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421,505 | 2,542,703 | 247,425 | 6 | In the Bedroom - Not in Any Part of the House | Tom Wilkinson gave a stupendous Oscar nominated performance in this 2001 film . He is the father of a young man who is killed by an insanely jealous husband . Trouble is that the young man was having an affair with an older woman . The heartbreak in Wilkinson's face is forever etched as he becomes a complex character d... |
421,327 | 2,542,703 | 381,849 | 6 | 3 : 10 To Yuma - You Can Afford Not to Be On Time for this One | Russell Crowe does not exactly sound western here as Ben Wade , an outlaw who is vicious and cunning . The movie becomes preachy at the end when Crowe and Christian Bale , who delivers a great performance , become too friendly . Does Crowe try to show he is a person with a conscience when he reveals at the end that his... |
421,150 | 2,542,703 | 53,716 | 6 | Cinderfella | The old story told with a twist . The sexes are reversed in this one . This time it's Jerry Lewis victimized by a wicked stepmother and her 2 hoodlum sons . Who else but Ed Wynn could play a fairy godfather ? Dame Judith Anderson , a veteran player of the wicked , is at it again but how can we expect this great lady to... |
420,629 | 2,542,703 | 44,751 | 6 | Invitation Could Have Been More Inviting | Routine film involving father Louis Calhern's over protective approach for his ailing daughter . Not only isn't she told that she has a year left to live , Daddy Calhern uses his wealth to marry her off to Dan Pierce . ( Van Johnson ) The film would have worked better had it not been for the Ruth Roman part of Maud , t... |
420,545 | 2,542,703 | 217,031 | 6 | Poor Ending Spoils Second to Die | Mystery . An engaging , interesting storyline is killed by a ridiculous ending . The story of a beautiful blond who does away with the image of a dumb blond by building a bomb to kill her husband . She had everything until they found out that wife # 1 killed herself and a few days later , their handicapped daughter sho... |
421,084 | 2,542,703 | 397,535 | 6 | No Memorable Memoirs Here | The tale begins in pre-war Japan with two children sent out by their parents . One is accepted into a place where Geishas are . The other is never heard from again . The film has been described as the best backstabbing film since " All About Eve . " How ridiculous that statement is . The latter film had memorable dialo... |
420,361 | 2,542,703 | 427,327 | 7 | Hairspray-Spray It but Don't Necessarily Say It | Top-notch dancing and singing still can't save a very disappointing " Hairspray . " While it is a feel-good movie , there are too many social problems dealt here in an unconvincing way . Travolta's performance as Baltimore laundress , Edna Turnblad , is disappointing at best . She really puts it on in an over-the-top p... |
420,613 | 2,542,703 | 47,811 | 7 | All that A Good Movie Allows | In honor of their 1954 hit , Magnificent Obsession , Hollywood decided to team Jane Wyman and Rock Hudson again for another tear-jerker . This one is All that Heaven Allows . Jane is a widow again who falls for the town gardener , nice played by Rock Hudson . Since Ron is much younger than the Wyman character , the tow... |
421,460 | 2,542,703 | 33,028 | 7 | Dovish on this Hawk | This film was not nearly as good as 1938's Errol Flynn classic - " Robin Hood . " As in the case with " The Sea Hawks , " this film also starred Claude Rains , Una O'Connor and Alan Hale . Rains , brilliant in ' Hood , ' was not given the lines here . While he is again cast in a villain role , he is not given the oppor... |
420,981 | 2,542,703 | 61,184 | 7 | This George and Martha Aren't First People | Bleak version of " Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf ? " Elizabeth Taylor sacrificed her good looks to portray Martha , the unhappy wife of a college professor . Taylor shouts across the scream with a vengeance . Her depiction of the wife traumatized by the death of their only child is a remarkable one and she was awarded... |
421,566 | 2,542,703 | 50,682 | 7 | Man on Fire - Give the Kid A Break ! | Definitely a forerunner to " Kramer vs . Kramer " with Bing Crosby starring as a father who has custody of his young son . His wife ( Mary Fickett ) divorced him years ago for a Washington political person . Crosby is a successful businessman who has a wonderful relationship with his son . Enter mom and her husband who... |
420,387 | 2,542,703 | 106,852 | 7 | Face the Music Doesn't Quite Make the Beat | To the other people who have evaluated this film : I have seen a lot worse . The story centers around a young couple who write and win an award for the best song in a film . While on the dais , the guy ( Patrick Dempsey ) , proposes marriage . You would think this would be the perfect ending . Rather , it's an imperfec... |
421,033 | 2,542,703 | 258,273 | 7 | Amazing and Lovely - The Plot Thickens | Brenda Blethyn does an American accent in this quirky film about a woman who has complications following cosmetic surgery . Blethyn plays a divorcée with two daughters in addition to an 8 year old black girl that she has adopted . While Blethyn worsens in the hospital , the story really takes off . Daughter Emily Morti... |
