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421,525 | 2,542,703 | 43,949 | 8 | Quo Vadis ? Translation Please | No one has ever bothered to translate into English the meaning of the title . Is it what's wrong ? The film is really mostly spectacle . The scenes of Rome burning were greatly handled . Peter Ustinov gave a magnificent performance as Nero . He totally captured the part . Just watching his facial expressions were a joy... |
421,100 | 2,542,703 | 50,560 | 8 | This Eagle Soars-Jeanne Eagels | Very good film with Kim Novak and Jeff Chandler giving two very good performances . Agnes Moorehead gives fine support as an imperious drama coach who turns into a real human being . The story , well done , is the usual of a woman climbing to fame but allowing it to go to her head with alcoholism and drug addiction occ... |
421,197 | 2,542,703 | 405,159 | 8 | To Train or Not to Train | Clint Eastwood directed this Oscar-winning film debating the above question . Should he or shouldn't he train a woman for fighting in the ring ? Am sure he knew that he made the wrong decision . Hilary Swank , his Million Dollar Baby fighter , won an Oscar for her brutally realistic efforts as a fighting heroine whose ... |
421,258 | 2,542,703 | 43,879 | 8 | On Dangerous Ground is On Level | Routine plot dealing with a hardened police officer ( Robert Ryan ) who finds love with a blind woman . The woman , portrayed in another terrific performance by Ida Lupino , has a brother who is suspected in the killing of a young girl . Ryan is a hard-bitten officer who strongly believes in beating up criminals to obt... |
420,654 | 2,542,703 | 41,955 | 8 | That Forsyte Woman Sparkles | Interesting film and a total change of pace for Errol Flynn , playing an erudite gentleman who is as nasty as can be . He literally forces Greer Garson into a loveless marriage and of course she looks to be loved . For a change , her usual movie partner , Walter Pidgeon , takes on a supporting role and is totally subor... |
420,267 | 2,542,703 | 35,093 | 8 | Mrs . Miniver | An Oscar winning performance by Greer Garson highlights this 1942 classic of a British family caught up in the Nazi bombings of England during World War 11 . While each member of the family is looked at , the center of attention is always focused on Mrs . Miniver . We see the annual Garden contest and English people tr... |
420,299 | 2,542,703 | 47,736 | 8 | Those Guns , those Guys , that Gal | Gunsmoke was an amazing show because the cast was like one big happy family . Marshall Dillon epitomized what decency meant to us . A fair and compassionate man , Dillon knew what he was up against when the dregs of society rode into town . We had Festus , with his memorable limp and Amanda Blake's Miss Kitty , a dan... |
421,548 | 2,542,703 | 26,121 | 8 | Black Fury - Incisive Labor Film | The fabulous Paul Muni gives another wonderful performance in this 1935 film . With a genuine Slavic accent , Muni is superb as a coal miner who loses his girl ( Karen Morley ) to a company Policeman and goes on a drinking binge as a result . It is at this point that a gangster organization tries to create chaos within... |
421,450 | 2,542,703 | 110,812 | 8 | Grimaces Are Fine Here-Case of Grimacing Governor Merits | Hal Holbrook was far better here than in a previous episode . Why ? He actually tackles a case in the style of Perry Mason . Raymond Burr would have been very proud . This time he really doesn't let his personal life interfere in his conduct of this case involving the demise of a gubernatorial candidate and the governo... |
421,419 | 2,542,703 | 28,313 | 8 | Where's the Pasteurization ? Story of Louis Pasteur | While Paul Muni does an admirable acting job here , this was certainly not one of his best performances . He was far better in " The Life of Emile Zola " as well as " Juarez " and " The Last Angry Man . " The film discusses Pasteur's battles with anthrax and rabies . It's amazing that pasteurization is not discussed . ... |
420,723 | 2,542,703 | 41,948 | 8 | Task Force is Up to Par | Gary Cooper and Jane Wyatt shine in this 1949 film about the history of aviation in warfare . The picture begins in 1922 when carriers were just getting started . The picture is at its best when we see the early American isolationism that evolved after World War 1 . Gary Cooper is in fine form as the pilot who is banis... |
420,808 | 2,542,703 | 1,038,905 | 8 | Custody - Gain Control Over this | Interesting film where an English professor , who is widowed , is forced to come to grips with the past when his daughter's real father suddenly shows up after 13 years . Seems that the real father walked out on his pregnant wife and she divorced him to marry the professor . Unfortunately , she dies of cancer at 36 . O... |
421,198 | 2,542,703 | 352,248 | 8 | Cinderella Man and His Princess 12 | Cinderella Man beautifully captures the depression era when despair was constant and hope was nothing more than a dream . That dream is Jim Braddock ( Russell Crowe ) who captures the character . His talk , his walk , his style in the ring are all picture-perfect . You root for they guy because he is an underdog , a ... |
