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395,065 | 2,483,625 | 52,293 | 9 | Quenching the Devil's Thirst | Thunder Road is the film that Robert Mitchum got to use all his many talents . Not only did he star in it , but he produced it and wrote the original story on which the film is based . And if that wasn't enough he wrote the songs for the film and made a hit record singing the title song . The other song , Whipporwill ,... |
394,535 | 2,483,625 | 60,934 | 9 | A Primer On Sino-American Relations | If The Sand Pebbles had been filmed ten years earlier it might have been called From Here to Eternity Goes to Sea . Like the James Jones novel it's protagonist is a loner type who finds a sense of purpose and order in the military . As Robert E . Lee Pruitt loved bugling and boxing , Jake Holman loves his engines . He'... |
393,461 | 2,483,625 | 35,015 | 9 | Trust Fund Baby Gets His Comeuppance | For his second feature film directorial effort Orson Welles assembled a lot of his Citizen Kane alumni , Joseph Cotten , Erskine Sanford , Ray Collins , and Agnes Moorehead , for this screen adaption of the Booth Tarkington novel The Magnificent Ambersons . He didn't bring Gregg Toland along to film the thing , but Sta... |
392,974 | 2,483,625 | 43,643 | 9 | What Plans They Have For Robert Mitchum | In Lee Server's biography about Robert Mitchum the recounting of the making of His Kind of Woman could actually be the basis of an interesting film itself . Jane Russell of course was the personal creation of Howard Hughes and when Hughes bought RKO Studio , Robert Mitchum was his number one male star . It was only nat... |
395,870 | 2,483,625 | 43,633 | 9 | Master of the Cultured Ad-lib | Frank Capra in his autobiography called Bing Crosby , " the master of the cultured ad-lib . " A lot of time Crosby would drop several ad-libs into a script and Capra kept them in . According to Capra they were betterthan what the screenwriter had written . Of course partnering with Bob Hope in several films and thousan... |
394,179 | 2,483,625 | 26,421 | 9 | Busby Berkeley at his surreal best . | In 1935 with the country in the midst of the Depression this kind of escapist entertainment is just what the public wanted . And the studio best equipped to give it to them was Warner Brothers . The Brothers gave complete creative control to Busby Berkeley having him direct the whole film instead of just the musical nu... |
396,311 | 2,483,625 | 26,409 | 9 | What It Takes To Be A Celebrity | Claudette Colbert was given two of Paramount's up and coming leading men in The Gilded Lily which holds up very well today because it talks about the cult of celebrity . Ray Milland and Fred MacMurray co-starred with her and in MacMurray's fifth film he became a star . Fred's a reporter and Claudette's a secretary and ... |
394,437 | 2,483,625 | 95,270 | 9 | Free Tracy Turnblad | Hairspray both this version and the new 2007 one are a pair of great satirical films about teenage mores in the early Sixties of the Civil Rights Era . Sometimes our heroes and heroines for civil rights and human decency can be found where you least expect . Such a person is Tracy Turnblad played by later television ho... |
393,812 | 2,483,625 | 43,599 | 9 | The Centerpiece of Mario Lanza's Career | Since musicals have both gone out of fashion and are incredibly expensive to make without all the talent needed to make one under contract to a studio , I doubt we will ever get a real life story of Enrico Caruso . But if everything else was in place it was no accident that no Hollywood studio attempted the task until ... |
395,262 | 2,483,625 | 43,590 | 9 | Go For Broke , means Shoot the Works | Van Johnson who was MGM's all American GI in many a World War II film , co-stars with a bunch of veterans from 442 Division which was a regiment made up of Japanese-Americans who chose this over internment in the various camps set up for them . The most distinguished member of this regiment is current United States Sen... |
394,006 | 2,483,625 | 70,355 | 9 | Harry Callahan's Back On The Job | At the end of Dirty Harry , Clint Eastwood throws a way his badge and ID after ending the life of that evil piece of protoplasm Scorpio . The intention obviously was like High Noon when Gary Cooper just threw away the marshal's badge after killing four Miller brothers , Eastwood was quitting the San Francisco PD . Well... |
393,424 | 2,483,625 | 52,357 | 9 | Detective Obsessed | Although it got at best mixed reviews when first released , Vertigo is now considered one of Alfred Hitchcock's classic films . A tribute to the players , the director , and the composer of that haunting musical score that will stay with you forever . The music is probably more important here than in most films , let a... |
