Blogs about: Archie Mayo
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BLACK LEGION (Archie Mayo, 1937)
Please see the third paragraph of my “informal capsule film comment” on Raoul Walsh’s High Sierra.… more →
Dennis Grunes
Angel on my Shoulder (1946) - PART TWO
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wrote 1 month ago: (Cick here to read Part One of Angel on my Shoulder, in case you missed it or want a reminder on wha … more →
Angel on my Shoulder (1946) - PART ONE
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wrote 2 months ago: When I was trying to decide what my second review on this lovely blog would be, I took out my DVD po … more →
HOT EUROPE
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wrote 6 months ago: “Fat, Forty and Full of Fire.” That was producer Walter Wanger’s verdict on Hitchc … more →
Moontide
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wrote 6 months ago: Moontide is a little known film noir that was shot in the early period of noir. It was filmed in 194 … more →
Black Legion (1936)
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wrote 6 months ago: I’ve now watched most of the movies from the Warner Brothers Gangster Collection Volume 3 box set – … more →
The Marx Brothers Collection (A Night at The Opera/A Day at The Races/A Night in Casablanca/Room Service/At the Circus/Go West/The Big Store)
wrote 12 months ago: This set includes seven of only thirteen Marx Brothers films ever made! Collection includes: “ … more →
Alice Faye Collection 2 (Rose of Washington Square/Hollywood Cavalcade/The Great American Broadcast/Hello, Frisco, Hello/Four Jills in a Jeep) (Full Chk Gift)
wrote 1 year ago: Disc 1: The Great American Broadcast Disc 2: Four Jills in a Jeep Disc 3: Rose of Washington Square … more →
The Mayor of Hell (1933)
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wrote 1 year ago: After watching the 1932 movie Hell’s House, set in a reform school, I was keen to see this better-kn … more →
BORDERTOWN (Archie Mayo, 1935)
wrote 1 year ago: It is unfair to compare Archie Mayo’s tough, atmospheric Bordertown to Raoul Walsh’s magnificent The … more →
Moontide Torrents
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wrote 1 year ago: So, I finally figured out, sort of, how to download movies by bittorrent, which is a horrendous head … more →
Doorway to Hell (1930) Archie Mayo
wrote 1 year ago: In Doorway to Hell, Lew Ayres plays gang leader Louis Ricarno who organizes the mob in order to … more →
Director's cuts
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wrote 1 year ago: An interesting and important new idea has arisen — the question of EDIBLE FILM DIRECTORS. (Eat … more →
Centenário de Lucien Ballard
wrote 1 year ago: O homem, o mito, o diretor de fotografia. … more →
Centenário de Lucien Ballard
wrote 1 year ago: O homem, o mito, o diretor de fotografia. … more →
GO INTO YOUR DANCE (Archie Mayo, Michael Curtiz, Robert Florey, 1935)
wrote 1 year ago: One of the most richly scored, dazzlingly entertaining Hollywood musicals ever, and perhaps my fathe … more →
The Mayor of Hell by Greg Dickson
wrote 1 year ago: Year: 1933 Director: Archie Mayo Cast: James Cagney, Madge Evans, Arthur Bryan, Allen Jenkins, Dudle … more →
MOONTIDE (Archie Mayo, Fritz Lang, 1942)
wrote 2 years ago: Jean Gabin was in his early forties when he made his first American film (Julien Duvivier’s 1944 The … more →
THE PETRIFIED FOREST (Archie Mayo, 1936)
wrote 2 years ago: In my piece about Moontide (1942), I attribute to Archie Mayo much greater talent than was considere … more →
