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454,487 | 11,228,318 | 1,375,309 | 6 | Please Say Something was certainly something unusually compelling from animator David O'Reilly | This short , computer animated by David O'Reilly , was mentioned to me by Amid on Cartoon Brew as one that was given an award in one of those animation festivals . It depicts a mouse and a cat in a marriage that seems troubled and takes place in various times , past and future , that seems to be completely abstract con... |
455,262 | 11,228,318 | 234,861 | 6 | This was a shortened version of " Our Gang " s Ten Years Old I reviewed from YouTube | This Hal Roach comedy short , Ten Years Old , is the fifty-eighth in the " Our Gang / Little Rascals " series . As his leaving mother tells Joe she can't afford a cake , he resolves to make his own with help from baby sister Mildred and dog Pal . Lots of not-so-suitable stuff is put in like carrot tacks . When the cake... |
454,756 | 11,228,318 | 64,782 | 6 | Paint Your Wagon is an enjoyably uneven musical starring Eastwood and Marvin | Paint Your Wagon is one of the last of the big-budget movie musicals made in the late ' 60s after the phenomenal success of The Sound of Music . Like most of them , this one is a bit overlong but there are good scenes and performances throughout including the three leads of Lee Marvin , Clint Eastwood , and Jean Seberg... |
454,648 | 11,228,318 | 829,482 | 6 | Superbad is an uneven teen-sex comedy that still entertains | After about a month of playing theatres , I finally got to see Superbad with my friend after seeing the other movies that had come out that we wanted to see . My friend liked it though he thought it had too much profanity . I didn't have a problem with the language but I did think the funny stuff came in little doses b... |
453,954 | 11,228,318 | 4,707 | 6 | See first feature comedy in Mack Sennett's Tillie's Punctured Romance | First off , I must mention that I may have seen an edited version of Tillie's Punctured Romance because in the print I saw , there was no film-within-a-film scene here . Also , the score picked for this version seemed suited more for a melodrama than the slapstick comedy that this surely is . Now , while I admit that s... |
454,359 | 11,228,318 | 152,262 | 6 | Sadie Hawkin's Day marked the first time " Li'l Abner " was brought to the silver screen | Sadie Hawkin's Day was the first of five Columbia cartoons to feature Al Capp's comic strip creation , " Li'l Abner " . To anyone who doesn't know about the title's reason for being , here's an explanation : Ms . Hawkin was a homely girl whose father , being somewhat near-sighted , was puzzled why no one wanted to marr... |
454,693 | 11,228,318 | 824,241 | 6 | Vanished : The Tunnel is confusing but still intriguing | Last week , we found out the senator's missing wife , Sara Collins , was also missing 12 years before by a guy in a bar who saw her picture on television and recognized her as Nikki Johnson , a woman he had planned to marry at the time . There was also another woman named Amanda who was also missing several years back ... |
454,307 | 11,228,318 | 2,851 | 6 | Fatty Joins the Force has some amusing slapstick touches | Before I begin the review , I'd like to note that Dot Farley plays Fatty's wife here and that Edgar Kennedy played a cop in the beginning of this short . I'm noting this because Farley and Kennedy would later team up in a series of shorts for RKO in the forties in which Dot would portray Edgar's mother-in-law . With th... |
454,601 | 11,228,318 | 22,110 | 6 | The Male Man was another interesting Max Fleischer cartoon | Just found this obscure Max Fleischer cartoon on the Uncle John's Crazy Town blog . The author of it claims this is the greatest cartoon ever made . Well , like most Fleischer cartoons from the early ' 30s , there are lots of stream-of-conscious gags here . They are related by Bimbo's adventures as a mailman . Among th... |
454,788 | 11,228,318 | 152,115 | 6 | I saw Quack-a-Doodle-Doo as a recent tribute to the departed Sid Raymond | In honor of the recent death of Sid Raymond , the voice of Baby Huey , Mark Evanier showed Huey's debut cartoon on his website . Huey's mother had been so desperate to have a child that she took a lot more than the prescribed amount of pills to induce pregnancy ( which only recommends one per day ) . So is born the eno... |
453,915 | 11,228,318 | 4,766 | 6 | Cecil B . DeMille's The Virginian is interesting early silent | Cecil B . DeMille had made his film directing debut with The Squaw Man ( first feature film ) the same year as the film discussed here . While still a little on the primitive side , this first film version of Owen Wister's novel The Virginian does move along at a brisk pace and has a couple of humorous scenes before th... |
453,844 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,350 | 6 | Flu Shot was an okay episode of " 30 Rock " | In this episode , Liz ' beach vacation is canceled so she decides to support her crew-who are all working despite their flu-and not take her shot since Dr . Spaceman ( Chris Parnell , welcome back ! ) is rationing them under Jack's orders . Jack himself is trying to get Elisa to go out on the town with him despite her ... |
