyn once again signed his own house comedian Danny Kaye so he wouldn't have to pay an exorbitant ransom Paramount put on Hope's talents . Hope's a bumbling newspaper reporter who turned out to be the only wir... |
395,313 | 2,483,625 | 79,528 | 7 | A Fighting Machine | Realizing that this is made for TV movie without a whole lot of the production values that a theatrical release would have , the performance of Tony Lo Bianco as Rocky Marciano is a dead-on accurate portrayal of the two real live Rockys that dominated their divisions back in the day . Paul Newman cut his teeth on playi... |
393,054 | 2,483,625 | 649,770 | 7 | Clint Eastwood's Directorial Debut ? | If the creators of Mister Ed could only have realized just what they were prophesying in this episode , they'd have gotten in on the ground floor of Malpaso films . When Clint Eastwood was just known as the star of Rawhide , in fact at the height of that series run , he made a guest appearance on Mister Ed . It was a r... |
395,330 | 2,483,625 | 36,386 | 7 | The Shakedown of the U . S . S . Warren | Standby For Action finds the two co-stars of Billy the Kid , Robert Taylor and Brian Donlevy thrown together due to wartime circumstances as executive officer and captain of the recommissioned U . S . S . Warren . Apparently the Warren was one of the old vintage World War I destroyers that didn't get traded to the Unit... |
395,966 | 2,483,625 | 51,936 | 7 | Child Labor | The title role in The Missouri Traveler is played by young Brandon DeWilde , his last role essentially as a child star . Soon he'd be doing such adult stuff as Blue Denim , Hud , and In Harm's Way . It's a nostalgic look at life at the turn of the last century in a small Missouri town where orphan kid Brandon DeWilde s... |
393,044 | 2,483,625 | 51,911 | 7 | Meet the Morgensterns | If you grew up in a Jewish home or even a mixed household as I did there were two books in every domicile . One would have been Leon Uris's Exodus and the second was Herman Wouk's Marjorie Morningstar . I guess I can appreciate the film more than most since I saw a lot of the characters in my youth and afterwards . Eve... |
395,662 | 2,483,625 | 51,913 | 7 | Matchmaker , Match Thyself | After a lifetime of arranging couplings for others Dolly Levi has decided it's time that she settle down with somebody . Her target in her sights is merchant Horace Vandergelder in turn of the last century Yonkers , New York . Of course Horace the old goat is looking at young Irene Molloy . What to do , especially sinc... |
394,460 | 2,483,625 | 33,045 | 7 | The Darndest casting decisions | Back in the day of the big studio system , the darndest casting decisions were made . Good old all American James Stewart appearing as a Hungarian in The Shop Around the Corner . Had I been casting the film , the part of Kralik would have been perfect for Charles Boyer . His accent mixed in with all the other European ... |
396,167 | 2,483,625 | 41,838 | 7 | NOT Another run of DeMille Picture | By the time the 1940s were rolling around , Cecil B . DeMille was doing a lot less work , but the work was getting more expensive . DeMille took off a couple of years now between films to create the opulent splendor that typifies his work . Well Samson and Delilah abounds in opulence . The color cinematography is first... |
395,611 | 2,483,625 | 28,197 | 7 | Legend of Old California | Two later versions of the story of Joaquin Murietta with Jeffrey Hunter and Ricardo Montalban stuck closer to the truth about the famous bandit from the California Gold Rush Days . But certainly Warner Baxter , dusting off his Cisco Kid accent certainly made a dashing Murietta . I'm not certain why Gilbert Roland who w... |
393,882 | 2,483,625 | 102,914 | 7 | Updating Of The Squaw Man | The very first film usually dubbed a Hollywood western was Cecil B . DeMille's The Squaw Man which came out in 1913 . The plot involved an English earl going west to America after one of those Victorian affairs of honor and settling down with an American Indian wife . A lot of the plot elements of The Squaw Man are in ... |
395,182 | 2,483,625 | 50,680 | 7 | Local Tyranny | With the debate over illegal immigration and the concern that it is mostly coming from south of the American border , Man in the Shadow is a film that has assumed a serious relevance for us today . Jeff Chandler is the sheriff of a small southwestern town and a Mexican migrant worker , Martin Garralaga , has brought ne... |
395,865 | 2,483,625 | 28,178 | 7 | Bing's Home On The Range . | Another source of recording material for Bing Crosby were western songs . He recorded a good many of them in his career . About the time Rhythm on the Range was being made the singing cowboy was just getting started as a movie staple . When Bing's 78s were being compiled into vinyl albums in the 1950s he had recorded e... |
