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493,715 | 342,623 | 24,906 | 6 | young Loretta , young Cary , pre-code - who could ask for more ? | Well , a little LENGTH might have helped . This is a short film but a fascinating one - it's pre-Code and Loretta Young plays a tramp . It's also a pairing of two of the golden era's stars before they really hit the big time . I don't think Young was the best actress in the world but boy , was she beautiful . A face li... |
493,867 | 342,623 | 40,798 | 6 | Just okay | Claudette Colbert doesn't realize her husband is out to kill her in " Sleep , My Love , " a film directed by Douglas Sirk and also starring Don Ameche , Robert Cummings , and George Couloris . Sirk , later known for some big dramas in the ' 50s , was clearly out of his element here in this derivative story . The film b... |
494,655 | 342,623 | 48,393 | 6 | Interesting , later Welles | One of my favorite people to read about and watch is Orson Welles . So I watched " Mr . Akadin , " or " Confidential Report , " as it is sometimes known , with great interest . By 1955 , Welles was a Hollywood outsider , the great years behind him . He made films on a shoestring and hired himself out to get money to co... |
494,735 | 342,623 | 94,843 | 6 | Stars ' offspring in World War II drama | This film was on a DVD with another film , " The Swiss Conspiracy , " so comparisons are inevitable . I gave this a 6 because I thought it was better than " The Swiss Conspiracy . " Which isn't saying much . But I actually liked this film a little better than most of the other people who commented on this board . Its s... |
494,510 | 342,623 | 36,426 | 6 | George Sanders undercover | They Came to Blow up America looks to be a B movie . It stars the suave , always reliable George Sanders as Steelman , an American of German heritage who is recruited by the FBI to infiltrate the Nazis as a spy . Even his parents believe that he has joined the Nazi movement . He is given the identity of someone else ... |
494,591 | 342,623 | 59,630 | 6 | Adaptation of a John O'Hara novel | Suzanne Pleshette has " A Rage to Live " in this 1965 potboiler also starring Bradford Dillman , Ben Gazzara , Linden Chiles , Carmen Matthews , Bethel Leslie and Peter Graves . The film is an adaptation of a John O'Hara novel , and I understand from people who have read the book that it's not a very good one . Pleshet... |
494,024 | 342,623 | 48,510 | 6 | Burton reciting Shakespeare , how can one go wrong ? | Richard Burton plays Edwin Booth in " Prince of Players , " also starring Raymond Massey , John Derek , Maggie McNamara , and Charles Bickford . The story takes us through the young Edwin growing up , traveling with his famous actor father , and at times standing in for him . Eventually he himself becomes a great actor... |
494,358 | 342,623 | 59,557 | 6 | Yet another ' 60s spy caper , this one pre-global warming | James Coburn is " Our Man Flint " in this 1966 spy film . Flint is called in by our government to find and destroy the enemy's capability to control the weather . Given our current situation with global warming , it was actually quite interesting . The cool , perfect Flint is a derivative of James Bond , a gadget-ridde... |
494,891 | 342,623 | 28,695 | 6 | Donald Woods is this film's Perry Mason | Donald Woods stars as Perry Mason in " The Case of the Stuttering Bishop , " a 1937 film that also stars Ann Dvorak as a lively Della Street . Frank Faylen is also on hand to pep things up a bit . Both of them are needed , because Donald Woods isn't terribly exciting . Of the men who played Perry Mason in the films , h... |
493,685 | 342,623 | 67,001 | 6 | cute if dated | This movie was the possible inspiration for the TV movie and series that followed , " The Snoop Sisters . " This cast is even more formidable than the Snoop Sisters - instead of two elderly ladies , this has four . And what a group ! Helen Hayes , Mildred Natwick , Sylvia Sidney , and Myrna Loy . Poor Vincent Edwards d... |
493,727 | 342,623 | 28,219 | 6 | If you wanna stump it , bump it with a trumpet | Boy , once Warner Brothers bought a property , they did everything but serve it for dinner . 1936's " Satan Met a Lady " is yet another version of " The Maltese Falcon , " which was finally given the classic touch by John Huston in 1941 . This particular version is out of control but manages to be a lot of fun at the s... |
495,098 | 342,623 | 41,847 | 6 | Routine cop drama . . . and which came first ? | Did , as some people think , " Scene of the Crime " invent the cop drama clichés that have been a mainstay of television and film for so long ? Or were they already established and just copied by this film ? Not being an expert in the genre , I don't know . I do know that despite attempts by some people to elevate this... |
