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367,714 | 2,707,735 | 52,794 | 7 | You might say it's the same man , but then again , you might not . | Fred MacMurray doesn't really have the face for an outlaw , nor the voice , which makes it difficult to picture him in a Western . However in " Face Of A Fugitive " , he fares much better than he did in " The Oregon Trail " from the same year . The unshaven look and casting as a loner adds to the appeal of his characte... |
368,513 | 2,707,735 | 463,959 | 7 | You an outlaw now , Pa ? | With the Hallmark name attached I expected somewhat more from " Desolation Canyon " and was less than impressed and satisfied with this picture . The feature players were prominent enough to carry off their roles , but somehow Patrick Duffy didn't seem to pull it off as the grizzled sheriff of Green River . There was n... |
367,770 | 2,707,735 | 31,851 | 7 | His interest in blood almost equals my own . | If you're a Humphrey Bogart fan , you must see this quirky film in which Bogey portrays a vampire like , pasty faced doctor brought back from the dead , who now maintains his quest to stay alive by murdering victims whose rare blood type matches his own . Adding to Bogey's ghastly appearance is a strange skunk like whi... |
368,077 | 2,707,735 | 22,172 | 7 | This whole thing is very fishy to me . | Coming almost directly out of the silent era , " Murder at Midnight " might be said to suffer from one of the common complaints of early talkies - the picture more closely resembles a stage play put to film , with the actors and actresses over-enunciating and abruptly deliberate in their mannerism and speech . Getting ... |
367,893 | 2,707,735 | 58,606 | 7 | Children , we've got to keep some secrets today . | I didn't know Turner Classics had a cult movie night until I scanned the listings yesterday to see what was playing . Even though it was showing at 2 : 00 A . M . , it was worth the trouble to stay up and tune into this bizarre flick , which might be compared to a politically incorrect episode of the ' Addams Family ' ... |
367,558 | 2,707,735 | 45,323 | 7 | It's a lousy war kid , but it's the only one we've got . | I was surprised to see John Ford's name listed as the director for this film , and even more surprised when it was over . With Oscar wins for greats like " The Grapes of Wrath " ( 1940 ) and " How Green Was My Valley ( 1941 ) , I can't imagine what Ford might have thought after completing this picture , which doesn't q... |
367,936 | 2,707,735 | 39,926 | 7 | You know I have the strangest feeling that this is the beginning of a beautiful hatred . | The Two Mrs . Carrolls is the second screen pairing of Humphrey Bogart and Alexis Smith , and oddly , it's Smith's character who's the ' other woman ' in both films . It occurred the first time in 1945's " Conflict " , but in that picture , it was Bogey's character who did the pursuing , while here , it's Cecily Lath... |
367,605 | 2,707,735 | 41,152 | 7 | Yeah , I guess the only way for me to keep from swallowin ' a wasp is to keep my mouth shut . | It's not uncommon for " B " Westerns to have titles that bear no relationship to the story . " Bandit King of Texas " at least nominally describes the film's bad guy , town boss Dan McCabe ( Jim Nolan ) , but a king he's not . McCabe's gimmick is to sell government land to unsuspecting buyers , assign phony deeds , and... |
368,178 | 2,707,735 | 58,390 | 7 | You'll be sleeping on the skin of a nightmare for the rest of your life . | This was my first experience of a Sam Fuller picture , and I have to say , it was quite the revelation . The entire film keeps you slightly off balance , starting right out of the gate with that bizarre opening , which could have had any number of interpretations . It was interesting that the full details of that encou... |
367,642 | 2,707,735 | 47,437 | 7 | It never rained on the night of the Larrabee party , the Larrabee's wouldn't have stood for it . | Paramount Pictures bought the rights for the Broadway play ' Sabrina Fair ' expressly for Audrey Hepburn , coming off of the phenomenal success of her very first film and Oscar win for Best Actress the prior year in " Roman Holiday " . With a two million dollar budget and seven weeks of shooting in October / November o... |
368,399 | 2,707,735 | 305,206 | 7 | You know , an ordinary life is pretty complex stuff . | With all the critical acclaim and awards lavished on the film , I'd have to say that maybe I missed something here . I guess it's just that I don't find ' depressing ' to be interesting , and to have an entire film devoted to that cause , well let's say it wasn't inspirational . I'll grant kudos where appropriate thoug... |
368,029 | 2,707,735 | 24,314 | 7 | Excuse me boss , I ain't no lawyer , I can't talk without thinking . | The Mayor Of Hell has the feel of an early Dead End Kids film , but with a much harder edge and very few light spots , preceding the first appearance of the Dead Enders by four years . James Cagney has a full screen opening credit , even though technically , the ' mayor ' of the movie's title is actually portrayed by... |
