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"Ben-Hur" - Charlton Heston, Jack Hawkins, Haya Harareet, Stephen Boyd, Hugh Griffith, Sam Jaffe. Directed by William Wyler. Also known as "Ben Hur". Based on a book by Gen. Lew Wallace, an American Civil War general.
Plot Intro: Two boyhood friends, one a Jew and one a Roman, are reunited in Jerusalem with deadly consequences.
Review: One of the greatest films of all time. Nominated for twelve Academy Awards, and won eleven. Heston, Griffith, and Wyler won Oscars. The chariot race is probably the greatest action scene ever filmed. The cameras were huge and were mounted on trucks. If you watch the special features on the DVD version, you can see film of the size of the cameras. Nothing hand-held in this film. Also, when two teams of four horses are side-by-side, there is no way that wheels would come close. When you stop the the film at certain points you can see that the horses are attached to the chariot slightly differently. Most of the shooting is done where there are two horses on each side of the post that comes out of the chariot, but, when the wheels need to touch, they put three on oneside and one horse on the other. The film saved MGM from bankruptcy.
Rating:
"Ben-Hur" at Amazon.com. "North by Northwest" - With Cary Grant, Eva Marie Saint, James Mason, Martin Landau. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: An executive is mistaken for a spy.
Review: Hitchock ratchets up the tension, and Grant, Saint, and Mason are great.
Rating:"North by Northwest" at Amazon.com. "Some Like It Hot" - With Tony Curtis, Jack Lemmon, Marilyn Monroe, Joe E. Brown. Written and directed by Billy Wilder
Plot Intro: Two musicians have to pose as girls musicians in order to avoid being killed. They head to Florida with an all-girl band.
Review: A great movie. Curtis, Lemmon, and Monroe are perfect.
Rating:"Some Like It Hot" at Amazon.com.
"Gigi" - With Leslie Caron, Louis Jourdan, Hermione Gingold, Maurice Chevalier, Zsa Zsa Gabor
Plot Intro: A girl who is nearly ignored somehow becomes a graceful young woman.
Review: A great musical romance. Caron, Jourdan, Gingold, and Chevalier are great. Excellent.
Rating:"Gigi" at Amazon.com. "The Hidden Fortress" - With Toshiro Mifune, Minoru Chiaki, Takashi Shimura. Written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. AKA "Kakushi toride no san akunin".
Plot Intro: After a major defeat, a general of the defeated army must get the princess through enemy lines to safety. He has the "help" of two peasants who are scared at the least event.
Review: Very good Kurosawa film. This film is said to contain some characters and events that inspired part of the plot of the movie Star Wars. Black and white.
Rating:"The Hidden Fortress" at Amazon.com. "Touch of Evil" - With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Marlene Dietrich, Janet Leigh, Dennis Weaver.
Plot Intro: Newlyweds drive into a bordertown on their honeymoon.
Review: A little quirky. Very dark.
Rating:"Touch of Evil" at Amazon.com.
"The Bridge On The River Kwai" - With Alec Guinness, Richard Widmark, Sessue Hayakawa. Directed by David Lean.
Plot Intro: A large group of British soldiers arrive at a prison camp in the deep jungle of southeast Asia where there is a Japanese commander who needs to have a bridge built by a specific date.
Review: One of the greatest films of all times.
Rating:"The Bridge On The River Kwai" at Amazon.com. "Sweet Smell of Success" - With Burt Lancaster, Tony Curtis.
Plot Intro: A Broadway reviewer pushes his weight around.
Review: Good film.
Rating:
"Sweet Smell of Success" at Amazon.com. "Throne of Blood" - With Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. Written and directed by Akira Kurosawa. AKA "Kumonosu-jô".
Plot Intro: Two loyal soldiers of a Japanese daimyo receive prophecies from a mysterious spirit in a labyrinthian forest. One is prophesied to gain control of his lord's region, and it is prophesied that the son of the other will gain control of the same region. The first retainer is weighed down by his suspicious wife.
Review: An adaptation of Shakespeare's "King Lear." An excellent black-and-white samurai film.
Rating:"Throne of Blood" at Amazon.com. "12 Angry Men" - With Henry Fonda, Lee J. Cobb, E.G. Marshall, Jack Klugman
Plot Intro: Men on a jury are angry that they have to be in a jury room in the middle of hot summer.
Review: Excellent film, but aren't there only eleven angry men?
Rating:"12 Angry Men" at Amazon.com.
"Anastasia" - With Ingrid Bergman, Yul Brynner, Helen Hayes, Akim Tamaroff.
Plot Intro: Is she who she says she is?
Review: Good Bergman film.
Rating:"Anastasia" at Amazon.com. "Dial M For Murder" - With Ray Milland, Grace Kelly, Robert Cummings. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: A man plots to murder his wife who had an affair.
Review: Classic Hitchcock.
Rating:"Dial M For Murder" at Amazon.com. "Friendly Persuasion" - With Gary Cooper, Anthony Perkins, Dorothy McGuire. Directed by William Wyler
Plot Intro: A Quaker family during the Civil War.
Review: A real delight. Highly recommended.
Rating:"Friendly Persuasion" at Amazon.com. "Invasion of the Body Snatchers" - With Kevin McCarthy, Dana Wynter.
Plot Intro: Mysterious pods cause mysterious affects on local people.
Review: Classic 50s horror. Excellent.
Rating:"Invasion of the Body Snatchers" at Amazon.com. "The Man Who Knew Too Much" - With Jimmy Stewart, Doris Day. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: An American couple accidentally gets involved in international intrigue.
Review: Great Hitchock drama.
Rating:"The Man Who Knew Too Much" at Amazon.com. "Richard III" - With Laurence Olivier, John Gielgud, Ralph Richardson.
Plot Intro: The plots of one of the royal family to become king.
Review: Good dramatization of the Shakespeare play.
Rating:"Richard III" at Amazon.com. "The Ten Commandments" - With Charlton Heston, Yul Brynner, Ann Baxter, Edward G. Robinson, John Derek, Debra Paget, Yvonne DeCarlo. Directed by Cecil B. DeMille.
Plot Intro: The Israelites want to leave Egypt. The Pharaoh doesn't want to let them go.
