A retelling of Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs starring Gary Cooper, Barbara Stanwyck and Oskar Homolka.
Preston Sturges's post-Depression Depression comedy. An office toiler at the low end of the wage scale, but with hope everpresent in his heart, enters a coffee company's slogan contest (his slogan: "If you can't sleep, it isn't the coffee; it's the bunk'), is hoaxed by his fellow workers into believing …
The perennial winner, at a trot, of all Best Movie Ever polls; it was hardly that awesome when it first appeared, but Time has been a favorable ally to this movie, which is, for one thing, a most convenient and crammed storehouse of cinematic tricks already executed or only dreamed …
Fitting capper to the cycle of Warner Brothers gangster films of the 1930s (the director, Raoul Walsh, would remake it eight years later as a Western), with Humphrey Bogart as a just-freed ex-convict (good haircut) who immediately resumes his life of crime, but in cahoots with hotheaded next-generation punks. A …
Roddy McDowall, Maureen O’Hara, and Walter Pidgeon co-star in John Ford's powerful story of one family’s tragedies and triumphs in a Welsh mining town.
Romance aboard ship, and after debarkation, between a brewery heir called "Hopsy" (Henry Fonda), who is interested only in snakes, and a female con artist (Barbara Stanwyck), who is interested mainly in money. One of Preston Sturges's more conventional projects, which means that its distinction comes clearer in comparison with …
The third and the most revered (but, please, not the definitive) movie version of Hammett's mystery novel. It insists on the fun involved in private-eye escapades, as it wobbles underneath the consequences of some whimsical casting and playing — Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Elisha Cook, Mary Astor, and Bogart as …
The preliminary skirmish between Hollywood studio bosses and a boat-rocking director, who's sick to death of manufacturing money-winners called Ants in Your Plants of 1939 and Hey, Hey, in the Hayloft, is an unimprovable specimen of Preston Sturges's single-take comedy style, a style kept in high key by abnormally energized …
There is some nice social comedy — something that writer Samson Raphaelson, leading man Cary Grant, and even director Hitchcock are habitually quite good at — having to do with a spoiled rich boy's reaction to sudden economic constraint ("Get a job?"). On the suspense side, though, Hitchcock indulges in …