368,104 | 2,707,735 | 33,436 | 7 | We're getting a fine group of men , more teeth and less flat feet . | Repeat viewings of " Buck Privates " deliver a warm nostalgia for a time gone by when things were simpler and patriotism was a cherished ideal . After a supporting role in their first movie " One Night in the Tropics " , Abbott and Costello scored in a big way in this 1941 film , and Universal Studios had a comedy mach... |
368,155 | 2,707,735 | 29,712 | 7 | I see you are a scoundrel on the right side . | Even though I was quite entertained by this film , I couldn't help thinking about who the target audience might have been back in the late 1930's , or who , other than old time film nuts like myself might be the slightly bit interested in it today . It's part of an eclectic genre that might appeal to a fan base of " Th... |
368,128 | 2,707,735 | 47,422 | 7 | Just how many kinds of fool are you ? | Stunning Canadian Rockies scenery add a dramatic backdrop to " River of No Return " , a fairly predictable tale involving a recently released convict ( Robert Mitchum ) , and an out of place Marilyn Monroe who's physical presence and colorful saloon outfits are the stuff of repeated double takes . Oddly , Monroe winds ... |
368,051 | 2,707,735 | 43,013 | 7 | You see how the tone of this dump picks up when I'm here . | The summary line above , spoken by James Cloud ( Robert Preston ) to his brother Tom ( Robert Sterling ) just about says it all . Jim , AKA Kid Wichita , has a way of making things happen , only trouble is , he usually leaves dead bodies where he's been . Not the sort of mentoring Tom envisions for younger brother Jeff... |
367,876 | 2,707,735 | 39,776 | 7 | Yeah , go back to your cabin and shoot yourself , that way nobody'll get hurt . | I just picked up the neatest ' Legends of Hollywood ' DVD set featuring a cool catalog of pictures from the legendary Bob Hope . It's got two ' Road ' pictures ( Rio and Bali ) , and a nice assortment of additional films spanning Hope's career . Watching one , it's hard not to watch another immediately after , especial... |
368,482 | 2,707,735 | 29,660 | 7 | The name is Moto , M-O-T-O . | It's nice reading the largely warm and positive comments on this film , fans of the genre like myself seem to seek them out and enjoy them for the entertainment value they offer of a simpler time . I became a Peter Lorre fan with my first viewings of " Casablanca " and " The Maltese Falcon " , and was lucky to come by ... |
367,818 | 2,707,735 | 25,316 | 7 | Holy jumpin ' catfish , you drive a guy crazy ! | Here I am again , in a quandary over a film's reputation and my own reaction to it . Hailed as one of the great screwball comedies and on many best lists , I just didn't think it was as strong a picture as I was expecting . When I think of ' screwball ' , I'm looking for snappy one liners and engaging chemistry between... |
368,431 | 2,707,735 | 48,789 | 7 | There's a fine cold blooded devil . | It's always interesting to catch a line in a film that winds up being somewhat prophetic for the future of an actor . In this case , I was intrigued by Edward G . Robinson's statement to Barbara Stanwyck - " I promised you the Valley " , as he discusses the lone hold outs to his attempt to control all the land in Logas... |
368,481 | 2,707,735 | 29,648 | 7 | Well there's nothing like a murder to ruin a perfectly good evening . | I usually find it helpful to keep a scorecard when watching a Charlie Chan film to keep track of all the characters , for this one , you need it just for the action . Yikes ! - it took about twenty movies in the Chan franchise to build up to four dead bodies in one outing , but here they pile up fast and furious . Mr .... |
367,655 | 2,707,735 | 53,434 | 7 | . . . when you stand to win , you've got to be able to stand to lose too . | Warlock appears to be a Saturday Western mainstay for the AMC cable channel , and I managed to catch it on today's lineup . Henry Fonda's gun for hire persona Clay Blaisdell arrives in the town of the title along with trusted friend Tom Morgan ( Anthony Quinn ) , summoned to help the town folk rid themselves of the S... |
367,732 | 2,707,735 | 25,330 | 7 | There's only two kinds o ' guys in business , those who get caught and those who don't . | Whew " - here's the kind of early Jimmy Cagney picture where he pulls out all the stops as a fast talking con man , and even if he has an ultimately noble intention of winning back his girl in the end , you're never really quite sure how things will work out . Bette Davis is that girl by the way , and she shares the ki... |
367,790 | 2,707,735 | 14,142 | 7 | Put her to the question ! | I remember seeing the 1939 Charles Laughton version of " The Hunchback of Notre Dame " as a Million Dollar Movie in the late 1950's , watching it nightly for a week . This was my first viewing of the original Lon Chaney presentation and I was left remarkably impressed with the vision and humanity he gave to the Quasimo... |
368,455 | 2,707,735 | 51,496 | 7 | If you can't ride that horse , you're gonna have to carry him . | After literally thousands of pictures from the beginning of the genre in the silent era , someone actually had the clever idea of naming a Western simply " Cowboy " . When I first read the synopsis of the story for the Encore Western Channel , I didn't think it would hold up very well with the casting of Jack Lemmon as... |
