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fascinating film about the international banking family
Darryl F . Zanuck covered Napoleon's sweep across Europe in two early films : " Lloyds of London , " in which Tyrone Power plays a fictional character who continues insuring the British fleet so that his childhood friend , Horatio Nelson , can win the war ; and " The House of Rothschild " in which Nathan Rothschild and...
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ooh baby , that's some noir you've got there
Robert Siodmak does a fabulous job with this B noir starring Ella Raines , Franchot Tone , and Alan Curtis . And he does it , I might add , without a lot of help from his male actors , i . e . , Curtis and Tone . It's Raines all the way , a pretty , leggy actress who for one reason or another never reached the status o...
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Drama based on Arthur Miller's play
All My Sons was on Broadway in 1947 and starred Ed Begley Sr . and Arthur Kennedy . It was a timely play , as stories of wartime corruption had started to surface . Considered anticapitalist , it was suspected of being pro-Communist , so the film version is somewhat modified from the play . It stars Edward G . Robins...
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Another Princess and a commoner , with some propaganda thrown in
It is , after all , 1943 , so you've got to expect a little propaganda from a film , even if it is a comedy called " Princess O'Rourke , " starring Olivia de Havilland , Robert Cummings , Jack Carson , and Jane Wyman . DeHavilland is a princess visiting in New York , en route by plane to San Francisco to escape from bo...
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Drama of the supernatural
Scientist Ray Milland believes he's seeing and speaking to his late young daughter in " Daughter of the Mind , " also starring Gene Tierney and Don Murray . I suspect this was a pilot for a series on psychic phenomenon that was to star Murray ; hence the " guest starring " credits for Tierney and Milland . This is an i...
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A ' 70s Mother Theresa is accused of murder
This was , I guess , a pilot for a series called " McNaughton's Daughter " that didn't make it . Susan Clark plays an assistant district attorney who is , as the title suggests , the daughter of a prominent ( defense ) lawyer . She is assigned the case of a Mother Theresa type who raises money for the poor in Africa , ...
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Rhett in China
Even toward the end of his marvelous career , Clark Gable's screen persona of the charming , irresistible bounder was untarnished . Unhappy with the roles MGM was giving him , he did not renew his contract . " Soldier of Fortune , " which Gable subsequently did for 20th Century Fox , is a big budget , good-looking movi...
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neat little programmer
The Mysterious Doctor is an enjoyable , atmospheric B movie about a unmine-able tin mine in Morgan's Head , England , due to the presence of a headless ghost . It's wartime and the country needs the tin , but no amount of persuading can get the workers back after so many people have been killed by the spirit , which ...
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Fred & Ginger's first starring role as a team
After their hit dancing of the " Carioca " in " Flying Down the Rio , " RKO gave the teaming of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers a star role in " The Gay Divorcée " in 1934 . With few exceptions , the plots of the Fred-Ginger films were excuses to get to the important part - the dancing - but the story lines were always ...
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uneven Renoir noir
Joan Bennett is " The Woman on the Beach " in this off-center 1947 film also starring Robert Ryan and Charles Bickford . Directed by Jean Renoir , it apparently was badly edited by RKO ; thus , it sometimes felt to this viewer as if large sections were omitted . Robert Ryan plays Scott , a Coast Guard officer with post...
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small comedy remembered for early Audrey Hepburn
This is a small but enjoyable comedy mostly remembered today for an early Audrey Hepburn appearance at the beginning of the film . Blink and you miss her , but she is beautifully chic . The story concerns the reminisences of a criminal , marvelously played by Alec Guinness , who , after 20 long years escorting gold bul...
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Entertaining , derivative , but they're trying
I give " Firewall " a lot of credit for attempting to make an exciting film about computer fraud . It can't be easy to do something concerning the digital age and computers , with its sedentary activity and focus on monitors , and yet given our lifestyles and the technology age , it has to be addressed in films set in ...
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rolling in the aisles
This is one of those movies you either get the sensibility of or you just don't . I was laughing out loud so that will tell you where I am . Zoolander is an elaborate skit peppered with music videos and it's hysterical . I love the against type casting of Ben Stiller and Owen Wilson as supermodels and all the cameos ar...
