The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1960) - YT
The Alamo (1960)
All the Fine Young Cannibals (1960)
The Angry Silence (1960)
The Apartment (1960)
Atom Age Vampire (1960)
The Bad Sleep Well (1960)
The Battle of Austerlitz (1960)
Because They’re Young (1960)
The Bellboy (1960) - YT
Bells Are Ringing (1960)
Black Sunday (1960) - YT
The Bramble Bush (1960)
Breathless (1960)
A Breath of Scandal (1960)
The Brides of Dracula (1960)
Butterfield 8 (1960) - YT
Can-Can (1960)
Cash McCall (1960)
Cimarron (1960)
Cinderfella (1960) - YT
Circus of Horrors (1960)
Comanche Station (1960) - YT
Crack in the Mirror (1960)
The Dark at the Top of the Stairs (1960)
The Day They Robbed the Bank of England (1960)
The Devil’s Eye (1960)
Elmer Gantry (1960)
The Entertainer (1960)
Esther and the King (1960)
Exodus (1960)
Eyes without a Face (1960)
The Facts of Life (1960)
The Fall of the House of Usher (1960)
Five Branded Women (1960)
Flaming Star (1960)
From the Terrace (1960)
The Gallant Hours (1960)
G.I. Blues (1960)
The Grass is Greener (1960)
Heller in Pink Tights (1960)
Hell is a City (1960)
High Time (1960)
Hiroshima, Mon Amour (1960)
Home from the Hill (1960)
Ice Cold in Alex (1960)
Ice Palace (1960)
I’m All Right Jack (1960)
Inherit the Wind (1960)
It Started in Naples (1960)
Kapo (1960)
Kidnapped (1960)
The Last Voyage (1960)
L’Avventura (1960)
Late Autumn (1960)
The League of Gentlemen (1960)
The Leech Woman (1960)
Le Trou (1960)
Let’s Make Love (1960)
The Little Shop of Horrors (1960)
The Lost World (1960)
Macario (1960)
The Magnificent Seven (1960)
Make Mine Mink (1960)
Man on a String (1960)
The Marriage-Go-Round (1960)
Midnight Lace (1960)
Murder Inc. (1960)
Never on Sunday (1960)
Night of the Ghouls (1960)
North to Alaska (1960)
Ocean’s 11 (1960)
Once More, With Feeling (1960)
Oscar Wilde (1960)
Our Man in Havana (1960)
Peeping Tom (1960)
Pepe (1960)
Peter Pan (TV) (1960)
Please Don’t Eat the Daisies (1960)
Pollyanna (1960)
Portrait in Black (1960)
Psycho (1960)
Purple Noon (1960)
The Rat Race (1960)
The Rise and Fall of Legs Diamond (1960)
The Robot vs. the Aztec Mummy (1960)
Rocco and His Brothers (1960)
Saturday Night and Sunday Morning (1960)
School for Scoundrels (1960)
Sergeant Rutledge (1960)
Seven Thieves (1960)
Shoot the Piano Player (1960)
Sink the Bismarck! (1960)
Song Without End (1960)
Sons and Lovers (1960)
Spartacus (1960)
The Steamroller and the Violin (1960)
Stop! Look! And Laugh! (1960)
Strangers When We Meet (1960)
The Subterraneans (1960)
The Sundowners (1960)
Sunrise at Campobello (1960)
Surprise Package (1960)
Swiss Family Robinson (1960)
Tall Story (1960)
The Third Voice (1960)
13 Ghosts (1960)
The Three Worlds of Gulliver (1960)
The Time Machine (1960)
The Trials of Oscar Wilde (1960)
Tunes of Glory (1960)
The Unforgiven (1960)
Village of the Damned (1960)
The Virgin Spring (1960)
Visit to a Small Planet (1960)
The Wackiest Ship in the Army (1960)
Wake Me When It’s Over (1960)
The Wasp Woman (1960)
Who Was That Lady? (1960)
Wild River (1960)
The World of Suzie Wong (1960)
(October 2009 - Present)
Top 10 -
Haven't Seen - The Billionaire, Chronicle of a Summer, Classe Tous Risques, The Cloud-Capped Star, The Goddess, The Housemaid, Jigoku, La Casa Della Vedove, Les Bonnes Femmes, Mughal-E-Azam, Paris Belongs to Us, The Savage Eye, Take Aim at the Police Van, When a Woman Ascends the Stair, The White Dove, The Wild, Wild Rose, The Young One, Zazie in the Metro
Friday, October 30, 2009
Sunday, July 19, 2009
1959
Al Capone (1959)
Alias Jesse James (1959)
The Alligator People (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Angry Hills (1959)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
The Bat (1959)
The Beat Generation (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best of Everything (1959)
The Big Fisherman (1959)
The Black Orchid (1959)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Blue Denim (1959)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Career (1959)
Compulsion (1959)
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
A Doll’s House (TV) (1959)
Drunken Angel (1959)
The FBI Story (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
Flame over India (1959)
Floating Weeds (1959)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Fugitive Kind (1959)
The Gazebo (1959)
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Gidget (1959)
Good Morning (1959)
Green Mansions (1959)
The Hanging Tree (1959)
Hercules (1959)
A Hole in the Head (1959)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Imitation of Life (1959)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
It Started With a Kiss (1959)
John Paul Jones (1959)
The Journey (1959)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Killer Shrews (1959)
The Last Angry Man (1959)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Le Beau Serge (1959)
Libel (1959)
Li’l Abner (1959)
The Lovers (1959)
The Magician (1959)
The Man in the Net (1959)
The Mating Game (1959)
Middle of the Night (1959)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
Never So Few (1959)
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Nun’s Story (1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
On the Beach (1959)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
The Perfect Furlough (1959)
Pickpocket (1959)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
The Rabbit Trap (1959)
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
Return of the Fly (1959)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Room at the Top (1959)
Sapphire (1959)
The Savage Innocents (1959)
Say One for Me (1959)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Season of Passion (1959)
Shadows (1959)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1959)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
The Story on Page One (1959)
Stranger in My Arms (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
A Summer Place (1959)
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959)
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
Tempest (1959)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Terror is a Man (1959)
That Kind of Woman (1959)
These Thousand Hills (1959)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
This Earth is Mine (1959)
The Tingler (1959)
A Touch of Larceny (1959)
Up Periscope (1959)
Verboten! (1959)
Warlock (1959)
Westbound (1959)
When Comedy Was King (1959)
Wild Strawberries (1959)
The World of Apu (1959)
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The Young Land (1959)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
(July 2009 - October 2009) There are at least 20 solidly entertaining movies from this year. Again, foreign films stand out with The 400 Blows, Wild Strawberries, and The Lovers represented in my top 10 list. North by Northwest and Some Like it Hot are my two favorite movies of the year and they are equally wonderful. It's hard to pick which of the two is the best. I want to make a point to mention movies like The Best of Everything, A Bucket of Blood, and The Tingler, each of which I found to be a lot of fun to watch, but not exactly masterpieces. I find it hard to believe that the 1950s have come to an end. The number of movies that I watch keeps rising with each passing year. The French New Wave is just beginning to seep into mainstream America and the Hollywood studio system is declining. All of this makes my movie-watching experience/addiction so much more entertaining. Bring on the 1960s!
Top 10 - Anatomy of a Murder, Ben-Hur, The 400 Blows, The Lovers, North by Northwest, Rio Bravo, Sleeping Beauty, Some Like it Hot, Suddenly, Last Summer, Wild Strawberries
Haven't Seen - A Double Tour, The Angry Red Planet, Araya, Ask Any Girl, The Atomic Submarine, Battle of the Coral Sea, Beloved Infidel, But Not for Me, Corridors of Blood, Count Your Blessings, The Cousins, Cuban Rebel Girls, Dangerous Liaisons, Day of the Outlaw, Death of a Friend, Don't Give Up the Ship, Face of Fire, First Man into Space, 4-D Man, Happy Anniversary, Head Against the Wall, The Human Condition, The Lamp, The Man Who Understood Women, Martha Graham, Dance on Film, The Miracle, Nazarin, Never Steal Anything Small, Night of the Quarter Moon, Odd Obsession, The Oregon Trail, Paper Flowers, A Simple Story, Testament of Orpheus, -30-, The 39 Steps, Thunder in the Sun, The Tiger of Eschnapur, The Trap, Watusi, When Angels Fall, Woman Obsessed
Alias Jesse James (1959)
The Alligator People (1959)
Anatomy of a Murder (1959)
The Angry Hills (1959)
Attack of the Giant Leeches (1959)
The Bat (1959)
The Beat Generation (1959)
Ben-Hur (1959)
The Best of Everything (1959)
The Big Fisherman (1959)
The Black Orchid (1959)
Black Orpheus (1959)
Blue Denim (1959)
A Bucket of Blood (1959)
Career (1959)
Compulsion (1959)
Darby O’Gill and the Little People (1959)
The Devil’s Disciple (1959)
The Diary of Anne Frank (1959)
A Doll’s House (TV) (1959)
Drunken Angel (1959)
The FBI Story (1959)
Fires on the Plain (1959)
The Five Pennies (1959)
Flame over India (1959)
Floating Weeds (1959)
The 400 Blows (1959)
The Fugitive Kind (1959)
The Gazebo (1959)
The Giant Gila Monster (1959)
Gidget (1959)
Good Morning (1959)
Green Mansions (1959)
The Hanging Tree (1959)
Hercules (1959)
A Hole in the Head (1959)
The Horse Soldiers (1959)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1959)
Imitation of Life (1959)
It Happened to Jane (1959)
It Started With a Kiss (1959)
John Paul Jones (1959)
The Journey (1959)
Journey to the Center of the Earth (1959)
The Killer Shrews (1959)
The Last Angry Man (1959)
Last Train from Gun Hill (1959)
Le Beau Serge (1959)
Libel (1959)
Li’l Abner (1959)
The Lovers (1959)
The Magician (1959)
The Man in the Net (1959)
The Mating Game (1959)
Middle of the Night (1959)
The Mouse That Roared (1959)
The Mummy (1959)
Never So Few (1959)
No Name on the Bullet (1959)
North by Northwest (1959)
The Nun’s Story (1959)
Odds Against Tomorrow (1959)
1001 Arabian Nights (1959)
On the Beach (1959)
Operation Petticoat (1959)
The Perfect Furlough (1959)
Pickpocket (1959)
Pillow Talk (1959)
Plan 9 from Outer Space (1959)
Porgy and Bess (1959)
Pork Chop Hill (1959)
The Rabbit Trap (1959)
The Remarkable Mr. Pennypacker (1959)
Return of the Fly (1959)
Ride Lonesome (1959)
Rio Bravo (1959)
Room at the Top (1959)
Sapphire (1959)
The Savage Innocents (1959)
Say One for Me (1959)
The Scapegoat (1959)
Season of Passion (1959)
Shadows (1959)
The Shaggy Dog (1959)
Shake Hands with the Devil (1959)
The Sheriff of Fractured Jaw (1959)
Sleeping Beauty (1959)
Solomon and Sheba (1959)
Some Like it Hot (1959)
The Sound and the Fury (1959)
The Story on Page One (1959)
Stranger in My Arms (1959)
Suddenly, Last Summer (1959)
A Summer Place (1959)
Tarzan’s Greatest Adventure (1959)
Teenagers from Outer Space (1959)
Tempest (1959)
Ten Seconds to Hell (1959)
Terror is a Man (1959)
That Kind of Woman (1959)
These Thousand Hills (1959)
They Came to Cordura (1959)
The 30-Foot Bride of Candy Rock (1959)
This Earth is Mine (1959)
The Tingler (1959)
A Touch of Larceny (1959)
Up Periscope (1959)
Verboten! (1959)
Warlock (1959)
Westbound (1959)
When Comedy Was King (1959)
Wild Strawberries (1959)
The World of Apu (1959)
The World, the Flesh, and the Devil (1959)
The Wreck of the Mary Deare (1959)
The Young Land (1959)
The Young Philadelphians (1959)
(July 2009 - October 2009) There are at least 20 solidly entertaining movies from this year. Again, foreign films stand out with The 400 Blows, Wild Strawberries, and The Lovers represented in my top 10 list. North by Northwest and Some Like it Hot are my two favorite movies of the year and they are equally wonderful. It's hard to pick which of the two is the best. I want to make a point to mention movies like The Best of Everything, A Bucket of Blood, and The Tingler, each of which I found to be a lot of fun to watch, but not exactly masterpieces. I find it hard to believe that the 1950s have come to an end. The number of movies that I watch keeps rising with each passing year. The French New Wave is just beginning to seep into mainstream America and the Hollywood studio system is declining. All of this makes my movie-watching experience/addiction so much more entertaining. Bring on the 1960s!
Top 10 - Anatomy of a Murder, Ben-Hur, The 400 Blows, The Lovers, North by Northwest, Rio Bravo, Sleeping Beauty, Some Like it Hot, Suddenly, Last Summer, Wild Strawberries
Haven't Seen - A Double Tour, The Angry Red Planet, Araya, Ask Any Girl, The Atomic Submarine, Battle of the Coral Sea, Beloved Infidel, But Not for Me, Corridors of Blood, Count Your Blessings, The Cousins, Cuban Rebel Girls, Dangerous Liaisons, Day of the Outlaw, Death of a Friend, Don't Give Up the Ship, Face of Fire, First Man into Space, 4-D Man, Happy Anniversary, Head Against the Wall, The Human Condition, The Lamp, The Man Who Understood Women, Martha Graham, Dance on Film, The Miracle, Nazarin, Never Steal Anything Small, Night of the Quarter Moon, Odd Obsession, The Oregon Trail, Paper Flowers, A Simple Story, Testament of Orpheus, -30-, The 39 Steps, Thunder in the Sun, The Tiger of Eschnapur, The Trap, Watusi, When Angels Fall, Woman Obsessed
Friday, May 8, 2009
1958
Andy Hardy Comes Home (1958)
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Auntie Mame (1958)
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Bitter Victory (1958)
The Blob (1958)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)
The Bravados (1958)
Brink of Life (1958)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
The Buccaneer (1958)
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
A Certain Smile (1958)
The Chaplin Revue (1958)
The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
Cop Hater (1958)
Cowboy (1958)
The Cranes are Flying (1958)
Cry Terror! (1958)
Damn Yankees (1958)
The Days of Wine and Roses (TV) (1958)
The Decks Ran Red (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
Dracula (1958)
Dunkirk (1958)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
The Fly (1958)
Frankenstein – 1970 (1958)
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
The Geisha Boy (1958)
Gigi (1958)
The Goddess (1958)
God's Little Acre (1958)
Go, Johnny, Go! (1958)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
High School Confidential (1958)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Hot Spell (1958)
Houseboat (1958)
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
I Accuse! (1958)
I Bury the Living (1958)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Indiscreet (1958)
In Love and War (1958)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Jalshagar (Music Room) (1958)
The Key (1958)
King Creole (1958)
Kings Go Forth (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Left-Handed Gun (1958)
Lonelyhearts (1958)
The Long Hot Summer (1958)
Look Back in Anger (1958)
Man of the West (1958)
Mardi Gras (1958)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
The Matchmaker (1958)
Merry Andrew (1958)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Monster on the Campus (1958)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Night of the Demon (1958)
A Night to Remember (1958)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Nowhere to Go (1958)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
The Quiet American (1958)
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
The Restless Years (1958)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Saddle the Wind (1958)
Separate Tables (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The Sheepman (1958)
Some Came Running (1958)
South Pacific (1958)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
This Happy Feeling (1958)
Thunder Road (1958)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Tom Thumb (1958)
Torpedo Run (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Vikings (1958)
White Wilderness (1958)
The Young Lions (1958)
(May 2009 - July 2009) - As I progress with my adventure, I become more and more fascinated by foreign films. Often, films of France, Italy, and Japan completely overshadow the majority of the American films that I watch. It's evident that I'm entering and era when foreign films and foreign directors began to gain popularity in America. My favorite American movies of 1958 are incredible examples of two genius filmmakers at the tops of their respective games. Hitchcock's Vertigo and Welles' Touch of Evil are hard to beat when you look at the rest of the releases this year. I'm not positive which I liked better. I shouldn't discount the rest of the year's offerings. Admittedly, it was hard to develop a top ten list, with so many fun movies to choose from.
Top Ten - Ashes and Diamonds, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Cranes are Flying, The Defiant Ones, The Hidden Fortress, Mon Oncle, A Night to Remember, Touch of Evil, Vertigo
Haven't Seen - Ajantrik, All at Sea, The Astounding She-Monster, The Badlanders, The Brain Eaters, The Brain From Planet Arous, Chase a Crooked Shadow, China Doll, Count Five and Die, Equinox Flower, The Fearmakers, The Female Animal, Giants and Toys, The Gift of Love, Handle with Care, The Haunted Strangler, The High Cost of Loving, Il Pianto Della Zitelle, Imitation General, Kathy O', Lafayette Escadrille, The Law and Jack Wade, Macabre, Machine-Gun Kelly, The Man Upstairs, Murder by Contract, Paris Holiday, Party Girl, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, Ride a Crooked Trail, The Roots of Heaven, Rusty Knife, Screaming Mimi, The Silent Enemy, Stage Struck, St. Louis Blues, A Tale of Two Cities, Teenage Cave-Man, Teenage Monster, Terror in a Texas Town, The Truth About Women, Twilight for the Gods, Two Men and a Wardrobe, The Very Eye of Night, Wind Across the Everglades
Ashes and Diamonds (1958)
Attack of the 50 Foot Woman (1958)
Attack of the Puppet People (1958)
Auntie Mame (1958)
The Barbarian and the Geisha (1958)
Bell, Book, and Candle (1958)
The Big Country (1958)
Big Deal on Madonna Street (1958)
Bitter Victory (1958)
The Blob (1958)
Bonjour Tristesse (1958)
The Bonnie Parker Story (1958)
The Bravados (1958)
Brink of Life (1958)
The Brothers Karamazov (1958)
The Buccaneer (1958)
Buchanan Rides Alone (1958)
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1958)
A Certain Smile (1958)
The Chaplin Revue (1958)
The Cool and the Crazy (1958)
Cop Hater (1958)
Cowboy (1958)
The Cranes are Flying (1958)
Cry Terror! (1958)
Damn Yankees (1958)
The Days of Wine and Roses (TV) (1958)
The Decks Ran Red (1958)
The Defiant Ones (1958)
Desire Under the Elms (1958)
Doctor's Dilemma (1958)
Dracula (1958)
Dunkirk (1958)
Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
Fiend Without a Face (1958)
The Fly (1958)
Frankenstein – 1970 (1958)
From the Earth to the Moon (1958)
The Geisha Boy (1958)
Gigi (1958)
The Goddess (1958)
God's Little Acre (1958)
Go, Johnny, Go! (1958)
The Hidden Fortress (1958)
High School Confidential (1958)
The Horse's Mouth (1958)
Hot Spell (1958)
Houseboat (1958)
House on Haunted Hill (1958)
I Accuse! (1958)
I Bury the Living (1958)
I Married a Monster from Outer Space (1958)
Indiscreet (1958)
In Love and War (1958)
The Inn of the Sixth Happiness (1958)
It! The Terror from Beyond Space (1958)
I Want to Live! (1958)
Jalshagar (Music Room) (1958)
The Key (1958)
King Creole (1958)
Kings Go Forth (1958)
The Last Hurrah (1958)
The Left-Handed Gun (1958)
Lonelyhearts (1958)
The Long Hot Summer (1958)
Look Back in Anger (1958)
Man of the West (1958)
Mardi Gras (1958)
Marjorie Morningstar (1958)
The Matchmaker (1958)
Merry Andrew (1958)
Mon Oncle (1958)
Monster on the Campus (1958)
The Naked and the Dead (1958)
Night of the Demon (1958)
A Night to Remember (1958)
No Time for Sergeants (1958)
Nowhere to Go (1958)
The Old Man and the Sea (1958)
The Proud Rebel (1958)
Queen of Outer Space (1958)
The Quiet American (1958)
The Reluctant Debutante (1958)
The Restless Years (1958)
Rock-A-Bye Baby (1958)
Run Silent Run Deep (1958)
Saddle the Wind (1958)
Separate Tables (1958)
The 7th Voyage of Sinbad (1958)
The Sheepman (1958)
Some Came Running (1958)
South Pacific (1958)
The Tarnished Angels (1958)
Teacher's Pet (1958)
Ten North Frederick (1958)
This Happy Feeling (1958)
Thunder Road (1958)
A Time to Love and a Time to Die (1958)
Tom Thumb (1958)
Torpedo Run (1958)
Touch of Evil (1958)
The Tunnel of Love (1958)
The Two-Headed Spy (1958)
Vertigo (1958)
The Vikings (1958)
White Wilderness (1958)
The Young Lions (1958)
(May 2009 - July 2009) - As I progress with my adventure, I become more and more fascinated by foreign films. Often, films of France, Italy, and Japan completely overshadow the majority of the American films that I watch. It's evident that I'm entering and era when foreign films and foreign directors began to gain popularity in America. My favorite American movies of 1958 are incredible examples of two genius filmmakers at the tops of their respective games. Hitchcock's Vertigo and Welles' Touch of Evil are hard to beat when you look at the rest of the releases this year. I'm not positive which I liked better. I shouldn't discount the rest of the year's offerings. Admittedly, it was hard to develop a top ten list, with so many fun movies to choose from.
Top Ten - Ashes and Diamonds, Big Deal on Madonna Street, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, The Cranes are Flying, The Defiant Ones, The Hidden Fortress, Mon Oncle, A Night to Remember, Touch of Evil, Vertigo
Haven't Seen - Ajantrik, All at Sea, The Astounding She-Monster, The Badlanders, The Brain Eaters, The Brain From Planet Arous, Chase a Crooked Shadow, China Doll, Count Five and Die, Equinox Flower, The Fearmakers, The Female Animal, Giants and Toys, The Gift of Love, Handle with Care, The Haunted Strangler, The High Cost of Loving, Il Pianto Della Zitelle, Imitation General, Kathy O', Lafayette Escadrille, The Law and Jack Wade, Macabre, Machine-Gun Kelly, The Man Upstairs, Murder by Contract, Paris Holiday, Party Girl, Rally 'Round the Flag, Boys!, Ride a Crooked Trail, The Roots of Heaven, Rusty Knife, Screaming Mimi, The Silent Enemy, Stage Struck, St. Louis Blues, A Tale of Two Cities, Teenage Cave-Man, Teenage Monster, Terror in a Texas Town, The Truth About Women, Twilight for the Gods, Two Men and a Wardrobe, The Very Eye of Night, Wind Across the Everglades
Monday, March 9, 2009
1957
Abandon Ship (1957)
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Across the Bridge (1957)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
All Mine to Give (1957)
And God Created Woman (1957)
Aparajito (1957)
April Love (1957)
The Bachelor Party (1957)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Beau James (1957)
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
China Gate (1957)
The Colditz Story (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
Designing Woman (1957)
Desk Set (1957)
Edge of the City (1957)
The Enemy Below (1957)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
The Girl Most Likely (1957)
The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Invitation to the Dance (1957)
Island in the Sun (1957)
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Jamboree! (1957)
The James Dean Story (1957)
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
Jet Pilot (1957)
Johnny Tremain (1957)
The Joker is Wild (1957)
Kill Her Gently (1957)
A King in New York (1957)
Kiss Them for Me (1957)
Kronos (1957)
The Land Unknown (1957)
Legend of the Lost (1957)
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)
Les Girls (1957)
Lizzie (1957)
The Lonely Man (1957)
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Loving You (1957)
The Lower Depths (1957)
A Man Escaped (1957)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Man on Fire (1957)
The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
The Midnight Story (1957)
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Mother India (1957)
Mr. Rock and Roll (1957)
My Man Godfrey (1957)
Night Ambush (1957)
Night Passage (1957)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
No Down Payment (1957)
Oedipus Rex (1957)
Old Yeller (1957)
Omar Khayyam (1957)
The Pajama Game (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Peyton Place (1957)
Plunder Road (1957)
Portland Expose (1957)
The Pride and the Passion (1957)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Pursuit of the Graf Spree (1957)
Raintree County (1957)
Reform School Girl (1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1957)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
The River's Edge (1957)
Rodan (1957)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
Saint Joan (1957)
Sayonara (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The She-Creature (1957)
Silk Stockings (1957)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Something of Value (1957)
Sorority Girl (1957)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
The Strange One (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Tall T (1957)
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
Teenage Monster (1957)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Time Limit (1957)
The Tin Star (1957)
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
The Undead (1957)
Until They Sail (1957)
The Vampire (1957)
Wild is the Wind (1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Wrong Man (1957)
The Young Stranger (1957)
Your Past is Showing (1957)
Zero Hour! (1957)
(February 2009 - May 2009) - Another very good year with foreign films really soaring. Ray's Aparajto, the second film in the Apu Trilogy is incredibly emotional. Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, a samurai version of Macbeth, is stunning to watch. Bergman's The Seventh Seal is a masterpiece of film that commands your viewing. American films were just as impressive with Witness for the Prosecution and 12 Angry Men competing for my favorite film of the year. I'd give the edge to 12 Angry Men for its dramatic excellence and social importance.
Top 10 -- Aparajito, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Nights of Cabiria, Paths of Glory, Peyton Place, The Seventh Seal, Throne of Blood, 12 Angry Men, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Witness for the Prosecution
Haven't Seen - The Amazing Colossal Man, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Baby Face Nelson, Band of Angels, Battle Hymn, Bernardine, Break Up the Dance, The Brothers Rico, Crime of Passion, The Delinquents, The Devil's Hairpin, The D.I., Doctor at Large, Enemy from Space, Fire Down Below, Forty Guns, The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, The Garment Jungle, The Halliday Brand, The Happy Road, Hellcats of the Navy, How to Murder a Rich Uncle, I Am Waiting, Il Grido, Interlude, The Invisible Boy, Istanbul, Joe Butterfly, Johnny Trouble, Kanal, The Kids, Kisses, The Little Hut, The Living Idol, Man in the Shadow, Mister Cory, Monkey on My Back, The Monte Carlo Story, Nine Lives, Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, Operation Mad Ball, Quantez, The Restless Breed, Rock, Pretty Baby, The Sad Sack, Sea Wife, The Seventh Sin, Slim Carter, The Story of Esther Costello, The Tattered Dress, Teeth Smile, Thirst, This Could Be the Night, Tokyo Twilight, The True Story of Jesse James, The Wayward Bus, What's Opera, Doc?
The Abominable Snowman (1957)
Across the Bridge (1957)
An Affair to Remember (1957)
All Mine to Give (1957)
And God Created Woman (1957)
Aparajito (1957)
April Love (1957)
The Bachelor Party (1957)
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1957)
Beau James (1957)
Boy on a Dolphin (1957)
The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)
China Gate (1957)
The Colditz Story (1957)
The Curse of Frankenstein (1957)
The Deadly Mantis (1957)
The Delicate Delinquent (1957)
Designing Woman (1957)
Desk Set (1957)
Edge of the City (1957)
The Enemy Below (1957)
A Face in the Crowd (1957)
A Farewell to Arms (1957)
Fear Strikes Out (1957)
Funny Face (1957)
The Girl Most Likely (1957)
The Golden Age of Comedy (1957)
Gunfight at the O.K. Corral (1957)
A Hatful of Rain (1957)
Heaven Knows, Mr. Allison (1957)
The Helen Morgan Story (1957)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1957)
The Incredible Shrinking Man (1957)
Invitation to the Dance (1957)
Island in the Sun (1957)
I Was a Teenage Frankenstein (1957)
I Was a Teenage Werewolf (1957)
Jailhouse Rock (1957)
Jamboree! (1957)
The James Dean Story (1957)
Jeanne Eagels (1957)
Jet Pilot (1957)
Johnny Tremain (1957)
The Joker is Wild (1957)
Kill Her Gently (1957)
A King in New York (1957)
Kiss Them for Me (1957)
Kronos (1957)
The Land Unknown (1957)
Legend of the Lost (1957)
Le Notti Bianche (White Nights) (1957)
Les Girls (1957)
Lizzie (1957)
The Lonely Man (1957)
Love in the Afternoon (1957)
Loving You (1957)
The Lower Depths (1957)
A Man Escaped (1957)
Man of a Thousand Faces (1957)
Man on Fire (1957)
The Man Who Turned to Stone (1957)
The Mark of the Hawk (1957)
The Midnight Story (1957)
The Monolith Monsters (1957)
Mother India (1957)
Mr. Rock and Roll (1957)
My Man Godfrey (1957)
Night Ambush (1957)
Night Passage (1957)
Nights of Cabiria (1957)
No Down Payment (1957)
Oedipus Rex (1957)
Old Yeller (1957)
Omar Khayyam (1957)
The Pajama Game (1957)
Pal Joey (1957)
Paths of Glory (1957)
Peyton Place (1957)
Plunder Road (1957)
Portland Expose (1957)
The Pride and the Passion (1957)
The Prince and the Showgirl (1957)
Pursuit of the Graf Spree (1957)
Raintree County (1957)
Reform School Girl (1957)
The Revenge of Frankenstein (1957)
The Rising of the Moon (1957)
The River's Edge (1957)
Rodan (1957)
Run of the Arrow (1957)
Saint Joan (1957)
Sayonara (1957)
The Seventh Seal (1957)
The She-Creature (1957)
Silk Stockings (1957)
Slaughter on Tenth Avenue (1957)
The Smallest Show on Earth (1957)
Something of Value (1957)
Sorority Girl (1957)
The Spirit of St. Louis (1957)
The Story of Mankind (1957)
The Strange One (1957)
The Sun Also Rises (1957)
Sweet Smell of Success (1957)
The Tall T (1957)
Tammy and the Bachelor (1957)
Teenage Monster (1957)
The Three Faces of Eve (1957)
3:10 to Yuma (1957)
Throne of Blood (1957)
Time Limit (1957)
The Tin Star (1957)
Tip on a Dead Jockey (1957)
12 Angry Men (1957)
20 Million Miles to Earth (1957)
The Undead (1957)
Until They Sail (1957)
The Vampire (1957)
Wild is the Wind (1957)
Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter? (1957)
The Wings of Eagles (1957)
Witness for the Prosecution (1957)
The Wrong Man (1957)
The Young Stranger (1957)
Your Past is Showing (1957)
Zero Hour! (1957)
(February 2009 - May 2009) - Another very good year with foreign films really soaring. Ray's Aparajto, the second film in the Apu Trilogy is incredibly emotional. Kurosawa's Throne of Blood, a samurai version of Macbeth, is stunning to watch. Bergman's The Seventh Seal is a masterpiece of film that commands your viewing. American films were just as impressive with Witness for the Prosecution and 12 Angry Men competing for my favorite film of the year. I'd give the edge to 12 Angry Men for its dramatic excellence and social importance.