453,905 | 11,228,318 | 31,999 | 6 | Swing ! was a pretty entertaining musical revue from Oscar Micheaux | This movie , Swing ! , is one of two directed by Oscar Micheaux that's included in the 3-DVD set called Black Entertainment in Film . It starts as a melodrama about a woman whose husband is cheating on her with another woman whose own husband threatens to kill any man she's with . After the fight that results , two mon... |
454,691 | 11,228,318 | 384,484 | 6 | The Insects ' Christmas is interesting early depiction of animated holiday season | The Insects ' Christmas is interesting in that this may be one of the earliest depictions of the winter holiday in animated form I've ever seen . Certainly of the stop-motion puppet version . The fact that Father Christmas invites both insects and frogs to the celebration shouldn't be surprising since filmmaker Ladisla... |
454,232 | 11,228,318 | 85,384 | 6 | Curse of the Pink Panther was pretty entertaining despite no Sellers and the fate of his character here | Filmed right after Trail of the Pink Panther , Curse of the Pink Panther continues the storyline of finding both Chief Inspector Clouseau and the Pink Panther diamond . Since Dreyfus , however , would rather Clouseau was never found , he has someone from jail tell him how to fix it so a HAL-like computer finds the oppo... |
454,342 | 11,228,318 | 50,692 | 6 | The Mark of the Hawk was a rare early Poitier performance | After months of keeping this on my DVD disc having taped it from the Family Net channel , I finally watched this rare Sidney Poitier movie a few hours ago . Taking place in Africa , Mr . Poitier plays a man recently elected to the legislature that had been previously white dominated . His brother , a radical activist ,... |
454,671 | 11,228,318 | 150,523 | 6 | The Fatal Note was an interesting animated intro to " The Little King " | In this , the initial animated version of comic strip artist Otto Soglow's " The Little King " , there's an outsider who seems to want to cause nothing but destruction in the palace but the childlike monarch and his dog do nothing but mischief on him . Loved the dolly on the round set of stairs that I remember from a l... |
454,681 | 11,228,318 | 970,153 | 6 | Ms . Applegate is enough for me on the " Samantha Who ? " pilot | As the pilot of " Samantha Who ? " opens , the intro of " Escape ( The Pina Colada Song ) " plays as we see a young woman in bed in a coma . Her mother ( Jean Smart ) has been calling " Extreme Homemaker " hoping to use her daughter's condition to get a new house . That daughter , Samantha ( Christina Applegate ) , wak... |
454,998 | 11,228,318 | 150,632 | 6 | Frankenstein's Cat is an interesting early look at Terrytoons ' Mighty Mouse | When Mighty Mouse was first developed at Terrytoons , he was a much different character than the one who later had Pearl Pureheart and Oil Can Harry as supporting characters . In fact in many of them , he doesn't even appear until the last three minutes ! In this one , a community of mice and birds are living and playi... |
454,370 | 11,228,318 | 11,938 | 6 | The Automobile Ride has an obnoxious Koko but it still has some charm | Max draws Koko on the drawing board . He then receives a call and leaves . Koko leaves after but not before taking some money from Max's wallet that he left behind . Max arrives to his date then comes back to his office to get his wallet . After recovering it , he drives with his date to get twelve gallons of gas . Kok... |
455,185 | 11,228,318 | 20,899 | 6 | Third to last Felix short is amusing | Forty Winks is the third to last Felix short made by the Pat Sullivan Studio . It starts with Felix conducting four other cats in a sing-along on the top of an apartment building . Two notes from the cats literally scratches the bald head of a neighbor . He wakes up furious and takes a bowling ball and knocks the cats ... |
453,847 | 11,228,318 | 142,072 | 6 | Alaska is an interesting early Walter Lantz Oswald cartoon with some material from Tex Avery | I discovered this rare Walter Lantz Oswald cartoon on a blog that was dedicated to the 100th birthday of Tex Avery whose milestone was sometime in late February . It concerns the lucky rabbit who was originally created by Walt Disney ( hence his resemblance to Mickey Mouse since he came before him ) looking for gold bu... |
454,346 | 11,228,318 | 11,909 | 6 | Cecil B . DeMille's The Affairs of Anatol is one of his interesting " affairs of the heart " silents | Checked this rare Cecil B . DeMille silent at my local library intrigued by the premise of seeing a Gloria Swanson silent movie in its entirety for the first time . Turns out she's sort of a supporting character since Anatol is actually a man played by Wallace Reid . He's Anatol , a . k . a . Tony , Spencer whose marri... |
454,532 | 11,228,318 | 86,973 | 6 | Blame It on Rio is a slightly , enjoyably sexy movie | Having originally recorded this movie , Blame It on Rio , a little more than 20 years ago on HBO , I finally got around to seeing it a few hours ago . I have to admit that the reason was to see some nudity of young women like those of Demi Moore and Michelle Johnson . Johnson certainly filled up nicely considering she ... |
454,556 | 11,228,318 | 25,301 | 6 | Imitation of Life ( 1934 ) brings worthy performances of Colbert , Beavers , and Washington | First , I have a question : What's with IMDb listing Dorothy Black playing Peola at age 35 ? This version I saw ends with her at 19 crying at her mother's funeral and still played by Fredi Washington . Was there an extra scene missing ? Anyway with that out of the way , I found this movie interesting with the relations... |
