 | Naughty Marietta [Read More ...]
Entertaining and Delightfull:This is one of the best of the movies made by Nelson and Jeanette.
It has adventure, music, humor and love.
The songs are great and this movie can be seen multiple time, getting
better everytime. Enjoy |
 | The Ten Commandments [Read More ...]
Description: Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an e... |
 | Buccaneer [Read More ...]
Review: demille flunks history: About 1959, I would have been 8 years old, my great aunt Louise saw "The Buccaneer" and had a stroke. She had a stroke each time she saw it. She saw it 5 more times and died.
The term "Kentucky Long Rifle" did not exist prior to the battle of NO; ... |
![]() | I Married an Angel [Read More ...]
Review: Last of the delightfull films of Nelson and Jeanette...love it:The films of Nelson Eddy and Jeanette Macdonald have always held a special
place in my heart, cause they usually point to love and music. Films that
have affected audiences for a long time. They also made people feel ... |
 | Baby Face (1933) [Read More ...]
Review: Baby Face Un-cut:I had the priveledge to see one of the first screenings of the rediscovered un-cut version of this film a few weeks ago at Brandeis University, and I must say that the New York censor board truly did this film a disservice when it forced the producers to cut and... |
 | Mr Deeds Goes to Town [Read More ...]
Description: Mr. Deeds Goes to Town is Frank Capra's classic screwball comedy about a village innocent who inherits $20 million, only to discover it's more trouble than it's worth. The screwball in question is Longfellow Deeds (Gary Cooper), a small-town greeting-card poet and tuba player t... |
 | Lost in a Harem [Read More ...]
Review: ONE OF THE TEAM'S BEST FILMS: LOST IN A HAREM
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)
Release Date(s): November 8, 1944 (Newe York City, New York)(premiere). December, 1944
Runtime: 89 minutes
Director:
Charles Reisner
Producer:
G... |
 | Charlie Chan: Castle in the Desert [Read More ...]
Review: One of the Best Charlie Chan Mysteries...:1942's "Castle in the Desert" is one of the very best of the Charlie Chan series. Sidney Toler does the honors as the Honolulu Police Detective, assisted by Number Two Son, played for comic relief by Victor Sen Yung as a young soldier on... |
 | Firefly [Read More ...]
Great movie!:This is one of my favorite Jeanette MacDonald movies. Even without Nelson Eddy, this movie is full of wonderful music by Jeanette and Allan Jones. Highly recommended! |
 | Jupiter's Darling [Read More ...]
Jupiter's Darling:I truly loved this movie. But then I love any movie with Esther Williams and the swimming scenes in particular. |
 | Uncertain Glory [Read More ...]
Review: It's Not Just The Glory That's Uncertain:Set in World War II, Errol Flynn stars as a French thief saved from the guillotine by a British air raid. Captured later by famed police inspector Paul Lukas, they end up in a small French town where 100 civilians have been captured by th... |
 | Abbott & Costello: Ride Em Cowboy [Read More ...]
Review: Adventures at a Dude Ranch:The film begins at a rodeo, Bronco Bob Mitchell has written many books, and sings. How much experience has he had in the real world? Willoughby and Duke work selling food at the rodeo. Comic skits follow. Willoughby learns how to play poker. The train s... |
 | Treasure Island (Colorized Version) [Read More ...]
Description: For many people, this 1934 version is the definitive Treasure Island: the great chemistry between Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper, the rousing pirate anthems, and the stubborn parrot on the shoulder. The pairing of the actors was a cinch, coming three years after their tremendo... |
 | A Day at the Races [Read More ...]
Description: This is the Marx Brothers at their commercial and popular peak, working with a top Hollywood director (Sam Wood of The Pride of the Yankees), supported with a healthy screen budget paying for such extras as a blue-tinted ballet sequence, love songs from crooner Allan Jones, and d... |
 | Bowery Boys: Spook Busters [Read More ...]
Description: After their success on Broadway, the 'Dead End Kids' were recruited by Hollywood. Eventually these young kids from the streets of New York became bonified celebrities, known as the 'Bowery Boys' and starred in over 50 films and serials. In this film the boys are accompanied by th... |
 | Dishonored Lady (B&W) [Read More ...]
Review: A MUST SEE for Hedy Lamarr fans - HER FINEST ACTING WORK: Hedy Lamarr at her BEST. After her production role of the fascinating and morally complex STRANGE WOMAN (see my separate 5 star review for that), Hedy was awarded this great murder mystery, based on a true story, DISH... |
 | Ten Commandments (1956) (Ws) [Read More ...]
Description: Legendary silent film director Cecil B. DeMille didn't much alter the way he made movies after sound came in, and this 1956 biblical drama is proof of that. While graced with such 1950s niceties as VistaVision and Technicolor, The Ten Commandments (DeMille had already filmed an e... |
 | Dubarry Was a Lady [Read More ...]
Description: Presented in glorious Technicolor, Du Barry Was a Lady is an all-singing, all-dancing musical extravaganza with enough star power to light a major city. Freely adapted from the Cole Porter musical that was a Broadway smash in 1939, this was Lucille Ball's first color film, and af... |
 | Abbott & Costello in the Foreign Legion [Read More ...]
Review: ABBOTT AND COSTELLO IN THE FOREIGN LEGION!:LAUGH your heads off as Bud and Lou end up in the French Foreign Legion! SEE Walter Slezak as the tough sergeant who has to whip these two comic misfits into fighting shape! WATCH as the desert sun beats down unmercifully on them all! ... |
 | Crime & Punishment [Read More ...]
Review: Peter Lorre is excellent:Peter Lorre plays Raskolnikov in this adaptation of Dostoevsky's novel, that puts most of its emphasis on the crime: Edward Arnold as Inspector Porfry plays cat-and-mouse with Lorre after suspecting him of killing an elderly pawnbroker during a robbery. L... |