395,673 | 2,483,625 | 102,960 | 7 | Transferred From Milford , The Hoods From Hell | The film Sometimes They Come Back explores the proposition that if you got a big enough grudge against someone , especially if they helped aid your leaving this mortal coil rather abruptly , you can come back for payback . Doesn't matter if you've been good or if you've been bad and these three were definitely bad . Ti... |
395,353 | 2,483,625 | 1,059,786 | 7 | HAL Comes To Washington | Shia LaBoeuf plays two parts in Eagle Eye , very briefly he's a young Air Force Man working at a very top secret room on the 36th sub level of the Pentagon basement . He gets killed in a traffic accident and the scene shifts now to his underachieving twin brother who works at a copy store . After the funeral of the Air... |
394,232 | 2,483,625 | 41,788 | 7 | Repatriating the Red Refugees | Russian colonel Louis Calhern is looking for prima ballerina Janet Leigh to take her back to the Soviet Union in post World War II Vienna in 1946 . His quest is the heart of The Red Danube . The Red Danube came out in 1949 and is set at the time when people thought it possible to keep the wartime Allies on the same pag... |
395,804 | 2,483,625 | 33,105 | 7 | The Angel of Devil's Island | The Strange Cargo referred to in the title is in the person of Ian Hunter who is a mysterious other world convict who comes upon a group of them planning to escape from Devil's Island . It's a strange film , Strange Cargo with Clark Gable and Joan Crawford in the very last of eight films they were paired in by MGM . Cr... |
395,995 | 2,483,625 | 189,360 | 7 | For Bonnie Annie Laurie | MGM had Dennis Morgan under contract for the first few years of his career under his real name Stanley Morner . His most famous " role " was that of the singer in the A Pretty Girl is Like a Melody number of The Great Ziegfeld . Unfortunately somebody decided to dub Allan Jones's voice instead of Morgan's and poor Denn... |
394,255 | 2,483,625 | 35,252 | 8 | A Bow and Arrow Wedding | When Universal found they had a gold mine in two burlesque comedians named Bud Abbott and Lou Costello they rushed them into film after film . In the early years of their Unviersal contract the boys did film after film . Since Universal did most of it's product on the cheap for a major studio Bud and Lou became major m... |
393,108 | 2,483,625 | 61,282 | 8 | Just Add on a Color and a half hour | The recent demise of Jack Warden put me in mind of this good , but forgotten show . I well remember it from the late sixties . It was a tough and rather realistic look at the life in the precinct squad of the NYPD . All three of the regulars here went on to have good careers and other television series . Frank Converse... |
393,508 | 2,483,625 | 70,468 | 8 | A Universal Police Story | The Offence came out in 1972 as Sean Connery was desperately trying to break away from his James Bond image . It became sadly one of long list of critically acclaimed performances that flopped badly at the box office . That's a pity because he's really quite a marvel in this role as detective sergeant Johnson one of a ... |
393,426 | 2,483,625 | 43,949 | 8 | Whither Thou Goest | Quo Vadis , based on the late nineteenth century novel by Henryk Sienkiewicz , has been filmed many times in many lands for the cinema and for television . It was done as a Broadway play at the turn of the last century . But this is the version that most people remember and talk about . It's also the first of the big b... |
393,858 | 2,483,625 | 43,961 | 8 | Summoned Up His Memories | Although John Huston's The Red Badge of Courage has stood the test of time critically , back then it lost lots of money in its first release . The film was a bone of contention between Louis B . Mayer and Dore Schary who were locked in a power struggle for control at Metro-Goldwyn - Mayer . Schary wanted to make the fi... |
395,475 | 2,483,625 | 26,325 | 8 | The Camera Betrays | Almost fifty years before Dream Girls made its Broadway debut , Paramount put out this film about a band-leader and a trio of singers whom he takes under his wing and then gets a little too bossy about their private lives . One wonders if someone at Paramount noticed the resemblance . Every Night At Eight is the title ... |
394,120 | 2,483,625 | 61,278 | 8 | Did the producers know what they were putting out ? | Way back in the day Jay North , having become too big to be Dennis the Menace any more , he went to India with Clint Walker and did a very nice film named Maya . Kind of confusing because Maya is an elephant , not a group of native Americans from the Yucatan . The film did a good box office and North got a TV series ou... |
