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393,979 | 2,483,625 | 25,028 | 9 | They're what you see a show for | One of the nice things about those Warner Brothers Depression musicals is that you can forget some of the sillier aspects of the plot and just enjoy the wonderful nonsense created . Dames certainly classifies as wonderful nonsense . A wacky millionaire who's a sideline puritan is going to leave a bequest to a cousin an... |
393,997 | 2,483,625 | 70,748 | 9 | Adjustments | Summer Wishes , Winter Dreams casts Joanne Woodward as a woman going through mid-life crisis in her forties , realizing that she's settled and not selected in her choice of husband and life . Not that husband Martin Balsam is not a good man , he's a decent enough fellow , an optometrist and back in my parents generatio... |
394,085 | 2,483,625 | 70,723 | 9 | A Hopeless World | The only other film besides Soylent Green that has such an air of hopelessness is On the Beach . Both films deal with the consequences for the species and the planet from man made cataclysms . On the Beach with nuclear war and Soylent Green with the environmental poisoning of the planet . Maybe there's cause for some o... |
393,906 | 2,483,625 | 1,205,489 | 9 | Teaching The Work Ethic | At the ripe old age of 78 Clint Eastwood is starting on a whole new career of playing tough old timers who are way past the day when they get the girl in their movies . Except as surrogate daughters which he's done in his past two films , four years apart though they be . In Million Dollar Baby Eastwood plays the gruff... |
396,102 | 2,483,625 | 44,229 | 9 | Bud and Lou for the Ages | The wonderful nonsense that made up the comedy of Bud Abbott and Lou Costello is carefully preserved and is to be treasured in this two season television series which I can remember from my earliest days . It seemed like it was in syndication forever on WPIX TV in New York in the fifties , sixties and seventies . Made ... |
394,379 | 2,483,625 | 36,515 | 9 | Vagabonds For A Cause | Watch On The Rhine started as a Broadway play by Lillian Hellman who wrote the film and saw it open on Broadway at a time when the Soviet Union was still bound to Nazi Germany by that infamous non-aggression pact signed in August of 1939 . So much for the fact that Hellman was merely echoing the Communist party line , ... |
394,642 | 2,483,625 | 44,269 | 9 | Bumping Heads With Lucy | When Lucille Ball was an acclaimed , but not very widely known B picture actress , Joan Davis was winning a lot more acclaim for her own brand of goofy physical humor on radio and on film . She was a mainstay of support to a lot of the glamor girls and guys at 20th Century Fox . A long term extra marital affair with Ed... |
396,723 | 2,483,625 | 70,666 | 9 | Diogenes , Have You Looked In The NYPD ? | For his second Academy Award nomination and his first in the Best Actor category , Al Pacino essayed the title role in Serpico , the true story of an incorruptible cop and a man who Diogenes could have ceased his search for an honest man with . As I'm sure many idealistic young people do , Frank Serpico joined the New ... |
393,723 | 2,483,625 | 25,004 | 9 | Edmund Dantes's Code of Street Justice | As a story The Count of Monte Cristo still has great power . Case in point , the movie Sleepers where four young men from Hell's Kitchen were sexually abused in a reform school they were sentenced to . They found in the Alexandre Dumas novel a man they could understand very easily given their street code . Edmund Dante... |
392,734 | 2,483,625 | 51,776 | 9 | Missionary / Innkeeper | This film concerns the life and achievements of one Gladys Aylward , a Christian woman from Great Britain who conceived early on that her place in the world was in China . She was a remarkable person who let absolutely nothing deter her in her calling . That included a lack of formal education , no support at all from ... |
394,376 | 2,483,625 | 70,903 | 9 | If We Had The Chance To Do It All Again , Tell Me , Would We , Could We ? | I recall a line from The Alamo in which John Wayne says to Linda Cristal that political differences don't make for good breakfast talk between a man and a woman . That's a piece of wisdom that Barbra Streisand and Robert Redford should have remembered for their characters in The Way We Were . Meet Hubbell Gardiner and ... |
392,679 | 2,483,625 | 9,611 | 9 | The Tramp Does His Bit | Considering all of the comedies with a military situation that have been done in history , someone had to be the first . One could make a case that in Shoulder Arms , Charlie Chaplin invented the genre . Hard to believe that back then this was a daring move . When you consider that some of the best films involving such... |
393,888 | 2,483,625 | 36,422 | 9 | An All Star Man In the Iron Mask | I am the world's biggest sucker for All Star Films and the genre was never better than during the World War II era , when all the major studios made at least one of them as a morale booster . They all involve getting the stars at the various studios to put on a show for the troops which they do , but with a few problem... |
