GREAT OLD MOVIES
Friday, October 3, 2008
CONFESSION
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CONFESSION (1937). Director: Joe May. A young music student, Lisa (Jane Bryan), is pursued by an older, famous --and somewhat seedy -- con...
THE GIANT CLAW
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THE GIANT CLAW (1957). Director: Fred F. Sears. " I'll never call my mother-in-law an old crow again!" A gargantuan bird ...
MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3
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MISSION IMPOSSIBLE 3 (2006). Directed by J. J. Abrahms . This is a big improvement on the disappointing, lackluster Mission Impossib...
SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE (1929)
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SEVEN KEYS TO BALDPATE (1929). Director: Reginald Barker. Richard Dix (pictured) plays a writer who takers a bet from his publisher that...
EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: THE LIFE OF JOHN SCHLESINGER
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EDGE OF MIDNIGHT: The Life of John Schlesinger . An Authorized Biography by William J. Mann. This excellent biography traces the lif...
Monday, September 29, 2008
DR. MONICA
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DR. MONICA (1934). Director: William Keighley . Now here's a sick situation. Dr. Monica Braden (Kay Francis, pictured) is a baby docto...
ALLOTMENT WIVES
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ALLOTMENT WIVES (1945). Director: William Nigh. In another unsympathetic role in a Monogram picture, Kay Francis plays Sheila Seymour, who...
MANDALAY
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MANDALAY (1934). Director: Michael Curtiz . Tanya (Kay Francis) is in love with Tony (Ricardo Cortez ) but he runs off and sticks her with...
MONSTER-IN-LAW
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MONSTER-IN-LAW (2005). Director: Robert Luketic . Jennifer Lopez thinks she's met the man of her dreams in handsome and successful Mich...
Friday, September 26, 2008
THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK
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THE FACE BEHIND THE MASK (1941). Director: Robert Florey . Janos Szabo (Peter Lorre) arrives in America full of hope and awe and fully e...
THE 49TH MAN
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THE 49TH MAN (1953). Director: Fred F. Sears. Government agents (played by Richard Denning and John Ireland) discover that parts of atom b...
UNKNOWN WORLD
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UNKNOWN WORLD (1951). Director: Terry O. Morse. When fear of atomic warfare reaches an hysterical level, a group of scientists led by ...
GREAT OLD TV: BURKE'S LAW
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BURKE'S LAW (1963 - 1966). Produced by Aaron Spelling. This show had a really terrific premise. Amos Burke (Gene Barry) was a ver...
Monday, September 22, 2008
PLAY GIRL
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PLAY GIRL (1940). Director: Frank Woodruff . " She's said good-bye to more men than most women have said hello to." Grace H...
OCEAN'S TWELVE
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OCEAN'S TWELVE (2004). Director: Steven Soderbergh . As the remake of Sinatra's Ocean's 11 was better, cleverer, and more ente...
THE FACTS OF LIFE
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THE FACTS OF LIFE (1960). Director: Melvin Frank. Pasadena housewife Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) and neighbor Larry Gilbert (Bob Hope) dri...
TRANSGRESSION
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TRANSGRESSION (1931). Director: Herbert Brenon . "It is not wise to leave a beautiful young woman alone in Paris too long....
HOSTILE WITNESS
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HOSTILE WITNESS (1968). Director: Ray Milland . Simon Crawford suffers a nervous breakdown when his daughter is killed by a hit and run d...
Friday, September 19, 2008
FROM BROADWAY TO CHEYENNE
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FROM BROADWAY TO CHEYENNE (aka Broadway to Cheyenne/1932). Director: Larry L. Fraser. Jimmy Kildare (Rex Bell) is a New York City detectiv...
SINNERS IN PARADISE
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SINNERS IN PARADISE (1938). Director: James Whale. A motley group of individuals take off for China in a sea plane and wind up crash landin...
EVEREST
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EVEREST (1998). Directors: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson. Short documentary shown in IMAX theaters was filmed in 199...
MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND
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MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND (1949). Director: Lloyd Bacon. Ellen Grant (Lucille Ball) is the worst student in secretarial school but she...
Monday, September 15, 2008
THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET
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THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933). Director: Robert Florey . "There was an old maid in Nantucket ... " limerick told by young lady a...
CYNARA
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CYNARA (1932). Director: King Vidor . " I have been faithful to thee, Cynara , in my fashion." Jim Warlock (Ronald Colman) is hap...
A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR
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A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR (1930). Director: Lloyd Bacon. Wealthy Patricia Hanley (Billie Dove) scandalizes her father and their friends by marry...
GIVE ME YOUR HEART
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GIVE ME YOUR HEART (1936). Director: Archie Mayo. Belinda Warren (Kay Francis) is in love with Bob Melford (Patric Knowles) who has a di...
PASSION FLOWER
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PASSION FLOWER (1930). Director: Uncredited. " Men are kind of handy in the day time and sort of entertaining in the evening. But as fa...
Friday, September 12, 2008
BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING
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BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING (1939). Director: Glenn Tryon . Beautician Jean Russell (Lucille Ball) is excitedly hoping to market her new astring...
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