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Ginger sprung from prison to testify against a mobster
Ginger Rogers is in a " Tight Spot " in this 1955 film directed by Phil Karlsen and also starring Edward G . Robinson , Brian Keith and Lorne Greene . Rogers plays Sherry Conley , in prison for harboring a fugitive . When the big witness against a mobster ( Greene ) is killed , she's asked to be a witness against him s...
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Operetta gets the MGM treatment
This 1952 version of " The Merry Widow " couldn't possibly compare to the 1934 Lubitsch production , but MGM went all out to make a lavish , colorful film starring Lana Turner and Fernando Lamas . To do so , all of the singing , except for one short section , was taken away from Turner . I guess someone thought a sopra...
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A desperate producer makes a film , but the star doesn't know he's the star
Steve Martin is a producer with what he considers a great script - - " Chubby Rain " - in " Bowfinger , " a 1999 film also starring Eddie Murphy , Heather Graham , Terrence Stamp and Christine Baranski . Martin , who wrote the screenplay , is Bobby Bowfinger , a producer who is convinced that he has a hot sci fi proper...
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Grant at his screwball best
Cary Grant and Ginger Rogers go back to their childhoods in " Monkey Business , " about a youth formula mixed up by a monkey . It's a real ' 30s screwball comedy in the hands of three masters - Howard Hawks , Grant , and Rogers , and the concept is a funny one , even if it does get a bit tedious . Marilyn Monroe is del...
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The more personal side of a great mogul
Ironically , " Biography : Darryl F . Zanuck : 20th Century Filmmaker " tells us more about the man than the mogul . Many details of his unusual career are left out due to time constraints , and more emphasis is put on his role as a husband , father , his work during World War II , and his love affairs . Most notable o...
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fluffy fun
Fashions of 1934 is an amusing light comedy starring William Powell and Bette Davis . Davis looks much more sophisticated than she did in " The Man Who Played God . " She's very glamorous and also very good in a film that's mainly fueled by Powell's performance as a con man . The Powell character goes from con to con...
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Good film if you like ballet and Margaret O'Brien
The Unfinished Dance is a color MGM film made in 1947 that depends on the star power and dancing ability of little Margaret O'Brien . Here she plays Meg , a nine-year-old ballet student enamored of the gorgeous prima ballerina , played by Cyd Charisse in a very early role . When the company brings in " La Darina " ( ...
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I have to say I didn't mind it .
I'll take my Ustinov as Poirot however I can get him . I happen to like Thirteen at Dinner . It's one of the smaller films as it was made for TV . You certainly can't compare it to the lavish " Murder on the Orient Express . " And I frankly like it better than " Murder in Three Acts . " I always love Ustinov as Poirot ...
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Lovely and MAJOR lethal
Very entertaining film from the ' 70s , produced by Aaron Spelling and written by Yvette Mimieux , who stars in it , looks gorgeous ( it is , after all , Aaron Spelling ) , and surrounds herself with men , particularly Dack Rambo . Mimieux plays a woman in a man's job - she's a hit woman . Though very successful knocki...
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Wonderful role for Monroe
Marilyn Monroe , Don Murray , Arthur O'Connell and Betty Field are all at the " Bus Stop , " a 1956 film based on the play by William Inge and directed by Josh Logan . Murray plays a young , ill-mannered , uninhibited cowboy who's never been off the ranch , who comes to town to appear in a rodeo . When he sees Cherie (...
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Peter Lawford as a jewel thief in Victorian England
The theft of an emerald coincides with a policeman's murder by a serial killer in " The Hour of 13 , " starring Peter Lawford , Dawn Addams , Roland Culver , and Derek Bond . Lawford stars as Nicholas Revel , an attractive young man in league with a ring of thieves that steals jewels and then gives them back to the ins...
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Davis ' breakout role
Today actresses happily gain weight , dye their hair , dress like slobs , and lose their glamor for a role , and Bette Davis was probably the actress who started the trend . Even as a pretty young woman who occasionally wore designer clothes and Constance Bennett-type makeup in films , Davis was willing to ravage herse...
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Good cast elevates story
Clark Gable , Lana Turner , Anne Baxter , John Hodiak , and Gladys Cooper star in " Homecoming , " a 1948 film about wartime and its aftermath . Gable plays a surgeon , Lee , who falls for a nurse ( Turner ) with whom he puts together the wounded , endures a life with only the barest of necessities , sits in shelters ,...
