Archive for January, 2008
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Top Ten Lists| 1 Comment »Any one who had ever stepped into Movie Place knew right away that there was a fan of Robert Mitchum in the house. Some one who also had control of the decor of the place. His birthday was celebrated by having nothing but Mitchum on the screen. His passing in 1997 was […]
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Top Ten Lists| No Comments »If tawdry could be measured as an explosive, these pictures would be able to destroy the planet a few times over.
1) Imitation of Life (1959)
This is a remake of an earlier picture that starred Claudette Colbert but now it gets the Douglas Sirk treatment. Coney Island, 1947, war widow and actress Lora Meredith (Lana […]
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Film Noir| No Comments »Former cop David Burke (Ed Begley) lives in a rundown hotel in Harlem (143rd and Riverside to be exact).� He is looking to hire two men to assist in a fool proof perfect crime nobody gets hurt bank robbery.� Earl Slater (Robert Ryan) is a bitter white ex con, married with a girlfriend […]
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Comedy| No Comments »The complaint was “no American soldier would ever get a woman pregnant”. This is what was said by the Hollywood office of the War Department during World War II. The picture was completed in 1943 but Paramount held the film from being released for almost a year. However, a woman does get pregnant by […]