Top 10 -- Aparajito, The Bridge on the River Kwai, Nights of Cabiria, Paths of Glory, Peyton Place, The Seventh Seal, Throne of Blood, 12 Angry Men, Will Success Spoil Rock Hunter?, Witness for the Prosecution
Haven't Seen - The Amazing Colossal Man, Attack of the Crab Monsters, Baby Face Nelson, Band of Angels, Battle Hymn, Bernardine, Break Up the Dance, The Brothers Rico, Crime of Passion, The Delinquents, The Devil's Hairpin, The D.I., Doctor at Large, Enemy from Space, Fire Down Below, Forty Guns, The Fuzzy Pink Nightgown, The Garment Jungle, The Halliday Brand, The Happy Road, Hellcats of the Navy, How to Murder a Rich Uncle, I Am Waiting, Il Grido, Interlude, The Invisible Boy, Istanbul, Joe Butterfly, Johnny Trouble, Kanal, The Kids, Kisses, The Little Hut, The Living Idol, Man in the Shadow, Mister Cory, Monkey on My Back, The Monte Carlo Story, Nine Lives, Oh, Men! Oh, Women!, Operation Mad Ball, Quantez, The Restless Breed, Rock, Pretty Baby, The Sad Sack, Sea Wife, The Seventh Sin, Slim Carter, The Story of Esther Costello, The Tattered Dress, Teeth Smile, Thirst, This Could Be the Night, Tokyo Twilight, The True Story of Jesse James, The Wayward Bus, What's Opera, Doc?
Tuesday, January 27, 2009
1956
Alexander the Great (1956)
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
Anastasia (1956)
Anything Goes (1956)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Attack (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Baby Doll (1956)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Bandido (1956)
Bang the Drum Slowly (TV)(1956)
The Best Things in Life are Free (1956)
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Bhowani Junction (1956)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
The Boss (1956)
The Brave One (1956)
Bundle of Joy (1956)
Bus Stop (1956)
Carousel (1956)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Conqueror (1956)
The Court Jester (1956)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The Creeping Unknown (1956)
Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
D-Day, the Sizth of June (1956)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Giant (1956)
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Godzilla – King of the Monsters (1956)
The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
High Society (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It Conquered the World (1956)
Jubal (1956)
Julie (1956)
The Killer is Loose (1956)
The Killing (1956)
The King and I (1956)
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
The Ladykillers (1956)
La Strada (1956)
Love Me Tender (1956)
Lust for Life (1956)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Man in the Vault (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Mole People (1956)
The Mountain (1956)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
Nightfall (1956)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
Patterns (1956)
The Power and the Prize (1956)
The Proud and the Profane (1956)
The Rack (1956)
The Rainmaker (1956)
Ransom! (1956)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (TV)(1956)
The Red Balloon (1956)
Richard III (1956)
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956)
Run for the Sun (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
Seven Men from Now (1956)
Seven Samurai (1956)
Shake, Rattle, and Rock (1956)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Stagecoach to Fury (1956)
The Swan (1956)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Teenage Rebel (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
These Wilder Years (1956)
Three Violent People (1956)
Time Without Pity (1956)
Trapeze (1956)
Umberto D. (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
X the Unknown (1956)
(November 2008 - February 2009) - This year offered a lot of solid entertainment with the release of some pretty epic films. The sheer fun of Around the World in 80 Days makes it hard to dislike. Giant is a marvelously large-scale classic with James Dean's final performance at its center. Perhaps the biggest of all is The Ten Commandments with its awesome special effects. Smaller films also made quite an impact with Umberto D. being an excellent, moving Italian gem. The best of the year is the equally small heist thriller The Killing. It's very rare for me to want to rewatch a movie so quickly after seeing it and this early Stanley Kubrick film really made me consider doing so.
Top 10 - Around the World in 80 Days, The Court Jester, Friendly Persuasion, Giant, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Killing, The Searchers, Seven Samurai, The Ten Commandments, Umberto D.
Haven't Seen - Above Us the Waves, All the World's Memory, Away All Boats, Back From Eternity, Backlash, The Birds and the Bees, Bob Le Flambeur, The Bold and the Brave, The Burglar, The Burmese Harp, The Burning Hills, Come Next Spring, Crazed Fruit, Crime in the Streets, A Cry in the Night, Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, Death in the Garden, Death of a Scoundrel, The Devil's General, Diane, Doctor at Sea, Don't Knock the Rock, Early Spring, Elena and Her Men, Flowing, Forever, Darling, Full of Life, Gaby, Gervaise, The Girl He Left Behind, Hilda Crane, Hollywood or Bust, Hot Blood, The Iron Petticoat, Johnny Concho, The King and Four Queens, La Pointe Courte, Miracle in the Rain, Nightmare, 1984, Pardners, Paris Does Strange Things, Pillars of the Sky, The Rawhide Years, Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island, The Silent World, Street of Shame, Tension at Table Rock, Toward the Unknown, Tribute to a Bad Man, The Vagabond King, The Wanderers, World Without End, You Can't Run Away From It
The Ambassador's Daughter (1956)
Anastasia (1956)
Anything Goes (1956)
Around the World in 80 Days (1956)
Attack (1956)
Autumn Leaves (1956)
Baby Doll (1956)
The Bad Seed (1956)
Bandido (1956)
Bang the Drum Slowly (TV)(1956)
The Best Things in Life are Free (1956)
Between Heaven and Hell (1956)
Beyond a Reasonable Doubt (1956)
Bhowani Junction (1956)
Bigger Than Life (1956)
The Boss (1956)
The Brave One (1956)
Bundle of Joy (1956)
Bus Stop (1956)
Carousel (1956)
The Catered Affair (1956)
The Conqueror (1956)
The Court Jester (1956)
The Creature Walks Among Us (1956)
The Creeping Unknown (1956)
Dance with Me, Henry (1956)
D-Day, the Sizth of June (1956)
Earth vs. the Flying Saucers (1956)
The Eddy Duchin Story (1956)
The Fastest Gun Alive (1956)
Forbidden Planet (1956)
Friendly Persuasion (1956)
Giant (1956)
The Girl Can't Help It (1956)
Godzilla – King of the Monsters (1956)
The Great Locomotive Chase (1956)
The Harder They Fall (1956)
High Society (1956)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1956)
It Conquered the World (1956)
Jubal (1956)
Julie (1956)
The Killer is Loose (1956)
The Killing (1956)
The King and I (1956)
A Kiss Before Dying (1956)
The Ladykillers (1956)
La Strada (1956)
Love Me Tender (1956)
Lust for Life (1956)
The Man in the Gray Flannel Suit (1956)
The Man Who Knew Too Much (1956)
Man in the Vault (1956)
The Man Who Never Was (1956)
Meet Me in Las Vegas (1956)
Moby Dick (1956)
The Mole People (1956)
The Mountain (1956)
The Mystery of Picasso (1956)
Nightfall (1956)
The Opposite Sex (1956)
Our Miss Brooks (1956)
Patterns (1956)
The Power and the Prize (1956)
The Proud and the Profane (1956)
The Rack (1956)
The Rainmaker (1956)
Ransom! (1956)
Requiem for a Heavyweight (TV)(1956)
The Red Balloon (1956)
Richard III (1956)
Rock Around the Clock (1956)
Rock, Rock, Rock! (1956)
Run for the Sun (1956)
The Searchers (1956)
Seven Men from Now (1956)
Seven Samurai (1956)
Shake, Rattle, and Rock (1956)
The Solid Gold Cadillac (1956)
Somebody Up There Likes Me (1956)
Stagecoach to Fury (1956)
The Swan (1956)
Tea and Sympathy (1956)
The Teahouse of the August Moon (1956)
Teenage Rebel (1956)
The Ten Commandments (1956)
These Wilder Years (1956)
Three Violent People (1956)
Time Without Pity (1956)
Trapeze (1956)
Umberto D. (1956)
War and Peace (1956)
While the City Sleeps (1956)
Written on the Wind (1956)
X the Unknown (1956)
(November 2008 - February 2009) - This year offered a lot of solid entertainment with the release of some pretty epic films. The sheer fun of Around the World in 80 Days makes it hard to dislike. Giant is a marvelously large-scale classic with James Dean's final performance at its center. Perhaps the biggest of all is The Ten Commandments with its awesome special effects. Smaller films also made quite an impact with Umberto D. being an excellent, moving Italian gem. The best of the year is the equally small heist thriller The Killing. It's very rare for me to want to rewatch a movie so quickly after seeing it and this early Stanley Kubrick film really made me consider doing so.
Top 10 - Around the World in 80 Days, The Court Jester, Friendly Persuasion, Giant, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Killing, The Searchers, Seven Samurai, The Ten Commandments, Umberto D.
Haven't Seen - Above Us the Waves, All the World's Memory, Away All Boats, Back From Eternity, Backlash, The Birds and the Bees, Bob Le Flambeur, The Bold and the Brave, The Burglar, The Burmese Harp, The Burning Hills, Come Next Spring, Crazed Fruit, Crime in the Streets, A Cry in the Night, Curucu, Beast of the Amazon, Death in the Garden, Death of a Scoundrel, The Devil's General, Diane, Doctor at Sea, Don't Knock the Rock, Early Spring, Elena and Her Men, Flowing, Forever, Darling, Full of Life, Gaby, Gervaise, The Girl He Left Behind, Hilda Crane, Hollywood or Bust, Hot Blood, The Iron Petticoat, Johnny Concho, The King and Four Queens, La Pointe Courte, Miracle in the Rain, Nightmare, 1984, Pardners, Paris Does Strange Things, Pillars of the Sky, The Rawhide Years, Samurai III: Duel at Ganryu Island, The Silent World, Street of Shame, Tension at Table Rock, Toward the Unknown, Tribute to a Bad Man, The Vagabond King, The Wanderers, World Without End, You Can't Run Away From It
Wednesday, December 17, 2008
1955
Abbott and Costello Meet the Keystone Kops (1955) (C-)
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) (B-)
All That Heaven Allows (1955) (B-)
Animal Farm (1955)
Artists and Models (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (B-)
Battle Cry (1955)
The Belles of St. Trinians (1955)
The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
The Big Combo (1955) (B)
The Big Knife (1955) (C+)
Blackboard Jungle (1955) (A-)
Blood Alley (1955)
Bride of the Monster (1955) (D-)
The Bridges of Toko-Ri (1955) (C)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) (B)
The Cobweb (1955) (C)
Conquest of Space (1955) (C-)
The Constant Husband (1955)
Court Martial (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) (C)
Cult of the Cobra (1955) (C+)
Daddy Long Legs (1955) (C)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Davy Crockett – King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
The Desperate Hours (1955) (C+)
Diabolique (1955) (A)
Dreams (1955) (C+)
East of Eden (1955) (A-)
The End of the Affair (1955) (C)
Escapade (1955)
The Far Country (1955)
The Far Horizons (1955)
Female on the Beach (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Foxfire (1955)
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) (C)
Guys and Dolls (1955) (B-)
Helen of Troy (1955) (C-)
Hit the Deck (1955)
House of Bamboo (1955) (C-)
I Am a Camera (1955) (B-)
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) (B)
Illegal (1955) (B-)
Interrupted Melody (1955) (C+)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (C+)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Jupiter's Darling (1955)
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Killer's Kiss (1955) (C+)
The King's Thief (1955)
Kismet (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) (B-)
Lady and the Tramp (1955) (B+)
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) (C-)
The Last Command (1955)
The Last Frontier (1955) (C)
The Left Hand of God (1955) (B-)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) (C+)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955) (C+)
Lucy Gallant (1955)
A Man Called Peter (1955) (C+)
The Man from Laramie (1955) (C+)
Man Without a Star (1955) (C+)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) (B-)
Marty (1955) (A-)
Mister Roberts (1955) (B)
Mr. Arkadin (1955) (B)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1955)
My Sister Eileen (1955) (B-)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) (B+)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
Oklahoma! (1955) (B+)
One Desire (1955)
Ordet (1955) (B+)
Pather Panchali (1955) (B-)
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) (C)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
The Pickwick Papers (1955)
Picnic (1955) (A-)
Prince of Players (1955)
The Private War of Major Benson (1955) (C)
The Purple Plain (1955)
Queen Bee (1955) (C+)
Quentin Durward (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) (C)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (A+)
Revenge of the Creature (1955) (C+)
Rififi (1955) (B)
The Rose Tattoo (1955) (B-)
The Sea Chase (1955)
Seven Angry Men (1955)
The Seven Little Foys (1955) (B-)
The Seven Year Itch (1955) (C)
Shack Out on 101 (1955) (B-)
Simba (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (B)
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
Strategic Air Command (1955) (C)
Summertime (1955) (B+)
Swamp Women (1955) (D)
The Tall Men (1955) (C-)
Tarantula (1955) (C+)
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
The Tender Trap (1955) (C+)
This Island Earth (1955) (C)
Tight Spot (1955) (B-)
To Catch a Thief (1955) (B)
To Hell and Back (1955) (C)
Trial (1955) (B-)
The Trouble with Harry (1955) (B)
Ugetsu (1955) (B-)
Ulysses (1955)
Unchained (1955)
The Violent Men (1955) (C-)
Violent Saturday (1955) (C+)
The Virgin Queen (1955) (C)
We're No Angels (1955) (B-)
Women's Prison (1955) (C)
(August - November 2008) A highly entertaining year for movies, highlighted by James Dean's one-two punch of East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, my personal favorite movie of the year. His short career was unspeakably impressive and his legend is inarguably deserved. Marty is an excellent choice for Best Picture and Blackboard Jungle is an underrated classic. Picnic is a special movie that really put a smile on my face. The powerhouse of the year is Diabolique, the French thriller. All of these movies are must-sees, but there are so many other good ones!
Top Ten - Blackboard Jungle, Diabolique, East of Eden, Marty, The Night of the Hunter, Oklahoma!, Pather Panchali, Picnic, Rebel Without a Cause, Summertime
Haven't Seen - The African Lion, The Beachcomber, Big House, U.S.A., A Bullet for Joey, Cell 2455, Death Row, Cinerama Holiday, Count Three and Pray, Death of a Cyclist, Dementia, Doctor at Sea, Escape to Burma, Floating Clouds, French Cancan, A Generation, The Girlfriends, Good Morning, Miss Dove, Hell on Frisco Bay, How to be Very, Very Popular, I Live in Fear, The Indian Fighter, It's a Dog's Life, Joe Macbeth, The Kentuckian, A Lawless Street, Les Maitres Fous, Lola Montes, Many Rivers to Cross, The McConnell Story, Moonfleet, Nuit et Brouillard, Only the French Can, The Prisoner, A Prize of Gold, The Prodigal, The Racers, Run for Cover, Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple, The Scarlet Coat, The Ship That Died of Shame, Sincerely Yours, Six Bridges to Cross, The Spoilers, Strange Lady in Town, Taira Clan Saga, They Were So Young, Underwater!, The Unknown Soldier, Untamed, The View From Pompey's Head, Wichita, You're Never Too Young
Abbott and Costello Meet the Mummy (1955) (B-)
All That Heaven Allows (1955) (B-)
Animal Farm (1955)
Artists and Models (1955)
Bad Day at Black Rock (1955) (B-)
Battle Cry (1955)
The Belles of St. Trinians (1955)
The Benny Goodman Story (1955)
The Big Combo (1955) (B)
The Big Knife (1955) (C+)
Blackboard Jungle (1955) (A-)
Blood Alley (1955)
Bride of the Monster (1955) (D-)
The Bridges of Toko-Ri (1955) (C)
Captain Lightfoot (1955)
Cast a Dark Shadow (1955) (B)
The Cobweb (1955) (C)
Conquest of Space (1955) (C-)
The Constant Husband (1955)
Court Martial (1955)
The Court-Martial of Billy Mitchell (1955) (C)
Cult of the Cobra (1955) (C+)
Daddy Long Legs (1955) (C)
The Dam Busters (1955)
Davy Crockett – King of the Wild Frontier (1955)
The Desperate Hours (1955) (C+)
Diabolique (1955) (A)
Dreams (1955) (C+)
East of Eden (1955) (A-)
The End of the Affair (1955) (C)
Escapade (1955)
The Far Country (1955)
The Far Horizons (1955)
Female on the Beach (1955)
5 Against the House (1955)
Footsteps in the Fog (1955)
Foxfire (1955)
The Girl in the Red Velvet Swing (1955) (C)
Guys and Dolls (1955) (B-)
Helen of Troy (1955) (C-)
Hit the Deck (1955)
House of Bamboo (1955) (C-)
I Am a Camera (1955) (B-)
I Died a Thousand Times (1955)
I'll Cry Tomorrow (1955) (B)
Illegal (1955) (B-)
Interrupted Melody (1955) (C+)
It Came from Beneath the Sea (1955) (C+)
It's Always Fair Weather (1955)
Jupiter's Darling (1955)
A Kid for Two Farthings (1955)
Killer's Kiss (1955) (C+)
The King's Thief (1955)
Kismet (1955)
Kiss Me Deadly (1955) (B-)
Lady and the Tramp (1955) (B+)
Land of the Pharaohs (1955) (C-)
The Last Command (1955)
The Last Frontier (1955) (C)
The Left Hand of God (1955) (B-)
The Long Gray Line (1955)
Love is a Many-Splendored Thing (1955) (C+)
Love Me or Leave Me (1955) (C+)
Lucy Gallant (1955)
A Man Called Peter (1955) (C+)
The Man from Laramie (1955) (C+)
Man Without a Star (1955) (C+)
The Man with the Golden Arm (1955) (B-)
Marty (1955) (A-)
Mister Roberts (1955) (B)
Mr. Arkadin (1955) (B)
Mr. Hulot's Holiday (1955)
My Sister Eileen (1955) (B-)
The Night of the Hunter (1955) (B+)
Not as a Stranger (1955)
Oklahoma! (1955) (B+)
One Desire (1955)
Ordet (1955) (B+)
Pather Panchali (1955) (B-)
Pete Kelly's Blues (1955) (C)
The Phenix City Story (1955)
The Pickwick Papers (1955)
Picnic (1955) (A-)
Prince of Players (1955)
The Private War of Major Benson (1955) (C)
The Purple Plain (1955)
Queen Bee (1955) (C+)
Quentin Durward (1955)
The Rains of Ranchipur (1955) (C)
Rebel Without a Cause (1955) (A+)
Revenge of the Creature (1955) (C+)
Rififi (1955) (B)
The Rose Tattoo (1955) (B-)
The Sea Chase (1955)
Seven Angry Men (1955)
The Seven Little Foys (1955) (B-)
The Seven Year Itch (1955) (C)
Shack Out on 101 (1955) (B-)
Simba (1955)
Smiles of a Summer Night (1955) (B)
Soldier of Fortune (1955)
Strategic Air Command (1955) (C)
Summertime (1955) (B+)
Swamp Women (1955) (D)
The Tall Men (1955) (C-)
Tarantula (1955) (C+)
Teen-Age Crime Wave (1955)
The Tender Trap (1955) (C+)
This Island Earth (1955) (C)
Tight Spot (1955) (B-)
To Catch a Thief (1955) (B)
To Hell and Back (1955) (C)
Trial (1955) (B-)
The Trouble with Harry (1955) (B)
Ugetsu (1955) (B-)
Ulysses (1955)
Unchained (1955)
The Violent Men (1955) (C-)
Violent Saturday (1955) (C+)
The Virgin Queen (1955) (C)
We're No Angels (1955) (B-)
Women's Prison (1955) (C)
(August - November 2008) A highly entertaining year for movies, highlighted by James Dean's one-two punch of East of Eden and Rebel Without a Cause, my personal favorite movie of the year. His short career was unspeakably impressive and his legend is inarguably deserved. Marty is an excellent choice for Best Picture and Blackboard Jungle is an underrated classic. Picnic is a special movie that really put a smile on my face. The powerhouse of the year is Diabolique, the French thriller. All of these movies are must-sees, but there are so many other good ones!
Top Ten - Blackboard Jungle, Diabolique, East of Eden, Marty, The Night of the Hunter, Oklahoma!, Pather Panchali, Picnic, Rebel Without a Cause, Summertime
Haven't Seen - The African Lion, The Beachcomber, Big House, U.S.A., A Bullet for Joey, Cell 2455, Death Row, Cinerama Holiday, Count Three and Pray, Death of a Cyclist, Dementia, Doctor at Sea, Escape to Burma, Floating Clouds, French Cancan, A Generation, The Girlfriends, Good Morning, Miss Dove, Hell on Frisco Bay, How to be Very, Very Popular, I Live in Fear, The Indian Fighter, It's a Dog's Life, Joe Macbeth, The Kentuckian, A Lawless Street, Les Maitres Fous, Lola Montes, Many Rivers to Cross, The McConnell Story, Moonfleet, Nuit et Brouillard, Only the French Can, The Prisoner, A Prize of Gold, The Prodigal, The Racers, Run for Cover, Samurai II: Duel at Ichijoji Temple, The Scarlet Coat, The Ship That Died of Shame, Sincerely Yours, Six Bridges to Cross, The Spoilers, Strange Lady in Town, Taira Clan Saga, They Were So Young, Underwater!, The Unknown Soldier, Untamed, The View From Pompey's Head, Wichita, You're Never Too Young
Wednesday, October 8, 2008
1954
About Mrs. Leslie (1954)
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Beat the Devil (1954)
Beau Brummell (1954)
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
Black Widow (1954)
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Bread, Love, and Dreams (1954)
Brigadoon (1954)
Broken Lance (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Casino Royale (TV) (1954)
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
The Country Girl (1954)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Crime Wave (1954)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Desiree (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Dragnet (1954)
The Egyptian (1954)
Elephant Walk (1954)
Executive Suite (1954)
Forbidden Games (1954)
Forever Female (1954)
Garden of Evil (1954)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Genevieve (1954)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The Gold of Naples (1954)
Go, Man, Go (1954)
Gorilla at Large (1954)
Hell and High Water (1954)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Knock on Wood (1954)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Living It Up (1954)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Lucky Me (1954)
The Mad Magician (1954)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
The Naked Jungle (1954)
New Faces (1954)
Night People (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Phffft (1954)
Prince Valiant (1954)
The Raid (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Red Garters (1954)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Ring of Fear (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Rogue Cop (1954)
Rose Marie (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1954)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
A Star is Born (1954)
The Stranger's Hand (1954)
The Student Prince (1954)
Suddenly (1954)
Susan Slept Here (1954)
Them! (1954)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Top Banana (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Victory at Sea (1954)
White Christmas (1954)
The Wild One (1954)
Witness to Murder (1954)
Woman's World (1954)
(July - August 2008) Lots of great movies this year. Rear Window is one of my favorite movies and it just keeps getting better. On the Waterfront, The Caine Mutiny, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Sabrina round out my top 5. I'd also recommend Creature from the Black Lagoon - fun monster movie, Beat the Devil - absurdly hysterical, Executive Suite - great cast, and Carmen Jones - love the music.
Top Ten -- Beat the Devil. The Caine Mutiny, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Executive Suite, Forbidden Games, On the Waterfront, Rear Window, Sabrina, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, A Star is Born
Haven't Seen - The Adventures of Hajji Baba, Air of Paris, Athena, The Bamboo Prison, Betrayed, Casa Ricordi, The Command, The Crucified Lovers, Deep in My Heart, Doctor in the House, Drum Beat, Gabrielle, Gog, Green Fire, Hell's Half Acre, Human Desire, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, An Inspector Calls, Jail Bait, Jivaro, Late Chrystanthums, A Lesson in Love, Love in the City, Men of the Fighting Lady, Private Hell 36, Pushover, Rhapsody, Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, Sansho the Bailiff, Senso, The Sheep Has Five Legs, Sign of the Pagan, Silver Lode, Strangers, Taza, Son of Cochise, The Thunder of the Mountain, Tonight's the Night, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, Twenty-Four Eyes, Voyage to Italy, Young at Heart
Adventures of Robinson Crusoe (1954)
The Barefoot Contessa (1954)
Beat the Devil (1954)
Beau Brummell (1954)
The Black Shield of Falworth (1954)
Black Widow (1954)
The Bowery Boys Meet the Monsters (1954)
Bread, Love, and Dreams (1954)
Brigadoon (1954)
Broken Lance (1954)
The Caine Mutiny (1954)
Carmen Jones (1954)
Casanova's Big Night (1954)
Casino Royale (TV) (1954)
Cattle Queen of Montana (1954)
The Country Girl (1954)
Creature from the Black Lagoon (1954)
Crime Wave (1954)
Demetrius and the Gladiators (1954)
Desiree (1954)
Dial M for Murder (1954)
Dragnet (1954)
The Egyptian (1954)
Elephant Walk (1954)
Executive Suite (1954)
Forbidden Games (1954)
Forever Female (1954)
Garden of Evil (1954)
Gate of Hell (1954)
Genevieve (1954)
The Glenn Miller Story (1954)
The Gold of Naples (1954)
Go, Man, Go (1954)
Gorilla at Large (1954)
Hell and High Water (1954)
The High and the Mighty (1954)
Hobson's Choice (1954)
Indiscretion of an American Wife (1954)
It Should Happen to You (1954)
Johnny Guitar (1954)
Knock on Wood (1954)
The Last Time I Saw Paris (1954)
Living It Up (1954)
The Long, Long Trailer (1954)
Lucky Me (1954)
The Mad Magician (1954)
Magnificent Obsession (1954)
The Naked Jungle (1954)
New Faces (1954)
Night People (1954)
On the Waterfront (1954)
Phantom of the Rue Morgue (1954)
Phffft (1954)
Prince Valiant (1954)
The Raid (1954)
Rear Window (1954)
Red Garters (1954)
Riot in Cell Block 11 (1954)
Ring of Fear (1954)
River of No Return (1954)
Rogue Cop (1954)
Rose Marie (1954)
Sabrina (1954)
Seven Brides for Seven Brothers (1954)
The Silver Chalice (1954)
The Sleeping Tiger (1954)
A Star is Born (1954)
The Stranger's Hand (1954)
The Student Prince (1954)
Suddenly (1954)
Susan Slept Here (1954)
Them! (1954)
There's No Business Like Show Business (1954)
Three Coins in the Fountain (1954)
Three Hours to Kill (1954)
Top Banana (1954)
Track of the Cat (1954)
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1954)
The Vanishing Prairie (1954)
Vera Cruz (1954)
Victory at Sea (1954)
White Christmas (1954)
The Wild One (1954)
Witness to Murder (1954)
Woman's World (1954)
(July - August 2008) Lots of great movies this year. Rear Window is one of my favorite movies and it just keeps getting better. On the Waterfront, The Caine Mutiny, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, and Sabrina round out my top 5. I'd also recommend Creature from the Black Lagoon - fun monster movie, Beat the Devil - absurdly hysterical, Executive Suite - great cast, and Carmen Jones - love the music.