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Rosalind Russell takes on Emily Pollifax
In her final theatrical film ( there would be a TV movie in 1972 ) , Rosalind Russell plays novelist Dorothy Gilman's Mrs . Pollifax in " Mrs . Pollifax , Spy . " This 1971 film also stars Darren McGavin , Nehemiah Piersoff , Albert Paulson , Harold Gould , John Beck and Dana Elcar . The script is written by Russell un...
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Mother and daughter swindlers
Signorney Weaver and Jennifer Love Hewitt , that fat girl in a bikini , are " Heartbreakers " in this 2001 film also starring Ray Liotta , Gene Hackman , Jason Lee , Anne Bancroft and Nora Dunn . Of course I've seen Jennifer Love Hewitt many times since 2001 , and every time I've seen her , she's been a stick , so I st...
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Attend the tale
Sweeney Todd : The Demon Barber of Fleet Street , directed by Tim Burton and starring Johnny Depp and Helena Bonham Carter , is based on the Stephen Sondheim musical from the 1970s . I remember sitting stage right , down front , in the theater when I saw this musical with Angela Lansbury and Len Cariou and being comp...
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nice holiday movie
A Fare to Remember is a totally derivative , almost ridiculous movie , but has a warmth about it that makes it a very effective and upbeat holiday movie . It stars a pretty newcomer , Challen Kates , as a high-powered ad executive who , right before her wedding , has to rush from L . A . to Seattle to keep a client w...
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Take It Off the E-String
That body - those legs - yes , it's Barbara Stanwyck , who is sensational in " Lady of Burlesque , " a 1943 film based on Gypsy Rose Lee's novel " The G String Murders . " The murder mystery aspect of this film ( which is pretty lame ) is just an excuse to give the audience a taste of life in a burlesque house - the cr...
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The Ted Binion Case
Mena Suvari plays Sandy Murphy , a former stripper mixed up in " Sex and Lies in Sin City , " a 2008 TV movie also starring Matthew Modine as Ted Binion and Johnathon Schaech as Rick Tabish , Marcia Gay Harden as Binion's sister Becky and Peter Haskell as Ian Miller . The film is based on the true story of the death of...
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A neat B noir
John Payne stars in " Kansas City Confidential , " a 1952 noir also starring Preston Foster , Colleen Gray , Jack Elam , Neville Brand and Lee Van Cleef . Payne is Joe Rolfe , a WW II vet who delivers flowers for a living . He finds himself accused of a spectacular robbery of $1 . 2 million because the thieves used a t...
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Entertaining film with Faye and Payne
Alice Faye's reign at 20th Century Fox , which overlapped with Betty Grable's , started earlier than Grable's and ended sooner - and on a sour note . Faye actually came with the old Fox Film Corp . when Zanuck founded 20th Century Fox and was at first a Harlow type , eventually developing into the Alice Faye moviegoers...
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I can't believe it - I told a lie and it turned out to be the truth !
George Sanders is the scoundrel in " Death of a Scoundrel , " a 1956 film that , though it appears to be a low-budget , boasts a fine cast : Yvonne DeCarlo , Colleen Gray , Nancy Gates , Victor Jory , and Zsa Zsa Gabor . Supposedly the story is based on the antics and ultimate murder of Serge Rubinstein that hit the ne...
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What wound up on the cutting room floor
Joan Collins hosts this entertaining look at cut scenes from 20th Century Fox films , explaining that many of them were cut because of a film running too long . Most of the scenes were musical numbers , which are , of course , the easiest to cut . There was a long acting scene with Walter Brennan from " We're Not Marri...
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A young girl and an orchestra
A young girl forms an orchestra to help her out-of-work father in " 100 Men and a Girl , " a 1937 film starring Deanna Durbin , Adolphe Menjou , Leopold Stokowski , Alice Brady , and Mischa Auer . When Patsy Cardwell returns an evening bag her father found , she winds up at a huge society party where she entrances ever...