454,486 | 11,228,318 | 1,155,056 | 6 | I Love You , Man was a reasonably amusing comedy for me | Let me admit up front right now that during some of the middle section of this movie , I partly fell asleep . So it's possible I felt a little underwhelmed watching I Love You , Man . That said , while I felt some of the scenes might have been underplayed and the pace wasn't as up as I'd like it to be , there were plen... |
455,084 | 11,228,318 | 64,002 | 6 | Arthur Penn's Alice's Restaurant is a product of its time | Alice's Restaurant is a time capsule of the attitudes of young people during the late ' 60s as experienced by folk singer Arlo Guthrie and his friends like the married couple Ray and Alice Brock , played here by James Broderick ( Mathew Broderick's father ) and Pat Quinn . Very much of its time , Arthur Penn's film tri... |
454,984 | 11,228,318 | 791,845 | 6 | Dorothy Dandridge shines in her only number on " The Colgate Comedy Hour " | In continuing to mention African-Americans on film and television in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now at 1951 with singer Dorothy Dandridge making , according to co-host Jerry Lewis , her first television appearance on " The Colgate Comedy Hour " . She sings " Blow Out the Candle " . What a lovel... |
454,498 | 11,228,318 | 816,007 | 6 | Joan Davis is amusing in I Married Joan | Joan is going over her account with her husband who finds out she spent $600 on a pullover . He asks how she could spend so much on a sweater . She didn't . " I was stopped by a cop who told me to pull over ! " Husband is stopping Joan's account . After husband leaves for work , Joan and her aunt find a calender with a... |
454,275 | 11,228,318 | 29,565 | 6 | Silver Blaze is a pretty entertaining Wontner-Holmes movie | This is the second Arthur Wontner-Sherlock Holmes movie I saw on a two-sided dollar DVD ( The first was The Sign of Four ) . Silver Blaze has Holmes and Watson ( Ian Fleming , no not THAT one ! ) visiting the Baskerville house to spend a little holiday there . The title character is a horse that a bookie doesn't want t... |
454,700 | 11,228,318 | 22,913 | 6 | Tod Browning's Freaks is a fascinatingly unique early talkie | Freaks is one of the most fascinating movies made during the early talkie era . Director Tod Browning got the green light from MGM after his success with Dracula from Universal the year before . One of the little men is infatuated with the tall female trapeze artist making his fellow little woman a little jealous . The... |
453,875 | 11,228,318 | 224,412 | 6 | Hiroshima Maiden is subtle family drama about a serious subject | In 1955 , an American family takes in a female teenage survivor of Hiroshima . Of the two male children , the adolescent older one is hesitant at first to greet her especially having previously played war games with his treehouse friends with the Japanese , whom they referred to as Japs , as the enemy . Johnny , the ol... |
454,968 | 11,228,318 | 71,679 | 6 | It's the Easter Beagle , Charlie Brown was a pretty amusing Peanuts special | While not as entertaining as many of the other Peanuts holiday specials ( Thanksgiving , Halloween , Christmas ) , there's still some amusing scenes that makes It's the Easter Beagle , Charlie Brown worth recommending . Like seeing Peppermint Patty get frustrated every time her friend Marcie cracks open the eggs ( to f... |
454,909 | 11,228,318 | 445,934 | 6 | Blades of Glory is an amusing , at best , comedy | My friend was very excited to see this movie and since I was a fan of SNL and certainly of former cast member Will Ferrell , I was willing to come along on Blades of Glory's second day of opening . Too silly in the beginning , it picked up after Ferrell and Jon Heder started teaming up with Craig T . Nelson coaching . ... |
454,150 | 11,228,318 | 53,344 | 6 | Terror Is a Man was a fascinating Drive-In ' 50s fare from the Philippines | Just discovered this Philippine ( My parents ' native country ) - made horror movie here on IMDb as linked from Hulu . Despite the bland romantic trappings between the triangle of Francis Lederer , Richard Derr , and the buxom blonde from Denmark named Greta Thyssen , this was a pretty effective chiller during the last... |
454,668 | 11,228,318 | 1,292,569 | 6 | A Muppet Christmas : Letters to Santa was an entertainingly adequate special for this holiday season | With the month of December almost over , I finally decided to watch this Muppet Christmas special that I put off for the last two weeks . In summation , A Muppet Christmas : Letters to Santa is no great shakes compared to the classic " Muppet Show " that I enjoyed as a kid of the ' 70s but these creations of the late J... |
455,140 | 11,228,318 | 64,135 | 6 | Carter's Army ( or The Black Brigade ) is an interesting account of a World War II event | In commenting on African-Americans in film and television in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now at 1970 with the TV movie Carter's Army ( a . k . a . The Black Brigade which is the title on my double-sided $1 DVD which has Bill Cosby's To All My Friends on Shore on the other side ) . A racist white... |