494,779 | 342,623 | 36,922 | 6 | Hollywood showcase | Hollywood Canteen is the story of the actual organization that fed and entertained soldiers during World War II , started by Bette Davis and John Garfield , both of whom appear in the film . Actual female movie stars served as hostesses and danced with the lonely soldiers . In this story , Slim ( Robert Hutton ) meet... |
494,995 | 342,623 | 32,539 | 6 | There's gold in them thar hills | Gold Rush Maisie has Maisie ( Ann Sothern ) prospecting in this 1940 entry into the series . Maisie's car breaks down , and she becomes stranded and has to ask for help from an isolated , nasty rancher ( Lee Bowman ) who shares his house with another sourpuss ( Slim Somerville ) . These films all followed the same fo... |
494,133 | 342,623 | 32,556 | 6 | When life mocks you , mock it back | Some classic age actors , when seen today , appear hammy and using old-fashioned technique . And some are timeless . John Barrymore is timeless and , in one of his last films , " The Great Profile , " he lampoons himself mercilessly - in the role of a ham with old-fashioned technique . The story is based on what really... |
495,138 | 342,623 | 45,669 | 6 | lots of fog , a little Donna Reed Show , some Gaslight thrown in | Jeanne Crain was under contract to Twentieth Century Fox in the ' 40s and ' 50s and , as a pretty ingénue , made some big films . In fact , the studio wanted Joseph Mankiewicz to give her the role of Eve in " All About Eve . " Not considering her much of an actress , Mankiewicz refused to use her in the film . He was r... |
494,150 | 342,623 | 23,891 | 6 | Early Hepburn | Katharine Hepburn is a beautiful and accomplished aviatrix in " Christopher Strong , " a 1933 film also starring Clive Owen and Billie Burke , and directed by Dorothy Arzner . Hepburn's role of Lady Cynthia is loosely based on Amelia Earhart , a young , ambitious career woman who is not interested in marriage and home ... |
494,497 | 342,623 | 36,881 | 6 | Trite and light musical comedy | Greenwich Village is a musical from Twentieth Century Fox starring Don Ameche , Vivian Blaine , Carmen Miranda , and William Bendix . The film seems a bit slapped together , especially in light of the fact that one of the numbers was actually footage from " Springtime in the Rockies " that was cut . There's not much ... |
494,044 | 342,623 | 33,107 | 6 | Bizarre little noir | Peter Lorre is the " Stranger on the Third Floor " in this B movie from 1940 that stars John McGuire , Maria Tallichet ( Mrs . William Wyler ) and Elisha Cook , Jr . McGuire plays Mike Ward , a reporter who is the key witness in a murder trial that ends with the defendant ( Cook ) being found guilty . The man's protest... |
494,009 | 342,623 | 28,269 | 6 | enteraining , featuring a small town actor who soon goes to the big city | Small Town Girl is a light , entertaining piece starring Janet Gaynor and Robert Taylor . Gaynor is a young woman sick of her humdrum life . When she meets playboy Robert Taylor , she's enchanted by him , as most women of the ' 30s were . While they're together , he gets smashed and proposes . Thinking of her family ... |
494,972 | 342,623 | 28,270 | 6 | typical ' 30s comedy | The Smartest Girl in Town is a typical 1936 film with a typical plot . A wealthy man ( Gene Raymond ) falls for a model named Cookie ( Ann Sothern ) who mistakes him for a model . He has his butler ( Erik Blore ) call Cookie's booker and claim he's from an advertising agency so he can book her again and get close to ... |
494,886 | 342,623 | 37,040 | 6 | Maisie tries to stop a divorce | In " Maisie Goes to Reno , " our usually effervescent Maisie is burnt out working in a wartime factory and is sent on a vacation by her doctor . She accepts an offer to sing with her old band in Reno and relax by day but finds that in order to get there , she has to buy the ticket of a woman who's decided not to go . A... |
494,752 | 342,623 | 370,987 | 6 | pilot for the " Hallmark Mystery Series " entry | This was evidently the pilot for the " Mystery Woman " series starring Kellie Martin , which rotates with " Jane Doe " and " McBride " on the " Hallmark Mystery Series . " I'm a fan of Kellie Martin and of this concept , but thanks to the direction of this pilot , the minutes flew like hours . This was an extremely slo... |
493,917 | 342,623 | 24,025 | 6 | Debut of a great screen pair | If you watch " Flying Down to Rio " expecting it to be a Rogers and Astaire film , forget it - but it was their debut as a team , dancing the Carioca . This is a 1933 movie short on plot and , as is often the case with the early talkies , a little slow in parts due to the pace of the dialogue . It is nevertheless a fun... |
494,673 | 342,623 | 284,028 | 6 | When the child is the abuser | This is an interesting movie starring Delta Burke , one of my favorites , and Ryan Merriman , who does an excellent job as a teenager who turns on his mother . Burke is divorced from a verbally abusive and belittling man , and she has custody of their two children . The older boy becomes less and less able to cope with... |