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big , lush miniseries
This is another of those big , lush ' 80s miniseries , better known as trash wallows . What fun they were - expensive , scenic , opulent . Mistral's Daughter is based on a novel by Judith Kranz , concerning three generations of women in the same family involved with a great artist , portrayed by Stacy Keach . Stefanie ...
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Very good European whodunit
End of the Game , a 1975 film directed by Maximilian Schell , isn't a standard murder mystery . Set in Europe , Martin Ritt is a Swiss police detective trying to capture Robert Shaw . Thirty years earlier , Shaw killed a woman in front of Ritt and was never prosecuted . When Ritt's partner is killed , he gets a new o...
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Two men , one woman : A ' 30s melodrama with a great cast
Clark Gable and William Powell are boyhood friends who end up on opposite sides of the law in " Manhattan Melodrama , " also starring Myrna Loy . Loy is lovely here , as usual , but she doesn't really have much of a role . The film focuses on Gable and Powell . In the first scenes of the film , we see that they are orp...
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A sexier " Phantom " that isn't without its problems
Andrew Lloyd Webber's long-running Broadway show , " The Phantom of the Opera " has been brought to the screen in a sumptuous , lush production . There have been many versions of this tale , dating back to Lon Chaney's scary performance in silent film . In the Claude Rains version , the Phantom seems to have been Chris...
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Funny if flawed comedy starring one of Hollywood's best screen teams
Cary Grant and Irene Dunne were great together , and though " My Favorite Wife " is not as funny as " The Awful Truth , " it's still pretty good . Ellen , lost at sea and presumed dead , returns after 7 years to find her husband Nick has remarried . She goes to his honeymoon hotel , which is a setup for one of Grant's ...
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Well done noir
Richard Conte and Victor Mature play tough adversaries in " Cry of the City , " a 1948 film noir from 20th Century Fox , directed by Robert Siodmak . It also stars Shelley Winters , Debra Paget , Tommy Cook , Hope Emerson , Roland Winters and Barry Kroeger . Set on the streets of New York , the subways , the lower clas...
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Engrossing WWII film
Having been to the beautiful country of Czechoslovakia and met its wonderful people , it's hard not to have an even stronger feeling for the way this country has suffered at the hands of oppressors . In " Hangmen Also Die , " director Fritz Lang captures the indomitable spirit of the Czechs using a true story , the ass...
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More post-war psychology . . . and an odd resemblance
Lee J . Cobb is a psychiatrist who works to discover " The Dark Past " of convict William Holden in this 1948 drama that also stars Nina Foch and Adele Jurgens . Two of Hollywood's favorite subject matters are part of the film plot : The post-war obsession with psychiatry and a hostage situation , of which there have b...
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True story becomes a TV movie
I read the magazine story on which " Murder in the Hamptons " is based , but alas , when I sat down to watch this movie , I didn't recall much of it . Starring Poppy Montgomery as Generosa Rand Ammon , the movie tells the story of the Ammon family - Ted , Generosa , and their adopted twins - and the horrific murder of ...
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Two great stars race all over London
Gregory Peck and Sophia Loren star in " Arabesque , " directed by Stanley Donen , who gave us " Charade . " This isn't " Charade " - nothing could be - but this derivative film has its roots in Hitchcock and " Charade . " Gregory Peck is the common man - in this case , a professor - who is more or less kidnapped to tra...
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Don't tell mom the babysitter is NUTS
Marilyn Monroe and Richard Widmark star in this early Monroe star vehicle . This is one film you'd never see being made today , due to the new child-care sensibilities . Jim Backus and Lorene Tuttle leave their child with a complete stranger while they go out for an evening . The stranger is Monroe , complete with wris...
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brisk Cold War drama
Tyrone Power stars as a courier put in an awkward situation by the U . S . government in " Diplomatic Courier , " which also stars Patricia Neal and Hildegarde Knef . Neal has a small but showy role as a society widow who chases Power around Europe . The film was shot on location in Europe , possibly using post-war blo...
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Funny film with references to some classics
Gene Wilder is the ordinary man caught up in murder on mayhem on the train " Silver Streak " in this 1976 comedy starring Richard Pryor , Jill Clayburgh , Ned Beatty , Ray Walston , and Patrick McGoohan . In a quasi-homage to Hitchcock , Wilder plays George Caldwell , who falls for the lovely Hilly ( Jill Clayburgh ) a...
