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454,294 | 11,228,318 | 487,641 | 8 | A Kick for Cinderella was a highly amusing Mutt & Jeff cartoon from the silent era | While this IMDb entry seems to refer to a live-action short released in 1924 , it's also a Mutt & Jeff cartoon released the same year and since there's no listing on this site for that version , I'm reviewing it here . Mutt , the tall one , tells Jeff , the short one , about his invitation to the Charleston Ball . Jeff... |
453,784 | 11,228,318 | 382,932 | 8 | Ratatouille is another highly enjoyable Disney / Pixar animated feature | Ratatouille is another highly enjoyable Pixar / Disney animated feature film that should do very well at the box office in its opening weekend . Having just said that , I must admit that the constant laughs I was expecting mainly seemed to come in fits and starts . Despite that , however , I found the story very enjoya... |
454,091 | 11,228,318 | 32,871 | 8 | One Million B . C . , while old-fashioned , can still entertain today | Just watched this classic Hal Roach production on the TCM site . It's the story of a man and woman and how they get their previously enemy tribes together . Actually , what I just said made the movie sound simplistic which , despite the prehistoric setting , it's not . In fact , I was surprisingly enthralled by the sto... |
453,759 | 11,228,318 | 876,257 | 8 | This DVD documentary brought a lot of curiosity on my part of the movie clips shown | This DVD compilation of various ' 40s-'50s movie clips that explore dark themes culled from M-G-M , RKO , and Warner Bros . ( since Warners and / or Turner own the films they're from ) explores , from multiple viewpoints , the impact Film Noir has had on future filmmakers and the world at large . Among the people inter... |
454,643 | 11,228,318 | 30,448 | 8 | Mickey's Trailer is another entertaining Walt Disney / Mickey Mouse cartoon | Just watched this Walt Disney / Mickey Mouse cartoon on YouTube as linked from the Federator blog . In this one , Mickey-along with Goofy and Donald Duck-inhabit a trailer which can literally become a house in a beautiful setting as evidenced by the beginning scene when it's revealed to actually occupy a city dump ! As... |
454,151 | 11,228,318 | 608,230 | 8 | This Jerry and Gary Lewis-hosted version of " Hullabaloo " was a fascinating time capsule from the ' 60s | Just found on Guba as linked from the Classic Television Showbiz blog this rare surviving color episode of the ' 60s NBC music series " Hullabaloo " that originally aired on September 20 , 1965 . The guest hosts for this edition were Jerry Lewis with his son Gary who was hot at the time with his band The Playboys . Aft... |
454,437 | 11,228,318 | 832,266 | 8 | Definitely , Maybe is a compelling romantic comedy for adults | Just watched this romantic comedy-about a divorced father ( Ryan Reynolds ) telling his daughter ( Abigail Breslin ) about her potential mother from three past lovers ( Rachel Wiesz , Isla Fisher , Elizabeth Banks ) - with my parents . We were all amused by some lines especially some concerning Bill Clinton since Reyno... |
454,363 | 11,228,318 | 32,926 | 8 | Popeye Meets William Tell is an amusing cartoon directed by Shamus Culhane | Popeye Meets William Tell is one of several animated shorts in which our favorite sailor meets with a classic literary or folktale character . In this one , Popeye pretends to be Tell's son after the king demands to see William's arrow-through-apple trick . There's some chuckle-inducing banter about who should hit whom... |
454,507 | 11,228,318 | 23,747 | 8 | Ain't She Sweet is an amusing Max Fleischer Screen Song cartoon from the talkie era | I discovered this rare Max Fleischer Screen Song cartoon on Thad's Animation Blog . It basically takes place in a barn dance inhabited by cats . Many funny gags provided by director Dave Fleischer dominate most of this short like the one where one of the felines puts some punch in a cup and then drinks the rest of the ... |
454,384 | 11,228,318 | 30,280 | 8 | Tex Avery's The Isle of Pingo Pongo is another of the " Censored 11 " | This is another of the " Censored 11 " Warner Bros . cartoons that will probably never be seen on commercial television again . It starts harmless enough with various spot gags about the Sandwich Island ( shaped like a . . . well , you know ) , as well as the Thousand Island ( with a giant bottle of the salad dressing ... |
454,903 | 11,228,318 | 897,387 | 8 | Shrek the Halls may become a holiday classic for a new generation | This Shrek the Halls holiday special can be both frantic and funny and enjoyable and maybe a little exasperating all at the same time and will probably be another classic to be enjoyed for years to come for adults and children and their families in subsequent Decembers to come . Eddie Murphy's Donkey still has that end... |
454,332 | 11,228,318 | 72,271 | 8 | The Texas Chain Saw Massacre was one really effective horror movie | Well , after 27 years of curiosity of this controversial cult classic horror movie , I finally saw The Texas Chain Saw Massacre on YouTube which uploaded it a couple of weeks ago . When I first read about this in the Baton Rouge Morning Advocate in 1981 when the movie was re-released , the paper's critic at the time , ... |