494,184 | 342,623 | 33,246 | 6 | All this for $26 . 50 a week | John Shelton and Lana Turner star are " We Who Are Young , " a 1940 film also starring Gene Lockhart . Turner and Shelton are newlyweds who work in the same office ; she's fired as soon as the boss ( Lockhart ) finds out . Married women can't work there ; it seems they're taking the jobs away from the more deserving me... |
495,140 | 342,623 | 116,528 | 6 | excellent story , if not as harrowing as the real-life events | I saw the actual heroine of this story on Oprah . She was accompanied by her dentist husband and her son . Her husband was one of the men she hid in her wall during the war . He jumped off a train en route to a concentration camp , and the bread he hid in his chest broke his fall . He went to this young woman's home be... |
494,345 | 342,623 | 23,993 | 6 | pre-code early Bette programmer | Well , well , imagine my surprise when I saw two people in a double bed . That's right - precode , no whitewash . Bette Davis and Gene Raymond star in " Ex-Lady , " about talented illustrator Helen Bauer , a career girl with very definite ideas about marriage - she's against it . Don ( Raymond ) has a key to her apartm... |
494,595 | 342,623 | 59,224 | 6 | Elvis in Fort Lauderdale | Elvis Presley and his band are " Girl Happy " in this 1965 film starring Shelley Fabares and featuring Gary Crosby , Mary Ann Mobley , Harold Stone , Nita Talbot , Joby Baker and Fabrizio Mioni . Presley and his band are hired by the club owner ( Harold Stone ) they work for to go to Fort Lauderdale and make sure that ... |
493,463 | 342,623 | 457,410 | 6 | Laroquette is great but oy , the script | The Hallmark mystery series needs better mysteries . This one , " Tune in for Murder " in the McBride series is rotten . I mean , the evidence - hello . So obviously fake . John Laroquette is delightful as McBride , and I think he does a bit of ad-libbing as well , but this sort of thing is beneath him . It's definitel... |
494,373 | 342,623 | 422,720 | 6 | Beautiful bore | Kirsten Dunst is " Marie Antoinette " in this anachronistic 2006 film directed by Sofia Coppola . The other stars include Jason Schwartzman , Rip Torn , Judy Davis , Marianne Faithful and Molly Shannon . I can only guess that the reason for making this film was to show a teenage Queen of France cavorting with her girlf... |
493,925 | 342,623 | 41,871 | 6 | A parole officer falls in love with one of his charges | Shockproof is a 1949 Douglas Sirk film starring Cornel Wilde and Patricia Knight . Wilde is Griff Marat , who gets a paroled prisoner , Jenny Marsh ( Knight ) on his caseload . She refuses to give up the bad acquaintances that got her into trouble in the first place ; this includes her old boyfriend , Harry ( John Ba... |
493,772 | 342,623 | 120,828 | 6 | fails the litmus test | The litmus test is - - if [ big star ] weren't in this film , could it be a TV movie ? Alas , the answer is yes . Though very entertaining with good performances , how Six Days Seven Nights made it to the big screen eludes me . It is not original and doesn't have the kind of script one demands of a feature film . I was... |
495,125 | 342,623 | 45,932 | 6 | blink and you miss it | Jeopardy is a B movie , and it's sad to see the wonderful Barbara Stanwyck reduced to doing it . It is , however , not without merit . Stanwyck plays a wife and mother trying to get help for her trapped husband , Barry Sullivan . She runs afoul of Ralph Meeker en route . Now , here's the thing . He refuses to help her ... |
494,531 | 342,623 | 63,452 | 6 | glossy ' 60s sci fi | This interesting sci fi film stars George Hamilton and Suzanne Pleshette , and features some former stars / near stars who had seen better days : Yvonne DeCarlo , Richard Carlson , Aldo Ray , and Gary Merrill ( in a real stepdown from All About Eve ) . Among the older stars , Michael Rennie has a larger supporting role... |
493,601 | 342,623 | 54,710 | 6 | By soap possessed | Lana Turner , Efrem Zimbalist , Jr . , Jason Robards , Barbara Bel Geddes , Susan Kohner and George Hamilton are - if we are to believe the title - " By Love Possessed " in this 1961 film which also stars Thomas Mitchell and Yvonne Craig . As the name of the movie indicates , this is a huge , glossy , color soap opera ... |
493,948 | 342,623 | 23,601 | 6 | military school story featuring some future stars | Though it might not sound like it , " Tom Brown of Culver " is about some military school lads , mainly Tom Brown , who is played , interestingly enough , by Tom Brown . Brown goes from the fight ring into military school on scholarship because his father was a war hero . After a tough time , he goes on to be an excell... |