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bizarre movie , beautiful Lee Remick
I'm assuming the comments I read on this site were written by horny guys - the accolades to Lee Remick's beauty take up most of the comments . She is absolutely gorgeous and sexy in this movie , and I agree , she's the main reason to see this film . James Coburn has a " Hard Contract " in this 1969 film about a top hit...
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Nice entry into the Falcon series
Tom Conway is The Falcon in " The Falcon and the Co-eds , " a 1943 addition to the serial that also featured several recognizable actresses who appeared in B movies - Rita Corday , Isabel Jewell and Jean Brooks . Dorothy Malone is a co-ed and is uncredited . After a young woman appeals to Tom Lawrence ( The Falcon ) fo...
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Wonderful movie about the power of one
James Stewart is a reporter who becomes involved in an old murder case in " Call Northside 777 , " directed by Henry Hathaway and costarring Lee J . Cobb and Richard Conte . The film is done semidocumentary style , in black and white , and is based on a true story . Much of the movie is done in a low-key , realistic wa...
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good drama wrapped in a B production
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt is a curious film - it has the look and feel of a B movie and two stars who had seen better days - Dana Andrews and Joan Fontaine - yet it's a good script directed by Fritz Lang . A novelist ( Andrews ) and his future father-in-law , a newspaper magnet ( Sidney Blackmer ) work together to pr...
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The effects of a miracle drug
James Mason becomes " Bigger than Life " in this 1956 Nicholas Ray film that also stars Barbara Rush and Walter Matthau . Mason plays Ed Avery , a schoolteacher who also is a part-time cab dispatcher . He is suffering from severe spasms that are getting worse . He learns that he has a terminal illness that perhaps can ...
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Sagan soaper
David Niven and Jean Seberg say " Bonjour Tristesse " in this 1958 film directed by Otto Preminger and also starring Deborah Kerr and Mylène Demongeot . Niven and Seberg are Raymond and Cecile , a father and daughter vacationing on the Riviera and having a superficial blast for themselves . Raymond has his current girl...
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real life murder mystery
When " Murder in Texas " premiered on network television in two parts , it was a big deal . It's a very intriguing , true story of a Texan plastic surgeon ( Sam Eilliott ) suspected of causing the death of his very wealthy wife , portrayed by Farrah Fawcett . For years , Ash Robinson , the victim's father , was convinc...
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Robert Walker meets a heavenly goddess
During and after World War II , fantasy was big in Hollywood . It wasn't just escapism ; it was all the thinking about death as many loved ones were lost . It's no wonder we had so many people coming back ( " Here Comes Mr . Jordan " ) , facing the pearly gates or the hotter ones ( " Heaven Can Wait " ) , or meeting an...
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Don't be alone with the handyman
Ida Lupino is trapped in her own home by crazy Robert Ryan in " Beware , My Lovely , " a 1952 film from RKO . Lupino and Ryan did three films together and worked well as a team , both being consummate professionals and strong performers . In this film , based on a Broadway play called " The Man , " Lupino is a World Wa...
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Rollie's at it again
Special effects genius Rollie Tyler ( Bryan Brown ) is lured back into the world of creating illusion in " F / X2 " also starring Brian Dennehy and Rachel Ticotin . It's five years since Rollie quit the film business ; now he's a toy-maker with a new girlfriend , Kim ( Ticotin ) . When Kim's ex-husband , Mike ( Tom Mas...
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Cute , warm film
Adam Sandler is one of those performers , like Jim Carrey , that one either likes or doesn't . However , over the years , he's taken on a variety of roles , and his comedy isn't always the same , either . " The Wedding Singer " is not a typical Adam Sandler film that found great popularity from a wide audience . I cert...
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Adorable light comedy , adorable stars
Three of 20th Century Fox's stars of the late ' 30s team up for " Love is News " - Tyrone Power , Loretta Young , and Don Ameche . Power plays a clever reporter , Steve Layton , who is after a big story on a $100 million heiress , Toni Gateson ( Young ) . Sick of being hounded night and day by the press , Young turns t...