454,506 | 11,228,318 | 30,272 | 8 | Injun Trouble is an early Porky Pig cartoon by Bob Clampett | Plenty of funny gags typical of Bob Clampett and the whole Termite Terrace gang abound in this Porky Pig Looney Tune that has the stuttering porcine character encountering Injun Joe and the hillbilly known as Sloppy Moe . Wanna to see a bear cut down to size and crying ? It's here ! Wanna to see that same bear get a tr... |
453,770 | 11,228,318 | 1,042,545 | 8 | Ripples is another cool experimental Jim Henson short | This experimental short by Muppet creator Jim Henson lasted only about a minute . In this one , an architect ( Jon Stone ) is throwing little things in his cup in his office which he imagines doing to a pond in a forest outside then dreams during this " ripple " effect of various events that happened throughout history... |
454,475 | 11,228,318 | 28,656 | 8 | Bosko's Easter Eggs is a treat for anyone that are MGM cartoon buffs | Having just seen Bosko and Bruno ( with the monkey-looking version of the character ) and now Bosko's Easter Eggs ( with the more realistic-looking black boy character ) , I noticed a couple of contrasts : besides the designs , the big difference between monkey-Bosko and real black boy-Bosko is that monkey-Bosko is act... |
455,121 | 11,228,318 | 455 | 8 | The Music Lover is one of the most interesting Melies shorts | This is one of Melies ' most unusual shorts in which he portrays a music teacher who is trying to teach his students some harmony by having various heads of his representing notes on a large series of lines above him . I've always wondered how those various heads keep popping up from his body like that . In the documen... |
454,787 | 11,228,318 | 65,492 | 8 | Brewster McCloud is one of Altman's underrated classics | Having read many tributes to the late Robert Altman , I was fascinated by one that mentioned Brewster McCloud was on YouTube . So I clicked the movie there and marveled at seeing Rene Auberjonois ( whom I loved in the TV series " Benson " ) talking about birds and humans and then Margeret Hamilton singing the National ... |
454,312 | 11,228,318 | 34,881 | 8 | Get bewitched by Veronica Lake in I Married a Witch | Ten years after taping this from AMC and about thirty after first reading about this in the East Baton Rouge Parish Library film listings ( when they used to show movies on Saturday afternoons or weeknights ) , I finally watched Rene Clair's adaptation of Thorne Smith's I Married a Witch starring Fredric March and Vero... |
454,600 | 11,228,318 | 150,005 | 8 | By Leaps and Hounds was a pretty hilarious Famous Studios cartoon | Just saw on Thad Blog linked to Daily Motion this Famous Studios cartoon ( though this version had the Harveytoons banner ) written by Irv Spector whose son now has a blog dedicated to his father . It concerns a new boy hound named Herbert who's a pupil at a fox hunt academy . His teacher gives him a horn to signal for... |
453,942 | 11,228,318 | 240,761 | 8 | Modern Mexico City is a fascinating look at a wondrous place from James FitzPatrick | This is actually a review of producer / director / narrator James A . FitzPatrick's travelogue short Modern Mexico City that I saw on the TCM site but for some reason , IMDb doesn't have an entry for it ( which instead led to this title as one of the links and the only one associated with FitzPatrick ) . There are no n... |
453,809 | 11,228,318 | 153,835 | 8 | Wild and Woozy West is another funny Columbia cartoon | Wild and Woozy West is another of the unsung cartoons from the Columbia studio of the ' 40s . It concerns the capture of the western wolf villain Angel Face , wanted dead or alive ( perferrably dead ) . Among his list of crimes is " using naughty words " . The setting is Pivot Point , pop . 502 . After Angel arrives , ... |
453,850 | 11,228,318 | 113,347 | 8 | How to Make an American Quilt provides some interesting lessons on life | Filled with veterans , ( Ellen Burstyn , Anne Bancroft , Jean Simmons ) recognizable character actors , ( Rip Torn , Holland Taylor , Esther Rolle , Alfre Woodard ) , hot young adult stars ( Winona Ryder , Dermot Mulroney , Samantha Mathis ) , some up-and-comers ( Jared Leto , Claire Danes , Johnathon Schaech ) , and a... |
455,024 | 11,228,318 | 152,496 | 8 | Snow Foolin ' has some amusing gags before the song " Jingle Bells " is playing | Both previous commenters have gotten certain animals mixed up : It's a rabbit who declares the start of winter just before snow falls on him and a hen who tells us to follow the bouncing " hen egg " . Now that I cleared that up , I thought this was a highly amusing , if not hilarious , cartoon with wonderful gags that ... |
454,443 | 11,228,318 | 171,762 | 8 | Shemp Howard in Society Mugs was very funny to me | While I saw lots of Three Stooges comedies on afternoon television in the late ' 70s , I admit I don't remember Termites of 1938 . So on discovering Society Mugs on YouTube , I found myself laughing at the antics of Shemp Howard and Tom Kennedy as exterminators mistaken for escorts from college . They turn a society pa... |
455,235 | 11,228,318 | 24,411 | 8 | One Man's Journey is a rare gem recently rediscovered | Just discovered on Mark Evanier's blog that Turner Classic Movies-on their blog-are running a feature every month . One Man's Journey is for June . This just-rediscovered RKO release from 1933 stars Lionel Barrymore as Dr . Eli Watt , a widowed man with 6-year old son Jimmy ( Buster Phelps ) coming back to his old coun... |