396,253 | 2,483,625 | 44,079 | 9 | Criss-Cross | In Strangers On A Train , it's obvious from the start that playboy wastrel Robert Walker has singled out Farley Granger as an unwilling accomplice to a pair of murders . Granger's a semi-public figure , he's a tennis pro , but not an especially high one . High enough however for him to know that Granger is trapped in a... |
395,594 | 2,483,625 | 36,431 | 9 | A great story of human dignity . | Jean Renoir managed to flee France because of the Nazi invasion and spent World War II turning out some pretty good films in America . Maybe the best is this heartfelt tribute to his beloved and occupied France . He got the best possible actor for his protagonist . Charles Laughton could play tortured and flawed human ... |
395,418 | 2,483,625 | 44,121 | 9 | The Military Versus The Scientists | A mixture of scientists and Air Force personnel plus one news correspondent are at a base in Alaska doing research and protecting us from Joe Stalin and the Reds when they soon have something more dangerous to deal with . A spaceship , a saucer shaped spaceship in fact arrives on Earth . And it has a creature piloting ... |
396,050 | 2,483,625 | 44,105 | 9 | Like A Thief In The Night | Although the film is a work of fiction , The Tall Target is based in part on an actual incident that involved an attempt to assassinate President - elect Abraham Lincoln on his way to Washington to assume the presidency in early 1861 . A planned stop in Baltimore was canceled and Lincoln was spirited into Washington in... |
394,709 | 2,483,625 | 59,573 | 9 | Could Have Been A Lot More Daring | Watching this film I was struck at once with how daring it was and how daring it could have been . A Patch Of Blue is dated very much like that other Sidney Poitier movie , Guess Who's Coming To Dinner , a milestone and daring for its time , but old fashioned today . But that was about as much as America could handle b... |
396,846 | 2,483,625 | 59,575 | 9 | Reconnecting With The World | The Pawnbroker is maybe the best of Sidney Lumet's New York based films . It tells the story of Sol Nazerman , former professor from Germany , Holocaust survivor , now making a living as a pawnbroker in Harlem . Rod Steiger got an Oscar nomination for Best Actor . If he had lost to Sir Laurence Olivier for Othello I mi... |
395,184 | 2,483,625 | 36,377 | 9 | A Visit From The Virgin Mary | Bernadette Soubirous , 1844-1879 , was a modest , shy , retiring religious girl of strong convictions in her faith who would have passed through this world unnoticed by many , but for an incident in her hometown of Lourdes in France . If you believe it was all a hallucination than this film will mean nothing to you . B... |
396,173 | 2,483,625 | 70,791 | 9 | Who Is Killing The Great Critics Of London ? | One of Vincent Price's best films is a black comedy that stars a whole slew of talented British players about a classical ham actor who is taking revenge on the critics who have panned his performances for years . It's really the kind of role any player would sell his soul to have , one where he can lose all restraints... |
395,139 | 2,483,625 | 59,555 | 9 | Iago Instead | I've always felt Othello to be more Iago's play than Othello's . Iago is the guy whose subtle machinations keep the whole thing going . In fact William Shakespeare probably should have entitled the play Iago instead . Othello gets the title because the emphasis is on his reactions to Iago's hints of infidelity in regar... |
394,939 | 2,483,625 | 79,592 | 9 | A Victorian Action Hero | In Murder By Decree fiction's most famous detective goes to work on the most famous real life case of his era , that of the infamous Whitechapel Murders , committed by the man that was dubbed Jack the Ripper . What Sherlock Holmes does to solve the case and where the ultimate responsibility for these murders lies is th... |
395,829 | 2,483,625 | 139,654 | 9 | Street Justice Dispensed | Ethan Hawke , bright eyed and innocent , reports to his training officer for his first day on the job in narcotics in the LAPD . He never could have fathomed just how much he would learn on that very first Training Day . His training officer is Denzel Washington , a thirteen year veteran on the police who's put in a fe... |
395,171 | 2,483,625 | 28,216 | 9 | Tell Me You're the Heart of All the Golden West . | MGM's blockbuster was conceived originally as a vehicle for Jeanette MacDonald to co-star with some non-singing players while her normal screen partner Nelson Eddy was on a concert tour . Mr . Eddy always considered his screen roles secondary to his concert singing which was the reverse of how Jeanette felt . According... |