395,914 | 2,483,625 | 105,323 | 9 | A Generation Gap Of Values | In Scent of a Woman Young Chris O'Donnell at the Baird Prep School on a scholarship , has to earn the money he needs for a round-trip back to Oregon to see his family at Christmas break . He takes a job posting off a bulletin board at school advertising for a companion to a blind man . The blind man turns out to be Al ... |
396,378 | 2,483,625 | 43,465 | 9 | One Uptight Cop | Before coming to the screen , Sidney Kingsley's Detective Story ran in the 1949-1950 season on Broadway for 581 performances . It's hard to believe because Kirk Douglas is so right for the part , but on Broadway the role of uptight police detective Jim McLeod was played by Ralph Bellamy . Lee Grant , Michael Strong , J... |
394,254 | 2,483,625 | 25,799 | 9 | Six cylinder comedy running on laughing gas | That was one of the lines in a trailer about this film and for once the publicists did not exaggerate . All six of the featured players here are on the screen 99 % of the time , so they have to be good . It's always fascinating how certain plot premises can be worked for either highballing comedy to a deadly serious si... |
395,005 | 2,483,625 | 87,469 | 9 | An Abode Of Evil | For his second go around as two fisted archaeologist Indiana Jones , Harrison Ford was in China and had to beat a hasty retreat out of there with the lovely Kate Capshaw and his young sidekick Jonathan LeQuan as Short Round . Capshaw proves to be utterly useless in a crisis , but Indy has good reason to be glad he boug... |
394,443 | 2,483,625 | 78,601 | 9 | The Consummate Statesman | Ian McShane had a couple of pretty good acts to follow in portraying Benjamin Disraeli who was arguably the United Kingdom's greatest Prime Minister . George Arliss played Disraeli on stage and screen in a story that centered around Great Britain's acquisition of the Suez Canal and it was one of his most celebrated par... |
394,279 | 2,483,625 | 43,436 | 9 | Righting Terrible Wrongs | A really good film could be made about the making of Cry , the Beloved Country which in itself is a landmark film about the early stages of the formal apartheid society in the Union of South Africa . There's a famous story of Alfred Hitchcock shooting the scene with Cary Grant fleeing the United Nations on the sly with... |
394,057 | 2,483,625 | 43,338 | 9 | A Thousand Dollar Day Newspaperman | It took twenty five years , but when Paddy Chayefsky wrote and scored a critical and popular success with Network it went a long way towards redeeming Billy Wilder and Ace in the Hole from the critical and popular drubbing it took in reviews and at the box office . The cry then was that Wilder was way too cynical and i... |
394,712 | 2,483,625 | 53,226 | 9 | What Price Success , What Price Class | Room At The Top filmed in 1959 takes place some ten years earlier in post war Great Britain as veteran Laurence Harvey takes it in his mind to rise from his lower class origins by any means possible . He's a devilishly attractive fellow and if that's what it takes to do it , than so be it . Not like it hasn't been done... |
396,733 | 2,483,625 | 53,221 | 9 | You Can Do Just About Anything You Want To , Chance . | Howard Hawks initially wanted to reunite John Wayne and Montgomery Clift who had worked so well together in Red River in his second film with Wayne . Clift however was at the beginning of the slide that would ultimately destroy him in seven years and said no . It was then that Dean Martin was cast as John Wayne's alcoh... |
395,777 | 2,483,625 | 25,601 | 9 | La Barrett - a tuneful treat | One Night of Love proved to be a successful comeback picture of sorts for Metropolitan Opera Star Grace Moore . Having not established herself at an earlier outing in Hollywood with MGM , Harry Cohn and Columbia got her back with this film that showcased Moore's magnificent voice . The film is your usual backstage stor... |
393,206 | 2,483,625 | 35,586 | 9 | A Lifetime of Service To His King And Country | I finally got to see The Young Mr . Pitt , a film I had wanted to see for decades . Mainly because Robert Donat perfectly fit my conception of what William Pitt , the Younger was like . In that I was not disappointed , Pitt is definitely one of Donat's best screen performances . William Pitt , the Younger 1759-1806 was... |
394,268 | 2,483,625 | 104,454 | 9 | Only Connect | I'm sure that even in 1910 when Kaiser Wilhelm still had a few fans who remembered he was the grandson of Queen Victoria and not ruler of the soon to be hated foe of World War I , E . M . Forster must have come in for a few critic's slings in having some of his protagonists of Howards End have a German surname . Even t... |
393,899 | 2,483,625 | 43,361 | 9 | No Marquee Names | Bright Victory was one of a trio of films that came out roughly around the same time dealing with rehabilitation of wounded armed service personnel , the other films being The Men and Home From the Brave . This one however dealt with those men blinded in combat . It was also something of a surprise to the studio that p... |
