GREAT OLD MOVIES

Friday, October 3, 2008

CONFESSION

›
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

›
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

›
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)

›
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

›
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

›
DR. MONICA (1934). Director: William Keighley . Now here's a sick situation. Dr. Monica Braden (Kay Francis, pictured) is a baby docto...

ALLOTMENT WIVES

›
ALLOTMENT WIVES (1945). Director: William Nigh. In another unsympathetic role in a Monogram picture, Kay Francis plays Sheila Seymour, who...

MANDALAY

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
THE FACTS OF LIFE (1960). Director: Melvin Frank. Pasadena housewife Kitty Weaver (Lucille Ball) and neighbor Larry Gilbert (Bob Hope) dri...

TRANSGRESSION

›
TRANSGRESSION (1931). Director: Herbert Brenon . "It is not wise to leave a beautiful young woman alone in Paris too long....

HOSTILE WITNESS

›
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

›
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

›
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

›
EVEREST (1998). Directors: David Breashears, Greg MacGillivray, Stephen Judson. Short documentary shown in IMAX theaters was filmed in 199...

MISS GRANT TAKES RICHMOND

›
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

›
THE HOUSE ON 56TH STREET (1933). Director: Robert Florey . "There was an old maid in Nantucket ... " limerick told by young lady a...

CYNARA

›
CYNARA (1932). Director: King Vidor . " I have been faithful to thee, Cynara , in my fashion." Jim Warlock (Ronald Colman) is hap...

A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR

›
A NOTORIOUS AFFAIR (1930). Director: Lloyd Bacon. Wealthy Patricia Hanley (Billie Dove) scandalizes her father and their friends by marry...

GIVE ME YOUR HEART

›
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

›
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

›
BEAUTY FOR THE ASKING (1939). Director: Glenn Tryon . Beautician Jean Russell (Lucille Ball) is excitedly hoping to market her new astring...
‹
›
Home
View web version

About Me

My photo
William
View my complete profile
Powered by Blogger.