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455,000 | 11,228,318 | 150,578 | 8 | The Flamboyant Arms is a highly amusing Deitch / Terrytoon short | This is a latter-day Terrytoons short from the Gene Deitch era . It stars Clint Clobber , a janitor for an apartment . In this one , he has to hurry up and make sure the building is spic and span for inspection by the building's owner . Of course , everything goes disastrously wrong from sewer trash rising to lights bl... |
454,025 | 11,228,318 | 25,270 | 8 | See the hilarious unrestrained Ritz Brothers in Hotel Anchovy | Of all the comedy teams that ended up in the movies in the 1930s , Jimmy , Harry , and Al-The Ritz Brothers-were probably the most unrestrained ever and are probably not as appreciated as a result . In Hotel Anchovy-a short made for the low-budget comedy short studio with the ironic name of Educational-their film debut... |
454,111 | 11,228,318 | 20,952 | 8 | The Haunted Ship is an entertaining early Van Beuren talkie cartoon | The Haunted Ship is an early talkie Van Beuren cartoon . It depicts a couple of humanized cats-one tall , one short-flying a plane when thunder and lightning hits causing their plane to fall in the ocean . They encounter various skeletons-like that of Davy Jones-and many fish and turtles . Four of those turtles drunken... |
454,625 | 11,228,318 | 73,640 | 8 | Rudolph's Shiny New Year was a nice sequel to the previous Rankin / Bass claymation special | Just finished this , the sequel to Rankin / Bass ' " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer " . With Red Skelton as narrator Father Time as well as the Baby Bear , Frank Gorshin as the knight Sir Ten-To-Three , Morey Amsterdam as the caveman-O . M . ( One Million ) , Hal " Great Gildersleeve " Peary as the whale Big Ben , Paul... |
454,059 | 11,228,318 | 148,632 | 8 | Post War Inventions is a very funny outing from Paul Terry | Gandy takes Sourpuss to a place that has a pill that becomes instant dinner when water is added ( as Sourpuss finds out when he takes several of the pills with water and throws all of them up ! ) , has a kitchen that has an automatic pie maker ( which the cat ends up in ) , has an instant machine that cuts hair ( and l... |
454,620 | 11,228,318 | 22,956 | 8 | Goopy Geer is another entertaining Merrie Melodies cartoon from Harmon-Ising | Goopy Gear is the title character in this Merrie Melodies cartoon from Hugh Harmon-Rudolf Ising Productions in association with Leon Schlesinger and distributed by Warner Bros . He is a piano-playing dog who plays while the customers dance . There's the gorilla waiter who I just saw in Lady , Play Your Mandolin ! Same ... |
455,115 | 11,228,318 | 135,571 | 8 | Fat and Lean Wrestling Match is Melies ' cartoonish version of wrestling | We see two women covering themselves with blankets . When they uncover themselves , they are now two men . These two men start to wrestle . One of them manages to throw the other around . The other one then literally knocks his head off as well as his arms , legs , and feet ! He then puts the dismembered parts together... |
455,141 | 11,228,318 | 64,217 | 8 | Death of a Gunfighter was Lena Horne's only straight drama | In continuing to review African-Americans on film and television in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now at 1969 with Death of a Gunfighter with Lean Horne in her only straight role though you do hear her recording of the song , " Sweet Apple Wine " in the beginning and end credits . Though she's bil... |
453,858 | 11,228,318 | 42,928 | 8 | The Scarlet Pumpernickel is an amusing parody of swashbucklers and studio pitches | In this one , Daffy plays himself as an actor tired of comedy roles so he pitches J . L . a script called " The Scarlet Pumpernickel " by Daffy Dumas Duck . The duck's the title character hoping to rescue the fair Melissa from the evil Porky Pig . The pig tries to get Sylvester to marry her to keep her from Daffy . Als... |
454,364 | 11,228,318 | 27,371 | 8 | The Blow Out was an interesting early Tex Avery cartoon featuring Porky Pig | The Blow Out was an early Warner Bros . cartoon that was the second made by " supervisor " Fred " Tex " Avery as director . It also starred Porky Pig in his early incarnation with original voice Joe Dougherty ( who stuttered in real life ) . Other voices featured were Sara Berner who was later gossipy switchboard opera... |
454,777 | 11,228,318 | 48,649 | 8 | Speedy Gonzales gave us the " fastest mouse in all Mexico " as we know him today | Despite the title , this is Speedy Gonzales ' SECOND appearance , after Robert McKimson's Cat-Tails for Two . This is , however , his first time in the costume and design we know him from . In this short , after another mouse gets done for in trying to get cheese past the guard-Sylvester , Speedy accepts the challenge ... |
454,184 | 11,228,318 | 860,036 | 8 | Heroes : Nothing to Hide slowly provides some details to main characters | Peter dreams of his former patient Charles Deveraux from when he was a nurse and tells him he can fly . He then wakes up and hears knocking . It's his girlfriend and Deveraux's daughter , Simone . She tells him her father died a few hours ago . Meanwhile , Peter's brother Nathan is having brunch with a reporter at his ... |