393,094 | 2,483,625 | 113,277 | 9 | The Summit | One of the amazing things about Heat is that during an almost three hour running time of the film , your interest in what happens in the summit teaming of Al Pacino and Robert DeNiro never flags for a second . Part of the reason is because these guys are at the top of their profession and brought their A game to the pa... |
394,417 | 2,483,625 | 43,278 | 9 | Experiencing Paris With Gershwin | Gene Kelly came up with some really grand ideas for musicals while with MGM . Here he's at the top of his creative powers working with the Arthur Freed musical unit . Hard to believe when you watch An American In Paris that the players never left the back lot at MGM . The magic of An American In Paris is due to the cre... |
395,150 | 2,483,625 | 155,711 | 9 | The Cost of Becoming a Woman | Flawless with its amazing chemistry and pluperfect performances by Robert DeNiro and Philip Seymour Hoffman is a very funny film which flows effortlessly into some dramatic moments . But very few want to talk about the social implications of it . Philip Seymour Hoffman is a female impersonator who lives in the same apa... |
393,232 | 2,483,625 | 35,703 | 9 | About To Take That Ride Again | Cabin In The Sky marked Vincente Minnelli's feature film debut as a director and he certainly started on a grand scale . Louis B . Mayer was purportedly reluctant to do black cast feature film with an A Budget , but Minnelli and Arthur Freed's faith in Minnelli paid off big time . Cabin In The Sky , musical fantasy , w... |
396,657 | 2,483,625 | 554,468 | 9 | Bing To Lose His Voice ? | Bing Crosby may have had actor / friend William Gargan in mind when he consented to do this hour long dramatic episode on the Danny Thomas Hour . Gargan had appeared with Bing in one of his most beloved films , The Bells of St . Mary's and in the early Sixties had lost his voice due to a cancer found in his throat whic... |
396,298 | 2,483,625 | 53,137 | 9 | Our Destiny Is In Our Own Hands | Released in 1959 , the apocalypse of On the Beach allegedly took place in 1964 . We missed it , but it sure doesn't mean it still can't happen . Maybe now more than ever . But probably not in the way it happens here . That's one of the awful things about On the Beach , they don't know what happened . Scientists among t... |
393,432 | 2,483,625 | 35,664 | 9 | One of the best of the ' last stand ' movies . | In addition to Bataan being one of the finest World War II films ever done , it also marked the final transformation of Robert Taylor from romantic leading man to tough action star . After this one Taylor , NEVER got cast in any powder puff roles . He's a tough , believable army sergeant who's in command of a squad tha... |
395,603 | 2,483,625 | 53,143 | 9 | We All Live In A Pink Submarine | In Tony Curtis's filmed tribute to Cary Grant for TCM he made much of his well known idolatry of the man who made him want to become an actor . As a kid growing up in the mean streets of New York , young Bernie Schwartz saw in Cary Grant all he ever wanted to be up there on the silver screen . During naval service on b... |
393,569 | 2,483,625 | 60,438 | 9 | Something For Everyone , A Comedy Tonight | It's ironic that just as Stephen Sondheim was establishing himself as both composer and lyricist on Broadway , musicals just stopped being made except on rare occasions . As a result most of Sondheim's work is sadly not filmed . In any event we don't have the musical stars on screen to do the roles justice . So in his ... |
393,513 | 2,483,625 | 60,424 | 9 | One Bottom Feeding Lawyer | In The Fortune Cookie , Billy Wilder took on the great American legal system and twisted a lot of laughs out of it . It's the underside of the great American dream , sue someone with deep pockets and you can be a millionaire . It's why we have too many lawyers in our society , it's what creates Willie Gingrich . In thr... |
392,737 | 2,483,625 | 26,029 | 9 | Espionage at the Music Hall | Alfred Hitchcock followed up his first international success , The Man Who Knew Too Much with an even better film , The Thirty Nine Steps . Hitchcock must have had a particular fondness for this film because I see elements of it North By Northwest , Saboteur , and Torn Curtain . There is no director in the history of t... |
395,157 | 2,483,625 | 26,071 | 9 | Sexist Old Mother Russia | I'm willing to bet that Anna Karenina was something that Greta Garbo agreed to remake because she thought she might have her same leading man again . She had done Tolstoy's troubled countess in an acclaimed silent version with John Gilbert . When Gilbert's career wouldn't rebound after Queen Christina the year before ,... |
396,068 | 2,483,625 | 35,583 | 9 | Rita was never lovelier | It would have been nice had this not been World War II and we could actually have done this film in Buenos Aires . As it is , except for a few newsreel shots at the beginning of the film , this might as well have taken place in San Diego . Having said that this tinsel of a story is put over by the charm and beauty of i... |