454,694 | 11,228,318 | 135,672 | 6 | Tchin-Chao : The Chinese Conjuror is interesting for Melies enthusiasts | Georges Melies is dressed as a Chinaman in front of a Chinese background . Under his umbrella is some lamps he hangs up as they appear . He then puts the umbrella over a small table on his right side and a dog appears . He turns the dog into a woman in a quick cut method . He uses his umbrella again and a male assistan... |
454,608 | 11,228,318 | 943,798 | 6 | I found this music video on atom . com | Just saw this music video at atom . com . It's basically a silly pop-rock song about three boys in white jeans that drive the girls wild making them use brushes and soap to make their jeans the cleanest ever ! And they're in their bikinis too ! Done with some humor especially when a homeless guy appears as the three bo... |
455,225 | 11,228,318 | 64,332 | 6 | Fistic Mystic provides some amusement for the last Looney Tunes cartoon on a regular production schedule | Just watched on YouTube this cartoon that , according to IMDb , is the last Warner Bros . Looney Tune one from the series that began with the very first WB animated short , Sinkin ' in the Bathtub , in 1930 . This is a Merlin the Magic Mouse one with Larry Storch providing the voices of him and his sidekick , Second Ba... |
454,043 | 11,228,318 | 44,735 | 6 | I Dream of Jeanie is pretty enjoyable old time musical | Just found out on this site that the man who portrays Stephen Foster here was the voice of the Prince in Disney's Sleeping Beauty and the singing voice of Freddie in Warner Bros . ' My Fair Lady . I recognized two names in the cast credits : Louise Beavers , who I knew from Imitation of Life , portrays another Mammy ro... |
454,026 | 11,228,318 | 762,107 | 6 | I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry is partly offensive , partly silly , and pretty funny | I have a gay friend who doesn't fit the stereotype in that he loves the WWE and usually watches crude comedies like this latest Adam Sandler comedy . Many critics have called this movie offensive because of many homophobic jokes that abound as well as the Asian stereotype that Sandler's friend Rob Schneider plays as a ... |
454,875 | 11,228,318 | 143,000 | 7 | James Finlayson is good in Stan Laurel-directed Yes , Yes , Nanette | I found Yes , Yes , Nanette on a Platinum DVD collection of Laurel and Hardy films . James Finlayson plays a man who meets his wife's family for the first time . There's plenty of gags involving Fin's toupee coming off that's hilarious each time . Oliver Hardy plays a former suitor of the wife who torments Fin . The ex... |
454,114 | 11,228,318 | 151,950 | 7 | Pots and Pans is another entertaining Van Beuren Tom and Jerry cartoon | Pots and Pans is another Van Beuren cartoon that stars a couple of humans named Tom and Jerry , years before a certain cat-and-mouse team from MGM inherited those titles after the human ones disappeared . They run a train diner with their name on it . Many of the food have faces and move . They also sing with various c... |
453,751 | 11,228,318 | 860,289 | 7 | Vanished : Resurrection marks Gale Harold's final episode | Last week , there were blood stains on the wall of the cabin where we found Sara Collins held prisoner inside . As the investigation continues , enough evidence is discovered to confirm that Senator Jeffrey Collins ' wife is dead . Only the senator's family knows this information . After the breakup with the cameraman ... |
454,974 | 11,228,318 | 306,050 | 7 | Science Friction is a fascinating collage short from Stan van der Beek | This short is a collage of photo clippings from various newspapers . Most of them is of then-President Eisenhower . There are also landmarks of not only the Statue of Liberty but also of the Leaning Tower of Pisa and the Eiffel Tower . There's also some recorded music and many sound recordings from the real things as o... |
454,518 | 11,228,318 | 1,054,849 | 7 | The Line was only a fairly good episode of " Heroes " | Peter and Kate vow to go to Montreal , Canada , with Kate especially wanting to " kill the bitch " who killed her brother , Ricky . Sylar , Maya , and Alejandro are crossing the U . S . border . The border patrol hold them up . Sylar tells Maya to go ahead and kill them . She does . Her twin brother tries to kill Sylar... |
454,234 | 11,228,318 | 78,163 | 7 | Revenge of the Pink Panther is almost as funny as the previous two installments | With the consecutive previous two years of becoming popular again because of The Pink Panther movies , director Blake Edwards and star Peter Sellers waited several months before attempting one more . Revenge of the Pink Panther isn't as consistently funny as the previous two installments in the series but it still prov... |
455,100 | 11,228,318 | 403,064 | 7 | Getting There has an abstract-style imagination | A man is looking at a picture of a tropical island . He imagines himself going to the box office and buying a ticket for a bus , a train , and a plane as means to get there . None of them suit him , especially the plane . Instead , he strips to his full-bodied swimwear , leaves his regular clothes at the box office , a... |
455,164 | 11,228,318 | 50,659 | 7 | Loving You uncovers a lot of Elvis Presley's charm in only his second movie | In honor of The King of Rock ' n ' Roll's untimely death nearly 30 years ago , I've decided to check out some of his movies like this second one he made called Loving You . In this one , he plays Deke Rivers who was just making some deliveries when a woman ( Lizabeth Scott ) inquires if there's a singer around . Guess ... |