395,136 | 2,483,625 | 102,926 | 9 | Getting A Good Consultant | It seems as though there is a serial killer out there who's grabbed the daughter of a United States Senator and this guy has zoomed right to the top of FBI's Most wanted . This man's modus operandi is to keep the victims alive for a while before killing them so they're racing against time to find him . Desperate situat... |
395,994 | 2,483,625 | 33,038 | 9 | Daddy , Buy Me That | After Marlene Dietrich at a new studio , Universal , had made something of a comeback in Destry Rides Again , the studio was understandably looking for new properties to follow it up . They certainly got one in Seven Sinners , a really great blend of satirical comedy and drama . Certainly Dietrich is no poor man's Sadi... |
396,690 | 2,483,625 | 59,309 | 9 | a mother lovin ' gut busting navy war . | I've always felt that in these big budget all star epics , the trick is to give each of the star a role of substance as small as the part might be sometimes . That's one of the best things about In Harm's Way , Otto Preminger cast this film with a whole lot of big movie names and each one of them made their presence fe... |
396,237 | 2,483,625 | 97,576 | 9 | If They Couldn't Get The Ark Of The Covenant , They'll Settle For The Holy Grail | When Indiana Jones went on his last crusade in search of the Holy Grail , the adventure took him to such far flung places as Venice , Vienna , Berlin , and the fictitious kingdom of Hatay in the Middle East . Well he wasn't just searching for the Holy Grail . A mysterious millionaire who's been a benefactor of archeolo... |
395,613 | 2,483,625 | 120,514 | 9 | The Importance Of Being True To Thine Own Self | Two very fine films about Oscar Wilde came out roughly at the same time during the sixties and they starred Peter Finch and Robert Morley respectively as the great literary icon . But those were in the days before Stonewall and you couldn't be all that explicit . I'm not just talking about sex scenes though there are s... |
394,770 | 2,483,625 | 52,561 | 10 | Sensational Murder In The U . P . | Until Reindeer Games a few years ago , Anatomy of a Murder had to be the only film that ever had as a locale , the Upper Peninsula of Michigan . It's a pretty woodsy area as shown in the film with lots of tiny towns and villages and very right wing in its politics . A homicide occurred in one of those towns , an army l... |
393,811 | 2,483,625 | 35,238 | 10 | Memories Just Out of Reach | The novels of James Hilton were very popular in America as well as in the United Kingdom . Mr . Hilton created British heroes that resonated with the American public and cerebral actors like Robert Donat and Ronald Colman seem born to play . I do remember as a lad being given a book with Lost Horrizon , Goodbye Mr . Ch... |
393,876 | 2,483,625 | 405,159 | 10 | It Doesn't Get Better Than This | I'm not sure Clint Eastwood shouldn't have just retired after making Million Dollar Baby . Because films don't get any better than this or more poignant . Maybe Clint was influenced by the career of his young co-star Hillary Swank . When Swank got the Oscar for Boys Don't Cry it was said that it was a pity she reached ... |
392,799 | 2,483,625 | 26,174 | 10 | You've Saved My Money - - - " Can you swim Colonel Darlin ' " | Talk about taking one long chance . The original star of Captain Blood was to be Robert Donat . But health reasons as they did often in Donat's career prevented him from doing this film . So Jack Warner gave the lead in this film to a contract player who had done a couple of bit parts in some B films and had done a lea... |
395,802 | 2,483,625 | 35,093 | 10 | The People's War | With the help of the extensive British colony in Hollywood , William Wyler directed at MGM the best World War II propaganda film to come out of our film industry . Mrs . Miniver won a host of Oscars including Best Picture , Best Actress for Greer Garson , Best Supporting Actress for Teresa Wright , Best Director for Wi... |
396,062 | 2,483,625 | 87,921 | 10 | Our Own Blessed Assurance Of A Beautiful Garden Of Fellowship | When Robert Benton wrote and directed Places in the Heart he created his own Citizen Kane . Like Orson Welles he will spend the rest of his life trying to better it and won't succeed . Places in the Heart takes place in Waxahachie , Texas in 1935 and our director was born there in 1932 . The film is a personal vision o... |
395,015 | 2,483,625 | 52,618 | 10 | A " Real " Character | General Lew Wallace , a somewhat controversial commander of the Union forces in the Civil War happened to be on a train with Robert Ingersoll , noted atheist in the 19th century . Wallace was a moderately religious man and attempted to debate Ingersoll . The story has it that Ingersoll whipped him to a frazzle and Wall... |
396,053 | 2,483,625 | 352,248 | 10 | Braddock's Story , Not Baer's | Though Cinderella Man got great critical notices it did not do well at the box office which is a shame for those who missed a great sports story and Russell Crowe's performance as James J . Braddock . Between the time Gene Tunney retired in 1928 and Joe Louis ascended to boxing's heavyweight championship , there were a... |
