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I haven’t been in the mood to sit down and watch this movie, but I finally got there. This movie has really good production values for it’s genre and time. Notably, the sets are very convincing and well done. This one would be good for the midnight [...]

I liked this movie. Hedy Lamar plays fashion editor Madeleine Damien who’s social life has given her a questionable reputation. Finally she succumbs to the pressures of work and a tarnished image and suffers an emotional breakdown. She seeks professional help from a kindly psychiatrist who recommends a complete change in lifestyle.
Hedy Lamarr was [...]

Gary Cooper and Lila Damita star in probably one of the first examples of an epic western. Lila Damita was French and was convent educated. She was a trained ballet dancer, model and actress who retired from the screen when she married Errol Flynn. She had a son with Errol Flynn who [...]

Gulliver’s Travels is a 1939 cel-animated Technicolor feature film, directed by Dave Fleischer and produced by Max Fleischer for Fleischer Studios. The film was released during the holiday season of 1939 by Paramount Pictures, who had the feature produced as an answer to the success of Walt Disney’s huge box-office hit Snow White and the [...]

His Girl Friday is a 1940 screwball comedy, a remake of the 1931 film The Front Page. The film stars Cary Grant and Rosalind Russell and features Ralph Bellamy. It was directed by Howard Hawks and is noted for the rapid-fire pace of its dialogue.
The film was #19 on American Film Institute’s 100 Years, 100 [...]

The Hitch-Hiker (1953) is a film noir directed by Ida Lupino about two hunting buddies who pick up a mysterious hitchhiker. The movie was written by Robert L. Joseph, Lupino and her husband Collier Young based on a story by Out of the Past screenwriter Daniel Mainwaring, who was blacklisted at the time and did [...]

Hard bitten San Francisco industrialist Walter Williams’s two-timing wife and her lover plot to do her husband in, but instead the boyfriend gets killed and mistaken for . Half-dazed, Williams stumbles into a moving van that takes him to Mayberry RFD, where newspaper stories of his “death” jog his memory. While recuperating and plotting his [...]

A violent criminal called The Butcher is brought back to life by a scientist using electricity. The Butcher becomes an invulnerable mute, and seeks vengeance upon those who caused his execution. Insert the Frankenstein into the Maltese Falcon, dumb it down a bit, and you have “Indestructible Man”.
Keep an eye out for Max [...]

An American musical comedy based on the satirical play by Nikolai Gogol that deals with local corruption and a case of mistaken identity in … all early 19th century Russia. Its ambiguous sets and costumes places the study somewhere in Eastern Europe during Napoleonic rule. Perhaps because the film was produced during the [...]

Jungle Book is an American color 1942 action/adventure film based on the Rudyard Kipling novel, The Jungle Book. The film was directed by Zoltan Korda based on a screeplay adaptation by Laurence Stallings. The cinematography was by Lee Garmes and W. Howard Greene and music by Mikas Razsa.
The film was nominated for four Academy Awards [...]

The Lady Says No (1952) is a hoot. It’s a romantic comedy starring David Niven and Joan Caulfied. She’s a writer that writes a man hating book, he’s a photographer that wants to prove her all wrong. I thought it was pretty funny.

This movie made me smile – Kevin
The comic strip starred Li’l Abner Yokum, a dumb, obstinate, strong, and good-natured hillbilly. His main goal was evading the marital designs of Daisy Mae Scragg, his beautiful and faithful girlfriend, and scion of the Yokums’ feudal enemies, the Scraggs. Capp finally gave in to reader pressure in 1952 [...]