‘CUPID WAS THE BEST MARKSMAN!’ Director George Stevens’s 1935 Annie Oakley stars Barbara Stanwyck in her debut Western as the sharpshootin’ heroine Annie Oakley, who romances marksman Toby Walker (Preston Foster), causing friction along the […]
Anne Shirley is back as the imaginative orphan lass Anne Shirley in Jack Hively’s 1940 Anne of Windy Poplars, a second attractive but not quite so appealing RKO adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery children’s classic, […]
‘Two Brothers Loving the Same Girl… As Dangerous as a Runaway Jet!’ Director Don Siegel’s disappointing, over-familiar 1953 American flag-waving patriotic soap opera An Annapolis Story [The Blue and the Gold] stars John Derek and […]
‘FICTION’S MOST BELOVED HEROINE REALLY LIVES!’ Director George Nichols Jr’s 1934 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama Anne of Green Gables is a lovely adaptation of Lucy Maud Montgomery’s children’s classic about an imaginative […]
Director Garson Kanin’s 1938 RKO Radio Pictures black and white drama A Man to Remember stars Anne Shirley, Edward Ellis and Lee Bowman. It is the flashback-told biography of a selfless town doctor, Doctor John […]
MGM’s life of Johann Strauss Jr – the splendid 1938 musical biopic film The Great Waltz – gets the lavish production and high-flying European stars. ‘Your beating heart, your pounding pulse will tell you it’s […]
‘YOU WILL BE SHOCKED by these Clever Coin Chasers.’ Director William Beaudine’s 1932 Three Wise Girls stars Jean Harlow as country bumpkin Cassie, who heads for the big city of New York and takes a […]
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