392,767 | 2,483,625 | 52,990 | 9 | Surviving In A World Of Galoots | The Last Angry Man marks the farewell big screen appearance of Paul Muni who had been for about a dozen years concentrating on his stage career . Muni goes back to his roots in this one playing an elderly Jewish doctor in a mixed Brooklyn neighborhood of 1959 . He upholds a lot of values that the present generation see... |
395,639 | 2,483,625 | 1,074,207 | 9 | A Quiet American Hero | For those of you who are not baseball fans , Pride Against Prejudice : The Larry Doby Story is about the second black ballplayer in the modern major leagues and the first to integrate the American League . Four months after Jackie Robinson started the 1947 season with the Brooklyn Dodgers , Larry Doby was purchased by ... |
392,709 | 2,483,625 | 35,379 | 9 | Doing It For Defense | Betty Hutton , one of the nominal stars of Star Spangled Rhythm , was not just doing it for defense as in her number , but the whole studio was doing this All Star flag waver for the defense of the morale of the USA . I can never resist one of these all star spectaculars and there's only one I would ever have given a b... |
396,399 | 2,483,625 | 25,919 | 9 | Screwball In Three Acts | Any resemblance between the trip that John Barrymore has taken on the Twentieth Century from Chicago to New York and the madcap goings on at the Brewster house in Arsenic and Old Lace is entirely coincidental and welcome . Twentieth Century came out of Columbia Pictures the year that It Happened One Night did and like ... |
395,309 | 2,483,625 | 60,637 | 9 | Reasserting Colonialism | The more honored documentary like film , The Battle for Algiers by Gillo Pontecorvo is considered the last cinema word on the subject of the title and this film is often overlooked . Yet Lost Command has a lot to recommend it and it's a pity it doesn't get more acclaim than it does . This is a retelling of a part of th... |
396,932 | 2,483,625 | 35,432 | 9 | Doublecrossing A Killer , When he's his own Police | The film that launched Alan Ladd's career , This Gun For Hire is a very short film like the earlier Public Enemy which gave James Cagney his stardom . This would be the normal length of a B film , but it definitely gets all it wants to say in its brief running time . Essentially we have three stories where all the prin... |
395,526 | 2,483,625 | 69,865 | 9 | An Unwanted Windfall | Walter Matthau playing the title role of Charley Varrick expected a few thousand dollars as the score in a small town bank in New Mexico . It was a costly robbery in human terms with only Matthau and hotheaded Andy Robinson who survive out of the original team of four . Imagine their surprise when they discover what th... |
393,016 | 2,483,625 | 52,896 | 9 | Cause He's Got High Hopes | A Hole in the Head is based on a Broadway play that ran for 156 performances during the 1956 season by Arnold Schulman . So popular and enduring has it proved that a full musical version was done on Broadway in 1968-1969 that starred Steve Lawrence and Eydie Gorme in the parts done here by Frank Sinatra and Eleanor Par... |
394,844 | 2,483,625 | 52,902 | 9 | The Section Hand and The Croker | John Wayne's been given a critical job to do by none other than General Ulysses S . Grant . He's been ordered to take 3 brigades deep into Confederate territory and destroy a critical rail supply station at a place called Newton's Station and then get his troops out the best way he can . He's ordered to take along , an... |
394,142 | 2,483,625 | 35,417 | 9 | Living Justice | The Talk of the Town puts visiting law professor Ronald Colman in a delicate situation . He's rented a cottage for some peace and quiet before going before a Senate committee dealing with his nomination to the Supreme Court . But things are anything , but peaceful in the town of Lorchester , Massachusetts . The factory... |
393,614 | 2,483,625 | 43,067 | 9 | Shiver Me Timbers | One of Walt Disney's best live action features is this first of several he did over in the United Kingdom in the Fifties . The Robert Louis Stevenson classic Treasure Island has been done several times over with even the Muppets going to seek those Dubloons , but never better than by Disney . When you do Treasure Islan... |
395,076 | 2,483,625 | 52,876 | 9 | Not The Paint Your Wagon Kind Of Mining Camp | Unless one wants to count They Came To Cordura as a western which also came out in 1959 , The Hanging Tree was Gary Cooper's farewell to the western genre which he did so much to popularize . Although in his career Cooper played a variety of roles , he is probably most identified with the western . Certainly that secon... |