454,290 | 11,228,318 | 21,964 | 7 | Hittin ' the Trail for Hallelujah Land was pretty entertaining for a " Censored 11 " cartoon | Just saw this , one of Warner Bros . infamous " Censored 11 " that will probably never be on regular television again and will probably be only available on public domain tapes or DVDs from bargain basement companies or the internet , on Thad's Animation Blog . It begins with a sequence inspired by Steamboat Willie wit... |
453,883 | 11,228,318 | 862,274 | 7 | My Little Margie : Trapped Freddie is another contrived but amusing episode | Margie and Freddie arrive at Margie's apartment at 2am , two hours after Margie's curfew as set by her father Vern ( isn't Margie old enough to set her own curfew ? and why is she still living with her father ? ) . Margie arrives in her father's room while he was sleeping and sets his clock two hours before but Vern wa... |
454,289 | 11,228,318 | 184,523 | 7 | Give a Man a Job is an early Public Service short with Jimmy Durante and Moe Howard | Having been checking on the Matinée at the Bijou blog , I've been discovering quite a few curiosities from the Golden Age of Movies . Like this Jimmy Durante musical short produced by M-G-M that touts the National Recovery Administration as part of President Rooselvelt's New Deal . One of the people in the audience tha... |
454,373 | 11,228,318 | 153,942 | 7 | Wot a Night is the first ever Tom and Jerry cartoon ( though they're different T & Js ) | The stars of this cartoon are Tom and Jerry ( no , not the cat-and-mouse team from MGM . This is a Van Beuren one starring two humans , one tall-Tom and one short-Jerry ) . This is their first cartoon . They are taxi drivers who accept a couple of passengers who have long beards . It is stormy outside as they arrive at... |
454,356 | 11,228,318 | 422,881 | 7 | This Japanese cartoon I found on Cartoon Brew linking YouTube was pretty fascinating for its views on America and Mickey Mouse in particular | This is a bizarre cartoon from ' 30s Japan I just discovered on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . It's basically about an island with peaceful citizens ( one of whom resembles Felix the Cat ) dancing to music before being invaded by a giant Mouse that resembles Mickey flying on a giant bat with a mouse-like head wi... |
454,254 | 11,228,318 | 26,362 | 7 | The Fixers Uppers is a pretty funny Laurel and Hardy holiday comedy short | This is one Laurel and Hardy short that I found even remotely relates to Christmas since the boys here are selling Christmas cards . One of their potential customers is a woman who's trying to make her husband jealous so she won't feel neglected . Stan makes a suggestion and all hell breaks loose ! That's all I'll say ... |
455,105 | 11,228,318 | 152,007 | 7 | The Plot Sickens was another cynical adult carton from Famous / Paramount | Just watched this Paramount Modern Madcap cartoon on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . In this one , a nebbishly henpecked husband is trying to do away with his shrewishly heavyset wife who spends most of her time laughing at her TV and drinking her wine . When he gets sold some poison that the salesman tells him w... |
454,262 | 11,228,318 | 122,402 | 7 | The Black Network is another entertaining musical short | This is another musical short from Warner Bros . - Vitaphone that showcases Nina Mae McKinney and the Nicholas Brothers . In this one , Harold and Fayard sing as well as dance and they do it well . Ms . McKinney has one number before the sponsor's wife ( Amanda Randolph ) forces herself on the air and asks in song , " ... |
454,282 | 11,228,318 | 50,622 | 7 | The Land Unknown is a compelling ' 50s sci-fi flick | All I'd like to say about Universal-International's The Land Unknown is that three navy men and a woman reporter land accidentally in a warm spot in Antartica with their helicopter stuck for 30 days during which time they encounter some dinosaurs and another man who had survived there for 10 years from another expediti... |
453,971 | 11,228,318 | 23,830 | 7 | Bosko in Person is pretty entertaining musically | Bosko in Person takes place entirely on a stage where he and Honey perform songs , musical instrumentals , and singing celebrity impersonations . I recognized Bosko's Jimmy Durante but I don't know who Honey was impersonating when she sang in a big , brassy , voice . Music director Frank Marsales keeps things moving to... |
454,480 | 11,228,318 | 23,831 | 7 | Bosko the Musketeer is a highly amusing musical cartoon short | Since the previous reviewer mentioned many of the things I was going to describe , I'll just mention two things : 1 ) Before the sword fight starts , the swords are shaking hands . 2 ) The little mice all look like Mickey ! Maybe not so surprising at all since Hugh Harmon and Rudolf Ising were previously animators for ... |
455,153 | 11,228,318 | 153,980 | 7 | Yelp Wanted is an interesting debut for the now obscure Scrappy | Since the plot summary tells you everything about Yelp Wanted , I'll just say this is as good a beginning for the Scrappy series for Charles Mintz with distribution by Columbia as I've seen for any character that is now obscure here in the 21st century . Both amusing and heartwarming , Scrappy the little boy goes throu... |