Top Ten -- Beat the Devil. The Caine Mutiny, Creature from the Black Lagoon, Executive Suite, Forbidden Games, On the Waterfront, Rear Window, Sabrina, Seven Brides for Seven Brothers, A Star is Born
Haven't Seen - The Adventures of Hajji Baba, Air of Paris, Athena, The Bamboo Prison, Betrayed, Casa Ricordi, The Command, The Crucified Lovers, Deep in My Heart, Doctor in the House, Drum Beat, Gabrielle, Gog, Green Fire, Hell's Half Acre, Human Desire, Inauguration of the Pleasure Dome, An Inspector Calls, Jail Bait, Jivaro, Late Chrystanthums, A Lesson in Love, Love in the City, Men of the Fighting Lady, Private Hell 36, Pushover, Rhapsody, Samurai I: Musashi Miyamoto, Sansho the Bailiff, Senso, The Sheep Has Five Legs, Sign of the Pagan, Silver Lode, Strangers, Taza, Son of Cochise, The Thunder of the Mountain, Tonight's the Night, Touchez Pas Au Grisbi, Twenty-Four Eyes, Voyage to Italy, Young at Heart
Tuesday, October 7, 2008
1953
Abbott and Costello Go to Mars (1953)
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Above and Beyond (1953)
The Actress (1953)
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Appointment in London (1953)
Appointment in Samarra (TV)(1953)
Arena (1953)
The Bandwagon (1953)
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
The Bigamist (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
Blowing Wild (1953)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
The Caddy (1953)
Calamity Jane (1953)
Call Me Madam (1953)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
The Conquest of Everest (1953)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
The Desert Rats (1953)
Donovan's Brain (1953)
Dream Wife (1953)
Easy to Love (1953)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953)
Glen or Glenda? (1953)
His Majesty O'Keefe (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Houdini (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
I Confess (1953)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Island in the Sky (1953)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
I, the Jury (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Jennifer (1953)
Jeopardy (1953)
The Joe Louis Story (1953)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Kiss Me, Kate (1953)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Let's Do It Again (1953)
Lili (1953)
Little Fugitive (1953)
The Living Desert (1953)
The Love Lottery (1953)
The Man Between (1953)
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Martin Luther (1953)
Marty (TV)(1953)
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Mogambo (1953)
The Moon is Blue (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Niagara (1953)
99 River Street (1953)
Peter Pan (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Plunder in the Sun (1953)
Pony Express (1953)
The President's Lady (1953)
A Queen is Crowned (1953)
The Robe (1953)
Robot Monster (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Sailor of the King (1953)
Salome (1953)
Salt of the Earth (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Scared Stiff (1953)
Second Chance (1953)
Shane (1953)
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)
Small Town Girl (1953)
So Big (1953)
South Sea Woman (1953)
Split Second (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Summer with Monika (1953)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Thunder Bay (1953)
Titanic (1953)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Torch Song (1953)
Vice Squad (1953)
Vicki (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Young Bess (1953)
(April - July 2008) The Cinemascope process began this year and soon just about every movie was shot in some form of letterboxing. 3-D continued to be very popular. TV movies began to gain popularity. Foreign films from France, Italy, Japan, and Sweden also had a surge of popularity in America. An impressive list of films. Some absolutely wonderful and some truly terrible. Glen of Glenda? was probably my least favorite movie-watching experience on this adventure. Just a terribly awful excuse for a movie. All was forgiven with the likes of From Here to Eternity, Julius Caesar, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Lili. The best film of the year was definitely Fellini's I Vitelloni! What a great movie!
Top Ten -- From Here to Eternity, House of Wax, How to Marry a Millionaire, I Vitelloni, Julius Caesar, Lili, Peter Pan, Roman Holiday, Shane, Stalag 17
Haven't Seen - Act of Love, The Adultress, All I Desire, All My Babies, Angel Face, Appointment in Honduras, Arrowhead, Battle Circus, The Beggar's Opera, A Blueprint for Murder, Bright Road, The Charge at Feather River, City Beneath the Sea, Confidentially Connie, Dangerous Crossing, Decameron Nights, Duck Amuck, The Earrings of Madame De..., El Bruto, The End, Escape From Fort Bravo, Fear and Desire, Flight to Tangier, Forbidden, A Geisha, DThe Girl Who Had Everything, Give a Girl a Break, The Glass Web, The Golden Blade, The Golden Coach, The Great Adventure, Gun Fury, The Juggler, King of the Khyber Rifles, The Lady Without Camelias, Latin Lovers, A Lion in the Streets, Little Boy Lost, The Magnetic Monster, Man in the Attic, The Master of Ballantrae, The Maze, Never Let Me Go, Pony Express, The Proud Ones, Ride, Vaquero!, The Saga of Anatahan, Scandal at Scourie, Seminole, The Stranger Wore a Gun, Teenage Devil Dolls, Terror on a Train, Thunder in the East, Thunder Over the Plains, Trouble Along the Way
Abbott and Costello Meet Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1953)
Above and Beyond (1953)
The Actress (1953)
The Affairs of Dobie Gillis (1953)
All the Brothers Were Valiant (1953)
Appointment in London (1953)
Appointment in Samarra (TV)(1953)
Arena (1953)
The Bandwagon (1953)
The Beast from 20,000 Fathoms (1953)
Beneath the 12-Mile Reef (1953)
The Bigamist (1953)
The Big Heat (1953)
Blowing Wild (1953)
The Blue Gardenia (1953)
By the Light of the Silvery Moon (1953)
The Caddy (1953)
Calamity Jane (1953)
Call Me Madam (1953)
The Captain's Paradise (1953)
Cat-Women of the Moon (1953)
City That Never Sleeps (1953)
The Conquest of Everest (1953)
The Cruel Sea (1953)
Dangerous When Wet (1953)
The Desert Rats (1953)
Donovan's Brain (1953)
Dream Wife (1953)
Easy to Love (1953)
The 5,000 Fingers of Dr. T. (1953)
From Here to Eternity (1953)
Gentleman Prefer Blondes (1953)
Glen or Glenda? (1953)
His Majesty O'Keefe (1953)
The Hitch-Hiker (1953)
Hondo (1953)
Houdini (1953)
House of Wax (1953)
How to Marry a Millionaire (1953)
I Confess (1953)
Innocents in Paris (1953)
Invaders from Mars (1953)
Island in the Sky (1953)
It Came from Outer Space (1953)
It Happens Every Thursday (1953)
I, the Jury (1953)
I Vitelloni (1953)
Jennifer (1953)
Jeopardy (1953)
The Joe Louis Story (1953)
Julius Caesar (1953)
Kiss Me, Kate (1953)
Knights of the Round Table (1953)
Let's Do It Again (1953)
Lili (1953)
Little Fugitive (1953)
The Living Desert (1953)
The Love Lottery (1953)
The Man Between (1953)
The Man from the Alamo (1953)
Man on a Tightrope (1953)
Martin Luther (1953)
Marty (TV)(1953)
The Mississippi Gambler (1953)
Miss Sadie Thompson (1953)
Mogambo (1953)
The Moon is Blue (1953)
The Naked Spur (1953)
Niagara (1953)
99 River Street (1953)
Peter Pan (1953)
Pickup on South Street (1953)
Plunder in the Sun (1953)
Pony Express (1953)
The President's Lady (1953)
A Queen is Crowned (1953)
The Robe (1953)
Robot Monster (1953)
Roman Holiday (1953)
Sailor of the King (1953)
Salome (1953)
Salt of the Earth (1953)
Sawdust and Tinsel (1953)
Scared Stiff (1953)
Second Chance (1953)
Shane (1953)
A Slight Case of Larceny (1953)
Small Town Girl (1953)
So Big (1953)
South Sea Woman (1953)
Split Second (1953)
Stalag 17 (1953)
The Story of Three Loves (1953)
Summer with Monika (1953)
The Sun Shines Bright (1953)
The Sword and the Rose (1953)
Take the High Ground! (1953)
Thunder Bay (1953)
Titanic (1953)
The Titfield Thunderbolt (1953)
Tokyo Story (1953)
Torch Song (1953)
Vice Squad (1953)
Vicki (1953)
The War of the Worlds (1953)
Young Bess (1953)
(April - July 2008) The Cinemascope process began this year and soon just about every movie was shot in some form of letterboxing. 3-D continued to be very popular. TV movies began to gain popularity. Foreign films from France, Italy, Japan, and Sweden also had a surge of popularity in America. An impressive list of films. Some absolutely wonderful and some truly terrible. Glen of Glenda? was probably my least favorite movie-watching experience on this adventure. Just a terribly awful excuse for a movie. All was forgiven with the likes of From Here to Eternity, Julius Caesar, How to Marry a Millionaire, and Lili. The best film of the year was definitely Fellini's I Vitelloni! What a great movie!
Top Ten -- From Here to Eternity, House of Wax, How to Marry a Millionaire, I Vitelloni, Julius Caesar, Lili, Peter Pan, Roman Holiday, Shane, Stalag 17
Haven't Seen - Act of Love, The Adultress, All I Desire, All My Babies, Angel Face, Appointment in Honduras, Arrowhead, Battle Circus, The Beggar's Opera, A Blueprint for Murder, Bright Road, The Charge at Feather River, City Beneath the Sea, Confidentially Connie, Dangerous Crossing, Decameron Nights, Duck Amuck, The Earrings of Madame De..., El Bruto, The End, Escape From Fort Bravo, Fear and Desire, Flight to Tangier, Forbidden, A Geisha, DThe Girl Who Had Everything, Give a Girl a Break, The Glass Web, The Golden Blade, The Golden Coach, The Great Adventure, Gun Fury, The Juggler, King of the Khyber Rifles, The Lady Without Camelias, Latin Lovers, A Lion in the Streets, Little Boy Lost, The Magnetic Monster, Man in the Attic, The Master of Ballantrae, The Maze, Never Let Me Go, Pony Express, The Proud Ones, Ride, Vaquero!, The Saga of Anatahan, Scandal at Scourie, Seminole, The Stranger Wore a Gun, Teenage Devil Dolls, Terror on a Train, Thunder in the East, Thunder Over the Plains, Trouble Along the Way
Monday, October 6, 2008
1952
Aaron Slick from Punkin Crick (1952)
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Against All Flags (1952)
April in Paris (1952)
The Atomic City (1952)
At Sword's Point (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Because You're Mine (1952)
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
The Belle of New York (1952)
Bend of the River (1952)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
The Big Trees (1952)
Blackbeard, The Pirate (1952)
The Black Castle (1952)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Bwana Devil (1952)
Carrie (1952)
Clash By Night (1952)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Europa '51 (1952)
5 Fingers (1952)
Flat Top (1952)
A Girl in Every Port (1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Ikiru (1952)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Invasion USA (1952)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
The Jazz Singer (1952)
Just For You (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
The Las Vegas Story (1952)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
Les Miserables (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Lost in Alaska (1952)
Lovely to Look At (1952)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Macao (1952)
The Man in the White Suit (1952)
The Medium (1952)
The Member of the Wedding (1952)
The Merry Widow (1952)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Monkey Business (1952)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Othello (1952)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
The Promoter (1952)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Rancho Notorious (1952)
Rashomon (1952)
The Ring (1952)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
Scaramouche (1952)
The Sea Around Us (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Sniper (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Son of Paleface (1952)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
The Star (1952)
The Stooge (1952)
The Story of Robin Hood (1952)
Sudden Fear (1952)
The Thief (1952)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Wages of Fear (1952)
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
(January - April 2008) High Noon is a perfect movie and is my favorite of the year. I'm not really a John Wayne fan, but I really loved The Quiet Man! Singin' in the Rain is unforgettable. The Greatest Show on Earth is highly entertaining. Kansas City Confidential is a good example of a film noir thriller. The Lavender Hill Mob is a fun British comedy. A pretty good year overall. 3-D first appeared this year to combat the growing popularity of television.
Top Ten -- Come Back, Little Sheba, The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, Kansas City Confidential, The Lavender Hill Mob, Limelight, The Narrow Margin, The Quiet Man, Rashomon, Singin' in the Rain
Haven't Seen - Actors and Sin, Androcles and the Lion, Angel Face, Baiju Bawra, Belles on Their Toes, Beware, My Lovely, Boots Malone, Breaking the Sound Barrier, The Captive City, Carbine Williams, Casque d'Or, The Cimarron Kid, The Devil Makes Three, Diplomatic Courier, Dreamboat, Eight Iron Men, Fanfan la Tulipe, Fearless Fagan, Flesh and Fury, The Gentle Gunman, The Gift Horse, The Greatest Love, The Green Glove, Hangman's Knot, The Happy Time, Holiday for Sinners, Horizons West, Invitation, The Iron Mistress, Island of Desire, Japanese War Bride, Jumping Jacks, Le Plaisir, Le Ragazze di Piazza di Spagne, The Life of Oharu, Living, Lone Star, The Long Memory, Love is Better Than Ever, Lure in the Wilderness, Machine to Kill Bad People, Mara Maru, The Marrying Kind, Meet Danny Wilson, My Six Convicts, My Son John, No Room for the Groom, One Minute to Zero, Outcast of the Islands, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Park Row, Phone Call from a Stranger, Pony Soldier, Red Ball Express, Red Skies of Montana, The Ringer, Room for One More, Ruby Gentry, Scandal Sheet, The Secret People, The Sellout, She's Working Her Way Through College, Shoot First, Skirts Ahoy!, Something for the Birds, Something to Live For, Son of Ali Baba, Stars and Stripes Forever, Stranger in Between, This Woman is Dangerous, The Turning Point, We're Not Married!, What Price Glory, White Mane, The Winning Team, The World in His Arms, Young Man with Ideas
Abbott and Costello Meet Captain Kidd (1952)
Affair in Trinidad (1952)
Against All Flags (1952)
April in Paris (1952)
The Atomic City (1952)
At Sword's Point (1952)
The Bad and the Beautiful (1952)
Because You're Mine (1952)
Bela Lugosi Meets a Brooklyn Gorilla (1952)
The Belle of New York (1952)
Bend of the River (1952)
Big Jim McLain (1952)
The Big Sky (1952)
The Big Trees (1952)
Blackbeard, The Pirate (1952)
The Black Castle (1952)
Bloodhounds of Broadway (1952)
Bugles in the Afternoon (1952)
Bwana Devil (1952)
Carrie (1952)
Clash By Night (1952)
Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)
The Crimson Pirate (1952)
Deadline – U.S.A. (1952)
Don't Bother to Knock (1952)
Europa '51 (1952)
5 Fingers (1952)
Flat Top (1952)
A Girl in Every Port (1952)
The Greatest Show on Earth (1952)
Hans Christian Andersen (1952)
Has Anybody Seen My Gal? (1952)
Here Come the Nelsons (1952)
High Noon (1952)
Ikiru (1952)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
Invasion USA (1952)
Ivanhoe (1952)
Jack and the Beanstalk (1952)
The Jazz Singer (1952)
Just For You (1952)
Kansas City Confidential (1952)
The Las Vegas Story (1952)
The Lavender Hill Mob (1952)
Les Miserables (1952)
Limelight (1952)
Lost in Alaska (1952)
Lovely to Look At (1952)
The Lusty Men (1952)
Macao (1952)
The Man in the White Suit (1952)
The Medium (1952)
The Member of the Wedding (1952)
The Merry Widow (1952)
Million Dollar Mermaid (1952)
The Miracle of Our Lady of Fatima (1952)
Monkey Business (1952)
Moulin Rouge (1952)
My Cousin Rachel (1952)
The Narrow Margin (1952)
O. Henry's Full House (1952)
On Dangerous Ground (1952)
Othello (1952)
Pat and Mike (1952)
Plymouth Adventure (1952)
The Pride of St. Louis (1952)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1952)
The Promoter (1952)
The Quiet Man (1952)
Rancho Notorious (1952)
Rashomon (1952)
The Ring (1952)
Road to Bali (1952)
The Rose Bowl Story (1952)
Scaramouche (1952)
The Sea Around Us (1952)
Singin' in the Rain (1952)
The Sniper (1952)
The Snows of Kilimanjaro (1952)
Son of Paleface (1952)
Springfield Rifle (1952)
The Star (1952)
The Stooge (1952)
The Story of Robin Hood (1952)
Sudden Fear (1952)
The Thief (1952)
Viva Zapata! (1952)
Wages of Fear (1952)
With a Song in My Heart (1952)
(January - April 2008) High Noon is a perfect movie and is my favorite of the year. I'm not really a John Wayne fan, but I really loved The Quiet Man! Singin' in the Rain is unforgettable. The Greatest Show on Earth is highly entertaining. Kansas City Confidential is a good example of a film noir thriller. The Lavender Hill Mob is a fun British comedy. A pretty good year overall. 3-D first appeared this year to combat the growing popularity of television.
Top Ten -- Come Back, Little Sheba, The Greatest Show on Earth, High Noon, Kansas City Confidential, The Lavender Hill Mob, Limelight, The Narrow Margin, The Quiet Man, Rashomon, Singin' in the Rain
Haven't Seen - Actors and Sin, Androcles and the Lion, Angel Face, Baiju Bawra, Belles on Their Toes, Beware, My Lovely, Boots Malone, Breaking the Sound Barrier, The Captive City, Carbine Williams, Casque d'Or, The Cimarron Kid, The Devil Makes Three, Diplomatic Courier, Dreamboat, Eight Iron Men, Fanfan la Tulipe, Fearless Fagan, Flesh and Fury, The Gentle Gunman, The Gift Horse, The Greatest Love, The Green Glove, Hangman's Knot, The Happy Time, Holiday for Sinners, Horizons West, Invitation, The Iron Mistress, Island of Desire, Japanese War Bride, Jumping Jacks, Le Plaisir, Le Ragazze di Piazza di Spagne, The Life of Oharu, Living, Lone Star, The Long Memory, Love is Better Than Ever, Lure in the Wilderness, Machine to Kill Bad People, Mara Maru, The Marrying Kind, Meet Danny Wilson, My Six Convicts, My Son John, No Room for the Groom, One Minute to Zero, Outcast of the Islands, The Outcasts of Poker Flat, Park Row, Phone Call from a Stranger, Pony Soldier, Red Ball Express, Red Skies of Montana, The Ringer, Room for One More, Ruby Gentry, Scandal Sheet, The Secret People, The Sellout, She's Working Her Way Through College, Shoot First, Skirts Ahoy!, Something for the Birds, Something to Live For, Son of Ali Baba, Stars and Stripes Forever, Stranger in Between, This Woman is Dangerous, The Turning Point, We're Not Married!, What Price Glory, White Mane, The Winning Team, The World in His Arms, Young Man with Ideas
Sunday, October 5, 2008
1951
Abbott and Costello Meet the Invisible Man (1951)
Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951)
The African Queen (1951)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Appointment with Danger (1951)
Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Behave Yourself! (1951)
The Blue Veil (1951)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Bright Victory (1951)
The Browning Version (1951)
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
Call Me Mister (1951)
Captain Horation Hornblower (1951)
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
Cry Danger (1951)
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Death of a Salesman (1951)
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
The Desert Fox (1951)
Detective Story (1951)
Distant Drums (1951)
The Enforcer (1951)
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Fixed Bayonets (1951)
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
The Frogmen (1951)
Go for Broke! (1951)
Golden Girl (1951)
The Great Caruso (1951)
He Ran All the Way (1951)
Here Comes the Groom (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Hollywood Story (1951)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
I Want You (1951)
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
Jim Thorpe – All American (1951)
Kind Lady (1951)
Kon-Tiki (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Lost Continent (1951)
The Magic Box (1951)
The Man from Planet X (1951)
The Mating Season (1951)
The Mob (1951)
The Model and the Marriage-Broker (1951)
The Mudlark (1951)
My Favorite Spy (1951)
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
On the Riviera (1951)
Operation Pacific (1951)
Payment on Demand (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Quo Vadis (1951)
The Racket (1951)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Rich, Young, and Pretty (1951)
The River (1951)
Roadblock (1951)
Royal Wedding (1951)
Sailor Beware (1951)
Seven Days to Noon (1951)
Show Boat (1951)
Sirocco (1951)
Starlift (1951)
The Strange Door (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Strip (1951)
Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
The Tales of Hoffman (1951)
The Tall Target (1951)
Teresa (1951)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
Vengeance Valley (1951)
The Well (1951)
Westward the Women (1951)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
The White Sheik (1951)
(August 2007 - January 2008) Alice in Wonderland has got to be my favorite film of the year. It's probably my favorite Disney film as well. It's just so unusual and fascinating. A Place in the Sun is also terrific. I enjoyed the incredible performances in A Streetcar Named Desire. The Thing from Another World is a great monster movie. Showboat is great thanks to Ava Gardner. I also really enjoyed The White Sheik, which is my first foray into the films of Fellini. I'm already a fan!
Top Ten -- The African Queen, Alice in Wonderland, An American in Paris, Detective Story, A Place in the Sun, Show Boat, Strangers on a Train, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Thing from Another World, The White Sheik
Haven't Seen - Across the Wide Missouri, Air Cadet, Along the Great Divide, Anna, Another Man's Poison, Apache Drums, Bellissima, Callaway Went Thataway, Calling Bulldog Drummond, Close to My Heart, Diary of a Country Priest, Early Summer, Flame of Araby, Force of Arms, Fort Worth, Goodbye, My Fancy, The Idiot, Illicit Interlude, I'll See You in My Dreams, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, Iron Man, It's a Big Country, Let's Make it Legal, Lullaby of Broadway, Miss Julie, Miss Oyu, One Wild Oat, On Moonlight Bay, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The People Against O'Hara, The Prince Who Was a Thief, Rawhide, Red Mountain, Repast, Rhubarb, The Steel Helmet, ubmarine Command, That's My Boy, Three Guys Named Mike, Thunder on the Hill, Under the Gun, Valentino, You Never Can Tell, Young Wives' Tale, You're in the Navy Now
Ace in the Hole (The Big Carnival) (1951)
The African Queen (1951)
Alice in Wonderland (1951)
An American in Paris (1951)
Angels in the Outfield (1951)
Appointment with Danger (1951)
Bedtime for Bonzo (1951)
Behave Yourself! (1951)
The Blue Veil (1951)
Bride of the Gorilla (1951)
Bright Victory (1951)
The Browning Version (1951)
Bullfighter and the Lady (1951)
Call Me Mister (1951)
Captain Horation Hornblower (1951)
Cause for Alarm! (1951)
A Christmas Carol (1951)
Come Fill the Cup (1951)
Comin' Round the Mountain (1951)
Cry Danger (1951)
Cry, the Beloved Country (1951)
David and Bathsheba (1951)
The Day the Earth Stood Still (1951)
Death of a Salesman (1951)
Decision Before Dawn (1951)
The Desert Fox (1951)
Detective Story (1951)
Distant Drums (1951)
The Enforcer (1951)
Father's Little Dividend (1951)
Fixed Bayonets (1951)
Flying Leathernecks (1951)
Fourteen Hours (1951)
The Frogmen (1951)
Go for Broke! (1951)
Golden Girl (1951)
The Great Caruso (1951)
He Ran All the Way (1951)
Here Comes the Groom (1951)
His Kind of Woman (1951)
Hollywood Story (1951)
The House on Telegraph Hill (1951)
I Can Get It for You Wholesale (1951)
I Want You (1951)
I Was a Communist for the FBI (1951)
Jim Thorpe – All American (1951)
Kind Lady (1951)
Kon-Tiki (1951)
The Lemon Drop Kid (1951)
Lost Continent (1951)
The Magic Box (1951)
The Man from Planet X (1951)
The Mating Season (1951)
The Mob (1951)
The Model and the Marriage-Broker (1951)
The Mudlark (1951)
My Favorite Spy (1951)
No Highway in the Sky (1951)
Only the Valiant (1951)
On the Riviera (1951)
Operation Pacific (1951)
Payment on Demand (1951)
People Will Talk (1951)
A Place in the Sun (1951)
Quo Vadis (1951)
The Racket (1951)
The Red Badge of Courage (1951)
Rich, Young, and Pretty (1951)
The River (1951)
Roadblock (1951)
Royal Wedding (1951)
Sailor Beware (1951)
Seven Days to Noon (1951)
Show Boat (1951)
Sirocco (1951)
Starlift (1951)
The Strange Door (1951)
Strangers on a Train (1951)
A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)
The Strip (1951)
Superman and the Mole Men (1951)
The Tales of Hoffman (1951)
The Tall Target (1951)
Teresa (1951)
The Thing From Another World (1951)
Too Young to Kiss (1951)
Two Tickets to Broadway (1951)
Vengeance Valley (1951)
The Well (1951)
Westward the Women (1951)
When Worlds Collide (1951)
The White Sheik (1951)
(August 2007 - January 2008) Alice in Wonderland has got to be my favorite film of the year. It's probably my favorite Disney film as well. It's just so unusual and fascinating. A Place in the Sun is also terrific. I enjoyed the incredible performances in A Streetcar Named Desire. The Thing from Another World is a great monster movie. Showboat is great thanks to Ava Gardner. I also really enjoyed The White Sheik, which is my first foray into the films of Fellini. I'm already a fan!
Top Ten -- The African Queen, Alice in Wonderland, An American in Paris, Detective Story, A Place in the Sun, Show Boat, Strangers on a Train, A Streetcar Named Desire, The Thing from Another World, The White Sheik
Haven't Seen - Across the Wide Missouri, Air Cadet, Along the Great Divide, Anna, Another Man's Poison, Apache Drums, Bellissima, Callaway Went Thataway, Calling Bulldog Drummond, Close to My Heart, Diary of a Country Priest, Early Summer, Flame of Araby, Force of Arms, Fort Worth, Goodbye, My Fancy, The Idiot, Illicit Interlude, I'll See You in My Dreams, Inside the Walls of Folsom Prison, Iron Man, It's a Big Country, Let's Make it Legal, Lullaby of Broadway, Miss Julie, Miss Oyu, One Wild Oat, On Moonlight Bay, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, The People Against O'Hara, The Prince Who Was a Thief, Rawhide, Red Mountain, Repast, Rhubarb, The Steel Helmet, ubmarine Command, That's My Boy, Three Guys Named Mike, Thunder on the Hill, Under the Gun, Valentino, You Never Can Tell, Young Wives' Tale, You're in the Navy Now
Saturday, October 4, 2008
1950
Abbott and Costello in the Foreign Legion (1950)
Adam’s Rib (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Bitter Rice (1950)
The Black Rose (1950)
Borderline (1950)
Born Yesterday (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Caged (1950)
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
Chain Lightning (1950)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Cinderella (1950)
Colt .45 (1950)
Crisis (1950)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Destination Moon (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
Fancy Pants (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
For Heaven’s Sake (1950)
Francis (1950)
The Furies (1950)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Harvey (1950)
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
I’ll Get By (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Kim (1950)
King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
La Ronde (1950)
Last Holiday (1950)
Los Olvidados (1950)
Louisa (1950)
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
The Men (1950)
The Miniver Story (1950)
Mister 880 (1950)
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Night and the City (1950)
No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
Our Very Own (1950)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
Samson and Delilah (1950)
The Secret Fury (1950)
Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Singing Guns (1950)
The Sleeping City (1950)
Stage Fright (1950)
Storm Warning (1950)
Stromboli (1950)
Summer Stock (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Tea for Two (1950)
That Forsyte Woman (1950)
The Third Man (1950)
Three Came Home (1950)
Three Little Words (1950)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Treasure Island (1950)
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Wabash Avenue (1950)
The West Point Story (1950)
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Yellow Cab Man (1950)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
(May - August 2007) The 1950s kicks off with a lot of OK movies. The classics of the year are definitely All About Eve, The Third Man, and Sunset Boulevard. When you compare these films with the others, you can really see how advanced they were for their time. I was particularly impressed with Caged, as well. Father of the Bride is fun. Spencer Tracy makes the movie. Stage Fright is notable Hitchcock. It's not one of his more famous films, but certainly a memorable one.