494,804 | 342,623 | 23,581 | 6 | Gotta love these pre-code Loretta Young movies | They Call it Sin is a 1932 film starring Loretta Young , George Brent , Una Merkel , Louis Calhern and David Manners . It's about a small-town beauty named Marion who falls in love with a man , James Decker ( Manners ) passing through town . He is engaged to another woman . It doesn't stop him , however , from fallin... |
493,824 | 342,623 | 23,583 | 6 | A haunted house , an unlucky number | A very young Ginger Rogers stars in " The Thirteenth Guest , " a 1932 film also starring Lyle Talbot . Thirteen years earlier , a dinner party took place in an old house , but the 13th guest never appeared . Now the owner of the house is dead and left his estate to this 13th guest . Someone is murdering the original pa... |
493,547 | 342,623 | 41,473 | 6 | Sweet | Janet Leigh is a war widow who has two men after her in " Holiday Affair , " a 1949 film also starring Robert Mitchum and Wendell Corey . Leigh plays Connie , a comparison shopper who meets Steve Mason when he waits on her . Steve pegs her as a comparison shopper - and he pegs a few other things about her too . She's b... |
493,758 | 342,623 | 28,587 | 6 | okay musical | Jack Benny , Ida Lupino , Gail Patrick , Judy Canova and Ben Blue star in " Artists & Models , " a 1937 film directed by Rapul Walsh . Benny plays Mac Brewster , the owner of an advertising agency who lands the Townsend Silver Account . Mac has a ball planned , the Artists and Models Ball , and the " Townsend girl , " ... |
493,454 | 342,623 | 32,943 | 6 | entertaining adaptation | This is one of the many adaptations of the novel " Pride and Prejudice , " the best probably being the miniseries that appeared on A & E . This one stars Greer Garson and Laurence Olivier . Garson , of course , is not the 19 that Elisabeth is supposed to be , and any talent that she had as an actress has long been dism... |
494,265 | 342,623 | 58,981 | 6 | French bedroom farce , American style | 1965's " Boeing Boeing " is a dated but mildly amusing film starring Tony Curtis , Thelma Ritter , Jerry Lewis and Dany Saval . Curtis is a swinging bachelor living in Paris who is juggling three flight attendants at one time , all of whom live with him , and all of them are his fiancees . He's able to do this with the... |
494,984 | 342,623 | 45,961 | 6 | sweeping epic | Director Henry King and star Tyrone Power teamed up for their ninth film , almost 20 years after King helped Power shoot to stardom when he chose him as Jonathan in " Lloyds of London . " Why do I think Power was somewhat less ebullient this time around . By 1953 , he was surely in a mad rush to finish his contract wit... |
494,217 | 342,623 | 33,596 | 6 | Erratic screenplay hampers a good cast | Any old film aficionado would be drawn to a film starring Rosalind Russell , Don Ameche , Van Heflin and Kay Francis , so it's no surprise that this poster tuned into " The Feminine Touch , " a 1941 comedy . The story concerns a college professor , John Hathaway ( Ameche ) who has written a very intellectual book on je... |
494,135 | 342,623 | 37,386 | 6 | Der Schlechte Samen , deutscher Stil ( that's The Bad Seed , German Style ) | Lately I've been wondering about TCM's rating system . This is the second time I've been burned by a bunch of stars next to a film . I think they need to relook at some of these movies . " Tomorrow , the World ! " is based on the Broadway play . The film stars Frederic March , Skippy Homeier , Betty Field , Agnes Moorh... |
494,012 | 342,623 | 45,162 | 6 | A downer | Gregory Peck leads an all-star cast in " The Snows of Kilimanjaro , " a big 1952 film directed by Henry King and produced by Darryl F . Zanuck . With a cast that includes Ava Gardner , Susan Hayward , Hildegarde Neff and Leo J . Carroll , and a story based on a story by Ernest Hemingway , one expects something more - m... |
493,999 | 342,623 | 27,656 | 6 | another Philo , another mystery | Now it's Edmund Lowe as Philo Vance as he tackles " The Garden Murder Case . " It's a neat story concerning murder by hypnosis - which , as other posters point out , is a fairly obvious one , although the murder is not . The denouement makes for an exciting last minutes of the movie . Virginia Bruce costars and serves ... |
494,977 | 342,623 | 45,128 | 6 | B movie starring Cesar Romero | Lady in the Fog is a 1952 film starring Cesar Romero as an amateur detective , Philip O'Dell , an American currently in London . He helps a woman ( Lois Maxwell ) whom he meets in a bar - her brother was run down by a car in the heavy London fog , but she is convinced that it wasn't accidental . O'Dell investigates ,... |
494,224 | 342,623 | 24,421 | 6 | The immoral behavior of British society | Constance Bennett is a disillusioned socialite in " Our Betters , " based on Somerset Maugham's play . Bennett plays a beautiful woman ( in absolutely knockout gowns ) who , on her wedding day , discovers that her husband has a mistress , a Charles-Diana-Camilla thing . Bennett's got the cash , and the girlfriend's poo... |