454,260 | 11,228,318 | 27,700 | 8 | The Green Pastures is , despite some stereotypes , wonderfully inspirational | In reviewing African-Americans on film in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now at 1936 with the first all-black production for a major studio since Hallelujah ! from MGM in 1929 : The Green Pastures from Warner Bros . Rex Ingram stars in three roles-De Lawd , Adam , and Hezdrel . As De Lawd , Ingram ... |
454,086 | 11,228,318 | 72,081 | 8 | The Return of the Pink Panther is a return to form for the Sellers-Edwards collaboration | With both their careers in somewhat decline , director Blake Edwards and actor Peter Sellers decided to team up again for another Pink Panther movie despite their love / hate relationship off screen . Also returning were Herbert Lom ( now Chief Inspector Dreyfus ) , Andre Maranne ( Francois ) , Burt Kwouk ( Cato ) , an... |
454,824 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,412 | 8 | Second episode of " Back to You " is even better that the first | At the end of the pilot episode of " Back to You " , we found out that the 10-year-old daughter ( who was originally said to be 8 ) of Kelly Carr , Gracie ( Laura Marano ) , was also Chuck Darling's . Kelly didn't want him to know because she doesn't think he'd be responsible enough . On the second day , the news direc... |
454,469 | 11,228,318 | 67,787 | 8 | See Star Spangled Girl and laugh your head off ! | I watched this movie on DVD after seeing a Living In TV Land on tape that featured Davy Jones knowing that his song , " Girl " , would be in this movie after reading the other comments on this film . ( Personal note : I saw Jones on stage at the Florida Theatre in Jacksonville , FL , where he performed this song in The... |
454,619 | 11,228,318 | 22,405 | 8 | Smile , Darn Ya , Smile ! is another Foxy Merrie Melodies cartoon | Smile , Darn Ya , Smile ! is a Merrie Melodies cartoon starring Foxy from Hugh Harmon-Rudolf Ising Productions in association with Leon Schlesinger and distributed by Warner Bros . In this one , Foxy is a train conductor who needs passengers . A lady hippo comes on board but being heavy makes the train lean over . Foxy... |
454,453 | 11,228,318 | 148,180 | 8 | The Fox and the Grapes is hilarious Frank Tashlin cartoon | Frank Tashlin's The Fox and the Grapes was the first of several Fox and Crow cartoons produced by Columbia Pictures . In this initial effort , the Fox is planning a picnic in the forest . The Crow , wanting the food for himself , posts signs to the perfect place . As the Fox prepares to eat , the crow steals some hot d... |
453,755 | 11,228,318 | 33,618 | 8 | Forbidden Passage is another " Crime Does Not Pay " short entry and is compellingly directed by Fred Zinnemann | This is another in the " Crime Does Not Pay " series of M-G-M shorts that I found on the DVD " Film Noir : Bringing Darkness to Light " . Forbidden Passage got an Oscar nomination ( 1941 ) and was directed by Fred Zinnemann , who would eventually win two of those . This one is about foreigners sneaking into our country... |
455,161 | 11,228,318 | 297,874 | 8 | Elvis : The Tribute is my final comment on the loss of The King , 30 years ago | Elvis : The Tribute is my final comment for this , the 30th anniversary of when we lost the King forever . John Stamos hosted this all-star concert and took us through Graceland , the house bought by Presley in 1957 . Among the artists paying great tribute were : Michael Bolton ( " Jailhouse Rock " ) , Melissa Etheridg... |
454,082 | 11,228,318 | 150,127 | 8 | Cilly Goose is another pretty enjoyable Famous Studios cartoon | This was one of those rare Famous Studios cartoon shorts that I just discovered on Thad's Animation Blog which linked this from YouTube . The title character had just laid an egg for the first time but finds her other farmland animal friends unimpressed since they have had plenty of children before her . After reading ... |
454,741 | 11,228,318 | 43,341 | 8 | Big Top Bunny is a pretty entertaining Robert McKimson Bugs Bunny | When the circus hires Bugs Bunny as an attraction , Bruno-an Eastern European bear , gets jealous and tries to sabotage him . He succeeds the first time but the rabbit catches on . The gag where Bruno ends up in the band's kettle drum isn't funny but everything else is . I especially liked the one when Bugs , after bei... |
455,065 | 11,228,318 | 871,426 | 8 | Tina Fey and Amy Poehler make a good team in Baby Mama | In a nutshell : real-life friends from SNL-Tina Fey and Amy Poehler-play an odd couple of sorts with Fey playing a businesswoman trying to have a baby and Poehler becoming a surrogate . No surprise concerning their chemistry and they're surrounded by a who's who of capable supporting players : Sigourney Weaver , Maura ... |
454,893 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,576 | 8 | Subway Hero is a treat of an episode of " 30 Rock " with Tim Conway and the return of Dean Winters as Dennis | As Liz enters his office , Jack has two requests for her : to attend John McCain's fund-raiser so it won't be a " massive sausage-fest " ( she refuses ) and to book the " Subway Hero " on TGS , so called because he saved the life of someone about to be hit by a train . As Jack turns on the TV , Liz is stunned since the... |
454,887 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,577 | 8 | Succession is another hilarious episode of " 30 Rock " | Since he doesn't believe in nepotism for his business handlings , network chairman Don Guiess picks Jack Donaghy over soon-to-be-son-in-law Devon Banks as his successor . Since it won't be announced publicly for awhile , Jack only tells Liz and appoints her as his successor . Liz initially declines until she sees the s... |