420,854 | 2,542,703 | 41,788 | 7 | The Red Danube-You'll Waltz Through This One | A very good piece of propaganda may best describe this 1949 film dealing with repatriation of people after World War 11 . Walter Pidgeon stars as the non-believer assigned to Rome and Vienna after the war . There he encounters the Mother Superior , played so well by Ethel Barrymore . The story concerns itself with Mari... |
421,156 | 2,542,703 | 35,279 | 7 | Sabateur Sabotages Itself At the Very End | Excellent Hitchcock thriller with Robert Cummings proving once again that he could really act up a storm . This time he is a defense plant worker caught up in a horrible plot when his best friend is killed at the plant . Priscilla Lane is the girl who suddenly becomes interested in Cummings as the plot thickens and he ... |
421,591 | 2,542,703 | 43,955 | 7 | Racket-No Foul Ball Here | Entertaining film with politics , crime and corruption the main themes here . Robert Mitchum plays a dedicated , righteous policeman who heads a unit of officers . He is as honest as 24 hours in a day . He takes pride in such officers as Bill Talman , a young cop gunned down in police headquarters by the usually evil R... |
420,575 | 2,542,703 | 65,088 | 7 | Thank the Lord they Don't Do this to Directors-Film Suffers from Its Period 12 | Yauzer , Yauzer . " They Shoot Horses , Don't They , ? " is only moderately successful in recreating the dance marathon of the 1930s during the depression years . Jane Fonda and Susannah York received well-deserved Oscar nominations for their portrayals as dance contestants eager to win the big prize for survival . As ... |
420,765 | 2,542,703 | 938,291 | 7 | A Stranger's Heart - Terms of Endearment ? | People are at a hospital awaiting donors so that they can have suitable heart transplants . It's New Year's Eve . You know what's exciting about that for them ? There may be traffic accidents due to drunk driving and therefore there will be brain dead people with available hearts . What a way to think but the people ar... |
421,529 | 2,542,703 | 70,510 | 7 | Paper Moon Proves that It's A Barnum & Bailey World | Depression era film with Ryan and Tatum O'Neil as two terrific con artists . How could Tatum have won for best supporting actress ? She is nearly every scene in the film and steals the show for sure . Amazing that she was able to beat out Madeleine Kahn's Trixie Delight in that category . You really get a feeling for t... |
421,339 | 2,542,703 | 91,167 | 7 | Hannah and Her Sisters Works Even Better if Woody Were Out | Woody Allen really had a great film here in 1986's " Hannah and Her Sisters . " The film deals with emotional relationships within a family . We see argumentative and temperamental parents whose 3 offspring daughters can be off the wall at times . Our relationships see affairs between the men in the family and their si... |
421,457 | 2,542,703 | 110,813 | 7 | Lethal Lifestyle Doesn't Need to Be Flamboyant | Hal Holbrook has always been a wonderful actor but we don't need a flamboyant Perry Mason . Raymond Burr was so good at the part as he made you feel that he was a real attorney . Holbrook does not . Even his name Wild Bill immediately suggests a western dude who dabbles in the law . The story line is good here . As alw... |
421,118 | 2,542,703 | 33,191 | 7 | Two Girls on Broadway-Only One Really Made It | Lana Turner proved that she could really dance up a storm in this 1940 charmer about the ultimate sacrifice that her sister ( Joan Blondell ) makes for her . When both sisters come to New York , they follow Blondell's beau , a wonderful George Murphy , in this film . As fate would have it , the director of the show is ... |
420,915 | 2,542,703 | 45,815 | 7 | Girl Next Door-Move in and Try It | Entertaining Dan Dailey and June Haver film . It's the story of a boy affected by his widower father's attachment to the woman who has moved next door . The singing , dancing and cartoon like sequence scenes are an absolute joy to watch . Dennis Day is wonderful here in a supporting role along with a very young looking... |
420,857 | 2,542,703 | 242,898 | 7 | South Pacific-Come to Me | Rodgers and Hammerstein's great music is the salvation of this 2001 movie . For starters , Glenn Close was too old to play Nellie . Her singing voice can't be compared to Mitzi Gaynor . Emile De Becque as played by the Rade person had no singing range at all . He was like dumbfounded in the part . Some good acting is d... |
420,930 | 2,542,703 | 33,253 | 7 | The Westerner-Cowboy with A Comedy Flair | There were some parts of The Westerner that brought me to laugh . Walter Brennan , who won his third Oscar , as Judge Roy Bean , made me laugh with his obsession with Lillian Langtry . That obsession would prove to be his undoing . Some of the dialogue is hackneyed . After punching Bean , Cole ( Gary Cooper ) tells oth... |