454,464 | 11,228,318 | 34,241 | 8 | Sun Valley Serenade provides a hot number with Dorothy Dandridge and the Nicholas Brothers | In honor of Black History Month , I've been writing reviews of movies that African-Americans , in front and behind the camera , have been involved on in chronological order . So we're now in 1941 with Sun Valley Serenade . In a brief specialty number at the end of Glenn Miller's " rehersal " of " Chattanooga Choo Choo ... |
454,665 | 11,228,318 | 27,353 | 8 | Betty Boop and the Little King was another entertaining Max Fleischer cartoon | After Van Beuren decided not to renew their contract with King Features Syndicate for their comic strip , " The Little King " , Max and Dave Fleischer decided to try Otto Soglow's creation as a potential star for their series by testing him with their star Betty Boop . Here , his majesty and his queen are at the opera ... |
454,473 | 11,228,318 | 20,767 | 8 | Circus Capers is interesting early sound Aesop's Fables cartoon | If you've read the summary then you pretty much know what happens in Circus Capers . I'd like to comment on some of the animation . At the beginning , there is a group of trombone players whose instruments get elongated as they go forward . Next , there are a couple of elephants who each dance with a tambourine attache... |
454,672 | 11,228,318 | 46,781 | 8 | Bird-Brain Bird Dog was a pretty hilarious end to M-G-M's Barney Bear theatrical cartoon series | Until Filmation revived him as well as Droopy for their " Tom and Jerry " show on Saturday Mornings on CBS in the ' 80s , this would be the last appearance of Barney Bear anywhere in any cartoon series for a while . Here he's looking for a dog to hunt birds . Unfortunately for him , the dog he bought is a member of a b... |
455,085 | 11,228,318 | 282,945 | 8 | The Scoundrel's Wife ( or Home Front ) was a nice regional drama from Louisiana filmmaker Glen Pitre | After checking this out of the East Baton Rouge Parish Library a couple of weeks ago , I finally watched Cut Off native Glen Pitre's The Scoundrel's Wife ( or as printed in the movie proper-Home Front ) with my parents . My dad was bored and left partly through but me and my mom stayed for the whole thing and both enjo... |
455,148 | 11,228,318 | 152,935 | 8 | Teacher's Pest is another fascinating Famous entry from the ' 40s-'50s | I had originally mistaken this for a Baby Huey cartoon since a VHS tape I owned had put this title on it . Now I can say that Teacher's Pest is actually a Famous Studios Noveltoons starring a one-shot character named Junior , a little kid owl with glasses . He mother wakes him for his first day in school . Among his an... |
454,906 | 11,228,318 | 38,057 | 8 | Fritz Lang's Scarlet Street gets a fine performance from Robinson | Scarlet Street was one of the most interesting film noirs for me because of Edward G . Robinson's characterization of a meek man forced into crime instead of his usual tough guys . I loved an early scene he had with co-worker Samuel S . Hinds about inviting him to his house . That set the tone of what a nice man Robins... |
454,843 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,790 | 8 | Gnothi Seauton is another pretty exciting episode of " Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles " | Having sent herself and the Connors ahead to 2007 by a computer that was hidden in a bank vault at the end of last week's episode , Cameron , after three days , now tells Sarah about getting new ID's . Sarah and Cameron go to an old friend named Enrique who tells them he's now retired and sends them to his nephew , Car... |
453,928 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,791 | 8 | The Turk is another compelling episode of " Terminator : The Sarah Connor Chronicles " | While Cameron and John arrive for their first day in their new high school , they encounter a metal detector . After the third beep for Cameron each time she enters , John explains she has a large metal plate on her head so she's now let through without incident . Meanwhile , Sarah visits Mrs . Dyson as she visits her ... |
454,697 | 11,228,318 | 82,533 | 8 | Joe Dante's The Howling has plenty of scares throughout | Earlier this week , I saw An American Werewolf in London in its entirety for the first time in my life . Now I just saw another werewolf movie from 1981 from beginning to end in my first viewing : The Howling . With direction from Joe Dante and a script co-written by John Sayles , this flick was almost as awesome as th... |
454,511 | 11,228,318 | 1,055,796 | 8 | Vick's Chip is an interesting appetizer of " Terminator : The Sarah Conor Chronicles " for the next and last episode of the season | This episode , Vick's Chip , was the first of a two-hour season finale to air . Derek finds the chip that Cameron took from the Terminator leaving Sarah and John expressing doubts about her intentions . Cameron declares she just wanted to find info about Vick that may provide more clues about how to destroy Skynet . So... |
454,725 | 11,228,318 | 756,729 | 8 | Molly Shannon does a nice dramatic turn in Year of the Dog | Year of the Dog was one of two movies ( the other was The Black Book ) I chose to see at the about-to-close Regal Entertainment Group's ( previously United Aritsts ' ) Siegen Village 10 Theatre in Baton Rouge , La . , on its last day of operation of June 7 , 2007 . I went to the 1 : 45pm showing which had about maybe 7... |