367,821 | 2,707,735 | 58,329 | 7 | And I've caught something really wild this time , haven't I ? | For any sense of appreciation for this movie , I think you first have to get past the absurdity of the basic plot . You figure that Mark Rutland became president of his family's business because he had a fair amount of business acumen and a semblance of common sense . Once he realizes that Mary Taylor has robbed his sa... |
367,610 | 2,707,735 | 36,323 | 7 | Nothin ' but static and Heil Hitler ! | Humphrey Bogart excelled in crime , gangster and noir films , but he acquits himself reasonably well in the World War II adventure film " Sahara " . He portrays an American tank commander waylaid in the Libyan Desert with two comrades , radio man Jimmy Doyle ( Dan Duryea ) and machine gunner Waco Hoyt ( Bruce Bennett )... |
367,676 | 2,707,735 | 197,178 | 7 | Soupy Sales - what a blast ! | I'm prompted to write this review because of a trivia note on this board stating that Soupy's references to the ' F ' word was the stuff of urban legend - not so ! Besides the infamous ' little green pieces of paper ' bit , I also managed to catch not one , but two of the comedian's gags regarding the ' F ' word . In t... |
367,981 | 2,707,735 | 48,811 | 7 | Make trouble , you get trouble . . . | The title pretty much says it all , and conveys what the viewer might expect to see in a low budget feature like this one from the 1950's . Ida Lupino stars as the tough minded , non-compassionate superintendent of a woman's prison , in a picture that starts out fairly mundane but gets rolling with all manner of evil m... |
368,139 | 2,707,735 | 36,342 | 7 | Herb's talking about killing me , and I'm talking about killing him . | To which Ma Newton replies - " It's your father's way of relaxing " . Director Alfred Hitchcock liked to use humor to diffuse the building tension in his films and to shift emphasis , and this movie offers a number of excellent examples . They're peppered throughout the story and offer needed breaks as it becomes more ... |
368,446 | 2,707,735 | 48,801 | 7 | I'll say one thing for crooks , they give you an honest day's work . | Consider the casting for the three leads in " We're No Angels " - Humphrey Bogart , Peter Ustinov and Aldo Ray . It doesn't seem to work on paper , but in this film , the trio have such a comedic rapport that the film winds up a delight . The setting is Christmas Day 1895 , and all three are escaped convicts from Devil... |
368,381 | 2,707,735 | 86,979 | 7 | All employees must wash hands before resuming work . | According to the Coen Brothers , the film's title describes a person's state of mind after he has committed murder . Fair enough , and for their very first professional directorial effort , the Coen's put out a nicely packaged product that sometimes thrills , but ultimately winds up with too many elements that defy cre... |
367,733 | 2,707,735 | 31,505 | 7 | You'll find out Mr . Law Officer . | Somewhat unusual for a Hitchcock film , I found myself drawn in and actually enjoyed it . I think that probably had all to do with the performance of Charles Laughton as the haughty squire , Sir Humphrey Pengallan . There's no two ways about his wickedness , he's a perfect cad - just catch the way he sizes up Maureen O... |
368,184 | 2,707,735 | 37,939 | 7 | I think I'm getting a mickey . | Setting the stage for this 1945 comedy , Dexter Broadhurst ( Bud ) and Sebastian Dimwiddie ( Lou ) team up to save the " River Queen " from a trio of card sharks , who have gained a three quarter interest from Captain Sam Jackson ( Henry Travers ) in a rigged card game . The Captain's daughter Carolyn ( Lois Collier ) ... |
368,157 | 2,707,735 | 259,324 | 7 | Raise no more devils than you can lay down ! | You know how you can watch a super hero flick and be disappointed over how cheesy the hero's powers looked ? At least with " Ghost Rider " , you get the real deal . The CGI effects could not have been better to capture one's imagination of how the Marvel comic character should appear on the big screen . That goes for b... |
367,696 | 2,707,735 | 49,639 | 7 | You can always hire fools or drunkards to do something , but when trouble comes , men are hard to find . | I was surprised at how strong this film played out for one I'd never heard of before . I guess that puts me with the majority of reviewers on this board in support of " The Proud Ones " . What puts the film at odds with a lot of early Westerns is the apparent age of it's star , Robert Ryan , who looks even older than h... |
368,451 | 2,707,735 | 40,068 | 7 | I saw what I saw when I saw it ! | Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein is probably my favorite film by Bud and Lou , teamed up as they are with Universal Studios ' all time horror trio - Frankenstein , Dracula and the Wolf Man . Part of the fun for me was seeing Bela Lugosi reprise his original 1931 role as Count Dracula , and Lon Chaney portraying ... |