421,069 | 2,542,703 | 480,025 | 7 | This is England-Union Jack at its Worst | Here we go again . An 11 year old loses his dad in 1983 in the Falklands War . Bullied in school and very unhappy with his life , our young chap , who gives a wonderful performance , is recruited by a bunch of skin-headed losers . He resorts to violence . My criticisms of the film include his mother who scolds the grou... |
421,115 | 2,542,703 | 457,513 | 7 | Scoop This Vintage Woody Allen : Scoop | Woody Allen brings his vintage comedy in his 2006 film " Scoop . " We have classic lines here such as : " You know the Jewish people . If there is any hint of anti-semitism , they write letters . " Another beauty was : " Kids , you bring them up and then they tell you when they're grown that you have Alzheimer's . " St... |
420,577 | 2,542,703 | 56,687 | 7 | Whatever Did Happen to Baby Jane Hudson ? | As in anything she did , the late Bette Davis proved herself to be adept to horror . As the long-washed up child actress , Baby Jane Hudson , Davis pulled no punches in creating a memorable brilliant characterization which led to still another Oscar nomination . It is said that Davis was extremely disappointed when she... |
420,435 | 2,542,703 | 41,594 | 7 | Little Women Needs More Maturity | Even Louisa May Alcott would have been disappointed wih this 1949 remake . With her hoarse voice , June Allyson lacks the exuberance of Katharine Hepburn . Elizabeth Taylor is as sour at the beginning as can be . She is almost cruel and as self-centered as they come . Did it make sense to all that while her young siste... |
420,326 | 2,542,703 | 483,726 | 7 | Man of the Year - A Joke to the Chief ! | While watching this film , I was saying to myself that it would become better when it would become more serious . That is exactly what happened . The problem with the film is that we were stuck with Robin Williams ' corny jokes . He plays a comedian who seeks the presidency and by some fluke wins . As far as the fluke ... |
421,528 | 2,542,703 | 158,466 | 7 | Anne Wasn't As Green in this Finale | While entertaining , this film was disappointing for a trilogy . The innocence of youth has long been forgotten with the advent of World War 1 . Anne is thrust into a clock and dagger like atmosphere as the story takes on an espionage subject matter . The problem is that we really don't know for sure where the espionag... |
421,234 | 2,542,703 | 48,028 | 7 | East of Eden-Direction Really Unknown | Director Elia Kazan made " East of Eden " in 1955 . The story of a wayward youth , James Dean , who discovers that his mother-Jo Van Fleet , in a supporting Oscar win , is the head of a brothel . Van Fleet had abandoned husband Raymond Massey years before . Disturbed to begin with and so conflicted with this discovery ... |
420,425 | 2,542,703 | 841,046 | 7 | Dewey Cox Story Delivers | John C . Reilly does a credible job as a rock singer in this film . This movie is really a take-off on the problems of the 1950s musical singers of the Elvis Presley genre . We see a young marriage falling apart , drug abuse , rising to fame too quickly . Denny is never forgiven by his father due to the tragic death of... |
421,354 | 2,542,703 | 407,265 | 7 | Transamerica Transcends All | Oscar Nominee Felicity Huffman gives a wonderful performance in this film . Unhappy with life and unable to make decisions , this male wants a sex change operation . Before she can have it , she discovers that she fathered a child with a woman now deceased . The character meets the kid and the two travel cross country ... |
421,284 | 2,542,703 | 444,626 | 7 | Faith of My Fathers-John McCain-Man for All Seasons | Faithful biography depicting the life of Sen . John McCain as a prisoner of war during the Vietnam War . Coming from a strict military family , McCain is able to weather the storm on confinement and brutality of the North Vietnamese during the conflict . A weak student at the academy , McCain is backed up by his father... |
421,553 | 2,542,703 | 56,780 | 7 | Petticoat Junction - All Aboard ! | Hooterville , Petticoat Junction , Homer Bedloe , some of the names of people and places in this memorable 1960s series . Edgar Buchanan played Uncle Joe . To me , he was a reminder of the Kingfish in the old Amos ' N Andy series . Old , lazy and shiftless , Buchanan etched an unforgettable character who lived life the... |
421,495 | 2,542,703 | 54,601 | 7 | Dino and Susan - Fair Dynamic Duo | Move over Hilary Clinton and Condi Rice . You had Ada to contend with before your true political aspirations become known . Bo Gillis is running for governor . He is introduced to trollop Ada , and after a whirlwind romance , they wed . Ada is played by Susan Hayward , always at the top of her game . Even with her red ... |
420,335 | 2,542,703 | 43,590 | 7 | Go for Broke Tackles Prejudice | Japanese-Americans serving in the U . S . army during World War 11 is the central theme of this film . How ironic that this occurred while we were placing other Japanese-Americans in internment camps during this period . Van Johnson harbors prejudice as he chosen to shape these recruits up . While he runs into difficul... |