454,523 | 11,228,318 | 1,091,293 | 8 | Sixth episode of " The Big Band Theory " makes the show get better | As Leonard , Sheldon , Wolowitz ( Simon Helberg ) , and Koothrappali ( Kunal Nayyar ) go to their apartment after playing paint-ball , Penny invites them to her costume party . Before that begins , they all prepare dressing as The Flash . Since no one wants to look alike , Leonard dresses as Frodo , Koothrappali as Tho... |
454,063 | 11,228,318 | 1,091,292 | 8 | Fifth episode of " The Big Bang Theory " is another funny outing | Leonard , Sheldon , and their two friends are at Penny's restaurant playing a game that mixes Civil War generals with various sci-fi heroes . Penny tells them they have to order something or they'll get thrown out . Leslie , Leonard's lab partner , comes by and asks if he'll agree to play cello for her music group . He... |
453,983 | 11,228,318 | 655,428 | 8 | Jack Frost is another funny episode of " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " | Okay , I just finished watching this American-dubbed version of the Russian-Finnish Jack Frost on " Mystery Science Theater 3000 " on YouTube . The girl playing Nastenka was quite beautiful and is obviously the " Cinderella " character here but I thought this film was about Jack Frost , you know , the title character w... |
453,922 | 11,228,318 | 18,678 | 8 | The Battle of the Sexes is a departure from D . W . Griffith's usual fare | After years of doing period dramas like Broken Blossoms , Way Down East , and Orphans of the Storm , D . W . Griffith takes us to present day 20s with The Battle of the Sexes . A young blond curly-haired woman ( Phyllis Haver ) flirts with a married real estate developer ( Jean Hersholt ) in order to get some bonds fro... |
454,821 | 11,228,318 | 1,035,917 | 8 | Second episode of " Chuck " improves on the first | With this , the second episode of " Chuck " , the title character tries to keep a normal facade despite his now-frequent computer images planted in his brain . Agent Sarah now works at the Weinerlicious fast-food place next door in order to keep tabs on him . Agent John from another agency not associated with Sarah , n... |
453,763 | 11,228,318 | 36,046 | 8 | Isle of Forgotten Sins is a rousing low budget adventure from Edgar G . Ulmer | Isle of Forgotten Sins is one of those rarities I discovered at my local library . In this case , this was one of Edgar G . Ulmer's low-budget poverty row pictures he made for PRC . John Carradine and Frank Fenton are rivals for gambling club owner Gale Sondergaard but they put aside their differences for a chance to g... |
454,861 | 11,228,318 | 1,035,922 | 8 | Chuck Verses the Alma Mater is another very good episode of " Chuck " | Ever since he got kicked out of Stanford , Chuck has been hesitant about going back there . So much so that he doesn't want to investigate his former professor who falsely accused him of cheating on his tests or see a football game with Awesome and his former frat buddies . But a library book - " The Fall of the Roman ... |
455,147 | 11,228,318 | 1,035,920 | 8 | Chuck Verses the Sizzling Shrimp is a very good episode of " Chuck " | As Chuck , sister Ellie , and Morgan go out on the town to a restaurant in Chinatown , Chuck sees an Asian woman that reveals to his computer brain that she plans to kill someone . Later , while Sarah and Casey try to stop her , Chuck sees the man that the woman plans to kill get out on his wheelchair . He helps him to... |
453,978 | 11,228,318 | 461,770 | 8 | Enchanted is a nice parody / tribute to fairy tales from Walt Disney Pictures | Walt Disney Pictures ' original animated / live-action musical comedy Enchanted is a mostly wonderful tribute / parody of various fairy tale films that made the company the most enchanting for family entertainment . Amy Adams is simply luminous as Giselle , the maiden who finds herself caught between James Marsden's Pr... |
455,209 | 11,228,318 | 9,996 | 8 | Winsor McCay's The Centaurs is fascinating even in fragments | I saw three versions of this on YouTube ( as linked from Google Video ) . One of them had a heavy metal score that seemed WAY unsuitable . Beautiful images of the forest and the half human-half horse figures that still makes one take his / her breath away some 86 years later . Would be nice to see if any other fragment... |
454,085 | 11,228,318 | 75,066 | 8 | The Pink Panther Strikes Again is another hilarious Inspector Clouseau comedy | For once , here's a Pink Panther movie that follows the continuity of the previous one as former Chief Inspector Charles Dreyfus ( Herbert Lom , as always ) is still at the mental institution that he was committed to in The Return of the Pink Panther . It's now three years later and he's due to get out . Then Clouseau ... |
453,790 | 11,228,318 | 62,353 | 8 | What on Earth ! was a nice satirical animated short from The National Film Board of Canada | Just watched this Oscar-nominated animated short on YouTube . Presented by " The National Film Board of Mars " , What on Earth ! has a narrator telling the Mars audience about the life there is on Earth that feeds on a pump of gas . It seems he's referring to the cars that dominate the highway . We also find out about ... |
454,775 | 11,228,318 | 40,361 | 8 | The Foghorn Leghorn is a classic starring the loud-mouth rooster | Once again , Henery Hawk is looking for a chicken to catch and once again , he doesn't know what a chicken looks like . When he sees his father looking at Foghorn Leghorn , the father , because he doesn't like his son tagging along , tells him he's not a chicken but a " snook " . Supposedly because his ego is deflated ... |
