 | Sometimes a Great Notion [Read More ...]
Description: Paul Newman, an American original, would seem to be the perfect choice to direct a film adaptation of the second novel by another American original--Ken Kesey. But Kesey's novel, written under the influence of both LSD and growing fame, was a mishmash, and Newman's film can't res... |
 | On Golden Pond [Read More ...]
Description: Writer Ernest Thompson, who came up with the original stage play of On Golden Pond and adapted it for film, is lucky to have two giants of the screen give dignity and breadth to his sometimes trite dialogue. Henry Fonda, in his last role, plays a prickly English professor at the ... |
 | Trail of the Lonesome Pine [Read More ...]
Description: Landmark films never lose the ozone-snap excitement of their special historic moment. The Trail of the Lonesome Pine was the first feature shot outdoors in three-strip Technicolor, and its exhilaration in forest and lake, mountain and cloud remains as fresh and privileged today a... |
 | Grapes of Wrath (1940) [Read More ...]
Description: Ranking No. 21 on the American Film Institute's list of the 100 greatest American films, this 1940 classic is a bit dated in its noble sentimentality, but it remains a luminous example of Hollywood classicism from the peerless director of mythic Americana, John Ford. Adapted by N... |
 | Yours Mine & Ours [Read More ...]
Description: Based on a true story and co-starring Van Johnson and Tom Bosley, Yours, Mine And Ours keeps the laughs coming in a "clean, wholesome family comedy" (Life). This population explosion occurs when widowed Navy nurse Helen North (Ball) meets handsome Naval officer and widower Frank... |
 | Tales of Manhattan [Read More ...]
Review: A Not To Be Missed Film:I first saw this movie years ago on AMC - I'd never heard of it but there wasn't anything else on, so I settled in to watch. After all, with the cast of stars including Rita Hayworth, Ginger Rogers, Henry Fonda, Charles Laughton and Edward G. Robinson, I ... |
 | 12 Angry Men (1957) [Read More ...]
Description: Sidney Lumet's directorial debut remains a tense, atmospheric (though slightly manipulative and stagy) courtroom thriller, in which the viewer never sees a trial and the only action is verbal. As he does in his later corruption commentaries such as Serpico or Q & A, Lumet focuses... |
 | Spencer's Mountain [Read More ...]
Description: Long before Henry Fonda played an irascible patriarch in On Golden Pond, he played an equally crusty family man in this warmly rustic, 1963 drama Spencer's Mountain, based on an Earl Hamner Jr. novel that later inspired the television series The Waltons. Fonda plays Clay Spencer... |
 | Sex and the Single Girl [Read More ...]
A sex farce very loosely based on "Sex and the Single Girl" by Helen Gurley Brown |
 | Jezebel (1938) [Read More ...]
Description: Bette Davis didn't get to play Scarlett O'Hara in Gone with the Wind, but she did get to play a troublesome Southern belle in William Wyler's 1938 Jezebel. Davis's character, a coquette fond of stirring up rivalries among the men, goes too far and loses her fiancé (Henry Fonda),... |
 | Drums Along the Mohawk [Read More ...]
Description: Nineteen thirty-nine is often proposed as the movies' halcyon year, and three reasons why were directed by John Ford: Stagecoach, Young Mr. Lincoln, and Drums Along the Mohawk. In that exalted company Drums... would have to be accounted "merely superb"--even if it's the best film... |
 | Ash Wednesday [Read More ...]
Review: If you like the Italian Alps, high fashion, and Elizabeth Taylor...:Then this film is for you. I was not crazy about the scenery. Being the Italian Alps, it's obviously very wintry scenery, and that's something I can do without. The fashion wasn't appealing to me (even though Ms.... |
 | Roots - The Next Generations [Read More ...]
Description: Could there be a worthy follow-up to the most-watched miniseries ever? "We felt the other did so well," Alex Haley said, "that we should just let it hang there." But Haley began carrying around a tape recorder, dictating more of his family's tales as they came to his memory. Tho... |
 | Immortal Sergeant [Read More ...]
Review: Fonda has been better. : An early Fonda Film set in North Africa during WWII. Hank plays one of several
British Tommys fighting the nasty nazis. It is an interesting mixture of
blatent flag waiving (that is not a bad thing) typical B grade propaganda
effort (that is a ba... |
 | Best Man (1964) [Read More ...]
Review: Literate and sophisticated political drama:"It did Adlai Stevenson great harm not having a wife and trying to be funny all at the same time".So declares a delegate at a party convention and it seems equally apt of its author Gore Vidal whose political hopes were shattered by a mi... |
 | Fugitive [Read More ...]
Review: More John Ford Than Graham Greene:Director John Ford's sanitized adaptation of Graham Greene's "The Power and the Glory" is best remembered for Gabriel Figueroa's atmospheric cinematography. Unfortunately, the Dudley Nichols screenplay bears little relation to Greene's novel - re... |
 | The Story of Alexander Graham Bell [Read More ...]
Review: Irritating crackling noises throughout.:I bought this video new. The story line is excellent. The acting is excellent. The scene in the courtroom is clever and excellent. The depiction of American history is excellent. The costumes are stylized and overwrought, as was typica... |
 | Wrong Man (1956) [Read More ...]
Description: Alfred Hitchcock was fond of telling the story about how his father discouraged his son from even the slightest criminal impulse by having young Alfred locked in a police holding cell for a brief period--a terrifying experience Hitchcock never forgot. Much of the fear from that c... |
 | Male Animal (1942) [Read More ...]
Clever comedy !:
This smart comedy has to do with a visit paid by an old friend of the childhood to a professor, happily married until that...
But with a wife of the sidereal beauty of Olivia de Havilland, who can be absolutely innocent?
Engaging movie all the way through!
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 | The Wrong Man [Read More ...]
Description: Alfred Hitchcock was fond of telling the story about how his father discouraged his son from even the slightest criminal impulse by having young Alfred locked in a police holding cell for a brief period--a terrifying experience Hitchcock never forgot. Much of the fear from that c... |