394,221 | 2,483,625 | 52,680 | 8 | Business And Romance | James Garner makes a dashing young entrepreneur of the business world in Cash McCall , the second of two films made from Cameron Hawley's business world novels , the other being the acclaimed Executive Suite . Hawley certainly knew how to capture the business world well and put a proper face on it . Usually it's not a ... |
393,313 | 2,483,625 | 104,990 | 8 | Headlines don't sell papers , Newsies sell papers | Although Newsies did not bring back the musical film into wide favor , it certainly was a noble effort . In a way , it's director Kenny Ortega did accomplish it in another way . He's the creative genius behind Disney Productions incredible money making franchise , the High School Musical films which as I write another ... |
394,321 | 2,483,625 | 35,100 | 8 | Giving the British Some Hope | My Favorite Blonde has in the title role Madeleine Carroll a most beautiful blond player , who is a British secret agent trying to get some microfilm about air routes for American planes to go to Great Britain as part of lend lease . But just as her boat is docking in New York , some nasty Nazi spies shoot her male com... |
396,854 | 2,483,625 | 26,164 | 8 | Man's Best Friend | The last time Clark Gable got loaned out for a film was the year before and he won an Academy Award . This time Louis B . Mayer got a good price for him from Fox for Call of the Wild . Fox also did something unusual in that the film was shot on location with the mountains of Washington state serving as the Canadian Roc... |
396,606 | 2,483,625 | 26,126 | 8 | By Yon Bonnie Banks And By Yon Bonnie Braes , The Sun Shines High On MacLaurel | Stan and Ollie travel all the way to Bonnie Scotland to collect on an inheritance left by Stan MacLaurel's late grandfather . Both he and his cousin June Lang are provided , but she's not of age and she's under the firm guardianship of Colonel Vernon Steele and his scheming Mrs . , Anne Grey . William Janney , the cler... |
393,565 | 2,483,625 | 35,105 | 8 | The Sherwood Sisters Take New York | Rosalind Russell got her first trip to the Oscars via her performance as the sensible Ruth Sherwood who wants a career as a writer , but has to worry about looking after that other sibling of her's who moved with her to New York from Columbus , Ohio , My Sister Eileen . Imagine if you will a story where the heroine's w... |
396,358 | 2,483,625 | 26,142 | 8 | You've Got That Something In Your Voice So Right For Selling Cheese | While Dick Powell was at Warner Brothers , he would be hat in hand to Jack Warner pleading for him to occasionally be cast in something serious . Of course Warner heard that wonderful tenor and saw nothing else in Powell . And certainly when he wrapped those vocal cords around songs like what Harry Warren and Al Dubin ... |
393,483 | 2,483,625 | 52,735 | 8 | The British Soldier Can Stand up to anything , except the British War Office . | Burt Lancaster and Kirk Douglas , both players who chose rather successfully to chart their own careers , decided on their third co-starring film to jointly produce it as well . The property chosen was George Bernard Shaw's The Devil's Disciple which takes place in the northern theater of operations in the American Rev... |
395,999 | 2,483,625 | 43,859 | 8 | Nothing Like Becoming Part of Your Own Experiment | No Highway marks both the reunion film of James Stewart and Marlene Dietrich and Stewart's second film with Henry Koster as director . Stewart never played an intellectual before , but he's quite convincing here as the absent minded aeronautical scientist . Stewart is a widower who is Rhodes Scholar , an American who d... |
392,954 | 2,483,625 | 35,151 | 8 | A Little Reverse Psychology | I'm amazed at the bad reception that Once Upon a Honeymoon got from other reviewers here . It's not the greatest film from either the stars or the director , but far from the worst . See Satan Never Sleeps or My Son John for Leo McCarey's worst . And it's one of Walter Slezak's best roles . Slezak plays the fictional B... |
395,678 | 2,483,625 | 95,599 | 8 | Everyone Wants Meg's Money | Masquerade is a really good Hitchcockian type of thriller , a combination of Suspicion and The Heiress in which sisters Joan Fontaine and Olivia DeHavilland brought aspects of Meg Tilly's character in their Oscar winning performances . It was shot on location in the ritzy Hamptons of Suffolk County , in fact the plot i... |
396,097 | 2,483,625 | 52,617 | 8 | Can You Imagine Dickens in Hollywood ? | Beloved Infidel is based on the memoirs of Hollywood columnist Sheilah Graham , specifically her three year affair with F . Scott Fitzgerald , who is still a legend in American literature , and a genuine legend in his own time . That's the key to the film . Can you imagine in the previous century Charles Dickens whose ... |
