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396,748 | 2,483,625 | 25,164 | 8 | Beautiful Music , Dangerous Rhythm | The Gay Divorcée is the answer to the trivia question of which of Fred Astaire's and Ginger Rogers's is one that Fred Astaire had previously done on Broadway . When Astaire did it on Broadway , the Cole Porter musical had been entitled The Gay Divorce . But that extra ' e ' was added on lest anyone get the idea that di... |
396,368 | 2,483,625 | 86,837 | 8 | Nine Years Later | It turned that 2001 : A Space Odyssey was nowhere near the real 2001 when it finally rolled around . It is devilishly hard to predict the future , it's not the first or the last science fiction film to get it wrong . So with only one year remaining until 2010 , the story of 2010 bares no resemblance in any way to the f... |
394,028 | 2,483,625 | 36,098 | 8 | The Collie Franchise Started Here | I'm sure that when MGM was filming Lassie Come Home they were not aware they would be setting up the foundation of a collie franchise . The film obviously was meant to be a B picture filler as none of MGM's big box office names were used . But the story of the loyal collie dog who traveled over 1000 miles from Scotland... |
396,113 | 2,483,625 | 25,136 | 8 | Four Parts Chase , One Part Mack | Charley Chase got to do a real bit of acting in Four Parts when he plays the part of four brothers , all sons of Florence Roberts and all in different walks of life . That mere fact causes some major upset to poor Betty Mack who first runs into one of the Charleys and hits it off with him after they both fight over a s... |
395,258 | 2,483,625 | 44,876 | 8 | Staying Alive and Well Lit | If The Man in the White Suit had been done in America , can't you see either Danny Kaye or Jerry Lewis trying on Alec Guinness's Sidney Stratton on for size ? This is one of the best of Alec Guinness's films and certainly one of the best that Ealing Studios in the United Kingdom ever turned out . It's so perfectly fits... |
393,535 | 2,483,625 | 51,207 | 8 | More Kafka Than Hitchcock | The problem that most people have with The Wrong Man is that it's not the Alfred Hitchcock we've come to expect . No unflappable hero like Cary Grant , no cool blonds to accompany the hero like Madeleine Carroll , or Grace Kelly , no McGuffin as Hitchcock always describes the object everyone is after in his films . The... |
394,671 | 2,483,625 | 25,569 | 8 | German Kids Rumble | No Greater Glory is Frank Borzage's adaption of a biographical novel by Ferenc Molnar . It's set in the postwar depression that Germany had after World War I . As it opens we first see a veteran talking about the futility of war and then it cuts to a German school where the boys , there are no women in this film other ... |
393,487 | 2,483,625 | 36,092 | 8 | Politics Didn't Get in the way | A Lady Takes A Chance is a pleasant easygoing comedy about a young working class woman who saves and splurges for a bus tour out west . Jean Arthur as the vacationer gets a whole lot more than she bargains for in the form of rodeo cowboy John Wayne . The Duke literally sweeps her off her feet after literally landing in... |
393,170 | 2,483,625 | 218,817 | 8 | Gary Winston Meet Sister Aimee | When Herbert C . Hoover became Secretary of Commerce in the Twenties radio was just getting established and he was instrumental in founding the Federal Communications Commission which is under the Department of Commerce auspices to regulate the new form of communication . Evangelist Aimee Semple McPherson also saw the ... |
393,463 | 2,483,625 | 16,804 | 8 | The Great Profile As The Great Seducer | Although John Barrymore was 44 when he played the role of Tirso DeMolina's famous libertine , the soft focus photography enabled to look years younger and really do a convincing job as the most famous seducer in fiction . In fact Barrymore plays two roles , the dashing cavalier Don Juan and his stern father who was cuc... |
393,347 | 2,483,625 | 78,966 | 8 | The Worst Case Scenario | It was harrowingly close , but The China Syndrome received the worst kind of publicity when as it was going into theatrical release , the accident at Three Mile Island Nuclear Power Plant happened . I still remember the whole country's attention was glued onto hourly bulletins coming out of Harrisburg , Pennsylvania . ... |
393,216 | 2,483,625 | 35,979 | 8 | Henry Van Cleave , You've Had A Wonderful Life | At the top of the list of Don Ameche's best films , in that first five , Heaven Can Wait is always listed . As a film with that inimitable Ernest Lubitsch touch , how could it miss ? The very dapper an elegant Mr . Henry Van Cleave has arrived at the entrance to the underworld where he feels given the risqué life he's ... |