454,964 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,578 | 8 | Sandwich Day is another very funny episode of " 30 Rock " | In a nutshell : Jack has been reduced to talking to the comatose Geiss and working on the 12th floor , Liz finds out from Jenna and Pete about a surprise phone call from Floyd who's flight back to Cleveland has been delayed , this being Sandwich Day-Tracy , Frank , and Lutz take the one the absent Liz left on her desk ... |
454,214 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,572 | 8 | SeinfeldVision marks a hilarious new start for " 30 Rock " s second season | After more than 3 months , " 30 Rock " is back with a new episode . Glad it's back , especially after it won the Emmy for Best Comedy ( loved Ms . Fey's acceptance speech in which she thanked " dozens and dozens of viewers " ) . This episode begins with Liz and Jack saying how good their summers been ( Liz doing a long... |
454,522 | 11,228,318 | 71,994 | 8 | Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise is one campy horror surprise ! | Having recorded this movie from AMC in 2002 , I thought now , Halloween day , was the perfect time to finally watch Brian De Palma's Phantom of the Paradise . This modern-day retelling of The Phantom of the Opera is so ' 70s dated but that's what I found so fascinating about this cult horror-musical . Paul Williams , W... |
454,123 | 11,228,318 | 116,040 | 8 | Daylight was a thrilling Sylvester Stallone flick despite some clichés | My dad and I felt like staying up late and he wanted to watch a movie . He picked this one among many HD-DVD's he bought by mail . A throwback to the disaster movies from the ' 70s made by Irwin Allen ( The Towering Inferno , The Poseidon Adventure ) and Universal Studios ( Earthquake , the Airport movies ) which distr... |
454,195 | 11,228,318 | 93,870 | 8 | RoboCop is Paul Verhoeven's classic sci-fi action picture | Quick , what do Peter Weller , Ray Wise , and Paul McCrane have in common ? If you say they were all in RoboCop , you're all halfway there . What they also have in common was they all were in Day 5 of " 24 " ( with McCrane's role partly expanded to Day 6 ) . Besides those names other familiar faces include Ronny Cox ( ... |
454,204 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,596 | 8 | Corporate Crush is another seriously funny episode of 30 Rock | After the fiasco of last week's fireworks show , Jack is relieved of his responsibilities of the microwave division of NBC-Universal . Liz is delirious about her relationship with Floyd . She arranges him to meet Jack who hits it off well with him causing Liz some concern . Meanwhile , Tracy , having found out about hi... |
454,380 | 11,228,318 | 1,083,966 | 8 | Love Will Find a Way marks an impressive second episode of " Swingtown " | When I previously reviewed the pilot episode of " Swingtown " , I forgot to mention it took place in my childhood hometown of Chicago , Ill . This episode had some good exterior scenes of the downtown area there as we see Bruce at his job as a trader . As enjoyable as this episode was , however , I have to once again m... |
454,377 | 11,228,318 | 1,083,967 | 8 | Double Exposure has more than one ( or two ) meanings on " Swingtown " | Okay , so in this episode , Susan suddenly wants to go to church after she and Bruce hadn't gone for a while and they take their kids with them . How convenient Janet and Roger is there ( but their son isn't ) . Susan asks old friend Janet for a welcoming party at her new home which Janet accepts . At the party , new n... |
453,798 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,593 | 8 | Secrets and Lies was another funny episode of " 30 Rock " | Jenna got an award for a " movie based on a musical based on a movie " which gets Tracy jealous so Liz makes one up for him . Tracy then wants to stage an award presentation . Jack and C . C . are tired of sneaking around but while C . C . settles with her company in order for her and Jack to go public , Jack still ref... |
454,899 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,592 | 8 | Cougars is another funny episode of " 30 Rock " | Okay , here's this week's " 30 Rock " plot in a nutshell : After making excuses for declining co-workers ' invitations , Liz is convinced by Jenna to become a " Cougar " ( i . e . an older woman preying a younger man ) after a coffee boy gets interested in her . Fellow comedy writer Frank also gets interested in him ma... |
454,064 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,588 | 8 | The Collection was another funny episode of " 30 Rock " | Jack tells Liz he's getting an investigation on himself to keep G . E . from finding out about anything scandalous about him . The detective he meets ( Steve Buscemi ) does tell him he has to get rid of his cookie jar collection since the only reason Rudy Guiliani became New York mayor was because no one found out abou... |
455,213 | 11,228,318 | 126,880 | 8 | The Flying House is a fascinating Dreams of the Rarebit Fiend short | Watching The Flying House , I couldn't help but think that many of the sequences of the house spinning around up and down was just Mr . McCay showing off as I believe if the couple's home was really doing that they would've been really dizzy ! This must've been the first time there was an animated depiction of space wi... |