Review: Typical DeMille treatment. Pretty good special effects.
Rating:"The Ten Commandments" at Amazon.com.
"Bad Day at Black Rock" - With Spencer Tracy.
Plot Intro: Spencer Tracy get physical. Tracy visits a small town, and, for some reason, everyone wants to attack him.
Review: Kind of interesting for how the film portrays how karate is used.
Rating:"Bad Day at Black Rock" at Amazon.com. "The Court Jester" - With Danny Kaye.
Plot Intro: The rightful heir to the throne is a baby with a birthmark, and a man who poses as a Court Jester attempts to protect him. "The vessel with the pestle has the brew that is true."
Review: One of the best Danny Kaye musical-comedies.
Rating:"The Court Jester" at Amazon.com. "The Ladykillers" - With Alec Guinness, Peter Sellers, Herbert Lom.
Plot Intro: A gang of cutthroats are no match for a little old lady.
Review: A great British comedy of the 1950s.
Rating:"The Ladykillers" at Amazon.com. "Marty" - With Ernest Borgnine
Plot Intro: Everyone is pushing a man to get married later in life, but when he plans planning to marry he runs into problems.
Review: Won Best Picture Academy Award, Best Actor in a Leading Role (Borgnine), Best Director (Delbert Mann), and Best Screenplay (Paddy Chayefsky).
Rating:"Marty" at Amazon.com. "The Red Balloon" - French film.
Plot Intro: A red balloon follows a boy through Paris.
Review: Excellent film for adults and children.
Rating:"The Red Balloon" at Amazon.com. "To Hell and Back" - With Audie Murphy.
Plot Intro: An underage, short, skinny kid joins the US Army in order to support his family. He starts as a buck private, but he ends as a lieutenant, and he becomes the most decorated soldier in World War II.
Review: Audie Murphy was the most decorated American soldier in World War II. This is his story. He plays himself.
Rating:
"To Hell and Back" at Amazon.com.
"On the Waterfront" - Marlon Brando, Rod Steiger, Eva Marie Saint. Directed by Elia Kazan.
Plot Intro: The sister of a murdered dock worker attempts to find out what happened. A former prize fighter struggles to stand up to the correct bosses on the dock.
Review: Excellent classic film. Brando and Steiger are at the top of their form.
Rating:"On the Waterfront" at Amazon.com. "Rear Window" - James Stewart, Grace Kelly, Raymond Burr. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock
Plot Intro: A photographer - who has a broken leg and is stuck in a very hot apartment - thinks one of his neighbors is a murderer.
Review: Excellent film by Hitchcock, maybe his best. Grace Kelly is beautiful in the film.
Rating:"Rear Window" at Amazon.com. "The Seven Samurai" - Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. Directed by Akira Kurosawa. AKA "Shichinin no samurai".
Plot Intro: Seven samurai help train simple villagers to defend their town from a gang of thieves.
Review: Excellent Kurosawa film. Worth seeing on DVD in widescreen. Adapted for "The Magnificent Seven."
Rating:"The Seven Samurai" at Amazon.com.
"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" - With Marilyn Monroe, Jane Russell, Charles Coburn. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Plot Intro: Two girls are on the prowl.
Review: A good musical romance from the 1950s.
Rating:"Gentlemen Prefer Blondes" at Amazon.com. "How to Marry a Millionaire" - With Marilyn Monroe, Lauren Bacall, Betty Grable.
Plot Intro: Three women each plan to marry a millionaire.
Review: Entertaining film.
Rating:"How to Marry a Millionaire" at Amazon.com. "Roman Holiday" - With Gregory Peck, Audrey Hepburn, Eddie Albert. Directed by William Wyler.
Plot Intro: A princess wants a day of freedom, without her entourage, in Rome.
Review: A very nice film. Hepburn has a graceful beauty..
Rating:"Roman Holiday" at Amazon.com. "Stalag 17" - With William Holden, Peter Graves, Otto Preminger. Directed by Billy Wilder.
Plot Intro: Allied servicemen are in a POW camp, and they are plotting escapes.
Review: A great movie.
Rating:"Stalag 17" at Amazon.com. "Shane" - With Alan Ladd, Jack Palance, Jean Arthur, Van Heflin, Elisha Cook Jr, Edgar Buchanan. Directed by George Stevens.
Plot Intro: A man comes into a small town and becomes involved with the local farmers. The ranchers want to drive the farmers out.
Review: Excellent movie. May be the greatest western. The more I watch it, the more I like it.
Rating:"Shane" at Amazon.com. "Wages of Fear" - With Yves Montand.
Plot Intro: A truck filled with explosives going down and losing its brakes.
Review: Foreign film. Excellent
Rating:"Wages of Fear" at Amazon.com. "War of the Worlds" - With Gene Barry. Based on the book by H.G. Wells.
Plot Intro: Invaders from Mars.
Review: Classic sci-fi.
Rating:"War of the Worlds" at Amazon.com.
"High Noon" - With Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly.
Plot Intro: Men were released from prison, and they want revenge on the local sheriff.
Review: Pretty good movie. Well choreographed/staged.
Rating:"High Noon" at Amazon.com. "Singin' in the Rain" - With Gene Kelly, Debbie Reynolds, Donald O'Connor.
Plot Intro: Three entertainers deal with movies changing over to sound.
Review: A classic musical.
Rating:"Singin' in the Rain" at Amazon.com.
"An American in Paris" - Musical with Gene Kelly, Leslie Caron.
Plot Intro: An American painter struggles in Paris.
Review: One of the great musicals of the 1950s.
Rating:"An American in Paris" at Amazon.com. "Lavender Hill Mob" - With Alec Guinness, Stanley Holloway.
Plot Intro: Two men hatch a plot to steal gold and smuggle it out of Britain.
Review: Very good comedy with Sir Alec.
Rating:"Lavender Hill Mob" at Amazon.com. "A Place in the Sun" - With Elizabeth Taylor, Montgomery Clift, Shelley Winters, Ann Revere, Raymond Burr. Directed by George Stevens.
Plot Intro: A man is engaged to be married, but he falls in love with a beautiful woman.
Review: Taylor may be at her most beautiful.