395,986 | 2,483,625 | 35,982 | 8 | Hello Alice , Hello | One of Alice Faye's last and best costume period pieces , this has a great score of pre-World War I numbers and terrific performances by the four leads . Alice covered this ground before , but she always covers like no one else can . When Darryl Zanuck signed John Payne , I have always maintained that he was looking fo... |
394,596 | 2,483,625 | 395,699 | 8 | SEAL Training Doesn't Cover This | One of the better comedies from the Walt Disney Studios in the past several years has been the Pacifier . If Arnold Schwarzenegger can manage kindergarten , than Vin Diesel can certainly babysit a whole family of a scientist who's been killed under mysterious circumstances . Tate Donovan was doing some top secret work ... |
395,853 | 2,483,625 | 381,849 | 8 | How I Miss Frankie Laine | It seems as though back in the fifties every other western seemed to have Frankie Laine singing the theme song . The 1957 version of 3 : 10 to Yuma is one of my favorite westerns . Part of the reason is that theme which echoed through out the film . What I liked about 3 : 10 to Yuma is that the hero / protagonist is an... |
393,580 | 2,483,625 | 59,930 | 8 | At The Birth Of Freedom | It's possible that if John Ford's health had permitted him to finish Young Cassidy we might have gotten a better version of how Sean O'Casey saw himself in this world . The film is based on his autobiography where he himself decided to rename the central character Cassidy . I'm guessing that was to allow for a bit of d... |
393,056 | 2,483,625 | 25,493 | 8 | Jeanette's In No Mood For A Banker | When Jeanette MacDonald left Paramount and signed with her new studio of MGM it was her wish that she not do any more films with Maurice Chevalier . Though the three films she did for that studio with him were very successful , the two of them did not get along at all . She thought he was a rake , he thought she was fr... |
393,518 | 2,483,625 | 60,121 | 8 | Goosey Goosey Gander | Someone's given ancient history professor Gregory Peck a message with a Hittite inscription on it and all he gets out of it is that fabled nursery rhyme . Of course there's a good deal more to the message and that's what he and Sophia Loren are jetting all around London trying to solve . There's a lot of players involv... |
395,722 | 2,483,625 | 25,423 | 8 | The Garden Of Eden ? ? ? ? ? | The Lost Patrol is set in of all places , Iraq . It takes place during the First World War when this was a very peripheral theater of operations in that way . But as Boris Karloff puts it , this small patrol could be standing on the Garden of Eden . Well we know that God expelled all the inhabitants of that place . It'... |
396,691 | 2,483,625 | 36,832 | 8 | Doing It For The Boys Over There | During the World War II year every major studio contributed at least one all star extravaganza for the movie going public . Many times that portion of the movie going public that was in the Armed Services and over there got to see some of this stuff first . Universal Studio's entry into this field was Follow the Boys .... |
393,472 | 2,483,625 | 24,772 | 8 | Youth In The Depression | The only studio in Hollywood that acknowledged that there was a Depression out there for the most part was Warner Brothers . It was only from this studio that Wild Boys Of The Road could have been made and done as well as it was . The story and the situation is what puts this film over . There are no stars in Wild Boys... |
393,653 | 2,483,625 | 36,855 | 8 | Entering our English Lexicon | It is not often that a proper name or title enters the common use of any language , but maybe the highest possible praise Gaslight could receive is the fact that the title is now a verb . To gaslight someone now is to do little deliberate things and blame articles disappearing or misplaced on a person in an effort to m... |
396,684 | 2,483,625 | 44,480 | 8 | Redeemed By A Gun | Ten years before Burt Lancaster came out with the acclaimed Birdman of Alcatraz , Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer produced this neglected gem of a film starring a dark and brooding James Stewart as David Marshall Williams who invented the M-1 carbine rifle while in prison . Before writing this review I took a look at the wikipedia... |
394,725 | 2,483,625 | 201,048 | 8 | A Lot Of Faith | Father Flannagan said there was no such thing as a bad boy and founded Boys Town to prove his theory . With only one test case , but a real hard case , priest Cesar Romero has that particular theory tested by young Roger Mobley . Mobley was 14 at the time he made The Runaway and he had done a similar role as a Mexican ... |
394,975 | 2,483,625 | 44,517 | 8 | One Glorious Romp | Before Burt Lancaster got his first Academy Award nomination for From Here to Eternity , the film he would have been most identified with , what could have been his career role , would have been The Crimson Pirate . It's also the film that he probably got to use more of his background as a circus acrobat than in any ot... |