367,703 | 2,707,735 | 25,238 | 7 | Holy smoke , look at the trim lines on that destroyer ! | For me , it's always cool to come away from a picture with something that was entirely unexpected . In the case of " Here Comes The Navy " , I literally did a jump in my seat to see and hear mention of the U . S . S . Arizona , the famed battleship that went down during the infamous Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor that... |
368,043 | 2,707,735 | 29,605 | 7 | In matters of business one is forced to ignore human factors . | The banking concern of Pettypacker and Sons is about to sell their interest in Colossal Film Studios , until accountant extraordinaire Atterbury Dodd ( Leslie Howard ) points out that the five million dollar deal is worth at least twice that much . Standing up to the senior Pettypacker , Dodd offers to head to Hollywoo... |
367,916 | 2,707,735 | 29,527 | 7 | . . . this is the first time I've ever seen a rat leave a ship that wasn't sinking . | The movie opens with a gimmick that I've seen a number of times in films of the era that just doesn't make sense , with a newspaper headline describing an event that's occurring in real time . In this case it's a steam ship that's on fire with a Coast Guard ship to the rescue . It makes you wonder just how quick news c... |
368,036 | 2,707,735 | 64,208 | 7 | Before anyone kills me they've got to get my OK . | All the classic elements of a good spaghetti Western are on hand here , the rocky desert locales , the Mexican looking Italian villains , . . . and Lee Van Cleef . His character goes by the single name of Ryan , on the trail of a quartet of desperadoes who did him wrong during a murderous night at the Meceita homestead... |
367,997 | 2,707,735 | 74,906 | 7 | . . . and you come under the headin ' of what I do for a livin ' . . . | Coming off the success of " The Godfather " and " Last Tango in Paris " , one can only imagine what may have possessed Marlon Brando to team up with Jack Nicholson in an off the wall film like " The Missouri Breaks " . Nicholson himself had already reached super stardom with " Chinatown " and " One Flew Over The Cuckoo... |
367,940 | 2,707,735 | 102,266 | 7 | We've been beaten up by the inventor of Scrabble . | Wildly implausible plot elements are standard fare for " The Last Boy Scout " . No , no , I don't mean the corrupt Senator or the megalomaniac sports team owner , those are pretty much the norm for action films because they occur with such regularity in real life . I'm talking about a hard boiled private detective who ... |
368,472 | 2,707,735 | 84,666 | 7 | I mean , by the way they're ridin ' you left out somethin ' . | For it's dramatic premise , " The Shadow Riders " turns out to be rather uninspiring in it's execution , rising not far above it's ' B ' Westerns roots . It's got some good cinematography going for it at least , though the bright blue expanse of Baffin Bay seemed somewhat out of place and jarring as part of the landsca... |
368,275 | 2,707,735 | 29,511 | 7 | Well Jamieson , there's your new Army . | Warner Brothers got a lot of mileage out of films offering social commentary and reflecting on the ills of society in the 1930's and ' 40's . " San Quentin " is their take on the drudgery of the prison system and how one man hopes to bring self respect to that class of inmates that wants to go straight . I don't know h... |
367,991 | 2,707,735 | 34,248 | 7 | I'm honest because with you , I think , it's the best way to get results . | Just about everything works with " Suspicion " , except of course the ending , not so much that it negates everything we've come to know about Johnnie Aysgarth ( Cary Grant ) , but in the way in which Lina ( Joan Fontaine ) simply takes it on faith that what Johnnie reveals is true . Johnnie the schemer , Johnnie the c... |
367,825 | 2,707,735 | 60,355 | 7 | Death comes soon enough , anyone who hurries it is a damn fool . | Duel At Diablo had me thinking about Sidney Poitier's role , and I'd love to hear his reason for taking the assignment . Considering his appearance in one of my favorite films , " In The Heat Of The Night " , a classic study of racism and cultural fear , I wondered how he reconciled the role of a former black militar... |
368,032 | 2,707,735 | 48,691 | 7 | Don't get lost bashful boy , you're in the big city now , | Set in the Montana Territory of 1866 , brothers Ben ( Clark Gable ) and Clint ( Cameron Mitchell ) Allison find themselves talked into a cattle drive from Texas back to Boomtown , after robbing high roller Nathan Stark ( Robert Ryan ) in his own saloon . Ryan's character is the taller of the two main stars , but it's n... |
368,510 | 2,707,735 | 46,754 | 7 | Life every now and then behaves as though it had seen too many bad movies . . . | The title suggests a more whimsical tone , but " The Barefoot Contessa " is anything but , instead it's a dark and dreary examination of a doomed Cinderella who would have been happier if left undiscovered . Ava Gardner portrays that Cinderella , rising from an impoverished heritage in a dysfunctional family to a life ... |
367,694 | 2,707,735 | 48,728 | 7 | Did I brush your fur the wrong way ? | About a third of the way through the picture , I was pretty convinced that Francie ( Grace Kelly ) was the cat burglar , but that might have been due more to some of the set up scenes on the DVD I was watching rather than the story itself . Although there were quite a few hints pointing to her during those double enten... |