Rating:"A Place in the Sun" at Amazon.com. "Rashômon" - Toshiro Mifune, Takashi Shimura, Minoru Chiaki. Written and directed by Akira Kurosawa
Plot Intro: The wife of a samurai traveller is raped by a bandit. Her husband is killed. But what really happened? So many different versions of the event.
Review: Excellent Kurosawa film. Worth seeing on DVD in widescreen.
Rating:"Rashomon" at Amazon.com. "A Streetcar Named Desire" - With Vivien Leigh, Karl Malden, Marlon Brando, Kim Hunter. Directed by Elia Kazan. Based on the play by Tennessee Williams.
Plot Intro: A woman's sister moves in with her and her husband.
Review: A very good film.
Rating:"A Streetcar Named Desire" at Amazon.com. "Strangers on a Train" - With Farley Granger, Ruth Roman, Leo G. Carroll, Patricia Hitchcock. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Screenplay by Raymond Chandler.
Plot Intro: A tennis player meets a man on a train who has a plan to solve both of their problems.
Review: Later remade as "Throw Mama From The Train" (1987).
Rating:"Strangers on a Train" at Amazon.com.
"All About Eve" - With Bette Davis, Ann Baxter, George Sanders, Celeste Holm, Marilyn Monroe. Directed by Joseph L. Mankiewicz.
Plot Intro: An older actress meets a scheming understudy.
Review: A very good film. Marilyn Monroe has a small part.
Rating:"All About Eve" at Amazon.com. "The Asphalt Jungle" - With Sterling Hayden, James Whitmore, Sam Jaffe, Marilyn Monroe. Written and directed by John Huston.
Plot Intro: A jewel heist gone bad.
Review: A very good film. Marilyn Monroe has a small part.
Rating:"The Asphalt Jungle" at Amazon.com. "Born Yesterday" - With Judy Holliday, Broderick Crawford, William Holden. Directed by George Cukor.
Plot Intro: A woman comes across as not so smart, but she isn't as dumb as she looks.
Review: Judy Holliday's best film.
Rating:"Born Yesterday" at Amazon.com. "Cheaper By The Dozen" - With Clifton Webb, Myrna Loy, Jeanne Craine, Edgar Buchanan.
Plot Intro: An efficiency expert moves his large family from Providence, Rhode Island to Montclair New Jersey.
Review: Great classic.
Rating:"Cheaper By The Dozen" at Amazon.com. "Cinderella"
Plot Intro: The story of Cinderella and her glass slipper.
Review: An animated classic.
Rating:"Cinderella" at Amazon.com. "Father of the Bride" - With Spencer Tracy, Elizabeth Taylor, Joan Bennett, Billie Burke. Directed by Vincent Minnelli.
Plot Intro: A man has to come to terms with his daughter getting married - and the realization that he has grown old.
Review: Very good film. Elizabeth Taylor is beautiful.
Rating:"Father of the Bride" at Amazon.com. "Harvey" - With James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Jesse White. Mary Chase wrote the screenplay based on her play.
Plot Intro: A man's sister wants to commit her brother to an asylum, because he sees a pooka.
Review: James Stewart and his invisible 6 foot 3.5 inch rabbit friend. One of my all time favorites. I can't count how many times I've watched it. Josephine Hull received an Academy Award.
Rating:"Harvey" at Amazon.com. "Sunset Boulevard" - With William Holden, Gloria Swanson, Eric von Stroheim. Written and directed by Billy Wilder.
Plot Intro: A young man ends up living in the home of a star of the silent era.
Review: A classic. Recommended.
Rating:"Sunset Boulevard" at Amazon.com.
"All the King's Men" - With Broderick Crawford, Joanne Dru, John Derek, Mercedes McCambridge.
Plot Intro: A politician rises and falls.
Review: A great film. Recommended.
Rating:"All the King's Men" at Amazon.com. "The Third Man" - With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten.
Plot Intro: In Vienna after World War II, there are schemes to make money off of the suffering of the people.
Review: A great film.
Rating:"The Third Man" at Amazon.com.
"I Remember Mama" - With Irene Dunne, Barbara Bel Geddes, Oscar Homolka, Cedric Hardwicke, Rudy Vallee. Directed by George Stevens.
Plot Intro: The struggles of an immigrant family.
Review: A great film. Irene Dunne is great.
Rating:"I Remember Mama" at Amazon.com. "I Was A Male War Bride" - With Cary Grant, Ann Sheridan. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Plot Intro: A French soldier must pose as a woman to emigrate to the US.
Review: A very good film. Cary Grant is good in these kinds of comedy.
Rating:"I Was A Male War Bride" at Amazon.com. "Red River" - With John Wayne, Montgomery Clift, Joanne Dru, Harry Carey. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Plot Intro: A cattle drive from Texas.
Review: A great western. John Wayne at his best.
Rating:"Red River" at Amazon.com. "Portrait of Jenny" - With Joseph Cotten, Jennifer Jones, Ethel Barrymore, Lillian Gish. Directed by William Dieterle.
Plot Intro: An artist is inspired to paint a girl he meets in a park.
Review: A fantasy. A good movie.
Rating:"Portrait of Jenny" at Amazon.com. "The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" - With Humphrey Bogart, Walter Huston, Tim Holt. Directed by John Huston.
Plot Intro: Three men search for gold in the Sierra Madre mountains.
Review: Another great movie from John Huston and Humphrey Bogart.
Rating:"The Treasure of the Sierra Madre" at Amazon.com. "Whisky Galore" - With Basil Radford, Joan Greenwood. AKA "Tight Little Island".
Plot Intro: There are 50000 cases of whisky on a stranded ship.
Review: Great little British comedy.
Rating:"Whisky Galore" at Amazon.com.
"The Farmer's Daughter" - With Loretta Young, Joseph Cotten, Ethel Barrymore, Charles Bickford.
Plot Intro: The daughter of a farmer becomes a housekeeper in the home of a member of Congress.
Review: One of my favorite films.
Rating:"The Farmer's Daughter" at Amazon.com. "Miracle on 34th Street" - Holiday film with Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn, John Payne, Natalie Wood, William Frawley.
Plot Intro: A man who thinks he is Kris Kringle is hired to be Santa Claus in the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, and then works at the Macy's store.
Review: One of my favorite films.