454,554 | 11,228,318 | 30,696 | 7 | Room Service is no Marx Brothers classic , but still enjoyable nonetheless | 30 years ago today , Groucho Marx died at 86 , three days after Elvis Presley . For the occasion , I'd thought I'd view some of his movies of which Room Service is one of them . Unlike the others he made with his brothers , this one wasn't especially tailored to their talents since it was originally a Broadway play sta... |
454,661 | 11,228,318 | 21,872 | 7 | Burns and Allen are Fit to Be Tied | George encounters two talkative salesgirls who won't stop talking to each other even after he keeps saying , " I want to buy a tie . " He then encounters a salesman who cuts the tie he's wearing to match the one he wants to buy ! Then he encounters Gracie and the conversation turns from wanting to buy a tie to asking t... |
454,191 | 11,228,318 | 6,449 | 7 | Bobby Bumps Starts a Lodge starts cruel then becomes amusing | During much of the cartoon , I thought Bobby was pretty cruel to both the goat ( I didn't like it when he jacked him up like that ) and the black boy who is supposed to be his friend ( when he blindfolded him and was going to have the goat butt him ) . But by the time the black boy was stuck on the tree with the bear b... |
453,785 | 11,228,318 | 1,339,367 | 7 | The Social Side of Health is an interesting educational Disney cartoon | Just watched this educational short cartoon from Walt Disney Productions on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . In this one , the narrator tells of the three sides of health represented by a triangle with the physical side at the bottom , the mental side on the left , and the social side-the subject of this film-on t... |
454,046 | 11,228,318 | 122,580 | 7 | Burns and Allen make their film debut in the amusing Lambchops | This being the film debut of the comedy team of George Burns and Gracie Allen , it's fascinating to watch a vaudeville act that had been formed just a few years earlier provide their pretty amusing banter that they use here to fill seven minutes . Among the many amusements from them : George - " What man in the army ha... |
454,728 | 11,228,318 | 32,667 | 7 | King for a Day is an amusing Gabby cartoon from Fleischer | If you read the synopsis provided elsewhere here , you know what happens . Mostly amusing with Gabby running frantically everywhere trying to avoid getting shot even though those banging noises come from other objects like the suitcase that quickly closes on the back of his shirt that gets stuck on him when he runs . T... |
453,764 | 11,228,318 | 38,937 | 7 | Shock is worthy of interest for Vincent Price fans | This movie , Shock , is noted by one thing : It's Vincent Price's first starring role after years in compelling supporting parts for 20th Century Fox . Here , he plays a psychiatrist whose murder of his wife is witnessed by a young woman ( Anabel Shaw ) across another hotel window as she waits for her returning soldier... |
454,117 | 11,228,318 | 140,980 | 7 | Eats Are West is another Felix the Cat cartoon that was pretty amusing | Felix is starving . He goes to The Tea Room where-with the help of the question mark over his head-he drinks some tea from the restaurant sign which is in the shape of a tea bowl ! That gets him chased out by the owner so he next encounters a billboard sign that advertises Mammy's Flap Jacks with the Mammy showing her ... |
455,117 | 11,228,318 | 91,178 | 7 | Haunted Honeymoon is enjoyable for Gilda Radner's final movie | Having heard for years how awful Haunted Honeymoon was and long wanting to see Gilda Radner in her last movie , I taped this last night while the Emmys were on . Now that I've seen it , I can now say nobody in the cast and crew have anything to be ashamed about . I love the performances in the radio studio with Radner ... |
454,531 | 11,228,318 | 337,978 | 7 | Live Free or Die Hard was an enjoyable first experience with Bruce Willis ' John McClane | Before I review Live Free or Die Hard I have a confession to make : I've never seen the other Die Hard movies that were made in the last 19 years before this one . So I only know about John McClane's most famous line by reputation ( and I'm not going to quote it here ) . Having just said that , I enjoyed most of the ac... |
453,738 | 11,228,318 | 832,071 | 7 | Quaranteened is another amusingly funny episode of Meet Corliss Archer | Corliss has the measles and has to stay in bed . Against his mother and Mrs . Archer's advice , Dexter comes in Corliss ' house as the health inspector comes and quarantines it . Not good news for Mr . Archer especially when he has to share the bathroom with Dexter when they wash their faces ! And certainly not at nigh... |
453,791 | 11,228,318 | 61,421 | 7 | The Box was an amusing Oscar-winning animated short by Fred Wolf | Just watched this Oscar-winning animated short directed by Fred Wolf on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . It's basically the story of an old bearded man sitting at a bar drinking with a box on the counter . First a man and then a woman have drinks with this bearded man as they try to find out what's in the box . Bo... |
454,543 | 11,228,318 | 832,067 | 7 | Meet Corliss Archer : Harry's Cold is pretty amusing | Harry has a bad cold that keeps him from work that day . Dexter offers to take care of him while Corliss gets some hand-me-down clothes and her mother also does some charity work . Somehow this all goes down to Dexter's parents that the Archers are low on money . Vice versa for the Archers . All is cleared out in the e... |