420,656 | 2,542,703 | 34,961 | 8 | Lady is Willing and So Should You in Seeing this Film | Wonderful 1942 film with Marlene Dietrich as a Broadway star who finds a baby and marries a pediatrician so that she can keep the baby . Of course , the story deals with them finding their way to love eventually as well as the situations they encounter such as phony parents showing up to take the child , and the doctor... |
420,701 | 2,542,703 | 332,379 | 8 | New Methodology of Teaching Rocks | If you're the conventional guy or gal , forget this picture . If you aren't , sit back and enjoy . A failed rocker goes into substitute teaching in an elite private school . He has a dream class and throws out the curriculum to teach them all about rock music including performing it . Forget the fact that it takes almo... |
421,041 | 2,542,703 | 120,794 | 8 | Prince of Egypt - The Exodus Returns | Retelling of the classic exodus tale but this time it is set in animation . Ralph Fiennes is getting quite a reputation . First , as Amon Goeth , in " Schindler's List , " and now as Ramses , the pharaoh who wouldn't let the children of Israel depart from Egypt . Gone from this production is Nefertiti as well as the He... |
421,256 | 2,542,703 | 418,689 | 8 | Flag this One Down-Flags of Our Fathers | Interesting story of those service men during World War 11 who hoisted the American flag at Iwo Jima . Trouble is that some who deserved credit for this fete got it , while the opposite was true of others . The greater part of the film is the War Bond Tour that our alleged heroes made . There is a terrific supporting p... |
420,769 | 2,542,703 | 65,314 | 8 | Mary Tyle Moore Really Got Support | You're going to make it on your own was part of the theme song for this hit 1970s sit-com . Luckily , for Mary Tyler Moore , she made it because of an outstanding supporting cast . Moore's dead-pan humor could become dull many times . You would actually be anticipating something occurring . When would it finally come... |
420,922 | 2,542,703 | 39,308 | 8 | Deep Valley is Deep in My Heart | A greatly subdued Ida Luppino gives another wonderful performance as a backwoods girl suffering with a nasty father and mother who has been long suffering as a result of his abuse . Luppino does an excellent job as the girl who stutters to her frustrations in life . She falls for Dane Clark , who is a prisoner and esca... |
421,640 | 2,542,703 | 308,055 | 8 | Bobby - Should Have Kept Bobbin ' Along | Film detailing the problems confronting the U . S . in 1968 and that fateful day and night at the Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles , where Robert F . Kennedy was shot and killed after winning the California primary . The film deals with a variety of characters and situations at the Ambassador . The film also mirrors the... |
420,824 | 2,542,703 | 184,799 | 8 | Ordinary Miracles Isn't Exactly Like That | The Conservatives must have had a field day in bashing this movie where a liberal judge takes home a foster girl who just about everyone has given up on . The story is the relationship that develops between both of these people , while the girl's miserable boyfriend encourages her to steal jewelry from the judge so tha... |
421,143 | 2,542,703 | 50,347 | 8 | Edge of the City Keeps You on Edge | A skillfully directed film by Martin Ritt where a drifter and anti-hero , John Cassevetes lands in N . Y . to escape a tragic incident in his life , where he killed his brother in an automobile accident as well as going AWOL from the army . Cassavetes , always an intense actor , shows grit in his portrayal of a film . ... |
420,763 | 2,542,703 | 1,217,590 | 8 | An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving Is Just that in Nature | The warm family relationships that abound in this production makes the movie an appealing one . Taking place after the civil war , it chronicles the life of a widow with 3 children who are poverty stricken . The eldest daughter , a writer with a great imagination , concocts a story that ultimately draws their wealthy g... |
421,550 | 2,542,703 | 39,208 | 8 | Boomerang Makes A Sharp Turn | Interesting cast makes this 1947 film intriguing . Elia Kazan directs this complex drama regarding the shooting of an elderly priest on the street . The weakness here was that the reason why the culprit killed the man of the church was never fully adequately explained . Nice to see Karl Malden and Lee J . Cobb in this ... |
420,505 | 2,542,703 | 120,642 | 8 | A Cool , Dry Place is An Effective Place to Be | Guess what , Vince Vaughn can really act and it is about time that he be used more in mature subject matters . He is quite effective here in the role of a father who is forced to take care of his little boy when the wife and mother goes off to her sister's engagement party and never returns after 18 months . While the ... |
