Watched: The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing, The Impossible Years, One of Our Spies is Missing, and The Private War of Major Benson THE GIRL IN THE RED VELVET SWING (1955) --- I learne...
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War is Distinctly Not Hell in Only the Brave Only the Brave was progression of, also departure from, long and noble line of Civil War melodrama going back to first shots fired in 186...
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Precodes: The Age of Consent, Female, What's Playing Broadway, and The Painted Veil THE AGE OF CONSENT (1932) --- Any depict of the college experience circa 1932 is manna for me, The...
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CCC: A Brit Box Plus Duke and Sammy WHISKY GALORE! (1949) --- Retitled Tight Little Island for US distribution by Universal, this was a J. Arthur Rank-enabled project of Ealing Pictu...
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Gone with the Wind Blew Back Last Week A part of me is for shortening Gone with the Wind to simply Gone. And yet there are pockets that care, 116 of them showing up for a Fathom Eve...
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STS: John Barrymore as Richard, Sister Ethel, Handsy Gable, plus Bogie and Flynn JOHN BARRYMORE DOING SHAKESPEARE --- The Show of Shows hindsights as woofing dog among studio revues,...
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Among the One-Hundred: The Black Cat and Other Poetics Ask anyone to recall who was the first nineteenth-century author to come to their attention and I bet most would answer Edgar A...
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Ad/Odds: Dick's Doughnut Party, Unholy Love, All-RKO Show, and Dream Girl WHY NOT A DOUGHNUT PARTY? --- Merit badge to all who toss such event after fashion of Olivia DeHavilland and...
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Produced by John Wayne --- Part Two Of the Batjacs, Seven Men from Now may be an only one called canonical. Of westerns, it is close to a top of fifties heap. Extras for Seven Men fr...
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When Paramount Played with Batjac --- Part One Call this “When DVD Was King,” or Gold Age for Discs. Guess all formats have such apex, be they laser, even cassettes of long past....
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PPP: The Scarlet Claw and 1975 Homecoming Parade, and The Lodger (1944) A right combination of setting and selection makes memorable time spent with shows. Mine of late was The Scarl...
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Digging For, and Finding, Disc "Extra" Gold Once there stood mighty fortress that was DVD with extras and talkers and sometimes Easter Eggs, a bargain for modest price to have them. ...
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WWW: Robocop, The Sea Wolves, Sign of the Gladiator, and The Hill ROBOCOP (1987) --- Outlaw action thriller they’d not dare today, Robocop silly on surface, a title giving exclamation...
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Noir: Breakaway, Canicule aka Dog Day, Circle of Danger, Clash by Night, and Cloudburst BREAKAWAY (1956) --- It’s another Tom “Duke” Martin thriller with Tom Conway! There were...
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LIFE Versus the Movies August 13, 1951, was Detonation Day, not when a cold war turned hot, but where the Number One family weekly aimed laser at an industry they said was in throes ...
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Watched: The Cyclops, Law of the Underworld, The Band Plays On, Warlock, and Before Dawn THE CYCLOPS (1957) --- Who'd have dreamed a sci-fi junker like this would so rivet generation...
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Precodes: Let Us Be Gay, Smart Money, Dark Hazard, Susan Lenox, and a Hot Lobby Card LET US BE GAY (1930) --- Doormat duckling turns swan when wife Norma Shearer gets shaft from stra...
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If You Can't Make It, Then Fake It Art as defined for a past hundred and twenty-five years was “there” in terms of painting, sculpture or whatever solid thing was one of its kind, not ...
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CCC: Bugs and Daffy and Bringing Up Baby HIS BITTER HALF (1950) --- It pains me to see Daffy Duck excessively abused. I’ve often wanted his and Bugs Bunny’s circumstance reversed...
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STS: Roscoe at Sunset, Beasts and Bombs, Our Amuzu, and Exhibition's Beginning or End? ROSCOE STRIKES A SAD POSE --- Are so-called “silent” comedians misnamed? They are all silen...
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Melanie Daniels Plays the Game Called Access and Opportunity The Birds for me is less about avian assault and more about other things. It is nature in an uproar against backdrop of human...
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Among the One-Hundred: San Francisco (1936) Was lying awake at the Beverly Garland Hotel in North Hollywood on January 17, 1994, at 4:30 am when earth beneath suddenly shook and it s...
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Ad/Odds: Hopalong Cassidy, Design for Death, The Outlaw, and Sarong Revue YEAR-ROUND HOPPY HOLIDAY --- Show me someone who to this late day collects Hopalong Cassidy merchandise, omitting ...
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Daughter Schools Mom/Dad in Are Parents People? Jack and Jason Hardy, doing business as Grapevine Video, have been offering silent films on DVD and Blu-Ray for years. They are locate...
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PPP: It Came from Outer Space, I Walked with a Zombie, The Adventures of Superman, and Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves IT CAME FROM OUTER SPACE (1953) --- Freak tent that was 3-D movi...
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