396,403 | 2,483,625 | 35,169 | 10 | More Ale Than Quail In This Club | The Palm Beach Story is one of the best examples of the wonderful nonsense that Hollywood used to turn out in its best comedies . It's only in the movies that circumstances like these happen and it's quite beyond my powers to describe them . Joel McCrea and Claudette Colbert come to a dry patch in their marriage and de... |
393,732 | 2,483,625 | 70,640 | 10 | Life Ain't About Simple Choices | Save the Tiger is about lost illusions of youth and the things some of us have to do to merely keep treading water . Jack Lemmon is the head of a garment factory which has suffered some losses over the past few years and he and partner Jack Gilford see few options that will save them from bankruptcy or worse . The best... |
393,869 | 2,483,625 | 105,377 | 10 | Hollywood didn't know what to do with it | Lou Diamond Phillips deserves a lot of credit for even tackling this subject . A well photographed movie about the lives of the Inuit , this just isn't a commercial item . The fact alone that it was shot on location must have cost a fortune . This film shows a lot of loving tender care in the making and the cast is gre... |
396,271 | 2,483,625 | 77,859 | 10 | Winning The Grand Slam And Losing It All | One of the best television movies ever made is about the life and career of Maureen Connolly the first woman to win tennis's fabled grand slam in one year . Both her career and her life were way too short . Before Billie Jean King , before Chris Evert , before Tracy Austin there was a champion from the Fifties , Mauree... |
395,119 | 2,483,625 | 70,212 | 10 | The Denizens of Harry Hope's Waterfront Dive | The Iceman Cometh is one great film to go out on for not one , but two of the best players ever . This turned out to be the last performances for both Fredric March and Robert Ryan . In the case of Ryan he knew he was terminal and his performance has real poignancy . Of course you can't beat the material that was given... |
395,556 | 2,483,625 | 70,290 | 10 | A Week In The Life Of Two Lifers | My absolutely favorite Jack Nicholson film has always and forever will be The Last Detail . I don't think he was ever better on the screen as William Baddusky of the United States Navy . I enjoyed his performance and the film itself on so many levels . Probably not surprising since the script was done by Robert Towne w... |
395,868 | 2,483,625 | 34,862 | 10 | Bing was a marketing genius . | Finally Paramount gave Crosby a big budget musical and didn't rely on his charm and personality to carry the film . The budget went to hire such outside talent as Fred Astaire and Irving Berlin . And none of them disappoint . In the first of two films Astaire and Crosby did together the characters are remarkably the sa... |
394,933 | 2,483,625 | 34,891 | 10 | God Bless This Ship And The Men Who Serve In Her | It's ironic indeed that in Noel Coward's greatest screen role he played a part so atypical of what we expect from that most witty and erudite of artists . There's a lot good in In Which We Serve , but if you are expecting Coward bon mots , skip this film . Whatever else Coward was , he was one patriotic British citizen... |
394,793 | 2,483,625 | 52,415 | 10 | A Tale of Four Soldiers | I've always liked The Young Lions because it has the best explanation for the phenomenon that was Nazism in Germany . Always the question is asked how did they come to power ? At the beginning with Marlon Brando romancing vacationing Barbara Rush in Bavaria on New Year's Eve , he provides one of the most lucid explanat... |
394,465 | 2,483,625 | 78,718 | 10 | The Object Is After All , Justice | I doubt you will ever see as thorough an indictment of the American legal system as you are brought in the film And Justice For All . Too often the object of that legal system has been terribly lost in the process . This film has become my favorite Al Pacino role . I don't think he was ever better on the screen as Arth... |
393,590 | 2,483,625 | 43,265 | 10 | Love Isn't Just For the Young | The African Queen is a significant historical film in two respects . Along with King Solomon's Mines it was the first American film to show the real Africa to the American public . Previously our ideas about Africa were gleaned from studio backlot jungles created for Tarzan films and the like . The African Queen change... |
395,180 | 2,483,625 | 53,125 | 10 | War Is Hell , Even When It's A Cold One . | Following up on his two previous masterpieces , The Thirty Nine Steps and Saboteur ; Alfred Hitchcock put together his ultimate chase film with elements of both coming into Ernest Lehman's screenplay . I've seen figures that show in terms of box office and later video sales and rentals , North By Northwest was Hitchcoc... |