393,626 | 2,483,625 | 59,711 | 8 | This Land Here Is Anderson Land | If James Stewart had done Shenandoah twenty years earlier he would have had the role that Glenn Corbett has of the son challenging the Anderson family neutrality policy at the dinner table . The Anderson patriarch would have been played by Lionel Barrymore . Charley Anderson is a man raising a family with six sons and ... |
396,612 | 2,483,625 | 24,763 | 8 | Witty And Bright | This first film version of the Rachel Crothers play finds Robert Montgomery as the irrepressible playboy who will do just about anything to win Myrna Loy back from the clutches of married publisher Frank Morgan . Even if that means bringing Morgan's wife Ann Harding into the picture . And When Ladies Meet , watch out .... |
392,982 | 2,483,625 | 44,533 | 8 | Racing to beat life's deadline | Deadline - U . S . A . has Humphrey Bogart as the editor of a big city newspaper that is in the process of being sold to a Rupert Murdoch like chain that publishes scandal sheets . His paper is in the process at the same time of doing an expose of notorious racketeer Martin Gabel . And if that ain't enough for Bogey hi... |
394,459 | 2,483,625 | 52,151 | 8 | Playing Navy Politics | This was the second of two films that Burt Lancaster's Hecht-Hill-Lancaster company produced with a co-star from the earlier generation of film icons . Lancaster got the services of Gary Cooper for Verz Cruz and for Run Silent Run Deep , Clark Gable signed on for a hitch in as a submarine captain with a mission that is... |
394,716 | 2,483,625 | 44,320 | 8 | The Slapstick Spirit | Charles Laughton did a badly edited biographical film of Captain Kidd in 1945 although his performance as the cockney captain with aspirations to class is memorable . We don't often get a second crack at roles when they don't become mega-hits , but Laughton got it and made the most of it . Laughton got one here althoug... |
395,389 | 2,483,625 | 114,214 | 8 | A Fast Draw Superbowl | Although The Quick and the Dead is primarily remembered among film fans starring Sharon Stone as a revenge seeking frontier woman , for me the film stands out because of Gene Hackman . As John Herod , outlaw kingpin and ruler of the outlaw town of Redemption , Hackman is one of the most evil people ever created in any ... |
392,682 | 2,483,625 | 24,684 | 8 | A Barrymore You've Not Seen Before | Watching Topaze this morning I was amazed at how well John Barrymore was playing the title role in this film and how he seemed to be getting inspiration from Frank Morgan . Then I did some research and found out that in the American debut of Marcel Pagnol's play Frank Morgan did indeed play the lead . The play ran for ... |
395,026 | 2,483,625 | 24,610 | 8 | Our State Fair Is A Great State Fair | Overshadowed in this day and age by the two musical film versions that succeeded it , this version of State Fair provides a great showcase for the personality and talent of American institutions Will Rogers . Although I was surprised to see that in the billing , Fox's main female star at the time , Janet Gaynor , was b... |
396,256 | 2,483,625 | 59,825 | 8 | An Art Obsession | German Army Colonel Paul Scofield has come up with an idea that no doubt tickled the fancy of Herman Goering , Nazi Germany's most noted collector of art . As Von Rundstedt's army is retreating and Paris is about to be liberated , Scofield decides to liberate a whole collection of the finest of French painters . The wo... |
394,247 | 2,483,625 | 51,773 | 8 | Reely Something | Indiscreet is one of the great examples of the multiple advantages of film over the live performance . The film was taken from a play on Broadway entitled Kind Sir that had almost a year's run and starred Charles Boyer and Mary Martin . The entire play is set in the apartment of the leading lady . Stanley Donen didn't ... |
395,960 | 2,483,625 | 59,470 | 8 | Surviving On His Wits | A whole lot of Marlon Brando's films have been unjustly neglected from the sixties and Morituri is one of them . It's a nice espionage yarn set on the high seas in a voyage from Japan to occupied Bordeaux in France . There's no other way to put it , Marlon Brando's character is a draft dodger who if he had done so in T... |
396,006 | 2,483,625 | 44,205 | 8 | I'll Make Men of Them Before I'm Through . | John McIntire approaches wagonmaster Robert Taylor with an interesting job and challenge . He wants to bring brides west to the settlement he's founded in the southwest United States . Taylor hires on a bunch of hands to escort the women and issues a no fraternization policy . When one of them tries to rape one of them... |
394,855 | 2,483,625 | 421,206 | 8 | When A Strong Man Shows Them The Way | Other than some bad language , I can't see why The Gridiron Gang rated a PG . It's a really nice inspirational story about a man with idea to slow down the rate of recidivism among juvenile offenders . Based on the true story of Sean Porter , Dwayne ' The Rock ' Johnson plays Porter a former college football star who t... |