454,750 | 11,228,318 | 909,393 | 8 | Black Tie is another funny episode of 30 Rock | While Liz and her staff are improvising " Yo Mama " jokes , Jack invites her to a prince's ball . He insists it's not a date . Liz accepts . Jenna finds out and asks if she can come . Liz declines . After hearing Pete talking to his kids on the phone , Tracy tries to get him to loosen up by bringing his " homies " to h... |
454,908 | 11,228,318 | 972,117 | 8 | Rainn Wilson / Arcade Fire is one of the better SNL episodes | The cold opening of this February 24 , 2007 edition takes us to CNN where Wolf Blitzer ( Darrell Hammond ) is reporting on the Iraq War . The crawl at the bottom , however , keeps wanting to report on the Anna Nicole Smith case . " Anna ! Anna ! Anna ! " the crawl keeps saying as it moves . Ms . Smith's face then keeps... |
454,215 | 11,228,318 | 839,995 | 8 | Richard Donner's cut of Superman II was mostly an improvement on the previous Richard Lester one | While I remember enjoying Superman II when I was a young teen in 1981 and the way Richard Lester directed most of it , I was a little ecstatic to finally see this Richard Donner cut or what most of his version might have been . Certainly the way Margot Kidder was figuring out Clark Kent's true identity in this version ... |
454,125 | 11,228,318 | 27,446 | 8 | Christmas Comes But Once a Year is a wonderful Fleischer Color Classic | You can tell a Max Fleischer cartoon by some of the backgrounds having a 3-D effect such as in Christmas Comes But Once a Year having a realistic looking exterior of an orphanage or the fluorescent umbrella Christmas tree at the end . In between those two images , we see the orphans getting presents that break down cau... |
454,137 | 11,228,318 | 969,961 | 8 | Songs from the Labyrinth marks Sting's foray into centuries-old music | This special from PBS chronicles Sting's playing , performing , and recording the music of one John Dowland , a songwriter and musician from the 16th century . To perform the songs as they sounded then , Sting plays the lute and collaborates with Edin Karamazov , an expert on Dowland's music . We also get biographical ... |
454,935 | 11,228,318 | 20,678 | 8 | Below Zero is one of the early talkie Laurel and Hardy shorts | In this one , the boys are musicians who have trouble attracting customers for two hours . After they decide to move , Ollie finds out why when he looks at the building's name . At their next stop , one woman pays a dollar to " move a couple of streets " while others throw snowballs . Then there's a real large woman wh... |
454,194 | 11,228,318 | 22,714 | 8 | Bosko's Party is a very entertaining Bosko short | I'm with the previous reviewer , this was a very entertaining short with plenty of gags and the wonderful musical number , " Suger , That's What I'll Name You " as sung by Honey . Loved the cat trying to get out of that flowerpot . Or the pig being too large to hide under the bed until Bosko takes a pin and " deflates ... |
454,246 | 11,228,318 | 39,088 | 9 | A Christmas Dream or Vanocni sen is a wonderful holiday short from Czechoslovakia | Just watched on YouTube as linked from Matinée at the Bijou this vintage live action / puppet animation short from the Czech Republic called A Christmas Dream here in the U . S . A little girl throws away her old rag doll after getting some new presents . Santa appears to get the girl dreaming about her old doll dancin... |
455,099 | 11,228,318 | 403,017 | 9 | Fast Food Matador is spicily musical in tone | We begin in an abstract version of New York ( with an abstract version of the destroyed World Trade Center ) . Then we start hearing Latin-flavored music with a female group singing of a man surviving traffic like a bullfighter to deliver food to customers . They also sing about a bull driving a car and trying to defea... |
454,771 | 11,228,318 | 427,327 | 9 | Hairspray is one of the most enjoyable movies I've seen this year so far | I tried to see this movie last week with my friend but it was sold out for the showing we went for so we ended up seeing I Now Pronounce You Chuck and Larry instead ( I gave that movie 6 stars for some good humor and mostly positive message concerning gays though I was turned off by some of the homophobia and Rob Schne... |
454,630 | 11,228,318 | 1,339,246 | 9 | The 31st Annual Kennedy Center Honors was a very classy awards show | Just finished watching this annual awards special which had the following honorees : actor Morgan Freeman , choreographer Twyla Tharp , surviving Who members Roger Daltrey and Pete Townshend , Country music singer George Jones , and singer / actress / director Barbra Streisand . Let me first mention some disappointment... |
454,972 | 11,228,318 | 30,604 | 9 | While Porky in Wackyland was the original , I sort of like Dough for the Do-Do better | Having now watched Porky in Wackyland on YouTube months after seeing it's almost shot-for-shot identical remake , Dough for the Do-Do , on the first Looney Tunes Collection DVD , I have to admit : I sort of liked the remake better . There are two main reasons for this : the later color version had the " rubber band " s... |
454,803 | 11,228,318 | 101,258 | 9 | Wong Kar-Wai's Days of Being Wild is one of the most compelling foreign-language films I've seen so far | Days of Being Wild is the first film I've seen directed by Wong Kar-Wai as well as the first time I've seen any of the actors that I'll now list here : Leslie Cheung , Maggie Cheung , Andy Law , Carina Lau , and Tony Leung . Those beginning scenes with Leslie and Maggie are some of the most erotically charged I've seen... |