Top Ten -- All About Eve, Annie Get Your Gun, Caged, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, The Gunfighter, Stage Fright, Storm Warning, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man
Haven't Seen - American Guerilla in the Philippines, At War with the Army, The Baron of Arizona, Bells of Coronado, The Big Hangover, The Big Lift, Black Hand, The Blue Lamp, Born to Be Bad, Bright Leaf, Champagne for Caesar, The Chance of a Lifetime, Dallas, Devil's Doorway, Dial 1119, Duchess of Idaho, The Flowers of St. Francis, The Forgotten Ones, The Fuller Brush Girl, Girl With Hyacinths, Golden Salamander, Grounds for Marriage, Halls of Montezuma, The Happy Years, The Jackpot, Key to the City, The Kid From Texas, Les Enfants Terribles, My Blue Heaven, Never Fear, Odette, Pagan Love Song, The Redhead and the Cowboy, The Reformer and the Redhead, Rocketship X-M, Rogues of Sherwood Forest, Scandal, September Affair, 711 Ocean Drive, A Song of Love, The Sound of Fury, Stars in My Crown, State Secret, To Please a Lady, Trail of Robin Hood, Trio, Union Station, Under My Skin, Utopia, Variety Lights, Volcano, Wagon Master, Walk Softly, Stranger, The White Tower, The Wild Heart, A Woman of Distinction, Woman on the Run, The Wooden Horse
Adam’s Rib (1950)
All About Eve (1950)
Annie Get Your Gun (1950)
Armored Car Robbery (1950)
The Asphalt Jungle (1950)
Bitter Rice (1950)
The Black Rose (1950)
Borderline (1950)
Born Yesterday (1950)
The Breaking Point (1950)
Broken Arrow (1950)
Caged (1950)
Captain Carey, U.S.A. (1950)
Chain Lightning (1950)
Cheaper by the Dozen (1950)
Cinderella (1950)
Colt .45 (1950)
Crisis (1950)
Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)
The Damned Don’t Cry (1950)
Destination Moon (1950)
D.O.A. (1950)
Fancy Pants (1950)
Father of the Bride (1950)
The Flame and the Arrow (1950)
For Heaven’s Sake (1950)
Francis (1950)
The Furies (1950)
The Glass Menagerie (1950)
The Gunfighter (1950)
Harvey (1950)
Hunt the Man Down (1950)
I’ll Get By (1950)
In a Lonely Place (1950)
The Jackie Robinson Story (1950)
Kim (1950)
King Solomon’s Mines (1950)
Kiss Tomorrow Goodbye (1950)
La Ronde (1950)
Last Holiday (1950)
Los Olvidados (1950)
Louisa (1950)
The Magnificent Yankee (1950)
The Men (1950)
The Miniver Story (1950)
Mister 880 (1950)
My Friend Irma Goes West (1950)
Mystery Street (1950)
Night and the City (1950)
No Sad Songs for Me (1950)
No Way Out (1950)
Our Very Own (1950)
Panic in the Streets (1950)
Rio Grande (1950)
Samson and Delilah (1950)
The Secret Fury (1950)
Shadow on the Wall (1950)
Singing Guns (1950)
The Sleeping City (1950)
Stage Fright (1950)
Storm Warning (1950)
Stromboli (1950)
Summer Stock (1950)
Sunset Boulevard (1950)
Tea for Two (1950)
That Forsyte Woman (1950)
The Third Man (1950)
Three Came Home (1950)
Three Little Words (1950)
The Toast of New Orleans (1950)
Treasure Island (1950)
Two Weeks with Love (1950)
Wabash Avenue (1950)
The West Point Story (1950)
When Willie Comes Marching Home (1950)
Where the Sidewalk Ends (1950)
Winchester ’73 (1950)
The Yellow Cab Man (1950)
Young Man with a Horn (1950)
(May - August 2007) The 1950s kicks off with a lot of OK movies. The classics of the year are definitely All About Eve, The Third Man, and Sunset Boulevard. When you compare these films with the others, you can really see how advanced they were for their time. I was particularly impressed with Caged, as well. Father of the Bride is fun. Spencer Tracy makes the movie. Stage Fright is notable Hitchcock. It's not one of his more famous films, but certainly a memorable one.
Top Ten -- All About Eve, Annie Get Your Gun, Caged, Cinderella, Father of the Bride, The Gunfighter, Stage Fright, Storm Warning, Sunset Boulevard, The Third Man
Haven't Seen - American Guerilla in the Philippines, At War with the Army, The Baron of Arizona, Bells of Coronado, The Big Hangover, The Big Lift, Black Hand, The Blue Lamp, Born to Be Bad, Bright Leaf, Champagne for Caesar, The Chance of a Lifetime, Dallas, Devil's Doorway, Dial 1119, Duchess of Idaho, The Flowers of St. Francis, The Forgotten Ones, The Fuller Brush Girl, Girl With Hyacinths, Golden Salamander, Grounds for Marriage, Halls of Montezuma, The Happy Years, The Jackpot, Key to the City, The Kid From Texas, Les Enfants Terribles, My Blue Heaven, Never Fear, Odette, Pagan Love Song, The Redhead and the Cowboy, The Reformer and the Redhead, Rocketship X-M, Rogues of Sherwood Forest, Scandal, September Affair, 711 Ocean Drive, A Song of Love, The Sound of Fury, Stars in My Crown, State Secret, To Please a Lady, Trail of Robin Hood, Trio, Union Station, Under My Skin, Utopia, Variety Lights, Volcano, Wagon Master, Walk Softly, Stranger, The White Tower, The Wild Heart, A Woman of Distinction, Woman on the Run, The Wooden Horse
Friday, October 3, 2008
1949
Abbott and Costello Meet the Killer (1949)
Adventures of Don Juan (1949)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Africa Screams (1949)
All the King’s Men (1949)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Battleground (1949)
Beyond the Forest (1949)
The Bicycle Thief (1949)
The Big Sombrero (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
Border Incident (1949)
The Bribe (1949)
Champion (1949)
Come to the Stable (1949)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)
Criss Cross (1949)
Edward, My Son (1949)
The Fallen Idol (1949)
Flamingo Road (1949)
The Fountainhead (1949)
The Golden Stallion (1949)
Good Sam (1949)
The Great Gatsby (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949)
The Hasty Heart (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
House of Strangers (1949)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Jolson Sings Again (1949)
Killer Bait (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Little Women (1949)
Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
Love Happy (1949)
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Madame Bovary (1949)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Mother is a Freshman (1949)
My Foolish Heart (1949)
My Friend Irma (1949)
Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
Once More, My Darling (1949)
On the Town (1949)
Paisan (1949)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Pinky (1949)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
The Red Danube (1949)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saraband (1949)
The Secret Garden (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Side Street (1949)
So Dear to My Heart (1949)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
Susanna Pass (1949)
Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1949)
Task Force (1949)
Tension (1949)
They Live by Night (1949)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Tokyo Joe (1949)
Trapped (1949)
Tulsa (1949)
Twelve O’ Clock High (1949)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Window (1949)
Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby (1949)
(January - May 2007) Kurosawa's Stray Dog is awesome. Thinking about it now, it's prob the best of the year. I really liked Gun Crazy! Having known little about it and then watching it I was quite pleased. All the King's Men, The Heiress, and A Letter to Three Wives were all Best Pic nominees and are all worthy. The Bicycle Thief is great too. A good way to end the '40s.
Top Ten -- All the Kings Men, Battleground, The Bicycle Thief, The Fallen Idol, Gun Crazy, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, Stray Dog, White Heat
Haven't Seen - Abandoned, Ambush, Anna Lucasta, Any Number Can Play, Bad Luck Blackie, Big Jack, Black Magic, Blood of the Beasts, Bride of Vengeance, Caught, Challenge to Lassie, Christopher Columbus, The Dark Past, Dear Wife, The Doctor and the Girl, East Side, West Side, Easy Living, Enchantment, The Fall of Berlin, The Fan, Father Was a Fullback, The File on Thelma Jordan, The Great Sinner, Impact, The Inspector General, Interrupted Journey, Intruder in the Dust, I Shot Jesse James, Jigsaw, John Loves Mary, Jour de Fete, Knock on Any Door, The Lady Gambles, Late Spring, Le Silence de la Mer, Les Parents Terribles, The Life of Riley, Little Rural Riding Hood, Lust for Gold, Malaya, Orpheus, A Phantasy in Colors, The Reckless Moment, The Red Pony, Reign of Terror, Ringside, Rope of Sand, Rotation, Scene of the Crime, Shockproof, The Small Black Room, Tell It to the Judge, That Midnight Kiss, Thirst, Tight Little Island, To Joy, The Undercover Man, Variety Lights, The Walking Hills, We Were Strangers, A Woman's Secret
Adventures of Don Juan (1949)
The Adventures of Ichabod and Mr. Toad (1949)
Africa Screams (1949)
All the King’s Men (1949)
The Barkleys of Broadway (1949)
Battleground (1949)
Beyond the Forest (1949)
The Bicycle Thief (1949)
The Big Sombrero (1949)
The Big Steal (1949)
Border Incident (1949)
The Bribe (1949)
Champion (1949)
Come to the Stable (1949)
A Connecticut Yankee in King Arthur’s Court (1949)
Criss Cross (1949)
Edward, My Son (1949)
The Fallen Idol (1949)
Flamingo Road (1949)
The Fountainhead (1949)
The Golden Stallion (1949)
Good Sam (1949)
The Great Gatsby (1949)
Gun Crazy (1949)
The Hasty Heart (1949)
The Heiress (1949)
House of Strangers (1949)
In the Good Old Summertime (1949)
It Happens Every Spring (1949)
It’s a Great Feeling (1949)
I Was a Male War Bride (1949)
Jolson Sings Again (1949)
Killer Bait (1949)
Kind Hearts and Coronets (1949)
A Letter to Three Wives (1949)
Little Women (1949)
Look for the Silver Lining (1949)
Love Happy (1949)
Ma and Pa Kettle (1949)
Madame Bovary (1949)
The Man on the Eiffel Tower (1949)
Mighty Joe Young (1949)
Mother is a Freshman (1949)
My Foolish Heart (1949)
My Friend Irma (1949)
Neptune’s Daughter (1949)
Once More, My Darling (1949)
On the Town (1949)
Paisan (1949)
Passport to Pimlico (1949)
Pinky (1949)
Prince of Foxes (1949)
The Red Danube (1949)
Sands of Iwo Jima (1949)
Saraband (1949)
The Secret Garden (1949)
The Set-Up (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
Side Street (1949)
So Dear to My Heart (1949)
Sorrowful Jones (1949)
The Story of Seabiscuit (1949)
The Stratton Story (1949)
Stray Dog (1949)
Susanna Pass (1949)
Take Me Out to the Ballgame (1949)
Task Force (1949)
Tension (1949)
They Live by Night (1949)
Thieves’ Highway (1949)
Tokyo Joe (1949)
Trapped (1949)
Tulsa (1949)
Twelve O’ Clock High (1949)
Under Capricorn (1949)
Whirlpool (1949)
White Heat (1949)
The Window (1949)
Yes, Sir, That’s My Baby (1949)
(January - May 2007) Kurosawa's Stray Dog is awesome. Thinking about it now, it's prob the best of the year. I really liked Gun Crazy! Having known little about it and then watching it I was quite pleased. All the King's Men, The Heiress, and A Letter to Three Wives were all Best Pic nominees and are all worthy. The Bicycle Thief is great too. A good way to end the '40s.
Top Ten -- All the Kings Men, Battleground, The Bicycle Thief, The Fallen Idol, Gun Crazy, The Heiress, A Letter to Three Wives, On the Town, Stray Dog, White Heat
Haven't Seen - Abandoned, Ambush, Anna Lucasta, Any Number Can Play, Bad Luck Blackie, Big Jack, Black Magic, Blood of the Beasts, Bride of Vengeance, Caught, Challenge to Lassie, Christopher Columbus, The Dark Past, Dear Wife, The Doctor and the Girl, East Side, West Side, Easy Living, Enchantment, The Fall of Berlin, The Fan, Father Was a Fullback, The File on Thelma Jordan, The Great Sinner, Impact, The Inspector General, Interrupted Journey, Intruder in the Dust, I Shot Jesse James, Jigsaw, John Loves Mary, Jour de Fete, Knock on Any Door, The Lady Gambles, Late Spring, Le Silence de la Mer, Les Parents Terribles, The Life of Riley, Little Rural Riding Hood, Lust for Gold, Malaya, Orpheus, A Phantasy in Colors, The Reckless Moment, The Red Pony, Reign of Terror, Ringside, Rope of Sand, Rotation, Scene of the Crime, Shockproof, The Small Black Room, Tell It to the Judge, That Midnight Kiss, Thirst, Tight Little Island, To Joy, The Undercover Man, Variety Lights, The Walking Hills, We Were Strangers, A Woman's Secret
Thursday, October 2, 2008
1948
Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein (1948)
The Accused (1948)
Act of Violence (1948)
All My Sons (1948)
Berlin Express (1948)
B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Command Decision (1948)
Deep Waters (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
The Emperor Waltz (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
Hamlet (1948)
He Walked by Night (1948)
I Remember Mama (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
June Bride (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
Louisiana Story (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
Macbeth (1948)
Melody Time (1948)
Mexican Hayride (1948)
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Monsieur Vincent (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Oliver Twist (1948)
One Touch of Venus (1948)
The Paleface (1948)
The Pirate (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
Red River (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Rope (1948)
The Search (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
A Song is Born (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
State of the Union (1948)
The Street with No Name (1948)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
3 Godfathers (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
Words and Music (1948)
(July 2006 - January 2007) Rope is easily the best movie of all of these. Hitchcock is a genius. It's mostly done in one long take. Check it out. I also enjoyed Olivier's Hamlet because he's also a genius. Otherwise, I fondly remember some others but Rope and Hamlet far outweigh their competition.
Top Ten -- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hamlet, I Remember Mama, Johnny Belinda, Key Largo, Red River, The Red Shoes, Rope, 3 Godfathers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Haven't Seen - An Act of Murder, Against the Wind, The Amazing Mr. X, Another Part of the Forest, Apartment for Peggy, April Showers, Arch of Triumph, The Argyle Secrets, The Babe Ruth Story, The Banquet, Behind Locked Doors, The Black Arrow, Blood on the Moon, The Bride Goes Wild, Code of Scotland Yard, Coroner Creek, A Date with Judy, The Earth Trembles, Every Girl Should Be Married, Family Honeymoon, For the Love of Mary, The Fuller Brush Man, Germany Year Zero, A Hen in the Wind, Hollow Triumph, Homecoming, The Iron Curtain, Isn't It Romantic?, Jungle Jim, Kidnapped, The Kissing Bandit, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Man From Colorado, Meditation on Violence, The Murderers Are Among Us, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Night Is My Future, On an Island With You, The Pearl, Pitfall, Port of Call, Quartet, Rachel and the Stranger, Road House, Ruthless, Saigon, The Sainted Sisters, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Secret Beyond the Door, Sleep, My Love, So Evil My Love, A Southern Yankee, Spring in a Small Town, Tap Roots, Tenth Avenue Angel, Three Daring Daughters, The Time of Your Life, To the Ends of the Earth, The Velvet Touch, Wake of the Red Witch, Whiplash, Whispering Smith, The Winslow Boy, Winter Meeting, The Woman in White, Women of the Night, Yellow Sky, You Gotta Stay Happy, You Were Meant For Me
The Accused (1948)
Act of Violence (1948)
All My Sons (1948)
Berlin Express (1948)
B.F.’s Daughter (1948)
The Big Clock (1948)
The Boy with Green Hair (1948)
Call Northside 777 (1948)
Command Decision (1948)
Deep Waters (1948)
Easter Parade (1948)
The Emperor Waltz (1948)
Force of Evil (1948)
A Foreign Affair (1948)
Fort Apache (1948)
Green Grass of Wyoming (1948)
Hamlet (1948)
He Walked by Night (1948)
I Remember Mama (1948)
Joan of Arc (1948)
Johnny Belinda (1948)
Julia Misbehaves (1948)
June Bride (1948)
Key Largo (1948)
The Lady from Shanghai (1948)
Louisiana Story (1948)
The Loves of Carmen (1948)
The Luck of the Irish (1948)
Macbeth (1948)
Melody Time (1948)
Mexican Hayride (1948)
The Miracle of the Bells (1948)
Monsieur Vincent (1948)
Moonrise (1948)
Mr. Blandings Builds His Dream House (1948)
Mr. Peabody and the Mermaid (1948)
The Naked City (1948)
The Noose Hangs High (1948)
Oliver Twist (1948)
One Touch of Venus (1948)
The Paleface (1948)
The Pirate (1948)
Portrait of Jennie (1948)
Raw Deal (1948)
Red River (1948)
The Red Shoes (1948)
Romance on the High Seas (1948)
Rope (1948)
The Search (1948)
Sitting Pretty (1948)
The Snake Pit (1948)
A Song is Born (1948)
Sorry, Wrong Number (1948)
State of the Union (1948)
The Street with No Name (1948)
That Lady in Ermine (1948)
3 Godfathers (1948)
The Three Musketeers (1948)
The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)
Unfaithfully Yours (1948)
When My Baby Smiles at Me (1948)
Words and Music (1948)
(July 2006 - January 2007) Rope is easily the best movie of all of these. Hitchcock is a genius. It's mostly done in one long take. Check it out. I also enjoyed Olivier's Hamlet because he's also a genius. Otherwise, I fondly remember some others but Rope and Hamlet far outweigh their competition.
Top Ten -- Abbott and Costello Meet Frankenstein, Hamlet, I Remember Mama, Johnny Belinda, Key Largo, Red River, The Red Shoes, Rope, 3 Godfathers, The Treasure of the Sierra Madre
Haven't Seen - An Act of Murder, Against the Wind, The Amazing Mr. X, Another Part of the Forest, Apartment for Peggy, April Showers, Arch of Triumph, The Argyle Secrets, The Babe Ruth Story, The Banquet, Behind Locked Doors, The Black Arrow, Blood on the Moon, The Bride Goes Wild, Code of Scotland Yard, Coroner Creek, A Date with Judy, The Earth Trembles, Every Girl Should Be Married, Family Honeymoon, For the Love of Mary, The Fuller Brush Man, Germany Year Zero, A Hen in the Wind, Hollow Triumph, Homecoming, The Iron Curtain, Isn't It Romantic?, Jungle Jim, Kidnapped, The Kissing Bandit, Kiss the Blood Off My Hands, Letter from an Unknown Woman, The Man From Colorado, Meditation on Violence, The Murderers Are Among Us, Night Has a Thousand Eyes, Night Is My Future, On an Island With You, The Pearl, Pitfall, Port of Call, Quartet, Rachel and the Stranger, Road House, Ruthless, Saigon, The Sainted Sisters, Scudda Hoo! Scudda Hay!, Secret Beyond the Door, Sleep, My Love, So Evil My Love, A Southern Yankee, Spring in a Small Town, Tap Roots, Tenth Avenue Angel, Three Daring Daughters, The Time of Your Life, To the Ends of the Earth, The Velvet Touch, Wake of the Red Witch, Whiplash, Whispering Smith, The Winslow Boy, Winter Meeting, The Woman in White, Women of the Night, Yellow Sky, You Gotta Stay Happy, You Were Meant For Me
Wednesday, October 1, 2008
1947
Angel and the Badman (1947)
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Body and Soul (1947)
Boomerang! (1947)
Born to Kill (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Cass Timberlane (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Dear Ruth (1947)
A Double Life (1947)
The Egg and I (1947)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)
Fiesta (1947)
Forever Amber (1947)
The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
The Fugitive (1947)
Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Golden Earrings (1947)
Good News (1947)
Great Expectations (1947)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
The Hucksters (1947)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Ivan the Terrible: Part 1 (1947)
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2 (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Life with Father (1947)
Magic Town (1947)
Merton of the Movies (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
New Orleans (1947)
Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Paradine Case (1947)
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Possessed (1947)
Railroaded (1947)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Riffraff (1947)
Road to Rio (1947)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
The Sea of Grass (1947)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Shoe-Shine (1947)
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
Smash Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Song of the South (1947)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
That Hagen Girl (1947)
The Time, the Place, and the Girl (1947)
T-Men (1947)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Unconquered (1947)
The Web (1947)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
(May - July 2006) I don't even think they were made in 1947 but, I watched the Ivan the Terrible movies this year. I think one of them was released in '47 and the other was released in the '50s, but I was like whatev and watched them together. They are incredible! They're Russian and crazy lol Visual feasts haha I also enjoyed Gentleman's Agreement, The Bishop's Wife, and Miracle on 34th Street. The latter two being perfect movies for Christmas-time.
Top Ten -- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Dark Passage, Gentleman's Agreement, Great Expectations, Ivan the Terrible: Part I, Ivan the Terrible: Part II, Miracle on 34th Street, Shoe-Shine
Haven't Seen - Antoine et Antoinette, The Beginning or the End, Blaze of Noon, Brighton Rock, The Captive Heart, Copacabana, Cry Wolf, Daisy Kenyon, Deep Valley, Desert Fury, Desire Me, Dishonored Lady, Down to Earth, Escape Me Never, The Exile, Fear in the Night, Fireworks, Framed, The Gangster, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square, The Guilt of Janet Ames, High Barbaree, The High Wall, Honeymoon, An Ideal Husband, If Winter Comes, I'll Be Yours, The Inheritance, It Happened in Brooklyn, Ivy, I Walk Alone, Johnny O'Clock, Killer McCoy, King-Size Canary, La Terra Trema, Living in a Big Way, The Lost Moment, The Macomber Affair, The Man I Love, Mine Own Executioner, Motion Painting No. 1, Night Song, Nora Prentiss, The October Man, One Wonderful Sunday, The Other Love, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Pursued, Quai Des Orfevres, Ramrod, The Red House, School for Postmen, Scared to Death, The Senator Was Indiscreet, Singapore, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, They Made Me a Fugutive, They Won't Believe Me, Tycoon, The Unfaithful, Welcome Stranger, The Woman on the Beach, A Woman's Vengeance
The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer (1947)
The Bishop’s Wife (1947)
Black Narcissus (1947)
Body and Soul (1947)
Boomerang! (1947)
Born to Kill (1947)
Brute Force (1947)
Buck Privates Come Home (1947)
Captain from Castile (1947)
Cass Timberlane (1947)
Crossfire (1947)
Dark Passage (1947)
Dead Reckoning (1947)
Dear Ruth (1947)
A Double Life (1947)
The Egg and I (1947)
The Fabulous Dorseys (1947)
The Farmer’s Daughter (1947)
Fiesta (1947)
Forever Amber (1947)
The Foxes of Harrow (1947)
The Fugitive (1947)
Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
Gentleman’s Agreement (1947)
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir (1947)
Golden Earrings (1947)
Good News (1947)
Great Expectations (1947)
Green Dolphin Street (1947)
The Hucksters (1947)
It Happened on Fifth Avenue (1947)
Ivan the Terrible: Part 1 (1947)
Ivan the Terrible: Part 2 (1947)
Kiss of Death (1947)
Life with Father (1947)
Magic Town (1947)
Merton of the Movies (1947)
Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
Monsieur Verdoux (1947)
Mother Wore Tights (1947)
Mourning Becomes Electra (1947)
My Favorite Brunette (1947)
My Wild Irish Rose (1947)
New Orleans (1947)
Nicholas Nickleby (1947)
Nightmare Alley (1947)
Odd Man Out (1947)
Out of the Past (1947)
The Paradine Case (1947)
The Perils of Pauline (1947)
Possessed (1947)
Railroaded (1947)
Ride the Pink Horse (1947)
Riffraff (1947)
Road to Rio (1947)
The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947)
The Sea of Grass (1947)
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty (1947)
Shoe-Shine (1947)
Sinbad the Sailor (1947)
Smash Up: The Story of a Woman (1947)
Song of the South (1947)
Song of the Thin Man (1947)
That Hagen Girl (1947)
The Time, the Place, and the Girl (1947)
T-Men (1947)
The Two Mrs. Carrolls (1947)
Unconquered (1947)
The Web (1947)
The Wistful Widow of Wagon Gap (1947)
(May - July 2006) I don't even think they were made in 1947 but, I watched the Ivan the Terrible movies this year. I think one of them was released in '47 and the other was released in the '50s, but I was like whatev and watched them together. They are incredible! They're Russian and crazy lol Visual feasts haha I also enjoyed Gentleman's Agreement, The Bishop's Wife, and Miracle on 34th Street. The latter two being perfect movies for Christmas-time.
Top Ten -- The Bachelor and the Bobby-Soxer, The Bishop's Wife, Crossfire, Dark Passage, Gentleman's Agreement, Great Expectations, Ivan the Terrible: Part I, Ivan the Terrible: Part II, Miracle on 34th Street, Shoe-Shine
Haven't Seen - Antoine et Antoinette, The Beginning or the End, Blaze of Noon, Brighton Rock, The Captive Heart, Copacabana, Cry Wolf, Daisy Kenyon, Deep Valley, Desert Fury, Desire Me, Dishonored Lady, Down to Earth, Escape Me Never, The Exile, Fear in the Night, Fireworks, Framed, The Gangster, The Ghosts of Berkeley Square, The Guilt of Janet Ames, High Barbaree, The High Wall, Honeymoon, An Ideal Husband, If Winter Comes, I'll Be Yours, The Inheritance, It Happened in Brooklyn, Ivy, I Walk Alone, Johnny O'Clock, Killer McCoy, King-Size Canary, La Terra Trema, Living in a Big Way, The Lost Moment, The Macomber Affair, The Man I Love, Mine Own Executioner, Motion Painting No. 1, Night Song, Nora Prentiss, The October Man, One Wonderful Sunday, The Other Love, The Private Affairs of Bel Ami, Pursued, Quai Des Orfevres, Ramrod, The Red House, School for Postmen, Scared to Death, The Senator Was Indiscreet, Singapore, The Sin of Harold Diddlebock, They Made Me a Fugutive, They Won't Believe Me, Tycoon, The Unfaithful, Welcome Stranger, The Woman on the Beach, A Woman's Vengeance
Tuesday, September 30, 2008
1946
Anna and the King of Siam (1946)
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Bedlam (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Blithe Spirit (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Blue Skies (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Centennial Summer (1946)
The Chase (1946)
Children of Paradise (1946)
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Cluny Brown (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
Dead of Night (1946)
Deception (1946)
The Dolly Sisters (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Gilda (1946)
The Green Years (1946)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Henry V (1946)
House of Horrors (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Jolson Story (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Kitty (1946)
Lady in the Lake (1946)
Little Giant (1946)
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
Make Mine Music (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Pal Trigger (1946)
Night and Day (1946)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Open City (1946)
O.S.S. (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Razor’s Edge (1946)
Road to Utopia (1946)
Saratoga Trunk (1946)
Sentimental Journey (1946)
The Seventh Veil (1946)
She-Wolf of London (1946)
Sister Kenny (1946)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Stairway to Heaven (1946)
A Stolen Life (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Terror by Night (1946)
13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
Three Strangers (1946)
Till the End of Time (1946)
To Each His Own (1946)
Tomorrow is Forever (1946)
Two Years before the Mast (1946)
Vacation from Marriage (1946)
Without Reservations (1946)
The Yearling (1946)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
(September 2005 - May 2006) Lots of good stuff here. I'd recommend watching The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, and Notorious. It's a Wonderful Life is one of my favorite movies EVER and is probably the only movie I can think of that can make me cry my eyes out every time. Watch that immediately. The real treasure of this year is Children of Paradise. It's a French movie about the theatre and various relationships in and around it. I was amazed by this movie and it's also one of my all-time faves.
Top Ten -- The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Brief Encounter, Children of Paradise, It's a Wonderful Life, My Darling Clementine, Notorious, Open City, The Spiral Staircase, The Time of Their Lives
Haven't Seen - Abilene Town, The Adventuress, Angel on My Shoulder, Badman's Territory, The Bamboo Blonde, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Because of Him, Black Angel, Courage of Lassie, Crisis, Cuban Pete, A Day in the Country, Deadline at Dawn, Decoy, Devotion, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dressed to Kill, Easy to Wed, Five Women Around Utamaro, From This Day Forward, Gallant Bess, Green for Danger, Holiday in Mexico, The Hoodlum Saint, Janie Gets Married, The Kid From Brooklyn, The Man I Love, My Reputation, Nobody Lives Forever, No Regrets for Our Youth, The Overlanders, People Are Funny, Pillow of Death, Ritual in Transfigured Time, San Quentin, A Scandal in Paris, Shock, The Secret Heart, Somewhere in the Night, Sylvie and the Phantom, Till the Clouds Roll By, Undercurrent, The Unknown, The Verdict, The Virginian
The Beast with Five Fingers (1946)
Beauty and the Beast (1946)
Bedlam (1946)
The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
The Big Sleep (1946)
Blithe Spirit (1946)
The Blue Dahlia (1946)
Blue Skies (1946)
Brief Encounter (1946)
Caesar and Cleopatra (1946)
Canyon Passage (1946)
Centennial Summer (1946)
The Chase (1946)
Children of Paradise (1946)
Cloak and Dagger (1946)
Cluny Brown (1946)
The Dark Corner (1946)
The Dark Mirror (1946)
Dead of Night (1946)
Deception (1946)
The Dolly Sisters (1946)
Dragonwyck (1946)
Duel in the Sun (1946)
Gilda (1946)
The Green Years (1946)
The Harvey Girls (1946)
Henry V (1946)
House of Horrors (1946)
Humoresque (1946)
It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
The Jolson Story (1946)
The Killers (1946)
Kitty (1946)
Lady in the Lake (1946)
Little Giant (1946)
The Time of Their Lives (1946)
Love Laughs at Andy Hardy (1946)
Make Mine Music (1946)
My Darling Clementine (1946)
My Pal Trigger (1946)
Night and Day (1946)
A Night in Casablanca (1946)
Notorious (1946)
Open City (1946)
O.S.S. (1946)
The Postman Always Rings Twice (1946)
The Razor’s Edge (1946)
Road to Utopia (1946)
Saratoga Trunk (1946)
Sentimental Journey (1946)
The Seventh Veil (1946)
She-Wolf of London (1946)
Sister Kenny (1946)
The Spiral Staircase (1946)
Stairway to Heaven (1946)
A Stolen Life (1946)
The Strange Love of Martha Ivers (1946)
The Stranger (1946)
Terror by Night (1946)
13 Rue Madeleine (1946)
Three Strangers (1946)
Till the End of Time (1946)
To Each His Own (1946)
Tomorrow is Forever (1946)
Two Years before the Mast (1946)
Vacation from Marriage (1946)
Without Reservations (1946)
The Yearling (1946)
Ziegfeld Follies (1946)
(September 2005 - May 2006) Lots of good stuff here. I'd recommend watching The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, and Notorious. It's a Wonderful Life is one of my favorite movies EVER and is probably the only movie I can think of that can make me cry my eyes out every time. Watch that immediately. The real treasure of this year is Children of Paradise. It's a French movie about the theatre and various relationships in and around it. I was amazed by this movie and it's also one of my all-time faves.
