Director Stuart Heisler’s old-fashioned 1950 Western stars Gary Cooper, who seems to be merely coasting in a low-key, internal performance as an old Confederate colonel, Blayde ‘Red’ Hollister. In the story by John Twist, Hollister […]
Director Jean Negulesco’s 1955 musical stars Fred Astaire as middle-aged millionaire Jervis Pendelton III, who goes to Hollywood’s idea of France, where he is naturally enchanted by waif-like young orphan Julie André (Leslie Caron). Negulesco’s pleasant […]
Director René Clair’s 1941 romance stars the divine Marlene Dietrich, who enchants as Claire Ledeux, a beautiful New Orleans adventuress who is juggling two men. The Flame of New Orleans was nominated for an Oscar for Best Art […]
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s sluggish low-action 1945 Republic studios Western is based on a story by Prescott Chaplin and stars John Wayne, Ann Dvorak and Joseph Schildkraut. It was nominated for two Oscars: Best Music, Scoring of a […]
Producer-director Joseph Kane’s robustly performed, competently handled but unfocused and unexciting 1945 Republic studios Western stars John Wayne, Vera [Hruba] Ralston and Walter Brennan. John Wayne stars as sagebrush drifter John Devlin, who falls for […]
In his first star character role, aged 60, Clint Eastwood achieves a bravura sustained impersonation of wayward legendary movie director John Huston who in 1950 sets out, distracted and obsessive, on a quest to shoot […]
The 1940 romantic drama film Vigil in the Night stars screen comedienne Carole Lombard, who is outstanding in a serious role as Anne Lee, a devoted young nurse in an English hospital. Director George Stevens’s […]
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