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Too Late for Tears (1949)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 27, 2012
Jane (Lizabeth Scott) and Alan Palmer (Arthur Kennedy) are traveling on a dark and nearly deserted highway when a stranger in a speeding car suddenly throws a bag containing $60,000 cash, obviously meant for someone else, into the back seat of their car.
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Alan wants t read more
The Set-Up (1949) (1)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 26, 2012
Stoker Thompson (Robert Ryan) is a veteran of the boxing world, with twenty years of experience under his belt. His wife Julie (Audrey Totter) has begged him to give up boxing for good, fearing that he’ll end up taking one punch too many and either become seriously injured or die from it. But read more
Tiny announcements and a question for you!
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 25, 2012
Hello, dear movie lovers! I wanted to take a moment to tell you all about a few things, and ask you about a few things, and ponder a few things.
First order of business: you may have noticed that I redesigned the blog yesterday. I am absolutely IN LOVE with this new layout. I think it looks a lot mo read more
The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone (1961)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 25, 2012
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Karen Stone (Vivien Leigh) is a star of the stage. She’s taken a new role on Broadway but is receiving criticism from the papers and the public, who think that she’s much too old for the role. Her husband, a man 20 years her senior, somehow finds a way to read more
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 24, 2012
Three American astronauts – Captain Patterson (Eric Fleming), Lt. Cruze (Dave Willock) and Lt. Turner (Patrick Waltz) – and a professor (Paul Birch) are on a new mission and will be the first men to travel to Venus. To their surprise, they find the planet to be much more Earth-like than read more
Panic in the Streets (1950) (1)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 23, 2012
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A night of gambling goes very wrong for an illegal immigrant when he bets against a notorious local known as Blackie (Jack Palance) and his gang of rough-and-tumble men. So wrong, in fact, that the group of gangsters decides he must die.
The next day, a corpse turns up in read more
How I fell in love with classic film
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 22, 2012
My grandma owned Gone with the Wind in a two-tape VHS set much like this one. (Image via etsy.com)
I distinctly remember the first time that I watched Gone with the Wind. My family was living in Nashville at the time, and I was in elementary school. My grandma decided while watching my sister and I read more
The Bliss of Mrs. Blossom (1968)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 21, 2012
Harriet and Ambrose meet when he comes to her home to fix the sewing machine.
Robert Blossom (Richard Attenborough) is a brassiere manufacturer and a serious workaholic. His wife, Harriet (Shirley MacLaine), is quite lonely and tired of spending all day on housework.
When her sewing machine breaks read more
A Tragedy at Midnight (1942)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 20, 2012
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John Howard stars as Greg Sherman, a man who performs a radio broadcast program focused on true crimes. He’s an amateur investigator, spending his time sleuthing about on cases that the cops can’t quite crack. His wife, Beth (Margaret Lindsay) is a mystery read more
Detective Kitty O’Day (1944)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 19, 2012
Kitty’s boss breaks up a date between Johnny and Kitty, leaving Johnny very angry. Is that motive enough for murder?
“A glamorous sleuth… ON A MANHUNT!” Kitty O’Day (Jean Parker) is a secretary who thinks she’d make a fantastic detective. Luckily for her, she gets read more
My Reputation (1946)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 18, 2012
Jessica talks to her sons, Keith and Kim (Image via photobucket)
My Reputation is a film that showcases the North’s catty side. Stories of gossip and rumor mills are typically set in high-class Southern societies, but this one is set somewhere very different: the metropolitan Chicago area.
Jes read more
Woman Wanted (1935)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 17, 2012
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Ann Grey (Maureen O’Sullivan) is a wrongly convicted woman. She’s being sent to jail for a murder that she didn’t commit. During transport to the jail, a car accident allows her to escape, but even though she’s no longer headed to jail, her trou read more
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 16, 2012
There is no quicker way to win me over than to begin a film with a beautiful montage of Italy and the equally beautiful voice of Frank Sinatra. And that is exactly how it all starts for 1954′s romantic drama Three Coins in the Fountain.
After the lovely opening, the film follows three American read more
Lindsey’s Lists: Top 5 classic beach films
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 15, 2012
With one vacation under my belt already this year and the winter semester weeks behind me, I, like most summer-class-free college students, have already fallen into the mood for a few months full of warm weather, sunshine and road trips.
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I find that my taste in films someti read more
The Richest Girl in the World (1934)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 14, 2012
Joel McCrea and Fay Wray are two of the main players in this funny, complicated love story (Image via acertaincinema.com)
Dorothy (Miriam Hopkins) is The Richest Girl in the World. With all of that money, it would seem that her life must be wonderful, completely free of worry. But when her fiance br read more
Through the Library is BACK!
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 14, 2012
I know I said this would be coming weeks ago, but I had finals and then went out of town and a whole bunch of other excuses which will probably just make me seem like a lazy blogger.
But tonight I finally made that fateful trip to the library – not only to pick up P-T, but also to see a free s read more
Never Let Me Go (1953)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 13, 2012
Clark Gable and Gene Tierney take a break on set (Image via @TheOldHollywood on Twitter)
Philip Sutherland (Clark Gable) is an American reporter stationed in Moscow during the war. He becomes attracted to a Russian ballerina named Marya (Gene Tierney). He soon discovers that the affection from afar read more
My Forbidden Past (1951)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 12, 2012
Barbara wants to run away with her beau, but cousin Paul isn’t going to let that happen so easily. (Image via ebay.com)
New Orleans in the late 1800s may seem like an exciting place, but it’s more complicated than exciting for the Beaurevel family. Barbara Beaurevel (Ava Gardner) is a yo read more
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933) (1)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 11, 2012
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From director Mervyn LeRoy comes this all-at-once serious and hilarious Depression-era film. Gold Diggers of 1933 is based on the play by Avery Hopwood and choreographed by Busby Berkeley, featuring a fantastic cast and extravagant musical numbers.
The cast and crew of a ne read more
Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945)
The Motion Pictures Posted by Lindsey on May 10, 2012
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Her Highness and the Bellboy (1945) is a pleasant romantic comedy. Hedy Lamarr gets star billing as Princess Veronica, a European royal who has fallen for a common American reporter named Paul (Warner Anderson). She travels to New York City, hoping to find Paul again.
Inst read more