421,027 | 2,542,703 | 415,949 | 8 | Keeping Up With the Steins-A Return to Basic Jewish Bar Mitzvahs | This comedy hits it right on the head detailing that the idea of the Bar Mitzvah in the Jewish religion has been long-lost . Rather , it has become the elaborate parties that families engage in to outdo one another . Such as the case with this film . In addition to the obvious plot , we are subjected to an estranged re... |
420,858 | 2,542,703 | 866,438 | 8 | Love is Even Better than 4 Letters Here | A very satisfying comedy film featuring a girl and guy who meet at the wedding of their best friends . They are truly a perfect match for each other until they walk into court as divorce attorneys handling the opposite side of a divorce case . The film deals with how their handling of the case affects their relationshi... |
421,139 | 2,542,703 | 32,981 | 8 | This Night is Worth Remembering - Remember the Night | 4 years before the memorable " Double Indemnity , " Fred MacMurray first teamed with Barbara Stanwyck in " Remember the Night . " The story is typical Preston Sturgis-people meeting in unusual circumstances and falling in love . In this one , MacMurray prosecutes Stanwyck for shoplifting , and since it's Christmas time... |
421,106 | 2,542,703 | 43,560 | 8 | 14 Hours Very Good But Didn't He Have to Use the Bathroom ? | Richard Basehart was absolutely fabulous here as we feel his nervousness , his detachment from life , his hopelessness , and other problems . Paul Douglas , as the cop who Basehart is able to talk to , is great here . Ironically , in so many films Douglas always played the loud-mouthed person you could never count on t... |
421,413 | 2,542,703 | 446,769 | 8 | Reading Room Fairy Tales Should Come True | This is a very nice film for people who aren't part of any educational system . Certainly , this is the way it is supposed to be . When an affluent African-American becomes widowed , he adheres to the wishes of his deceased wife by returning to a deprived area and opening up a reading room . When no interest is shown b... |
420,265 | 2,542,703 | 76,095 | 8 | Marsha Mason Does Helen Trent | Poor Marsha Marson . All of her relationships end in failure . The guy simply walks out . She has a precocious daughter , devilishly played by Quinn Cummings . The latter received a supporting actress nomination and faded from the movie scene real fast . Where are you Quinn darling ? Forced to share an apartment with a... |
420,351 | 2,542,703 | 876,154 | 8 | Twisting Plot Creates Interest in " To Have and to Hold " | A married man has an affair . You would think that when he would try to break it off , there would be blackmail . This is not the case and that's what makes this film out of the ordinary . Instead of the blackmail concept , the plot is twisted where it is made to look that the guy is trying to kill his wife and in the ... |
420,452 | 2,542,703 | 446,755 | 8 | Painted Veil - Somerset Maugham At it Again | Memorable film showcasing the acting talent of Edward Norton and Naomi Watts . Literally forced into a marriage by an overbearing mother , Watts soon finds herself in China with her bacteriologist husband . She soon finds a lover in Lev Schrieber , a Diplomat . Angered when he discovers the affair , Norton wants a divo... |
420,437 | 2,542,703 | 913,399 | 8 | Verdict for Judicial Indiscretion | Anne Archer is at the top of her game as a supreme court nominee . She walks and carries herself like the late Jackie Kennedy . Smart , poised , and elegant , she has everything going for her until she is set up in a plot to discredit her so as to get her nomination out . You do begin to wonder when the rapist shows up... |
421,436 | 2,542,703 | 399,146 | 8 | You Can't Run from It | Viggo Mortensen and Maria Bello are a couple in Indiana with 2 children . Their older son depicts the town they live in as one where you grow up , get a job and become an alcoholic . The couple are hardworking owners of a diner . Their peaceful life comes to a crashing change when 2 killers attempt to rob the diner and... |
420,667 | 2,542,703 | 24,411 | 8 | One Man's Journey-Homage to those Dedicated Doctors of Yesteryear | Lionel Barrymore gave a memorably restrained performance in this 1933 film . It stands as a precursor to films such as 1959's " The Last Angry Man " with Paul Muni . The setting takes place in rural America circa 1910 . Having lost his wife in childbirth , Barrymore returns to his roots only to lose his first patient t... |
421,612 | 2,542,703 | 858,479 | 8 | Smart People isn't Only for the Very Intelligent | Dennis Quaid stars as a self-centered intellectual English professor who still has plenty to learn about learn about life . A widower with 2 children , he has established quite a dysfunctional family . Ellen ( " Juno " ) Page plays Vanessa , his intellectually strung-out daughter who talks about normal sexual mores and... |
