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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. Haughty Hoyt and Diva Darnell. As far as I’m concerned. The film’s a 1949 Paul Douglas vehicle, and Douglas does his usual lumbering-bear performance in it. He’s awkward and appealing, I’ll grant that (Bosley Crowther raved about Douglas in his review. A Letter to Three Wives. Co-star, Linda Darnell, who plays an opera singer taking an interest in his talents, vocal and otherwise. My guess is that the studio, 20 th. Unlike Douglas, Hoyt...
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Them Hills Are Alive | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. Them Hills Are Alive. Marjorie Main wields a bullwhip in 1945’s Murder, He Says. And she’s oddly appealing at it. There’s something enticingly kinky about a lady with a lash, and Main doesn’t disappoint expectations. Is there a Krafft-Ebing category to cover this? But Main, topknot and all, is pretty psycho in Murder, He Says. Theme music should be twanged on a banjo. Gosh amighty, what is. Lurkin’ out in them thar hills? Both 1940 and ...
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A Mule is a Mule | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. A Mule is a Mule. Having recently seen all seven Francis the Talking Mule. Films, I think I can state with some authority that mules are not the most expressive of animals. They lack the emotional range of dogs; they haven’t the poetic nobility of horses nor the charm and animation of dolphins; nor do they possess that singular attitude of cats, an aloof serenity that gives them the grandeur of gods. Look, I’m not knocking mules. Th...
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Object Of Desire | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. Shall I tell you my favorite line from. That 1966 cinematic hotbed of infamously favorite lines? It’s not the obvious, well-known bits. Like honey-drippers or thrombos or the frequent, euphemistic exclamations of Birdseed! I’ll bite: how many? Whoa, I thought. Dig that: a reference to the Punic Wars. A break, I say. At least one of its writers it’s credited to three, Harlan Ellison, Russell Rouse, and Clarence Greene knew something ...
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Lioness in Winter | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. I initially felt a twinge of dismay watching Bette Davis in 1948’s. Oh lord, I thought, this isn’t one of her diction roles, is it? Diction role’ is my own coinage. I think of it in relation to her performances in such 1940s films as. Three On A Match,. She erupted into the twitchy sexy mamas of. Cabin in the Cotton. Of Human Bondage,. Davis by sheer fanatical will dug down and showed us what she was made of something deep and fierce, a...
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M and M | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. Recently having seen, at Film Forum’s. Both Fritz Lang’s and Joseph Losey’s versions of. One right after the other, I gained some new insights about Lang’s film,which I’ve seen many times, as well acquiring an admiration for Losey’s later (by 20 years) version, which I’ve now seen twice. I admit, I initially found the idea of Lang’s. 8212;who would dare to do it? For something to be revealed; and then stew in anxiety when nothing is.
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Grand Old Movies | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. All posts by Grand Old Movies. For which I say thank God, as it’s is a most boring one, and I doubt if I could take any more of ‘em from 1952 has one asset, the only reason to pay any attention to it: the appearance, nearly an hour into its running time, of third-billed Orson Welles. He plays an American millionaire financier named Sigsbee Manderson (. A Walk on the Wilding Side. So what’s the point of watching? Parallel, in which every...
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The Thousand-Yard Look | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. Early in the 1947 film noir. Isabel Jewel is explaining what she likes about her new suitor. He’s the quiet sort, she says dreamily, and yet you get a feeling if you stepped outta line he’d kick your teeth down your throat. I never knew a man like that, sighs Esther Howard. My two husbands was just turnips. Most men are, adds Claire Trevor acidly. Apparently to be someone who, when ruffled, will boot your molars down your gorge. He got ...
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DVD List | Grand Old Movies
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About Grand Old Movies. Blogging about Hollywood's golden-age films. Here’s where we stash the DVDs…. Below is a list of movies on home video that have been either written about or mentioned in our postings at Grand Old Movies. Titles are alphabetical by film name; DVD production information listed when available. Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment, Inc. 2004; letterbox format; includes trailers. A Night to Remember. 1942); Sony Pictures Home Entertainment Inc. 2008; part of. Cult Camp Classics I.