494,521 | 342,623 | 27,686 | 6 | Amusing but not great as a musical | Dick Powell is an insurance salesman who sells a million dollar policy to a producer in " Gold Diggers of 1937 " also starring Joan Blondell , Victor Moore , Osgood Perkins and Glenda Farrell . Due to bad investments by his staff , producer / hypochondriac Hobart ( Moore ) has no idea that the show he's planning to put... |
494,020 | 342,623 | 32,018 | 6 | Lana gets a glimpse of lifestyles of the rich and snooty | How pretty , sexy , and vivacious Lana Turner was , and she's shown to great advantage in " These Glamour Girls , " a 1939 film about a weekend of house parties at an upper-class college . Turner plays a Jane , a taxi dancer at the Joy Lane Dance Hall who meets Phil ( Lew Ayres ) , a college student from an old family ... |
494,829 | 342,623 | 33,650 | 6 | First of the Falcon series | George Sanders is " The Gay Falcon , " a 1941 film , the first entry into the Falcon series . The title has a double meaning , as the Falcon's first name is Gay . Though it's a programmer , " The Gay Falcon " has quite an uptown cast , including Gladys Cooper , Allen Jenkins , Turhan Bey , and Wendy Barrie . The Falcon... |
494,744 | 342,623 | 45,094 | 6 | The boys search for sunken treasure | 1952's ROAD TO BALI is my first " road " picture , and I don't think it's the one I should have started with - after all , by 1952 , this shtick had to be getting pretty old . I admit to being a fan of Bob Hope , especially in his ' 40s films ; I'm not a particular fan of Bing Crosby as an actor . I'm more a fan of his... |
494,377 | 342,623 | 95,654 | 7 | An actor becomes the dictator of a country | Richard Dreyfuss stars in " Moon Over Parador , " a 1988 Paul Mazursky film also starring Raul Julia , Sonia Braga , Jonathan Winters and Charo . Dreyfuss plays a New York actor , Jonathan Nolan , in the Caribbean country of Parador to make a film . When the dictator dies suddenly , the Secret Police Chief ( Julia ) wh... |
493,623 | 342,623 | 112,864 | 7 | frightening for all the wrong reasons | Unfortunately I just saw this film . I don't want to put in a spoiler so I'll just say - recent events make watching this movie terrifying and spooky , mostly because of the film's use of location . One scene in particular today takes on new meaning . It's interesting how the minute you put something on film , you date... |
493,891 | 342,623 | 56,447 | 7 | okay drama | William Holden and Clifton Webb star in " Satan Never Sleeps , " a 1962 drama also starring France Nuyen . It's directed by Leo McCarey - it's his last film . The story concerns a priest , Father O'Banion ( William Holden ) who comes to a mission in China to relieve an elderly priest , Father Bovard ( Clifton Webb ) . ... |
494,425 | 342,623 | 44,013 | 7 | Shades of Rebecca | Robert Young is one seemingly unlucky guy in " The Second Woman , " a 1950 film also starring Betsy Drake , Morris Carnovsky , John Sutton , Florence Bates and Henry O'Neill . This was probably a ' B ' noir ; like " Shining Victory " and " The Uninvited , " it is reminiscent of " Rebecca " - in fact , the beginning nar... |
494,505 | 342,623 | 95,665 | 7 | You do something to me | Anthony Edwards is " Mr . North " in this 1988 film with a star-studded cast that includes Lauren Bacall , Robert Mitchum , Tammy Grimes , Angelica Huston , Virginia Madsen and Harry Dean Stanton . North is a young Yale graduate who comes to Newport in the 1920s and changes the lives of those he meets in a positive way... |
495,145 | 342,623 | 88,036 | 7 | Hot Samson , shorn or unshorn | This movie heralded the " introduction " of bona fide Australian adonis Antony Hamilton , though he had done television and a low budget cult film , " Nocturna " previously . Hamilton in various stages of undress is the only reason to watch this film - - which is a good enough one - - though in the version I saw some o... |
495,114 | 342,623 | 35,250 | 7 | Joan as patriot | Decked out in gowns and outfits designed by Irene , Joan Crawford plays the French version of Scarlett O'Hara with her " Oh , war , war , war " grumbling until she has to duck a bomb while on vacation . Returning to Paris , she finds her house commandeered by the Nazis . She gets only one room for herself and those gow... |
493,810 | 342,623 | 78,163 | 7 | Peter Sellers ' last Panther | Peter Sellers is once again Inspector Clouseau in " Revenge of the Pink Panther , " a 1978 film also starring Herbert Lom , Dyan Cannon , Robert Webber and Robert Loggia . A mobster decides to get Clouseau out of the way with disastrous results for everyone around the clumsy detective . In one of the best scenes , Clou... |
493,646 | 342,623 | 26,261 | 7 | Bette Davis as a jinx in ' 30s melodrama | Bette Davis plays a down and out actress who believes she curses everyone she becomes involved with in " Dangerous , " one of Davis ' Oscar-winning performances . It is in this film and the earlier " Of Human Bondage " that the Davis image really solidifies - high energy , strong , smoking , and smokin ' . If she seems... |