454,781 | 11,228,318 | 43,943 | 9 | Putty Tat Trouble is another Tweety and Sylvester cartoon | As Tweety shovels show out of his nest , Sylvester in one building and an orange tabby in another are eyeing him for food . After their respective masters let them out , they both try to get the yellow canary for themselves . Guess what happens . That's right , it's a tit for tat in bird catching ! Tweety also meets a ... |
454,555 | 11,228,318 | 122,374 | 9 | An All-Colored Vaudeville Show was a very entertaining music short | This musical short from Warner Bros . - Vitaphone was what the title says in the following order : 1 ) The 3 Whippets-Three dancers that do somersaults , back-flips , and one of them stands at the top of two chairs with each foot on each chair without falling , 2 ) Adelaide Hall-a female singer who does a little dance ... |
454,949 | 11,228,318 | 660,875 | 9 | They're Tearing Down Tim Riley's Bar was possibly Rod Serling's last harrah on " Night Gallery " | William Windom is Randolph Lane , a worker at a plastics company for the last 25 years who's been off drinking and reminiscing at the abandoned - and - about - to - be - torn Tim Riley's Bar . His boss ( John Randolph ) doesn't like it and is considering replacing him with his underling Harvey Doane ( Burt Convy ) who'... |
453,856 | 11,228,318 | 41,760 | 9 | Porky Chops is a very funny Arthur Davis cartoon | In a nutshell , Porky Pig is a lumberjack who's chopping down a tree that occupies a squirrel who wears pajamas , hangs a " Brooklyn Dodgers " banner over his bed , and reads the racing forms from the newspaper . The squirrel tries various ways to shoo the pig away like putting aluminum siding on the tree and then disg... |
454,261 | 11,228,318 | 28,249 | 9 | This version of Show Boat is still the essential one of film | Show boat is coming ! So says a black worker at the beginning of this James Whale-directed movie version of the classic Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical from Edna Ferber's novel . He's played by one Eddie Anderson , years before his famed role as Rochester on the radio and later television version of " The Ja... |
454,270 | 11,228,318 | 433,383 | 9 | George Clooney's Good Night , and Good Luck . makes a fine dramatized documentary | In making Good Night , and Good Luck . , director George Clooney has made a nearly perfect dramatization of the issues legendary CBS newsman Edward R . Murrow ( perfectly played by David Straithain ) had with the " junior senator from Wisconsin " , Joseph R . McCarthy and the way he tried to " infiltrate " Communists i... |
455,139 | 11,228,318 | 416,236 | 9 | The Spiderwick Chronicles provides wonderful family entertainment | This was another movie I picked at random for me and my friend to see during our free time . It was playing at a theatre that he's supposed to start working at soon . This was an enchanting movie concerning goblins , fairies , and ogres as well as children affected by divorce and an old lady who misses her long-lost fa... |
454,941 | 11,228,318 | 604,624 | 9 | ' Twas the Night Before Christmas was a touching holiday episode of " The Honeymooners " | I just watched for the first time on YouTube this holiday episode of " The Honeymooners " from their only season outside of being a sketch on " The Jackie Gleason Show " . There's a partial touch of the O'Henry story , " The Gift of the Magi " , here with the standard , but well-earned , laughs whenever Norton ( Art Ca... |
454,833 | 11,228,318 | 235,193 | 9 | Ask Grandma is a sweet and hilarious " Our Gang " short | This Hal Roach comedy short , Ask Grandma , is the thirty-eighth entry in the " Our Gang / Little Rascals " series . Mickey is depressed because his mom wants him to be a " hothouse flower " when he'd prefer to be a weed . In other words , he'd rather be with the other boys and ride the two-plane merry-go-round outside... |
453,817 | 11,228,318 | 45,697 | 9 | Chuck Jones ' Don't Give Up the Sheep is hilarious ! | A sheepdog named Ralph says hello to another one named Fred as they both punch time clocks with Ralph clocking in . He's keeping watch over the sheep that a wolf ( who looks like While E . Coyote ) keeps trying to capture but always is caught by Ralph who keeps punching him . The wolf tries many ways to fool him like p... |
454,680 | 11,228,318 | 1,054,847 | 9 | The Kindness of Strangers is another good episode of " Heroes " | Twins Maya and Alejandro have escaped from a jail in Houndaras with an American named Derek and are now in Claire's stolen vehicle somewhere in Mexico . They stop when they see a man unconscious on ground . It's Sylar ! After they pick him up , he identifies himself by his real first name , Gabriel , and seeing the boo... |
454,006 | 11,228,318 | 59,243 | 9 | Blake Edwards ' The Great Race is one of the finest comedy epics ever ! | After about 25 years of only seeing part of this hilarious epic comedy from Blake Edwards on TBS's " Academy Award Theatre " and having taped this unedited version on AMC about 15 years ago , I finally got to see the entirety of this just three hours ago and I've got to say I'm very glad I did ! First off , Jack Lemmon... |