420,865 | 2,542,703 | 58,812 | 8 | Hogan's Heroes-Showed Nazis What They Really Were ! | No one can ever state that the Nazi Regime of crackpot Adolf Hitler were anything else but despicable . The television show , " Hogan's Heroes , " attempted to show the Nazis for the moronic creatures that they were . Yes , it is true that it was done in comedy style , but let the world see how stupid these beasts real... |
420,963 | 2,542,703 | 408,985 | 8 | Last Holiday : Diagnosis : A Good One | Queen Latifah is in fine form as a plain worker is diagnosed with a terminal brain disorder . This is all thanks to a malfunctioning cat-scan machine . Deciding to leave life with a bang , she goes off to Europe and meets some interesting people at a skiing lodge . There's her boss , played with disdain by an older Tim... |
420,562 | 2,542,703 | 113,305 | 8 | Higher Learning Explores Social Problems on Campus | Interesting film revolving around racism , resulting prejudice and life at a college . We have some interesting performances here by Omar Epps , as a student , with hang-ups and Laurence Fishburne , as a tough political science professor who chides his own people for being lazy . 4 years before she won the Oscar , Jenn... |
421,087 | 2,542,703 | 340,855 | 8 | O What a Wonderully Done Monster ! | Charlize Theron well deserved her best actress Oscar for " Monster . " The person who did her make-up should have received one as well . Ms . Theron is marvelous as serial killer Aileen Wuornos , a prostitute who went on a killing spree . Theron received remarkable support from Christina Ricci , who played a young girl... |
420,633 | 2,542,703 | 45,074 | 8 | Red Skies of Montana Reaches to the Stars | This action adventure film is still another great opportunity for Richard Widmark to display his great acting talent . In this very good film , he leads men into fighting forest fires in the Montana-Idaho areas . When tragedy strikes , a disoriented Widmark can't remember what has transpired . The film provides a wonde... |
420,317 | 2,542,703 | 871,426 | 8 | Baby Mama is Delightfully Deceitful | Tina Fey again goes beyond 30 Rock and Saturday Night Live to prove that she is a major talent . Fey , who certainly helped cause the defeat of the McCain-Palin ticket in November , is just fabulous here as a 37 year old career woman obsessed with having a child . Unmarried and finding that nothing is happening , she s... |
421,559 | 2,542,703 | 43,338 | 8 | Ace in the Hole is A Big Carnival | This film was also appropriately titled " The Big Carnival . " What a circus-like media atmosphere is created when sly reporter , Kirk Douglas , goes after a big story in New Mexico . A man becomes trapped in a cave and Douglas decides to exploit the situation to its fullest extent . While the media goes crazy over the... |
421,360 | 2,542,703 | 107,497 | 8 | I Liked Malice | Alec Baldwin , Nicole Kidman and Bill Pullman provide the right chemistry in " Malice . " Problem with this film is that there are two themes brought to the screen . While they are tied together , a third theme is not adequately explained as the film ends . Nevertheless , we have a good story about a serial killer kill... |
420,848 | 2,542,703 | 29,995 | 8 | The Citadel - A True Doctor's Dilemma With Great Inspiration | A wonderful look into the medical profession with a fine performance by that wonderful character actor Robert Donat . Rebuked by the coal citizens of Wales when he wants to research tuberculosis and working in the mines , Donat is lured to working with the wealthy and living the appropriately high society life style . ... |
421,023 | 2,542,703 | 32,176 | 8 | Forever Meeting Til We Do It Again | The striking similarity of this good film is its resemblance to " Dark Victory . " In fact , Bette Davis was offered the lead role but to the storyline bowed out in favor of Merle Oberon who gave a memorable performance as another dying heiress . Another major similarity is that George Brent and Geraldine Fitzgerald ap... |
421,148 | 2,542,703 | 37,558 | 8 | Too Brief for this Memorable Encounter | British actress Celia Johnson lost the Oscar for best actress in this wonderful film to Olivia De Havilland for " To Each His Own . " Yet , the remarkable Miss Johnson was able to garner the N . Y . C . film critics award for her amazing performance as a British housewife , who accidentally meets a man and in a short t... |
420,835 | 2,542,703 | 492,956 | 8 | The Game Plan Has Winning Combination | Our football hero has it all . The women , the fame , the money and then his daughter suddenly shows up . We've seen films before where the unknown child suddenly enters a parent's life . Naturally , the child at first creates havoc on our swinging bachelor's life . Naturally , it's a story of how the two ultimately bo... |
421,623 | 2,542,703 | 39,464 | 8 | High Wall-Tall Thriller | Something different for Robert Taylor . He stars as a possible insane killer who tries to prove his innocence . The film also showcases the acting talent of Audrey Totter . For a change , she is in a major role and not relegated to the many supporting roles she did in films . Much of the action takes place in an asylum... |