393,443 | 2,483,625 | 36,533 | 8 | Red Retires The Side | Whistling in Brooklyn was the last of three films that Red Skelton did as Wally ' The Fox ' Benton , radio criminologist who keeps getting drawn into these real life mysteries via his reputation . Why he didn't just say that he was just an actor playing a role would have saved him a whole lot of trouble . Then again we... |
395,903 | 2,483,625 | 86,251 | 8 | Another Meddlesome Priest | Remember Henry II's oblique wish about his former friend Thomas Becket which got carried out ? Christopher Plummer tried more explicit methods to get rid of his meddlesome priest all without success . Although Monsignor Hugh O'Flaherty , an Irish national attached to the Vatican staff , was providing aid to refugees of... |
395,560 | 2,483,625 | 51,818 | 8 | And He Goes By The Name of King Creole | By this time Elvis Presley was a big movie box office name due in no small measure to the astute management of Colonel Tom Parker . I have no doubt that the Colonel got him Michael Curtiz as a director and a top flight supporting cast consisting of Oscar winners like Dean Jagger as the King's father and Walter Matthau ... |
394,853 | 2,483,625 | 51,819 | 8 | The Great Champagne Offensive | Kings Go Forth is one of , maybe the only , film about the Allied offensive in Southern France in late summer of 1944 . Several divisions who were fighting in Italy under Mark Clark were sent to invade France from the south . The action as compared to the larger shows movie east from Normandy and north up the Italian p... |
392,972 | 2,483,625 | 24,962 | 8 | That Catherine Was Great and Popular | Although Marlene Dietrich was a far more glamorous Catherine the Great , closer to the real one was definitely Elizabeth Bergner in this British production from Alexander Korda . The former Princess Sophia of Anhalt-Zerbst , one of many small pieces of turf in Germany before that country became a country instead of a g... |
395,877 | 2,483,625 | 70,687 | 8 | Damon and Pythias | Showdown is another version of the two buddies who take different turns in the road of life . It borrows elements from George Marshall's supremely enjoyable Texas which starred two very young players named Glenn Ford and Bill Holden . The buddies here are Dean Martin and Rock Hudson . They're a little older than Bill a... |
393,366 | 2,483,625 | 51,899 | 8 | Gary Cooper pinch hits | Man of the West is a fine gritty western with Gary Cooper stepping into the James Stewart parts in those 50s Anthony Mann westerns . Mann and Stewart during the 50s did eight films , five of them westerns . and some of the best westerns ever made . They were on the set of a sixth , Night Passage , when they quarreled a... |
393,884 | 2,483,625 | 51,879 | 8 | No Worlds To Conquer | Rebellious youth has always been a good subject for movie makers and Look Back in Anger for the United Kingdom became what The Wild One and The Blackboard Jungle were on this side of the Atlantic . Though like Marlon Brando , Richard Burton should have been way too old to portray a rebellious youth , he certainly overc... |
395,971 | 2,483,625 | 51,878 | 8 | Debut for legendary screen team | The Long Hot Summer is chiefly noted for the fact that Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward made their joint cinematic debut in this film . One of Hollywood's best personal and professional partnerships , Joanne had won a Best Actress Oscar for The Three Faces of Eve the year before and it took Paul thirty more years to mat... |
396,035 | 2,483,625 | 36,461 | 8 | An Unheard Of Comedy Gem | After Betty Hutton stole Happy Go Lucky right out from under leads Dick Powell and Mary Martin , Paramount decided to try the Martin and Powell combination again for one more time . They were cast in a very funny comedy picture , True to Life , but the demand for them as a team was underwhelming . Mary might even have ... |
395,996 | 2,483,625 | 36,432 | 8 | Class Distinctions in the Army | When You watch Thousands Cheer please note the plot similarities between it and the two John Ford cavalry classics Fort Apache and Rio Grande . Kathryn Grayson is an army brat whose army father John Boles and show business mother Mary Astor separated years ago as in Rio Grande . Kathryn like Shirley Temple has fallen f... |
393,341 | 2,483,625 | 51,845 | 8 | the spirit , but not the fact | John Ford certainly does capture the spirit of how James Michael Curley would like to have been remembered . It's how he wrote his memoirs and how Edwin O'Connor wrote that brilliant piece of fiction . Curley was a demagogue par excellence . He played ethnic politics to the hilt . He served one term as governor of Mass... |