394,611 | 2,483,625 | 35,575 | 10 | Red White and Blue , Cagney for You | James Cagney won his only Oscar for his recreation of George M . Cohgan in Yankee Doodle Dandy . Already terminally ill , Cohan lived long enough to see the film and no doubt he would have approved of it because it sure is how he would like to have been remembered . In 1942 when Yankee Doodle Dandy premiered there was ... |
392,693 | 2,483,625 | 95,953 | 10 | The Yuppie And The Savant | The name of Babbitt has an old but not terribly honored name in American literature . George Babbitt was the creation of Sinclair Lewis as the the self seeking , hard striving archetypal middle class American whose interest is making money above all . If George Babbitt had a grandson he'd be Charlie Babbitt late of Cin... |
394,383 | 2,483,625 | 43,137 | 10 | The start of a beautiful partnership | My favorite movie genre is the western , it's really the only movie genre that is of American origin . And despite Sergio Leone , no one does them quite like Americans . Right at the top of my list of ten favorites westerns is Winchester 73 . It was the first pairing and only black and white film of the partnership of ... |
394,036 | 2,483,625 | 52,738 | 10 | Hiding from Horror | The film The Diary of Anne Frank is not taken directly from her world famous diary , but it is rather an adaption of a play based on that diary . The play was written by Frances Goodrich and Albert Hackett and it ran on Broadway from 1955 to 1957 for 717 performances . Three members of the original Broadway cast did th... |
396,571 | 2,483,625 | 25,878 | 10 | Sleuthing Among The Rich and Famous | Though five sequel films were made from this very popular original there are still to this day people who will answer the question who is the Thin Man with William Powell . The answer of course is Edward Ellis , an inventor whose disappearance gets a recently retired detective named Nick Charles to solving a case where... |
394,889 | 2,483,625 | 43,117 | 10 | Ben Johnson Only Draws on Snakes . | There's a unique place in the pantheon of John Ford films for Wagonmaster , Sergeant Rutledge , and The Sun Shines Bright . It was these three films with no box office names in them that Ford didn't have to tailor the film around the persona of a star being it John Wayne , Henry Fonda , or any of the others he worked w... |
395,489 | 2,483,625 | 43,014 | 10 | The Wild Roller-coaster of Fame | In many ways Sunset Boulevard is like the reverse side of the coin of A Star Is Born . In that film we have young Vicki Lester going through all the travails and heartache before achieving her goal of movie stardom . Sunset Boulevard is the reverse . A Star Is Born has its tragic figure in Norman Maine who commits suic... |
393,118 | 2,483,625 | 60,665 | 10 | Took His Catholicism Very Seriously | Sir Thomas More , a multi-talented man of letters and law , went to the executioner's block because he would not recognize a temporal king as head of his country's church . Though a friend of Henry VIII and his chancellor he was more afraid of offending God than the king . A man who took his Catholic faith quite seriou... |
393,460 | 2,483,625 | 25,316 | 10 | The Hero As Comedian | In his autobiography , The Name's Above the Title , Frank Capra said that until It Happened One Night drama had four stock characters , the hero , the heroine , the comedian , and the villain . What Capra did and you might notice he followed that in a whole lot of his films , the characters of hero and comedian are com... |
395,261 | 2,483,625 | 51,459 | 10 | Maggie the Cat is Alive | After a run of 694 performances on Broadway during the 1955-1956 season , Cat on a Hot Tin Roof made it to the big screen in 1958 , just in time for Elizabeth Taylor to get her second Best Actress nomination in two years . Unfortunately Liz was up against Susan Hayward for I Want to Live and nobody was beating Hayward ... |
393,302 | 2,483,625 | 36,244 | 10 | The Nobility of Conscience | I happen to see Henry Fonda years ago give a lecture and he mentioned that The Ox-bow Incident was one film he was very proud of . As well he should have been . It's a great , but very untypical western at least at the point in time it was made . Henry Fonda , half joking and half serious , said that he did a lot to pe... |
396,504 | 2,483,625 | 60,395 | 10 | Doing The Deed | I remember back in the day the big buzz about The Family Way was it marked the adult film debut of Hayley Mills . After years of doing fresh scrubbed Disney productions , Hayley was going to do an adult role . And the big news was , it was about SEX . But when they went to see The Family Way , what Hayley's fans got wa... |
396,792 | 2,483,625 | 106,079 | 10 | Will We Get More ? | Taking a lot from his previous cop drama Hill Street Blues , Steven Bochco fashioned in NYPD Blue one of the biggest television hits ever . It was the kind of show that even in its last days still wanted its fans begging for more . And we may yet get more , who knows . Two characters remained through the show's run and... |
