Blogs about: Michael Curtiz

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Flynn: A Touch of Color in a Prosaic World12 comments

moirafinnie wrote 3 weeks ago: “Maybe all that I am in this world and all that I have been and done comes down to nothing mor … more →

Tags: Actors, Books on Film, Classic Films, Film Festivals, Hollywood lifestyles, swashbucklers, War Film, Westerns, adventures of don juan

Review: The Adventures Of Robin Hood (1938)

Bill Thompson wrote 1 month ago: Swashbuckling adventure has never been done better! Screenplay By: Seton I. Miller & Normal Rei … more →

Tags: 1930s, Movies, The adventures of Robin Hood, william keighley, animals, Comedy, corruption, Crime, Culture

Black Legion (1936)10 comments

Judy wrote 1 month ago: I’ve now watched most of the movies from the Warner Brothers Gangster Collection Volume 3 box set – … more →

Tags: 1930s, Classic Movie, Humphrey Bogart, Ann Sheridan, Archie Mayo, Dick Foran, Dickie Jones, Erin O'Brien-Moore, Gangster

Just a quick note...

Lo wrote 1 month ago: There’s a thoughtful article by David Denby about director Victor Fleming (Gone With the … more →

Tags: Film criticism, Victor Fleming, Mitchell Leisen

The 7 Wonders of the Pre-Code World #6: Grot13 comments

dcairns wrote 1 month ago: Grot! What visions of splendour that name conjures up! These snaps are all from LITTLE CAESAR, but t … more →

Tags: film, Little Caesar, pre-code, the cabinet of dr. caligari, Anton Grot, Leon Barsacq, Caligari's Cabinet and Other Grand Illusions, mervyn leroy

The Adventures of Robin Hood

mistercomfypants wrote 2 months ago: Title: The Adventures of Robin Hood Year: 1938 Directors: Michael Curtiz & William Keighley Writ … more →

Tags: Movies, top 250, Best Art Direction, best score, best editing, 1938, william keighley, norman reilly raine, Seton I. Miller

Where the Social Bandits Gone?2 comments

guy bingley wrote 3 months ago: Some 70 years ago, Michael Curtiz got all the Technicolor cameras in existence to make The Adventure … more →

Tags: Street, WordPlay, Baltimore, Brazil, cangaceiro, cordel literature, folklore, G20 Riots, glauber-rocha

The Place of the Skull31 comments

dcairns wrote 3 months ago: Look — it’s Jesus! Since Easter is approaching, we decided to watch a man get nailed to … more →

Tags: film, mythology, Politics, Cabiria, golgotha, Harry Baur, intolerance, Jean Gabin, Julien Duvivier

Casablanca2 comments

Le petit garcon wrote 3 months ago: In World War II Casablanca, Rick Blaine, exiled American and former freedom fighter, runs the most p … more →

Tags: Movies, Movie, Oscar, trailer, War, Love, World, Casablanca, World War II

Front Page Human13 comments

dcairns wrote 4 months ago: The new issue of The Believer also features, asides from my own windy mumblings, a piece by my chum … more →

Tags: film, Literature, B. Kite, The Believer, Dr. X

Virginia City

livius1 wrote 4 months ago: When Errol Flynn’s first stab at a western, Dodge City, proved to be a financial hit Warners … more →

Tags: 1940s, Westerns, Randolph Scott, Humphrey Bogart, Errol Flynn

Dodge City

livius1 wrote 4 months ago: OK, time for a new series. Over the coming weeks I’m going to be covering the westerns of Err … more →

Tags: Westerns, 1930s, Errol Flynn

TCM Greatest Classic Films Collection: Best Picture Winners (Casablanca / Gigi / An American in Paris / Mrs. Miniver)

slummill wrote 4 months ago: CASABLANCA Rick Blaine (Humphrey Bogart) “sticks his neck out for nobody.” Then she (Ingrid Bergman) … more →

Tags: Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Picture 2008, best movie oscars, academy awards, William Wyler, Vincente Minnelli, Humphrey Bogart, Ingrid Bergman

Nine Lives, Seven Curses, and a Triphibian Monster27 comments

dcairns wrote 4 months ago: Part three of my jumbo list of all the films illustrated in A Pictorial History of Horror Movies by … more →

Tags: film, Literature, Steven McNicoll, Bela Lugosi, Rondo Hatton, See Reptilicus and Die, The Devil Bat, the last man on earth, werewolf in a girls dormitory

The Cary Grant Signature Collection (Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House / Destination Tokyo / The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer / My Favorite Wife / Night and Day)

takchances wrote 4 months ago: Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House The Bachelor and The Bobby-Soxer My Favorite Wife Destination … more →

Tags: They Were Expendable, Robert Montgomery, destination tokyo, Bob Denver, Ward Bond, Diane Cannon, Delmer Daves, garson kanin, H.C. Potter

Captain Blood: Then, Then, and Soon.1 comment

noisyhope wrote 5 months ago: I apologize for the lateness of the post and its apparent spottiness.  I have neither the book nor t … more →

Tags: Adaptation, Captain Blood, Courtney, Raphael Sabatini

Mildred Pierce (Keepcase)

raisand wrote 5 months ago: What Veda wants, her mother Mildred Pierce provides. Even if Mildred must end her middle-class marr … more →

Tags: Mildred Pierce, Ann Blyth, Joan Crawford, Imitation of Life, lana turner, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden

Before Malcolm, before Professor, there was DOCTOR X! Long Live The Synthetic Flesh!4 comments

bwanavoodoo wrote 5 months ago: Finally got around to DOCTOR X from the HOLLYWOOD LEGENDS OF HORROR COLLECTION. For some reason I ha … more →

Tags: GORILLANAUT REVIEWS, Fractured Fairy Tales, Doctor X, Fay Wray, Lionel Atwill

Passage to Marseille (Michael Curtiz, 1944)

jamieatp wrote 5 months ago: An interesting one this, because everyone knows Hollywood especially loves a formula, and everyone … more →

Tags: 1940s, 1944, Passage to Marseille


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