395,194 | 2,483,625 | 51,848 | 8 | No Good Deed Goes Unpunished | Some of the best westerns of the Fifties and Sixties were directed by director John Sturges . Sturges's films combined that rare blend of action for the kiddies with adult problems and issues . Here the problem is a debt owed or at least that's what Marshal Jake Wade feels towards Clint Hollister . Before Jake broke wi... |
394,645 | 2,483,625 | 36,384 | 8 | Broadway Goes To War | You'll never see films like Stage Door Canteen again . The all star support the troops film is a thing of the past . Try to make something like that today and see how many stars would be willing . This is an art form deader than the dinosaur . No reason it can't be enjoyed though . Skip the slight plot involving the se... |
393,273 | 2,483,625 | 24,865 | 8 | What Beautiful Poetry They Made | The Barretts of Wimpole Street was the most successful play written by Rudolph Besier and ran almost an entire year on Broadway in 1931 . It starred Katherine Cornell as Elizabeth Barrett and featured Brian Aherne as Robert Browning and Charles Waldron as Edward Moulton Barrett . Though Norma Shearer gives one of her b... |
392,983 | 2,483,625 | 41,841 | 8 | Exploiting A Symbol | Although Clint Eastwood's recent Flags of Our Fathers has told the real story about the flag raising at Iwo Jima , it hasn't diminished any of the impact that Sands of Iwo Jima has , either back when it was released or viewed today . In fact because the three surviving flag raisers , Joseph Bradley , Rene Gagnon , and ... |
396,497 | 2,483,625 | 41,847 | 8 | A Cop Killing In Los Angeles | Van Johnson plays it a lot rougher than usual when cast as a hardboiled police detective in Scene Of The Crime . He's got reason to be hard in this case . A fellow detective has been murdered , shot down in the mean streets of Los Angeles . The victim had a thousand dollars in his pocket and may have been doing some of... |
394,595 | 2,483,625 | 28,203 | 8 | No Tale More Tragically Told | Despite the fact we have a 47 year old Romeo , a 36 year old Juliet , and a 54 year old Mercutio ; George Cukor's production for MGM of Romeo and Juliet manages to entertain and well . Of course these protagonists are all teenagers , but these players have all played romantic parts in an age when romance was not someth... |
393,840 | 2,483,625 | 28,207 | 8 | Singing in the Canadian Woods | There have been three versions of Rose Marie done for the screen , a silent 1927 version and on in 1954 as well as this one . And not one of them had the same plot and not one of them repeated the same plot as the original stage version in 1923 . Not that it matters because this version with Jeanette and Nelson sets th... |
396,495 | 2,483,625 | 50,631 | 8 | Why Am I Gone About Those Girls ? | Cole Porter's final film score and next to last music written for any media is Les Girls . The same team producer Sol Seigal and writer John Patrick who produced and wrote the adaption of The Philadelphi Story for High Society worked with Porter again and this time George Cukor was directing . It's a good film , but I'... |
394,171 | 2,483,625 | 50,682 | 8 | Divorce can happen to good people . | The movie opens with Bing Crosby singing the Sammy Fain-Paul Francis Webster title song over the opening credits . But that's all you hear from Crosby the singer . For the first time Bing starred in a film without any singing at all . The story involves a pair of divorced parents who have fallen out of love and are con... |
396,059 | 2,483,625 | 110,684 | 8 | I'm Somebody's Father and Somebody's Grandfather | Very few players have had the wisdom of Paul Newman in choosing film properties that have allowed him to grow old gracefully on the screen and never lose the public's favor . In Nobody's Fool , Newman emerges as a blue collar every man from a depressed area who realizes that he's made a whole lot of wrong choices in hi... |
395,733 | 2,483,625 | 41,792 | 8 | Raised On Mare's Milk | The Red Pony was an early novel of John Steinbeck dealing with memories of his childhood in the Salinas Valley in California . It was Republic's prestige film for 1949 away from the B westerns that were the company's bread and butter . Herbert J . Yates even had the good sense not to have wife Vera Hruba Ralston in it ... |
396,004 | 2,483,625 | 28,167 | 8 | Laughton on canvas | Charles Laughton returned to his native Great Britain in 1936 for three years and made a series of films there . The first and best of these was for Alexander Korda about Rembrandt Van Rijn , arguably the greatest of all Dutch painters . Later biographical pictures , Lust for Life about Van Gogh and Moulin Rouge about ... |
394,587 | 2,483,625 | 149,624 | 8 | South Of The Border , Trouble and Romance | Just as Matt Damon was able to cast aside his New England accent for a Tennessee one in The Rainmaker and use it to great affect in Good Will Hunting , he cast aside again for the Texas tones needed for All The Pretty Horses . The man's got a good ear for speech idiom , he could be a worthy successor to Robert Mitchum ... |