420,328 | 2,542,703 | 427,969 | 8 | Hollywoodland-Tinsel Town Shows Itself | Interesting film dealing with the death of George Reeve , who played Superman on television . A wonderful role model for children , he was idolized until his untimely death . The movie questions whether his passing was by suicide , or was it murder ? Adrien Brody is in fine form as the detective probing the case . In t... |
420,833 | 2,542,703 | 119,848 | 8 | Out to Sea-Go Down to the Sea in Ships to Catch this One | Walter Matthau and Jack Lemmon , both of whom are sadly missed , proved once again that they were a team dedicated to their craft of bringing hilarious moments to the screen . This film is just another example of this . This time out they play two brothers-in-law who land on a ship as dance instructors on board . Of co... |
421,316 | 2,542,703 | 39,536 | 8 | Kiss of Death Makes You Wonder | Even though he saw his gangster father cut down by police bullets , you have to wonder how a kind hearted , sympathetic character as Nick Bianco , well played by Victor Mature , settled down to a life of crime . In addition , was there anything going on with Nick and the babysitter while Nick's wife was living ? They s... |
421,222 | 2,542,703 | 52,817 | 8 | For the 1st Time - One of Mario's Lasts | The voice of Mario Lanza carries this nicely done film . The plot is a good one as a unreliable opera star finds love with a deaf mute girl . Lanza was also a pretty good actor . Zsa Zsa Gabor is in this one as a countess . She looks young but when she speaks , you think it's sister Eva talking from the " Green Acres "... |
421,428 | 2,542,703 | 39,842 | 8 | So Well Remembered in Great British Film Making With Unevenness | The British Rank Organisation came up with a gem of a 1947 film , " So Well Remembered . " Interesting to see the usually kind and sympathetic Martha Scott playing a nasty sought of woman here . You wouldn't think that from the beginning of the film when Scott as Olivia seems to be a victim of her father's imprisonment... |
421,095 | 2,542,703 | 57,187 | 8 | Irma La Douce - Some Like It Hot It Isn't | Funny 1963 film re-teaming the great Jack Lemmon and Shirley MacLaine once again . As he was in " Hot , " Lemmon is another good-natured jerk , who falls for hooker MacLaine and accepts another identity so as to keep her going financially and off the street . While Lou Jacobi is appealing in the role of the bar-keeper ... |
421,064 | 2,542,703 | 102,659 | 8 | Case of Glass Coffin Is Not Fatal | Perry is literally up to his old tricks defending a magician accused of murdering one of his workers . What a motive he had . The woman told him that she was pregnant with his child . Naturally , there are others in the cast that can prove to be good suspects as well . Bill Moses , besides being a private investigator ... |
421,606 | 2,542,703 | 29,855 | 8 | Go to the Casbah-Algiers | After 68 years , the sound on the filming is surely going but " Algiers " remains a picture of intense intrigue . A wonderful performance is given by Charles Boyer as the suave , cunning Pepe Le Moko , a jewel thief who has taken refuge in the Casbah-an eerie place surrounded by labyrinths and bullets along the way . T... |
421,184 | 2,542,703 | 463,998 | 8 | Freedom Writers - It's Just the Same Old Story | As far as movies go , this is still an excellent adaptation of what goes on in our urban schools . Hilary Swank gives a superb performance as an idealistic teacher who confronts a bunch of misfits and becomes a miracle worker . This is where the movie suffers as is the case with most of these school movies . By the mid... |
421,338 | 2,542,703 | 80,549 | 8 | Coal Miner's Daughter-Well Worth the Shovel | Sissy Spacek won an Oscar for portraying Loretta Lynn in this 1980 biography and Tommy Lee Jones , who portrayed her husband , should have been Oscar nominated . Spacek and Jones are just perfect in this musical story . There are a few inconsistencies in the film . Why was that man shot at the beginning of the film ? I... |
420,934 | 2,542,703 | 71,877 | 8 | Murder On the Orient Express - Blame All Here | Agatha Christie's marvelous tale of who did it again provides for a wonderful 1974 film . Surprisingly , Ingrid Bergman , as a timid missionary , won the best supporting actress Oscar . Bergman gave far better performances and should not have won here . Even in her acceptance speech , she reminded the Academy of Valent... |
421,261 | 2,542,703 | 120,208 | 8 | Stepsister-Ph . D Candidate Cinderella With A Twist | A modern day Cinderella tale . In this one , a Ph . D . candidate loses her mother , a pediatrician , in what is thought of as a tragic accident . Soon , her father , also a physician , meets a woman ( Linda Evans ) with an interesting daughter . They marry and the fun begins . Evans and her daughter Melinda are thieve... |