Top Ten -- The Best Years of Our Lives, The Big Sleep, Brief Encounter, Children of Paradise, It's a Wonderful Life, My Darling Clementine, Notorious, Open City, The Spiral Staircase, The Time of Their Lives
Haven't Seen - Abilene Town, The Adventuress, Angel on My Shoulder, Badman's Territory, The Bamboo Blonde, The Bandit of Sherwood Forest, Because of Him, Black Angel, Courage of Lassie, Crisis, Cuban Pete, A Day in the Country, Deadline at Dawn, Decoy, Devotion, Diary of a Chambermaid, Dressed to Kill, Easy to Wed, Five Women Around Utamaro, From This Day Forward, Gallant Bess, Green for Danger, Holiday in Mexico, The Hoodlum Saint, Janie Gets Married, The Kid From Brooklyn, The Man I Love, My Reputation, Nobody Lives Forever, No Regrets for Our Youth, The Overlanders, People Are Funny, Pillow of Death, Ritual in Transfigured Time, San Quentin, A Scandal in Paris, Shock, The Secret Heart, Somewhere in the Night, Sylvie and the Phantom, Till the Clouds Roll By, Undercurrent, The Unknown, The Verdict, The Virginian
Monday, September 29, 2008
1945
Abbott and Costello in Hollywood (1945)
Adventure (1945)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
And Then There Were None (1945)
Back to Bataan (1945)
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Blood on the Sun (1945)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
The Clock (1945)
The Corn is Green (1945)
Dillinger (1945)
Here Come the Co-Eds (1945)
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
House of Dracula (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Keys to the Kingdom (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Letters (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Music for Millions (1945)
National Velvet (1945)
Objective, Burma (1945)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Pride of the Marines (1945)
Salty O’Rourke (1945)
San Antonio (1945)
A Song to Remember (1945)
The Southerner (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
State Fair (1945)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
They Were Expendable (1945)
The Three Caballeros (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
Without Love (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Woman in the Window (1945)
Wonder Man (1945)
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
(June - September 2005) An ok mix. I think The Lost Weekend is my pick for the best of these. I also really enjoyed Leave Her to Heaven, Mildred Pierce The Picture of Dorian Gray, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I remember watching all of these movies during the summer before I moved to State College. Good times.
Top Ten -- And Then There Were None, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Spellbound, State Fair, The Three Caballeros, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Walk in the Sun
Haven't Seen - The Affairs of Susan, Along Came Jones, Along the Navajo Trail, The Battle of San Pietro, A Bell for Adano, Brewster's Millions, Captain Kidd, The Cheaters, Confidential Agent, Conflict, Cornered, Dakota, Detour, Dick Tracy, Detective, The Enchanted Cottage, The Enchanted Forest, Eve Knew Her Apples, Fallen Angel, Flame of Barbary Coast, Frenchman's Creek, Getting Gertie's Garter, God Is My Co-Pilot, The Great Flamarion, Guest in the House, Guest Wife, Hangover Square, Here Come the Waves, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Hotel Berlin, The House of Fear, I Know Where I'm Going!, Incendiary Blonde, Isle of the Dead, The Jade Mask, Johnny Angel, Lady on a Train, Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Madonna of the Seven Moons, A Medal for Benny, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, Molly and Me, My Name is Julia Ross, Notorious Gentleman, Over 21, Pardon My Past, Pillow of Death, The Red Dragon, Rhapsody in Blue, Roughly Speaking, A Royal Scandal, Salome, Where She Danced, The Scarlet Clue, Scotland Yard Investigator, Son of Lassie, The Spanish Main, A Study in Choreography for Camera, This Love of Ours, A Thousand and One Nights, Tonight and Every Night, The True Glory, The Unseen, The Vampire's Ghost, Wandering With the Moon, The Way to the Stars, What Next, Corporal Hargrove?, You Came Along
Adventure (1945)
Anchors Aweigh (1945)
And Then There Were None (1945)
Back to Bataan (1945)
The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945)
Blood on the Sun (1945)
The Body Snatcher (1945)
Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
The Clock (1945)
The Corn is Green (1945)
Dillinger (1945)
Here Come the Co-Eds (1945)
The Naughty Nineties (1945)
The Horn Blows at Midnight (1945)
House of Dracula (1945)
The House on 92nd Street (1945)
The Keys to the Kingdom (1945)
Leave Her to Heaven (1945)
The Lost Weekend (1945)
Love Letters (1945)
Mildred Pierce (1945)
Music for Millions (1945)
National Velvet (1945)
Objective, Burma (1945)
Our Vines Have Tender Grapes (1945)
The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)
Pride of the Marines (1945)
Salty O’Rourke (1945)
San Antonio (1945)
A Song to Remember (1945)
The Southerner (1945)
Spellbound (1945)
State Fair (1945)
The Story of G.I. Joe (1945)
They Were Expendable (1945)
The Three Caballeros (1945)
A Tree Grows in Brooklyn (1945)
The Valley of Decision (1945)
A Walk in the Sun (1945)
Weekend at the Waldorf (1945)
Without Love (1945)
Scarlet Street (1945)
The Woman in the Window (1945)
Wonder Man (1945)
Yolanda and the Thief (1945)
(June - September 2005) An ok mix. I think The Lost Weekend is my pick for the best of these. I also really enjoyed Leave Her to Heaven, Mildred Pierce The Picture of Dorian Gray, and A Tree Grows in Brooklyn. I remember watching all of these movies during the summer before I moved to State College. Good times.
Top Ten -- And Then There Were None, Leave Her to Heaven, The Lost Weekend, Mildred Pierce, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Spellbound, State Fair, The Three Caballeros, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, A Walk in the Sun
Haven't Seen - The Affairs of Susan, Along Came Jones, Along the Navajo Trail, The Battle of San Pietro, A Bell for Adano, Brewster's Millions, Captain Kidd, The Cheaters, Confidential Agent, Conflict, Cornered, Dakota, Detour, Dick Tracy, Detective, The Enchanted Cottage, The Enchanted Forest, Eve Knew Her Apples, Fallen Angel, Flame of Barbary Coast, Frenchman's Creek, Getting Gertie's Garter, God Is My Co-Pilot, The Great Flamarion, Guest in the House, Guest Wife, Hangover Square, Here Come the Waves, Her Highness and the Bellboy, Hotel Berlin, The House of Fear, I Know Where I'm Going!, Incendiary Blonde, Isle of the Dead, The Jade Mask, Johnny Angel, Lady on a Train, Les Dames Du Bois De Boulogne, Madonna of the Seven Moons, A Medal for Benny, The Men Who Tread on the Tiger's Tail, Molly and Me, My Name is Julia Ross, Notorious Gentleman, Over 21, Pardon My Past, Pillow of Death, The Red Dragon, Rhapsody in Blue, Roughly Speaking, A Royal Scandal, Salome, Where She Danced, The Scarlet Clue, Scotland Yard Investigator, Son of Lassie, The Spanish Main, A Study in Choreography for Camera, This Love of Ours, A Thousand and One Nights, Tonight and Every Night, The True Glory, The Unseen, The Vampire's Ghost, Wandering With the Moon, The Way to the Stars, What Next, Corporal Hargrove?, You Came Along
Sunday, September 28, 2008
1944
Ali Baba and the Forty Thieves (1944)
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
Casanova Brown (1944)
The Climax (1944)
Cover Girl (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dragon Seed (1944)
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Going My Way (1944)
A Guy Named Joe (1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
In Society (1944)
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Jane Eyre (1944)
Kismet (1944)
Laura (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
Lost in a Harem (1944)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
None Shall Escape (1944)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Phantom Lady (1944)
The Seventh Cross (1944)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Step Lively (1944)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
The Uninvited (1944)
Weird Woman (1944)
The Whistler (1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
(March - June 2005) I wish I could decorate Meet Me in St. Louis with hearts. It's such a great movie! Other faves are Going My Way, Double Indemnity, Laura, Lifeboat, and To Have and Have Not. By the mid-forties, film noir became very popular A good number of them came out this year.
Top Ten -- Arsenic and Old Lace, Cover Girl, Double Indemnity, Going My Way, Laura, Lifeboat, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Seventh Cross, Since You Went Away, To Have and Have Not
Haven't Seen - Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble, Address Unknown, The Adventures of Mark Twain, At Land, Bathing Beauty, Belle of the Yukon, Between Two Worlds, The Big Noise, Bon Voyage, Bowery to Broadway, The Bridge of San Luis Ray, A Canterbury Tale, The Children Are Watching Us, Cobra Woman, The Curse of the Cat People, Days of Glory, Dead Man's Eyes, Follow the Boys, Four Jills in a Jeep, The Frozen Ghost, Gildersleeve's Ghost, The Great Sacrifice, Greenwich Village, The Hairy Ape, Home in Indiana, The Hour Before the Dawn, Irish Eyes are Smiling, Jack London, Janie, The Jungle Captive, Jungle Woman, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, The Lodger, Marriage is a Private Affair, Ministry of Fear, Music in Manhattan, Nevada, Nothing But Trouble, No Time for Love, Once Upon a Time, One Mysterious Night, Pin-Up Girl, The Princess and the Pirate, The Purple Heart, Screwball Squirrel, Secret Command, See Here, Private Hargrove, Sensations, Song of the Open Road, The Story of Dr. Wassell, The Suspect, Sweet and Low-Down, Tall in the Saddle, Tampico, This Happy Breed, Torment, Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks, Up in Arms, Up in Mabel's Room, When Strangers Marry, Witch's Cradle
Arsenic and Old Lace (1944)
The Canterville Ghost (1944)
Casanova Brown (1944)
The Climax (1944)
Cover Girl (1944)
Double Indemnity (1944)
Dragon Seed (1944)
The Fighting Seabees (1944)
The Fighting Sullivans (1944)
Gaslight (1944)
Going My Way (1944)
A Guy Named Joe (1944)
Hail the Conquering Hero (1944)
Hollywood Canteen (1944)
House of Frankenstein (1944)
In Society (1944)
The Invisible Man’s Revenge (1944)
It Happened Tomorrow (1944)
Jane Eyre (1944)
Kismet (1944)
Laura (1944)
Lifeboat (1944)
Lost in a Harem (1944)
The Mask of Dimitrios (1944)
Meet Me in St. Louis (1944)
The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek (1944)
The Mummy’s Ghost (1944)
The Mummy’s Curse (1944)
Mr. Skeffington (1944)
Mrs. Parkington (1944)
Murder, My Sweet (1944)
None but the Lonely Heart (1944)
None Shall Escape (1944)
Passage to Marseille (1944)
Phantom Lady (1944)
The Seventh Cross (1944)
Since You Went Away (1944)
Step Lively (1944)
The Thin Man Goes Home (1944)
Thirty Seconds over Tokyo (1944)
To Have and Have Not (1944)
Two Girls and a Sailor (1944)
The Uninvited (1944)
Weird Woman (1944)
The Whistler (1944)
The White Cliffs of Dover (1944)
Wilson (1944)
Wing and a Prayer (1944)
(March - June 2005) I wish I could decorate Meet Me in St. Louis with hearts. It's such a great movie! Other faves are Going My Way, Double Indemnity, Laura, Lifeboat, and To Have and Have Not. By the mid-forties, film noir became very popular A good number of them came out this year.
Top Ten -- Arsenic and Old Lace, Cover Girl, Double Indemnity, Going My Way, Laura, Lifeboat, Meet Me in St. Louis, The Seventh Cross, Since You Went Away, To Have and Have Not
Haven't Seen - Andy Hardy's Blonde Trouble, Address Unknown, The Adventures of Mark Twain, At Land, Bathing Beauty, Belle of the Yukon, Between Two Worlds, The Big Noise, Bon Voyage, Bowery to Broadway, The Bridge of San Luis Ray, A Canterbury Tale, The Children Are Watching Us, Cobra Woman, The Curse of the Cat People, Days of Glory, Dead Man's Eyes, Follow the Boys, Four Jills in a Jeep, The Frozen Ghost, Gildersleeve's Ghost, The Great Sacrifice, Greenwich Village, The Hairy Ape, Home in Indiana, The Hour Before the Dawn, Irish Eyes are Smiling, Jack London, Janie, The Jungle Captive, Jungle Woman, Knickerbocker Holiday, Lady in the Dark, The Lodger, Marriage is a Private Affair, Ministry of Fear, Music in Manhattan, Nevada, Nothing But Trouble, No Time for Love, Once Upon a Time, One Mysterious Night, Pin-Up Girl, The Princess and the Pirate, The Purple Heart, Screwball Squirrel, Secret Command, See Here, Private Hargrove, Sensations, Song of the Open Road, The Story of Dr. Wassell, The Suspect, Sweet and Low-Down, Tall in the Saddle, Tampico, This Happy Breed, Torment, Tower of the Seven Hunchbacks, Up in Arms, Up in Mabel's Room, When Strangers Marry, Witch's Cradle
Saturday, September 27, 2008
1943
Action in the North Atlantic (1943)
Air Force (1943)
Bataan (1943)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Casablanca (1943)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
The Human Comedy (1943)
In Which We Serve (1943)
It Ain’t Hay (1943)
Hit the Ice (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Madame Curie (1943)
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
The More the Merrier (1943)
The Outlaw (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Princess O’Rourke (1943)
Sahara (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Son of Dracula (1943)
So Proudly We Hail (1943)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
They Got Me Covered (1943)
This is the Army (1943)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
(December 2004 - March 2005) Casablanca is perrrfect and needs to be seen at least once by everyone. For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Ox-Bow Incident are also great.
Top Ten -- Cabin in the Sky, Casablanca, Destination Tokyo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Lassie Come Home,The Outlaw, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Phantom of the Opera, Shadow of a Doubt, The Song of Bernadette
Haven't Seen - Above Suspicion, The Ape Man, Appointment in Berlin, Background to Danger, Baron Muenchhausen, Best Foot Forward, Bombardier, Calling Dr. Death, Changing of Trains, Cobra Woman, Commandos Strike at Dawn, Coney Island, The Constant Nymph, Corvette K-225, Crash Dive, The Cross of Lorraine, Cry Havoc, Day of Wrath, The Demi-Paradise, Dumb-Hounded, Edge of Darkness, The Fallen Sparrow, Five Graves to Cairo, Flight for Freedom, The Gang's All Here, The Ghost Ship, Hangmen Also Die!, Hi Diddle Diddle, Higher and Higher, Hitler's Children, Hitler's Madman, I Dood It, Johnny Come Lately, Journey Into Fear, Lady of Burlesque, Le Corbeau, The Leopard Man, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Meshes of the Afternoon, Mission to Moscow, The Moon and Sixpence, Mr. Lucky, My Friend Flicka, A Night to Remember, The North Star, Old Acquaintance, Presenting Lily Mars, Red Hot Riding Hood, Riding High, Sabotage Agent, Saludos Amigos, The Seventh Victim, The Sky's the Limit, Stage Door Canteen, Stand by for Action, Star Spangled Rhythm, This Land is Mine, Thousands Cheer, What a Woman!, Who Killed Who?
Air Force (1943)
Bataan (1943)
Cabin in the Sky (1943)
Captive Wild Woman (1943)
DuBarry Was a Lady (1943)
Casablanca (1943)
Destination Tokyo (1943)
For Whom the Bell Tolls (1943)
Frankenstein Meets the Wolfman (1943)
Guadalcanal Diary (1943)
Heaven Can Wait (1943)
Hello, Frisco, Hello (1943)
The Human Comedy (1943)
In Which We Serve (1943)
It Ain’t Hay (1943)
Hit the Ice (1943)
I Walked with a Zombie (1943)
Lassie Come Home (1943)
Madame Curie (1943)
The Mad Ghoul (1943)
The More the Merrier (1943)
The Outlaw (1943)
The Ox-Bow Incident (1943)
The Phantom of the Opera (1943)
Princess O’Rourke (1943)
Sahara (1943)
Shadow of a Doubt (1943)
The Song of Bernadette (1943)
Son of Dracula (1943)
So Proudly We Hail (1943)
Stormy Weather (1943)
Thank Your Lucky Stars (1943)
They Got Me Covered (1943)
This is the Army (1943)
Watch on the Rhine (1943)
(December 2004 - March 2005) Casablanca is perrrfect and needs to be seen at least once by everyone. For Whom the Bell Tolls and The Ox-Bow Incident are also great.
Top Ten -- Cabin in the Sky, Casablanca, Destination Tokyo, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Lassie Come Home,The Outlaw, The Ox-Bow Incident, The Phantom of the Opera, Shadow of a Doubt, The Song of Bernadette
Haven't Seen - Above Suspicion, The Ape Man, Appointment in Berlin, Background to Danger, Baron Muenchhausen, Best Foot Forward, Bombardier, Calling Dr. Death, Changing of Trains, Cobra Woman, Commandos Strike at Dawn, Coney Island, The Constant Nymph, Corvette K-225, Crash Dive, The Cross of Lorraine, Cry Havoc, Day of Wrath, The Demi-Paradise, Dumb-Hounded, Edge of Darkness, The Fallen Sparrow, Five Graves to Cairo, Flight for Freedom, The Gang's All Here, The Ghost Ship, Hangmen Also Die!, Hi Diddle Diddle, Higher and Higher, Hitler's Children, Hitler's Madman, I Dood It, Johnny Come Lately, Journey Into Fear, Lady of Burlesque, Le Corbeau, The Leopard Man, The Life and Death of Colonel Blimp, Meshes of the Afternoon, Mission to Moscow, The Moon and Sixpence, Mr. Lucky, My Friend Flicka, A Night to Remember, The North Star, Old Acquaintance, Presenting Lily Mars, Red Hot Riding Hood, Riding High, Sabotage Agent, Saludos Amigos, The Seventh Victim, The Sky's the Limit, Stage Door Canteen, Stand by for Action, Star Spangled Rhythm, This Land is Mine, Thousands Cheer, What a Woman!, Who Killed Who?
Friday, September 26, 2008
1942
Across the Pacific (1942)
All Through the Night (1942)
Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942)
Arabian Nights (1942)
Bambi (1942)
The Black Swan (1942)
Cat People (1942)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
49th Parallel (1942)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
The Glass Key (1942)
Holday Inn (1942)
I Married a Witch (1942)
In This Our Life (1942)
Invisible Agent (1942)
Johnny Eager (1942)
The Jungle Book (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Kings Row (1942)
Larceny Inc. (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Night Monster (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Ride ‘Em Cowboy (1942)
Rio Rita (1942)
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Who Done It? (1942)
The Pied Piper (1942)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Wake Island (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Roxie Hart (1942)
Saboteur (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
(August - December 2004) Yankee Doodle Dandy is my favorite of the year, followed closely by Mrs. Miniver. Both were inspired greatly by the patriotism that was sweeping the nation in 1942. I also enjoyed The Pride of the Yankees, Saboteur, and To Be or Not to Be.
Top Ten -- Bambi, 49th Parallel, Johnny Eager, Mrs. Minver, Now, Voyager, The Pride of the Yankees, Saboteur, To Be or Not to Be, Who Done It?, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Haven't Seen - The Adventures of Martin Eden, Alias Boston Blackie, Aniki Bobo, Babes on Broadway, Berlin Correspondent, The Big Shot, The Big Street, Bombs Over Burma, Bowery at Midnight, Cairo, Captains of the Clouds, China Girl, The Corpse Vanishes, The Corsican Brothers, Dangerously They Live, Desperate Journey, Flying Tigers, Footlight Serenade, The Gay Sisters, George Washington Slept Here, The Great Gildersleeve, The Hard Way, Her Cardboard Lover, I Married an Angel, Joan of Paris, Journey into Fear, Juke Girl, Kid Glove Killer, The Lady is Willing, Listen to Britain, The Male Animal, The Mayor of 44th Street, Moontide, My Favorite Spy, My Gal Sal, My Sister Eileen, Native Land, The Navy Comes Through, Nazi Agent, Once Upon a Honeymoon, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Ossessione, Panama Hattie, Reunion in France, Ship Ahoy, Somewhere I'll Find You, Son of Fury, Spitfire, The Spoilers, Springtime in the Rockies, Take a Letter, Darling, Tales of Manhattan, Ten Gentlemen from West Point, This Above All, To the Shores of Tripoli, Valley of the Sun, The War Against Mrs. Hadley, We the Living, White Cargo, You Were Never Lovelier
All Through the Night (1942)
Andy Hardy’s Double Life (1942)
Arabian Nights (1942)
Bambi (1942)
The Black Swan (1942)
Cat People (1942)
For Me and My Gal (1942)
49th Parallel (1942)
Gentleman Jim (1942)
The Ghost of Frankenstein (1942)
The Glass Key (1942)
Holday Inn (1942)
I Married a Witch (1942)
In This Our Life (1942)
Invisible Agent (1942)
Johnny Eager (1942)
The Jungle Book (1942)
Woman of the Year (1942)
Keeper of the Flame (1942)
Kings Row (1942)
Larceny Inc. (1942)
The Magnificent Ambersons (1942)
The Major and the Minor (1942)
Mrs. Miniver (1942)
The Mummy’s Tomb (1942)
My Favorite Blonde (1942)
Night Monster (1942)
Now, Voyager (1942)
Orchestra Wives (1942)
The Palm Beach Story (1942)
Ride ‘Em Cowboy (1942)
Rio Rita (1942)
Pardon My Sarong (1942)
Who Done It? (1942)
The Pied Piper (1942)
The Pride of the Yankees (1942)
Wake Island (1942)
Random Harvest (1942)
Reap the Wild Wind (1942)
Road to Morocco (1942)
Roxie Hart (1942)
Saboteur (1942)
The Talk of the Town (1942)
This Gun for Hire (1942)
To Be or Not to Be (1942)
Tortilla Flat (1942)
Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)
(August - December 2004) Yankee Doodle Dandy is my favorite of the year, followed closely by Mrs. Miniver. Both were inspired greatly by the patriotism that was sweeping the nation in 1942. I also enjoyed The Pride of the Yankees, Saboteur, and To Be or Not to Be.
Top Ten -- Bambi, 49th Parallel, Johnny Eager, Mrs. Minver, Now, Voyager, The Pride of the Yankees, Saboteur, To Be or Not to Be, Who Done It?, Yankee Doodle Dandy
Haven't Seen - The Adventures of Martin Eden, Alias Boston Blackie, Aniki Bobo, Babes on Broadway, Berlin Correspondent, The Big Shot, The Big Street, Bombs Over Burma, Bowery at Midnight, Cairo, Captains of the Clouds, China Girl, The Corpse Vanishes, The Corsican Brothers, Dangerously They Live, Desperate Journey, Flying Tigers, Footlight Serenade, The Gay Sisters, George Washington Slept Here, The Great Gildersleeve, The Hard Way, Her Cardboard Lover, I Married an Angel, Joan of Paris, Journey into Fear, Juke Girl, Kid Glove Killer, The Lady is Willing, Listen to Britain, The Male Animal, The Mayor of 44th Street, Moontide, My Favorite Spy, My Gal Sal, My Sister Eileen, Native Land, The Navy Comes Through, Nazi Agent, Once Upon a Honeymoon, One of Our Aircraft is Missing, Ossessione, Panama Hattie, Reunion in France, Ship Ahoy, Somewhere I'll Find You, Son of Fury, Spitfire, The Spoilers, Springtime in the Rockies, Take a Letter, Darling, Tales of Manhattan, Ten Gentlemen from West Point, This Above All, To the Shores of Tripoli, Valley of the Sun, The War Against Mrs. Hadley, We the Living, White Cargo, You Were Never Lovelier
Thursday, September 25, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1941
Adam Had Four Sons
Among the Living
Babes on Broadway
The Bad Man
Birth of the Blues
Blues in the Night
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Come Live With Me
Dangerous Moonlight
Design for Scandal
The Devil Bat
Dive Bomber
Dressed to Kill
The Face Behind the Mask
Father Takes a Wife
The Flame of New Orleans
Flight Command
Footsteps in the Dark
The 47 Ronin
The Gang's All Here
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Hellzapoppin'
H.M. Pulham Esq.
Honky Tonk
Horror Island
International Lady
It Started With Eve
I Wake Up Screaming
I Wanted Wings
Ladies in Retirement
Lady Be Good
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Look Who's Laughing
Love Crazy
Lydia
Major Barbara
Man Hunt
Manpower
Meet Boston Blackie
Men of Boys Town
Moon Over Miami
Navy Blues
Nice Girl?
Nothing But the Truth
Ornamental Hairpin
Paris Calling
Pot o' Gold
Princess Cinderella
Remember the Day
The Sea Wolf
The Shanghai Gesture
Shepherd of the Hills
A Shot in the Dark
Skylark
So Ends Our Night
The Son of Monte Cristo
The Strawberry Blonde
Sundown
Sun Valley Serenade
Swamp Water
Texas
That Hamilton Woman
That Uncertain Feeling
They Met in Bombay
Tobacco Road
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Topper Returns
Two-Faced Woman
The Wagon Rolls at Night
When Ladies Meet
Whistling in the Dark
A Woman's Face
A Yank in the R.A.F.
You'll Never Get Rich
You're in the Army Now
Ziegfeld Girl
Among the Living
Babes on Broadway
The Bad Man
Birth of the Blues
Blues in the Night
Cheers for Miss Bishop
Come Live With Me
Dangerous Moonlight
Design for Scandal
The Devil Bat
Dive Bomber
Dressed to Kill
The Face Behind the Mask
Father Takes a Wife
The Flame of New Orleans
Flight Command
Footsteps in the Dark
The 47 Ronin
The Gang's All Here
A Girl, a Guy, and a Gob
Hellzapoppin'
H.M. Pulham Esq.
Honky Tonk
Horror Island
International Lady
It Started With Eve
I Wake Up Screaming
I Wanted Wings
Ladies in Retirement
Lady Be Good
Life Begins for Andy Hardy
Look Who's Laughing
Love Crazy
Lydia
Major Barbara
Man Hunt
Manpower
Meet Boston Blackie
Men of Boys Town
Moon Over Miami
Navy Blues
Nice Girl?
Nothing But the Truth
Ornamental Hairpin
Paris Calling
Pot o' Gold
Princess Cinderella
Remember the Day
The Sea Wolf
The Shanghai Gesture
Shepherd of the Hills
A Shot in the Dark
Skylark
So Ends Our Night
The Son of Monte Cristo
The Strawberry Blonde
Sundown
Sun Valley Serenade
Swamp Water
Texas
That Hamilton Woman
That Uncertain Feeling
They Met in Bombay
Tobacco Road
Tom, Dick, and Harry
Topper Returns
Two-Faced Woman
The Wagon Rolls at Night
When Ladies Meet
Whistling in the Dark
A Woman's Face
A Yank in the R.A.F.
You'll Never Get Rich
You're in the Army Now
Ziegfeld Girl
1941
Andy Hardy’s Private Secretary (1941)
Back Street (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Big Store (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
Buck Privates (1941)
Caught in the Draft (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
The Great Lie (1941)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
In the Navy (1941)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Invisible Woman (1941)
Kathleen (1941)
Keep ‘Em Flying (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Man Made Monster (1941)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Sergeant York (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
They Died with Their Boots on (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
(June - August 2004) Even with Citizen Kane in this list, I have to say that The Maltese Falcon is the best movie here. Kane is fantastic though. How Green Was My Valley managed to win best picture and I'd say it was pretty deserving. I also enjoyed High Sierra (Bogart) and Dumbo because I'm a sucker. Hold That Ghost is probably my favorite Abbott and Costello - they made four movies this year! War was raging in Europe and hit America this year. The effects on movies would really start to show in the next few years.
Top Ten -- Ball of Fire, Citizen Kane, Dumbo, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, High Sierra, Hold That Ghost, How Green Was My Valley, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, The Wolf Man
Back Street (1941)
Ball of Fire (1941)
The Big Store (1941)
The Black Cat (1941)
Blood and Sand (1941)
Blossoms in the Dust (1941)
The Bride Came C.O.D. (1941)
Buck Privates (1941)
Caught in the Draft (1941)
Citizen Kane (1941)
The Devil and Daniel Webster (1941)
The Devil and Miss Jones (1941)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1941)
Dumbo (1941)
The Great Lie (1941)
Here Comes Mr. Jordan (1941)
High Sierra (1941)
Hold Back the Dawn (1941)
In the Navy (1941)
Hold That Ghost (1941)
How Green Was My Valley (1941)
The Invisible Woman (1941)
Kathleen (1941)
Keep ‘Em Flying (1941)
The Lady Eve (1941)
The Little Foxes (1941)
Louisiana Purchase (1941)
The Maltese Falcon (1941)
Man Made Monster (1941)
The Man Who Came to Dinner (1941)
Meet John Doe (1941)
The Monster and the Girl (1941)
Mr. and Mrs. Smith (1941)
Never Give a Sucker an Even Break (1941)
One Foot in Heaven (1941)
Penny Serenade (1941)
Road to Zanzibar (1941)
Sergeant York (1941)
Shadow of the Thin Man (1941)
Sullivan’s Travels (1941)
Suspicion (1941)
They Died with Their Boots on (1941)
The Wolf Man (1941)
(June - August 2004) Even with Citizen Kane in this list, I have to say that The Maltese Falcon is the best movie here. Kane is fantastic though. How Green Was My Valley managed to win best picture and I'd say it was pretty deserving. I also enjoyed High Sierra (Bogart) and Dumbo because I'm a sucker. Hold That Ghost is probably my favorite Abbott and Costello - they made four movies this year! War was raging in Europe and hit America this year. The effects on movies would really start to show in the next few years.