395,435 | 2,483,625 | 70,605 | 8 | Joining The Herd | The short lived American Film Theater in its few years of existence produced and preserved so many good theatrical works that might never have gotten filmed they deserve the gratitude of all who appreciate the best in plays . One of the best and most interesting preserved work is French playwright Eugene Ionesco's absu... |
395,400 | 2,483,625 | 35,173 | 8 | Oh Give Me a Home , Where the Frangipani Bloom | Until the VHS of Pardon My Sarong was released I had never seen the complete film . When I was a lad and WPIX television in New York City used to show Abbott and Costello films every Sunday morning , the film always began with Costello crashing that bus into the harbor . I used to wonder why as prominent an actor like ... |
393,003 | 2,483,625 | 95,578 | 8 | Heston Fulfills A Dream | One of Charlton Heston's great disappointments in his career was that he did not get to do the original film of A Man For All Seasons . Heston couldn't really complain though , Paul Scofield had done the play on the London stage and Heston never faulted Scofield's Academy Award winning performance . But he made sure he... |
395,215 | 2,483,625 | 87,866 | 8 | Are You As Good As You Look | During his career Rob Lowe has been compared as the Brat Pack throwback to some of the matinée idols of the Studio era . That comparison was sealed when he did Oxford Blues a more suggestive remake of the MGM classic A Yank At Oxford which did so well for Robert Taylor back in the day . The same basic plot is retained ... |
393,447 | 2,483,625 | 167,190 | 8 | The Hellboy Cottage Industry | If Mike Mignola isn't careful he's going to have a whole cottage industry devoted to his comic strip creation Hellboy . Having just come from Hellboy II : The Golden Army and seeing his credits at this website makes me think about what a gold mine Mignola has found . I saw the original Hellboy and I was struck by the f... |
394,956 | 2,483,625 | 43,769 | 8 | A Forgotten Pioneer | I'm sure it didn't hurt in the resolve of the British film industry to honor one of its pioneers and one who some claim to have been the actual inventor of motion pictures , William Friese-Greene , to have one of his grandchildren , Richard Greene as a film star in his own right . The Magic Box is a fine tribute to som... |
392,798 | 2,483,625 | 26,529 | 8 | A Flannelmouth Fool | I don't doubt that Victor McLaglen won his Best Actor Oscar for this film by dint of a three way split among the Mutiny on the Bounty leads of Clark Gable , Charles Laughton , and Franchot Tone who were all in the same race . But The Informer is still a fine film because John Ford wouldn't have gotten his first Best Di... |
393,004 | 2,483,625 | 52,303 | 8 | It's All On The Line For Glenn Ford | I happen to like submarine movies , but normally the plot situations are the same in every one of them . Torpedo Run though it bares most resemblance to the Cary Grant World War II film from Warner Brothers , Torpedo Run has a unique involvement of Ford's family in combat . Japanese intelligence has marked Ford as one ... |
395,884 | 2,483,625 | 60,955 | 8 | Word Of Mouth Into A New Life | In Seconds life's become pretty boring for John Randolph , no interest in the little woman any more , a dead end job , all the money in the world , but no interest in spending it anywhere . So when he gets a call from an old friend who he's heard has died , the possibilities are intriguing . Start over with a newly rec... |
393,046 | 2,483,625 | 52,225 | 8 | In Love With A Wonderful Guy | Though it is only the second longest running of Rodgers & Hammerstein's musical shows , South Pacific I believe contains the best score with The King and I running a close second . On Broadway it opened in 1949 and closed 1925 shows later in 1954 . It gave Mary Martin her career role on Broadway and made a pop star out... |
396,293 | 2,483,625 | 52,278 | 8 | I Gotta Burnin ' Yearnin ' To Learn | Now that musicals were unfortunately fading away , Doris Day was slowly finding a new niche in screen comedy . She was busy being leading lady to some of Hollywood's biggest male stars and they didn't come bigger than the king , Clark Gable . Also her new hit songs were the title tunes of her films and very few sold as... |
394,934 | 2,483,625 | 70,291 | 8 | Parlor Games At Sea | Sheila , the wife of James Coburn , was rundown in a hit and run accident that no one stepped up to the plate to claim responsibility for . Never mind , Coburn's pretty sure he knows who did the awful deed . As Coburn is a wealthy and eccentric producer and his suspects are all movie people , he invites the six of them... |
395,976 | 2,483,625 | 52,427 | 8 | Though He Be No Bigger Than My Thumb | Unfortunately for the career of Russ Tamblyn he came along just as musicals were being phased out along with the big studio system . But MGM did have Russ under long term contract and there was the fact he had to be used . Tamblyn went to the United Kingdom in 1958 to film tom thumb , one of the Brothers Grimm more int... |