420,501 | 2,542,703 | 47,880 | 7 | The Big Knife - Not As Sharp As Razor's Edge | Drama with Jack Palance as a big movie star in big trouble . He killed a child in a hit-run accident and someone or someones are threatening to spill the beans . We have a top-rated cast here . Rod Steiger steals the show as a movie studio mogul out to destroy Palance if he doesn't sign that 7 year deal . Looks wise , ... |
420,433 | 2,542,703 | 770,772 | 7 | I Think I Love My Wife - 7 Year Itch Revisited | I have to admit that this film was better than the 7 Year Itch . It tells the story of a guy who is bored with his marriage and begins seeing a woman , a girl he knew from his high school years . Though nothing happens between them , his meetings with her , especially when she comes up to the office , begins to affect ... |
420,583 | 2,542,703 | 34,891 | 7 | The Ship Comes First | When " In Which We Serve " was made in 1942 , England was in the midst of its finest hour . We see a film of honor , devotion , and loyalty to the realm . It is basically the story of a boat being torpedoed and the flashbacks of 3 sailors aboard the doomed wreckage . Noel Coward , a brilliant talent , did not perform w... |
420,871 | 2,542,703 | 375,139 | 7 | A Place Called Home-Be It Ever So Humble | Ann-Margret definitely turns in a very good performance here as a widow living in a gorgeous mansion in the woods . Her eyesight is failing but she has undying memories of her husband who has been gone for 8 years . The husband's nephew and niece want to get the property to develop it and sell . Sounds like an awfully ... |
420,905 | 2,542,703 | 77,975 | 7 | Animal House - Is There A Psychiatrist in the House ? | Funny but over the top comedy highlighting college fraternities and the excesses that they will go to . The film was a springboard for the careers of Tom Hulce , Tim Matheson and Peter Riegert . It also gave us the comedic talents of John Belushi , but sadly we were only able to have him for four years after this film ... |
420,661 | 2,542,703 | 468,569 | 7 | Dark Knight-Joker and Others Go Wild | The film is good but is very much over-rated . The Daily News rated this movie . It is rather a as I shall try to explain . The acting is top-notch , especially Heath Ledger as the Joker and Aaron Eckhart , amazingly good as Harvey Dent , D . A . This is one film that is rare since good does not triumph over evil . Den... |
420,421 | 2,542,703 | 54,997 | 7 | Hustle Down the Road | The true feeling of the pool room and the people there are well depicted in " The Hustler . " The first half hour is rather tedious with Minnesota Fats ( Jackie Gleason ) and Fast Eddie ( Paul Newman ) hitting their strides at the pool table . Eddie is ahead by $11 , 000 but throws it all away . The story begins to rea... |
420,507 | 2,542,703 | 35,770 | 7 | Cry Havoc - A Cry for Our Beloved Country | Needless to say , this war-time drama is gritty every step of the way . The big surprise here is the toughness of the part given to Ann Sothern . She certainly sheds her " Panama Hattie " way as well as comedic gifts in giving a very good performance as a no-nonsense volunteer among a group of women volunteering their ... |
421,283 | 2,542,703 | 32,049 | 7 | Tower of London-Dark Ending Battle Scenes Spoils It's All Killing in the Family | Basil Rathobone has a field day as the Duke of Gloucester . This madman , with his hidden figurines of the family he wants to kill one by one , is absolutely diabolically brilliant in his performance . The part was tailor made for him and once again proved that he was the master of evil . Equally impressive here is the... |
421,315 | 2,542,703 | 988,595 | 7 | 27 Dresses Wears Well | Quirky romantic comedy starring Katherine Heigl who helps prepare other women as they walk down the aisle , only to have an inability to land the right guy for herself . She has her eyes on her boss only to lose him to her beautiful sister . She keeps putting off a newspaper writer but of course the two ultimately find... |
420,823 | 2,542,703 | 454,848 | 7 | Inside Man-The Bank Robbery that Never Was ? | The film starts off as another " Dog Day Afternoon , " and for those of you who remember , " Violent Saturday . " Yes , a bank is allegedly robbed and hostages are taken . Something is terribly wrong when the chief inspector , Denzel Washington , provokes the gang leader , Clive Owen to shoot one of the hostages . Ther... |
420,829 | 2,542,703 | 364,603 | 7 | Plain Song Not Exactly Missing Themes | Interesting but too many plots bring this film down . We have a teacher who is pressured to pass a miserable child so that they can get him out of the school despite the fact that the brat assaulted the teacher . The teacher ( Aidan Quinn ) has a wife who has left him , apparently suffering from depression and has gone... |