368,531 | 2,707,735 | 58,165 | 7 | When you keep a rattlesnake around , you always pull his fangs . | The setting is Comanche Creek , Colorado , 1875 ; a band of outlaws headed by Amos Troop ( DeForest Kelley ) breaks an unsuspecting jailbird out of the town lockup and kills the deputy . The gang then uses the outlaw as a front man for their other robberies . As the reward money on the bad guy escalates , the gang then... |
367,851 | 2,707,735 | 486,576 | 7 | I like the part where he knocks you on your a _ _ . | I get a kick out of looking over the viewer comments on this film who make it sound like Galactus was actually IN this movie . The way Hollywood works , I wouldn't be surprised if the next FF picture got around to identifying that dust vortex as something or somebody else altogether . You see , all the right code words... |
368,050 | 2,707,735 | 20,836 | 7 | You were safe in jail , now it's just too bad . | Though he drops a couple of notches in the screen credits from his first picture , " Sinners ' Holiday " , James Cagney still dazzles as a top mobster's second in command and hones the skills that will find him topping the bill for 1931's " The Public Enemy " . Funny how Cagney's smart aleck attitude and mannerisms got... |
367,830 | 2,707,735 | 76,909 | 7 | This is Blood City , and we do things a little different around here . | The opening of the story is a little disorienting , you have a city traffic scene and for a while , I was getting upset that the movie I was watching wasn't the one featured on the DVD sleeve . But then the opening credits offered the title I was expecting , so it was with an ' OK ' , this could be interesting , that t... |
367,675 | 2,707,735 | 71,589 | 7 | We're all sinners , or about to be . | I picked up this flick as part of a double film DVD offer along with " The Hanged Man " for just a buck , and truth be told , both movies were a whole lot better than either had a right to be for the price . The title on this one was " The Gun and The Cross " , close enough to the original to get the message across . T... |
367,674 | 2,707,735 | 71,593 | 7 | What did Lazarus do with the rest of his life ? | If you have the opportunity to pick this one up for a buck like I did , it won't be the worst dollar you ever spent . Not only that , but it was packaged on a DVD along with " The Gun and The Cross " starring Marjoe Gortner , so in a two for one deal , it stacked up for an entertaining afternoon . One curious thing tho... |
368,476 | 2,707,735 | 31,677 | 7 | Gee , you know , it's stupefying . | Another entry in the late 1930's Mr . Moto series from Twentieth Century Fox , this one finds the Japanese sleuth in an adventure on the island of Puerto Rico . As in the first film , " Think Fast , Mr . Moto " , the plot involves a diamond smuggling operation , and it too involves transport of the gems via cruise ship... |
367,751 | 2,707,735 | 119,396 | 7 | . . . and that my friend , was a clear cut case of him or me . | OK , so how did Jackie Brown get the half million dollars out of Mexico ? She's an airline hostess , not a stewardess , and she's never shown making a flight . I also missed the part where someone writes a withdrawal slip for all that cash . But aside from that glaring plot hole , and if you don't think about it too mu... |
368,099 | 2,707,735 | 379,786 | 7 | Let's think about this a minute . | Twenty years from now , people will still be watching sci-fi movie classics like " Star Wars " , " Alien " , and " Terminator " . I have a hard time convincing myself anyone will even remember " Serenity " . Granted , I have never seen the " Firefly " series on which the film was based , but even if I had , I can't ima... |
368,199 | 2,707,735 | 76,915 | 7 | If I don't kill this buffalo , the dream will kill me . | Although the story had a number of ideas that didn't ring true for me , I still found it largely entertaining and interesting . Of course , having Wild Bill Hickok cross paths with Crazy Horse was one of the more creative elements in the picture , and that they didn't recognize each other was probably something of a st... |
367,645 | 2,707,735 | 38,259 | 7 | I smell the faint sweet odor of blackmail . | Sherlock Holmes ( Basil Rathbone ) and his assistant Dr . Watson ( Nigel Bruce ) are called in by Scotland Yard to help solve the most atrocious series of murders since Jack the Ripper . The victims are all women who are fiendishly mutilated , their forefingers severed and apparently taken by the perpetrator . Holmes c... |
368,153 | 2,707,735 | 49,029 | 7 | There won't be any strange faces in Apache Bend tonight . | With Raymond Burr forever etched in the minds of TV watchers as lawyer Perry Mason , it's somewhat uncharacteristic to see him toting a handgun as the main heavy in a sagebrush yarn like " The Brass Legend " . He looks the part too , all gruff and unruly , and perhaps with a girth I hadn't noticed before . Hugh O'Brian... |
