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Feature: Name that Movie Poster 10
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on May 11, 2012
Welcome to the next installment of Name that Movie Poster. Can you guess what movie the poster advertised despite my having concealed its title and key players’ names? If you cannot guess off the bat, tell me the quiz is too hard and I’ll give you a hint. To see if your skills of deduct read more
Limelight
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on May 10, 2012
Limelight (1953) Charlie Chaplin‘s was nearing the end of his career when in 1953 he made a drama that could almost be considered semi-autobiographical in nature had the actor’s box office prowess not remained so strong. Limelight is about an aging stage comedian who in 1914 London read more
Sins of the Children
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on May 2, 2012
Sins of the Children (1930) The advent of sound sent Hollywood producers running to Broadway to find some actors who could actually speak coherently enough for film audiences. During this raid on the stage, MGM found Louis Mann and created a vehicle to movie stardom for him through Sins of read more
4 for Texas
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Apr 18, 2012
4 for Texas (1963) Immediately upon it’s opening, 4 for Texas informs us that Charles Bronson‘s character is the villain and characters named Zack and Joe are the good guys, a fact that is easy to forget as we stumble through a sloppy story in which Rat Packers Dean Martin and Fran read more
The Lady in Question
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Apr 16, 2012
The Lady in Question (1940) The Lady in Question is certainly a unique story, although one that sings in large part because of its main character while all others play second fiddle. Brian Aherne –who with mustache and bushy eyebrows looks nothing like his visage in the poster for this read more
Feature: The Long-Take Movie
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Apr 13, 2012
Unless you are a movie-as-an-artform type of fan, the editing in a movie often escapes us. In most cases, all of those cuts are meant to be invisible, at times subliminally conveying a message without us realizing it. And although cameramen might painstakingly struggle to film a scene in one long read more
Indiscreet
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Apr 12, 2012
Indiscreet (1958) I recently commented to a friend after seeing This Means War in the theater that it is interesting/good to see movies that portray single men and women who are beyond their 20s finding love and marriage, in some cases for the first time. In fact, with stars like Reece Withers read more
The Ice Follies of 1939
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Apr 11, 2012
The Ice Follies of 1939 If the idea of Joan Crawford and Jimmy Stewart as ice-skating pros excites you, The Ice Follies of 1939 will disappoint you. Despite their characters’ professed careers, the actors do not really do as much on the ice as their body doubles do, nor as much as the read more
Judgment at Nuremberg (1)
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Mar 23, 2012
Judgment at Nuremberg (1961) A reporter character in Judgement at Nuremberg says he could not give away a story about the Nuremberg Nazi war crime trials in 1948 because America had moved on from the war and was no longer interested. If Americans were not interested in the trials then, they certain read more
Mogambo
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Mar 20, 2012
Mogambo (1953) Twenty-one years after Clark Gable made the exotically set romantic triangle drama Red Dust, he made it again. Gable’s rubber plantation owner in Indochina moves to Africa to a job in exotic animal sales for Mogambo. Replace Jean Harlow‘s slutty prostitute with read more
Feature: Name that Movie Poster 9
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Mar 15, 2012
Welcome to the next installment of Name that Movie Poster. Can you guess what movie the poster advertised despite my having concealed its title and key players’ names? If you cannot guess off the bat, tell me the quiz is too hard and I’ll give you a hint. To see if your skills of deduct read more
Dead Ringer
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Mar 13, 2012
Dead Ringer (1964) In the midst of her Baby Jane/Sweet Charlotte phase of psycho old lady characters, Bette Davis revisited her experience playing a twin, but this time with even darker intentions than her characters in A Stolen Life had. Dead Ringer would ultimately be a movie Davis described read more
Sadie McKee
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Mar 12, 2012
Sadie McKee (1934) When you have watched enough movies from the ’30s and/or ’40s, you start to notice a lot of trends, especially in the romantic genre, and the plots start to blur together. You could also say the same of some Joan Crawford movies as she went through phases of char read more
Pressure Point
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 27, 2012
Pressure Point (1962) I have sort of jumped from one end of the spectrum to the other with regards to my new exposure to Bobby Darin‘s acting work. The light-hearted rom-com That Funny Feeling could not be more different from the dark and dramatic Pressure Point. Darin never won an Oscar read more
Feature: Name that Movie Poster 7
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 24, 2012
Welcome to the next installment of Name that Movie Poster. Can you guess what movie the poster advertised despite my having concealed its title and key players’ names? If you cannot guess off the bat, tell me the quiz is too hard and I’ll give you a hint. To see if your skills of deduct read more
Meet John Doe (1)
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 22, 2012
Gary Cooper was a wonderfully diverse actor. He could just as easily play the confident and tough lawman, lover or soldier as he could let Director Frank Capra break him down into an apologetic everyman. That is how we find him in Meet John Doe, a movie that also presented me with the least read more
Feature: What to Watch Saturday–Ninotchka
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 17, 2012
Ninotchka (1939) It is possible that still to this day I would not have seen Ninotchka had it not been for its appearance on one of those lists of the best movies ever made or movies you have to see. I bought it as part of a Greta Garbo box set some time before that list crossed my path, a read more
Hard Luck & The Bell Boy
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 16, 2012
Hard Luck (1921) Hard Luck is a Buster Keaton gem released by Metro in 1921 before it became one of the Ms in MGM. The short-subject flick was lost for about 60 years before it was refurbished although not in its entirety, depending on the source of your version. Buster starts out having just been read more
Adam’s Rib
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 14, 2012
Adam's Rib (1949) No one could have better played a powerful career woman in a devoted marriage better than Katharine Hepburn, and no one could have better held his ground as the spouse opposite that star than Spencer Tracy. Audiences loved seeing Hepburn and Tracy on the screen together, read more
Pigskin Parade
MacGuffin Movies Posted by RBuccicone on Feb 13, 2012
Pigskin Parade (1936) On the whole, there is nothing particularly notable about Pigskin Parade and its plot. The movie, nevertheless can be distinguished as earning a Best Supporting Actor Oscar nomination and being Judy Garland‘s feature film debut. Although the young woman had appeared read more