The most beloved movie ever made from a book by Margaret Mitchell, covering the fate of the Old South from ante-bellum days to post-bellum days. Birth of a Nation it is not. Southern belles flirt with their beaus, a pregnant lady tumbles down a flight of stairs, Atlanta burns, a …
The most beloved movie ever made from a book by Margaret Mitchell, covering the fate of the Old South from ante-bellum days to post-bellum days. Birth of a Nation it is not. Southern belles flirt with their beaus, a pregnant lady tumbles down a flight of stairs, Atlanta burns, a …
Frank Capra's take on American politics, starring Jimmy Stewart.
No animal experiments here, unless you count the 30’s vogue of exotic women with leashed capuchin monkeys as pets. Warner Bros. played home to many of the great gangster films of the 1930’s, but monster movies were Universal Studios’ stock-in-trade. Humphrey Bogart was WB’s last choice to star as the …
Jean Renoir's timely, finger-wagging comedy of manners about the French leisure class and its pastime pursuits, pre-WWII, offers a good deal more than the prologue promise of simple entertainment. It is more shrewdly conceived than normal for Renoir and more splendrously dressed and decorated. The acting, however, conforms to the …
What if Victor Frankenstein had a son? Who set out to redeem his father's reputation?
John Wayne's star-making role, the Ringo Kid, and the beginning of a long partnership (a dozen more starring roles) with director John Ford — a heavyset Western, bulked up from an Ernest Haycox short story, with broad characterizations, picture-postcard backgrounds, and a lurching, jostling pace. Monument Valley, Ford's regular haunt, …
If the screen version of Frank L. Baum's sanitary children's story is indelibly stamped, scene by scene, in more Americans' memories than any other movie, it's just because of the pounding into our brains that this movie has been allowed year after year on TV, and not because, because, because, …
If the screen version of Frank L. Baum's sanitary children's story is indelibly stamped, scene by scene, in more Americans' memories than any other movie, it's just because of the pounding into our brains that this movie has been allowed year after year on TV, and not because, because, because, …
If the screen version of Frank L. Baum's sanitary children's story is indelibly stamped, scene by scene, in more Americans' memories than any other movie, it's just because of the pounding into our brains that this movie has been allowed year after year on TV, and not because, because, because, …
The sharp-tongued Clare Booth Luce play about high-society ladies in posh Manhattan apartments and on a Nevada dude ranch for divorcées — it's very glinty, highly polished MGM trash, directed by George Cukor. The all-female cast, heavyweight division, includes Norma Shearer, Joan Fontaine, Joan Crawford, Rosalind Russell, Paulette Goddard, and …
Sam Goldwyn's production of the Emily Brontë novel (or part thereof) plays up the already overlarge element of pulp-gothic in it. On that level, it is well done. In particular the darkly glowering Laurence Olivier does well. As does Alfred Newman with his achingly Tchaikovskian accompaniment. Merle Oberon, though, is …