367,612 | 2,707,735 | 31,322 | 7 | Well that's that , no use crying over split milk . | It's been years since I watched a Laurel and Hardy film , but viewing " Flying Deuces " was a great reminder of just how brilliant they were . The nuance of their performances is particularly poignant to an adult viewer , whereas watching them as a kid , they were just funny . On display are Ollie's trademark necktie f... |
368,550 | 2,707,735 | 20,640 | 7 | The gates swung open and a fig newton entered . | Animal Crackers is a sure fire way to spend an entertaining hour and a half dazzled by zany quips and brilliant one liners . The film is an absolute showcase for the Marx Brothers talents , particularly Groucho's frenetic , non stop verbal barrage . His character , Captain Spaulding is a famed African explorer , thou... |
368,120 | 2,707,735 | 49,291 | 7 | You wait around long enough and sooner or later everything falls right into your lap . | Here's a fine gem from Columbia Pictures , offering Humphrey Bogart in his final film role . Much has been written of his failing health due to cancer of the esophagus , and in truth , Bogey does have a drawn and tired look around the eyes in this film , even though it rightly fits his characterization of sports public... |
367,820 | 2,707,735 | 55,558 | 7 | From now on , we ride together . . . | Five years earlier , director John Ford filmed his Western masterpiece " The Searchers " . After repeated requests to helm " Two Rode Together " he did it as a favor to Columbia Pictures ' Harry Cohn . With the words " OK , I'll do the damn thing " , he might have given some indication as to the quality of the finished... |
367,707 | 2,707,735 | 31,359 | 7 | You're supposed to be going off your head aren't you ? | I came into " Gaslight " cold , not knowing it's history or the fact it was remade a few years later with a bigger name cast . No matter , the original British National Film is a suspenseful story , and is one of the better films I've seen using the husband driving his wife crazy plot . Particularly vile is Paul Mallen... |
368,078 | 2,707,735 | 104,299 | 7 | Is that a face that'll sell motor oil , or what ? Usually these types of time travel stories wind up giving me a headache , but this one was pretty straightforward ( no pun intended ) . The protagonist , Alex Furlong ( Emilio Estevez ) is transported into the future . . . , and stays there . No attempt to get back to ... | null |
368,162 | 2,707,735 | 49,086 | 7 | Give the word now , the White Eyes must die . | The film offers two unique features I haven't seen in a Western before . For starters , it utilizes Americans as intermediaries between the warring Mexicans and Comanches , involved in a years long series of revenge massacres by both sides . The other would have to be the finale where Chief Quanah Parker ( Kent Smith )... |
368,467 | 2,707,735 | 387,131 | 7 | . . . the report was too damaging , she had to be stopped . | For the devotees of this film , I'm sorry to say that this is one that didn't grab me . Maybe it was the disorienting flashback style , or the fact that characters in the film were often hard to understand when they spoke . I won't deny the stand out performances of Ralph Fiennes or Rachel Weisz , but there was somethi... |
368,436 | 2,707,735 | 44,683 | 7 | Does it surprise you to find people who aren't like you ? | Here's a solid little Randolph Scott number with a fine supporting cast taking place only a few weeks after the Civil War has ended . That's unknown to Major Matt Stewart ( Scott ) , and his band of Rebels at the time they hijack a quarter million dollar gold shipment from a band of Union soldiers . Attempting to outru... |
367,588 | 2,707,735 | 36,065 | 7 | No iron brother , just hands and feet . | This obscure ' B ' Western stands a cut above most with some creative writing and rather good performances by the principals . The film also offers a number of elements that I hadn't seen before after reviewing almost three hundred Westerns in this forum . Though a standard feature for this venue , the barroom brawl he... |
368,507 | 2,707,735 | 402,260 | 7 | What matters is the man inside the skin . | Lou Diamond Phillips does a fine job portraying a half breed ex-convict recently released from a territorial prison in this Hallmark Entertainment film from 2004 . He's got a couple of guardian angels in the form of Marshal Luther Toll ( Lee Majors ) and old timer Eugene Lawson ( Ernest Borgnine ) . Borgnine in particu... |
368,588 | 2,707,735 | 311,429 | 7 | Leave one alive to tell the tale . | Set in a literary world , " The League of Extraordinary Gentlemen " brings together classic fictional characters in a globe spanning adventure . However the film suffers , in my estimation , from trying to be the greatest action adventure of all time . Had the film makers spent more time on character development and mo... |
368,552 | 2,707,735 | 27,439 | 7 | Curiosity responsible for cat needing nine lives . | It was in " Charlie Chan in Shanghai " , two films prior , that we learned Chan's age at 60 . In " Charlie Chan at the Circus " , we see the prolific Chan family in it's entirety as guests at the Kinney and Gaines Combined Circus . Charlie's offspring now number twelve , or as the ticket taker at the circus would offer... |