Rating:"Miracle on 34th Street" at Amazon.com.
"The Big Sleep" - Humphrey Bogart, Lauren Bacall, Elisha Cook Jr. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Plot Intro: A detective is hired by a rich man to look into a personal matter.
Review: One of the best detective movies.
Rating:"The Big Sleep" at Amazon.com. "The Best Years of Our Lives" - With Frederic March, Myrna Loy, Dana Andrews, Virginia Mayo, Hoagy Carmichael, Harold Russell. Directed by William Wyler.
Plot Intro: Soldiers coming home from the war.
Review: One of the great films of the 1940s. Best Picture Academy Award. Harold Russell, a double-amputee, was given an Academy Award.
Rating:"The Best Years of Our Lives" at Amazon.com. "Great Expectations" - With John Mills, Jean Simmons, Alec Guinness. Directed by David Lean. Based on the Charles Dickens book.
Plot Intro: Pip is an orphan who has a mysterious benefactor.
Review: A dramatization of the Charles Dickens book.
Rating:"Great Expectations" at Amazon.com. "It's a Wonderful Life" - With James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell, Beulah Bondi, Henry Travers, Ward Bond. Directed by Frank Capra.
Plot Intro: Everything is going bad for the head of the local Savings and Loan. He thinks of committing suicide, but an angel shows him what the world you be like if he never lived.
Review: A great movie.
Rating:"It's a Wonderful Life" at Amazon.com. "A Night in Casablanca" - With The Marx Brothers, Sig Rumann.
Plot Intro: People are looking for a cache of Nazi treasure.
Review: A parody of "Casablanca" and all its clones. Pretty good.
Rating:"A Night in Casablanca" at Amazon.com.
"And Then There Were None" - Agatha Christie story
Plot Intro: People are gradually disappearing.
Review: Very good dramatization of a classic Agatha Christie story.
Rating:"And Then There Were None" at Amazon.com. "Johnny Angel" - With George Raft.
Plot Intro: An abandoned ship is found, gold is missing, and a pretty stowaway helps uncover the truth for the son of the captain of the ship.
Review: It takes a while to get going - to the point where I understood the plot. The photography is first-rate. Part of the film is in the film noire style. One scene on the pier is particularly noteworthy. The whole film has blacks that are really black and whites that are really white. At one point I thought they were referencing the movie "Casablanca", since the abandoned ship was from North Africa, and the girl had gotten out of the region without a passport, but I came to like the film somewhat. George Raft is good.
Rating:"Johnny Angel" at Amazon.com. "The Lost Weekend" - With Ray Milland, Jane Wyman. Directed by Billy Wilder.
Plot Intro: The problems of an alcoholic.
Review: Excellent film.
Rating:"The Lost Weekend" at Amazon.com. "Spellbound" - With Ingrid Bergman, Gregory Peck. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: A new member of the staff of a mental institute is found to have some serious mental problems due to thinking that he was involved in the murder of a distinguished psychiatrist.
Review: The story is not one of the strongest filmed by Hitchcock.
Rating:"Spellbound" at Amazon.com. "They Were Expendable" - With John Wayne, Robert Montgomery, Donna Reed, Ward Bond. Directed by John Ford.
Plot Intro: A man struggles to handle his responsibilities when World War II breaks out.
Review: A dramatization of the PT Boat crews' attempts to defend the Philippines when World War 2 breaks out. Pretty good.
Rating:"They Were Expendable" at Amazon.com.
"Arsenic and Old Lace" - With Cary Grant, Josephine Hull, Jean Adair, Raymond Massey, Edward Everett Horton, Peter Lorre, James Gleason. Directed by Frank Capra.
Plot Intro: A writer's two aunts have a charity going in their own home, and his brother comes home to change everything.
Review: One of my favorites.
Rating:"Arsenic and Old Lace" at Amazon.com. "Laura" - With Gene Tierney, Clifton Webb, Dana Andrews, Vincent Price. Directed by Otto Preminger.
Plot Intro: A woman is found dead in her apartment, and the police begin investigating.
Review: One of my favorite films. Excellent.
Rating:"Laura" at Amazon.com. "Double Indemnity" - With Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Edward G. Robinson. Written and directed by Billy Wilder.
Plot Intro: A pretty wife talks an insurance agent into an insurance fraud scheme.
Review: Classic film.
Rating:"Double Indemnity" at Amazon.com. "Henry V" - With Laurence Olivier. Screenplay by Laurence Olivier, based on the Shakespeare play. AKA "The Chronicle History of King Henry the Fift with His Battell Fought at Agincourt in France".
Plot Intro: Henry V, his attempts at war and peace.
Review: Excellent dramatization.
Rating:"Henry V" at Amazon.com. "Hail the Conquering Hero" - Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn. Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Plot Intro: A man, who was discharged from the army, tries to avoid going home, but he meets a group of Marines.
Review: A great film by Preston Sturges. One of my favorites. Probably my favorite of all of his.
Rating:"Hail the Conquering Hero" at Amazon.com. "Miracle of Morgan's Creek" - With Eddie Bracken, William Demarest, Betty Hutton. Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Plot Intro: A girl, with the help of a local man, sneaks out of the house to help entertain the troops. A few weeks later she realizes that she got married and is pregnant. Her friend steps forward to help her with chaotic results.
Review: Great film by Preston Sturges. One of my favorites.
Rating:"Miracle of Morgan's Creek" at Amazon.com.
"Five Graves in Cairo" - With Franchot Tone, Ann Baxter, Akim Tamiroff, Eric von Stroheim. Directed by Billy Wilder.
Plot Intro: There is a British agent in Rommel's headquarters.
Review: Great film.
Rating:"Five Graves in Cairo" at Amazon.com. "The More the Merrier" - With Jean Arthur, Joel McCrea, Charles Coburn.
Plot Intro: Three people have to share an apartment during an apartment shortage.
Review: Very good film.
Rating:"The More the Merrier" at Amazon.com. "The Ox-bow Incident" - With Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews, Anthony Quinn. Directed by William Wellman.
Plot Intro: The story of a lynch mob.
Review: A great film.
Rating:"The Ox-bow Incident" at Amazon.com. "Sanshiro Sugata" - Written and directed by Akira Kurosawa.
