d4doome · @d4doome
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Fritz Lang's Rancho Notorious (1952) belongs to the strange wondrous overheated western melodrama sub-genre. An odd very stylised western that makes no concessions to realism. In its own way as bizarre and unusual as Forty Guns. I loved it.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/rancho-notorious-1952.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Midnight Lace is a 1960 Ross Hunter-produced US crime film set in London which gave Doris Day her last, and best, serious dramatic role. It's almost a proto-giallo, but with echoes of GASLIGHT. A top-notch mystery/suspense/psychological thriller.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/midnight-lace-1960.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Audie Murphy made some great westerns. The Duel at Silver Creek (1952) is not one of them. It does however look great and is fun in a movie junk food sort of way. Don Siegel directed so there's plenty of fine action. I enjoyed it.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/the-duel-at-silver-creek-1952.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Torch Singer (1933), a pre-code melodrama. A singing star searches for her lost daughter. A bit sentimental for my tastes but Claudette Colbert makes anything worth seeing (and she wears some stunning gowns). In its own way it's quite pre-code.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/08/torch-singer-1933.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The 1929 version of The Letter might not be as good as the 1940 version and it doesn't have Bette Davis but it is pre-code so it's much more salacious and sexually honest and Jeanne Eagels' performance is outrageous. It's worth a look.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/12/the-letter-1929.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Barbara Stanwyck and Walter Huston star in Anthony Mann's western The Furies (1950), a slightly noirish nicely overheated psycho-sexual-emotional melodrama. Not a perfect film but fascinating and hugely enjoyable with Stanwyck and Huston in top form.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-furies-1950.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Watched Hitchcock's Strangers on a Train (1951) yet again and I'm still impressed by its technical perfection. And I'm noticing the subtle and disturbing touches of moral ambiguity. A great movie and an interesting one.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/strangers-on-train-1951-hitchcock.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The 1938 The Adventures of Robin Hood offers Errol Flynn at the top of his swashbuckling hero game and Basil Rathbone in super-villain mode. With spectacular visuals and dynamic pacing. The definitive Robin Hood movie. Great stuff.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/07/the-adventures-of-robin-hood-1938.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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James Whale's 1931 film Waterloo Bridge, the tale of an American soldier who falls in love with an English prostitute, has attracted much praise. Personally I didn’t like any of the performances or the characters and this movie left me cold.
Bette Davis has a supporting role.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/waterloo-bridge-1931.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Lady of the Night (1925), a 1925 silent film starring Norma Shearer. She plays two roles (inevitably a good girl and a bad girl). A good low-key subtle romantic drama. Worth seeing if you want to know why Norma Shearer was such a big deal.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/lady-of-night-1925.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Search for Beauty (1934). Crooks run a health magazine and health farm offering sex rather than health. Athletes (Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino) are employed to provide a respectable front. It’s trashy, sleazy, exploitative, smutty pre-code fun.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/search-for-beauty-1934.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Asphalt Jungle (1950), John Huston’s faithful and excellent adaptation of W.R. Burnett’s great novel. An excellent film noir about a heist. Fine performance by Sterling Hayden. Marilyn Monroe has a bit part.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/06/the-asphalt-jungle-1950.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Island of Doomed Men (1940) is a reasonably enjoyable B-movie about a sadistic diabolical criminal mastermind (Peter Lorre) running a slave island. It's not too bad Lorre's sinister crazed performance is the reason to watch it.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/island-of-doomed-men-1940.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Film noir doesn't get any better than Edgar G. Ulmer’s bleak masterpiece of cinematic deception Detour (1945). Everything is against this poor schmuck. That's his story and he's sticking to it. Watch out for dames with claws.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/detour-1945.html
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CineRequiem.com · @CineRequiem
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...the star of the U.S. #Gojira-cut #Godzilla, King of the Monsters (1956) - and pictured here as the wife / dog-murdering travelling salesman in Hitchcock's immortal #RearWindow (1954).
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Red-Headed Woman (1932). Lil (Jean Harlow) intends to be rich. She has never considered the option of being a good girl. Perhaps the most cheerfully amoral (or immoral) of all pre-code movies. And one of the very best.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/red-headed-woman-1932.html
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CineRequiem.com · @CineRequiem
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and as the conman in #NightmareAlley (1947). His portrayal of the doomed Leonard Vole in Billy Wilder's #WitnessForTheProsecution (1957) was his last completed film before his death at just 44.
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Great Flamarion is an early (1945) Anthony Mann film noir. Erich von Stroheim, Dan Duryea and Mary Beth Hughes do a trick-shooting theatrical show but sexual jealousy and guns can be a nasty combination. Fine performances, good movie.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/05/the-great-flamarion-1945.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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Vincente Minnelli’s The Band Wagon (1953), with breathtaking dancing by Fred Astaire and Cyd Charisse in glorious Technicolor.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2012/09/the-band-wagon-1953.html
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d4doome · @d4doome
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The Barbarian (1933) is comedy/romantic melodrama. A movie filled to the brim with pre-code outrageousness. Myrna Loy is at her sexiest and her bathtub scene is a highlight. It would be impossible to make this movie today.
My review: https://dfordoom-movieramblings.blogspot.com/2023/04/the-barbarian-1933.html
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