420,943 | 2,542,703 | 43,132 | 8 | Andrews & Tierney In Top Form-Where the Sidewalk Ends | Gene Tierney and Dana Andrews , who were both so memorable in 1944's " Laura , re-teamed for this excellent 1950 film-noir . An embittered policeman , Andrews as Mark , can't get over the fact that his father was a hoodlum who died in a police shootout while trying to break out of jail . As a result of his bitterness ,... |
420,655 | 2,542,703 | 58,425 | 8 | Of Human Bondage-The Third Time Around Merits | Kim Novak surprised me here . While she certainly was no Bette Davis , she ably tackled the role of Mildred Rogers . To me , Mildred , that British waitress with the ability to hurt people beyond belief , was still best served by Davis's marvelous 1934 performance . That's not to take anything away from Miss Novak . No... |
420,572 | 2,542,703 | 111,503 | 8 | True Lies is True to Form | An exciting action-packed film with Arnold S doing a great imitation of a married James Bond . The action sequences are phenomenal here . There are many chase scenes and the ending scenes with the airplane hovering around Florida are absolutely awesome . As the supposed computer salesman but really a CIA agent , Arnold... |
421,229 | 2,542,703 | 102,377 | 8 | The Maid Was Made in Heaven | Martin Sheen and Jackie Bisset are just wonderful together in this comedy dealing with a New York businessman ( Anthony Wayne ) , Sheen , who moves to Paris to work for a company . Along the way , he follows Bisset , who is in need of a nanny for her precocious but obnoxious daughter . The young lady is terrific and I ... |
420,703 | 2,542,703 | 25,301 | 8 | When the Remake Was This One Merits | Fannie Hurst's novel came to the screen in 1934 . I have to say that while the picture was good , the 1959 remake with Lana Turner was far better . That one really drained you with the emotional stops pulled out by Turner , Susan Kohner and Juanita Moore . With the exception of Louise Beavers , that emotional drain is ... |
421,153 | 2,542,703 | 64,030 | 8 | Anne of the Thousand Days | Richard Burton received the 6th of 7 Oscar nominations as Henry V111 in this costumed-lavish production . Burton has the right temperament for the part of the tortured king , obsessed with the idea that he must have a son as a daughter cannot rule England . That hat that he wore throughout the film was ridiculous . The... |
421,515 | 2,542,703 | 90,264 | 8 | Good View for Killing | Better than the average James Bond thriller . Christopher Walken's make-up man should be criticized . His face looks like he should have been in " Goldfinger . " The story about a berserk ex-KGB agent who plots to raid Silicon Valley by creating a massive earthquake is interesting at best . Terrific action scenes inclu... |
421,289 | 2,542,703 | 401,997 | 8 | Breach - What A Compromise ! | Chris Cooper is very good as spy Robert Hanssen who caused so much damage with his espionage dealings from 1985 . Cooper conveys the mood of a religious obsessed person , who is autocratic , surly and just downright nasty to his subordinates . Who would ever guess that he was passing to the Soviets so much information ... |
421,404 | 2,542,703 | 53,487 | 8 | Bringing Up Buddy - A Fine Romance | In the song , " A Fine Romance , " there is a line that describes my maiden aunts . This may also best describe " Bringing Up Buddy , " a very funny television show that unfortunately didn't last too long . Frank Aletter plays the orphaned Buddy who is brought up by Aunt Violet and Aunt Iris . Enid Markey and Doro Mera... |
420,781 | 2,542,703 | 40,098 | 8 | Anna Karenina Goes Hollywood | Why did Hollywood make the 1935 Greta Garbo film over ? It is true that Vivien Leigh gave still another great performance in the title role . She was ably supported by Ralph Richardson as her cold embittered husband and Kieron Moore , as her lover who led to her ruination . The problem with this film is the same proble... |
420,323 | 2,542,703 | 988,047 | 8 | Traitor is Good Treason | Don Cheadle turns in another great acting performance . As a soldier of fortune in Afghanistan , who allegedly becomes a Moslem fanatic and throws himself in with Moslem terrorists , Cheadle etches a very interesting character . The truth be told , Cheadle is nothing more than a government operative living the life of ... |
421,247 | 2,542,703 | 29,511 | 8 | San Quentin : Good Prison Yarn | Humphrey Bogart , Ann Sheridan and Pat O'Brien star in this 1937 film detailing prison life . A man and army official with a heart , O'Brien is sent to this prison to help reform it from a vicious guard played in his usual sinister way by Barton MacLane . O'Brien falls for lounge singer Sheridan . Coincidentally , her ... |
420,815 | 2,542,703 | 34,240 | 8 | Sullivan's Travels - He Got the Last Laugh | Preston Sturges , who was always so interested in the common man , wrote and directed this 1941 film dealing with a comedy director's desire to make a serious film commenting on the social problems of the period . As he has led a charmed life , Sullivan ( Joel McCrea ) decides to go out and live among the impoverished ... |