Plot Intro: A judo expert must meet his girlfriend's father in a match.
Review: Most of Kurosawa's films that I've seen are the samurai films. This is hand-to-hand combat. Still a very good picture.
Rating:"Sanshiro Sugata" at Amazon.com. "Watch on the Rhine" - With Bette Davis, Paul Lukas, Geraldine Fitzgerald. Written by Dashiell Hammett, based on the play by Lillian Hellman.
Plot Intro: A woman's husband disappears when he is found to be working in the resistance.
Review: Excellent film.
Rating:"Watch on the Rhine" at Amazon.com.
"Bambi" - animated film by Disney
Plot Intro: A fawn has to grow up fast and in the process meets different animals who befriend him.
Review: Classic animated film. Some overly dramatic scenes, some excellent humorous scenes.
Rating:"Bambi" at Amazon.com. "Casablanca" - With Humphrey Bogart, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre, Claude Rains, Ingrid Bergman. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
Plot Intro: A man arrives with his wife in Casablanca. He is a major leader in the Resistance. They are looking for letters that will allow them to go to Lisbon from where they can go escape the Germans. A bar owner acquires the letters. The wife of the Resistance leader knows the bar owner very well.
Review: One of the greatest films of all time. Bogart is great. The film wins the Best Film Oscar, and Michael Curtiz wins an Academy Award as Best Director. Greenstreet, Lorre, Rains, and Bergman are great.
Rating:"Casablanca" at Amazon.com. "Mr. and Mrs. Smith" - With Robert Montgomery and Carole Lombard. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: Two people who are madly in love find out that they weren't ever married due to a technicality. Madcap hilarity begins there.
Review: Probably the only pure comedy directed by Alfred Hitchcock. Somewhat dated, but anything with Lombard or Montgomery in it is worth watching.
Rating:"Mr. and Mrs. Smith" at Amazon.com. "The Palm Beach Story" - Joel McCrea, Claudette Colbert, Mary Astor, Rudy Vallee; written and directed by Preston Sturges
Plot Intro: A woman wants to prove that she can earn a living on her own and be more successful than her husband.
Review: Excellent Preston Sturges. The scene in the railroad car is one of the best in any of his films. I laugh no matter how many times I've seen it.
Rating:"The Palm Beach Story" at Amazon.com. "To Be or Not to Be" - Jack Benny, Carole Lombard. Directed by Ernst Lubitsch.
Plot Intro: A stage company in Warsaw has to survive the German invasion during World War II.
Review: Very funny. Jack Benny is great. Remade by Mel Brooks.
Rating:"To Be or Not to Be" at Amazon.com.
"Citizen Kane" - With Orson Welles, Joseph Cotten, Ruth Warrick, Agnes Moorehead. Directed by Orson Welles. Screenplay by Orson Welles and Herman J. Mankiewicz.
Plot Intro: An old man dies alone with the enigmatic last word "Rosebud". A newspaper reporter interviews various people in order to find out what the significance of that word is.
Review: A veiled portrayal of the life of William Randolph Hearst. Unfortunately, Hearst was still alive at the time, and he was still powerful and influential. On top of that, the film seems to ridicule Hearst's girlfriend, Marion Davies -- something that Hearst bitterly resented. The special features on the film make the case that even though some details of the Kane character's life may relate to Hearst, many of the details relate to the early life of Orson Welles.
The film is considered by many to be the best movie of all time. Orson Welles had not directed a film before "Citizen Kane". He had been involved in stage productions and on radio. So he came into the film (screenplay and direction) with a lot of new ideas. The framing and the angles of the filming were different from any film up to that time. It is considered by many to be about 30 years ahead of its time. Nominated in nine categories for Academy Awards, but it only won for the screenplay.
Rating:"Citizen Kane" at Amazon.com. "Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" - With Spencer Tracy, Miriam Hopkins, Ingrid Bergman, Lana Turner.
Plot Intro: Strange things are happening in London. They are related to the experiments of a chemist.
Review: Good early horror film. Remake of a 1931 film with Frederic March.
Rating:"Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" at Amazon.com. "Dumbo"
Plot Intro: The adventures of a baby elephant in a small circus.
Review: One of Disney Studios's classics.
Rating:"Dumbo" at Amazon.com. "Here Comes Mr. Jordan" - With Robert Montgomery, Claude Rains, Edward Everett Horton.
Plot Intro: A boxer who plays sax on the side dies sooner than he should.
Review: Excellent film. Remade as "Heaven Can Wait" with Warren Beatty.
Rating:"Here Comes Mr. Jordan" at Amazon.com. "How Green Was My Valley" - With Maureen O'Hara, Walter Pigeon, Donald Crisp, Roddy McDowall. Directed by John Ford.
Plot Intro: A family in a small Welsh mining town struggles.
Review: Another great film by John Ford.
Rating:"How Green Was My Valley" at Amazon.com. "The Lady Eve" - With Henry Fonda, Barbara Stanwyck, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, Eric Blore. Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Plot Intro: A pretty woman who is a member of a gang of con-artists first scams a rich young man, and then she falls in love with him.
Review: Excellent Sturges film. One of his best.
Rating:"The Lady Eve" at Amazon.com. "The Maltese Falcon" - Humphrey Bogart, Mary Astor, Sidney Greenstreet, Peter Lorre. Written by John Huston, based on the novel by Dashiell Hammett. Directed by John Huston.
Plot Intro: Sam Spade's partner is killed, and people are asking about some sort of bird.
Review: One of the greatest of all time. An early example of film noir (if not the first). "The stuff dreams are made of."
Rating:"The Maltese Falcon" at Amazon.com. "Sergeant York" - With Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Joan Leslie. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Plot Intro: A back-woods farmer is drafted into the US Army during World War I.
Review: Excellent film based on the true story of the most decorated soldier of World War I. One of Cooper's best.
Rating:"Sergeant York" at Amazon.com. "Sullivan's Travels" - With Joel McCrea, Veronica Lake, William Demarest. Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Plot Intro: A movie director wants to direct a major drama. He runs away and becomes mistaken for a criminal.
Review: Excellent Sturges film. One of his best.
Rating:"Sullivan's Travels" at Amazon.com.