394,876 | 2,483,625 | 44,829 | 10 | Run Dutch , Run | Ealing studios in Great Britain had a reputation for producing some very droll comedies in the post World War II years and this one was done when Ealing was at its height . Alec Guinness is once again playing a mild mannered schnook of a man who no one notices at all . In fact his own superiors at his job , tell him to... |
396,590 | 2,483,625 | 51,658 | 10 | Oh What Miracle Has Made You The Way You Are | The capstone of Arthur Freed's brilliant career as producer of some of the best musicals around was this film which sadly marked the end of the musical era on film . You could never produce something like Gigi directly for the screen because the talent wasn't under contract to any one studio . Nor would any studio take... |
393,923 | 2,483,625 | 71,562 | 10 | The Continuing Saga Of The Corleones | Although most movie sequels never equal the original this is certainly not the case of The Godfather : Part II . Many would argue it surpasses the original . With both films declared the Best Picture by the Motion Picture Academy in their separate years , I'd hate to argue the difference . In this case we should thank ... |
393,367 | 2,483,625 | 44,926 | 10 | John Huston's best film without Humphrey Bogart | I am second to none in my admiration for the acting of Jose Ferrer . A truly international star in every sense of the word , he effortlessly created characters of many nationalities . And one of the best is Henri Toulouse-Lautrec . The real test for me is that I am the last to claim any kind of art expertise , but I ca... |
396,946 | 2,483,625 | 94,484 | 10 | Taking Residence | 21 years after Rod Steiger won an Academy Award as gum chewing police chief Bill Gillespie of Sparta Mississippi and Sidney Poitier told the world that in his city , THEY CALL ME MISTER TIBBS , the film was adapted into a successful television series about the new American South . If you remember in the film Rod Steige... |
393,234 | 2,483,625 | 44,706 | 10 | Oh , To Be Torn Twixt Love And Duty | On Marshal Gary Cooper's wedding day to Grace Kelly , Lee Van Cleef , Sheb Woolley , and Robert J . Wilkie wait at the train station for the noon arriving train . It will be carrying their former gang leader , Ian McDonald who Cooper sent to prison and who's vowing vengeance . From the gitgo it's made abundantly clear ... |
393,412 | 2,483,625 | 44,789 | 10 | All right , so I'm flying blind , but I've got you as a bird dog . | Kansas City Confidential is one of my favorite noir films and films of John Payne . It's one you can watch over and over again and still be entertained . John Payne is a ex-con who drives a florist truck and one of his usual stops is a delivery next door to a bank . Three masked robbers use the same kind of truck to pu... |
395,533 | 2,483,625 | 51,383 | 10 | Growing Up With Auntie Mame | When his parents are killed , young Patrick Dennis now orphaned is delivered to the tender care of financial trust adviser banker Fred Clark and to the guardianship of his only living relation , his irrepressible Auntie Mame . I'm not sure that young Patrick played by Jan Handzlik would not have wanted a normal childho... |
395,561 | 2,483,625 | 71,315 | 10 | Jake Gittes , Right Up There With Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe | In Chinatown , Jack Nicholson gets one of his best roles , definitely in the top five as Jake Gittes , a throwback private eye to the forties of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe . Had Chinatown been made in the Forties Humphrey Bogart who played definitive versions of Sam Spade and Philip Marlowe would definitely have been... |
394,808 | 2,483,625 | 59,712 | 10 | Who Was That Ship's Biggest Fool ? | This is a film to be watched over and over again because something new can be seen in it on each viewing . This may very well be Stanley Kramer's masterpiece film . Kramer put together a perfectly cast group of international players and the wonderful thing about Ship of Fools is that even the tiniest roles are invested... |
395,231 | 2,483,625 | 52,002 | 10 | When Audie Comes To Call | In No Name on the Bulllet , Audie Murphy got to star in one of the most unusual and best westerns in his career when he was cast in this off beat tale of a hired killer . As John Gant , Audie reverses type and becomes a coldblooded , yet very philosophical hired killer . His modus operandi is simple . He gets hired by ... |
393,965 | 2,483,625 | 59,742 | 10 | One of Our Favorite Things | I was fortunate enough to see The Sound of Music on Broadway with the original cast minus Mary Martin , her part had been taken over by Martha Wright at that point . The production was good , but the thing I like best about The Sound of Music was how well Robert Wise transferred it to the screen . I defy anyone to show... |