396,904 | 2,483,625 | 52,864 | 9 | True Love In the Rain Forest | I guess there's some difference of opinion as to what is found in the area that headwaters of the Amazon and Orinoco Rivers make their neighborhood . Arthur Conan Doyle wrote that there was a lost world of prehistoric dinosaurs when he wasn't doing Sherlock Holmes stories . But W . H , Hudson has us believe that there'... |
396,236 | 2,483,625 | 25,318 | 9 | It's Pronounced Bissonay | I think only in The Bank Dick was W . C . Fields more henpecked than he is in It's A Gift . He also has a perfect foil for his brand of humor in Kathleen Howard as his wife in the second of three films she did with the man from Philadelphia . In this film more than most of Fields's films I think the real secret of his ... |
393,766 | 2,483,625 | 94,669 | 9 | A Death In Palestine | Appointment with Death was the last theatrical release of that series of Hercule Poirot mysteries . I'm sure Peter Ustinov probably could have done others . I wouldn't be surprised if in fact the BBC Poirot series starring David Suchet which we in America saw for many years may have killed the more expensive budgeted b... |
393,585 | 2,483,625 | 51,496 | 9 | A Good Realistic Western | As one of the other reviewers pointed out , this whole film is based on a few lines of an autobiography where the protagonist Frank Harris joins a group of cattle RUSTLERS for a spell . So in fact that as tough as Glenn Ford and his crew are , at least they're on the right side of the law . Also Frank Harris is probabl... |
392,962 | 2,483,625 | 51,516 | 9 | Miles and Miles and Miles of Heart | Damn Yankees was one of two Broadway shows written by the team of Richard Adler and Jerry Ross , the other being The Pajama Game which got made into films almost immediately upon the cessation of the Broadway run . Damn Yankees ran in the 1955-1957 season for 1019 performances and both Gwen Verdon and Ray Walston conti... |
395,358 | 2,483,625 | 51,519 | 9 | The Tip Of The Spear | Darby's Rangers is the story both of a proud group of the best and brightest the USA sent to war and the commander who sold the idea to the brass and the outfit was unofficially named for him . It was director William Wellman's next to last feature film and the first starring picture of James Garner . As William Orland... |
393,062 | 2,483,625 | 60,200 | 9 | Never Outfox The Fox | After The Fox finds Peter Sellers and his then bride Britt Eklund working in Italy for director Vittorio DeSica . In it Sellers plays a criminal who if he's not quite a master at the crime trade , at least he's not a bumbler like Inspector Clousseau . The laughs Sellers gets in After The Fox come at the expense of othe... |
393,973 | 2,483,625 | 60,218 | 9 | Tribute to Israel's Military Genius and Fighting Heart | The great fighting heart and spirit of the Israeli people was not developed by one man . It was embodied in the dream of every Jewish peasant who for two previous generations contributed even pennies to Theodore Herzl's Zionist organization . And for the holocaust survivors it represented their last chance for a place ... |
393,328 | 2,483,625 | 51,565 | 9 | A Nation Mobilized | My favorite story of heroism in the 20th century happens to be the evacuation of the bulk of the British army from the beaches at Dunkirk . There was the United Kingdom which if they had not been rescued probably would have had to sue for peace with Nazi Germany despite Mr . Churchill's intentions to fight . The United... |
393,111 | 2,483,625 | 36,261 | 9 | The Mad Scourge of the Paris Opera | When Universal decided to remake Lon Chaney's classic silent version of the opera , sound opened up a rather obvious vista for the film . We can make it as much about opera as the phantom haunting the Paris Opera . A task rendered considerably easier by the presence of Nelson Eddy and Susanne Foster . Unlike his screen... |
395,045 | 2,483,625 | 45,012 | 9 | The Lady Needs Some Good Handling | Pat and Mike must have been a pleasure for Katharine Hepburn to make because she got to show off her athletic ability which was considerable . Had she not decided to pursue a thespian career , Hepburn could have gone into either tennis or golf , she was good at both or any of the other sports named which she actually p... |
394,010 | 2,483,625 | 36,160 | 9 | The Women Behind The Men Who Kept Us All Free | Millions Like Us is a tribute film to the women of the United Kingdom who were the Rosie the Riveteers of the Blessed Isle . With a much less population base to draw from , Great Britain relied far more than the United States to keep the war production running so the men could do the fighting . And being under aerial a... |
395,187 | 2,483,625 | 36,172 | 9 | Damn The Torpedoes , Full Speed Ahead | In her one and only recognition of sorts from the Motion Picture Academy , Jean Arthur got a nomination for Best Actress for The More the Merrier , a screwball comedy based on the housing shortage in Washington , DC . It was a tough field with veteran players like Greer Garson for Madame Curie , Ingrid Bergman for Casa... |