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enjoyable and interesting early talkie
Sin Takes a Holiday stars Constance Bennett as a secretary in love with her boss - how's that for a novel plot line ? Well , perhaps in 1930 , it was , and there is more to it than that . It's an early talkie , so the timing is a little off as the actors get used to the technique . It's also pre-Code , so anything go...
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good , if uneven
Very cleverly written disco vampire flick that could have been terrific were it not for the uneven direction and acting . Nai Bonet , who wrote the script , is extremely good to herself - she not only displays her body to full advantage but has the late Antony Hamilton , a contender for the role of James Bond and one o...
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history in the making
Just think . . . if Jeffrey Hunter had wound up playing the Captain in Star Trek , he might be alive today . Hunter died in 1969 from a subarachnoid hemorrhage , probably caused by an explosion that imploded instead during a film he was working on in Europe . Interesting thought . The Cage was the most expensive pilot ...
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Suspenseful Tourneur film
Hedy Lamarr is a beautiful but troubled woman in " Experiment Perilous , " also starring George Brent and Paul Lukas . This film has been compared to " Gaslight " as well as other works by Tourneur , including " Cat People . " It certainly has elements of both . Brent is a doctor who meets a lovely woman on a train . S...
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Joan with both Powell and Montgomery
Joan Crawford is a jewel thief trying to break into society in " The Last of Mrs . Cheyney , " a 1937 film from MGM also starring William Powell , Robert Montgomery , Nigel Bruce , Frank Morgan , and Jessie Ralph . It's a remake of a 1929 film which starred Norma Shearer . Crawford is a sophisticated and glamorous woma...
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A flop Clifford Odets play makes a strong film
Barbara Stanwyck , Paul Douglas , Robert Ryan , Marilyn Monroe , and Keith Andes star in " Clash by Night , " based on the play by Clifford Odets that flopped on Broadway . It gets the full-blown treatment on the screen , with Fritz Lang directing and a strong group of actors . Stanwyck is a world-weary woman who comes...
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Marlene looks great no matter what
Robert Donat is a British spy who is a " Knight Without Armor " in this 1937 Alexander Korda film , also starring Marlene Dietrich as a widowed Countess . Donat is A . J . Fothergill , a Brit in Russia who is recruited to spy on the revolutionary movement in 1913 because of his knowledge of the language . After being i...
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surprisingly timely
A very good movie about The Day , a newspaper publishing its last editions , and its aggressive attack on a known mobster . Humphrey Bogart does an excellent job as the editor , and Ethel Barrymore gives a wonderful , regal performance as the widow of the publisher , whose daughters are now demanding that the paper be ...
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odd film
Party Girl is a B film in A wrapping paper - even the title suggests a tawdry B picture . But it's in color and stars Robert Taylor , Cyd Charisse , Lee J . Cobb , and John Ireland . Taylor plays an attorney whose hip was damaged in a boyhood accident . He's become a powerful mob mouthpiece when he falls in love with...
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Tyrone , the cow , and going up in flames
Immortalized by Martha at the beginning of " Who's afraid of Virginia Wolff , " " In Old Chicago " is a dramatization ( you know , 20th Century Fox style ) of the 1871 Chicago fire . As is fitting , it focuses on the owners of the cow that allegedly started it all , the O'Learys . Tyrone Power is the drop dead gorgeous...
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Good film and story with a strange ending
Louis Jourdan is a pianist who receives " A Letter from an Unknown Woman " in this 1948 film also starring Joan Fontaine . The film starts at the end , actually , as Stefan Brand ( Jourdan ) runs home to pack a bag , planning to flee a duel with a cuckolded husband . However , he receives a letter that changes everythi...
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Another wartime film from Warner Brothers
You know that Warner Brothers - once they have their hands on a hot property , they slice it , dice it , and put it in the Mixmaster . Just look at the three versions of " The Maltese Falcon . " Now it's wartime , and that hot property is , of course " Casablanca . " In " The Conspirators , " part of that magnificent c...
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We only want to give the illusion of due diligence
I gave " Syriana " a 7 only because I thought it could have been a little easier to follow . And I love complicated plots . Other than that , this is an excellent movie about how absolute power corrupts absolutely , and what people will do to control the oil situation and profit by it . In the film , which is based on ...