454,287 | 11,228,318 | 70,605 | 7 | Rhinoceros marked a welcome re-teaming of Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder | When I went to my local library to check out DVDs , this one caught my eye because of the two stars pictured on it with their names prominently displayed : Zero Mostel and Gene Wilder . Anyone who's watched Mel Brooks ' The Producers knows who they are and what a great team they made . So I included it among four other... |
455,150 | 11,228,318 | 21,812 | 7 | Down South is an obviously Steamboat Willie-inspired Toby the Pup cartoon | I just saw this Toby the Pup cartoon mistakenly identified as an Aesop Fables short from Van Beuren on YouTube . Down South seems to have been inspired by Walt Disney's Steamboat Willie which isn't surprising since the lead character seems to be a Mickey Mouse ripoff developed by Walt's former boss , Charles Mintz . Of... |
454,846 | 11,228,318 | 141,010 | 7 | Felix All Puzzled pretty good Felix the Cat entry | Felix won't get fed by his owner until he solves the last word in his crossword puzzle which is vertical , a seven-letter word for something found chiefly in Russia . Felix gets himself kicked by another animal in order to get to the Soviet Union and immediately is thought of as a spy when he sneaks into a house of a c... |
453,787 | 11,228,318 | 1,339,298 | 7 | The Fight was an interesting curio of Walt Disney's " What Would I Do ? " educational cartoon series | Just watched this entry in Walt Disney's " What Would I Do ? " cartoon series of educational shorts on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . In this one , a small boy is tripped by a much taller one so they start fighting while another boy watches . The rest of the film has the narrator asking the question I just menti... |
454,823 | 11,228,318 | 1,031,325 | 7 | Pilot of " Bionic Woman " should fill genre slot for Wednesday until " Lost " returns | As a child of the ' 70s , I was somewhat familiar with " The ( original ) Bionic Woman " that starred Lindsay Wagner with occasional appearances by Lee Majors as Steve Austin of " The Six Million Dollar Man " which " TBW " spun-off of . Maybe one of these days , I'll re-watch them on DVD . This version , starring Miche... |
454,228 | 11,228,318 | 442,662 | 7 | The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau was a fascinating find for this Pink Panther fan | Having seen all the Pink Panther movies the previous week , I looked at the Therapeutic Pink Message boards and discovered mention on one of the blog links a documentary called The Curious Case of Inspector Clouseau . On that link was one to YouTube that allowed me to watch this doc in six parts . In this one hour tele... |
454,495 | 11,228,318 | 233,271 | 7 | Oliver Hardy has amusing cameo in Our Gang's Baby Brother | Joe Cobb is a wealthy child who longs for a baby brother . His nursemaid takes him to the other side where he meets some kids his age ( the rest of Our Gang ) where Joe offers three dollars for a baby . Farina finds a fellow African-American neighbor woman who lets him mind her infant which he then paints white and sel... |
454,676 | 11,228,318 | 1,031,333 | 7 | Face Off is a pretty good episode of " Bionic Woman " | Jamie goes with Antonio to Paraguay to find this doctor . When there , Antonio has themselves arrested which results in them meeting the man . Because he knows something he's not suppose to , Antonio tries to have him killed but Jamie stops him as she takes a bullet . This doctor later treats Jamie and tells her she ma... |
454,433 | 11,228,318 | 1,031,330 | 7 | The List is another exciting episode of " Bionic Woman " | In this episode , Jamie is assigned to Paris with a CIA operative . Jonas lets her pick Tom from her last assignment to be her partner . They continue their flirting in the French city just before Tom gets in big trouble . Jamie gets pulled before she can rescue him but once again gets Jonas to cooperate . Jonas himsel... |
453,981 | 11,228,318 | 47,673 | 7 | Irving Berlin's White Christmas is wonderful holiday fluff for the ages | To celebrate Christmas and to pay respects to Mr . Bing Crosby who died a little more than 30 years ago , I decided to watch for the first time in its entirety , White Christmas . This movie made of Irving Berlin songs both old and new , also stars Danny Kaye , Vera-Ellen , Rosemary Clooney , Dean Jagger , and Mary Wic... |
454,451 | 11,228,318 | 147,277 | 7 | Room and Bored is another funny Fox and Crow entry | As Room and Bored begins we see the Fox in his apartment at peace playing the violin . We then pull back to an Apartment for Rent sign that says , " Quiet , refined tenant preferred " signed by the Fox . Screeching through the door a few minutes later is a van occupied by the Crow who accepts the offer before the Fox c... |
454,457 | 11,228,318 | 39,003 | 7 | Swing Parade of 1946 was a nice showcase for The Three Stooges and Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five | In honor of Black History Month , I've been making comments on films that featured African-Americans . We're now in 1946 with Swing Parade of 1946 . In this one , Louis Jordan and His Tympany Five perform " Don't Worry About the Mule " and " Caldonia " in segments that could easily be edited out by Southern theatres of... |