396,760 | 2,483,625 | 26,406 | 8 | The Rene Clair Touch | In this very delightful fantasy , a joint Anglo-American production with Alexander Korda doing it in the United Kingdom and it being partnered by Samuel Goldwyn over on this side of the pond , Robert Donat gets to do two of his best characterizations . Donat plays a 20th century Scot's Laird , forced to sell the family... |
395,160 | 2,483,625 | 26,385 | 8 | Vigilante Justice | For James Cagney's second costume picture and first in a 19th century setting , Warner Brothers took him to San Francisco's Barbary Coast for the Frisco Kid . Cagney's first costume role was in the all star production of A Midsummer Night's Dream . Unfortunately in production values it was lost in the acclaim for the m... |
396,277 | 2,483,625 | 70,346 | 8 | He Betrayed His Revolution | The first impression you might have is that there is no way that John Osbourne , the creator of the frustrated Jimmy Porter in Look Back In Anger , could possibly have reached back five centuries for the subject matter of another play . Osborne's best work Look Back In Anger is firmly rooted in the 20th century , deali... |
394,674 | 2,483,625 | 34,889 | 8 | The Duke's A Druggist Dude | In Old California finds John Wayne in the highly unusual casting of an eastern dude from Boston going west to California to seek fame and fortune as California becomes American territory due to the Mexican cession . He might be an easterner , but you wouldn't expect John Wayne to be any kind of cream puff . He'd better... |
394,863 | 2,483,625 | 34,890 | 8 | A Tale Of Two Sisters | For the only time in his career , director John Huston does a film with the main protagonists being women , in this case two of Warner Brothers biggest stars . Bette Davis and Olivia DeHavilland play a couple of sisters named Timberlake , one good and one bad . I'll leave it to the veteran movie fans to tell who was wh... |
394,816 | 2,483,625 | 264,464 | 8 | Nyah , Nyah , you can't catch me | Catch Me If You Can should be seen back to back with Tony Curtis's performance in The Great Imposter . They are both excellent films and both deal with a protagonist who's a brilliant and charming fellow and a quick study who masquerades in many disguises . In The Great Imposter the whole story is told from Tony Curtis... |
395,768 | 2,483,625 | 43,553 | 8 | Romance In The Italian Campaign | The original story behind Force of Arms was written by Richard Tregaskis , war correspondent from World War II , best known for Guadalcanal Diary . Of course some would argue that Tregaskis borrowed a lot of the plot from the previous war that Ernest Hemingway chronicled in A Farewell to Arms . Still it's a nice romant... |
393,219 | 2,483,625 | 43,540 | 8 | Nothing's Dirtier Than a Rear Guard Action | Made with a competent cast of B film actors , Fixed Bayonets is the story of a platoon of 48 men of whom very few survive as they cover the retreat of an American Division in Korea . One movie legend made a brief appearance here , but if you blink you'll miss James Dean as one of the soldiers . Richard Basehart is the ... |
394,735 | 2,483,625 | 26,446 | 8 | What's In A Name ? | The Guv'nor finds George Arliss not playing in one of his heroic biographical films for which his reputation has come down to the present day . Instead he's playing a gentleman tramp over in Paris who happens to have the famous name of Francois Rothschild . Ironic because one of Arliss's most famous biographical roles ... |
394,696 | 2,483,625 | 25,748 | 8 | Those Frenchies Seek Him Everywhere . | There are some including previous reviewers here who would argue that The Scarlet Pimpernel afforded Leslie Howard his finest screen role . I wouldn't argue the point . This Pimpernel guy , a sort of English Zorro / Lone Ranger is one tricky fellow . He's declared his own private war on the French Revolution and while ... |
395,200 | 2,483,625 | 25,774 | 8 | Bing helps a damsel in distress | Bing Crosby had done one previous film with a college setting in College Humor . In that one he was a music teacher . Now he's on the other side of the classroom as student / composer in She Loves Me Not . He's about to graduate and get married when a complication in the form of Miriam Hopkins comes into his life . She... |
395,861 | 2,483,625 | 60,748 | 8 | Some Kind of Man | If you remember The Carpetbaggers , you'll note the scene where Jonas Cord , Jr . tells his surrogate father Nevada Smith about how he researched and discovered his real story . That his real name was Max Sand and that when three vicious outlaws killed his parents , he spent years tracking them down to mete out justice... |