421,032 | 2,542,703 | 49,471 | 8 | Dead Man Can Tell An Interesting Tale in Man Who Never Was | Interesting film with Clifton Webb and Gloria Grahame starring in a British plot to fool the Nazis during World War 11 . We wanted the Germans to believe that the invasion would occur in Greece rather than in Sicily . A young man , who died of pneumonia , was used by the British government in the plot to fool the Germa... |
421,504 | 2,542,703 | 25,164 | 8 | Gay Divorcée - We All Need Other Correspondents Like This | The Gay Divorce produced the first song ever to be honored with an Academy award in 1934 . That catchy tune was the continental . That elaborate , lengthy dance sequence was just truly memorable . Everyone would want to kick up their heels and start dancing to beautiful music , dangerous rhythm , etc . The thin plot ... |
420,553 | 2,542,703 | 46,759 | 8 | Granger Shines in Brummell Tale | Giving up a military career when he is rude to the Prince of Wales , Stewart Granger is excellent as the handsome gentleman consumed with looking great and cavorting with upper class society in this elegant film . Peter Ustinov is just marvelous as The Prince of Wales . Again and again , he shows that he was just born ... |
421,503 | 2,542,703 | 29,546 | 8 | Shall We Dance Has the Right Step | This 1937 again shows Ginger Rogers and Fred Astaire in rare form . This time is Fred is a Russian named ballet dancer who falls for fellow dancer Rogers . He tells his aide , the ever adorable Edward Everett Horton , to get rid of a woman who is pursuing him . To do this , Horton tells the woman that Fred and Ginger a... |
420,767 | 2,542,703 | 1,065,291 | 8 | All the Good Ones Are Married - Real Good Ending | Darryl Hannah has really matured from her early years as a girlfriend of the late John F . Kennedy , Jr . and films such as " Splash . " In this film she gives quite a performance as the married wife who brings misery to her family when she takes in a fellow worker to live with . The latter brings havoc to the family b... |
421,514 | 2,542,703 | 73,486 | 8 | Surviving the Nut House | Jack Nicholson's first Oscar winning performance as a patient in a mental institution . Based on Ken Kesey's best seller , we come to realize that the heads of these institutions are in desperate need themselves . Nurse Mildred Ratched was skillfully played by Louise Fletcher , who won the best actress Oscar . Needless... |
420,898 | 2,542,703 | 46,808 | 8 | No Lances Broken Here | Spencer Tracy shines in this tale of a cattle baron and his sons . Starting with nothing , and becoming wealthy , Tracy's wife dies and he remarries an Indian woman , well played by Katie Jurado in an Oscar nominated performance as best supporting actress . She is devoted to her husband . Count the number of times she ... |
420,746 | 2,542,703 | 117,718 | 8 | Spitfire Grill-Get The Charcoal Ready for this One | Whatever became of Alison Elliott , the heroine of this film ? She gave an extremely believable performance here as a woman released from prison for killing the stepfather who had impregnated her and then had caused the death of the baby by beating the mother . Ellen Burstyn is the old lady who Elliott goes to work for... |
421,111 | 2,542,703 | 104,118 | 8 | No Sweet Sugar on Doing Time on Maple Drive | Who knew or remembered that Jim Carrey could be dramatic ? He offers a genuine deep performance as a troubled youth , bright , but a high school drop-out who is unbearably harassed by his holier than thou parents , especially a father who is a perfectionist in every sense of the word . Ironically , the Carrey character... |
421,003 | 2,542,703 | 46,816 | 8 | When Incompetence Was In Session-Caine Mutiny | If it weren't so tragic and serious , I could see " The Caine Mutiny " being a comedy in the tradition of " Hogan's Heroes . " That being said , Humphrey Bogart gave a masterful performance as the mentally deranged leader of the ship . Makes you wonder how a person this ill could assume such an important position . Ask... |
420,520 | 2,542,703 | 55,489 | 8 | Summer and Smoke | Tennessee Williams is at his best here in this great play made into a startling motion picture . The phenomenal Geraldine Page is absolutely brilliant here as a repressed spinster who finds love with the doctor next door only to throw it away . Williams continues his never ending attack on religion , rebelliousness , d... |
420,807 | 2,542,703 | 44,888 | 8 | The Marrying Kind : Who Needs A Divorce | Garson Kanin and Ruth Gordon wrote a corker for this 1952 film . Just like 1983's " Terms of Endearment , " we see a comedy turn to tragedy suddenly with a tremendous emotional impact . Sorry to say that both Aldo Ray and Judy Holliday were miscast here . Ray had that hoarse voice that would serve him better in war fil... |
420,850 | 2,542,703 | 38,038 | 8 | Roughly Speaking-Speaking of Nostalgia | A wonderful Rosalind Russell vehicle with Jack Carson in fine form as her 2nd husband . It tells us of a woman's determination to survive this world-despite deaths in the family , a heel of a husband , ( Donald Woods ) , illness , and the Great Depression . Russell throws her usual zest for this type of commanding woma... |