368,553 | 2,707,735 | 27,442 | 7 | Best place for skeletons is in family closet . | Missing for seven years , Allen Colby , heir to his father's fortune is no longer welcome at the Colby / Lowell home . His arrival would mean that the supply of funds doled out by his father's estate under matriarch Henrietta Lowell , Bernard Colby's sister , would come to an abrupt halt . Henrietta has an abiding inte... |
368,329 | 2,707,735 | 53,729 | 7 | I'm not talking about right , I'm talking about stayin ' alive . | I watched " Blazing Saddles " a few weeks ago and had completely forgotten about that quick melodic tribute to Randolph Scott sung by the townspeople in a reverent tone . It was the Randolph Scott of " Comanche Station " they were memorializing , the stoic Western cowboy trying to do the right thing in a lawless land .... |
368,551 | 2,707,735 | 27,441 | 7 | Innocent grass may conceal snake . | When favored race horse Avalanche loses a race due to his rider's foul , his owner Major Gordon Kent becomes suspicious , believing that a gambling syndicate may have been behind the rider's actions . Kent calls upon famed detective Charlie Chan ( Warner Oland ) for his involvement , and it's off to the races so to spe... |
368,548 | 2,707,735 | 27,440 | 7 | Look at him . . . , that guy sings every night , it makes me screwy . | The beginning credits of " Charlie Chan at the Opera " casts Warner Oland vs Boris Karloff , though Chan's investigation ultimately causes him to protect Karloff's character , the insane opera singer Gravelle . With a sufficiently mysterious and atmospheric opening scene , Gravelle is introduced as a resident of the Ro... |
368,080 | 2,707,735 | 42,610 | 7 | Hoy cow , the guy's a walkin ' jewelry store ! | I was cruising the on line cable listings today and came across this unknown title featuring Jimmy Stewart . The description prompted me to tune in and it turned out to be an entertaining hour and a half . Stewart turns in a characteristic Everyman performance as a department store executive whose life is turned upside... |
368,259 | 2,707,735 | 27,445 | 7 | New York to Paris in thirty six hours , someday we'll all travel that way . | The opening credits state that " China Clipper " is a fictional account of the history of trans-Pacific flight . Pat O'Brien portrays hard charging Dave Logan , sacrificing comfort and his own marriage to pursue a dream of developing long distance freight travel via air . Inspired by Charles Lindbergh's New York to Par... |
368,289 | 2,707,735 | 40,369 | 7 | Stay on your horses men , and if you fall off , get on again . | Henry Fonda portrays Colonel Owen Thursday in this post Civil War cavalry Western , and manages to clash with virtually everyone else in the film , including his own daughter Philadelphia ( Shirley Temple ) . Thursday is assigned to Fort Apache in the Arizona Territory , an end of the line outpost in which he feels shu... |
368,583 | 2,707,735 | 64,273 | 7 | If innocence is repaid with prison , then I've earned the right to kill . | Klaus Kinski is one of the few B list performers I'll go out of my way to see , and this Euro-West feature is a good example of his sinister presence on screen . You'll generally catch him as a villain since he so naturally looks the part , though in " And God Said to Cain ' he portrays an anti-hero out for revenge aga... |
367,767 | 2,707,735 | 27,407 | 7 | Whenever mugs get into a jam , the first thing they do is start knifing each other . | Detective Johnny Blake ( Edward G . Robinson ) plays both sides of the law in this 1936 gangster / crime drama . In the early part of the film , we see an increasingly disillusioned Blake forge an odd relationship with crime boss Al Kruger ( Barton MacLane ) . But when anti crime publisher Ward Bryant is murdered by Kr... |
367,824 | 2,707,735 | 78,919 | 7 | You don't just go and rob a train , it takes practice . | This film has taken a lot of heat for it's role as a prequel to the Paul Newman / Robert Redford classic , but I think if you give it a chance it stands on it's own legs fairly well . The uncanny part of the picture is the remarkable resemblance ( most of the time ) that Tom Berenger and William Katt have to the stars ... |
367,926 | 2,707,735 | 16,654 | 7 | Dead men tell no tales . | I generally have some reservations about tuning in to a silent film , but once I do , they usually turn out pretty well . " The Black Pirate " was no exception , my first encounter with the legendary silent action-adventure hero Douglas Fairbanks ( Sr . ) . His swashbuckling feats of dynamic swordplay and athletic scal... |
368,105 | 2,707,735 | 197,521 | 7 | There were once many people here who could have told of what they saw , now there are only a few . | Back when I was a kid of about ten years old ( 1960 ) , New York City had a TV station ( WNEW or WPIX , I can't remember which ) , that ran what it called " The Million Dollar Movie " , taking it's name from films that up to that time had grossed over a million dollars . The film would be featured every night for a wee... |
368,582 | 2,707,735 | 38,369 | 7 | Well , here's to what was . | Twenty four hours since I've watched the movie , and with time to reflect , I would have given it higher marks yesterday . I guess that comes from thinking about the high degree of coincidence necessary to pull off the story , like Joyce Harwood ( Veronica Lake ) finding hitchhiker Johnny Morrison ( Alan Ladd ) in the ... |
