Tagged: Drama
Joan Crawford, Henry Fonda, and Dana Andrews star in a story about a post-World War II romantic triangle. The screenplay by David Hertz was based upon a 1945 novel by Elizabeth Janeway. The film was directed and produced by Otto Preminger.
Another Life is a true story, Set in Edwardian London, it is the colourful and intensely moving account of Edith Thompson, a woman wrongly accused of the murder of her husband, a case which became a major ‘cause celebre’ of its time.
Chester Morris and Thelma Todd star in this 1931 film about a football coach who became a stock broker, but didn’t have the heart for stealing from widows and orphans. To ease his conscience, while still making a ton of money, he becomes a high seas pirate.
Scarlet Street (1945). Christopher Cross (Edward G. Robinson), a mild banker and amateur painter is at a dinner honouring him for for twenty-five years of service in the bank for which he works. Enroute home he helps Kitty (Joan Bennett), an amoral femme fatale apparently being attacked by a man. Soon, he is enamoured of [...]
This is a pre-code film about some frivolous rich people, a young secretary, and the weird goings on in 1930. It stars Basil Rathbone and Constance Bennet.
The Lady Vanishes (1938) is a thriller film directed by Alfred Hitchcock and adapted by Sidney Gilliat and Frank Launder from the 1936 novel The Wheel Spins by Ethel Lina White. It stars Margaret Lockwood, Michael Redgrave, Paul Lukas and Dame May Whitty, and features Cecil Parker, Linden Travers, Naunton Wayne, Basil Radford, Mary Clare, [...]
This movie needs some more takers. Edmund O’Brien, Joan Fontaine & Ida Lupino. Ida Lupino directs. You’d have to be good to be a woman in 1953 and direct a film. Ida was the best. This film has been almost ignored by the viewers and it’s one of the best ones here.
Let’s roll another Susan Hayward movie. This one is about a young widow living in the Canadian rockies with her eight-year-old son. She hires a young man as a helper, and falls in love with him against her son’s wishes. In nice warm Technicolor. How could you go wrong?
Let’s Try this one more time! I guess when I posted this last week it was broken. With some re-processing, it works now. Here is the re post. When things break, I fix them…… if I know. It’s a neat little movie. You’ll like it.
Recent Comments