454,812 | 11,228,318 | 52,651 | 9 | A Broken Leghorn is another funny Foghorn Leghorn cartoon | In Robert McKimson's A Broken Leghorn , Foghorn feels sorry for Prissy being teased because she can't lay an egg . So he puts one under her which gets hatched right away . He turns out to be a little rooster . Feeling jealous since he was the lone rooster for such a long time , this Southern loud-mouth then offers to g... |
454,192 | 11,228,318 | 151,935 | 9 | Pencil Mania is one of the most creative Van Beuren cartoons | This is a very entertaining cartoon that pre-dates Chuck Jones ' Duck Amuck by about 21 years in which a short fellow named Jerry draws various objects sometimes to the consternation of his tall partner Tom . Yes , this is the Van Beuren Tom and Jerry , two humans created long before the more famous cat-and-mouse team ... |
454,427 | 11,228,318 | 1,031,336 | 9 | Do Not Disturb is the last available episode of " Bionic Woman " | After getting sloppy on her job due to her anger over Antonio's death , Jonas sends Jamie on a vacation at a retreat . Jamie brings sister Becca along . Just as she's settling in , Jonas calls Jamie to assign her to keep an eye on an assassin who has orders from him to kill a spy that's selling secrets to Korea . Jamie... |
455,180 | 11,228,318 | 578,698 | 9 | Felicity : Pilot helps to mark the WB's final broadcast | Sunday , September 17 , 2006 , marked the official last night of the WB network . It was marked by showing pilots of the following shows : Felicity , Angel , Buffy the Vampire Slayer , and Dawson's Creek . Felicity is the story of a high school graduate who decided to go to college in New York after a boy she barely kn... |
454,950 | 11,228,318 | 745,802 | 9 | The Time Element is a fascinating find for fans of " The Twilight Zone " | Since I own the book " The Twilight Zone Companion " by Marc Scott Zicree , I had a vesting interest in seeing what in essence was the de facto pilot of the show called " The Time Element " which became an episode of " Westinghouse Desilu Playhouse " . In this one , it's 1958 and Pete Jenson ( William Bendix ) is seein... |
454,340 | 11,228,318 | 1,256,599 | 9 | The Bad Fish Pardigm was a nearly excellent second season premiere episode of " The Big Bang Theory " | As Leonard and Penny are walking to Penny's apartment after their date , a camera is watching their every move . When Leonard arrives back at his place , we find Howard and Raj playing the scenes from that camera from their computer . Leonard thinks his date went well but Raj and Howard beg to differ as they keep repla... |
454,447 | 11,228,318 | 149,779 | 9 | Ballet-Oop is a very good UPA cartoon | I just saw this UPA cartoon on YouTube . It concerns a ballet teacher and her attempts to get her four girl dancers ready for a competition in three weeks . It takes a lot of hard work but when the day comes the girls are ready . During the actual ballet story there's a narration provided by a male member of the audien... |
454,923 | 11,228,318 | 418,753 | 9 | Inside Deep Throat is a compelling look at the film's impact on censorship laws | As Blockbuster was emerging as the nation's video store in the late ' 80s , they had some policies that made some video store patrons try more localized , adventurous places . One was that they didn't stock any X - ( or today NC-17 ) rated movies . That would include such non-porn films like Last Tango in Paris , Henry... |
454,471 | 11,228,318 | 544,171 | 9 | Dean and Jerry hilarious in Colgate Comedy Hour | This broadcast of December 19 , 1954 starts with Dean and Jerry in their dressing rooms trying out various Colgate products as the announcer mentions the sponsor's product names we see Dean and Jerry display on the screen . Then a big production number of how the show is canceled when Martin and Lewis come on stage and... |
454,724 | 11,228,318 | 1,235,057 | 9 | Believe It or Don't is a rare live action / animated short that survives from the work of Charles Bowers | Just discovered this unusual live action / animated short on the Europa Film Treasures site . It's made by the now obscure experimental film maker Charles R . Bowers , an American . A parody of the Ripley's " Believe It or Not " shorts series , Believe It or Don't has three narrated segments : a circus act entirely per... |
454,595 | 11,228,318 | 770,716 | 9 | B . C . : The First Thanksgiving was a funny animated special I just watched on YouTube | While writing in " Thanksgiving Cartoons " in the search blank in YouTube , I discovered this B . C . animated special was listed . What a great surprise to find this cartoon after partially knowing about it for years ! Directed by Warner animation veteran ( and Chuck Jones protégé ) Abe Levitow , " B . C . : The First... |
454,959 | 11,228,318 | 368,794 | 9 | Todd Haynes ' I'm Not There . is a fascinating non-conventional look at Bob Dylan | As a filmmaker , Todd Haynes certainly is an acquired taste . From the bootlegged doll movie bio of Superstar : The Karen Carpenter Story to the ' 50s-style Far From Heaven , Haynes makes movies that conventional-watching audiences must find puzzling . And so it is with his portrait of Bob Dylan in his various phases o... |
455,044 | 11,228,318 | 68,373 | 9 | Richard Williams ' A Christmas Carol is a compelling if brief version | I just saw Richard Williams ' Oscar-winning but made-for-TV version of A Christmas Carol on Google Video . Having seen and heard so many versions over the years , I find this the most beautifully animated version with its illustration-style renderings of London and its people in the 19th century . As compelling as the ... |
