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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It Came from Outer Space (1953)
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 […]
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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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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided me from which to choose were these: Detective Story (1951) The General Died at Dawn (1936) Q Planes (Clouds Over Europe) (1939) West of the Pecos (1945) The Wolf Man (1941) […]
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Our twelfth choice is the riveting 1979 crime drama The Onion Field, based upon the book by Joseph Wambaugh. In the 1970s Wambaugh became the dean of Los Angeles-area cop dramas, fueled by his experiences as a beat cop and […]
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by Barb Lentz. The five movies Bob provided for me from which to choose were these: The African Queen (1951) Cartouche (1962) Laura (1944) The Onion Field (1979) Reckless (1935) I chose The Onion Field because it had the […]
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