393,195 | 2,483,625 | 443,680 | 9 | Hero Worship Turns Sour | Though Jesse James through the newspaper accounts of his exploits and through the dime novels of the day was already a legend , his immortality was sealed on April 3 , 1882 by the manner of his death . The lengthy title of the film tells all or at least the official version of the story . But was that accepted version ... |
393,013 | 2,483,625 | 426,470 | 9 | Yugoslavia Tears Itself Apart | I saw this film tonight at the Image Out Film Festival in Rochester and what I saw is a powerful story about both love and hate reaching across ethnic and religious boundaries . The love is what Mario Drmec and Tarik Filipovic have for each other . Same sex couples have it bad enough there , but in this case Mario is a... |
393,555 | 2,483,625 | 60,355 | 9 | The Fight At Diablo Canyon | James Garner leaves behind his usual likable rogue that he normally plays for a role in Duel at Diablo as a grim and vengeful scout for the Army who's been told by Lieutenant Bill Travers and graphically shown that his Apache wife has been killed . If he goes on a mission scouting for Travers delivering ammunition and ... |
396,833 | 2,483,625 | 86,879 | 9 | The Mercurial Genius | Long after his rival died at a young age and his world essentially obliterated by the Napoleonic wars , Antonio Salieri as played by F . Murray Abraham looks back on his life from the confines of an insane asylum . Everywhere the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart is played and hummed familiarly by even the masses . Scho... |
394,277 | 2,483,625 | 36,126 | 9 | Garson and Pidgeon , A Perfect Fit | For their third MGM collaboration , Walter Pidgeon and Greer Garson were cast as Pierre and Marie Curie in this epic biographical drama about the first woman to win a Nobel Prize in science . The Curies contribution to science was a newly discovered element radium which did nothing less than alter how we think about ma... |
393,654 | 2,483,625 | 51,201 | 9 | The Goal Is Always Justice | In a recent biography of Billy Wilder , Agatha Christie is quoted as saying that this was the best adaption of her work ever done on the screen . I can't praise Witness for the Prosecution any higher than that . Tyrone Power in his farewell film plays Leonard Vole who befriends a dotty old widow played by Norma Varden ... |
393,986 | 2,483,625 | 106,489 | 9 | Growing Up In The Bronx | A Bronx Tale does take me back to New York City in the sixties . I grew up in Brooklyn then which certainly has always had its own identity . I'm glad that Chazz Palmentiri has given the Bronx an identity of its own . There are still parts of the Bronx which have the Italian neighborhood you see depicted here . But the... |
393,380 | 2,483,625 | 44,685 | 9 | Wonderful kid's film | A lot of the comments previously made here are true and this certainly isn't any kind of real biographical film of Hans Christian Anderson . But one must remember that Samuel Goldwyn was primarily making this film as children's entertainment . And on that level he succeeded brilliantly . In fact at the age of 5 in the ... |
394,423 | 2,483,625 | 44,683 | 9 | Conflict within Conflict | Randolph Scott leads a group of Confederate raiders who rob a gold shipment and kill the Union Cavalry escort . Before one of them dies though , he informs the group that the Civil War's been over for a few weeks . They're outlaws now . That fact is brought home when a group of " deputies " lead by Ray Teal and Guinn W... |
395,937 | 2,483,625 | 44,672 | 9 | Ladies and Gentlemen and Children of All Ages . . . . . . . . . . | The Greatest Show on Earth is a Cecil B . DeMille extravaganza , maybe the best one he ever produced and directed . Unlike his religious films or his historical films , this film is a nice tribute to an American institution , the Ringling Brothers & Barnum & Bailey Circus and as such it does not attract the controversy... |
393,085 | 2,483,625 | 311,429 | 9 | In Her Majesty's Service | I've found it fascinating over the past 20 years that with the advances made in special effects techniques , comic book heroes have had an explosion in popularity on the screen . The films , good , bad or indifferent seem to make money with a built in market . We seem to get a few of them every year with accompanying m... |
395,443 | 2,483,625 | 106,387 | 9 | A Homage To The Little Tramp | Though his character is very much the center of the film , its star Johnny Depp left it out of the title . Benny & Joon is a brother and sister played by Aidan Quinn and Mary Stuart Masterson . Depp's character is Sam a man much influenced by Charlie Chaplin who comes into their lives and changes everything in this ver... |