494,845 | 342,623 | 26,264 | 7 | World War I love triangle | Frederic March , Merle Oberon , and Herbert Marshall comprise a love triangle in " The Dark Angel , " set in the grimness of World War I . Kitty ( Oberon ) has grown up with both Alan ( March ) and Gerald ( Marshall ) and knows the day will come when she must choose between them . She chooses Alan , but before they can... |
494,999 | 342,623 | 35,272 | 7 | The forerunner of Chicago | There was a real Roxie Hart , and in 1942 , she was played by none other than Ginger Rogers with red hair . It's basically the same story as " Chicago " with some changes . What remains the same is that Roxie is a darling of the press , and her trial is a media circus . The difference here is that Roxie didn't shoot an... |
494,103 | 342,623 | 43,959 | 7 | Two pros in a lively western | Tyrone Power and Susan Hayward star in " Rawhide , " a 1951 western about convicts who take over a stagecoach station and plan to rob a morning stage carrying gold . The film sports an excellent cast , including Edgar Buchanan , Hugh Marlowe , Dean Jagger , and Jack Elam . Hayword and her niece are held over at the sta... |
493,754 | 342,623 | 43,955 | 7 | Crime film based on play | The Racket is a 1951 film based on an old play . It was first made in 1928 . This time around , it stars Robert Ryan and Robert Mitchum and is directed by James Cromwell . The other stars are Lizabeth Scott , Robert Hutton , Ray Collins and William Talman ( both of whom were regulars on " Perry Mason " ) . Robert Mit... |
494,709 | 342,623 | 56,347 | 7 | Another take on the famous Leroux novel | Each " Phantom of the Opera " deviates somewhat from the Leroux novel - with the original silent film with Lon Chaney perhaps being the exception . In the ' 40s Nelson Eddy version , the police chief and an operatic baritone are Christine's suitors instead of Raoul ( though the baritone is named Raoul ) and it's hinted... |
495,199 | 342,623 | 35,317 | 7 | Sherlock Holmes in World War II | For the sake of propaganda during World War II , Sherlock Holmes was moved into the then-present . One of the results is " Sherlock Holmes and the Secret Weapon , " starring a top Holmes , Basil Rathbone , along with Nigel Bruce , Lionel Atwill , Dennis Hoey and Kaaren Verne . It is Holmes ' assignment to deliver a sci... |
493,726 | 342,623 | 39,110 | 7 | An author meets her fictional hero in person - so she thinks | Claudette Colbert chases a soldier " Without Reservations " in this 1946 film which also stars John Wayne , Don DeFore , and Ann Triola , with cameos by Louella Parsons , Cary Grant , Jack Benny , and Delores Moran as themselves . Colbert plays a best-selling author , Christopher Madden , who has written a book about t... |
494,917 | 342,623 | 35,082 | 7 | Out of the nowhere , into the no place | Director Fritz Lang was replaced by Archie Mayo as director of the 1942 " Moontide , " and one wonders if the film would have been any better with Lang at the helm . With a script by John O'Hara , it's all dry ice , cheap sets , night shots and little action . The great French film star , perhaps the greatest , Jean Ga... |
495,121 | 342,623 | 30,491 | 7 | Lassie's producer as the heroine of many young girls | Bonita Granville plays smart , courageous , spunky Nancy Drew in this programmer based on the novels by Caroline Keene . It's been a long time since I read any Nancy Drews , or since my mother read the books , but one remembers every detail . The roadster , her friend named George , her boyfriend named Ned , and the Dr... |
494,578 | 342,623 | 52,700 | 7 | Another version of the Leopold & Loeb case | The murder committed in the 1920s by two young men , Leopold & Loeb , has been story fodder for years . There was , of course , Hitchcock's ROPE , the independent film SWOON , and a musical , THRILL ME , which recently played at the York Theater in New York . This version stars Dean Stockwell and Bradford Dillman as th... |
493,641 | 342,623 | 35,100 | 7 | very funny Bob Hope movie | After swooning for quite some time on his radio show about Madeline Carroll , the actress , enjoying the publicity , approached him about being a guest on his show . Hope suggested that instead , they do a film together . The result is the delightful " My Favorite Blonde " about a British spy , Carroll , trying to deli... |
494,594 | 342,623 | 52,713 | 7 | Asian detective and white partner fall for the same woman | Sam Fuller directed " The Crimson Kimono , " starring Glenn Corbett , James Shigeta , Victoria Shaw and Anna Lee , and this 1959 film is not your usual detective noir . Corbett and Shigeta are Charlie Bancroft and Joe Kojaku , buddies from the Korean war and now partners in the LA Police Department , investigate the de... |