453,841 | 11,228,318 | 603,004 | 8 | This episode of " The Hollywood Palace " should be of great interest to fans of Groucho Marx and Margaret Dumont | Just watched on YouTube this special episode of " The Hollywood Palace " hosted by Groucho Marx . What was so special about it ? Well , besides his 18-year-old daughter Melinda singing her Petulia Clark-like number called " The East Side of Town " as well as a duet with her father , this particular show marked the last... |
455,090 | 11,228,318 | 39,460 | 8 | Hi-De-Ho ( 1947 ) was a mostly excellent musical showcase for Cab Calloway | At first , I wasn't too thrilled about this movie because of Cab's rough treatment of Minnie ( Jeni Le Gon ) and her insolent attitude in return . And the idea of Calloway going to an audition arranged by his manager Nettie ( Ida James ) when , at this point in his life , he had already entertained millions of people i... |
454,779 | 11,228,318 | 43,376 | 8 | Canned Feud is another funny Friz Freling Sylvester cartoon | Watching Friz Freling's Canned Feud , I found myself feeling very sorry for Sylvester for not getting the can opener , to open tuna , from a mean little mouse since no reason is established for his animosity . Still , its pretty funny seeing the cat trying to do nasty things back to the rodent and failing each time . A... |
453,788 | 11,228,318 | 150,231 | 8 | Crumley Cogwheel was another highly amusing Paramount Modern Madcap cartoon | Just watched this Paramount Modern Madcap cartoon on YouTube as linked from Cartoon Brew . In this one , the title character is sent to the president of the Michigan Nuts and Bolts company . This boss has kept his eye on Cogwheel for the last 20 years and wonders why he never asked for a raise . He gives him one week t... |
454,863 | 11,228,318 | 1,133,973 | 8 | The Education of Jamie Sommers is a more fun " Bionic Woman " episode | In this , the first Katee Sackhoff-less episode , Jamie poses as a British transfer student in college in order to investigate a possible suspect-a professor-of whoever is responsible of planting some chip in some returning Iraq soldiers that make them kill their superiors . She also falls for a teaching assistant who ... |
453,838 | 11,228,318 | 58,694 | 8 | Two Thousand Maniacs ! was another effective Herschell Gordon Lewis horror film | Having finally watched a Herschell Gordon Lewis horror movie last year on YouTube ( The Wizard of Gore ) , when I found out that Two Thousand Maniacs ! was now there as well ( actually , The Wizard of Gore now seems removed ) , I quickly clicked the first of nine parts that were uploaded . It was fascinating listening ... |
454,983 | 11,228,318 | 512,048 | 8 | The Rare Coin is the first of six episodes of " Amos ' n ' Andy " I'm reviewing for Black History Month | George " Kingfish " Stevens retrieves a letter to Andy Brown concerning a rare nickle from 1877 Andy accidentally found . In trying to get that coin from Andy , Kingfish pretends to be a doctor to get Andy to rest his eyes by blindfolding his face so Andy can sleep in darkness . When the Kingfish tries to call the coin... |
454,444 | 11,228,318 | 1,083,970 | 8 | Friends with Benefits was another pretty entertaining episode of " Swingtown " | After the last episode when Bruce got angry at Susan for going to the Harry Reems fundraiser on her own , he manages to coerce her into joining a country club fundraiser for children's charities for his boss ' wife Rita Pierce's ( Judith Hoag ) wives club . Janet comes as Susan's guest and charms Mrs . Pierce after she... |
454,914 | 11,228,318 | 39,536 | 8 | Kiss of Death marks Widmark's Oscar-nominated debut | Since this movie was made while there was still a Production Code , that is before the movie ratings system of 1968 , Kiss of Death may strike some modern-day viewers as dull except for the famous scene of Richard Widmark's Tommy Udo pushing Mildred Dunnock's crippled woman down a flight of stairs , a sequence I first ... |
453,914 | 11,228,318 | 1,083,968 | 8 | Cabin Fever was another pleasantly good episode of " Swingtown " | This was another pretty good episode of " Swingtown " with the three couples of Bruce and Susan , Roger and Janet , Tom and Trina making it a threesome ( not in THAT way ! ) with Janet and Trina having some kind of truce especially after everyone eats Janet's brownies-that Trina laced-after Susan spilled the beans abou... |
454,095 | 11,228,318 | 779,174 | 8 | Meet Corliss Archer : Corliss the Cheerleader is funniest episode yet ! | The announcer says the house is shaking as we see the frame shaking a little bit . Inside , Corliss is practicing her cheers . Her mother Janet comes by and shows her daughter what her cheers were like before breaking her heel . Father Harry also comes by and does a cheer from his school days before snapping his suspen... |
453,821 | 11,228,318 | 41,391 | 8 | Frigid Hare is a cute and amusing Bugs Bunny cartoon | Frigid Hare is another Bugs Bunny cartoon in which he should have taken a " left turn at Albuquerque " and ends up at the South Pole . It's here that he meets a little penguin who he saves from a hunter who wants to capture him . When he tries to get back to Miami Beach , however , the penguin wants to follow him . Bug... |
455,169 | 11,228,318 | 22,208 | 8 | Night Nurse is one of Barbara Stanwyck's early underrated movies | Just finished watching this pre-Code movie called Night Nurse starring Barbara Stanwyck on VHS as one in several of a series of videocassettes named " Forbidden Hollywood " hosted by Leonard Maltin . Before the picture starts Maltin tells of and shows many scenes that a few years after the year this film was made ( 193... |