454,338 | 11,228,318 | 26,182 | 7 | A Cartoonist's Nightmare was an amusing early Warner Bros . cartoon | Just found this rare Warner Bros . - Looney Tunes cartoon on YouTube . " Supervised " by ex-Disney animator Jack King ( though he'd later return there as the new resident Donald Duck helmer ) , A Cartoonist's Nightmare is one of the few that starred a now-forgotten character named Beans the Cat who was first seen in Fr... |
455,193 | 11,228,318 | 141,040 | 7 | Felix Saves the Day is banned because of racial stereotypes | I just saw Felix Saves the Day on YouTube . com . It concerns Felix playing baseball with neighbor kids many of whom are visualized as black kids with big lips . But the main kid is white . During this cartoon , you occasionally see live-action backgrounds meant ( I think ) to represent New York City . The white kid ca... |
455,124 | 11,228,318 | 246 | 7 | An Up-to-Date Conjuror is interesting early Melies short | Georges Melies covers his female assistant with a blanket . When she is uncovered , she disappears . Melies lifts a barrel on a table to the left of him and the woman reappears . He carries her in his arms where she turns to confetti . He then covers himself with a blanket and disappears , then the barrel lifts and the... |
454,053 | 11,228,318 | 587,539 | 7 | Mr . Big marks a very amusing beginning for the classic comedy series " Get Smart " | In this , the pilot episode of " Get Smart " , CONTROL agent Maxwell Smart ( Don Adams ) gets a call from the Chief ( Edward Platt ) to rescue a scientist who's invented something that's in the hand of the criminal organization called KAOS . He is to meet Agent 99 ( Barbara Feldon ) at a certain place . From there , th... |
454,094 | 11,228,318 | 26,553 | 7 | Judge for a Day is pretty entertaining for a post-Code Betty Boop | Just discovered this post-Code Max Fleischer Betty Boop cartoon on YouTube . You can tell it's after the time the Production Code really went into effect since Betty is singing about being happy and not about sexuality . Also she's more conservatively dressed for work as a court stenographer and not as a nightclub ente... |
454,965 | 11,228,318 | 1,039,337 | 7 | The List is another pretty good episode of " Miss Guided " | After counseling a female student who had a botched nose job to wear a hat so she wouldn't get noticed on her face so much , Becky finds out that face was exposed on a blog called " Lindsey Lopez " and that she's # 18 on most doable teachers . ( Rival Lisa is # 1 and hey , what's guidance counselor Becky doing there an... |
455,098 | 11,228,318 | 124,043 | 7 | Breakdown is humorous East German animated short | A man is waiting near the road with a rope in his hand . He is hitchhiking . Car after car passes him by . This seems to go on for a long time . Finally , a little man in a small car stops by and ties rope to bumper . As little man starts to drive off , the hitchhiker disappears down hole where rope is . The rope pulls... |
454,224 | 11,228,318 | 1,039,340 | 7 | Rebel Yell was another good episode of " Miss Guided " | When vice principal Terry throws a punk band off the school yard , Becky recognizes the leader as someone who used to wear Cosby sweaters ( " You're my ' Cos " ) . Since Spring Break is arriving , Terry and Principal Huffy want the teaching staff to stay the night on grading papers . Guidance counselor Becky was just g... |
454,219 | 11,228,318 | 1,039,341 | 7 | Frenemies was a pretty amusing last episode ( so far ) of " Miss Guided " | Becky is substituting for Lisa when Lisa arrives crying . She later finds out from Tim that her divorce became final that day . Becky embraces her and tells her to love herself before deciding to try to love someone else . Lisa resolves to do this in one day what took Becky years to do . Lisa also tells Becky she plans... |
454,585 | 11,228,318 | 147,101 | 7 | Nursery Scandal is entertaining musical Van Beuren cartoon | Some dwarfs walk out of a tree and encounter the book " Mother Goose and Fairy Tales " summoning Mother Goose and her goose out . She and the goose fly out to a scarecrow who comes to life and embraces Mother Goose . Gooes gives a raspberry as the mother and scarecrow kiss . As this odd couple start dancing we see othe... |
454,874 | 11,228,318 | 479,952 | 7 | Madagascar : Escape 2 Africa was a pretty enjoyable Dreamworks Animation sequel | Today , I went with my friend who works at a movie theatre to see this Dreamworks Animation sequel to Madagascar which he had seen twice before . I remember enjoying the first one a few years ago but I waited several weeks after when this one premiered sometime last month . It was pretty uneven in spots but many scenes... |
454,834 | 11,228,318 | 235,352 | 7 | Dog Days is an amusingly sweet " Our Gang " entry | This Hal Roach comedy short , Dog Days , is the thirty-sixth entry in the " Our Gang / Little Rascals " series . As the short begins , Jackie's dog is jumping over his owner and Mickey and Joe . Mickey's dog learns how to sit . Both Mickey and Jackie say to Joe afterwards , " Let's see your dog p'form that trick . " Jo... |
454,277 | 11,228,318 | 39,320 | 7 | Dick Tracy Meets Gruesome is worthy final series entry | I have long been familiar with Dick Tracy through first his comic strip when I was a kid in the ' 70s , then an Archie series that showcased animated comic strips , then an early ' 60s cartoon series from UPA , then Warren Beaty's 1990 movie and now from the last of four RKO Tracy movies from the ' 40s . As he had in s... |
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