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Two Clark Gable comedies — Teacher’s Pet (1958) with Doris Day and But Not for Me (1959) with Carroll Baker
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Mar 24, 2016
Share This! These bright comedies provide some harmless laughs in the twilight of the career of “The King of Hollywood.” Two years, 1958 and 1959. Two films, Teacher’s Pet and But Not for Me. Two actresses, Doris Day and Carroll Baker. A third actress, Lilli Palmer, in the wings. All read more
Swamp Water (1941) with Walter Huston and Walter Brennan
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Mar 17, 2016
Share This!1941’s Swamp Water is a great example of the product not coming as advertised. From the title and the promotional materials, including the theatrical poster, you’d think this is a typically substandard B-grade horror picture. Granted, those sometimes schlocky horror pictures can be read more
The Manchurian Candidate (1962) – with Frank Sinatra and Laurence Harvey
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Mar 10, 2016
Share This! An idea once unbelievable. . . . Then unthinkable. . . . Now all too possible. . . . A chilling classic. In the recent war in Iraq and the current one in Afghanistan, the greatest threat and concern has been and is—torture. Although torture had also been a concern in the Korean read more
Background to Danger (1943) with George Raft and Peter Lorre
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Mar 3, 2016
Share This! Love in the midst of intrigue! Many films were made after the gross successes of The Maltese Falcon and Casablanca, mostly by Warner Brothers and repurposing various reconfigurations of the original cast of those two films, though all excluded Humphrey Bogart and Ingrid Bergman. The “ho read more
Murder, My Sweet (1944) with Dick Powell and Claire Trevor
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Feb 25, 2016
Share This!“She was a charming middle-aged lady with a face like a bucket of mud. I gave her a drink. She was a gal who’d take a drink, if she had to knock you down to get the bottle.” —a sample of Philip Marlowe’s narration Imagine Humphrey Bogart’s 1941 The Maltese Falcon with read more
Lady of the Tropics (1939) with Robert Taylor and Hedy Lamarr
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson DeWelles on Feb 18, 2016
Share This! Hedy Lamarr set the world aflame with her beauty in Algiers! Now you see her in the arms of a dashing Bob Taylor! Second time’s the charm, right? Or is that supposed to be the third time? In any case, after Hedy Lamarr’s American debut in Algiers, MGM was eager to get her into another read more
What a Woman! (1943) with Rosalind Russell and Brian Aherne
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Feb 11, 2016
Share This! She’s the Smartest Woman Who NEVER Got Kissed. One can wonder what there is about What a Woman! that deserves mention, certainly on any extended level, a review, say. Not very much, really. That it might provide, under the proper conditions, some degree of entertainment on a cold read more
Ann Vickers (1933) with Irene Dunne
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Feb 4, 2016
Share This! Ann Vickers is an odd sort of film. Knowing nothing of it when watched, seeing that it’s based on a Sinclair Lewis novel of the same name was the first clue. Lewis never wrote lightly and is usually remembered as one of literature’s more noted social commentators. With both the read more
The Werewolf of London (1935) – with Henry Hull and Valerie Hobson
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Jan 28, 2016
Share This! “The werewolf is neither man nor wolf, but a satanic creature with the worst qualities of both.” —— Dr. Yogami (Warner Oland) to Dr. Glendon (Henry Hull) If nothing else, for it isn’t all that great a horror movie as horror flicks go, The Werewolf of London established read more
Human Desire (1954) with Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jan 21, 2016
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A rarity on the screen… a RAW slice of life!
By 1954 most would say that Fritz Lang’s finest work was behind him, even though he had just come off a surprisingly effective noir thriller in The Big Heat, starring Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame. For his follow up to Heat, Lang c read more
Top Hat (1935) – with Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Jan 7, 2016
Share This! “When Top Hat is letting Mr. Astaire perform his incomparable magic or teaming him with the . . . dexterous Miss Rogers, it is providing the most urbane fun that you will find anywhere on the screen.” —— Andre Sennwald, The New York Times of August 30, 1935 An incident related by read more
Silver Blaze (1937) / Murder at the Baskervilles (1941) with Arthur Wontner
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jan 7, 2016
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“We’re old friends. I should hate to see you make such an ass of yourself as wrongfully to arrest the future son-in-law of Sir Henry Baskerville.” – Sherlock Holmes to Inspector Lestrade
Shockingly to some, there were highly regarded actors who portrayed Sherlock read more
Rio Grande (1950) – with Maureen O’Hara and John Wayne
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Dec 31, 2015
Share This! “I’m very lucky. I really had some wonderful movies.” ——Maureen O’Hara Just which one movie to select to represent the career of Maureen O’Hara, who died October 24, 2015, age 95, is a conundrum—not that a single film is necessarily the ideal procedure; better, maybe, read more
Angels Over Broadway (1940) with Douglas Fairbanks Jr.
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Dec 24, 2015
Share This! A HECTIC ROMANCE TO BLOW THE FUSES OUT ALONG MAZDA LANE! Among the list of films which perhaps don’t get the attention they deserve is 1940’s Angels Over Broadway, a title which plays a few ways over the course of a compact 78 minute running time. The film, which was written and read more
Hercule Poirot’s Christmas (1994) with David Suchet
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Dec 17, 2015
Share This! “A man born . . . on the wrong side of the blanket can, nonetheless, inherit the features of his father—his pride, his patience and his vengeful spirit.”— Hercule Poirot (David Suchet) So what’s a good Christmas gift to instill in you the spirit of the season? Something traditional: read more
The Divorcee (1930) with Norma Shearer
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Dec 10, 2015
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A Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer All Talking Picture!
Surprisingly, with that tagline, The Divorcee is a film I only fell asleep through twice- and that’s a bit of a sham. In a never-ending quest to bring new stars into our fold, I had a mission of sorts to bring insightful commentary (or at read more
It Came from Outer Space (1953) with Richard Carlson
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Dec 3, 2015
Share This! Terror in 3-D . . . Reaching out from the screen to seize you in its grasp! Look out! Living in the 1950s, at least inside a movie theater, was a dangerous venture at the time. Anything could threaten life and limb. Especially dangerous were the ferocious—and always gigantic—insects, read more
Inside Job (1946) with Preston Foster
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Nov 26, 2015
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At a mere 65 minutes, you’d think it would be challenging for a film to be overly bad. Even a modicum of plot should be able to sustain a single hour’s worth of celluloid, right? Usually, yes. But not always.
Which brings us to 1946’s Inside Job, which in spite of the a read more
You’re Telling Me! (1934) with W. C. Fields
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Nov 19, 2015
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It’s a funny ol’ world… Man’s lucky if he gets out of it alive. – W.C. Fields as Sam Brisbee
There are some stars I get and others I always thought I got. But perceptions and appreciations change over time, and there are occasions when I simply can’t a read more
Keepers (2015) by Richard Schickel: A Book Review
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Nov 12, 2015
Share This! From a legendary film critic and movie fan extraordinaire,here is the highlights reel of a life spent at the movies. When a skilled writer such as Richard Schickel publishes yet another book—there are twenty-three listed in his latest, but he himself infers there’re more—what further read more