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Deadline at Dawn (1946, Harold Clurman)
Given all the excellent components, Deadline at Dawn ought to be a lot better. It has a compelling plot–a naive sailor and erstwhile murder suspect (Bill Williams) has to solve the crime before… more →
The Stop Button
Cry Tough
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wrote 2 weeks ago: I’ve gradually tried to introduce my kids to various classic films. I don’t want them just growing u … more →
Deadline at Dawn (1946, Harold Clurman)
wrote 1 month ago: Given all the excellent components, Deadline at Dawn ought to be a lot better. It has a compelling p … more →
Five Came Back (1939)
wrote 6 months ago: Directed by John Farrow, In Los Angeles, nine passengers board the Silver Queen, a plane piloted by … more →
Touch of Evil
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The Glass Key (1942, Stuart Heisler)
wrote 8 months ago: The Glass Key‘s a murder mystery, but its solution–and even its investigation–is i … more →
Theatre Row on 125th Street, Harlem 1890's
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wrote 8 months ago: Harlem, along 125th street, had a large number of theaters at the turn of the last century. These th … more →
Touch of Evil (1958) Orson Welles
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wrote 10 months ago: The camera focuses in on what is a homemade time bomb. A young unidentified man carries it to a car … more →
Gilda (1946)
wrote 10 months ago: Directed by Charles Vidor, When wealthy Ballin Mundson rescues down at his heels gambler Johnny Farr … more →
Riffraff
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wrote 11 months ago: Gasser Riffraff (1936) I would not necessarily think of Jean Harlow and Spencer Tracy as a logi … more →
Jungle Book (1942)
wrote 1 year ago: Teenaged Mowgli, who was raised by wolves, appears in a village in India and is adopted by Messua. M … more →
Rudyard Kipling's Jungle Book (1942 Movie) - Sabu, Joseph Calleia, John Qualen, Frank Puglia
wrote 1 year ago: Jungle Book is a 1942 American color action-adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling book, The Ju … more →
Riffraff (1936) J. Walter Ruben
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wrote 1 year ago: A young Spencer Tracy plays Dutch Miller, a highly arrogant, egotistical blow hard of a fisherman wi … more →
The Alamo (1960)
wrote 1 year ago: Directed by John Wayne, Based on a true story, In 1836 General Santa Anna and the Mexican army is sw … more →
The Noose Hangs High
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wrote 1 year ago: Like a lot of people today, I’m familiar with Abbott & Costello more by reference than by … more →
Sundown (1941, Henry Hathaway)
wrote 1 year ago: The majority of Sundown is excellent. Hathaway sort of mixes the Western and British colonial advent … more →
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950, Mitchell Leisen)
wrote 2 years ago: Either Alan Ladd was in a bunch of makeup or he’d just had his eyes done because the way his e … more →
Urban Gorilla
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wrote 3 years ago: Well, I’ve got to admit, there are times when my mission to watch all the films depicted in De … more →
"Between you and me and the lamppost..."
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wrote 3 years ago: The sailor suit — an important artifact in Woolrich’s personal iconography… When A … more →
Gilda (Feb. 14, 1946)
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wrote 3 years ago: Charles Vidor’s Gilda premiered on February 14, 1946, and went into wide release on March 15. … more →
