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House on Haunted Hill (1959)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 31, 2018
The finest compliment I can extend to House on Haunted Hill is how it manages to exemplify many of the tropes we have come to imagine in old horror movies of yore even without having seen one. Because the hallmarks of the genre, by some curious form of cultural osmosis, have been passed down throug read more
Love Crazy (1941)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 30, 2018
Love Crazy puts William Powell and Myrna Loy in their wheelhouse as the lithe and sprightly romantic partners placed at the center of this screwball comedy. Steve Ireland (Powell) is in a terribly good mood getting home in his taxi singing ditties as he makes his way up to surprise his wife Susan read more
I Love You Again (1940)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 29, 2018
The film’s plotline can be summed up by amnesia. A no-fun businessman named Larry Wilson who drinks nothing harder than grape juice is conked on the head while saving a drunk who went overboard. Poof! Just like that Larry is no longer and he becomes his presumed former self — the suave read more
Boom Town (1940)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 28, 2018
Clark Gable was anxious to do a movie about oil — wildcatters as they call ’em — because his father had been an oil man. Of course, MGM was looking to put him in such a picture too and when a certain story was published in Cosmopolitan it would prove the inspiration for Jack Conwa read more
Test Pilot (1938)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 27, 2018
Test Pilot is a fine piece of time capsule filmmaking and there’s little doubt that the film showcases a dizzying array of airplanes that we very rarely see today. In that sense, it’s an aerial picture with some truly dazzling footage. By 1930s standards, this is also an action picture, read more
San Francisco (1936)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 26, 2018
There was a time when San Francisco was synonymous with the earthquake. Before Rice-A-Roni, The Golden Gate, Bullitt, or heaven forbid, The Giants. For me, it’s hardly a major spoiler to say this film revolves around this tragic date back in 1906 (a strikingly recent 30 years before the film read more
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 25, 2018
The stars are out for Manhattan Melodrama, at least three of the biggest from the 1930s, in Clark Gable, William Powell, and Myrna Loy. Except the latter two had yet to start their star-making run with director W.S. Van Dyke in The Thin Man until later in the year. This picture would prove to be a read more
Red Dust (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 23, 2018
My earliest recollection of knowing anything about Red Dust comes from the novel A Confederacy of Dunces where it’s recounted how the feckless oaf of a main character was born soon after his parents saw the picture being so caught up in the throes of Gable and Harlow’s cinematic passion read more
Red-Headed Woman (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 22, 2018
Ironically Harlow as a Red-Head feels more representative of her projected image than Harlow as a Platinum Blonde (1931). Lil is a malevolent seductress. A homewrecker. The queen of meretricious relations. Simultaneously frisky and fun. But she’s got one specific man (Chester Morris) on her r read more
Platinum Blonde (1931)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 21, 2018
“It’s like a giraffe marrying a monkey!” ~ Conroy The nucleus of Capra regulars are all present and accounted for including a script adaptation by Jo Swerling and dialogue by Robert Riskin. The cast, on the other hand, is an interesting array of talents that simultaneously proves read more
Review: Duck Soup (1933)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 20, 2018
Up until this point in time, The Marx Brother’s all-out assault on humanity had still mostly been geared at the likes of stuffy socialites, gangsters, college campuses, authority figures, etc. Albeit entertaining but fairly straightforward worlds where there was not that much to be navigated read more
Review: Horse Feathers (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 19, 2018
At Paramount Pictures The Marx Brothers released a row of comedies with seemingly arbitrary names evoking fauna like Animal Crackers, Monkey Business, Horse Feathers, and of course Duck Soup. The phrase “Horse Feathers” is essentially a variation on “Nonsense” though it so read more
Review: Trouble in Paradise (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 18, 2018
Ernst Lubitsch made a name for himself and his “touch” in silents as well as leaving an indelible mark on the 1940s with the likes of Shop Around The Corner (1940), To Be or Not to Be (1942), Heaven Can Wait (1943), and Cluny Brown (1946). But for me, no film better personifies his wit read more
Review: Monkey Business (1931)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 17, 2018
“Love flies out the door when money flies innuendo.” – Groucho Marx To call on an unforgivable quip worthy of The Marx Brothers, this film is a barrel of laughs. Hardy Har Har. I promise. Never again. I’ll leave it to the professionals. I never was much for comedy anywayR read more
Jewel Robbery (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 16, 2018
It’s the old story. A pompous old coot is bragging proudly about his new unstoppable, indestructible system of invisible lights he has put in place to stop even the most skilled burglars. No sooner have the words left his mouth and we already know he’s doomed. Sure enough, not a moment read more
Review: Animal Crackers (1930)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 15, 2018
Animal Crackers usually makes me think of the soggy little critters floating in Shirley Temple’s soup but the joke’s on me because that tune didn’t come out until 5 years after this film. In fact, legend has it that Harpo purportedly offered Temple’s parents $50,000 to adopt read more
One Way Passage (1932)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 14, 2018
There’s a myth that makes the rounds every so often suggesting that films of yore were always stagnant affairs. You only have to look at the opening bar sequence directed by Tay Garnett in this picture to confirm that such an assertion is an unequivocal falsity. The camera is alive and well read more
Girls About Town (1931)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 13, 2018
I came to this film for Kay Francis and I stayed because of Kay Francis, George Cukor, Joel McCrea, Eugene Pallette, and Lilyan Tashman. All to say, it is a supreme pleasure to watch this cast in action and already Cukor seems capable of handling the material in a way that intuitively understands t read more
Cocoanuts (1929)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 12, 2018
“Did anyone ever tell you that you look like the Prince of Wales?” ~ Kay Francis, Chico, and Groucho. The Marx Brothers were modern comedians. Out of Groucho Marx alone, there are numerous comics spawned and basking in his incomparable shadow. When certain jokes come out you can all but read more
Good News (1947)
4 Star Films Posted by 4 Star Film Fan on Oct 11, 2018
The title Good News means next to nothing to me but it does suggest a certain sunny disposition we tend to equate with MGM musicals of the period. That assumption is fairly well-founded. Furthermore, I am well aware of Adolph Green and Betty Comden, that screenplay dream team, an integral part of A read more