396,721 | 2,483,625 | 50,560 | 8 | Too Much Pills And Liquor | Although Jeanne Eagels is a fascinating film with one of two career roles for Kim Novak , the other being Vertigo , it does do some disservice in telling the story of the legendary Jeanne Eagels , Broadway star of the Twenties . The Roaring Twenties was a hard partying era , especially on women as three of the brightes... |
393,241 | 2,483,625 | 33,175 | 8 | Oomph in the Tropics | This was the final film for James Cagney and Pat O'Brien who in my opinion invented the buddy film . O'Brien would be leaving Warner Brothers the following year and the two of them would not get together in another film until Ragtime in 1981 in which they both had small parts . It's a typical fast paced comedy for both... |
394,686 | 2,483,625 | 28,321 | 8 | Cantor Strikes Again | Strike Me Pink has Eddie Cantor playing his usual schnook against the world character with the background of an amusement park . Eddie runs a store near a college and he's constantly being bullied and would have been intimidated out of business but for perennial student Gordon Jones . Jones keeps the bullies at bay whi... |
396,739 | 2,483,625 | 41,956 | 8 | An Autobiographical Debut | For Mario Lanza's first feature film role it wasn't much of an acting stretch for him . He played exactly who he was an opera singing truck-driver from South Philadelphia . Mario would have been 28 at the time That Midnight Kiss came out and that is his approximate age right here . Of course in real life he wasn't disc... |
393,739 | 2,483,625 | 59,183 | 8 | For the love of aviation | I remember seeing The Flight of the Phoenix during the afternoon while I was in college with no late classes that day . As I watched it in the old Duffield Theatre in downtown Brooklyn , I was mesmerized by the terrific cast and the overwhelming sincerity with which they tackled their roles . Of course in analyzing the... |
393,733 | 2,483,625 | 28,305 | 8 | Powell got a singing Ruby | Stagestruck's biggest asset is the performance of Joan Blondell as the Paris Hilton heiress of the day . Blondell plays Peggy Revere which is a takeoff on Peggy Hopkins Joyce whose antics back in the 30s kept the tabloids buzzing the way the Hilton twins do today . Blondell overacts outrageously , but it's all to the g... |
392,950 | 2,483,625 | 41,940 | 8 | An Adopted Son of Israel | Sword in the Desert was a quickly made feature film trying to cash in on the headlines concerning the rebirth of the State of Israel . The hopes and dreams of millions of Jews around the world who for two generations sent in sometimes pittance contributions to the Jewish Committee who started BUYING land in Palestine f... |
394,420 | 2,483,625 | 41,944 | 8 | Baseball and Vaudeville | Gene Kelly took this idea to Arthur Freed about an original musical which would combine two big loves of his , baseball and the dance . The story would be based on Al Schacht and Nick Altrock who played ball during the regular season as pitcher and catcher and then in the off season toured in vaudeville . So Take Me Ou... |
395,753 | 2,483,625 | 28,315 | 8 | Shirley Finds A Family | 1936 was a breakthrough year for Alice Faye for two reasons . First this was when stopped being 20th Century Fox's platinum blond answer to MGM's Jean Harlow . But Darryl Zanuck did her a big favor when he hired the songwriting team of Mack Gordon and Harry Revel away from Paramount and for the next five years they wer... |
395,145 | 2,483,625 | 41,948 | 8 | Training the First Generation of Top Guns | Task Force was the first of two films Gary Cooper made regarding the development of aviation . Here he plays the fictional Jonathan Scott who looks back on his life after retiring from the Navy . The second is the Court Martial of Billy Mitchell where he plays the real life Army Aviation pioneer . For today's fans if o... |
394,353 | 2,483,625 | 103,074 | 8 | A Feminist Classic | A pair of bored thirty something friends decide on a girl's weekend and in that time become the most wanted women in America . Not that bedding either Susan Sarandon or Geena Davis hasn't got its delightful aspects , but that's not the kind of wanted I'm talking about . The film is shot in some of the reddest part of r... |
392,979 | 2,483,625 | 41,929 | 8 | Going On Separate Trails | Streets of Laredo is a remake of Paramount's successful Texas Rangers with William Holden , William Bendix , and Macdonald Carey playing the parts that were done thirteen years earlier by Fred MacMurray , Jack Oakie , and Lloyd Nolan . Color is added and if anything this is a remake that proved better than the original... |