393,922 | 2,483,625 | 18,054 | 8 | The Gospel According To Cecil | Cecil B . DeMille's film about Jesus was made during a period in his career when he left Paramount and organized his own studio . Unfortunately for DeMille his studio went belly up after the stock market crash of 1929 . The King of Kings is unquestionably the greatest film he made during that period . But in DeMille's ... |
394,604 | 2,483,625 | 60,814 | 8 | What is France Without Paris ? | About 350 years earlier Henry of Navarre had captured just about all of France , but Paris and had been ruling as Henry IV for about five years but he decided he wasn't really king without his capital . He converted to the Catholic religion and Paris became united with the rest of the country . Henry decided that Paris... |
393,751 | 2,483,625 | 35,612 | 8 | Cool Under Fire | Robert Donat's Eastern European background and fluency in a few languages make him the ideal choice for British Secret Service to send on a mission to destroy a Nazi poison gas factory in occupied Czechoslovakia . In a brief prologue with Donat disarming a buzz bomb that landed in a hospital , we see an example of how ... |
396,301 | 2,483,625 | 53,183 | 8 | It's Value Is , It Has No Value | Take a look at the jagged line that represents the boundary truce line between North and South Korea on a map . You'll then have some idea of what Pork Chop Hill is all about . While the armistice talks are going on in Panmunjom , both sides are jockeying for position on both sides . The truce line will be on a prescri... |
395,402 | 2,483,625 | 43,286 | 8 | Now who'd have thought angels would be helping a bunch of pirates . | Before the New York Mets came along , the Pittsburgh Pirates were the first name in baseball for flat footed futility . At the time that Angels in the Outfield was made the Pirates had a long term lease on the National League cellar . In fact the only reason the Pirates drew any crowds at all was the presence of the pr... |
394,734 | 2,483,625 | 53,126 | 8 | Save The Prince | India in 1905 was a country in transition and turmoil , the Moslems and Hindus were warring on each other and on other minority groups and everybody wanted the British out . The Congress Party was a going concern at that point and was still a vehicle for both Moslem and Hindu to work within . If every single man at arm... |
396,345 | 2,483,625 | 52,837 | 8 | Tries A Funny Hand At Murder | I've maintained this before , one day someone is going to do a study of the director / actor team of George Marshall and Glenn Ford . They did some really great work together such as The Sheepman , Imitation General , Texas and Advance To The Rear to name a few . The Gazebo falls in that category as well . The Gazebo w... |
395,035 | 2,483,625 | 642,259 | 8 | Age Brings Change | For ten years Al Bundy was television's favorite sad sack . Married to a shrew of a woman , two kids who have no respect for him , a feminist neighbor who is constantly showing him up as a Neanderthal and a dead end job selling women's shoes he hates . Have I left anything out ? But as any devoted fan of Married With C... |
395,720 | 2,483,625 | 52,832 | 8 | A Bird With No Feet Can't Land Anywhere | I suspect that Tennessee Williams probably agreed to change the title of his classically sounding play Orpheus Descending to The Fugitive Kind in order to insure box office . Possibly some of Marlon Brando's fans garnered from The Wild One might pay their admissions thinking they were seeing something like that . I can... |
394,227 | 2,483,625 | 43,262 | 8 | The Mountain Men , Our Real Pioneers | When one watches western films of the latter half of the 19th century , the settlement of the west was on a course that was nothing but bad for the American Indian . As good as some westerns are , always lingering in the back of any viewer's mind is the thought that no matter what the predicament of a given hero / hero... |
394,869 | 2,483,625 | 60,472 | 8 | The Star Is The Sport | According to a recent biography of Steve McQueen , Grand Prix was supposed to be a project that he and John Frankenheimer were originally to work on . But the two had creative differences and went their separate ways doing separate racing pictures . What McQueen eventually did was Le Mans . I think Frankenheimer wound ... |
396,269 | 2,483,625 | 26,017 | 8 | We Put That Princess Thing Over , Didn't We | You're Tellling Me finds W . C . Fields pitted against the world again , the immediate world and the outside world . And Fields fights it with the weapons of his choice , rye or gin . You're Telling Me actually does get a bit serious for a while . He's Sam Bisbee in this film , ne'er do well optometrist and full time h... |