454,687 | 11,228,318 | 14,584 | 8 | The Voice of the Nightingale is most charming Ladislaw Starewicz short | The Voice of the Nightingale is Ladislaw Starewicz's most charming short about birds and their relationship with nature and humans . It stars his daughter as a girl who keeps the bird after he accidentally wrecks her doll while walking through her trap cage . The bird briefly turns into a rat while captured , frighteni... |
454,564 | 11,228,318 | 24,154 | 8 | I Heard is another compelling jazz-flavored Betty Boop cartoon | This is another jazz-flavored Betty Boop cartoon . This time , the band leader whose song is the title of this short is named Don Redman , a now-obscure artist . This short basically takes place in a mine where the workers go through a shower that washes the coal off their clothes before going to Betty Boop's Tavern ( ... |
454,951 | 11,228,318 | 297,727 | 8 | Rod Serling : Submitted for Your Approval is another fine episode of " American Masters " | In preparation of watching a couple of Rod Serling's TV films on the internet , I thought I'd rewatch this " American Masters " episode on his life and career , especially of the show he is most famous for . Presented entirely in black-and-white , Lee Grant narrates the first and last segments while other passages take... |
453,757 | 11,228,318 | 33,285 | 8 | You , the People is another compelling " Crime Does Not Pay " short subject | Before I begin , I'd like to note that Bill Edmonds-Mr . Martini in It's a Wonderful Life-plays Louie the janitor here . Also appearing are " The Beverly Hillbillies " Raymond Bailey as Bailey Henchman and " Leave It To Beaver " s Hugh Beaumont as Pete . And that Barbara Bedford , who died in a city I once lived in-Jac... |
454,386 | 11,228,318 | 152,217 | 8 | Rocketeers is one of the best Tom and Jerry ( not that one ! ) cartoons | Another Tom and Jerry ( the human Van Beuren ones from the thirties , not the cat and mouse team from MGM ) cartoon and one of their best yet . They're in a parade where they're about to launch in a rocket . As one of the councilmen talks in a clarinet-note voice , the short one ( Jerry ) goes in the rocket joined by T... |
455,072 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,268 | 8 | The Girlfriend was a wonderful comeback episode ( after a writer's strike ) for " Samantha Who ? " | During a chance meeting , Samantha and Todd bump into each other and ask how each are doing . Later that day , as she and her mother discuss a makeover with the father out on a trip , Samantha gets a call for dinner from Todd . That dinner was just Todd's way of telling her that Chloe is moving in with him in Sam's apa... |
454,164 | 11,228,318 | 26,017 | 8 | You're Telling Me ! is one of W . C . Fields ' early classic comedies | W . C . Fields was one comedian from the movies ' golden age that took me a while to like as a kid . The first time I remember laughing at him was when , in Fatal Glass of Beer , he keeps looking at the open window and saying , " And it ain't a fit night out for man nor beast ! " after which snow would hit him in the f... |
455,130 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,273 | 8 | The Break Up is another very funny episode of " Samantha Who ? " | At her workplace , Samantha receives some flowers from Kevin . Her assistant Tracy , already late , frantically offers to take some of the more undesirable parts off of them . Samantha tells her she doesn't have to be scared of her anymore since she's different post-coma . She tells Tracy to treat her as a girlfriend .... |
454,428 | 11,228,318 | 1,127,272 | 8 | The Hockey Date is another highly amusing episode of " Samanatha Who ? " | Because Samantha seems to spend most of her time with Dena playing Life at her parents ' house , her mom thinks she should try dating again . Sam explains that since she has amnesia , she just can't talk about herself in front of a stranger when she doesn't know who she is . Her mom says to not let something like that ... |
454,713 | 11,228,318 | 138,957 | 8 | Beyond the Fringe provides early look at the careers of Peter Cook and Dudley Moore | So after decades of reading about the comedy revue that jump-started the careers of the comic duo Peter Cook and Dudley Moore , I finally watched on DVD that revue that also featured Alan Bennett and Jonathan Miller : Beyond the Fringe . Not everything that was depicted in this now-legendary event was funny , in fact ,... |
454,084 | 11,228,318 | 78,447 | 8 | The Uranium Conspiracy is quite an exciting movie that I just discovered | This is another movie that was just put up on YouTube that I decided to watch . This film , whose English title is The Uranium Conspiracy , is the first time I've watched a Yoram Globus-Menahem Golan production directed by Golan in its entirety . As a spy thriller involving nuclear weapons , this was quite an exciting ... |
454,423 | 11,228,318 | 20,264 | 8 | Stan and Ollie star in the ironically titled Perfect Day | This is one of Laurel and Hardy's earliest talkies . It basically involves the boys ' attempt to take their wives and Uncle Edgar Kennedy , who has a gouty foot , to a picnic but because of car troubles are unable to get out . Hilarious use of sound effects throughout especially in the use of the car horn and the sound... |
