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The Spy in Black (U-Boat 29) with Conrad Veidt (1939)
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Jun 1, 2014
Share This! Women and children first…to die…in U-Boat attack! Suicide submarine crews ravage the high seas…in history’s most ruthless slaughter of innocents! – original release tagline Some films come around at just the right time. Others not so much. The premiere of The read more
Cromwell (1970) with Richard Harris and Alec Guinness
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 28, 2014
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England has long been known for its epic films especially those involving well, English things. 1970’s Cromwell makes what would be for some time the last attempt at such a film. Ken Hughes and a cast led by stalwart actors Alec Guinness and Richard Harris take us through Oliver Cr read more
Ivanhoe (1952) with Robert Taylor and Elizabeth Taylor
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 22, 2014
Share This! When I signed up to participate in the Fabulous Films of the 50s blogathon, for whatever reason I was drawn to the epic film. To me the 50s in Hollywood was one of trepidation, as television was making inroads and threatening the livelihoods of the studios. The studio system as it was read more
Death on the Nile (1978) with Peter Ustinov
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on May 15, 2014
Share This! “Do not allow evil into your heart, it will make a home there.” —Hercule Poirot It is easy to write about the 1978 screen version of Agatha Christie’s Death on the Nile. The obvious, summarizing comment is that it isn’t as good as Murder on the Orient Express, made four years read more
Anne of the Indies (1951) with Jean Peters
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 9, 2014
Share This! Anne of the Indies isn’t your typical swashbuckler. Yes, it has pirates, Blackbeard, a few sword-fights, and the de rigueur high seas slugfest featuring broadsides full of lead. As usual, said ships are in a rather large bathtub, but no matter. So what makes Anne of the Indies so diffe read more
The Mark of Zorro (1940) with Tyrone Power
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on May 4, 2014
Share This! Ride With Zorro . . . The Dashing Don Of California’s Most Adventurous Era! When one thinks of Hollywood’s greatest swashbuckler, invariably the name that comes back is Errol Flynn. And deservedly so, perhaps. But there have been others, ranging from Douglas Fairbanks to Burt Lanc read more
The Big Country (1958) with Gregory Peck
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Apr 30, 2014
Share This! Big they fought! Big they loved! Big their story! The Big Country was the film David O. Selznick tried to make with Duel in the Sun, but he lost his way with this super-gargantuan failure to top Gone With the Wind. In that famous scene in Duel, he seemed to wallow in the mud alongside read more
East of Eden (1955) with James Dean
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Apr 25, 2014
Share This! “Tonight I even tried to buy your love, but now I don’t want it any more. . . . I can’t use it any more. I don’t want any kind of love any more. It doesn’t pay off.” —— Cal (James Dean) to Abra (Julie Harris) Above all, East of Eden is about love—paternal, maternal, read more
Noah’s Ark (1928)
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Apr 16, 2014
Share This! The advent of sound was perplexing for the studios, and downright scary for the stars. How would a populace who had never heard them before react to the pitch and intonations of their voices? There were those stars who succeeded in the change to sound (Joan Crawford), some who managed read more
Red River (1948) with John Wayne
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Apr 10, 2014
Share This! “When we get back to the ranch, I want you to change the brand. . . . And we’ll add an ‘M’ to it. You don’t mind that, do you?” —— Thomas Dunson to Matthew Garth Borden Chase, screenwriter best known for Westerns—Bend of the River, The Far Country, Winchester ’73, Man read more
Band of Angels (1957) with Clark Gable and Yvonne DeCarlo
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Apr 4, 2014
Share This! You’re no blue blood any more, honey. The master bought you…and now he’s waitin’! It is a film Clark Gable called the worst of his career. Question: Was he right? Answer: I haven’t seen all of Gable’s films, but I think he may have been on to something! Where read more
Rooster Cogburn (1975) with John Wayne and Katharine Hepburn
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Mar 28, 2014
Share This! The man of “True Grit” is back and look who’s got him! Often called the sequel to True Grit, Rooster Cogburn bears little resemblance to perhaps John Wayne’s most popular- even if not best, role. In the almost thirty years since its release, it has joined Wayne’s read more
The Best of Bogart Collection— four great Humphrey Bogart films in one box
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Mar 23, 2014
Share This! “The only thing that you owe the public is a good performance.”—— Humphrey Bogart The late, great, much-missed Roger Ebert, in his commentary for Casablanca—and no one did film commentaries better, more artfully—spoke most perceptively of “just how good Bogart is.” read more
The Verdict (1946) with Sydney Greenstreet and Peter Lorre
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Mar 18, 2014
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Victor Emmric: It’s a wretched night.
Supt. George Edward Grodman: Maybe it’s only you who is wretched, Victor.
When most folks think of Sydney Greenstreet they think Casablanca and when they think Peter Lorre their minds automatically jump to the despised (from his perspecti read more
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951) with Michael Rennie
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Mar 9, 2014
Share This! “I’m impatient with stupidity. My people have learned to live without it.” —— Klaatu (Michael Rennie) War is always with us, it seems, despite the horrors of its continuance, how little it accomplishes and that one war usually results in another. “If we do not end war,” read more
Kings of the Sun (1963) with Yul Brynner
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Mar 5, 2014
Share This!How a lost world became a new world of adventure! The 1950s and 60s were the time of the epic. Television was growing by leaps and bounds and movie studios were on the run for anything to combat the incursion of that little glowing box. So in addition to a veritable cornucopia of format read more
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) with Ralph Meeker
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Feb 26, 2014
Share This! Blood red kisses! White hot thrills! Mickey Spillane’s latest H-bomb! If you’re watching Kiss Me, Deadly for the first time, it will not be what you think. Sure, it’s one of the earliest of the Mike Hammer movies, the first being I, the Jury with Biff Elliot as Mickey read more
Pygmalion (1938) with Leslie Howard and Wendy Hiller
Classic Film Freak Posted by Greg Orypeck on Feb 19, 2014
Share This!“I washed me face and hands before I come, I did.” —— Eliza Doolittle The 1964 film musical version of George Bernard Shaw’s 1912 play, now retitled My Fair Lady and, some say, the most anticipated film since Gone With the Wind, earned many headlines and captured much attention read more
Wash the Blood Off My Hands (1948) with Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Feb 15, 2014
Share This! A HUNTED MAN…A LOVE-HAUNTED WOMAN! It sounds like a gritty and exciting movie if you only look at the title of Wash the Blood Off My Hands, a 1948 noir thriller starring Burt Lancaster and Joan Fontaine. It is also rather short, so easy to work into your schedule if you’re a touch read more
Rough Night in Jericho (1967) with Dean Martin
Classic Film Freak Posted by Orson De Welles on Feb 11, 2014
Share This! A few nights ago, a twitter friend tweeted her intended classic movie viewing for the night, as asked others to do likewise. I replied with my strong desire to watch the 1967 western Rough Night in Jericho, though I added to my response that expectations were limited. Rightfully so, read more