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Starring role for Jerome Cowan
Crime by Night is a lively 1944 film starring Jerome Cowan , Jane Wyman and Faye Emerson . Cowan plays a private eye trying to help a man wrongly accused of murder . It ends up being a lot more complicated than originally thought . Jane Wyman is his attractive secretary , and Emerson plays a talent representative . E...
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some vintage Welles that ultimately disappoints
It's very hard to say just what was going on with " The Lady from Shanghai " and what the film could have been without studio interference . Orson Welles ' prime interest in film at this point was to raise money for his theater ; indeed , funding his own projects is what drove him to seek out acting jobs . He made " La...
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An inside joke
Charles Boyer asks Rock Hudson for " A Very Special Favor , " a 1965 film starring Leslie Caron , Walter Slezak , Dick Shawn , Nita Talbot and Larry Storch . Boyer is Michel Boullard , a man estranged from his cold , rigid daughter , a psychiatrist , Lauren Boullard ( Caron ) engaged to a wimp ( Shawn ) . Impressed by ...
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The personal side of a controversial moment in history
Above and Beyond stars Robert Taylor and Eleanor Parker and chronicles the story of Paul Tibbets , the man who dropped the bomb on Hiroshima in 1945 . The event today , seen with modern eyes , is more unsavory than it was to people who lived in the midst of World War II . I watched the film with a skewed perspective ...
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good for an Elvis movie
This is actually a very good Elvis movie . The plot concerns a bunch of hillbillies , the Kwimpers - a dad , his son , and three orphans , who take over some beach property under the Homestead act after they run out of gas there . Elvis portrays a dummy of sorts - he plays it very naturally and he's quite funny ! It's ...
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The title says it all
Bananas is just that on the surface - a crazy , off the wall movie written by , directed by , and starring a very young Woody Allen as a clumsy New Yorker who winds up as the leader of a small country . In the beginning , Allen plays a product tester whose parents are surgeons ( in fact , he walks in on them at one p...
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Lovely fantasy
Tyrone Power is a man who encounters a leprechaun in " The Luck of the Irish , " also starring Anne Baxter , Jayne Meadows Cecil Kellaway , and Lee J . Cobb . Power plays Stephen Fitzgerald , a newspaperman who takes a job with an influential publisher turned politician , Augur ( Cobb ) - not because he believes in Aug...
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Hollywood home movies
These are fun Hollywood home movies assembled by Ken Murray . Some of them are fascinating , such as film of stars at the Hearst castle , some are fun , like Kirk Douglas ' appearance on television with Murray , and some for this viewer went on too long , such as the cowboy section . The clip of Murray introducing a yo...
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Communist spy film based on a true story
Dana Andrews is Igor Gouzenko , a Russian spy in Canada in " The Iron Curtain , " a 1948 film based on a true story . Andrews plays a Russian during and after World War II who is sent to work as a code clerk for a ring in Canada ; once the bomb is dropped on Hiroshima , the Communists become particularly interested in ...
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A hard day's night that doesn't go as well as one originally hoped
Jodie Foster and her diabetic daughter ( Kristen Stewart ) are stuck in a " Panic Room , " in this 2002 film also starring Forrest Whitaker , Dwight Yoakam , Jared Leto and Jonathan Pryce . The robbery of a safe in an empty house runs into a few problems when the thieves ( Whitaker , Yoakam , and Leto ) find the house ...
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Growing up is hard to do , especially when you're already an adult
A Thousand Clowns was a ' 60s Broadway hit that starred Jason Robards , who repeats his role for the film , as does William Daniels . It has been revived several times , the last time for , of all people , Tom Selleck . I suppose it was cast that way because the lead role , Murray , is an overgrown kid , kind of like...
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What's left of it is both interesting and frustrating
I unfortunately missed the introduction ( if there was one ) to " The Young Rajah " on Turner Classic Movies , but the film was pieced together - the entire beginning is lost , told with dialogue cards , story cards , and stills . Eventually there is a clip of badly preserved film , more stills , and then finally " The...
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Danish resistance helps Jews escape the Nazis
Anything involving Jews and the Nazis is going to be a nail-biter , and " A Day in October " is no different . This 1992 film stars Daniel Benzali , Tovah Feldshuh , D . B . Sweeney and Kelly Wolf in this story of a wounded member of the Danish resistance , Niels ( Sweeney ) taken in by Sara ( Wolf ) , the daughter of ...