453,876 | 11,228,318 | 94,075 | 8 | See Superstar : The Karen Carpenter Story for it's unusual doll depiction of a life | I have seen this long illegally circulated film on YouTube after nearly twenty years of hearing about it . Filmmaker Todd Haynes ' dramatization of Karen Carpenter's life story and her battle with anorexia nervosa with Barbie dolls makes this one of the most fascinating depictions of a superstar's descent into madness ... |
453,870 | 11,228,318 | 284,364 | 8 | Ode to G . I . Joe is amusing tribute to 12 " action figure | The Archies ' " Sugar , Sugar " is playing in the background as we dolly through a child's room filled with mostly ' 70s items ( like a Partridge Family album ) . We then pan to the radio and see a G . I . Joe doll switch to another station . Now it's playing The Staple Singers ' " I'll Take You There " as we see lots ... |
454,688 | 11,228,318 | 57,112 | 8 | Purlie Victorious is amusing depiction of early ' 60s south | If you've ever wondered whether anything satirical was ever made about the civil rights struggles of the 1960s , Ossie Davis ' Purlie Victorious may be the answer you're looking for . Davis , who is the movie's and original play's author , plays the title role as a preacher who , with help from fiancée Lutiebelle Jenki... |
453,869 | 11,228,318 | 102,730 | 8 | Push Comes to Shove is bizarre Bill Plympton animation short | Push Comes to Shove is an animated short about two men looking the same doing various bizarre things to their faces . Like one pulling the other's ears forward , tying them in front of his face , getting a big rock in between the tied ears and pulling said ears with rock toward the face making a big fluffy hole on it .... |
454,242 | 11,228,318 | 28,007 | 8 | Musical Charmers is a wonderful showcase for Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra | This musical short from Paramount was another rarity that I read about in the Matinée at the Bijou site which linked this to YouTube . As we watch a performance of Phil Spitalny and his All-Girl Orchestra and Choir , the first song being performed is " I'll Bet You Tell That to All the Girls " led by a three-girl choru... |
454,139 | 11,228,318 | 26,109 | 8 | Betty Boop and Grampy is another entertaining Fleischer cartoon | Having just rediscovered Betty Boop and Grampy on Mark Evanier's site , I forgot how charming the entire cartoon was especially the fun-loving inventor Grampy ! Betty sings and invites two piano movers , a fireman , and a traffic cop to Grampy's house which is far from the first door the gang arrive at but moves to it ... |
454,412 | 11,228,318 | 31,816 | 8 | Porky's Tire Trouble is another funny Porky Pig cartoon by Bob Clampett | Just found this on Thad's Animation Blog . This was another Bob Clampett cartoon starring Porky Pig . In this one , it's Porky's dog , Flat Foot Flookey , that gets the lion's share of the laughs especially after following his master to his job at the Snappy Rubber Co . and falling into a vat of rubberized solution tha... |
454,033 | 11,228,318 | 78,382 | 8 | Thank God It's Friday is a fun ' 70s disco dance movie | After almost 30 years of hearing or reading about the ' 70s disco movie , Thank God It's Friday , and having taped it for future viewing from AMC 5 years ago , I finally got around to seeing it a couple of hours ago . I must say , I was mainly expecting some cheesy comedy set in a dance club with lame jokes and a bare ... |
454,143 | 11,228,318 | 67,858 | 8 | To All My Friends on Shore presents a touching , dramatic Bill Cosby | Having mainly seen Dr . Cosby ( I refer him as such because of his PHD ) in " Fat Albert " , " The Cosby Show " , his movies with Sidney Poitier , and his guest appearances in various ' 70s variety shows ( as well as starring in his own short-lived ABC show ) , I was wonderfully surprised to see him playing a dramatic ... |
454,068 | 11,228,318 | 942,525 | 8 | Unexpected is a step up from the previous few Heroes episodes | When we last saw Claire with her mom , Mrs . Bennett had lost all memory . Claire leaves to get her younger brother and finds her mom get her memory back . A few minutes later , however , Mrs . Bennett collapses . The agent that frees Hiro pulls a gun on him . Seems he wants a piece of the showgirl's action . The showg... |
454,155 | 11,228,318 | 43,128 | 8 | What's Up Doc ? is an amusing show biz parody cartoon from Bugs Bunny | What's Up Doc ? is a pretty amusing , if not hilarious , cartoon from director Robert McKimson about Bugs Bunny's rise in show biz . As a child , he learns to play Franz Lizst on the piano . Then as an adult , he starts in the chorus in various musical revues . Bugs blows his big chance , however , when his solo act on... |
454,635 | 11,228,318 | 41,198 | 8 | Border Incident was one of the late Ricardo Montalban's more compelling movies | With the death of Ricardo Montalban still fresh from a few weeks ago , I thought I'd check from my local library a DVD of one of his more dramatically compelling movies he made for his contracted studio , M-G-M . Directed by Anthony Mann just before his legendary streak of James Stewart westerns in the following decade... |
454,664 | 11,228,318 | 22,113 | 8 | George Stevens ' Mama Loves Papa is hilarious ! | Mama Loves Papa is an entry in Hal Roach's The Boy Friends series . Among the stars are occasional W . C . Fields stooge Grady Sutton and a couple of former original Our Gangers Mickey Daniels and Mary Kornman , here playing brother and sister . The plot concerns Daniels and Kornman's mother about to marry another brot... |