394,104 | 2,483,625 | 86,720 | 9 | First In War , First In Peace , First In The Hearts Of His Countrymen | To take that imposing figure come down to us from Gilbert Stuart's famous portrait and turn George Washington into a flesh and blood human being was quite the achievement . I watched this and the succeeding mini-series about Washington and came away thinking I actually knew the man . I think the credit goes to two peop... |
396,479 | 2,483,625 | 71,230 | 9 | Even Randolph Scott Must Have Laughed At This One , Not To Mention Hedy Lamarr or Marlene Dietrich | I have a great deal of difficulty in deciding whether Blazing Saddles or The Producers is the funnier of the Mel Brooks comedies . Being a western aficionado I suppose I have to go with this film . I don't think there was a western cliché Mr . Brooks missed in this one . From the first scene with that celebrated foof c... |
393,743 | 2,483,625 | 44,760 | 9 | A Classic Story Made Into a Classic Film | Of the four films that Robert Taylor called his " iron jockstrap movies " Ivanhoe is probably the best . Filmed on location in Great Britain with a classic mixed cast of American and British players , Ivanhoe is a film for those of us who like their heroes strong and true and their causes noble ones . It's a noble caus... |
396,324 | 2,483,625 | 86,765 | 9 | It Could Still Be Running | I'm not quite sure why Murder She Wrote isn't still running . I'm willing to bet that Angela Lansbury could command any kind of deal she could have if she wanted to do more episodes of this wonderful series . Angela Lansbury is maybe one of the kindest and most unselfish of players ever to grace the big screen , the sm... |
394,128 | 2,483,625 | 94,291 | 9 | Speculating Wolf | As Bud Fox in Wall Street , Charlie Sheen knows only one thing , he does not want the life his blue collar father and real life father Martin Sheen has . He's a child of the Eighties and wants to make money fast and live the good life . Inpatient with working in a brokerage house where he's barely breaking even paying ... |
395,467 | 2,483,625 | 106,339 | 9 | Stu And Astrid | Back in the Sixties when I was a mere teenager I read some of the stories about the Beatles and the background they came from . I knew of Stuart Sutcliffe and his story only months before the Beatles came into the consciousness of America . But until I saw Backbeat I did not KNOW Stuart Sutcliffe and the curious triang... |
396,002 | 2,483,625 | 51,411 | 9 | How Many Times Does A Man Have To Win You ? | The Big Country is one big and fun western with concurrent plot lines . The first is the struggle between two implacable enemies , Charles Bickford and Burl Ives . The second is a four sided romantic triangle involving Gregory Peck , Jean Simmons , Charlton Heston , and Carroll Baker with Chuck Connors trying to horn i... |
393,177 | 2,483,625 | 60,095 | 9 | The Ay-Ay-Irish Senor | Alvarez Kelly , Mexican national , has just sold a herd of cattle to the North during the American Civil War . Yankee Major Stedman insists he accompany the cattle all the way to Richmond where they're to feed Grant's troops besieging the city . Only Confederate Cavalry hero Tom Rossiter has different ideas for the cat... |
396,812 | 2,483,625 | 35,896 | 9 | The Bell Tolls for Republican Spain | Ernest Hemingway was most particular about how is work should be portrayed on screen . He had hated the version of A Farewell to Arms that was done ten years earlier . What he did like was Gary Cooper's portrayal of a Hemingway hero . He and Cooper got to be good friends , so he was Papa's first and only choice to be R... |
394,470 | 2,483,625 | 25,347 | 9 | Eddie Gets His Millions | In a recent and long overdue biography of Eddie Cantor it turns out that Cantor's daughter Marilyn was responsible for the casting of Ethel Merman in this and a subsequent film of her father's . The Cantors and the San Goldwyns saw each other socially quite a bit and young Marilyn Cantor became a fan of Merman's after ... |
393,512 | 2,483,625 | 51,433 | 9 | Losing A Moral Compass | John Wayne's Ethan Edwards , Jimmy Stewart's Howard Kemp , or any number of roles Kirk Douglas has played have nothing of the intensity of Gregory Peck's Jim Douglas in The Bravados . Peck is perfect casting for the part because he's playing against type . If Atticus Finch's wife had been a homicide victim , I think th... |
395,688 | 2,483,625 | 44,419 | 9 | All That's Missing is Color | One of my favorite Kirk Douglas films is The Big Sky where he plays mountain man / trapper Jim Deakins . It's a great part for Douglas with his incredible charm and quick burn when someone does him wrong . The Big Sky was RKO Pictures big production for 1952 . I'd like to say that Howard Hughes spared no expense in mak... |
396,105 | 2,483,625 | 120,866 | 9 | Titus the Caterer | Titus is Julie Traynor's adaption of one of Shakespeare's bloodier works , Titus Andronicus . It's set in a surreal land where ancient idiom is mixed with modern dress and customs . It's not normally a form I like because I prefer my Shakespeare traditional . However in the case of Titus Andronicus though the setting i... |
