We began the year hoping to see and review a movie a week, with a week or two off for vacation or especially busy times. That notion devolved pretty quickly to every other week, and we struggled with that. Even […]
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Gunga Din (1939) ☆ ☆ ☆ ☆
Our seventeenth classic possibility for 2014 is 75 years old this year, the popular action-adventure Gunga Din (1939). It was produced by RKO Radio Pictures at a colossal cost of almost two million dollars but the money is evident on the […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Birdy (1984) Gunga Din (1939) Putney Swope (1969) A Touch of Class (1973) The Unknown (1927) I chose Gunga Din because it was the […]
Continue reading »It Came from Outer Space (1953) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our sixteenth choice of a potential classic in 2014 is a key movie for me, and, like all of our other choices, one which Barb has not previously viewed. Jack Arnold’s It Came from Outer Space (1953) is an incredibly original […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Day for Night (1973) G Men (1935) It Came from Outer Space (1953) The Pawnbroker (1965) Sahara (1943) I chose It Came from […]
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Our fifteenth choice for 2014 is the exciting action-adventure The Professionals (1966). It’s sort of a western, but set after the usual time frame of traditional westerns and then mostly in Mexico, and it’s sort of a war film, but with […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Camille (1936) Eye of the Needle (1981) Lassie Come Home (1943) The Professionals (1966) The Ruling Class (1972) I chose The Professionals because of […]
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Our fourteenth choice of 2014 is the all-star big business melodrama Executive Suite (1954). How all-star? The cast boasts no less than seven previous Academy Award nominees (of whom three had won, one of them twice; and one, Shelley Winters, who […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936) Executive Suite (1954) Panic in Year Zero! (1962) The Talk of the Town (1942) Who is Killing […]
Continue reading »Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) (1939) ☆ ☆ ☆ 1/2
Our thirteenth potential classic is an odd but endearing espionage-comedy-drama from Britain on the eve of World War II originally titled Q Planes (1939). It was distributed in North America by Columbia Pictures, which didn’t like that moniker and changed it […]
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