"The Bank Dick" - With W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Franklin Pangborn, Shemp Howard, Grady Sutton.
Plot Intro: A bank customer accidentally captures a bank robber and is offered the job of security guard at the bank.
Review: One of WC Fields's best. One of my all-time favorites.
Rating:"The Bank Dick" at Amazon.com. "Christmas in July" - With Dick Powell, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn. Written and directed by Preston Sturges.
Plot Intro: An inveterate optimist is tricked into thinking he had won a slogan contest.
Review: Early Preston Sturges movie. Sturges's movies are some of the best comedies. This was an early effort.
Rating:"Christmas in July" at Amazon.com. "Foreign Correspondent" - With Joel McCrea. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: A news correspondent tries to expose enemy agents in Britain on the eve of World War 2.
Review: Excellent Hitchcock drama.
Rating:"Foreign Correspondent" at Amazon.com. "Go West" - The Marx Brothers.
Plot Intro: The Marx Brothers go west and save the day.
Review: The Marx Brothers were losing steam.
Rating:"Go West" at Amazon.com. "The Grapes of Wrath" - With Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine. Directed by John Ford.
Plot Intro: Poor people trek across from the Dust Bowl to California.
Review: One of the greatest pictures of all time.
Rating:"The Grapes of Wrath" at Amazon.com. "His Girl Friday" - With Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy. Directed by Howard Hawks. Plot Intro: A newspaper editor uses every trick in the book to lure his ex-wife back into her job as a reporter.
Review: Machine delivery of great dialogue. A must see.
Rating:"His Girl Friday" at Amazon.com. "The Long Voyage Home" - With John Wayne, Barry Fitzgerald, Thomas Mitchell, Ward Bond, Mildred Natwick. Directed by John Ford.
Plot Intro: A crew on a merchant marine ship is trying to get home at the dangerous time when U-Boats may be somewhere nearby.
Review: Not one of the better John Ford films. Has many of the people from "The Quiet Man" and "She Wore A Yellow Ribbon".
Rating:"The Long Voyage Home" at Amazon.com. "The Philadelphia Story" - With Cary Grant, Kathryn Hepburn, James Stewart. Directed by George Cukor.
Plot Intro: The ex-husband of a well-to-do woman arrives with a reporter and photographer to attend her wedding.
Review: Great performances. Great film.
Rating:"The Philadelphia Story" at Amazon.com. "Pinocchio"
Plot Intro: A wooden marionette is brought to life by a fairy with the promise that he might become a real boy.
Review: One of Disney Studio's animated classics.
Rating:"Pinocchio" at Amazon.com.
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"At the Circus" - With The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont.
Plot Intro: Money is stolen at a circus, and the Marx Brothers try to help get it back.
Review: The Marx Brothers are always fun to watch, but this film isn't as good as some of the earlier ones.
Rating:"At the Circus" at Amazon.com. "Destry Rides Again" - James Stewart, Marlene Dietrich, Misha Auer, Brian Donlevy, .
Plot Intro: Lawlessness is rampant in a western town. The son of a famous lawman comes to town. He doesn't make a good first impression, because he doesn't believe in carrying a gun.
Review: A great film. Stewart maybe at his skinniest. Very funny. One of my favorites. If you can stand Marlene Dietrich's singing, it will be one of your favorites, too.
Rating:"Destry Rides Again" at Amazon.com. "The Four Feathers"
Plot Intro: A man must prove he's not a coward during the Sudan uprising.
Review: A great film. Again it's a story about the time period of the British empire.
Rating:"The Four Feathers" at Amazon.com. "Gone With the Wind" - With Clark Gable, Vivien Leigh, Leslie Howard, Olivia DeHavilland, Thomas Mitchell, Hattie McDaniel.
Plot Intro: Life in the south before and during the Civil War in relation to a family that owns the plantation Tara.
Review: One of the greatest films of all time. Vivian Leigh is perfect as Scarlett, and Gable is perfect as Rhett. There are also a great many performances from the supporting cast.
Rating:"Gone With the Wind" at Amazon.com. "The Hunchback of Notre Dame" - With Charles Laughton, Maureen O'Hara.
Plot Intro: A hunchback who lives in the Notre Dame Cathedral saves a lady from from execution.
Review: A great film with a young Maureen O'Hara and Charles Laughton.
Rating:"The Hunchback of Notre Dame" at Amazon.com. "Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" - With James Stewart, Jean Arthur, Claude Rains. Directed by Frank Capra.
Plot Intro: A young man is selected to take the place of a senator who had been part of the machine.
Review: One of the greatest films of all time.
Rating:"Mr. Smith Goes to Washington" at Amazon.com. "Stagecoach" - With John Wayne, Thomas Mitchell, Claire Trevor, Andy Devine, John Carradine, Donald Meek. Directed by John Ford.
Plot Intro: A stagecoach tries to go through Indian territory.
Review: Excellent film.
Rating:"Stagecoach" at Amazon.com.
"The Adventures of Robin Hood" - With Errol Flynn, Olivia de Havilland, Basil Rathbone, Claude Rains, Eugene Pallette, Alan Hale. Directed by Michael Curtiz.
Plot Intro: Robin Hood, Maid Marion, the Sheriff of Knottingham, and King John.
Review: One of the greatest films.
Rating:"The Adventures of Robin Hood" at Amazon.com. "Bringing Up Baby" - With Katherine Hepburn, Cary Grant. Directed by Howard Hawks.
Plot Intro: There is a missing dinosaur and a leopard on the loose. There is a paleontologist and a ditzy heiress.
Review: Early screwball comedy. One of Hawks's best.
Rating:"Bringing Up Baby" at Amazon.com. "Carefree" - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.
Plot Intro: A psychiatrist/psychoanalyst (not sure which) falls in love with one of his patients.
Review: Not as good as previous efforts, but still worth the effort. Includes "Change Partners (and Dance)".
Rating:"Carefree" at Amazon.com. "The Lady Vanishes" - With Michael Redgrave, Dame May Whitty, Margaret Lockwood. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: An elderly woman vanishes while traveling on a train. She is missed by some, but others deny her very existence.
Review: Very good early Hitchcock espionage mystery.
Rating:"The Lady Vanishes" at Amazon.com.