396,455 | 2,483,625 | 44,437 | 9 | Realistic Racetrack movie | Personally , I enjoy two atmospheres in life . Ballparks and racetracks . Baseball movies are usually about individual efforts , I've never seen one that captures the atmosphere of the game itself . But Boots Malone better than any other film I've seen about racing until last year's Seabiscuit , captures the whole flav... |
393,470 | 2,483,625 | 105,695 | 9 | Notoriously Vicious And Intemperate Disposition | With all the fine westerns that have come out in the history of film , Unforgiven is only the third one to win the Academy Award for Best Picture . Following in the steps of Cimarron and Dances With Wolves , Unforgiven finally got Clint Eastwood the Oscar recognition for one of film's great icons . It's also one nasty ... |
395,697 | 2,483,625 | 59,661 | 9 | Whatever Suits You , Just Tickles Me Plum To Death . | So said the agreeable Henry Fonda to just about every suggestion Glenn Ford or other cast members made to him . This the first of a series of very agreeable entertaining comic westerns that Burt Kennedy directed and / or wrote starring some of Hollywood's great but aging male stars . I think for the first and only time... |
396,953 | 2,483,625 | 44,509 | 9 | Sheba Like Our Youth Ain't Coming Back | For those of you who only know Shirley Booth from the television series Hazel , I would strongly recommend you look at the list of her Broadway credits which date all the way back to the twenties . She appeared in so many Broadway plays that later went on screen without her recreating the role . For example she created... |
393,233 | 2,483,625 | 59,675 | 9 | Returning to the Primitive | I'm really gratified to find so many other reviewers having good memories of Sands of the Kalahari and feeling as put out as I do that it is not on VHS or DVD . Nor apparently has it been seen in America at least for some time . This is a tale of survival , but the characters sure don't come out of Swiss Family Robinso... |
394,676 | 2,483,625 | 36,723 | 9 | Put To The Test And Passes With Flying Colors | It took a loan out film to Columbia for Gene Kelly's home studio MGM to realize his creative talent and give him some control over what he did in his own films . Cover Girl also became Rita Hayworth's signature film for the GIs and their pinup fantasies during World War II . Kelly plays the owner of a small nightclub i... |
395,053 | 2,483,625 | 24,660 | 9 | Tra-La-La-La-La | One of the most enduring of animated classics is Walt Disney's Three Little Pigs , taken from the old fairy tale about three juvenile little oinkers , only one of whom meets the challenge of the Big Bad Wolf . Coming out as it did in 1933 it's both a metaphor for the Great Depression , the consequence of no financial p... |
395,444 | 2,483,625 | 1,073,510 | 9 | A Child Is Listening , Maybe Your Own | The greatest thing about Sigourney Weaver and the rest of the cast members who played members of the Griffith family is that in making Prayers For Bobby they did not succumb to the temptation of making a caricature of their character . It's been done before , it would have been so easy , the religious right gives you s... |
395,576 | 2,483,625 | 44,391 | 9 | A Tale of Three Betrayals | Producer Jonathan Shields is in big trouble on a production and reaches out to three people he's befriended and betrayed in the past for help . All three are brought to Harry Pebbel's office where he makes a pitch for the help of each one . And we're told in flashback the dynamics of the relationships between Shields a... |
393,963 | 2,483,625 | 36,613 | 9 | I'm the Son of a Sea Cook ! | In Frank Capra's autobiography he explains that the reason he wanted to do Arsenic and Old Lace was that he was planning to go into the service , in preparation for the war he was sure coming . He wanted a surefire moneymaking hit that could be done on the cheap . Arsenic and Old Lace was running on Broadway at the tim... |
393,757 | 2,483,625 | 52,182 | 9 | Stitched Together Rather Nicely | As presented in London and on Broadway Separate Tables was two one act plays set in a residential hotel in the seaside resort of Bournemouth . The stories involving Burt Lancaster and Rita Hayworth and the one involving David Niven and Deborah Kerr were presented separately . Fortunately producers Burt Lancaster , Haro... |
392,742 | 2,483,625 | 51,745 | 9 | Hesto , Presto , One of Cary's Very Besto | Cary Grant , prominent diplomat and widower , is trying to get acquainted again with his three kids , Paul Petersen , Mimi Gibson , and Charles Herbert . He's also got a sister-in-law , Martha Hyer , crushing out on him big time . But after the youngest kid , Herbert , wanders away after a concert , he meets Sophia Lor... |
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