421,482 | 2,542,703 | 47,279 | 7 | Say Good Night to Night People | It seems that someone pulled the plug on 1954's " Night People . " There is a very good plot here about a young American soldier being kidnapped by the Communists in post-World War 11 East Germany . Broderick Crawford , in his usual tough no nonsense portrayals , comes to Berlin to make sure that no one is goofing off ... |
421,089 | 2,542,703 | 332,047 | 7 | Pitch One For Fever Pitch | Jimmy Fallon and Drew Barrymore sparkle in this delightful comedy about comedy and baseball . Instilled with the love of the Boston Red Sox from childhood , Fallon grows up to become a high school math teacher . He brings his students to a company where Miss Barrymore works and the two fall instantly in love . It's a s... |
420,669 | 2,542,703 | 51,083 | 7 | Time Limit - Limit the Preaching Please | When you see this film's first scene , you think you are going to see " The Manchurian Candidate . " The first scene deals with apparent brain-washing . Richard Widmark is cast in his usual role as an attorney . Apparently , he got good experience in this part for several years later he was absolutely mesmerizing in " ... |
421,255 | 2,542,703 | 997,278 | 7 | My Neighbor's Keeper - We've Seen This All Before | 2 couples who knew each other from college days and lived across the street from each other in suburbia are traumatized when on Halloween night , one of the wives is killed . She is the one with the adorable two children . Right away we feel that something is funny because the other friend is childless and is desperate... |
420,954 | 2,542,703 | 326,905 | 7 | Great Raid Does Justice to the Big Screen | Very good telling of a raid led to free American prisoners of war in the Philippines at the end of World War 11 . The Japanese are depicted for their savage treatment of American prisoners . We see random shootings and other atrocities committed by a military induced society . The characters are not given the opportuni... |
420,720 | 2,542,703 | 399,295 | 7 | Lord of War - . . . And to think It All Began in Brighton Beach , Brooklyn | Nicolas Cage gives an admirable performance in this film as a Ukrainian émigré seeking a better life for himself in Brooklyn . The family came here pretending to be Jewish so as to get out of the old Soviet Union faster . It is true that Russian Jews intermarried among Jews so as to leave the Soviet Union but carrying ... |
421,278 | 2,542,703 | 102,653 | 7 | Perfect Harmony - Love of Music Doesn't Cure Racism | The song goes that I'd love to teach the world to sing in perfect harmony . Unfortunately , in the area of racism and segregation , perfect harmony has yet to be achieved . This film takes place in a South Carolina elite private school for boys in 1959 , when segregation was the in-thing down south . The school suppose... |
420,783 | 2,542,703 | 24,465 | 7 | Power & the Glory - The Glory that Power Didn't Bring | A real sudsy soap opera here as Spencer Tracy tackles the role of an illiterate until the age of 20 . He marries the woman who teaches him and her ambition and his drive leads him to success . Success but no happiness here . A n'eer-do-well son and a faltering marriage leads to disaster and tragedy . Tracy buys a railr... |
420,872 | 2,542,703 | 39,850 | 7 | Song of Love Shall Fill Your Heart | Beautiful music is the highlight of this nice 1947 film dealing with the lives of Robert and Clara Schumann . Katharine Hepburn gives a restrained , but compelling performance as Clara , the woman who gave up a promising career to marry Schumann and subsequently have 7 children with him . The early scenes are comic vie... |
420,542 | 2,542,703 | 57,090 | 7 | Gather Your Rosebuds-Human Element Shines | Forget the technical aspects of explaining what the function of these fliers are . It was a tedious explanation at the beginning of the flick and was as confusing as Price Waterhouse's explanation of voting procedures at the Oscars each year and as boring and difficult as Ethel Weintraub's chemistry class at Erasmus Ha... |
420,955 | 2,542,703 | 39,881 | 7 | T-Men Make Sure You Infiltrate this Film | Two treasury agents infiltrate a dangerous gang of counterfeiters in this exciting 1947 film . The two are able to be accepted by the gangsters due to excellent detective and preparation on their parts . The heartbreaking scene where one of them was killed was skillfully done . The camera image of Dennis O'Keefe , afte... |
421,374 | 2,542,703 | 47,537 | 7 | Student Prince - Was Wallace Warfield Simpson Viewing this ? | I always thought that Mario Lanza did not get the lead role as he was too heavy at the time the film was made . Edmond Purdom does an excellent dubbing of Lanza and of course , Ann Blyth is terrific as the bar-maid , singing beautifully , although she will lose her love at the end . While viewing this film , I naturall... |
420,594 | 2,542,703 | 39,892 | 7 | That Hagen Girl - Another Illegitmacy themed movie | . . . And I thought I would be seeing a light-hearted comedy . Boy , was I in for a rude awakening . Believe it or not , Ronald Reagan gives a fairly good performance as a man who it is rumored fathered an illegitimate child . Nice to see Shirley Temple all grown up in her mature role as the illegitimate one . Naturall... |