392,910 | 2,483,625 | 35,555 | 8 | Murder At Midnight | Who Done It finds our intrepid duo as soda jerks who want to be mystery writers and work on the Murder at Midnight Show . Bud and Lou go to a broadcast just in time to witness the real murder of the head of the network , Thomas Gomez . So what do our two geniuses think to do ? They decide to impersonate police officers... |
396,829 | 2,483,625 | 60,490 | 8 | Missing turns to Kidnapping | The only thing that I find amazing with Harper is why Paul Newman never had done a detective part up till 1966 . His laconic screen persona always seemed so right for the role of private gumshoe . Lauren Bacall hires Newman through the offices of mutual friend , lawyer Arthur Hill , to locate her missing husband . It s... |
394,490 | 2,483,625 | 52,749 | 8 | The Quest For The Kormblatt | The destroyer USS Kornblatt has been missing since World War II and Congressman Gale Gordon wants to know where it is . It's several million dollars worth of taxpayer's money from Uncle Sam . The last guy in charge was a career Navy man who since World War II has risen from Ensign to Lieutenant John Paul Steckler VII p... |
393,774 | 2,483,625 | 1,092,014 | 8 | Bares Resemblance To Anthony Mann / James Stewart Westerns | In Lone Rider Lou Diamond Phillips returns to his small Texas town after war service and looks to settle down with his family . When he left there before the Civil War his parents and cousin had a prosperous ranch and a mercantile in town . But while he's been away , a boyhood friend has become the town boss and is loo... |
392,939 | 2,483,625 | 35,370 | 8 | I Had The Craziest Dream | I wouldn't argue with anyone who said that Springtime in the Rockies might just be Betty Grable's best film . It certainly has a lot going for it . The plot's a skimpy one as these types of films are . Betty's in love with her act partner John Payne who says he reciprocates , but can't get pinned down for marriage . Af... |
394,202 | 2,483,625 | 35,369 | 8 | What You Win You Can Collect . | This is the fourth of five filmed versions of Rex Beach's redoubtable northern classic and since it's the only one out on video , it's the one best known to movie audiences . The stalwart trio of Marlene Dietrich , Randolph Scott , and John Wayne head the cast in this story about gold miners losing their claims to con ... |
396,249 | 2,483,625 | 35,360 | 8 | Georgian Cad | Done a year before Tyrone Power went to war in those lovely South Sea Islands depicted here , Son of Fury is the film adaption of a best selling novel of that period , Benjamin Blake . I think Darryl Zanuck decided that Son of Fury had more of a box office ring to it . Our protagonist is the disinherited scion of a lan... |
394,253 | 2,483,625 | 43,030 | 8 | Doris and Gordon dust off an old chestnut | No No Nanette , each stage and screen version , of it is one of those items that's going to have an eternal life on stage . This version of it , retitled with the best known number in the show is one of the best tellings of the story of a girl who has to keep saying no to all questions . Tea for Two will be sung as lon... |
395,502 | 2,483,625 | 87,056 | 8 | Scrooge Gets A Wake Up Call | As the celebration of Christmas has evolved through the years , whether one concentrates on the religious or the secular traditions , it is a time when people are supposed to behave a little better to each other . That has somehow slipped past one Ebenezer Scrooge , merchant and money lender in 19th century London . As... |
393,208 | 2,483,625 | 43,053 | 8 | The Dreams That You Inspire , With Every Sweet Desire , Be My Love | With the success that Mario Lanza and Kathryn Grayson had in That Midnight Kiss , MGM knew it had a box office team of appeal . The following year the two of them moved from contemporary Philadelphia to pre-World War I , New Orleans . People paid their money to hear Mario sing and really didn't care about the plots of ... |
396,163 | 2,483,625 | 25,965 | 8 | A Fabulous Trio , Bing , Carole , and Droopy | For those who've never seen Carole Lombard , but have heard about her genius for screwball comedy , go check out We're Not Dressing . Simple plot , Bing's a sailor on the Lombard yacht and he , Lombard , her uncle Leon Errol , her friend Ethel Merman and two princes / gigolos , Ray Milland and Jay Henry are shipwrecked... |
396,040 | 2,483,625 | 43,041 | 8 | Women POWS | Claudette Colbert got one of her best late career roles in Three Came Home , the moving story of the experiences of Agnes Newton Keith and her time in a Japanese POW camp . Keith earned her status by dint of being married to a British colonial official in North Borneo who is played by Patric Knowles in the best stiff u... |
393,982 | 2,483,625 | 44,953 | 8 | Four Men And A Girl on the Trail | The Naked Spur is another fine western put together by the team of Director Anthony Mann and player James Stewart . Spectacular location photography in the Rocky Mountains lend a ring of authenticity to the story . That story being Stewart as a bounty hunter on the trail of outlaw / killer Robert Ryan who has a girl a ... |