Top Ten -- Ball of Fire, Citizen Kane, Dumbo, Here Comes Mr. Jordan, High Sierra, Hold That Ghost, How Green Was My Valley, The Maltese Falcon, Sergeant York, The Wolf Man
Wednesday, September 24, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1940
Angels Over Broadway
The Ape
Arise, My Love
Arizona
The Biscuit Eater
The Blue Bird
The Blood of Jesus
The Boys from Syracuse
Captain Caution
Castle on the Hudson
A Child is Born
City for Conquest Commandant Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (May 1940)
Comrade X
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dark Command
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
East of the River
Edison, the Man
The Fighting 69th
The Great Profile
Green Hell
The House of the Seven Gables
The Howards of Virginia
I Love You Again
Irene
Johnny Apollo
The Lady in Question
Lillian Russell
The Mortal Storm
North West Mounted Police
One Million B.C.
Primrose Path
The Proud Valley
Remember the Night
Rhythm on the River
Saturday's Children
Second Chorus
Strike Up the Band
Strange Cargo
Susan and God
They Knew What They Wanted
This Thing Called Love
Tin Pan Alley
Too Many Husbands
Virginia City
The Well-Digger's Daughter
You'll Find Out
The Ape
Arise, My Love
Arizona
The Biscuit Eater
The Blue Bird
The Blood of Jesus
The Boys from Syracuse
Captain Caution
Castle on the Hudson
A Child is Born
City for Conquest Commandant Keeper Church, Beaufort, South Carolina (May 1940)
Comrade X
Dance, Girl, Dance
Dark Command
Dr. Ehrlich's Magic Bullet
East of the River
Edison, the Man
The Fighting 69th
The Great Profile
Green Hell
The House of the Seven Gables
The Howards of Virginia
I Love You Again
Irene
Johnny Apollo
The Lady in Question
Lillian Russell
The Mortal Storm
North West Mounted Police
One Million B.C.
Primrose Path
The Proud Valley
Remember the Night
Rhythm on the River
Saturday's Children
Second Chorus
Strike Up the Band
Strange Cargo
Susan and God
They Knew What They Wanted
This Thing Called Love
Tin Pan Alley
Too Many Husbands
Virginia City
The Well-Digger's Daughter
You'll Find Out
1940
Abe Lincoln of Illinois (1940)
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Black Friday (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Brother Orchid (1940)
Christmas in July (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Go West (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great McGinty (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
The Letter (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Our Town (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Road to Singapore (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Seven Sinners (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
They Drive By Night (1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Torrid Zone (1940)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Westerner (1940)
(June 2004) I remember it being a huge deal when I got into the 40s. The list of movies started to grow to about 50 movies a year and I started to see more popular titles and the beginnings of early franchises. WWII was right around the corner. Rebecca is my choice for best movie. Great Hitchcock thriller. Other faves are The Great Dictator (Chaplin), Pride and Prejudice (Olivier), and The Letter (Bette Davis).
Top Ten -- Fantasia, The Ghost Breakers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, His Girl Friday, The Letter, The Philadelphia Story, Pinocchio, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca
All This, and Heaven Too (1940)
Andy Hardy Meets Debutante (1940)
The Bank Dick (1940)
Black Friday (1940)
Boom Town (1940)
Brother Orchid (1940)
Christmas in July (1940)
Down Argentine Way (1940)
Dr. Cyclops (1940)
Fantasia (1940)
Foreign Correspondent (1940)
The Ghost Breakers (1940)
Go West (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Great Dictator (1940)
The Great McGinty (1940)
His Girl Friday (1940)
The Invisible Man Returns (1940)
Kitty Foyle (1940)
Knute Rockne, All American (1940)
The Letter (1940)
The Long Voyage Home (1940)
The Mark of Zorro (1940)
The Mummy’s Hand (1940)
My Favorite Wife (1940)
My Little Chickadee (1940)
Northwest Passage (1940)
One Night in the Tropics (1940)
Our Town (1940)
The Philadelphia Story (1940)
Pinocchio (1940)
Pride and Prejudice (1940)
Rebecca (1940)
The Return of Frank James (1940)
Road to Singapore (1940)
Santa Fe Trail (1940)
The Sea Hawk (1940)
Seven Sinners (1940)
The Shop Around the Corner (1940)
They Drive By Night (1940)
The Thief of Bagdad (1940)
Torrid Zone (1940)
Waterloo Bridge (1940)
The Westerner (1940)
(June 2004) I remember it being a huge deal when I got into the 40s. The list of movies started to grow to about 50 movies a year and I started to see more popular titles and the beginnings of early franchises. WWII was right around the corner. Rebecca is my choice for best movie. Great Hitchcock thriller. Other faves are The Great Dictator (Chaplin), Pride and Prejudice (Olivier), and The Letter (Bette Davis).
Top Ten -- Fantasia, The Ghost Breakers, The Grapes of Wrath, The Great Dictator, His Girl Friday, The Letter, The Philadelphia Story, Pinocchio, Pride and Prejudice, Rebecca
Tuesday, September 23, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1939
Allegheny Uprising
Angels Wash Their Faces
The Arizona Kid
Bachelor Mother
Back Door to Heaven
Balalaika
Calling Dr. Kildare
Captain Fury
The City
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Daughters Courageous
Dodge City
Dust Be My Destiny
Eternally Yours
Fast and Furious
Fast and Loose
Fifth Avenue Girl
First Love
Five Came Back
Four Wives
The Girl From Mexico
Golden Boy
The Great Victor Herbert
The Hardy's Ride High
Honeymoon in Bali
Ice Follies of 1939
Idiot's Delight
In Name Only
Invisible Stripes
Judge Hardy and Son
Lady of the Tropics
Le Jour Se Leve
The Little Princess
Made For Each Other
Maisie
The Mikado
Million Dollar Legs
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Nancy Drew, Reporter
Nancy Drew--Troubleshooter
Never Say Die
Nurse Edith Cavell
The Oklahoma Kid
On Borrowed Time
The Phantom Creeps
Q Planes
The Rains Came
The Real Glory
Second Fiddle
Stanley and Livingstone
St. Louis Blues
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Swanee River
Tarzan Finds a Son!
They Made Me a Criminal
They Shall Have Music
Topper Takes a Trip
Trade Winds
We Are Not Alone
Wyoming Outlaw
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Zaza
Zenobia
Angels Wash Their Faces
The Arizona Kid
Bachelor Mother
Back Door to Heaven
Balalaika
Calling Dr. Kildare
Captain Fury
The City
Cologne: From the Diary of Ray and Esther
Confessions of a Nazi Spy
Daughters Courageous
Dodge City
Dust Be My Destiny
Eternally Yours
Fast and Furious
Fast and Loose
Fifth Avenue Girl
First Love
Five Came Back
Four Wives
The Girl From Mexico
Golden Boy
The Great Victor Herbert
The Hardy's Ride High
Honeymoon in Bali
Ice Follies of 1939
Idiot's Delight
In Name Only
Invisible Stripes
Judge Hardy and Son
Lady of the Tropics
Le Jour Se Leve
The Little Princess
Made For Each Other
Maisie
The Mikado
Million Dollar Legs
Nancy Drew and the Hidden Staircase
Nancy Drew, Reporter
Nancy Drew--Troubleshooter
Never Say Die
Nurse Edith Cavell
The Oklahoma Kid
On Borrowed Time
The Phantom Creeps
Q Planes
The Rains Came
The Real Glory
Second Fiddle
Stanley and Livingstone
St. Louis Blues
The Story of Alexander Graham Bell
The Story of the Late Chrysanthemums
The Story of Vernon and Irene Castle
Swanee River
Tarzan Finds a Son!
They Made Me a Criminal
They Shall Have Music
Topper Takes a Trip
Trade Winds
We Are Not Alone
Wyoming Outlaw
You Can't Cheat an Honest Man
Zaza
Zenobia
1939
The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1939)
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Another Thin Man (1939)
At the Circus (1939)
Babes in Arms (1939)
Beau Geste (1939)
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Dark Victory (1939)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Honolulu (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Intermezzo (1939)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
Juarez (1939)
Love Affair (1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Mexican Spitfire (1939)
Midnight (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Old Maid (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Tower of London (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Women (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
(December 2003 - June 2004) And the lists get looonger from here on out. 1939 is fondly known as 'Hollywood's Golden Year' because of the breadth of classics that were produced. My personal faves are Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. See. them. now. Additionally, I'd suggest viewing Beau Geste, The Cat and the Canary, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Only Angels Have Wings, Stagecoach, The Women, and Wuthering Heights.
Top Ten -- Beau Geste, The Cat and the Canary, Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Only Angels Have Wings, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Wuthering Heights
Also Seen - The Rules of the Game
The Hound of the Baskervilles (1939)
The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes (1939)
Andy Hardy Gets Spring Fever (1939)
Another Thin Man (1939)
At the Circus (1939)
Babes in Arms (1939)
Beau Geste (1939)
The Cat and the Canary (1939)
Dark Victory (1939)
Destry Rides Again (1939)
Drums Along the Mohawk (1939)
Each Dawn I Die (1939)
The Private Lives of Elizabeth and Essex (1939)
The Flying Deuces (1939)
The Four Feathers (1939)
Gone With the Wind (1939)
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (1939)
Gulliver's Travels (1939)
Gunga Din (1939)
Honolulu (1939)
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939)
Intermezzo (1939)
It's a Wonderful World (1939)
Jamaica Inn (1939)
Jesse James (1939)
Juarez (1939)
Love Affair (1939)
The Man in the Iron Mask (1939)
Mexican Spitfire (1939)
Midnight (1939)
Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)
Ninotchka (1939)
Of Mice and Men (1939)
The Old Maid (1939)
Only Angels Have Wings (1939)
The Roaring Twenties (1939)
Son of Frankenstein (1939)
Stagecoach (1939)
Tower of London (1939)
Union Pacific (1939)
The Wizard of Oz (1939)
The Women (1939)
Wuthering Heights (1939)
Young Mr. Lincoln (1939)
(December 2003 - June 2004) And the lists get looonger from here on out. 1939 is fondly known as 'Hollywood's Golden Year' because of the breadth of classics that were produced. My personal faves are Gone With the Wind and The Wizard of Oz. See. them. now. Additionally, I'd suggest viewing Beau Geste, The Cat and the Canary, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Only Angels Have Wings, Stagecoach, The Women, and Wuthering Heights.
Top Ten -- Beau Geste, The Cat and the Canary, Gone With the Wind, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, Of Mice and Men, Only Angels Have Wings, Stagecoach, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Wuthering Heights
Also Seen - The Rules of the Game
Monday, September 22, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1938
The Adventures of Marco Polo
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alexander Nevsky
Algiers
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Baker's Wife
Blockade
Block-Heads
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Boy Meets Girl
Brother Rat
The Buccaneer
Carefree
College Swing
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Divorce of Lady X
Dramatic School
Drums
Fast Company
Fools for Scandal
Girls' School
Give Me a Sailor
Going Places
The Goldwyn Follies
The Great Waltz
Having Wonderful Time
If I Were King
Joy of Living
Judge Hardy's Children
La Bete Humaine
Listen, Darling
Little Miss Broadway
Mad About Music
The Mad Miss Manton
Mannequin
The Masseurs and a Woman
Merrily We Live
Nancy Drew--Detective
Out West with the Hardy's
Pacific Liner
Port of Shadows
Professor Beware
The Rage of Paris
The Saint in New York
The Shining Hour
The Sisters
The Shopworn Angel
A Slight Case of Murder
Sweethearts
Swiss Miss
Tarnished Angel
There Goes My Heart
Three Comrades
Too Hot to Handle
The Toy Wife
21 Days Together
Under Western Stars
Vivacious Lady
You're Only Young Once
White Banners
A Yank at Oxford
You and Me
The Young in Heart
You're Only Young Once
The Adventures of Tom Sawyer
Alexander Nevsky
Algiers
The Amazing Dr. Clitterhouse
The Baker's Wife
Blockade
Block-Heads
Bluebeard's Eighth Wife
Boy Meets Girl
Brother Rat
The Buccaneer
Carefree
College Swing
The Cowboy and the Lady
The Divorce of Lady X
Dramatic School
Drums
Fast Company
Fools for Scandal
Girls' School
Give Me a Sailor
Going Places
The Goldwyn Follies
The Great Waltz
Having Wonderful Time
If I Were King
Joy of Living
Judge Hardy's Children
La Bete Humaine
Listen, Darling
Little Miss Broadway
Mad About Music
The Mad Miss Manton
Mannequin
The Masseurs and a Woman
Merrily We Live
Nancy Drew--Detective
Out West with the Hardy's
Pacific Liner
Port of Shadows
Professor Beware
The Rage of Paris
The Saint in New York
The Shining Hour
The Sisters
The Shopworn Angel
A Slight Case of Murder
Sweethearts
Swiss Miss
Tarnished Angel
There Goes My Heart
Three Comrades
Too Hot to Handle
The Toy Wife
21 Days Together
Under Western Stars
Vivacious Lady
You're Only Young Once
White Banners
A Yank at Oxford
You and Me
The Young in Heart
You're Only Young Once
1938
The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938)
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
Blondie (1938)
Boys Town (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Citadel (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Four Daughters (1938)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Jezebel (1938)
Kentucky (1938)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Marie-Antoinette (1938)
Of Human Hearts (1938)
Pygmalion (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Room Service (1938)
Suez (1938)
Test Pilot (1938)
(August - December 2003) Grand Illusion was incredible and definitely made me fall in love with French cinema. Everything else is fondly remembered. Bringing Up Baby, A Christmas Carol, and The Lady Vanishes are fun.
Top Ten -- The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Bringing Up Baby, A Christmas Carol, The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion, Holiday, The Lady Vanishes, Pygmalion
Also Seen - You Can't Take it With You
Alexander's Ragtime Band (1938)
Angels with Dirty Faces (1938)
The Big Broadcast of 1938 (1938)
Blondie (1938)
Boys Town (1938)
Bringing Up Baby (1938)
A Christmas Carol (1938)
The Citadel (1938)
The Dawn Patrol (1938)
Four Daughters (1938)
Grand Illusion (1938)
Holiday (1938)
Jezebel (1938)
Kentucky (1938)
The Lady Vanishes (1938)
Love Finds Andy Hardy (1938)
Marie-Antoinette (1938)
Of Human Hearts (1938)
Pygmalion (1938)
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1938)
Room Service (1938)
Suez (1938)
Test Pilot (1938)
(August - December 2003) Grand Illusion was incredible and definitely made me fall in love with French cinema. Everything else is fondly remembered. Bringing Up Baby, A Christmas Carol, and The Lady Vanishes are fun.
Top Ten -- The Adventures of Robin Hood, Angels with Dirty Faces, Bringing Up Baby, A Christmas Carol, The Citadel, Four Daughters, Grand Illusion, Holiday, The Lady Vanishes, Pygmalion
Also Seen - You Can't Take it With You
Sunday, September 21, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1937
Ali Baba Goes to Town
Angel
Assassin of Youth
Between Two Women
Big City
Black Legion
Breakfast for Two
The Bride Wore Red
Broadway Melody of 1938
The Cocaine Fiends
Conquest
A Damsel in Distress
Daughter Of Shanghai
Drole de drame (Bizarre, Bizarre)
Easy Living
Elephant Boy
Every Day's a Holiday
A Family Affair
Fire Over England
The Great Garrick
The Great O'Malley
Green Light
Heidi
Humanity and Paper Balloons
The Hurricane
I Met Him in Paris
It's Love I'm After
J'Accuse
Kid Galahad
Knight Without Armor
La Marseillaise
The Last Gangster
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Madame X
The Maid of Salem
Make Way for Tomorrow
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Mannequin
Marked Woman
Maytime
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
New Faces of 1937
Parnell
Pearls of the Crown
Pepe le Moko
The Perfect Specimen
Personal Property
The Plainsman
Quality Street
Ready, Willing, and Able
San Quentin
Saratoga
The Soldier and the Lady
Something to Sing About
Souls at Sea
Springtime in the Rockies
Stand-In
Stolen Holiday
That Certain Woman
They Gave Him a Gun
Thin Ice
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Thunder in the City
The Toast of New York
Tovarich
True Confession
Varsity Show
Vogues
Waikiki Wedding
Way Out West
Wee Willie Winkie
Wells Fargo
Wings of the Morning
You Can't Have Everything
You Only Live Once
Young and Innocent
Angel
Assassin of Youth
Between Two Women
Big City
Black Legion
Breakfast for Two
The Bride Wore Red
Broadway Melody of 1938
The Cocaine Fiends
Conquest
A Damsel in Distress
Daughter Of Shanghai
Drole de drame (Bizarre, Bizarre)
Easy Living
Elephant Boy
Every Day's a Holiday
A Family Affair
Fire Over England
The Great Garrick
The Great O'Malley
Green Light
Heidi
Humanity and Paper Balloons
The Hurricane
I Met Him in Paris
It's Love I'm After
J'Accuse
Kid Galahad
Knight Without Armor
La Marseillaise
The Last Gangster
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney
Madame X
The Maid of Salem
Make Way for Tomorrow
Manhattan Merry-Go-Round
Mannequin
Marked Woman
Maytime
Mr. Dodd Takes the Air
New Faces of 1937
Parnell
Pearls of the Crown
Pepe le Moko
The Perfect Specimen
Personal Property
The Plainsman
Quality Street
Ready, Willing, and Able
San Quentin
Saratoga
The Soldier and the Lady
Something to Sing About
Souls at Sea
Springtime in the Rockies
Stand-In
Stolen Holiday
That Certain Woman
They Gave Him a Gun
Thin Ice
Thoroughbreds Don't Cry
Thunder in the City
The Toast of New York
Tovarich
True Confession
Varsity Show
Vogues
Waikiki Wedding
Way Out West
Wee Willie Winkie
Wells Fargo
Wings of the Morning
You Can't Have Everything
You Only Live Once
Young and Innocent
1937
The Awful Truth (1937)
Camille (1937)
Captains Courageous (1937)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Dead End (1937)
The Good Earth (1937)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
100 Men and a Girl (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
A Star is Born (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
They Won't Forget (1937)
Topper (1937)
(August 2003) Best movie of the year goes to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just because I love those Disney movies. I also really enjoyed The Prisoner of Zenda and The Awful Truth. All in all a pretty good year.
Top Ten -- The Awful Truth, Camille, A Day at the Races, Dead End, The Good Earth, Lost Horizon, Night Must Fall, The Prisoner of Zenda, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Topper
Also Seen - The Life of Emile Zola
Camille (1937)
Captains Courageous (1937)
A Day at the Races (1937)
Dead End (1937)
The Good Earth (1937)
In Old Chicago (1937)
Lost Horizon (1937)
Night Must Fall (1937)
Nothing Sacred (1937)
100 Men and a Girl (1937)
The Prisoner of Zenda (1937)
Shall We Dance? (1937)
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)
Stage Door (1937)
A Star is Born (1937)
Stella Dallas (1937)
They Won't Forget (1937)
Topper (1937)
(August 2003) Best movie of the year goes to Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs just because I love those Disney movies. I also really enjoyed The Prisoner of Zenda and The Awful Truth. All in all a pretty good year.
Top Ten -- The Awful Truth, Camille, A Day at the Races, Dead End, The Good Earth, Lost Horizon, Night Must Fall, The Prisoner of Zenda, Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, Topper
Also Seen - The Life of Emile Zola
Saturday, September 20, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1936
Amazing Adventure
Anything Goes
As You Like It
Banjo on My Knee
Beloved Enemy
Big Brown Eyes
The Big Noise
Born to Dance
Bullets or Ballots
Cain and Mabel
Captain January
Ceiling Zero
Craig's Wife
Dancing Pirate
The Devil Doll
Dimples
Dracula's Daughter
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Follow the Fleet
Fury
The Garden of Allah
The General Died at Dawn
General Spanky
Gold Diggers of 1937
The Golden Arrow
The Gorgeous Hussy
Hearts Divided
His Brother's Wife
The Invisible Ray
Isle of Fury
The Last of the Mohicans
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Lloyds of London
Love on the Run
The Lower Depths
Mary of Scotland
Mayerling
A Message to Garcia
The Milky Way
Mr. Thank You
One in a Million
The Only Sun - Ozu
Osaka Elegy
Pennies from Heaven
Pigskin Parade
The Plainsman
The Plough and the Stars
Poppy
The Princess Comes Across
The Prisoner of Shark Island - John Ford
Reefer Madness
Rembrandt
Rhythm of the Range
The Road to Glory
Rose Marie
Satan Met a Lady
Show Boat
Sisters of the Gion
Speed
Stowaway
Suzy
That Girl from Paris
These Three
Thirteen Hours by Air
The Trail of Lonesome Pine
Valiant is the Word for Carrie
The Walking Dead
The Wave
Wedding Present
Whipsaw
Winterset
A Woman Rebels
Anything Goes
As You Like It
Banjo on My Knee
Beloved Enemy
Big Brown Eyes
The Big Noise
Born to Dance
Bullets or Ballots
Cain and Mabel
Captain January
Ceiling Zero
Craig's Wife
Dancing Pirate
The Devil Doll
Dimples
Dracula's Daughter
The Ex-Mrs. Bradford
Follow the Fleet
Fury
The Garden of Allah
The General Died at Dawn
General Spanky
Gold Diggers of 1937
The Golden Arrow
The Gorgeous Hussy
Hearts Divided
His Brother's Wife
The Invisible Ray
Isle of Fury
The Last of the Mohicans
Little Lord Fauntleroy
Lloyds of London
Love on the Run
The Lower Depths
Mary of Scotland
Mayerling
A Message to Garcia
The Milky Way
Mr. Thank You
One in a Million
The Only Sun - Ozu
Osaka Elegy
Pennies from Heaven
Pigskin Parade
The Plainsman
The Plough and the Stars
Poppy
The Princess Comes Across
The Prisoner of Shark Island - John Ford
Reefer Madness
Rembrandt
Rhythm of the Range
The Road to Glory
Rose Marie
Satan Met a Lady
Show Boat
Sisters of the Gion
Speed
Stowaway
Suzy
That Girl from Paris
These Three
Thirteen Hours by Air
The Trail of Lonesome Pine
Valiant is the Word for Carrie
The Walking Dead
The Wave
Wedding Present
Whipsaw
Winterset
A Woman Rebels
1936
After the Thin Man (1936)
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Come and Get It (1936)
Dimples (1936)
Dodsworth (1936)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
A Tale of Two Cities (1936)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Three Smart Girls (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
(July - August 2003) My Man Godfrey is definitely my fave of the year. Modern Times is also a classic to the max. Wife vs. Secretary is good. Otherwise, no real fireworks. It is interesting to note that I was watching these movies during the summer before I started college.
Top Ten -- After the Thin Man, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, The Petrified Forest, Sabotage, Swing Time, Theodora Goes Wild, Wife vs. Secretary
Also Seen -The Great Ziegfeld, Sabotage, Secret Agent
Anthony Adverse (1936)
The Charge of the Light Brigade (1936)
Come and Get It (1936)
Dimples (1936)
Dodsworth (1936)
Libeled Lady (1936)
Modern Times (1936)
Mr. Deeds Goes to Town (1936)
My Man Godfrey (1936)
The Petrified Forest (1936)
Romeo and Juliet (1936)
San Francisco (1936)
The Story of Louis Pasteur (1936)
Swing Time (1936)
A Tale of Two Cities (1936)
Theodora Goes Wild (1936)
Three Smart Girls (1936)
Wife vs. Secretary (1936)
(July - August 2003) My Man Godfrey is definitely my fave of the year. Modern Times is also a classic to the max. Wife vs. Secretary is good. Otherwise, no real fireworks. It is interesting to note that I was watching these movies during the summer before I started college.
Top Ten -- After the Thin Man, Dodsworth, Libeled Lady, Modern Times, My Man Godfrey, The Petrified Forest, Sabotage, Swing Time, Theodora Goes Wild, Wife vs. Secretary
Also Seen -The Great Ziegfeld, Sabotage, Secret Agent
Thursday, September 18, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1935
After Office Hours
Ah, Wilderness!
Air Hawks
Airmail
Alibi Ike
Annie Oakley
Another Face
Barbary Coast
Black Fury
The Black Room
Bonnie Scotland
Bordertown
Break of Hearts
The Bride Comes Home
Broadway Hostess
The Call of the Wild
The Casino Murder Case
China Seas
The Crusades
Curly Top
Dante's Inferno
The Dark Angel
The Devil is a Woman
Dr. Socrates
Escapade
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Folies Bergere
Four Hours to Kill
The Frisco Kid
Front Page Woman
The Gilded Lily
The Girl From 10th Avenue
G-Men
Go into Your Dance
Gold Diggers of 1935
Hands Across the Table
Hooray for Love
I Dream Too Much
I Live My Life
The Irish in Us
The Last Outpost
The Little Colonel
Love Me Forever
Magnificent Obsession
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Murder Man
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
The Night is Young
Our Little Girl
Peter Ibbetson
Princess Tam Tam
Private Worlds
Reckless
Sanders of the River - Korda
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scoundrel
She
Special Agent
Sylvia Scarlett
Thanks a Million
Toni - Jean Renoir
The Whole Town's Talking
Ah, Wilderness!
Air Hawks
Airmail
Alibi Ike
Annie Oakley
Another Face
Barbary Coast
Black Fury
The Black Room
Bonnie Scotland
Bordertown
Break of Hearts
The Bride Comes Home
Broadway Hostess
The Call of the Wild
The Casino Murder Case
China Seas
The Crusades
Curly Top
Dante's Inferno
The Dark Angel
The Devil is a Woman
Dr. Socrates
Escapade
The Farmer Takes a Wife
Folies Bergere
Four Hours to Kill
The Frisco Kid
Front Page Woman
The Gilded Lily
The Girl From 10th Avenue
G-Men
Go into Your Dance
Gold Diggers of 1935
Hands Across the Table
Hooray for Love
I Dream Too Much
I Live My Life
The Irish in Us
The Last Outpost
The Little Colonel
Love Me Forever
Magnificent Obsession
The Man on the Flying Trapeze
The Murder Man
The Mysterious Mr. Wong
The Night is Young
Our Little Girl
Peter Ibbetson
Princess Tam Tam
Private Worlds
Reckless
Sanders of the River - Korda
The Scarlet Pimpernel
The Scoundrel
She
Special Agent
Sylvia Scarlett
Thanks a Million
Toni - Jean Renoir
The Whole Town's Talking
1935
Alice Adams (1935)
Anna Karenina (1935)
Becky Sharp (1935)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Dangerous (1935)
David Copperfield (1935)
The Informer (1935)
Les Miserables (1935)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Raven (1935)
Roberta (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Werewolf of London (1935)
(June 2003) A Night at the Opera is great Marx Brothers. The Bride of Frankenstein, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and Mutiny on the Bounty are also good times. Becky Sharp was the first total color movie.
Top 10 -- The Bride of Frankenstein, David Copperfield, The Informer, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Mark of the Vampire, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, The Raven, The 39 Steps, Werewolf of London
Also Seen - The 39 Steps
Anna Karenina (1935)
Becky Sharp (1935)
The Bride of Frankenstein (1935)
Broadway Melody of 1936 (1935)
Captain Blood (1935)
Dangerous (1935)
David Copperfield (1935)
The Informer (1935)
Les Miserables (1935)
The Lives of a Bengal Lancer (1935)
Mark of the Vampire (1935)
A Midsummer Night’s Dream (1935)
Mutiny on the Bounty (1935)
Naughty Marietta (1935)
A Night at the Opera (1935)
The Raven (1935)
Roberta (1935)
Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)
Top Hat (1935)
Werewolf of London (1935)
(June 2003) A Night at the Opera is great Marx Brothers. The Bride of Frankenstein, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, and Mutiny on the Bounty are also good times. Becky Sharp was the first total color movie.
Top 10 -- The Bride of Frankenstein, David Copperfield, The Informer, The Lives of a Bengal Lancer, Mark of the Vampire, Mutiny on the Bounty, A Night at the Opera, The Raven, The 39 Steps, Werewolf of London
Also Seen - The 39 Steps
Tuesday, September 16, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1934
The Affairs of Cellini
Angele
Anne of Green Gables
Baby Take a Bow
Belle of the Nineties
Call it Murder
Catherine the Great
The Cat's-Paw
Chained
Crossroads of Youth
Dames
El Compadre Mendoza - Mexican film
Evelyn Prentice
Everybody's Woman
Fashions of 1934
Fog Over Frisco
Forsaking All Others
Four Frightened People
Gambling Lady
The Gay Bride
The Girl From Missouri
The Goddess
Here Comes the Navy
Hide-Out
The House of Rothschild
Jimmy the Gent
Judge Priest
L'Atalante
Les Miserables - French version
The Little Minister
Little Miss Marker
The Lost Patrol
Man of Aran
Men in White
The Merry Widow
The Old-Fashioned Way
Operator 13
Our Daily Bread
The Painted Veil
The Private Life of Don Juan
The Richest Girl in the World
Riptide
The Rise of Catherine the Great
The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Six of a Kind
Spitfire
Stand Up and Cheer!
