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The House of Fear (1945) with Basil Rathbone
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Oct 16, 2014
Share This!DEATH STALKS ITS HALLS! Horror seeps from its walls! The House of Fear(1945) is the tenth in the series of fourteen Sherlock Holmes films starring Basil Rathbone and Nigel Bruce. The first two (1939) are from 20th Century-Fox, a first-class studio which, while most movies and plays had read more
Blood Alley (1955) with John Wayne and Lauren Bacall
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Oct 2, 2014
Share This! Adventure on the danger waters of the Orient! The lead is a replacement, taking the role after the original star was fired and the second and third choices declined. The second lead took the role to be with the original star. What could possibly go wrong? The ultimate leads are John read more
A Blueprint for Murder (1953) with Joseph Cotten and Jean Peters
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Sep 27, 2014
Share This! He kissed her into the most sacred confession a woman can make! Joseph Cotten is an actor who works very well in almost any setting, but yet strangely seems uniquely unable to be the go-to actor for any particular genre. In the little known 1953 film A Blueprint for Murder he is Cam Cam read more
Lauren Bacall and “The Look” – A Remembrance
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Sep 25, 2014
Share This!“We live in an age of mediocrity. Stars today are not the same stature as Bogie, James Cagney, Spencer Tracy, Henry Fonda and Jimmy Stewart.” — Lauren Bacall Nicknames and titles for movies stars, especially for the women, were once a part of Hollywood glamour, which now has read more
The Long Ships (1964) with Richard Widmark
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Sep 18, 2014
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The Greatest Viking Adventure of Them All!
Surprisingly, we aren’t talking about the Kirk Douglas and Tony Curtis epic The Vikings. Though 1964’s The Long Ships was directed by Jack Cardiff, the cinematographer of The Vikings, the similarities do not go much farther.
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Captured! (1933) with Leslie Howard
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Sep 11, 2014
Share This! Films of the First World War usually seem to pale in comparison to those of the Second. Outside of perhaps a very few films, most any film buff would mention a World War II- or Vietnam War film as among their top choices. For the former the Evil was certainly much greater, with Hitler read more
The Train (1964) with Burt Lancaster
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Sep 4, 2014
Share This!“The art train is not to be destroyed. Orders are to mark it so that the planes will pass it up.”— a French Resistance leader Some critics, and even that lesser breed of us, those mere movie observers and hyper film buffs, are rumored to enjoy writing negative reviews, not usually read more
The Case of the Curious Bride (1935) with Warren William
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Aug 30, 2014
Share This! Given the growing unrest and the increasingly turbulent debate about the subject I have decided to drop my regularly scheduled post and instead answer the question at hand and debate The Case of the Curious Bride. 1935’s The Case of the Curious Bride is, in fact, the strongest of the Per read more
The Invisible Woman (1940) with Virginia Bruce
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Aug 22, 2014
Share This!“If more women were invisible, life would be much less complicated.”— Professor Gibbs The 1940 Universal movie The Invisible Womanis an obvious sequel of sorts to The Invisible Man, made seven years earlier by the same studio, and starring the great Claude Rains, who almost single-handed read more
Backfire (1950) with Virginia Mayo
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Aug 14, 2014
Share This! That “White Heat” girl turns it on again! Directed in 1950 by veteran director Vincent Sherman, Backfire is fairly easy to describe if you can follow riddles wrapped in enigmas double bagged with confusion. Another example would be flashback in a flashback in a flashback. Mo read more
Lauren Bacall, You’ll be Missed
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Aug 12, 2014
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Coverage at: Lauren Bacall Passes at 89
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Whistle Stop (1946) with Ava Gardner
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Aug 7, 2014
Share This! She Spelled Trouble For Every Guy That Made A Play For Her! 1946’s Whistle Stop is usually remembered today – if at all- as the big break for Ava Gardner. And that remains one of the few memorable tidbits of what on the surface should have been a fairly memorable picture. Based on read more
The Red Danube (1949) with Walter Pidgeon and Ethel Barrymore
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jul 31, 2014
Share This! Beautiful Maria…the four lives that touched hers were never the same again! In the interest of full disclosure, I have to start by stating that I haven’t read and am not familiar with the novel Vespers in Vienna by Bruce Marshall on which today’s film, 1949’s The Red Danube is read more
To Catch a Thief (1951) with Grace Kelly and Cary Grant
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Jul 22, 2014
Share This!For a moment, he forgets he’s a thief—and she forgets she’s a lady! Warner Brothers has just released a new tribute to Grace Kelly, a box set of some of her best films. It’s understandable that two contributions should come from Alfred Hitchcock, of the three features she made read more
Moonstruck (1987) with Cher and Nicolas Cage
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Jul 15, 2014
Share This!“I don’t know [why a man chases women]. Maybe because he fears death.”— Johnny to Rose Nothing deep, Moonstruck is, rather, a warm diversion, a movie to watch on a cold night, or, for that matter, on a warm day—but not if someone is depressed, ’cause it’ll certainly lift any read more
House of Strangers (1949) with Edward G. Robinson
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jul 9, 2014
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What a wonderful surprise House of Strangers was to view recently. Sadly, and without researching the movie first in the slightest, I made the entirely incorrect assumption that if would be yet another of Edward G. Robinson’s enjoyable, if sometimes predictable, gangster films of read more
90 Years of MGM- 1932’s Red Dust and 1953’s Mogambo
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jun 26, 2014
Share This!The battle of the sexes! The battle of the gorillas!
These two films basically follow the same general plot but as pieces of entertainment are as different as a hurricane and a drought.
And, although this is a reposting of an old post from a few years ago, we have one important change to read more
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) with Spencer Tracy
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jun 20, 2014
Share This! Suddenly you realize murder is at your elbow! – and there’s no way out! Based on Howard Breslin’s Bad Day at Hondo, the 1955 film Bad Day at Black Rock is often wedged into the Western genre. Honda was undoubtedly changed to Bad Rock as a result of the contemporary John read more
Scott of the Antarctic (1948) with John Mills
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Jun 12, 2014
Share This!“We knew that poor Oates was walking to his death, but though we tried to dissuade him, we knew it was the act of a brave man and an English gentleman. We all hope to meet the end with a similar spirit and assuredly the end is not far.” —— Robert Falcon Scott If ever there was read more
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945) with George Sanders
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Jun 5, 2014
Share This!A young man makes a wish for perpetual youth and gets it, but at a terrible cost. The first scene of the 1945 movie The Picture of Dorian Gray and the opening of the 1891 Oscar Wilde novel are the same—a “studio . . . filled with the rich odor of roses” and “the gleam of the honey-sweet read more