420,367 | 2,542,703 | 29,949 | 7 | Brother Rat is Quite An Unusual Rodent | This is awfully good comedy with Wayne Morris stealing the show as a Virginia cadet who leads Eddie Albert and Ronald Reagan into one situation after another . The Albert character is too dull here . I expected him to break out . Henry O'Neill is excellent as the corporal up to his neck with the wily three . Nice to ha... |
421,170 | 2,542,703 | 345,591 | 7 | Love Comes Softly Experiments With New Theme | The film is a good one as it deals with a new theme in a very serious way . The theme being that people , who have lost their mates , marry at once , to provide for surviving children and to ease their loneliness . We saw such sociological occurrences after the Holocaust when lonely survivors in displacement camps wed ... |
420,672 | 2,542,703 | 893,493 | 7 | Lost Behind Bars-The Obvious isn't What You Think | Interesting film about a reporter with her camera man . They are both doing a documentary about condemned prisoners and come across someone waiting for execution who is really innocent . Unfortunately , they are working with a town who can't wait for the execution to take place as well as a head detective who is hostil... |
420,519 | 2,542,703 | 35,379 | 7 | Star Spangled Rhythm - Let's Hear it for Paramount | Paramount produced a cavalcade of stars in this traditional World War 11 patriotic film dealing with the situations that ensue when an attendant at Paramount Studios tries to impress his navy son by claiming that he is a studio mogul . Naturally , this evolves into situations too numerous to speak of here . Victor Moor... |
421,551 | 2,542,703 | 33,409 | 7 | Blues in the Night Well Paced , Fast Action | Interesting film by director Anatole Litvak creating film-noir with a musical . Two future excellent directors , Richard Whorf , who bore a strong resemblance to Robert Taylor , and Elia Kazan star . Kazan was also in Litvak's 1940 film " City for Conquest . " The picture has an excellent cast . A group of musicians le... |
420,804 | 2,542,703 | 497,116 | 7 | No Electoral College Needed Here - Gore Wins for the Environment | The inconvenient truth here is that Al Gore lost the 2000 election here . The country has been worse for that ever since . The documentary is well done . Gore points to the dangers of carbon monoxide emissions and there is some political gibes given by the former Vice President as well when we see former President Bush... |
421,085 | 2,542,703 | 388,795 | 7 | Brokeback Mountain When the Marlboro Man Goes Gay | Heath Ledger , in the lead role , takes on the character that would have been ideal for Paul Newman had Hollywood been allowed to make such a film years ago . Ledger is definitely the new Paul Newman . In many ways , he reminded me of the great star's performance in " Hud . " Even the way he wore his cowboy hat was sim... |
420,576 | 2,542,703 | 375,679 | 7 | Crash Survives and Makes the Grade | This is not a film that will promote racial understanding but it certainly shows what can happen when we don't do this . " Crash " really refers to the cultural differences within the framework of a system that may very well be against us from our date of birth . There is redemption and miracles depicted here . The fil... |
420,370 | 2,542,703 | 1,069,242 | 7 | Racing for Time-Running and Discipline ; Who was that Repeater ? | Even in this good film , it is admitted that the girls are worse than the boys . Incorrigible girls at a correctional facility are given the opportunity to form a relay team so as to promote responsibility , discipline and team cohesiveness . Charles S . Dutton , as Stackhouse , stars in this film . The movie has one o... |
420,355 | 2,542,703 | 395,495 | 7 | Catch and Release Explores New Founded Relationships | Interesting film where Jennifer Garner finds out that her fiancé , who has died unexpectedly , led a very different life than what she could have ever envisioned . The guy was a millionaire who had a one night stand with Juliette Lewis and was supporting the child from this alleged liaison . This story is basically dea... |
420,595 | 2,542,703 | 42,771 | 7 | Mystery Street is A Taut Thriller | Jan Sterling is a pick up lady who is pregnant . When she calls the father , he blows her away in a secluded area . Problem is that Marshall Thompson is on a drunken binge following the death of his son during childbirth . Sterling lures Thompson into his car and then steals it . When she is killed , the killer ditches... |
420,949 | 2,542,703 | 37,954 | 7 | A Good Picture for A Land Once Called Burma | Errol Flynn left his swashbuckling image to star in this interesting film about a group of soldiers in India assigned to blow up a Japanese radar station in Burma . While they succeed in their objective , the film focuses on their attempts to flee the jungle area . Flynn is impressive as a commander and George Tobias d... |
