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Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke

Walt Disney Video, 1997

"Bob's Your Uncle"
Released in `64 `Mary Poppins' is without question one of the most beloved movies in Disney's vast vault of wonderful family film classics. I was twelve years old when `Mary Poppins' made its theatrical debut and I must admit that I immediately fell madly in love with ...

Rains Came

Myrna Loy, Tyrone Power

20th Century Fox, 1998

Proper Disaster Drama with Cultural Oddities and a Love Story...
The Rains Came was released the same year Gone with the Wind (1939) brought a storm of viewers to the silver screen. Unlike Gone with the Wind, which received a legendary status in the cinema history, The Rains Came only made an impact in the special effects ...

Mary Poppins (Ltd Thx)

Grapes of Wrath (1940)

Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell

20th Century Fox, 1998

Depression Tale Still Packs Punch
I've seen "The Grapes of Wrath" any number of times over the last thirty years. I was always blinded by the film's top-notch artistry but I think I was missing the forest for the trees. What dawned on me was that writer John Steinbeck and director John Ford were mad. ...

My Darling Clementine

Henry Fonda, Linda Darnell

20th Century Fox, 1999

Fonda is Great as Earp, Entertianing but Historically Inaccurate
Historical hogwash but a tremendous cast spear headed by Henry Fonda. Although the story of Wyatt Earp, Tombstone and the Clantons is completely muddled, taking it as a western 'story', this action packed film is highly entertaining. The all time great character actor ...

Mary Poppins

Julie Andrews, Dick Van Dyke

Walt Disney Video, 2000

"Bob's Your Uncle"
Released in `64 `Mary Poppins' is without question one of the most beloved movies in Disney's vast vault of wonderful family film classics. I was twelve years old when `Mary Poppins' made its theatrical debut and I must admit that I immediately fell madly in love with ...

Wonder Bar

Al Jolson, Kay Francis

MGM (Warner), 1998

Vulgar fun
I'm not surprised how this movie really turns people off. That's why I love it. I have been this movie's biggest fan for years (I even bought the lovely original poster at auction). The movie--one of the last Warner Bros pre-Code gems (mid-1934 marked the ...

Craig's Wife

Rosalind Russell, John Boles

Sony Pictures, 1994

ME, MYSELF, AND I...
Rosalind Russell is sublime in the role of Harriet Craig, a selfish woman whose life revolves around her material possessions and her veneration of them. She married her husband, Craig (John Boles), not out of love, as he did her, but for the comfort and security that ...

Poor Little Rich Girl

Shirley Temple, Alice Faye

20th Century Fox, 1995

One of Shirley Temple's best musicals
Shirley Temple is one of the greatest child stars in the world, her popularity soaring during the Depression era, and beloved still today. She was a real prodigy and phenomena, the likes of which we'll never see again -- bona fide adorable with thousand watt ...

Roman Scandals

Eddie Cantor, Ruth Etting

Mgm Entertainment, 2000

"Scandals" Holds Up Well
I'd heard and read about this film since I was a kid in the 60's but never got the chance to see it until recently. I suggest you do the same! It's kinda like "A Connecticut Yankee In King Arthur's Court", "Brigadoon" and "Wizard Of Oz" wrapped into one. Cantor is a ...

The Ox-Bow Incident

Henry Fonda, Dana Andrews

Fox Home Entertainment, 2003

A conversation with a Chinese professor of film studies ...
The place and time: Beijing, 2000. Chinese professor: Thank you so much for giving us those videotapes! My graduate students and I watched three films in one day! American: What did you think of "The Ox-Bow Incident"? Chinese professor: Oh, it is a fine ...

Bigamist

John Brown, Jane Darwell

Englewood Entertainment, 1998

Low-Budget Masterpiece
Ida Lupino both directs and co-stars. As a director she specialized in small, intimate films about the desperate circumstances of ordinary people. Here, it's Edmund O'Brien, Ida, and Joan Fontaine as the unlikely trio caught up in a bigamist scandal. O'Brien is the ...

All Through the Night

Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt

MGM (Video & DVD), 1996

My favorite Bogart film...
There are lots of reasons to love this film. The stellar cast, including Wm. Demarest, Jane Darwell, Phil Silvers, a young Jackie Gleason, Frank McHugh, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Judith Anderson...well, it doesn't get much better. Consider the 1942 release...the war ...

Hit the Deck

Jane Powell, Tony Martin

MGM (Video & DVD), 1995

Hit the Deck
'Hit the Deck' on DVD. About time too! The VHS tape was of very poor quality. Perhaps, not the greatest of the MGM musicals, 'Hit the Deck' is still a worthy example of the studio's output. More than anything else, it is the Vincent Youmans score that is the ...

All Through the Night

Humphrey Bogart, Conrad Veidt

Warner Home Video, 2000

My favorite Bogart film...
There are lots of reasons to love this film. The stellar cast, including Wm. Demarest, Jane Darwell, Phil Silvers, a young Jackie Gleason, Frank McHugh, Conrad Veidt, Peter Lorre, Judith Anderson...well, it doesn't get much better. Consider the 1942 release...the war ...