493,928 | 342,623 | 87,932 | 7 | Good acting and gritty atmosphere the stars of this film | Mickey Rourke is " The Pope of Greenwich Village " in this 1984 film also starring Eric Roberts , Geraldine Page , Kenneth McMillan , Darryl Hannah and Burt Young . Rourke is Charlie , who , with his cousin Paulie , rob a mobster with the help of a safecracker ( McMillan ) . Both Rourke and Roberts are in fine form aga... |
494,912 | 342,623 | 38,922 | 7 | Slow and very sentimental | Sentimental Journey is a 1946 film starring Maureen O'Hara , John Payne , Connie Marshall , Cedric Hardwicke and William Bendix . Set in New York City , it's the story of an actress , Julie Beck ( O'Hara ) and her director / producer husband Bill Wetherly ( Payne ) . They have an idyllic marriage , but Julie has a pr... |
494,042 | 342,623 | 38,924 | 7 | British psychological drama | Ann Harding is a young girl who must take off " The Seventh Veil , " referring to the last veil of Salome , in this 1945 psychological drama also starring James Mason and Herbert Lom . Harding plays Francesca , who becomes the word of Nicholas ( Mason ) , a friend of her father's , when she is a young girl . Learning o... |
493,661 | 342,623 | 233,322 | 7 | An entertaining look at the life of a legend | I must admit before my critique that I have a bias . It's because of Bette Davis that I fell in love with film . The movie was " Dark Victory , " and I only saw Part 1 on television , but it was enough . When I went to college , I was able to see many of her greatest films with my friends , and those movies stand side ... |
493,451 | 342,623 | 66,181 | 7 | an old soul in a ' 60's musical | Barbra Streisand , with no screen test , signed a three-film contract after her enormous Broadway success . " On A Clear Day , " based , of course , on the Broadway musical , was one of her projects . Streisand plays Daisy , a psychic young woman who , under hypnosis , reveals a different personality who lived in Engla... |
494,955 | 342,623 | 256,459 | 7 | Very good performances highlight the story of " coming out " | Ellen Muth is a teen who comes out as a lesbian , and Stockard Channing and James Naughton are her parents in " The Truth About Jane , " a Lifetime movie . This was an excellent movie dealing with the shame and pain of being different , the realization of who you are , and the difficulty in telling your loved ones you'... |
494,492 | 342,623 | 43,813 | 7 | Matchmaker , matchmaker | The Model and the Marriage Broker is a great film find . It has one thing few films have - Thelma Ritter in the lead ! In this , she plays a marriage broker trying - and often succeeding - at matching up misfits . When she takes a model's ( Jeanne Crain ) purse by mistake and vice versa , the two end up in each other... |
494,390 | 342,623 | 39,017 | 7 | One of the more interesting entries in the series | Terror by Night was made in 1946 and is a modern-day Sherlock Holmes film starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce . Since it's 1946 , there's no need for the usual war propaganda , which was the actual reason for this series . In this adventure , Holmes is on a fast-moving train to protect the famous " Star of Rhodes... |
494,822 | 342,623 | 47,679 | 7 | A great look at being a career woman in the ' 50s | Witness to Murder is a small but interesting film starring Barbara Stanwyck , George Sanders , and Gary Merrill . By 1954 , Stanwyck was 47 and no longer considered leading lady material . However , because she was such a great star and actress , she could still get good roles in big films , " Titanic " and " Executi... |
494,100 | 342,623 | 837,119 | 7 | Actually one of the better episodes | I had to chuckle at the previous review of this - obviously , the reviewer isn't familiar with this series and therefore can't possibly know that this is one of the better entries . Cathy Davis ( Lea Thompson ) ( Jane Doe in her role as a CSA agent ) is called by Darnell ( Joe Penny ) to help investigate the theft of a... |
493,766 | 342,623 | 43,782 | 7 | A small drama with big names | Joseph Cotten , Barbara Stanwyck , Louis Calhern , and Leslie Caron star in " The Man with a Cloak , " a 1951 thriller set in 1848 New York . A young woman ( Caron ) comes to New York to get money for her boyfriend's political cause from his grandfather ( Calhern ) . Grandpa is in the clutches of his ex-girlfriend turn... |
494,262 | 342,623 | 21,778 | 7 | Lots of fun and precode , too | Dance , Fools , Dance is an early Crawford-Gable vehicle from 1931 . Crawford plays a Bonnie Jordan , a wealthy young woman whose life consists of parties , booze , and stripping off her clothes to jump from a yacht and go swimming . This all ends when her father dies and leaves her and her brother ( William Blakewel... |
494,445 | 342,623 | 38,988 | 7 | You can't go home again | Due to a car accident , Van Heflin has to return to his home town in " The Strange Love of Martha Ivers , " and walks into a world full of blackmail and murder . 18 years earlier , he ran away from home the night his friend Martha's aunt was murdered while Martha , her friend Walter , and Walter's father were in the Iv... |