"Damsel In Distress" - Fred Astaire, Joan Fontaine, George Burns, Gracie Allen.
Plot Intro: A lady is wooed by an American dancer.
Review: Good Astaire movie. "Things Are Looking Up", "A Foggy Day", "Nice Work If You Can Get It".
Rating:"Damsel In Distress" at Amazon.com. "A Day at the Races" - With Marx Brothers, Maureen O'Sullivan, Margaret Dumont.
Plot Intro: The owner of a local spa is being pressured to sell. She gets help from the Marx Brothers and a horse.
Review: One of the better of the Marx Brothers.
Rating:"A Day at the Races" at Amazon.com. "Prisoner of Zenda" - With Ronald Colman.
Plot Intro: A ruler is kidnapped, and a look-a-like must take his place.
Review: A classic.
Rating:"Prisoner of Zenda" at Amazon.com. "Shall We Dance" - Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore.
Plot Intro: Romance between a ballet dancer and a stage performer.
Review: Another great Astaire-Rogers film. "Let's Call The Whole Thing Off", "They Can't Take That Away from Me", "Shall We Dance"..
Rating:"Shall We Dance" at Amazon.com. "Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs"
Plot Intro: A princess is banished by an evil queen. She ends up living with seven dwarfs.
Review: The classic animated feature film. Great.
Rating:"Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs" at Amazon.com. "Tovarich" - With Claudette Colbert, Charles Boyer, Basil Rathbone. Plot Intro: Two members of the Russian nobility end up as servants in the home of a rich American family.
Review: One of my favorites.
Rating:"Tovarich" at Amazon.com.
"The Charge of the Light Brigade" - With Erroll Flynn, Olivia DeHavilland, Donald Crisp, Nigel Bruce, Patric Knowles, David Niven.
Plot Intro: The British are in India in 1856. The Light Brigade charges at enemy forces.
Review: Very good. A romanticizing of the British empire.
Rating:"The Charge of the Light Brigade" at Amazon.com. "Follow the Fleet" - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Randolph Scott.
Plot Intro: A sailor tries to convince his former partner to get back together with him.
Review: Some good moments for Astaire-Rogers. Includes "I'm Putting All My Eggs in One Basket", "Let's Face the Music and Dance".
Rating:"Follow the Fleet" at Amazon.com. "The Great Ziegfeld" - With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Frank Morgan, Fanny Brice, Ray Bolger.
Plot Intro: Florence Ziegfeld has some good ideas for productions on stage.
Review: A Hollywoodized version of the story of one of the great producers of the stage.
Rating:"The Great Ziegfeld" at Amazon.com. "Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" - With Gary Cooper, Jean Arthur. Directed by Frank Capra.
Plot Intro: A young man inherits a fortune. His life gets more complicated.
Review: One of the great Frank Capra films.
Rating:"Mr. Deeds Goes to Town" at Amazon.com. "My Man Godfrey" - With William Powell, Carole Lombard, Alice Brady, Gail Patrick, Eugene Pallette, Misha Auer.
Plot Intro: A man down on his luck is hired as a butler in a house that has some eccentric residents.
Review: One of the best films ever. Lombard and Powell at their best. Excellent group of supporting actors.
Rating:"My Man Godfrey" at Amazon.com. "Swing Time" - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers.
Plot Intro: A performer becomes involved with an aspiring dancer.
Review: One of the great Astaire-Rogers films. "The Way You Look Tonight", "A Fine Romance", "Bojangles of Harlem", "Never Gonna Dance", "The Way You Look Tonight", "A Fine Romance".
Rating:"Swing Time" at Amazon.com.
"Bonnie Scotland" - With Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, James Finlayson.
Plot Intro: Stan and Ollie go to Scotland, because Stan is mentioned in the will of an estate, and somehow they join the British army and end up in India.
Review: May be one of the best by Laurel and Hardy.
Rating:"Bonnie Scotland" at Amazon.com. "A Night at the Opera" - Marx Brothers, Kitty Carlisle, Allan Jones, Sig Rumann, Margaret Dumont. Written by George S. Kaufman, Morrie Syskind.
Plot Intro: Four men try to get a young opera singer into a major opera production. Hilarity and mayhem ensue.
Review: May be the best film by the Marx Brothers.
Rating:"A Night at the Opera" at Amazon.com. "The 39 Steps" - With Robert Donat, Madeleine Carroll. Directed by Alfred Hitchcock.
Plot Intro: A man is drawn into an espionage ring attempting to assassinate a prominent figure.
Review: A good early Hitchcock movie. Robert Donat is very good.
Rating:"The 39 Steps" at Amazon.com. "Top Hat" - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore.
Plot Intro: A star of stage disturbs a woman on the floor below with his tap dancing.
Review: Great songs, great dancing. May be their best. Includes "No Strings", "Isn't This a Lovely Day?", "Top Hat, White Tie and Tails", "Cheek to Cheek".
Rating:"Top Hat" at Amazon.com.
"David Copperfield" - With Freddie Bartholemew, Basil Rathbone, WC Fields. Directed by George Cukor. AKA "The Personal History, Adventures, Experience, & Observation of David Copperfield the Younger".
Plot Intro: A boy's father dies, and his mother remarries.
Review: The old Charles Dickens story as a vehicle for Bartholemew.
Rating:"David Copperfield" at Amazon.com. "The Gay Divorcee" - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Edward Everett Horton, Eric Blore.
Plot Intro: A woman wants a divorce, and she attempts to set herself up in a compromising position.
Review: One of the best of the Astaire-Rogers movies. Includes "A Needle in a Haystack", "Night and Day", "The Continental".
Rating:"The Gay Divorcee" at Amazon.com. "It Happened One Night" - With Clark Gable, Claudette Colbert, Walter Connolly.
Plot Intro: An heiress stubbornly plans to marry her fiance, against her father's wishes. She runs away. Includes instructions on how to hitch-hike.
Review: A great film. Received Best Picture, Best Actor, Best Actress, Best Director, and Best Screenplay Academy Awards - a first.
Rating:"It Happened One Night" at Amazon.com. "It's a Gift" - W.C. Fields, Kathleen Howard, Baby LeRoy.
Plot Intro: A store-owner buys an orange grove in California, totally surprising his family.