421,571 | 2,542,703 | 452,594 | 7 | The Break Up is Certainly Hard to Do | Vince Vaughn and Jennifer Aniston star and deliver clever performances in this romantic comedy of two people who love each other a lot , but just can't live with each other . Annoying families and friends help to bring on the inevitable break up . The film deals with the ramifications for others brought on when the two... |
421,463 | 2,542,703 | 44,953 | 7 | This Spurs Us On for More | James Stewart in a classical psychological western of greed and ambition . As a bounty hunter , Stewart meets up with a released Army vet ( Ralph Meeker ) and an aging saddle tramp , the last role of Millard Mitchell , who died in the year this film came out . Robert Ryan is the usual villain here . Janet Leigh portray... |
421,569 | 2,542,703 | 27,214 | 7 | . . . More like The Whole Town is Mistaken | John Ford directed this 1935 comedy . Edward G . Robinson has an absolute field-day in a double role portraying a plain , introverted office worker who is mistaken for a major gangster . The fun begins when the gangster breaks out of jail and the usually hilarious Donald Meek identifies our poor worker . Jean Arthur co... |
421,644 | 2,542,703 | 45,016 | 7 | Paula-Speak Up Loretta-Morally Correct to Do | Loretta Young loses her baby and is told in the hospital that she will never be able to have children . Dr . Alexander Knox , who was so brilliant in " Wilson " tells her this . She is married to college dean Kent Smith . The latter never had much sex appeal or appeal of a leading man in any of his pictures . While dri... |
420,883 | 2,542,703 | 60,186 | 7 | Boy , Did I Enjoy this Wrong Number | A real Bob Hope farce is the 1966 film , " Boy , Did I Get A Wrong Number . " A businessman ( Hope ) gets a wrong number and it turns out to be that of a hot-tempered actress ( Ilke Sommer ) who seems to have a love-hate relationship with her lover-director , a very handsome Cesare Danova . During a major spat , she ru... |
420,907 | 2,542,703 | 404,203 | 7 | People Who Live in Glass Houses . . . Little Children | People who live in glass houses should not throw stones . This is essentially the theme of this absorbing film . The town obviously looks at dismay at a convicted child molester who has been released . This is well shown at the pool scene when parents rush to get their children out when the molester ( an engaging Jacki... |
421,636 | 2,542,703 | 1,403,260 | 7 | Unstable-Not An Unstable Moment Here | Thriller about a new bride who has had mental problems . She weds a bank teller and the fun really begins . Megan and Woody are our lovely couple . Unfortunately , not exactly lovely . When I saw this film , the 1944 hit " Gaslight " with Ingrid Bergman and Charles Boyer immediately came to mind . This new film succeed... |
420,995 | 2,542,703 | 27,300 | 7 | Anthony Adverse - Anatomy of a Film on a Downward Spiral | Anthony Adverse was nominated for best picture of 1936 ! This is really hard to believe . What's even more difficult to fathom is that Gale Sondergaard was voted best supporting actress for her portrayal of Faith Paleologus , a vicious , cunning , sinister woman . This was Sondergaard's first film and she would begin h... |
420,745 | 2,542,703 | 869,019 | 7 | Candles on Bay Street - Light A Prayer for It | Hallmark Channel seems to have recurring themes in their films . Someone always returns home either for romancing a widower , coming to grips with a bitter relationship with a parent , or as in the case with this tear jerker , Alicia Silverstone comes home to leave this earth as she is suffering from terminal cancer . ... |
420,309 | 2,542,703 | 39,938 | 7 | Unfinished Dance - Memorable , But Where's the Punishment ? | Margaret O'Brien is charming and Danny Thomas made his film debut in " The Unfinished Dance . " Why Danny was good here , the part was tailor-made for another Danny-Danny Kaye . A little girl loves the ballet and aspires to be a ballerina . Her favorite ballerina ( Cyd Charisse ) has her career threatened by Mlle . Dar... |
421,183 | 2,542,703 | 78,886 | 7 | Today You Can Walk on The Boardwalk | A frightening look at a once thriving neighborhood which becomes the subject of decay . Veteran pros Lee Strasberg and Ruth Gordon are a married couple who live in Brighton Beach , Brooklyn and are literally terrorized by the gangs there . It was nice to see the wonderful Lillian Roth attempting a comeback in this film... |
421,281 | 2,542,703 | 114,059 | 7 | When The Other Woman Was Really Needed | The way this film starts out , you would swear that we're in for murder and mayhem . James Read has divorced Tessa ( Jill Eikenberry ) . The marriage produced 2 children . He has wed Laura Leighton , a young sexy model . Tessa is fuming and you think something is going to happen . Something happens all right . Tessa is... |