396,789 | 2,483,625 | 250,494 | 8 | Reese Goes To Hah-Vard | Legally Blonde finds Reese Witherspoon in one of her breakthrough roles as sorority queen Elle Woods who is dumped by her preppy boyfriend Matthew Davis . He's moving on to Harvard Law School where he will get his law degree , marry a woman of good background in Selma Blair and claim the family legacy of public office ... |
394,197 | 2,483,625 | 41,907 | 8 | Everybody's got their own agenda | Joel McCrea , Douglas Kennedy , and Zachary Scott are partners in the Three Bell Ranch in Texas as the Civil War starts . When war does come it splits the partners up . The ranch is raided by Victor Jory and his cutthroats and the partners are wiped out . Kennedy opts for enlisting in the Confederate Army . McCrea and ... |
394,945 | 2,483,625 | 59,250 | 8 | A Taxpayer and a Good Republican | And that was Brian Keith's reason as to why he expected to get good service from the U . S . Cavalry . Ironically enough in post Civil War America that's about all it took . Poor Burt Lancaster in one of his few ventures into comedy , as commander of a frontier army post , he's expected to provide good order between th... |
396,160 | 2,483,625 | 59,260 | 8 | We've Got Our Ticket To Ride | After the success of the low budget A Hard Day's Night with its classic soundtrack that after over 40 years is still a best selling item , the more expensive Help was made for the Beatles . The Fab Four even got to do a little location shooting in the Bahamas and in Salzburg , Austria for the skiing sequence . Ringo St... |
394,512 | 2,483,625 | 59,245 | 8 | Go Forth To All the Nations | When first released George Stevens's version of the Gospel was dismissed as too long , too reverential , too soon after the sound version of The King of Kings was released , and too many stars in the cast taking one's attention from the story . Too some degree that is true , but being a stargazer myself I'll never find... |
394,963 | 2,483,625 | 28,371 | 8 | No Stars To Get In The Way | In adapting Three Men On A Horse for the screen Jack Warner took a big chance in not having one of his box office leads headline in this film . Instead Three Men On A Horse remains pretty faithful to the Broadway play and gives some of the character people under contract at Warner Brothers a chance to shine on their ow... |
394,639 | 2,483,625 | 50,490 | 8 | It Might Be Paradise If It Wasn't For The Japanese | One of the great injustices of Hollywood history is the fact that Deborah Kerr was nominated for Best Actress while Robert Mitchum got nary a mention for Best Actor in Heaven Knows , Mr . Allison . Kerr had several nominations , but never came up a winner . Mitchum was nominated once at the beginning of his career in t... |
394,117 | 2,483,625 | 50,468 | 8 | Lancaster and Douglas - - - Earp and Holiday | In one of her books Hedda Hopper devoted a chapter to both of the stars of Gunfight at the OK Corral , calling them the Terrible Twins . As a columnist Hopper was a firm defender of the old studio system and both Burt and Kirk were seen by her as betraying old Hollywood . Now personally I think their careers show that ... |
396,280 | 2,483,625 | 28,358 | 8 | How H . G . Wells Conceived The Future | If scientists behaved in a way that H . G . Wells was confident they would in the future , history wouldn't quite have turned out the way it did in Things To Come . Were almost 80 years past the point that Wells wrote The Shape Of Things To Come on which this film is based and no closer to the world he describes than b... |
395,634 | 2,483,625 | 28,355 | 8 | Lynnfield's Terrible Secret | I'm not sure how Theodora Goes Wild would be viewed today because of changing demographics . Some of those small New England towns like Lynnfield are not bastions of conservatism any longer . Today the home of a well known author like Irene Dunne would be a tourist attraction . But back in the Thirties , this still was... |
396,759 | 2,483,625 | 427,327 | 9 | A New Hairspray For A New Generation | This second version of Hairspray got lots of attention for seventies disco king John Travolta doing a role in drag . It was quite an undertaking because the person Travolta was trying to emulate was the one and only Divine . Her characterization of Edna Turnblad in John Waters's original Hairspray was the pivot for tha... |
394,458 | 2,483,625 | 35,211 | 9 | Baseball's Iron Horse | The only reason I don't give this film a perfect 10 is that I think Gary Cooper was a bit too old to be playing Lou Gehrig as a youth . Cooper was 41 when Pride of the Yankees was made . He was two years older than Lou Gehrig actually was . While not terribly convincing as a college age Gehrig at Columbia University , ... |
393,278 | 2,483,625 | 61,184 | 9 | George and Martha , . . . . . . . sad . . . . . . . . sad . . . . . . . . sad | Edward Albee's award winning play , Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ran for 664 performances on Broadway and just closed down when this film version made its debut in 1966 . The Broadway play was set entirely in the living room of George and Martha's home and starred Uta Hagen , Arthur Hill , Melinda Dillon , and George... |