Review: One of Fields's best. One of my favorite films.
Rating:"It's a Gift" at Amazon.com. "The Thin Man" - With William Powell, Myrna Loy, Maureen O'Sullivan. Based on the book by Dashiell Hammett.
Plot Intro: The father of a young woman disappears, and poeple start dying. Her father is the main suspect. A retired police detective is drawn into the investigation.
Review: One of my favorite films. Powell and Loy at their best. No other team can match them.
Rating:"The Thin Man" at Amazon.com. "Twentieth Century" - John Barrymore, Carole Lombard, Walter Connolly. AKA "20th Century".
Plot Intro: A director who is down on his luck, tries to convince an actress to be in his new show.
Review: Excellent comedy. Carole Lombard is one of my favorite actresses.
Rating:"Twentieth Century" at Amazon.com.
"The Devil's Brother" - With Stan Laurel and Oliver Hardy; James Finlayson, Thelma Todd. AKA "Fra Diavolo" or "Fra Diabolo".
Plot Intro: A highway thief poses as a nobleman to find out where they keep their money. He gains the companionship of two bumbling oafs.
Review: One of my favorite Laurel and Hardy films.
Rating:"The Devil's Brother" at Amazon.com. "Duck Soup" - With The Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont.
Plot Intro: The country of Fredonia is under attack.
Review: Some think this is the best Marx Brothers film. I like "A Night at the Opera" best. "Duck Soup" has obvious references to what was going on in Europe at the time. "Hail Fredonia!"
Rating:"Duck Soup" at Amazon.com. "Flying Down To Rio" - With Fred Astaire, Ginger Rogers, Dolores DelRio.
Plot Intro: A band leader takes his band to Rio de Janeiro to follow the woman he loves.
Review: The first of the Astaire-Rogers team. Their movies got better later.
Rating:"Flying Down To Rio" at Amazon.com. "The Invisible Man" - With Claude Rains.
Plot Intro: A scientist discovers a way to make himself invisible. It kind of goes to his head.
Review: A very good horror film.
Rating:"The Invisible Man" at Amazon.com. "King Kong" - With Fay Wray.
Plot Intro: Explorers find an unknown island that has a huge secret.
Review: A very good early horror film. The claymation animation was taken to a new level, fingerprints and all.
Rating:"King Kong" at Amazon.com.
"Horse Feathers" - With Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd.
Plot Intro: The head of a college needs to win the big football game.
Review: An early effort of the Marx Brothers.
Rating:"Horse Feathers" at Amazon.com. "The Mummy" - With Boris Karloff.
Plot Intro: An ancient grave is found in Egypt. It contains a mummy and a scroll. An archaeologist reads the scroll, and the mummy comes back to life.
Review: Very good early horror film.
Rating:"The Mummy" at Amazon.com. "Tarzan, the Ape Man" - Johnny Weismuller, Maureen O'Sullivan. Based on the book by Edgar Rice Burroughs.
Plot Intro: A man is discovered living in the remote jungle of Africa.
Review: A very good movie which was the beginning of a series. The book series is very good, too.
Rating:"Tarzan, the Ape Man" at Amazon.com.
"Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" - With Frederick March, Miriam Hopkins.
Plot Intro: Strange things are happening in London. They are related to the experiments of a chemist.
Review: Good early horror film. Remade in 1941 with Spencer Tracy.
Rating:"Dr. Jekyl and Mr. Hyde" at Amazon.com. "Frankenstein" - With Boris Karloff.
Plot Intro: A scientist discovers a way to create life.
Review: A classic horror movie. Recently restored. "He's alive!" Of course, Frankenstein is the doctor who creates the monster. The monster is Frankenstein's monster. My theory is that as science makes discoveries, authors and script-writers will find a way to posit how that discovery could turn into something evil: Chemistry - Dr. Jekyl and The Invisible Man; genetic engineering - Jurassic Park; organ implants - Coma. "Frankenstein" involves surgery.
Rating:"Frankenstein" at Amazon.com. "Little Caesar" - With E.G. Robinson, Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Plot Intro: The rise of a thug to the leader of a gang.
Review: .
Rating:"Little Caesar" at Amazon.com. "Monkey Business" - Marx Brothers, Thelma Todd.
Plot Intro: The brothers stow away on an ocean liner.
Review: The Marx Brothers are always fun.
Rating:"Monkey Business" at Amazon.com.
"All Quiet on the Western Front"
Plot Intro: Disillusionment in the German army during World War I.
Review: Pacifist World War I movie about German soldiers. Powerful
Rating:"All Quiet on the Western Front" at Amazon.com. "Animal Crackers" - With Marx Brothers, Margaret Dumont.
Plot Intro: A valuable painting is stolen, but there are plenty of copies flying around.
Review: Pretty funny Marx Brothers effort. A little more sophisticated than "The Cocoanuts." Hooray for Captain Spalding.
Rating:"Animal Crackers" at Amazon.com. "Hell's Angels" - With Jean Harlow. Directed by Howard Hughes.
Plot Intro: Action in the air and on the ground during World War I.
Review: The way the film ended was surprisingly modern. I had the feeling that it was way ahead of its time. Very impressive.
Rating:"Hell's Angels" at Amazon.com.
"The Cocoanuts" - With the Marx brothers, Margaret Dumont.
Plot Intro: Chaos during the Florida land boom of the late 1920s.
Review: The first Marx Brothers film. Different from the others. More stage-bound.
Rating:"The Cocoanuts" at Amazon.com.
"Wings" - A silent film with Clara Bow, 'Buddy Rogers', Gary Cooper.
Plot Intro: Action and some romance with World War I fighters.
Review: World War I fighter plane action with Gary Cooper. Good airplane action. Won the first Best Picture Academy Award.
Rating:"Wings" at Amazon.com.
"The Son of the Sheik" - A silent film with Rudolph Valentino
Plot Intro: The son of the sheik falls in love with a dancer.
Review: A Rudolph Valentino classic.
Rating:"The Son of the Sheik" at Amazon.com.
"The Sheik" - A silent film with Rudolph Valentino
Plot Intro: An Englishwoman is abducted by an Arabian Sheik.
Review: A Rudolph Valentino classic.
Rating:"The Sheik" at Amazon.com.
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