495,036 | 342,623 | 61,405 | 7 | So sixties | Michael Caine as Harry Palmer comes up against the " Billion Dollar Brain " in this 1967 film also starring Karl Malden , Oscar Homolka , Francoise Dorleac and Ed Begley , directed by Ken Russell . Harry is dragged back into MI-5 , this time to get biological warfare out of the hands of the enemy . The enemy in this ca... |
494,511 | 342,623 | 26,205 | 7 | Red Dust and Mogambo waterlogged | A good cast and lots of action highlight " China Seas , " a 1935 film directed by Tay Garnett and starring Clark Gable , Jean Harlow , Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell . Gable plays Alan Gaskell who is captain of a ship sailing from Hong Kong to Singapore . He's in love with the refined Sybil Thorndike ( Russell ) an... |
494,592 | 342,623 | 70,653 | 7 | No coming in from the cold for this crowd | Handsome Alain Delon is " Scorpio " in this 1973 spy film starring Burt Lancaster and Paul Scofield , and featuring John Colicos , Arthur Hil and Joanna Linville . Cross is an old CIA agent who assassinates foreign officials the U . S . needs out of the way . His some time parter is Jean Laurier , aka Scorpio , a freel... |
495,188 | 342,623 | 43,769 | 7 | Story of an early film pioneer | There were undoubtedly many people working on some of our most important inventions around the time they became prominent . William Friese-Greene spent his life working on the motion picture camera , and though he isn't the official inventor , he is someone who contributed his work to what became the final product . Hi... |
494,564 | 342,623 | 39,337 | 7 | Two tragic stars in a delightful fantasy | There were many beautiful women during Hollywood's golden years , but only a small percentage would qualify as goddesses . Rita Hayworth was definitely one of that elite group , possibly never more stunningly beautiful as she appeared in " Down To Earth . " As Terpsichore , goddess of music and dance , she comes to ear... |
494,433 | 342,623 | 373,024 | 7 | Derivative script lacks some punch | Imaginary Heroes is a 2004 film starring Sigourney Weaver , Jeff Daniels , Emile Hirsch , Michelle Williams , and Kip Pardue . The story concerns a dysfunctional family that becomes even more dysfunctional when the oldest child ( Pardue ) commits suicide . " Ordinary People " has been mentioned often in relation to t... |
494,667 | 342,623 | 412,019 | 7 | A man travels into his past to find an answer | Bill Murray is a despondent bachelor who takes a trip into his past relationships in " Broken Flowers , " a 2005 film written and directed by Jim Jarmusch and also starring Jeffrey Wright , Sharon Stone , Tilda Swinton , Jessica Lange , Christopher MacDonald , Chloe Sevigny , and Frances Conroy . I've been a fan of Jar... |
495,179 | 342,623 | 87,747 | 7 | sweet film about immigrants in America | Robin Williams is a Russian musician who defects in Bloomingdale's in " Moscow on the Hudson , " a film directed and co-written by Paul Mazursky . This is a warm , funny yet melancholy film about the experiences of immigrants trying to adjust to American life , focusing mainly on Robin Williams as Vladimir . Williams i... |
494,412 | 342,623 | 39,357 | 7 | okay romance | Ida Lupino is in love with Errol Flynn but Errol loves his brother's fiancé in " Escape Me Never , " a 1947 film from Warner Brothers . Flynn and Gig Young play brother composers Sebastian and Caryl Dubrok . Lupino plays Gemma , a poor young woman with a baby she calls Piccolo . She's in love with Flynn , and tells the... |
494,887 | 342,623 | 43,728 | 7 | Entertaining comedy | Greer Garson is the lady in question in " The Law and the Lady , " a 1951 film also starring Michael Wilding , Marjorie Main and Fernando Lamas . It's a loose remake of " The Last of Mrs . Cheyney . " Here , Garson plays a former British household maid at the end of the 19th Century who hooks up with the brother of her... |
494,753 | 342,623 | 39,305 | 7 | entertaining post-war noir | Dead Reckoning is a good , if not very original , film noir starring Humphrey Bogart as a paratrooper investigating his buddy's death . William Prince , who later was a more visible actor as a white-haired older man , has a small role as the buddy , who runs away when he learns he's about to receive the Medal of Hono... |
495,117 | 342,623 | 91,572 | 7 | a lesser TV adaptation of an Agatha Christie novel | Having read all of the Agatha Christie books , I have to say that David Suchet was the ultimate Hercule Poirot as written by Agatha Christie . But my favorite Poirot , having nothing whatsoever to do with either Poirot or what Ms . Christie wrote , is Peter Ustinov . It always reminds me of what someone once said about... |
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