A Story of Floating Weeds - Ozu
This Man is Mine
Treasure Island
Triumph of the Will
Twentieth Century - Hawks
Waltzes from Vienna - Hitchcock
You're Telling Me!
Zouzou
Angele
Anne of Green Gables
Baby Take a Bow
Belle of the Nineties
Call it Murder
Catherine the Great
The Cat's-Paw
Chained
Crossroads of Youth
Dames
El Compadre Mendoza - Mexican film
Evelyn Prentice
Everybody's Woman
Fashions of 1934
Fog Over Frisco
Forsaking All Others
Four Frightened People
Gambling Lady
The Gay Bride
The Girl From Missouri
The Goddess
Here Comes the Navy
Hide-Out
The House of Rothschild
Jimmy the Gent
Judge Priest
L'Atalante
Les Miserables - French version
The Little Minister
Little Miss Marker
The Lost Patrol
Man of Aran
Men in White
The Merry Widow
The Old-Fashioned Way
Operator 13
Our Daily Bread
The Painted Veil
The Private Life of Don Juan
The Richest Girl in the World
Riptide
The Rise of Catherine the Great
The Scarlet Empress
The Scarlet Pimpernel
Six of a Kind
Spitfire
Stand Up and Cheer!
A Story of Floating Weeds - Ozu
This Man is Mine
Treasure Island
Triumph of the Will
Twentieth Century - Hawks
Waltzes from Vienna - Hitchcock
You're Telling Me!
Zouzou
1934
The Barretts of Wimpole Street (1934)
The Black Cat (1934) (B+)
Bright Eyes (1934)
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Cleopatra (1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Flirtation Walk (1934)
Flying Down to Rio (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Imitation of Life (1934) (B-)
It Happened One Night (1934) (A+)
It's a Gift (1934) (C+)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) (B)
Of Human Bondage (1934) (C+)
One Night of Love (1934) (D+)
The Thin Man (1934) (A-)
Viva Villa! (1934)
(February - June 2003) It Happened One Night and The Thin Man are both fantastic.
Top 5 -- The Black Cat, The Gay Divorcee, It Happened One Night, March of the Wooden Soldiers, The Thin Man
Also Seen - The Man Who Knew Too Much (B-)
The Black Cat (1934) (B+)
Bright Eyes (1934)
Charlie Chan in London (1934)
Cleopatra (1934)
The Count of Monte Cristo (1934)
Death Takes a Holiday (1934)
Flirtation Walk (1934)
Flying Down to Rio (1934)
The Gay Divorcee (1934)
Imitation of Life (1934) (B-)
It Happened One Night (1934) (A+)
It's a Gift (1934) (C+)
Manhattan Melodrama (1934)
March of the Wooden Soldiers (1934) (B)
Of Human Bondage (1934) (C+)
One Night of Love (1934) (D+)
The Thin Man (1934) (A-)
Viva Villa! (1934)
(February - June 2003) It Happened One Night and The Thin Man are both fantastic.
Top 5 -- The Black Cat, The Gay Divorcee, It Happened One Night, March of the Wooden Soldiers, The Thin Man
Also Seen - The Man Who Knew Too Much (B-)
Sunday, September 14, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1933
Alice in Wonderland
Ann Vickers
Another Language
Baby Face
The Barbarian
Berkeley Square
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Bombshell
The Bowery
Captured
Christopher Strong
Counsellor at Law
Dancing Lady
Design for Living
The Eagle and the Hawk
Ecstasy
The Emperor Jones - Paul Robeson
Female
Flying Down to Rio
Frisco Jenny
The Ghoul
Going Hollywood
The Great Consoler - Russian film
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Hard to Handle - Mervyn LeRoy
Heroes for Sale
Hold Your Man
I'm No Angel
International House
Japanese Girls at the Harbor - Japanese film
Lady Killer
Land Without Bread - Luis Bunuel
Man's Castle - Frank Borzage
The Mayor of Hell
Night Flight - Gable
Passing Fancy - Yasujiro Ozu
Peg o' My Heart
Prisoner 13
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Roman Scandals
Secrets
Son of Kong
State Fair
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Topaze
Tugboat Annie
20,000 Years in Sing-Sing
The Vampire Bat
When Ladies Meet
Whistling in the Dark
Zero for Conduct - Jean Vigo
Ann Vickers
Another Language
Baby Face
The Barbarian
Berkeley Square
The Bitter Tea of General Yen
Bombshell
The Bowery
Captured
Christopher Strong
Counsellor at Law
Dancing Lady
Design for Living
The Eagle and the Hawk
Ecstasy
The Emperor Jones - Paul Robeson
Female
Flying Down to Rio
Frisco Jenny
The Ghoul
Going Hollywood
The Great Consoler - Russian film
Hallelujah, I'm a Bum
Hard to Handle - Mervyn LeRoy
Heroes for Sale
Hold Your Man
I'm No Angel
International House
Japanese Girls at the Harbor - Japanese film
Lady Killer
Land Without Bread - Luis Bunuel
Man's Castle - Frank Borzage
The Mayor of Hell
Night Flight - Gable
Passing Fancy - Yasujiro Ozu
Peg o' My Heart
Prisoner 13
The Prizefighter and the Lady
Roman Scandals
Secrets
Son of Kong
State Fair
The Testament of Dr. Mabuse
Topaze
Tugboat Annie
20,000 Years in Sing-Sing
The Vampire Bat
When Ladies Meet
Whistling in the Dark
Zero for Conduct - Jean Vigo
1933
Dinner at Eight (1933) B+
Duck Soup (1933) A+
Footlight Parade (1933) B+
42nd Street (1933) B
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Invisible Man (1933) B
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
King Kong (1933) A+
Lady for a Day (1933) B
Little Women (1933) B-
Morning Glory (1933)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) B
Queen Christina (1933) B
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Smilin’ Through (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933) B-
(January - February 2003) Duck Soup rules! The Marx Brothers were great and this movie is gold. King Kong is also incredible. Dinner at Eight and Footlight Parade are also sweet.
Top 5 -- Dinner at Eight, Duck Soup, Footlight Parade, The Invisible Man, King Kong
Also Seen - Cavalcade
Duck Soup (1933) A+
Footlight Parade (1933) B+
42nd Street (1933) B
Gold Diggers of 1933 (1933)
The Invisible Man (1933) B
Island of Lost Souls (1933)
The Kennel Murder Case (1933)
King Kong (1933) A+
Lady for a Day (1933) B
Little Women (1933) B-
Morning Glory (1933)
Mystery of the Wax Museum (1933)
The Private Life of Henry VIII (1933) B
Queen Christina (1933) B
She Done Him Wrong (1933)
Smilin’ Through (1933)
Sons of the Desert (1933) B-
(January - February 2003) Duck Soup rules! The Marx Brothers were great and this movie is gold. King Kong is also incredible. Dinner at Eight and Footlight Parade are also sweet.
Top 5 -- Dinner at Eight, Duck Soup, Footlight Parade, The Invisible Man, King Kong
Also Seen - Cavalcade
Friday, September 12, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1932
Alias the Doctor
American Madness
The Animal Kingdom
Arsene Lupin
Back Street
The Beast of the City
A Bill of Divorcement
Blonde Venus
Boudu Saved from Drowning - Jean Renoir
Broken Lullaby - Lubitsch
Emma
Fanny - French film
I Was Born, But... - Yasujiro Ozu
Love Me Tonight
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Million Dollar Legs - W.C Fields
The Most Dangerous Game
Movie Crazy
The Music Box - Laurel and Hardy
Night at the Crossroads - Jean Renoir
No Man of Her Own
Number Seventeen - Hitchcock
One Way Passage
Polly of the Circus
Red-Headed Woman
The Sign of the Cross
So Big!
Strange Interlude
Three On a Match
20,000 Years in Sing-Sing
Vampyr - Dreyer
What Price Hollyood
White Zombie
Wooden Crosses - French film
American Madness
The Animal Kingdom
Arsene Lupin
Back Street
The Beast of the City
A Bill of Divorcement
Blonde Venus
Boudu Saved from Drowning - Jean Renoir
Broken Lullaby - Lubitsch
Emma
Fanny - French film
I Was Born, But... - Yasujiro Ozu
Love Me Tonight
The Mask of Fu Manchu
Million Dollar Legs - W.C Fields
The Most Dangerous Game
Movie Crazy
The Music Box - Laurel and Hardy
Night at the Crossroads - Jean Renoir
No Man of Her Own
Number Seventeen - Hitchcock
One Way Passage
Polly of the Circus
Red-Headed Woman
The Sign of the Cross
So Big!
Strange Interlude
Three On a Match
20,000 Years in Sing-Sing
Vampyr - Dreyer
What Price Hollyood
White Zombie
Wooden Crosses - French film
1932
The Cabin in the Cotton (1932)
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) B+
A Farewell to Arms (1932) B-
Freaks (1932) A
Grand Hotel (1932) A+
Horse Feathers (1932) B
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) B
Mata Hari (1932)
The Mummy (1932) B
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
The Old Dark House (1932)
One Hour with You (1932)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Scarface (1932) B-
Shanghai Express (1932)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) B-
Trouble in Paradise (1932) B-
(August 2002 - January 2003) I loved Freaks, but I'd probably say Grand Hotel, with Greta Garbo, is my fave of the year. Both are so intriguing. I wish I'd watched more Garbo movies.
Top 5 -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Freaks, Grand Hotel, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Mata Hari
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1932) B+
A Farewell to Arms (1932) B-
Freaks (1932) A
Grand Hotel (1932) A+
Horse Feathers (1932) B
I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang (1932) B
Mata Hari (1932)
The Mummy (1932) B
Murders in the Rue Morgue (1932)
The Old Dark House (1932)
One Hour with You (1932)
Rasputin and the Empress (1932)
Red Dust (1932)
Scarface (1932) B-
Shanghai Express (1932)
Tarzan the Ape Man (1932) B-
Trouble in Paradise (1932) B-
(August 2002 - January 2003) I loved Freaks, but I'd probably say Grand Hotel, with Greta Garbo, is my fave of the year. Both are so intriguing. I wish I'd watched more Garbo movies.
Top 5 -- Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde, Freaks, Grand Hotel, I Am a Fugitive from a Chain Gang, Mata Hari
Wednesday, September 10, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1931
A Nous La Liberte - Rene Clair
Bad Girl - best pic nominee
The Bad Sister - early Davis and Bogart
The Bitch - Jean Renoir
Blonde Crazy - Roy Del Ruth
The Blood of a Poet - Jean Cocteau
A Bronx Morning - short film
A Connecticut Yankee - Will Rogers
The Criminal Code
Dance, Fools, Dance - Crawford/Gable
Dirigible - Capra
Dishonored - Josef von Sternberg
Dracula (Spanish version)
East Lynne - best pic nominee
Enthusiasm - Russian propaganda
A Free Soul - Clark Gable
The Guardsman - oscar noms
Indiscreet - Swanson
Le Million - Rene Clair
Limite - Brazilian film
The Maltese Falcon - original version
Mary - Hitchcock
Night Nurse - Stanwyck
Platinum Blonde - Harlow
Possessed - Crawford
Rich and Strange - Hitchcock
The Secret Six - Beery/Gable/Harlow
The Skin Game - Hitchcock
Smart Money - Cagney
The Smiling Lieutenant - best pic nominee
The Star Witness
Stolen Heaven - Nancy Carroll
The Struggle - D.W. Griffith
Susan Lenox (Her Rise and Fall) - Garbo
Svengali - Barrymore
Tabu - Murnau
The Threepenny Opera - Pabst
Tokyo Chorus - Yasujiro Ozu
Waterloo Bridge - early Bette Davis
Working on the Douro River - Portuguese documentary
Bad Girl - best pic nominee
The Bad Sister - early Davis and Bogart
The Bitch - Jean Renoir
Blonde Crazy - Roy Del Ruth
The Blood of a Poet - Jean Cocteau
A Bronx Morning - short film
A Connecticut Yankee - Will Rogers
The Criminal Code
Dance, Fools, Dance - Crawford/Gable
Dirigible - Capra
Dishonored - Josef von Sternberg
Dracula (Spanish version)
East Lynne - best pic nominee
Enthusiasm - Russian propaganda
A Free Soul - Clark Gable
The Guardsman - oscar noms
Indiscreet - Swanson
Le Million - Rene Clair
Limite - Brazilian film
The Maltese Falcon - original version
Mary - Hitchcock
Night Nurse - Stanwyck
Platinum Blonde - Harlow
Possessed - Crawford
Rich and Strange - Hitchcock
The Secret Six - Beery/Gable/Harlow
The Skin Game - Hitchcock
Smart Money - Cagney
The Smiling Lieutenant - best pic nominee
The Star Witness
Stolen Heaven - Nancy Carroll
The Struggle - D.W. Griffith
Susan Lenox (Her Rise and Fall) - Garbo
Svengali - Barrymore
Tabu - Murnau
The Threepenny Opera - Pabst
Tokyo Chorus - Yasujiro Ozu
Waterloo Bridge - early Bette Davis
Working on the Douro River - Portuguese documentary
1931
Arrowsmith (1931) C+
The Champ (1931) B-
City Lights (1931) A+
Dracula (1931) B+
Five Star Final (1931) B
Frankenstein (1931) B+
The Front Page (1931) B-
M (1931) C+
The Miracle Woman (1931) B-
Monkey Business (1931) B-
The Public Enemy (1931) B
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) C+
Skippy (1931) C+
Trader Horn (1931) C
(July - August 2002) City Lights is definitely my favorite Charlie Chaplin movie. Dracula and Frankenstein are fun. I enjoyed Five Star Final a lot (it's about morals and ethics in the newspaper business).
Also Seen - Cimarron B-
My Top 5 films of the year -- City Lights, Dracula, Five Star Final, Frankenstein, The Public Enemy
The Champ (1931) B-
City Lights (1931) A+
Dracula (1931) B+
Five Star Final (1931) B
Frankenstein (1931) B+
The Front Page (1931) B-
M (1931) C+
The Miracle Woman (1931) B-
Monkey Business (1931) B-
The Public Enemy (1931) B
The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931) C+
Skippy (1931) C+
Trader Horn (1931) C
(July - August 2002) City Lights is definitely my favorite Charlie Chaplin movie. Dracula and Frankenstein are fun. I enjoyed Five Star Final a lot (it's about morals and ethics in the newspaper business).
Also Seen - Cimarron B-
My Top 5 films of the year -- City Lights, Dracula, Five Star Final, Frankenstein, The Public Enemy
Monday, September 8, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1930
Abraham Lincoln - D.W. Griffith
Anna Christie (German version) - Garbo
Au bonheur des dames - French film
Borderline - British film
The Case of Sergeant Grischa - oscar nom
The Devil's Holiday - oscar nom
Earth - Russian film
Feet First - Lloyd
The Green Goddess - oscar nom
Hell's Angels - Jean Harlow
Holiday - oscar nom
Juno and the Paycock - Hitchcock
Just Imagine - oscar nominee
King of Jazz - oscar winner
L'Age d'Or - Bunuel
Laughter - Fredric March
Monte Carlo - Lubitsch
Puttin' on the Ritz - classic musical
Raffles - oscar nom
The Rogue Song - oscar nom
Romance - Garbo
Royal Family of Broadway - Fredric March
Sally - oscar nominee
Salt for Svanetia - Russian documentary
Sarah and Son - oscar nom
The Song of the Flame - oscar nom
Street of Chance - oscar nom
That Night's Wife - Yasujiro Ozu
Under the Roofs of Paris - Rene Clair
The Unholy Three - talkie Chaney
The Vagabond King - oscar nominee
Whoopee! - oscar nominee
With Byrd at South Pole - classic documentary
Anna Christie (German version) - Garbo
Au bonheur des dames - French film
Borderline - British film
The Case of Sergeant Grischa - oscar nom
The Devil's Holiday - oscar nom
Earth - Russian film
Feet First - Lloyd
The Green Goddess - oscar nom
Hell's Angels - Jean Harlow
Holiday - oscar nom
Juno and the Paycock - Hitchcock
Just Imagine - oscar nominee
King of Jazz - oscar winner
L'Age d'Or - Bunuel
Laughter - Fredric March
Monte Carlo - Lubitsch
Puttin' on the Ritz - classic musical
Raffles - oscar nom
The Rogue Song - oscar nom
Romance - Garbo
Royal Family of Broadway - Fredric March
Sally - oscar nominee
Salt for Svanetia - Russian documentary
Sarah and Son - oscar nom
The Song of the Flame - oscar nom
Street of Chance - oscar nom
That Night's Wife - Yasujiro Ozu
Under the Roofs of Paris - Rene Clair
The Unholy Three - talkie Chaney
The Vagabond King - oscar nominee
Whoopee! - oscar nominee
With Byrd at South Pole - classic documentary
1930
The 1930s weren't as rushed for me as the first 30 years of the 20th century. The number of movies per year began to increase. Silent films were pretty much a thing of the past at this point. The Academy Awards were in its third year and history books have given exposure to so many of the nominees. In July 2002, I chose to watch the following nine titles...
Animal Crackers (1930) B-
Anna Christie (1930) B-
The Big House (1930) B
The Big Trail (1930) C
The Blue Angel (1930) B+
The Divorcee (1930) C+
Little Caesar (1930) B+
Min and Bill (1930) B-
Morocco (1930) B-
The Academy's choice for Best Picture that year was All Quiet on the Western Front. I had just seen it a year earlier during my attempt to watch every Best Picture winner. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it since, but I am anxious to revisit. While trying to see as many early Hitchcock's as possible, I had recently seen Murder and chose not to watch it again so soon.
My favorite of the year is the German film The Blue Angel starring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich. It's heartbreaking and the music is so wonderful. Marlene Dietrich also appeared in Morocco that year and got her only Oscar nomination. She was luminous. Another foreign beauty, Greta Garbo, appeared in her first talking film, Anna Christie. It's interesting to imagine how a German and a Swede became two of the greatest stars of the 30s.
Some other great movie stars made early breakthroughs this year, including John Wayne in the western The Big Trail, which is notable as the first movie to be shown in a letterbox format. Wayne wouldn't reach prominence until later in the decade, but Edward G. Robinson became a legendary tough guy thanks to the success of Little Caesar. Marie Dressler became an unlikely household name with her Oscar-winning role in Min and Bill.
My Top 5 films of the year - All Quiet on the Western Front, Anna Christie, The Big House, The Blue Angel, Little Caesar
Also Seen -
All Quiet on the Western Front B+
Murder B-
Animal Crackers (1930) B-
Anna Christie (1930) B-
The Big House (1930) B
The Big Trail (1930) C
The Blue Angel (1930) B+
The Divorcee (1930) C+
Little Caesar (1930) B+
Min and Bill (1930) B-
Morocco (1930) B-
The Academy's choice for Best Picture that year was All Quiet on the Western Front. I had just seen it a year earlier during my attempt to watch every Best Picture winner. Unfortunately, I haven't seen it since, but I am anxious to revisit. While trying to see as many early Hitchcock's as possible, I had recently seen Murder and chose not to watch it again so soon.
My favorite of the year is the German film The Blue Angel starring Emil Jannings and Marlene Dietrich. It's heartbreaking and the music is so wonderful. Marlene Dietrich also appeared in Morocco that year and got her only Oscar nomination. She was luminous. Another foreign beauty, Greta Garbo, appeared in her first talking film, Anna Christie. It's interesting to imagine how a German and a Swede became two of the greatest stars of the 30s.
Some other great movie stars made early breakthroughs this year, including John Wayne in the western The Big Trail, which is notable as the first movie to be shown in a letterbox format. Wayne wouldn't reach prominence until later in the decade, but Edward G. Robinson became a legendary tough guy thanks to the success of Little Caesar. Marie Dressler became an unlikely household name with her Oscar-winning role in Min and Bill.
My Top 5 films of the year - All Quiet on the Western Front, Anna Christie, The Big House, The Blue Angel, Little Caesar
Also Seen -
All Quiet on the Western Front B+
Murder B-
Tuesday, July 29, 2008
1929
Alibi (1929) C
The Cocoanuts (1929) B-
Disraeli (1929) B
Films I've Also Seen -
Blackmail (1929) B-
The Broadway Melody (1929) C+
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Films I Haven't Seen -
Applause (1929) - Rouben Mamoulian
Big Business (1929) - Laurel and Hardy
The Big Pond (1929) - Chevalier/Colbert
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) - Oscar winner
Bulldog Drummond (1929) - Ronald Colman
Captain Fracasse (1929) - French film
Condemned! (1929) - Ronald Colman
Coquette (1929) - Pickford
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) - Pabst
The Divine Lady (1929) - oscar winner
Drag (1929) - Oscar nominee/Barthelmess
Dynamite (1929) - Cecil B. DeMille
The Great Gabbo (1929) - von Stroheim
Hallelujah (1929) - King Vidor
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) - best pic nominee
In Old Arizona (1929) - best pic nominee
The Iron Mask (1929) - Fairbanks Sr.
Laila (1929) - Norwegian film
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) - Norma Shearer
The Leatherneck (1929) - classic Western
The Love Parade (1929) - best pic nominee
Madame X (1929) - oscar nominee
The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - documentary
The Manxman (1929) - Hitchcock
Monkey's Moon (1929) - British nature short
The New Babylon (1929) - Russian film
The New Gentleman (1929) - French film
Pandora's Box (1929) - Brooks/Pabst
Queen Kelly (1929) - Stroheim/Swanson
Sally (1929) - Oscar nominee
Seduction (1929) - Czech film
Spite Marriage (1929) - Keaton,
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) - Pickford/Fairbanks
Their Own Desire (1929) - Norma Shearer
Thunderbolt (1929) - von Sternberg
The Trespasser (1929) - Swanson
Untamed (1929) - first Joan Crawford talkie
The Valiant (1929) - Oscar nominee/Paul Muni
The Virginian (1929) - Gary Cooper
Weary River (1929) - Barthelmess
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929) - Fritz Lang
Wonder of Women (1929) - lost Oscar nom
The Cocoanuts (1929) B-
Disraeli (1929) B
Films I've Also Seen -
Blackmail (1929) B-
The Broadway Melody (1929) C+
Un Chien Andalou (1929)
Films I Haven't Seen -
Applause (1929) - Rouben Mamoulian
Big Business (1929) - Laurel and Hardy
The Big Pond (1929) - Chevalier/Colbert
The Bridge of San Luis Rey (1929) - Oscar winner
Bulldog Drummond (1929) - Ronald Colman
Captain Fracasse (1929) - French film
Condemned! (1929) - Ronald Colman
Coquette (1929) - Pickford
Diary of a Lost Girl (1929) - Pabst
The Divine Lady (1929) - oscar winner
Drag (1929) - Oscar nominee/Barthelmess
Dynamite (1929) - Cecil B. DeMille
The Great Gabbo (1929) - von Stroheim
Hallelujah (1929) - King Vidor
The Hollywood Revue of 1929 (1929) - best pic nominee
In Old Arizona (1929) - best pic nominee
The Iron Mask (1929) - Fairbanks Sr.
Laila (1929) - Norwegian film
The Last of Mrs. Cheyney (1929) - Norma Shearer
The Leatherneck (1929) - classic Western
The Love Parade (1929) - best pic nominee
Madame X (1929) - oscar nominee
The Man with the Movie Camera (1929) - documentary
The Manxman (1929) - Hitchcock
Monkey's Moon (1929) - British nature short
The New Babylon (1929) - Russian film
The New Gentleman (1929) - French film
Pandora's Box (1929) - Brooks/Pabst
Queen Kelly (1929) - Stroheim/Swanson
Sally (1929) - Oscar nominee
Seduction (1929) - Czech film
Spite Marriage (1929) - Keaton,
The Taming of the Shrew (1929) - Pickford/Fairbanks
Their Own Desire (1929) - Norma Shearer
Thunderbolt (1929) - von Sternberg
The Trespasser (1929) - Swanson
Untamed (1929) - first Joan Crawford talkie
The Valiant (1929) - Oscar nominee/Paul Muni
The Virginian (1929) - Gary Cooper
Weary River (1929) - Barthelmess
Woman in the Moon (Frau im Mond) (1929) - Fritz Lang
Wonder of Women (1929) - lost Oscar nom
1928
The Last Command (1928) B
The Circus (1928) B-The Crowd (1928) B-
Steamboat Bill Jr. (1928) B-
Films I Haven't Seen -
Arsenal (1928) - Russian epic
The Awakening (1928) - lost Oscar nominee
The Barker (1928) - Oscar nominee
The Battle of the Sexes (1928) - D. W. Griffith
Beggars of Life (1928) - Louise Brooks
The Cameraman (1928) - Keaton
Champagne (1928) - Hitchcock
The Cop (1928) - Oscar nom
The Divine Woman (1928) - Garbo
The Docks of New York (1928) - Josef von Sternberg
The Drag Net (1928) - von Sternberg
Easy Virtue (1928) - Hitchcock
The Farmer's Wife (1928) - Hitchcock
4 Devils (1928) - lost Oscar nom
A Girl in Every Port (1928) - Louise Brooks
Glorious Betsy (1928) - lost Oscar nominee
Hangman's House (1928) - John Ford
The Italian Straw Hat (1928) - Rene Clair
L'Argent (1928) - French film
Laugh, Clown, Laugh (1928) - Chaney
Leave 'Em Laughing (1928) - Laurel and Hardy
Lights of New York (1928) - first complete talkie
The Little Match Girl (1928) - Jean Renoir
Lonesome (1928) - romantic drama
The Man Who Laughs (1928) - classic horror
The Mysterious Lady (1928) - Garbo
Noah's Ark (1928) - classic epic
The Noose (1928) - Barthelmess
Our Dancing Daughters (1928) - Joan Crawford
The Passion of Joan of Arc (1928) - Dreyer
The Patriot (1928) - best pic nominee/lost film
The Racket (1928) - best pic nominee
Sadie Thompson (1928) - Swanson
Sal of Singapore (1928) - lost Oscar nom
A Ship Comes In (1928) - Louise Dresser
Show People (1928) - King Vidor
Skyscraper (1928) - Oscar nom
Speedy (1928) - Lloyd
Spione (1928) - Fritz Lang
Steamboat Willie (1928) - Mickey Mouse
Storm Over Asia (1928) - Russian film
Street Angel (1928) - Janet Gaynor
Tempest (1928) - Barrymore
Two Tars (1928) - Laurel and Hardy
Underground (1928) - Anthony Asquith
West of Zanzibar (1928) - Chaney
The Wedding March (1928) - von Stroheim
White Shadows in the South Seas (1928) - Oscar winner
The Wind (1928) - Gish
A Woman of Affairs (1928) - Garbo
Monday, July 28, 2008
1927
Metropolis (1927) B-
The Cat and the Canary (1927) B-
The General (1927) B-
It (1927) C+
Sunrise (1927) B-
The Jazz Singer (1927) B+
Seventh Heaven (1927) C+
Films I've Also Seen -
Wings (1927) B
The Lodger (1927) B
Films I Haven't Seen -
Annie Laurie - Lillian Gish
Chang (1927) - documentary
College (1927) - Buster Keaton
The Devil Dancer (1927) - lost Oscar nominee
The Dove (1927) - lost Oscar winner
Downhill (1927) - Hitchcock
Easy Virtue (1927) - Hitchcock
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) - Russian documentary
The Gaucho (1927) - Fairbanks Sr.
Hotel Imperial (1927) - Pola Negri
The Kid Brother (1927) - Harold Lloyd
The King of Kings (1927) - Cecil B. DeMille
London After Midnight (1927) - Lon Chaney
Long Pants (1927) - Capra/Langdon
Love (1927) - Greta Garbo
The Love of Sunya (1927) - Swanson
The Magic Flame (1927) - lost Oscar nominee
Napoleon (1927) - Abel Gance
The Ring (1927) - Hitchcock
The Patent Leather Kid (1927) - Barthelmess
Sorrell and Son (1927) - lost Oscar nominee
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) - Novarro/Shearer
The Three-Sided Mirror (1927) - French film
Twelve Miles Out (1927) - John Gilbert
Two Arabian Knights (1927) - Lewis Milestone
Underworld (1927) - Josef von Sternberg
The Way of All Flesh (1927) - best pic nominee
The Cat and the Canary (1927) B-
The General (1927) B-
It (1927) C+
Sunrise (1927) B-
The Jazz Singer (1927) B+
Seventh Heaven (1927) C+
Films I've Also Seen -
Wings (1927) B
The Lodger (1927) B
Films I Haven't Seen -
Annie Laurie - Lillian Gish
Chang (1927) - documentary
College (1927) - Buster Keaton
The Devil Dancer (1927) - lost Oscar nominee
The Dove (1927) - lost Oscar winner
Downhill (1927) - Hitchcock
Easy Virtue (1927) - Hitchcock
The Fall of the Romanov Dynasty (1927) - Russian documentary
The Gaucho (1927) - Fairbanks Sr.