394,529 | 2,483,625 | 36,342 | 8 | Good Old Uncle Charlie | I don't believe Shadow of a Doubt will rank as one of Alfred Hitchcock's best film . But second rank Hitchcock is better than most people's best efforts . Joseph Cotten has come for a visit to Santa Rosa , California to see his sister Patricia Collinge and her family . They welcome him as the prodigal brother . But his... |
393,099 | 2,483,625 | 25,301 | 8 | An Understanding Of Racism In Her Time | When Imitation Of Life came out in 1934 , Fannie Hurst was at the height of her literary reputation having had her two best works this one and Back Street , come out back to back as both novels and movies . Both stories are about a women's sacrifice . One day before World War I , Louise Beavers comes looking for domest... |
392,751 | 2,483,625 | 51,525 | 8 | Cellmates and Soulmates | There is this story going around that Robert Mitchum refused the part Tony Curtis eventually played because he did not want to work with a black man . The actual story is that Mitchum who did spend time on a southern chain gang said there was no way that back in the day a black and white man would have been chained tog... |
393,298 | 2,483,625 | 45,049 | 8 | Dizzy the Great | In a sport that prizes quirkiness and treasures it's characters , one of the greatest of them from the 1930s was pitcher Dizzy Dean . He was so colorful a personality he was probably elected to the Baseball Hall of Fame on the strength of that as opposed to his pitching statistics . After all part of the Dean story is ... |
394,100 | 2,483,625 | 86,993 | 8 | H . M . S . Bounty , A Troubled Ship | The latest retelling of this tale shifts a lot of the blame about the voyage over to Fletcher Christian and the fact that he and a lot of the crew had simply gone native . One of the great villainous portrayals on the screen is Charles Laughton's Captain Bligh from the stirring 1935 film . Laughton is pretty unforgetta... |
393,989 | 2,483,625 | 60,165 | 8 | They're Starved For Entertainment In That Town | A Big Hand For The Little Lady takes place in Laredo , Texas circa the turn of the last century . The film actually dates itself because a couple of current record cylinders are played , Ma Blushin ' Rosie and Hello My Baby both of which came out around 1900 . Anyway a big annual event in this town is when five of the ... |
395,371 | 2,483,625 | 36,275 | 8 | Every Little Movement | Presenting Lily Mars may have provided Judy Garland with one of the easier roles she had while at MGM because Lily Mars is definitely a character she could identify with . A young girl with talent enough for ten , she knows she has what it takes to make it in the theater no matter how much producer Van Heflin from her ... |
395,159 | 2,483,625 | 25,238 | 8 | The Debut of the Buddy Film | Here Comes the Navy is a key film in the history of cinema . As it marks the first teaming of James Cagney and Pat O'Brien , that in itself is historic . For these two in my humble opinion are the inventors of the male buddy film . The only other rivals for that distinction are Edmund Lowe and Victor McLaglen when they... |
396,357 | 2,483,625 | 36,174 | 8 | Turned Out To Be Lucky After All | Along similar lines to Suspicion , dapper Cary Grant plays a gambler confidence man with two problems that he solves in what he thinks is a masterstroke . The army is out to draft him so he has another crook with high blood pressure , Paul Stewart , pose as him at the draft physical . He also takes the name of a dead G... |
395,823 | 2,483,625 | 36,191 | 8 | The Fabled Baron | You've got to hand it to that Josef Goebbels . When the little club footed maniac wasn't busy trying to get into the pants of every starlet of the German cinema , his UFA Studios could turn out some good work . Such is the case of the lavish spectacle Munchhausen . The color cinematography and special effects definitel... |
393,495 | 2,483,625 | 44,860 | 8 | Life On the Rodeo Circuit | One of Robert Mitchum's best films from his days at RKO is The Lusty Men about the rodeo circuit . Mitchum plays Jeff McCloud a burned out rodeo rider who spots some potential star talent in Wes Merritt . He also spots Merritt's wife and the Merritts are played by Arthur Kennedy and Susan Hayward . Mitchum's been throw... |
394,285 | 2,483,625 | 79,240 | 8 | The Great Gold Heist of 1855 | With Mission Impossible like precision , Sean Connery , Lesley Anne Down , and Donald Sutherland pull off The First Great Train Robbery , years before Jesse James did it in the American West . Of course holding up a train with a dozen masked bandit confederates doesn't equal the near precision complexity that it took t... |
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