420,675 | 2,542,703 | 40,427 | 8 | He Walked By Night | Good film , but was Roy really into that led him into becoming a cop killer ? This is really never fully explained here . Yet , this is a very good film because it shows that by good detective work , the guilty can be found out . While Richard Basehart doesn't say that much in the film , his actions certainly speak for... |
421,557 | 2,542,703 | 104,265 | 8 | Final Analysis - You'll Enjoy this Evaluation | When viewing this film , I thought that Alfred Hitchcock had returned to film making . A marvelous , intriguing film dealing with a psychiatrist who becomes involved with the sister of his patient . Unfortunately , he is unaware of their diabolical scheme . As a gangster husband of Kim Bassinger , Eric Roberts is quite... |
421,235 | 2,542,703 | 46,874 | 8 | All's Not fine for Country Girl | Grace Kelly's win for best actress in " The Country Girl " was quite controversial . After all , she beat out Judy Garland for " A Star is Born . " While Kelly hid behind horned-rimmed glasses , to hide her natural beauty , many believed the Oscar should have gone to Ms . Garland . As Frank Elgin , a drunken has-been a... |
421,370 | 2,542,703 | 49,027 | 8 | Bottom of the Bottle-Successfully Hits the Bottle | Interesting film dealing with family relationships and ultimate responsibility for family actions . Successful lawyer , Wendell Corey , must come to grips when his convict brother , Van Johnson , escapes from jail and shows up at his doorstep . Corey had abandoned Johnson and a younger sister years before to get away f... |
420,761 | 2,542,703 | 106,453 | 8 | Body of Evidence - Evidently More than A Body Here | Despite the awful performance by Madonna , this is a film noir in color and it works well . Madonna fails in her attempt to emulate Lana Turner in this lurid sex tale romp . Willem DaFoe , as her attorney Frank , takes on her case when she is accused of murdering her sex mate who coincidentally has left her $ 8 million... |
420,622 | 2,542,703 | 55,614 | 8 | Great Music and Choreography , But It's the Same Old Story | West Side Story lost various Broadway Tony awards but came up with 10 Academy Awards including best picture of 1961 . The film beat out the great " Judgment at Nuremberg . " Jerome Robbins ' choreography can't be beat . Lenny Bernstein's music is just phenomenal . You know from it that the Jets and Sharks think they ... |
421,266 | 2,542,703 | 22,550 | 8 | Waterloo Bridge - The Original-Gritty and Forceful | Mae Clarke does a remarkable job in the same year that James Cagney put a grapefruit in her face in " Public Enemy . " Miss Clarke is quite effective as the heroine of " Waterloo Bridge . " As a prostitute working the streets of London during World War 1 , Clarke gives a tour de force as a woman who can be loving one m... |
420,504 | 2,542,703 | 1,346,983 | 8 | Loving Leah Oy , But it's Assimilation and Accommodation | In the orthodox Jewish faith , when a man dies , the wife is supposed to marry his single brother , if there is any . In order to avoid such a marriage , there is a nasty ritual that the man and woman has to go through . This is the case in " Loving Leah . " The film is somewhat unrealistic . An orthodox woman would no... |
420,749 | 2,542,703 | 419,816 | 8 | Back to You and Me | Quite a good film is depicted here despite the fact that it's hard to believe that Rue MacLanahan's daughter did not realize that Rue was staying out and away from her terminally ill husband and father because he wanted it that way . You know that the waitress who is chasing after Dale Midkiff will wind up with the att... |
421,049 | 2,542,703 | 33,918 | 8 | Mama Miami ! Moon Over Miami | Light fanfare with Bette Grable , Don Ameche , Bob Cummings , and Carol Landis in a fun-filled film . The Technicolor by the always reliable Natalie Kalmus in really great here . We never get tired of plots dealing with 3 ladies trying to get rich guys for themselves . This picture isn't How to Marry a Millionaire ( 19... |
421,264 | 2,542,703 | 397,313 | 8 | Eight Below - Man's Best Friend Never Stops Amazing | Dog lovers and myself to a degree can appreciate this film . Set in Antarctica , it deals with a member of a scientific team who is forced to abandon his dogs during a fierce storm . With the real wintry weather setting in , he is unable to get back to retrieve his beloved dogs . The film shows how the dogs were able t... |
421,124 | 2,542,703 | 114,148 | 8 | Pocahantas Gets Her Man ? | Wonderfully animated film , even if they distort history . Too bad the anti-Semite Mel Gibson had to play John Smith . A better role that would have been suited for that misery would have been Gov . Radcliffe . Back to the film , which is an interesting one , it depicts the basic reason for war-greed . The music is car... |
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