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Posts Tagged "Gale Sondergaard"

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The Spider Woman Strikes Back *** (1946, Gale Sondergaard, Brenda Joyce, Rondo Hatton, Milburn Stone, Kirby Grant, Hobart Cavanaugh) – Classic Movie Review 3446

This 1946 in-name-only sequel film sees Gale Sondergaard re-creating her popular role from 1944’s The Spider Woman. But this horror thriller follow-up has no relation to the original, with Sondergaard playing a completely different character.  […]

Mar, 04

The Life of Emil Zola **** (1937, Paul Muni, Gale Sondergaard, Joseph Schildkraut, Gloria Holden, Donald Crisp, Vladimir Sokoloff, Louis Calhern) – Classic Movie Review 3131

Emil Zola: ‘I shall tell the truth. Because if I did not, my nights would be haunted by the spectre of an innocent man expiating under the most frightful torture a crime he never committed.’ […]

Dec, 05

Juarez **** (1939, Paul Muni, Claude Rains, Bette Davis, Gale Sondergaard, Brian Aherne, John Garfield) – Classic Movie Review 2704

Director William Dieterle’s stirring and starry 1939 historical epic stars Paul Muni as the Mexican lawyer, politician and revolutionary Benito Pablo Juárez García (21 March 1806 – 18 July 1872). Juárez resisted the French occupation […]

Jul, 26

The Black Cat ***½ (1941, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi Hugh Herbert, Broderick Crawford, Anne Gwynne, Gladys Cooper) – Classic Movie Review 2505

Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard and Bela Lugosi raise the hairs on the back of the neck in the spooky and amusing 1941 comedy-mystery horror movie The Black Cat. Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Bela Lugosi and […]

May, 20

The Mark of Zorro ***** (1940, Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard, Eugene Pallette) – Classic Movie Review 2314

Director Rouben Mamoulian’s 1940 adventure classic remakes the 1920 Douglas Fairbanks Sr silent classic and stars an ideal Tyrone Power as Zorro. Though thought of as a light-weight star, Power is thrilling as Don Diego, […]

Mar, 27

The Letter ***** (1940, Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Victor Sen Yung, Gale Sondergaard) – Classic Movie Review 1340

‘Even my agony was a kind of joy!’, yells the great Bette Davis, who sins, kills, lies, cheats and publicly humiliates her forgiving husband Herbert Marshall in director William Wyler’s powerhouse, overwhelmingly haunting 1940 film […]

Jun, 21

My Favorite Blonde **** (1942, Bob Hope, Madeleine Carroll, Gale Sondergaard, George Zucco) – Classic Movie Review 1,276

Bob Hope is at his hilarious peak as a vaudeville performer who gets mixed up with British and German secret agents in the fast and funny 1942 comedy film My Favorite Blonde. Madeleine Carroll is […]

Jun, 01

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