454,673 | 11,228,318 | 320,629 | 8 | Timmy's Wish is one irreverent short comedy | Just watched this pretty blasphemous but also funny short on atomfilms . com . In a nutshell , Timmy , after getting sent to his room for not finishing his dinner because it has Brussel sprouts and liver , prays to Jesus that he wishes his parents were dead . Guess what happens ? The Jesus character is played by the di... |
455,101 | 11,228,318 | 402,886 | 8 | Capital P is scarily amusing depiction of a child's imagination | We see child like drawings of house , sun , hose , and bed . At bed , a child is wetting it with hose . House comes alive and says to child , " Don't wet your bed ! " Child wakes up . Just a dream . He rushes through the dark hallway , scared until he turns on the light . He finds the bathroom and sits on the toilet . ... |
453,842 | 11,228,318 | 1,248,331 | 8 | Generalissimo was another quite funny episode of " 30 Rock " | In this episode , a bunch of white male investment bankers recently laid off are now interns and have roped Tracy Jordan into some all-nighters which is ironic since Jordan quickly gets tired of them , Jack has a hard time impressing Elisa's grandmother because of his resemblance to the villain in her favorite telenova... |
455,111 | 11,228,318 | 152,091 | 8 | Prosperity Blues is a Krazy Kat cartoon from the Depression that seems relevant to today's times | Just watched this Depression-inspired Krazy Kat cartoon on Uncle John's Crazy Town blog . In this one , Krazy is selling apples for 5 cents though he doesn't seem successful until he sees a limousine . . . then we find out that car has his chauffeur also selling apples ! Not to worry , a customer then buys a couple and... |
454,793 | 11,228,318 | 89,310 | 8 | Ken Burns ' Huey Long is interesting documentary of Louisiana political figure | Having grown in Baton Rouge , La . most of my life and visited the State Capitol , as a kid on a school field trip , where Huey Long was shot , I was very interested in seeing Ken Burns ' documentary Huey Long despite airing on WLPB ( our local PBS affiliate ) opposite CBS ' Two and a Half Men and The New Adventures of... |
453,962 | 11,228,318 | 14,385 | 8 | Max Fleischer's The Puzzle is another charming " Out of the Inkwell " series entry | As Max Fleischer goes to his drawing board , he doodles some squares with fragments of pictures in each one . When he arranges them , they become various animals or people until he does one that becomes Ko-Ko the Clown . Max gets the clown to sit on a chair before putting some more puzzle shapes on the board which he a... |
454,996 | 11,228,318 | 148,316 | 8 | House of Hashimoto is an unique entry in the Terrytoons canon | Having just seen this on YouTube , House of Hashimoto is one of the more unusual cartoons to come from the usually conservative Terrytoons . In fact one of the writers , Bob Kuwahara , is Japanese . So this story of an invisible mouse who defeats a " giant cat " seems to have a genesis in Asian legend . It's certainly ... |
454,570 | 11,228,318 | 152,157 | 8 | Red Hot Music was one entertainingly jazzy Terrytoons short | Here's another animated cartoon I watched on Uncle John's Crazy Town blog . It's a Terrytoon starring Kiko the Kangaroo . Who you ask ? This was an animal character that originated in the Farmer Al Falfa series . In this one , Kiko is a fire fighter who's called to douse the flames of Station KIKO which has a literally... |
455,158 | 11,228,318 | 800,972 | 8 | Family Portraits : The Marx Brothers is an affectionate tribute from the children of their famous fathers | Narrated by AMC's host Bob Dorian , this program showcased family members of The Marx Brothers . Among them who appeared on camera were Susan Fleming ( Harpo's wife ) , Bill Marx ( Harpo's son ) , Minnie Marx ( Harpo's daughter ) , Maxine Marx ( Chico's daughter ) , and Miriam Marx ( Groucho's daughter ) . This show wa... |
454,953 | 11,228,318 | 307,141 | 8 | The Mayflower Voyagers is a fine informative first episode of " This Is America , Charlie Brown " | Though Thanksgiving was three days ago , I had to at least watch this first episode of " This Is America , Charlie Brown " miniseries-which was a bonus feature on the " A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving " DVD-before November turned into December . As Charlie Brown narrates about the Pilgrims ' voyage from England , we see h... |
454,001 | 11,228,318 | 64,113 | 8 | Bugged by a Bee was one of the funnier of the latter-day Warner Bros . cartoons | Just watched this latter-day Warner Bros . Looney Tunes cartoon on YouTube as linked from the Misce-Looney-ous blog . It stars a now-forgotten character named Cool Cat who's voiced by Larry Storch , the star of Warner Bros . Television's " F Troop " ( whose music scorer is the same here-William Lava ) . Cool Cat is a c... |
454,873 | 11,228,318 | 45,037 | 8 | Pluto's Christmas Tree is a very enjoyable Walt Disney Christmas cartoon | Just went on YouTube and rediscovered this classic cartoon from Walt Disney starring Mickey Mouse , Pluto , and Chip ' n ' Dale that I first saw on " The Wonderful World of Disney " on December 25 , 1977 when the episode was the all-animated " From All of Us to All of You " . In this one , Mickey and his dog live in a ... |
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