454,568 | 11,228,318 | 34,877 | 9 | The Hungry Wolf was another fine Harmon-Ising cartoon from M-G-M | This is an M-G-M cartoon produced by Harmon-Ising that I found on the Cartoons , Model Sheets , and Stuff site as linked from DailyMotion . The title character sees a rope as sausages , a rolling pin as corn , and finds cheese on a mousetrap but after getting nicked by the trap and chasing the mouse for the cheese ( du... |
454,394 | 11,228,318 | 931,394 | 9 | The Baby Show is another funny episode of 30 Rock | When Cirie mentions her engagement during Jenna's surprise birthday party , Liz suddenly gets an urge for a baby especially after seeing the makeup lady bring hers . Jack is having phone arguments with his mother about her moving in with him . Tracy cannot stand Joss ' constant impersonation of him and threatens Liz to... |
454,106 | 11,228,318 | 136,337 | 9 | Ko-Ko's Reward is another enjoyable Max Fleischer cartoon short | In Ko-Ko's Reward , Max has his daughter ( possibly his real one ) with him when he once again draws Ko-Ko the Clown and his dog , Fitz , with their heads initially on the wrong bodies . After the switch , the little girl gets a little bored and puts magic ink which allows her to become an animated drawing herself as s... |
454,152 | 11,228,318 | 603,072 | 9 | This Elizabeth Montgomery-hosted episode of " The Hollywood Palace " was very entertaining | Just watched on YouTube as linked from the Classic Television Showbiz blog , this episode of the ABC variety series " The Hollywood Palace " . The guest host for this October 1 , 1966 edition was the star of the network's very popular show of the time , " Bewitched " : Elizabeth Montgomery . She comes on stage accompan... |
455,086 | 11,228,318 | 468,569 | 9 | The Dark Knight was another awesome Batman movie from Christopher Nolan | Before I comment on the movie proper , I'd like to mention two things : One , the person I went with-who works at this particular theatre and saw the midnight premiere-thought the bank manager role was played by Jimmy Smits but I immediately recognized him as William Fichtner from " Invasion " , the TV series he did wi... |
454,889 | 11,228,318 | 39,581 | 9 | The Long Night is a nearly excellent , if obscure , movie I recently discovered | When I went to my local library to check some DVDs , I stumbled onto this obscure flick that starred Henry Fonda , Barbara Bel Geddes ( in her film debut ) , Vincent Price , and Ann Dvorak . With that cast ( I just remembered that Elisa Cook , Jr . has a memorable role as a blind man here ) , with Anatole Litvak as dir... |
454,124 | 11,228,318 | 152,497 | 9 | The Snow Man was a quite effective atmospheric Terrytoon cartoon | Just watched this Terrytoons winter cartoon on YouTube whose uploader mistakenly identified this as a Van Beuren one directed by Ted Esbaugh . Manny Davis actually made this one and he provides some amusement in the beginning when an Eskimo says goodbye to his seal , who barks like a dog here , into his igloo and sets ... |
454,813 | 11,228,318 | 43,495 | 9 | Loved the cat's reactions in Early to Bet | This Robert McKimson cartoon , Early to Bet , stars a gambling bug who decides to bite a compulsive cat who's trying to give up . But every time the bug bites him , the cat always goes to this bulldog who makes him spin a penalty wheel when he loses the card game . Then after picking the file with the number that the a... |
454,814 | 11,228,318 | 41,275 | 9 | Daffy Duck Hunt brings the duck and Porky back to their original adversarial relationship | In the late ' 40s and early ' 50s while Chuck Jones was making Porky and Daffy cartoons that had the latter the " hero " while the former the " sidekick " , Robert McKimson was bringing back the adversarial relationship they originally had when they first met in Tex Avery's Porky's Duck Hunt . This short is similar to ... |
453,868 | 11,228,318 | 317,155 | 9 | Bruno Bozzetto's The Big Bang is pretty weird | A man is lying on a hammock reading and listening to the radio . Wife is tending garden . They each throw something on the ground . Wife tells husband to throw ground trash away . Husband digs ground . Wife points to trash can . Husband puts trash in garbage can . Garbage truck comes to take trash and dumps everything ... |
454,988 | 11,228,318 | 67,587 | 9 | Play It Again , Charlie Brown is one of the late Bill Melendez ' better " Peanuts " specials | When I was growing up in the ' 70s and ' 80s , I somehow managed to watch nearly every Charlie Brown animated special that was made during that time and before . All except this one though I did manage to borrow from my elementary school library a book version that had pictures from the special . So thinking of that , ... |
454,960 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,579 | 9 | Cooter marks a hilarious second season ender for " 30 Rock " | With this being the season finale written by creator / star Tina Fey , here's the synopsis in a nutshell : Jack , having taken a position with Homeland Security because of Guiess ' coma and the aftermath in the last episode , calls Liz from D . C . and tells her he won't be back . Liz finds she's tested positive for pr... |