395,636 | 2,483,625 | 43,983 | 9 | The Happiest Day In A Lifetime | One of Fred Astaire's most charming musicals is Royal Wedding where as if taken from his own real life , he's part of a brother and sister act with Jane Powell . We never did get to see Adele Astaire perform on screen , but rumor has it she was exquisite in her steps and lovely to see . And like Jane in this film she m... |
395,694 | 2,483,625 | 35,262 | 9 | The Sharpie And The Schnook . | On the third stop in the Road series of pictures we find Bing Crosby and Bob Hope playing their usual sharpie and schnook . Crosby's schemes have a little more bite to them in this film , he sells Hope into slavery . Ah , but the catch is : Dorothy Lamour bought him to be her husband and is Bing put out about that . No... |
393,151 | 2,483,625 | 105,159 | 9 | Racing Towards a Racist State | When Stephen Dorff's character of PK sees the African child reading from the U . S . Declaration of Independence about that all men are created equal , he knew he'd started something . Literacy is always the key to freedom and accessibility to read everything is the second step . The southerners in the slave holding pa... |
395,240 | 2,483,625 | 43,915 | 9 | How The Grinch Nearly Steals Cary Grant's Career | After winning two successive Oscars for A Letter To Three Wives and All About Eve , director Joseph Mankiewicz was on one big creative roll . His next film was this charming comedy / drama about a medical doctor with some interesting ideas and one of his patients , a girl with a bundle of joy on the way and a dead fath... |
392,895 | 2,483,625 | 70,511 | 9 | Butterfly Man Of Devil's Island | Watching Papillon today it occurred to me that the film it most resembles is Birdman of Alcatraz . Both Steve McQueen and Burt Lancaster were sent to prison for murder convictions although allegedly McQueen was innocent . Both were based on true characters who wrote , in the case of Lancaster ghost wrote , their own me... |
394,265 | 2,483,625 | 252,501 | 9 | An Unusual Fugitive | If anyone is looking for some typical Stephen King fare with lots of blood and vividly imagined monsters , Hearts of Atlantis is not your film . If however your taste runs to well acted drama about growing up in the early sixties Hearts of AAtlantis is definitely the film for you . Although it's not stated my gut tells... |
396,184 | 2,483,625 | 43,880 | 9 | You Have Stolen My Heart , Now Don't Go ' Way | I've always had a sneaking suspicion that Jack Warner saw how well MGM did with Two Weeks With Love , a nostalgic gaslight era musical that starred Jane Powell . I'm sure Warner then got the idea to do a musical for his reigning musical star of the moment Doris Day from the same era . And save a whole lot of money beca... |
396,483 | 2,483,625 | 52,673 | 9 | Career , Career , Love is a Career | Career is one no-holds barred look at the theatrical profession and what it takes to get to the top . Anthony Franciosa had that determination , but it cost him big time in his personal life . No pun intended , but this may have been Tony Franciosa's career role . He's Sam Lawson , World War II veteran with thespian am... |
394,904 | 2,483,625 | 87,892 | 9 | There'll Always Be a Raj - - - - - - - NOT | A Passage Through India tells a story about the radicalization of a native Indian who happens to be a Moslem . This was in the days before the idea of a separate Pakistan took hold in the independence movement . Victor Bannerjee plays Dr . Aziz Ahmed and as you see by his title he's a professional man . But he's still ... |
394,378 | 2,483,625 | 26,138 | 9 | A Prisoner Of His Own Creation | Universal Studio in the height of the Hollywood Studio System was famous for three things that kept it in the black besides those famous studio tours that survive to this day . The Deanna Durbin musicals , the Abbott & Costello comedies and those great Gothic horror films with Dracula , The Wolfman , The Mummy and most... |
394,099 | 2,483,625 | 52,311 | 9 | A Great Detective , A Lousy Cop , And Some Kind Of Man | That's a great epitaph Marlene Dietrich and Mort Mills put together for Orson Welles's character police captain Hank Quinlan . In a sense , since Welles directed himself in Touch of Evil he both created the character and the circumstances that bring him down . Two stories intersect in Touch of Evil . The first involves... |
393,681 | 2,483,625 | 70,170 | 9 | A Reign Full Of Ironies | The recent BBC series The Tudors certainly had nothing on their productions a generation ago of Henry VIII And His Six Wives and Elizabeth R . Henry VIII certainly had his marital problems , but they weren't just his domestic concerns . Other heads rolled when this guy discarded a wife . Most account of Henry VIII usua... |
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