394,225 | 2,483,625 | 59,749 | 10 | The Dirty Business of Espionage | The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is one of the few Richard Burton vehicles that he did without Elizabeth Taylor in the sixties . Some might argue it is the greatest film performance of his career and I'd be hard pressed to disagree . Taken from the John Le Carre novel , The Spy Who Came In From the Cold is a grim , re... |
393,515 | 2,483,625 | 36,775 | 10 | Anytime You Want A Husband Turned Into Cold Cash | Billy Wilder's cynical self came to public attention in this classic noir film about a luckless insurance salesman and one coldhearted dame . Double Indemnity skirted the very edges of Code morality and it took years before someone brought James M . Cain's novel to the screen . According to a book on Billy Wilder the c... |
395,031 | 2,483,625 | 95,082 | 10 | Commy's Chicago Chiselers | One of the best baseball films ever made was about the sport's darkest hour , the fixing of the 1919 World Series . Eight of the heavily favored members of the Chicago White Sox threw the World Series as a result of payoffs and bigger promises of payoffs to gambling interests . In the background of those interests was ... |
395,845 | 2,483,625 | 71,042 | 10 | Perfect Series Television | I'm of the opinion that The Rockford Files did nothing less than save James Garner's career . I yield to no one in my admiration for this man as an actor . I read somewhere that it was said of him he makes every thing he's in just a little bit better by being there . But it was clear that his movie career at the time h... |
395,939 | 2,483,625 | 44,413 | 10 | Survival | Bend of the River is the second Anthony Mann / James Stewart western and the first in technicolor . The technicolor is used to best advantage here with some great footage of the Columbia River and surrounding vicinity . And Mann used in support of Stewart , Jay C . Flippen , Harry Morgan , Arthur Kennedy and Rock Hudso... |
395,397 | 2,483,625 | 51,758 | 10 | A Role That Comes Along Once in a Lifetime | I Want to Live was a film from it's inception was guaranteed to create controversy . There are all kinds of opinions about the death penalty and it's application all over the world . Barbara Graham's story , so fresh in the minds of the movie going public in 1958 , was going to be a source of controversy . Did she actu... |
393,469 | 2,483,625 | 79,417 | 10 | The Love's No Longer There | Kramer vs . Kramer is the story of a marital breakup and the consequences of same . They can be devastating to the partners and even more so to a minor child which in this case is played by Justin Henry . What I really did like about Kramer vs . Kramer , it's greatest strength as a film is the way that parents Dustin H... |
395,306 | 2,483,625 | 70,735 | 10 | Working The Big Con | The Sting , evoking a bygone era of gangsters and con men , was the deserved Best Picture of 1973 . The Sting won that Oscar plus a whole flock of technical awards . One award it didn't win was for Robert Redford as Best Actor . That must have been tough for the Academy voters because to single out Redford as opposed t... |
394,806 | 2,483,625 | 44,081 | 10 | I've Always Depended On The Kindness Of Strangers . | When the history of American theater is written for the 20th Century the two most prominent names will be Eugene O'Neill and Tennessee Williams . Both men pushed the exploration of the human soul to the very limit in their work . Writing drama will never be the same because of the work of these two men . Williams's mas... |
394,397 | 2,483,625 | 33,028 | 10 | Errol at his best | My favorite Errol Flynn movie has always been The Sea Hawk . Flynn made this in 1940 at the height of his career . All it is missing is Flynn's usual screen partner in that period , Olivia DeHavilland . Errol Flynn plays the fictional privateer Geoffrey Thorpe who with the well known real characters like Drake , Frobis... |
396,919 | 2,483,625 | 50,569 | 10 | My first Sinatra film | When The Joker Is Wild first came out I saw it at the Nostrand Theatre in Brooklyn , New York . It was the best possible first exposure to Frank Sinatra . He is first rate in this biographical film about the life of Joe E . Lewis . Later on in his film career , Sinatra walked through a lot of roles , but not in this . ... |
394,482 | 2,483,625 | 28,249 | 10 | The Kind of Gentlemen It's A Pleasure to Wait on . | When we talk about adaptions of Show Boat for the screen , we talk first about this one and then the others . If for no other reason than it gives us a chance to see three of the original performers from the original Broadway cast , Charles Winninger , Helen Morgan , and Francis X . Mahoney . Their performances on stag... |
396,010 | 2,483,625 | 41,959 | 10 | Zither Thou Goest | The Third Man refers to another witness to a crime that no one seems to know anything about . The crime of course is the hit and run murder of Harry Lime played by Orson Welles . But is Welles dead . One of the things I like about The Third Man is that it makes a nominal hero out of one of the biggest bunglers ever put... |