454,196 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,595 | 9 | Cleveland is hilarious next-to-last season episode of 30 Rock | Jack , having just come back from his Paris honeymoon with Phoebe , suggests to Liz that she and Jenna should have lunch with her . Liz finds she and Phoebe have nothing in common while Jenna compares them to the Sex and the City gals with Liz being the " one who is watching the show " . Tracy can't get financing for h... |
454,900 | 11,228,318 | 1,001,591 | 9 | Somebody to Love is another very funny episode of " 30 Rock " | Another funny episode of " 30 Rock " I had to catch up on nbc . com . In this one , Kenneth loses the pants of Jack's suit so he tries to earn some money to buy a new one by performing some of the writers ' dares like swallowing ketchup that expired a couple of months ago or scaring writer Lutz awake in a gorilla suit ... |
453,945 | 11,228,318 | 39,431 | 9 | Good News is one of the most underrated MGM musicals | Good News is one of the most underrated MGM musicals from the ' 40s I've ever seen from that era . While leads June Allyson and Peter Lawford are no Judy Garland and Mickey Rooney ( who ironically , were the original considered leads for this movie version years ago ) , they sing and dance entertainingly enough for one... |
453,997 | 11,228,318 | 152,329 | 9 | Scrappy's Ghost Story is another cartoon gem I discovered starring the now-obscure Scrappy | Just watched on YouTube this Columbia ( though the print I watched had the heading " Samba Pictures Inc . Presents " ) / Charles Mintz cartoon starring a now forgotten little boy named Scrappy . In this one , Scrappy is telling his little brother a ghost story in the dark by the lit fireplace . Then he encounters a rea... |
454,659 | 11,228,318 | 22,288 | 9 | George and Gracie are Pulling a Bone | Gracie's boss at the soda fountain tells her she's five minutes late . He also tells her to be polite to her customers or she'll be fired . Gracie asks her workmate if she could at least ask for a raise . A customer complains to manager about the service and refuses to pay . Manager says he'll accept that and offers to... |
453,762 | 11,228,318 | 435,638 | 9 | This documentary , Edgar G . Ulmer - The Man Off-screen , should prove of interest to his fans | When I went to my local library recently , I looked for something on DVD that was a bit different from the mainstream and the usual classics . This documentary of a director known as " King of the B's " certainly caught my eye . Here , we get interviews of people like Joe Dante , John Landis , Roger Corman , and Wim We... |
454,396 | 11,228,318 | 41,349 | 9 | Fast and Furry-ous is a nearly excellent first Road Runner cartoon | Fast and Furry-ous is Chuck Jones ' first cartoon starring the Road Runner and While E . Coyote . It was originally supposed to be a one-shot but there was so much demand that a sequel was made four years later which then became a series . Since this was the first one , I noticed a few differences . One , the backgroun... |
454,462 | 11,228,318 | 35,703 | 9 | Cabin in the Sky is a very entertaining fantasy / musical from M-G-M | Okay , continuing the reviews of movies that involved African-Americans in chronological order for Black History Month , we're now in 1943 with the release of Cabin in the Say . This was a very enjoyable movie with the three stars : Ethyl Waters , Eddie ' Rochester ' Anderson , and Lena Horne playing their roles to the... |
454,980 | 11,228,318 | 512,042 | 9 | The Gun is one of the funniest episodes of " Amos ' n ' Andy " so far | Wanting to make it up to Sapphire for forgetting their 20th wedding anniversary , George " Kingfish " Stevens goes to a shop with Andy to buy her a purse . They get one from a pile of them that , minutes before , had a couple of criminals-one male , one female-hide that female's purse among them . When they come home ,... |
454,102 | 11,228,318 | 126,926 | 9 | Gertie on Tour is a very short but interesting sequel to Winsor McCay's Gertie the Dinosaur | There is only a minute and a half of this intriguing sequel to Gertie the Dinosaur in which the title character encounters a train and tries to eat it and dreams being surrounded by other dinosaurs . I think she also puts her tail in her mouth at the beginning . I don't know if Winsor McCay didn't finish this short or ... |
455,174 | 11,228,318 | 441,377 | 9 | Minotauromaquia provides a unique depiction of Picasso | As with many unique animated shorts that I have reviewed here on IMDb , I discovered Minotauromaquia on Cartoon Brew from Amid . Directed by Spain's Juan Pablo Etcheverry , it is a clay-animated depiction of the great modern artist Pablo Picasso and his dreams and nightmares of his various creations particularly the mi... |
454,738 | 11,228,318 | 43,315 | 9 | Ballot Box Bunny is another funny Friz Freling-directed Bugs Bunny cartoon | When Yosemite Sam runs for mayor , he vows to " rid the country of every last rabbit " . Bugs , overhearing this in his hole , resolves to " fight fire with fire " and runs against him . Considering the explosions that happen here , that's an understatement ! One such gag you usually find in these Friz Freling-directed... |
454,658 | 11,228,318 | 22,225 | 9 | Burns and Allen are Once Over , Light | George is at the barbershop where his cutter has trouble convincing him to buy hair tonic . George asks his barber if he has ever had it . " For ten years " is the reply which bothers George since the barber is bald ! He also owns the tonic since his name is on it ! George then encounters another customer who asks what... |
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