368,103 | 2,707,735 | 165,905 | 7 | This town's on the wrong side of ugly . | File this one under one of the better Westerns you probably never heard of . It pits a pair of good bad guys ( Willie Nelson and Kris Kristofferson ) , against a bad , bad guy in a tale of retribution and revenge that's full of clichés that play out refreshingly well when doled out by Lee Walker ( Nelson ) and Jesse Ra... |
368,222 | 2,707,735 | 49,201 | 7 | No matter how fast you are , there's always somebody faster . | Within the Western movie category , there's a neat little sub-genre dealing with the subject of this film , the ultimate goal of proving that one man is the ' fastest gun alive ' . It's been explored numerous times , and my favorite up to this point is Gregory Peck's 1950 film " The Gunfighter " . I can also think of a... |
367,898 | 2,707,735 | 79,100 | 7 | I'm nobody's story but my own . | So many movies got by me in the Seventies and Eighties that it's an occasional treat to catch one now that delivers in an entertaining fashion . I've never been a fan of Jane Fonda because of her politics , but there's not a scene here in which she doesn't look great , and not a scene where Robert Redford doesn't look ... |
368,149 | 2,707,735 | 62,218 | 7 | My only bad luck is you're not dead yet . | It's a bit unusual seeing Dean Martin play the part of a villain , especially having been a regular viewer of his variety show back in the 1960's . I couldn't help thinking that any minute he would enter the Ace Deuce , hop up on a piano and start belting out ' That's Amore ' . There was at least one similarity to Mart... |
367,590 | 2,707,735 | 64,409 | 7 | There'll be no killin ' around this church unless I do the killin ' . . . . Amen . | After watching quite a few Westerns with the cattle vs . sheep rancher theme , this is the first time I've ever seen one in which an attempt was made to get the two factions together by demonstrating that both animals could live together side by side . I wonder why no one else ever got that idea , until Glenn Ford came... |
368,246 | 2,707,735 | 29,217 | 7 | I'm fed up with being afraid . . . | Mobster Johnny Vanning ( Eduardo Ciannelli ) is the new proprietor of the Club Intime , and he let's everyone know how it's going to be - his henchmen , his employees , and the hostesses who work the patrons . Even the name of the club needs to go , because Johnny doesn't know what " Intime " means . A derivation of " ... |
367,724 | 2,707,735 | 371,746 | 7 | So you're a man who has everything , . . . , and nothing . | So here I am in my late fifties with enough of a connection to my comic book collecting past to be intrigued by modern day super hero films . Now I was never a Marvel Comics geek , my favorite characters were the mainstays of the DC Comics universe , like Superman , Batman , Green Lantern , et al . But if you were a fa... |
368,040 | 2,707,735 | 47,086 | 7 | I got news for you guys , we just passed the point of no return . | Until this year , the Wayne Family had prevented release of " The High and The Mighty " from the film vaults of their estate . I think I know why . Viewing it today as the disaster film it was intended to be , I found the tension to be non existent , the danger not palpable , and it had the longest eleven minutes on re... |
368,592 | 2,707,735 | 38,284 | 7 | It's not this town you're fightin ' for , it's the right to live . | In the expansive history of film Westerns , the theme of cattle men against homesteaders has been done countless times , and " Abilene Town " turns out to be one of the better explorations of that subject . Interestingly , it also throws in a third element , that of the general merchandise shop keeper who stands to ben... |
367,570 | 2,707,735 | 31,398 | 7 | How can we get a nice little war going ? | I won't deny the film's epic status , but unfortunately the movie doesn't do it for me . Ultimately the title character doesn't seem as central to the story as one expects him to be , and instead it feels like the grand misadventures of the three principal characters ( McLaglen , Grant and Fairbanks Jr . ) . Individual... |
368,012 | 2,707,735 | 48,317 | 7 | Whoever I am kiddo , I'm what makes you tick . . . | The original theatrical trailer calls James Cagney's portrayal of Marty ' The Gimp ' Snyder an ' aggressive characterization ' . However it's one thing to see Cagney as a gritty mobster in films like " Public Enemy " and " White Heat " where his aggression is expressed as an enemy of society . Here he seems an even mor... |
368,570 | 2,707,735 | 50,105 | 7 | There is nothing wrong with Nicolo that a good woman couldn't make right . | An Affair To Remember might be a good name for the story , but as a movie , it's one I'll likely soon forget . With no disrespect to the principals , it's nothing I was expecting with Cary Grant in the cast . No stranger to romantic comedies , Grant was a blast in " The Philadelphia Story " ( 1940 ) and " His Girl Fr... |
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