421,526 | 2,542,703 | 46,935 | 7 | Drive A Crooked Rode Hits Right Path | Hell hath no fury like a man scorned . Mickey Rooney starts out as if he is a Danny Kaye milque-toast character . Taken in by Diane Foster , he soon meets up with 2 guys who want his driving talent to be used in there robbing a bank . Rooney is great here as he goes from a quite guy , afraid of really living to aiding ... |
421,187 | 2,542,703 | 901,693 | 7 | Staircase Murders - Watch Your Step Please | Treat Williams gives another excellent performance in this true story about a supposedly successful writer on trial for the murder of his second wife . Did he or didn't he kill her by the staircase and make it look like an accidental drunken fall ? Williams does best when he is the victim of accusations . His sinister ... |
421,357 | 2,542,703 | 408,306 | 7 | Don't Give Israel Guilt Feelings | While I rated this film we are given a depiction of typical Jewish guilt . This deals with revenge by Israel following the Munich Massacre of 1972 . Along with Steven Spielberg are Janusz Kaminski , his cinematographer , and John Williams for musical scoring . These people worked with Spielberg in the Oscar winning " S... |
420,494 | 2,542,703 | 49,120 | 7 | Dance With Me Henry A Tribute to Great Comedy Team | While this 1956 film isn't a masterpiece , it's no slouch either as it showcases for the last time the talent of Abbott and Costello together as a comedy team . Running an amusement park , Abbott is up to his ears in debt and is beholden to the mob . Costello has 2 adopted children , a character of a social worker play... |
421,328 | 2,542,703 | 64,418 | 7 | Hello Dolly-Music for A Yenta | Though she was definitely far too young for the part of Dolly Gallagher Levi , Barbra Streisand shines in the part because of that golden voice allowing her to express the story going forward . What makes this film even better was on the constant off-screen bickering between Streisand and Walter Matthau , who portrays ... |
420,346 | 2,542,703 | 465,417 | 7 | Living With the Enemy - With Husbands Like This | A beautiful Sarah Lancaster stars in this unusual movie . Mr . Humphrey ( Philip Lauder ) shows a profile similar to John Edwards . As an assistant to an executive , Allison finds the love of her life - any woman would find this handsome hunk a gem , as he is a billionaire . His firm , Cobalt , is amazing . After a day... |
420,325 | 2,542,703 | 119,670 | 7 | The Mighty-King Arthur To the Rescue | Two outcasts find friendship and a way out of their difficult lives in 1998's " The Mighty . " A young lad with a physical problem befriends a learning disabled young man whose mother was killed by an insane father . They live through the book of King Arthur and the knights of the round table . This book enables them t... |
420,941 | 2,542,703 | 44,431 | 7 | Bloodhounds Has A Fairly Good Smell Over Broadway | Mitzi Gaynor and Scott Brady starred in this 1952 Damon Runyon tale involving gangsters and some good people . When Brady is returning from Florida , as the heat from the commission investigating him has been turned off , he runs into Georgia hick Mitzi Gaynor . Feeling sorry for her , this bookie brings her back to Ne... |
420,866 | 2,542,703 | 52,561 | 8 | Anatomy of an Oscar Loser | A good film but certainly not in the same league as the Oscar winner for best picture of 1959 , " Ben-Hur . " Other nominees included " The Nun's Story , " as well as " The Diary of Anne Frank , " and also " Room at the Top . " These superior films were better . Nonetheless , we have an excellent courtroom drama about ... |
421,388 | 2,542,703 | 480,242 | 8 | Dan in Real Life Brings Family Life Home | Steve Carell proves that he is quite an up and coming versatile actor . In this interesting film , he plays a widowed newspaper writer with 3 children . They're invited to his parents ' house for a family weekend and mayhem ensues . Obviously , his children are precocious . One already is quite serious with her boyfrie... |
420,570 | 2,542,703 | 35,250 | 8 | Reunion in France-Joan Dresses Up in Occupied France | Interesting film with Joan Crawford caught up in occupied France during World War 11 . A young dashing John Wayne is terribly miscast as a flier in this film . Phil Dorn , who was memorable 6 years later in " I Remember Mama , " plays Crawford's love interest here . The two of them spend the film deceiving the Nazis . ... |
420,477 | 2,542,703 | 493,361 | 8 | Pleasure Perfect | This film is highly predictable but is most interesting for the sullen performance by Adam Arkin . He is so glib that it's hard to believe that he is a sociopath and has killed his two wives . We know he is guilty but the plot here is how is going to be revealed as the killer ? Unfortunately , for him , his second wife... |
421,122 | 2,542,703 | 39,054 | 8 | Two Sisters from Boston Rates | Nice turn of the century film where Kathryn Grayson comes to N . Y . to sing in a joint . Her presence there threatens a scandal in her native Boston as her uncle is the Republican candidate for mayor of the town . He comes with his wife to investigate and the fun starts . June Allyson is her sister and Jimmy Durante ,... |
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