395,431 | 2,483,625 | 120,338 | 10 | Maytime On The High Seas | Who says that old fashioned romantic films don't sell . They certainly do if they're done right as the story in Titanic certainly is . This blockbuster version of the most famous shipwreck in history is a homage to Maytime . In fact in casting Gloria Stuart as old Rose through whose eyes we see the disaster unfold , Di... |
395,193 | 2,483,625 | 103,125 | 10 | Friends Put to the Test | This is one of the finest political movies ever done . And if he doesn't decide to return to the screen post his 90th birthday , it is a fitting swan song to the career of Richard Widmark . James Spader's Tim Gerrity and John Cusack's Peter Burton meet on the first day of law school and get assigned to be roommates . T... |
394,629 | 2,483,625 | 912,583 | 10 | The Bible Tells Many Things | The sad thing about For The Bible Tells Me So is that the people who need to see this most are the ones who will be forbidden by their church to watch this very timely documentary . But for those who do get to see it they will be inspired and uplifted . As a gay 60 year old man who has lived in the last half of the las... |
396,144 | 2,483,625 | 50,371 | 10 | The Underside of John Doe | Just imagine if instead of rebelling against the new order of things that Edward Arnold planned for the country , Gary Cooper had collaborated and eventually took it over in Meet John Doe . Then you have some idea of what Elia Kazan was trying to say in A Face In The Crowd . A few years later there's no way on the plan... |
371,199 | 2,488,512 | 244,808 | 1 | The Worst Movie I Have Never Seen | A crazy scientist called Anton Lupesky develops a drug called Anphorium , which makes the soul leaves the body and enters in any corpse with eyes . It affects the nerve center , causing madness as side effect . I was able to watch exactly fifteen minutes of this crap . This thing is so awful that I was tempt to watch m... |
369,691 | 2,488,512 | 281,865 | 1 | Awful | Today I have lost about two hours of my Saturday afternoon watching this crap . This trash is so awful and ridiculous that does not deserve my review . It is enough to read the summary of other IMDb users : - No toilet bowl is large enough to hold the crap this movie produces - Avoid this movie at all costs - So Unfunn... |
371,586 | 2,488,512 | 303,645 | 1 | What Else Could I Expect ? | The librarian of the university Xenia ( Stefania Bonafede ) schedules a S & M blind date with the masochist Ghost ( Davide Devenuto ) to satisfy her fantasies and sexual desires . They spend the night in his apartment having kinky sex and on the next morning Ghost is dead with slashed throat . Xenia cleans her evidence... |
369,299 | 2,488,512 | 265,273 | 1 | I Was Induced to Buy and See This Crap Due to the Ilogical IMDb User Rating | This horrible action ? sci-fi movie is a crap . I have just spent 90 minutes of my life watching one of the worst movies I have ever seen . The story does not make any sense , there are lots of flaws in the screenplay , the characters are badly developed , the unknown cast is horrible , the lead ham actor seems to be t... |
370,631 | 2,488,512 | 756,689 | 1 | Awful Amateurish Crap | In the dusty little town of Furlough in Texas , an animal is slaughtering the cattle and the locals . When the teenager Tommy ( Michael Carreo ) is killed , their friends Anna Furlough ( Erika Fay ) , her Mexican-American boyfriend Miguel Gonzalez ( Gabriel Gutierrez ) , Jill Gillespie ( Sara Erikson ) and Rosie ( Mart... |
370,586 | 2,488,512 | 261,342 | 1 | An Awful Politically Incorrect and Sexist Crap | The narrator of a radio show called " Barulho na Cidade " ( " Noise in the City " ) tells five erotic episodes : ( 1 ) " Sexo Diferente " ( " Unusual Sex " ) : Carla dos Anzóis Pereira ( Malu ) writes a letter to the show , telling that her little husband Sérgio ( José Carlos Sanches ) is no longer sexually interested ... |
369,822 | 2,488,512 | 274,428 | 1 | I really wasted forty-three minutes of my life watching the first half of this crap | A Brazilian cable television is presenting " Yadon Ilaheyya " this month in its " Cult " channel . I saw the trailer and listened to the advertisement , and decided to see this movie . Indeed it is an absurd boring pretentious dumb pointless disconnected crap about the conflict in the Middle East , and together with " ... |
369,941 | 2,488,512 | 105,643 | 1 | One of the Worst Movies I Have Ever Watched | I read the comments of this ' thing ' ( can I call it movie ? ) not only in IMDb , but also in other video guides , and they were very consistent . I became curious and decided to spend my time and check whether it could be so bad : indeed , it is worse . What a ridiculous trash ' movie ' ! Certainly it is one of the w... |
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