Hotel Imperial (1927) - Pola Negri
The Kid Brother (1927) - Harold Lloyd
The King of Kings (1927) - Cecil B. DeMille
London After Midnight (1927) - Lon Chaney
Long Pants (1927) - Capra/Langdon
Love (1927) - Greta Garbo
The Love of Sunya (1927) - Swanson
The Magic Flame (1927) - lost Oscar nominee
Napoleon (1927) - Abel Gance
The Ring (1927) - Hitchcock
The Patent Leather Kid (1927) - Barthelmess
Sorrell and Son (1927) - lost Oscar nominee
The Student Prince in Old Heidelberg (1927) - Novarro/Shearer
The Three-Sided Mirror (1927) - French film
Twelve Miles Out (1927) - John Gilbert
Two Arabian Knights (1927) - Lewis Milestone
Underworld (1927) - Josef von Sternberg
The Way of All Flesh (1927) - best pic nominee
1926
I haven't seen anything from 1926!
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) - first animated feature
Battling Butler (1926) - Buster Keaton
Beau Geste (1926) - Ronald Colman
The Black Pirate (1926) - Fairbanks Sr.
Camille (1926) - Norma Talmadge
Don Juan (1926) - John Barrymore
Dura Lex (1926) - Russian film
Faust (1926) - F.W. Murnau
Flesh and the Devil (1926) - Greta Garbo
For Heaven's Sake (1926) - Harold Lloyd
La Boheme (1926) - Gish/Gilbert
Mantrap (1926) - Clara Bow
Moana (1926) - Robert J. Flaherty
Mother (1926) - Russian film
The Mountain Eagle (1926)- Hitchcock
A Page of Madness (1926) - Japanese film
The Scarlet Letter (1926) - Lillian Gish
The Son of the Sheik (1926) - Valentino
Sparrows (1926) - Mary Pickford
The Strong Man (1926) - Capra/Langdon
The Temptress (1926) - Greta Garbo
Torrent (1926) - Greta Garbo
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp - Langdon/Crawford
What Price Glory? (1926) - Ford/Walsh
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Adventures of Prince Achmed (1926) - first animated feature
Battling Butler (1926) - Buster Keaton
Beau Geste (1926) - Ronald Colman
The Black Pirate (1926) - Fairbanks Sr.
Camille (1926) - Norma Talmadge
Don Juan (1926) - John Barrymore
Dura Lex (1926) - Russian film
Faust (1926) - F.W. Murnau
Flesh and the Devil (1926) - Greta Garbo
For Heaven's Sake (1926) - Harold Lloyd
La Boheme (1926) - Gish/Gilbert
Mantrap (1926) - Clara Bow
Moana (1926) - Robert J. Flaherty
Mother (1926) - Russian film
The Mountain Eagle (1926)- Hitchcock
A Page of Madness (1926) - Japanese film
The Scarlet Letter (1926) - Lillian Gish
The Son of the Sheik (1926) - Valentino
Sparrows (1926) - Mary Pickford
The Strong Man (1926) - Capra/Langdon
The Temptress (1926) - Greta Garbo
Torrent (1926) - Greta Garbo
Tramp, Tramp, Tramp - Langdon/Crawford
What Price Glory? (1926) - Ford/Walsh
Saturday, July 26, 2008
1925
Battleship Potemkin (1925) C+
The Phantom of the Opera (1925) B+
Films I've Also Seen - The Gold Rush (1925) A-
Films I Haven't Seen -
Body and Soul - Micheaux/Robeson
Chess Fever - Russian film
Clash of the Wolves (1925) - Rin Tin Tin
Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) - Fairbanks Sr.
The Eagle (1925) - Valentino
The Freshman (1925) - Lloyd
Go West (1925) - Keaton
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) - documentary
Joyless Street (1925) - Garbo
The Lost World (1925) - classic sci-fi
Master of the House (1925) - Dreyer
The Merry Widow (1925) - Stroheim/Gilbert
Paris Qui Dort (The Crazy Ray) (1915) - Rene Clair
The Plastic Age (1925) - Clara Bow
The Pleasure Garden (1925) - Hitchcock
Seven Chances (1925) - Keaton
Strike (1925) - Eisenstein
Tartuffe (1925) - Murnau
The Unholy Three (1925) - silent Chaney
Ben-Hur (1925) B-
The Big Parade (1925) B-The Phantom of the Opera (1925) B+
Films I've Also Seen - The Gold Rush (1925) A-
Films I Haven't Seen -
Body and Soul - Micheaux/Robeson
Chess Fever - Russian film
Clash of the Wolves (1925) - Rin Tin Tin
Don Q Son of Zorro (1925) - Fairbanks Sr.
The Eagle (1925) - Valentino
The Freshman (1925) - Lloyd
Go West (1925) - Keaton
Grass: A Nation's Battle for Life (1925) - documentary
Joyless Street (1925) - Garbo
The Lost World (1925) - classic sci-fi
Master of the House (1925) - Dreyer
The Merry Widow (1925) - Stroheim/Gilbert
Paris Qui Dort (The Crazy Ray) (1915) - Rene Clair
The Plastic Age (1925) - Clara Bow
The Pleasure Garden (1925) - Hitchcock
Seven Chances (1925) - Keaton
Strike (1925) - Eisenstein
Tartuffe (1925) - Murnau
The Unholy Three (1925) - silent Chaney
1924
Greed (1924) B
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) A
The Navigator (1924) B
Sherlock Jr. (1924) B
Films I Haven't Seen -
America (1924) - D.W. Griffith feature
Ballet Mecanique - French video art
The Chechahcos - National Film Registry selection
Forbidden Paradise (1924) - Pola Negri
Girl Shy (1924) - Harold Lloyd
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) - Lon Chaney
Hot Water (1924) - Harold Lloyd
The Iron Horse (1924) - John Ford
The Last Laugh (1924) - F.W. Murnau
The Marriage Circle (1924) - Ernst Lubitsch
Michael (1924) - Dreyer
Peter Pan (1924) - classic silent
The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924) - Greta Garbo
Siegfried's Death (1924) - Fritz Lang
The Thief of Bagdad (1924) A
The Navigator (1924) B
Sherlock Jr. (1924) B
Films I Haven't Seen -
America (1924) - D.W. Griffith feature
Ballet Mecanique - French video art
The Chechahcos - National Film Registry selection
Forbidden Paradise (1924) - Pola Negri
Girl Shy (1924) - Harold Lloyd
He Who Gets Slapped (1924) - Lon Chaney
Hot Water (1924) - Harold Lloyd
The Iron Horse (1924) - John Ford
The Last Laugh (1924) - F.W. Murnau
The Marriage Circle (1924) - Ernst Lubitsch
Michael (1924) - Dreyer
Peter Pan (1924) - classic silent
The Saga of Gosta Berling (1924) - Greta Garbo
Siegfried's Death (1924) - Fritz Lang
Friday, July 25, 2008
1923
Safety Last (1923) B+
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) B
The Ten Commandments (1923) C
Films I've Also Seen - The Pilgrim (1923)
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Balloonatic (1923) - Buster Keaton
The Covered Wagon (1923) - classic western
The Love Nest (1923) - Buster Keaton
Our Hospitality (1923) - Buster Keaton
Scaramouche (1923) - Lewis Stone/Ramon Novarro
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) - French feminist film
Three Ages (1923) - Buster Keaton
Why Worry? (1923) - Harold Lloyd
A Woman of Paris (1923) - Charlie Chaplin
The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1923) B
The Ten Commandments (1923) C
Films I've Also Seen - The Pilgrim (1923)
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Balloonatic (1923) - Buster Keaton
The Covered Wagon (1923) - classic western
The Love Nest (1923) - Buster Keaton
Our Hospitality (1923) - Buster Keaton
Scaramouche (1923) - Lewis Stone/Ramon Novarro
The Smiling Madame Beudet (1923) - French feminist film
Three Ages (1923) - Buster Keaton
Why Worry? (1923) - Harold Lloyd
A Woman of Paris (1923) - Charlie Chaplin
1922
Nosferatu (1922) B+
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Blacksmith (1922) - Keaton
Blood and Sand (1922) - Valentino
Cops (1922) - Keaton
Daydreams (1922) - Keaton
Dr. Jack (1922) - Lloyd
Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler (1922) - Fritz Lang
The Electric House (1922) - Keaton
Foolish Wives (1922) - Erich von Stroheim
The Frozen North (1922) - Keaton
Grandma's Boy (1922) - Lloyd
Haxan (1922) - famous witchcraft movie/Criterion
My Wife's Relations (1922) - Keaton
Nanook of the North (1922) - classic documentary
The Paleface (1922) - Keaton
The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) - Lewis Stone/Ramon Novarro
Robin Hood (1922) - Fairbanks Sr.
Sherlock Holmes (1922) - John Barrymore
Tess of the Storm Country (1922) - Pickford
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Blacksmith (1922) - Keaton
Blood and Sand (1922) - Valentino
Cops (1922) - Keaton
Daydreams (1922) - Keaton
Dr. Jack (1922) - Lloyd
Dr. Mabuse - The Gambler (1922) - Fritz Lang
The Electric House (1922) - Keaton
Foolish Wives (1922) - Erich von Stroheim
The Frozen North (1922) - Keaton
Grandma's Boy (1922) - Lloyd
Haxan (1922) - famous witchcraft movie/Criterion
My Wife's Relations (1922) - Keaton
Nanook of the North (1922) - classic documentary
The Paleface (1922) - Keaton
The Prisoner of Zenda (1922) - Lewis Stone/Ramon Novarro
Robin Hood (1922) - Fairbanks Sr.
Sherlock Holmes (1922) - John Barrymore
Tess of the Storm Country (1922) - Pickford
Thursday, July 24, 2008
1921
The Sheik (1921) A+
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Ace of Hearts (1921) - Lon Chaney
The Affairs of Anatol (1921) - DeMille/Swanson
Among Those Present (1921) - Harold Lloyd
Between Two Worlds (1921) - Fritz Lang
The Boat (1921) - Buster Keaton
Brewster's Millions (1921) - Fatty Arbuckle comedy
Camille (1921) - Valentino
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1921) - Valentino
The Goat (1921) - Keaton
Hard Luck (1921) - Keaton
The Haunted House (1921) - Keaton
The 'High Sign' (1921) - Keaton
I Do (1921) - Lloyd
The Kid (1921) - Chaplin
Little Lord Faunteroy (1921) - Mary Pickford
Never Weaken (1921) - Lloyd
Now or Never (1921) - Lloyd
Orphans of the Storm (1921) - Griffith/Gish
The Play House (1921) - Keaton
A Sailor-Made Man (1921) - Lloyd
The Three Musketeers (1921) - Fairbanks Sr.
Tol'able David (1921) - Richard Barthelmess
Films I Haven't Seen -
The Ace of Hearts (1921) - Lon Chaney
The Affairs of Anatol (1921) - DeMille/Swanson
Among Those Present (1921) - Harold Lloyd
Between Two Worlds (1921) - Fritz Lang
The Boat (1921) - Buster Keaton
Brewster's Millions (1921) - Fatty Arbuckle comedy
Camille (1921) - Valentino
The Four Horseman of the Apocalypse (1921) - Valentino
The Goat (1921) - Keaton
Hard Luck (1921) - Keaton
The Haunted House (1921) - Keaton
The 'High Sign' (1921) - Keaton
I Do (1921) - Lloyd
The Kid (1921) - Chaplin
Little Lord Faunteroy (1921) - Mary Pickford
Never Weaken (1921) - Lloyd
Now or Never (1921) - Lloyd
Orphans of the Storm (1921) - Griffith/Gish
The Play House (1921) - Keaton
A Sailor-Made Man (1921) - Lloyd
The Three Musketeers (1921) - Fairbanks Sr.
Tol'able David (1921) - Richard Barthelmess
1920
Way Down East (1920) B
Films I Haven't Seen -
Convict 13 (1920) - Buster Keaton
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) - John Barrymore
An Eastern Westerner (1920) - Harold Lloyd
Get Out and Get Under (1920) - Harold Lloyd
The Golem (1920) - classic German horror
Haunted Spooks (1920) - Harold Lloyd
High and Dizzy (1920) - Harold Lloyd
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) - Wallace Beery
The Mark of Zorro (1920) - Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Neighbors (1920) - Buster Keaton
Number Please? (1920) - Harold Lloyd
One Week (1920) - Buster Keaton
The Parson's Wife (1920) - Dreyer
Pollyanna - Mary Pickford
The Saphead (1920) - Buster Keaton
The Scarecrow (1920) - Buster Keaton
The Toll Gate (1920) - William S. Hart western
Within Our Gates (1920) - controversial classic
Films I Haven't Seen -
Convict 13 (1920) - Buster Keaton
Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920) - John Barrymore
An Eastern Westerner (1920) - Harold Lloyd
Get Out and Get Under (1920) - Harold Lloyd
The Golem (1920) - classic German horror
Haunted Spooks (1920) - Harold Lloyd
High and Dizzy (1920) - Harold Lloyd
The Last of the Mohicans (1920) - Wallace Beery
The Mark of Zorro (1920) - Douglas Fairbanks Sr.
Neighbors (1920) - Buster Keaton
Number Please? (1920) - Harold Lloyd
One Week (1920) - Buster Keaton
The Parson's Wife (1920) - Dreyer
Pollyanna - Mary Pickford
The Saphead (1920) - Buster Keaton
The Scarecrow (1920) - Buster Keaton
The Toll Gate (1920) - William S. Hart western
Within Our Gates (1920) - controversial classic
Wednesday, July 23, 2008
Films I Haven't Seen - 1900-1919
The following is a tentative list of shorts and feature films that I haven't seen during the 1900-1919 era. So many are now available on DVD or YouTube, so I should be able to catch up on what I missed from these 20 years.
The Red Man's View (1909) - Griffith
The Sealed Room (1909) - Griffith
In the Border States (1910) - Griffith
The Unchanging Sea (1910) - Griffith
The Usurer (1910) - Griffith
Enoch Arden (1911) - Griffith
His Trust (1911) - Griffith
The Last Drop of Water (1911) - Griffith
The Miser's Heart (1911) - Griffith
What Shall We Do With Our Old? (1911) - Griffith
The Burglar's Dilemma (1912) - Griffith
The Female of the Species (1912) - Griffith
For His Son (1912) - Griffith
Friends (1912) - Griffith
From the Manger to the Cross (1912) - early religious film
The Girl and Her Trust (1912) - Griffith
The Lesser Evil (1912) - Griffith
The New York Hat (1912) - Griffith
One is Business, The Other Crime (1912) - Griffith
The Painted Lady (1912) - Griffith
Richard III (1912) - oldest surviving full-length film
The Sunbeam (1912) - Griffith
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) - Griffith
Death's Marathon (1913) - Griffith
Fantômas (1913) - French crime/detective film
The House of Darkness (1913) - Griffith
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) - Italian epic
The Mothering Heart (1913) - Griffith
Traffic in Souls (1913)
The Avenging Conscience, or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914) - Griffith
Cabiria (1914) - early Italian film
Judith of Bethulia (1914) - Griffith epic available on YouTube
The Massacre (1914) - Griffith
The Perils of Pauline (1914) - unavailable Pearl White serial
The Squaw Man (1914) - first DeMille film
The Cheat (1915)
Les Vampires (1915) - famed horror serial
Regeneration (1915) - early Raoul Walsh film
The Tramp (1915) - Chaplin
Civilization (1916) - early epic from Thomas Ince
The Curse of Quon Gwon - early Chinese film
Hell's Hinges (1916) - William S. Hart western
Judex (1916) - Louis Feuillade serial
The Rink (1916) - Chaplin
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Cleopatra (1917) - lost Theda Bara film
Easy Street (1917) - Chaplin
The Immigrant (1917) - Chaplin
A Little Princess (1917) - Pickford
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) - Pickford
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) - Pickford
The Silent Man (1917) - William S. Hart western
The Blue Bird (1918) - National Film Registry selection
Stella Maris (1918) - Pickford
Tarzan of the Apes (1918) - Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan
Ask Father (1919) - Harold Lloyd
Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919) - Harold Lloyd
Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith/Gish
Bumping into Broadway (1919) - Harold Lloyd
The Busher (1919) - John Gilbert
From Hand to Mouth (1919) - Harold Lloyd
The Doll (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch
J'accuse! (1919) - Abel Gance war film
Madame DuBarry (1919) - Negri/Jannings/Lubitsch
Male and Female (1919) - Gloria Swanson
The Oyster Princess (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch
True Heart Susie (1919) - D.W. Griffith
There are many films from this era that are considered lost. Amazing to think that it's been 100+ years. Also there are lots of shorts from D.W. Griffith, as well as Charlie Chaplin, and some early shorts from Harold Lloyd that I haven't had a chance to see.
One day...
The Red Man's View (1909) - Griffith
The Sealed Room (1909) - Griffith
In the Border States (1910) - Griffith
The Unchanging Sea (1910) - Griffith
The Usurer (1910) - Griffith
Enoch Arden (1911) - Griffith
His Trust (1911) - Griffith
The Last Drop of Water (1911) - Griffith
The Miser's Heart (1911) - Griffith
What Shall We Do With Our Old? (1911) - Griffith
The Burglar's Dilemma (1912) - Griffith
The Female of the Species (1912) - Griffith
For His Son (1912) - Griffith
Friends (1912) - Griffith
From the Manger to the Cross (1912) - early religious film
The Girl and Her Trust (1912) - Griffith
The Lesser Evil (1912) - Griffith
The New York Hat (1912) - Griffith
One is Business, The Other Crime (1912) - Griffith
The Painted Lady (1912) - Griffith
Richard III (1912) - oldest surviving full-length film
The Sunbeam (1912) - Griffith
The Battle at Elderbush Gulch (1913) - Griffith
Death's Marathon (1913) - Griffith
Fantômas (1913) - French crime/detective film
The House of Darkness (1913) - Griffith
The Last Days of Pompeii (1913) - Italian epic
The Mothering Heart (1913) - Griffith
Traffic in Souls (1913)
The Avenging Conscience, or 'Thou Shalt Not Kill' (1914) - Griffith
Cabiria (1914) - early Italian film
Judith of Bethulia (1914) - Griffith epic available on YouTube
The Massacre (1914) - Griffith
The Perils of Pauline (1914) - unavailable Pearl White serial
The Squaw Man (1914) - first DeMille film
The Cheat (1915)
Les Vampires (1915) - famed horror serial
Regeneration (1915) - early Raoul Walsh film
The Tramp (1915) - Chaplin
Civilization (1916) - early epic from Thomas Ince
The Curse of Quon Gwon - early Chinese film
Hell's Hinges (1916) - William S. Hart western
Judex (1916) - Louis Feuillade serial
The Rink (1916) - Chaplin
20,000 Leagues Under the Sea (1916)
Cleopatra (1917) - lost Theda Bara film
Easy Street (1917) - Chaplin
The Immigrant (1917) - Chaplin
A Little Princess (1917) - Pickford
The Poor Little Rich Girl (1917) - Pickford
Rebecca of Sunnybrook Farm (1917) - Pickford
The Silent Man (1917) - William S. Hart western
The Blue Bird (1918) - National Film Registry selection
Stella Maris (1918) - Pickford
Tarzan of the Apes (1918) - Elmo Lincoln as Tarzan
Ask Father (1919) - Harold Lloyd
Billy Blazes, Esq. (1919) - Harold Lloyd
Broken Blossoms (1919) - Griffith/Gish
Bumping into Broadway (1919) - Harold Lloyd
The Busher (1919) - John Gilbert
From Hand to Mouth (1919) - Harold Lloyd
The Doll (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch
J'accuse! (1919) - Abel Gance war film
Madame DuBarry (1919) - Negri/Jannings/Lubitsch
Male and Female (1919) - Gloria Swanson
The Oyster Princess (1919) - Ernst Lubitsch
True Heart Susie (1919) - D.W. Griffith
There are many films from this era that are considered lost. Amazing to think that it's been 100+ years. Also there are lots of shorts from D.W. Griffith, as well as Charlie Chaplin, and some early shorts from Harold Lloyd that I haven't had a chance to see.
One day...
1900-1919
The 20th century begins! And with it, so did my adventure.
I began in June 2002 with four movies from the silent era...
The Great Train Robbery (1903) B
Tillie's Punctured Romance (1914) C+
Intolerance (1916) B+
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) B+
As you can see, I missed out on quite a number of classic titles from the era. This was mainly due to availability issues at the time. I hadn't yet heard of Netflix so I had to work with what I could get a hold of the old fashioned way. I was about to be a Senior in high school and didn't know as much about film as I do now. I had just seen The Birth of a Nation (1915) when I was trying to watch all 100 of AFI's top 100 list from 1998. I felt I had seen it too recently to include on the adventure.
Of the four I chose to watch, I'd say that each has some form of merit for a movie fan. The Great Train Robbery is an exciting little short. Tillie's Punctured Romance is notable for being Charlie Chaplin's first feature. Intolerance is the most ambitious, and it's very impressive. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is certainly the most intriguing with it's German expressionist sets and cinematography.
Over the years, I've managed to see a few films from this era that had escaped me back in '02. Thanks to the wonder of YouTube, I was able to check out some early D.W. Griffith, as well as the famous A Trip to the Moon (1902).
There are still a lot of films that I'd like to see. The early days of silent film offer more gems from film pioneers like D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Lillian Gish, etc. I will go into more detail in future posts.
Also Seen From This Era-
A Trip to the Moon (1902) A
The Night Before Christmas (1905)
The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Those Awful Hats (1909)
Frankenstein (1910)
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
The Birth of a Nation (1915) A-
One A.M. (1916)
A Dog's Life (1918)
Shoulder Arms (1918)
I began in June 2002 with four movies from the silent era...
The Great Train Robbery (1903) BTillie's Punctured Romance (1914) C+
Intolerance (1916) B+
The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari (1919) B+
As you can see, I missed out on quite a number of classic titles from the era. This was mainly due to availability issues at the time. I hadn't yet heard of Netflix so I had to work with what I could get a hold of the old fashioned way. I was about to be a Senior in high school and didn't know as much about film as I do now. I had just seen The Birth of a Nation (1915) when I was trying to watch all 100 of AFI's top 100 list from 1998. I felt I had seen it too recently to include on the adventure.
Of the four I chose to watch, I'd say that each has some form of merit for a movie fan. The Great Train Robbery is an exciting little short. Tillie's Punctured Romance is notable for being Charlie Chaplin's first feature. Intolerance is the most ambitious, and it's very impressive. The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari is certainly the most intriguing with it's German expressionist sets and cinematography.
Over the years, I've managed to see a few films from this era that had escaped me back in '02. Thanks to the wonder of YouTube, I was able to check out some early D.W. Griffith, as well as the famous A Trip to the Moon (1902).There are still a lot of films that I'd like to see. The early days of silent film offer more gems from film pioneers like D.W. Griffith, Charlie Chaplin, Lillian Gish, etc. I will go into more detail in future posts.
Also Seen From This Era-
A Trip to the Moon (1902) A
The Night Before Christmas (1905)
The Adventures of Dollie (1908)
A Corner in Wheat (1909)
Those Awful Hats (1909)
Frankenstein (1910)
An Unseen Enemy (1912)
The Musketeers of Pig Alley (1912)
The Birth of a Nation (1915) A-
One A.M. (1916)
A Dog's Life (1918)
Shoulder Arms (1918)
Tuesday, July 22, 2008
The Kiss (1896)
Perhaps the most famous of the short, experimental moving pictures of the late 1890s, The Kiss depicts an older, seemingly aristocratic (and let's face it, unattractive) couple kissing. It lasts a mere 20 seconds and was produced by Thomas Edison in 1896.
May Irwin and John C. Rice play the famous couple. This film is actually a reenactment of the final scene of the stage musical, The Widow Jones, in which the actors appeared.
History maintains that this brief image caused an outrage for its 'indecency', prompting an early demand for film censorship. What an impact for what, when compared to 21st century standards, appears to be a slight achievement.
May Irwin and John C. Rice play the famous couple. This film is actually a reenactment of the final scene of the stage musical, The Widow Jones, in which the actors appeared.History maintains that this brief image caused an outrage for its 'indecency', prompting an early demand for film censorship. What an impact for what, when compared to 21st century standards, appears to be a slight achievement.
Early Cinema
The whole of my adventure consists of feature-length films (with one notable exception) released after 1900. It is worth noting, however, that there are a number of great short films released before the 20th century that I'd still like to discuss, having seen them since I began 'adventuring'.
Mavericks of technology like Thomas Edison, The Lumiere Brothers, and Louis Le Prince are credited as the most famous early filmmakers. Known for inventing the art of motion pictures, Edison developed the Kinetoscope, which was an early film projector. Edison went on to produce a number of experimental short films in the late 1890s, including The Kiss (1896). His film Blacksmith Scene (1893) is said to be the first Edison company film made for commercial distribution. It is currently the oldest film on the National Film Registry and is given credit as the starting point in the American motion picture industry.
The Lumiere Brothers (Auguste and Louis) did a lot with the advancement camera processes, later abandoning motion pictures for photography. One of their major contributions to film is Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896). This film features a train coming towards the camera, which is said to have frightened moviegoers in its day due to its realistic cinematography.
Le Prince (who is said to have mysteriously vanished!) actually preceded them all in filmmaking by using a single-lens camera and paper film to make Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) and Roundhay Garden Scene (1888). The latter (pictured below) is considered to be the earliest surviving film!
Mavericks of technology like Thomas Edison, The Lumiere Brothers, and Louis Le Prince are credited as the most famous early filmmakers. Known for inventing the art of motion pictures, Edison developed the Kinetoscope, which was an early film projector. Edison went on to produce a number of experimental short films in the late 1890s, including The Kiss (1896). His film Blacksmith Scene (1893) is said to be the first Edison company film made for commercial distribution. It is currently the oldest film on the National Film Registry and is given credit as the starting point in the American motion picture industry.
The Lumiere Brothers (Auguste and Louis) did a lot with the advancement camera processes, later abandoning motion pictures for photography. One of their major contributions to film is Arrival of a Train at La Ciotat (1896). This film features a train coming towards the camera, which is said to have frightened moviegoers in its day due to its realistic cinematography.
Le Prince (who is said to have mysteriously vanished!) actually preceded them all in filmmaking by using a single-lens camera and paper film to make Traffic Crossing Leeds Bridge (1888) and Roundhay Garden Scene (1888). The latter (pictured below) is considered to be the earliest surviving film!
These films, each clocking in at less than a minute, can be seen on YouTube and are fascinating examples of the early days of cinema.
Monday, July 21, 2008
The Adventure Begins
Welcome,
I thought I would open with an explanation of my self-proclaimed 'Adventure Through Movies'. This blog will detail my chronological journey through film that began in the June 2002.
I was about to turn 17 and was bursting with a love for the cinema. My movie-watching habits were pretty haphazard. I would watch an assortment of old movies and new movies, while trying to watch as many Oscar-winning Best Pictures as I could. I also tried my best to see as many movies that were considered to be among "the greatest of all time". Eventually, I decided that I needed organization. An idea struck me that I should start all the way back at the dawn of film and work my way to the present.
I wanted to attempt to put myself in the context of the era when film was created and I hoped to experience the passage of time along with the progression of film-making. In effect, I'd experience a history lesson through the cinema. The films that I chose to watch were typically those that I could imagine myself opting to see if I lived in that time period. As my adventure progressed, I began to watch movies based on who made them, who appeared in them, and their critical reception. A big thanks must be extended to my dad's massive film collection, as well as Netflix, and the Penn State libraries for allowing so many renowned and obscure films to be within my grasp.
In this blog, I will detail my experiment by listing each film that I've watched. I'd like to offer insight based on my perspective of the progression of cinema, as well as general thoughts on filmdom, and maybe some reviews. I hope that you will learn a little bit more about film and discover some of these movies that make up my adventure.
This is my life's work. Why not share it?
CinemaAdventurer
I thought I would open with an explanation of my self-proclaimed 'Adventure Through Movies'. This blog will detail my chronological journey through film that began in the June 2002.
I was about to turn 17 and was bursting with a love for the cinema. My movie-watching habits were pretty haphazard. I would watch an assortment of old movies and new movies, while trying to watch as many Oscar-winning Best Pictures as I could. I also tried my best to see as many movies that were considered to be among "the greatest of all time". Eventually, I decided that I needed organization. An idea struck me that I should start all the way back at the dawn of film and work my way to the present.I wanted to attempt to put myself in the context of the era when film was created and I hoped to experience the passage of time along with the progression of film-making. In effect, I'd experience a history lesson through the cinema. The films that I chose to watch were typically those that I could imagine myself opting to see if I lived in that time period. As my adventure progressed, I began to watch movies based on who made them, who appeared in them, and their critical reception. A big thanks must be extended to my dad's massive film collection, as well as Netflix, and the Penn State libraries for allowing so many renowned and obscure films to be within my grasp.
In this blog, I will detail my experiment by listing each film that I've watched. I'd like to offer insight based on my perspective of the progression of cinema, as well as general thoughts on filmdom, and maybe some reviews. I hope that you will learn a little bit more about film and discover some of these movies that make up my adventure.
This is my life's work. Why not share it?
CinemaAdventurer
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