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delightful comedy
Brian Aherne is the great actor David Garrick in " The Great Garrick , " directed by James Whale and costarring Olivia DeHavilland . The actress was 21 years old when this film was released . The Comedy Francaise , insulted by comments made by Garrick about working with them , decides to give him a night in a French in...
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Mario's in the army now
With Kathryn Grayson refusing to work with him again , Mario Lanza has a new leading lady in " Because You're Mine , " a 1952 film which also stars Doretta Morrow , James Whitmore , Paula Corday , Jeff Donnell , and Spring Byington . Lanza is a great opera star , Renaldo Rossano , who gets drafted into the army . Fortu...
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A young man's life goes from bad to worse in ' 80s film .
For a kid who has nightmares about making mistakes and not getting into college , Tom Cruise sure gets into a lot of trouble in " Risky Business , " one of his star-making films . Cruise , then just 21 , appears with a lot of other youngsters who went onto careers with varying degrees of success : Rebecca DeMornay , Cu...
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father and daughter , both attorneys , duke it out
Gene Hackman and Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio are involved in a " Class Action " in this 1991 film that also stars Laurence Fishburne , Donald Moffatt , Joanna Merlin and Fred Thompson . Hackman and MEM , father and daughter , are both attorneys . " I raised you , " Jed ( Hackman ) yells at Maggie ( MEM ) during one sc...
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Courtroom drama with Walter Pidgeon at the helm
Walter Pidgeon is Braley Mason , a civil attorney who takes on a criminal case in " The Unknown Man , " a 1951 film also starring Ann Harding , Barry Sullivan , Keefe Braselle , and Richard Anderson . A great believer in justice , Pidgeon accepts a pro bono case defending a young man , Rudi Walchek ( Braselle ) accused...
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Enjoyable spy film
Gene Hackman is Sam Boyd , an old CIA agent who is dragged back into " Company Business " in this 1991 film also starring Mikhail Baryshnikov . Boyd has to funnel money to the Russians using a prisoner switch as an excuse , but it all goes awry when , during the exchange , he realizes the prisoner the Russians are send...
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Widmark as Robin Hood
Richard Widmark wants " A Prize of Gold " in this 1955 film that also stars Mai Zetterling and Nigel Patrick . Widmark plays American soldier Joe Lawrence , who is stationed in Berlin post-World War II . Joe is usually in some sort of trouble , but he has a marital indiscretion that he can hold over his commanding offi...
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disappointing Columbo
I gave this a 7 because of the great cast and some wonderful scenes , but it's a problematic script . And let's face it , the alibi is absolutely no good . Dabney Coleman is an attorney with live-in girlfriend / rock star whom he kills . He then frames her boyfriend for the murder . One of the best things is that when ...
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Eastwood's last " Dirty Harry "
In the final Dirty Harry movie , Inspector Callahan ( Clint Eastwood ) is annoyed by his new-found fame , caused by his court testimony against an important mob figure . His next case is a real winner : an obnoxious British director ( Liam Neeson ) has a " dead pool " on the set of his new horror flick . Each crew memb...
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Funny post - black comedy
Imagine a terrorist getting to the final round of an American Idol-type show so that he can bump off one of the judges - the President of the United States . Paul Weitz has a great and creative imagination to think up the plot of " American Dreamz , " a 2006 comedy that he wrote and directed . The premise is that the P...
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music hall mind reader starts making real predictions
Claude Rains stars as Maximus in " The Clairvoyant , " a British film from the Gainsborough studio which costars Fay Wray . Rains and Wray are a husband and wife team who have a mind-reading act that is dependent on a code ( as I just saw demonstrated in the film " Nightmare Alley " ) . During a moment of anxiety on st...
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1937 film remade for The King of Rock ' n ' Roll
Elvis Presley is a mechanic turned fighter in " Kid Galahad , " a 1962 film with Presley playing the role originally essayed by Wayne Morris in the ' 30s . He has strong support from Gig Young , Lola Albright , Joan Blackman and Charles Bronson . Elvis plays an ex-GI named Walter Grogan , who is taken on as a fighter b...