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Classic Movie Reviews by Cliff Aliperti

Spoiler-free reviews of movies from Hollywood's Golden Age, especially the 1930s. Most reviews also include research into background of the film and, when relevant, the history surrounding the subject of the movie.

Cary Grant in Night and Day (1946)

April 30, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Cary Grant plays Cole Porter in Warner Brothers’ Night and Day (1946), a heavily fictionalized and still somewhat unrewarding tale filled with Porter standards.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1946, Alexis Smith, Biopics, Cary Grant, cole porter, Ginny Simms, Jane Wyman, Mary Martin, Monty Woolley, Musicals, night and day

Charles Laughton as Ruggles of Red Gap (1935)

April 24, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Charles Laughton and ZaSu Pitts 1935 Carreras Tobacco Card

Charles Laughton is a gentleman’s gentleman in Ruggles of Red Gap who’s transferred through a card game from his British master to the backwards Flouds in the USA

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Charles Laughton, Charlie Ruggles, Comedies, Leila Hyams, Mary Boland, Roland Young, ruggles of red gap, ZaSu Pitts

The Adventures of Robin Hood (1938) starring Errol Flynn

April 23, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Errol Flynn 1949 Turf Cigarettes

Far from being simply the greatest swashbuckler since Douglas Fairbanks, Sr., and with all apologies to Tyrone Power fans, none to top him since, Flynn played in variety of roles, and played them well.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1938, Adventures, Alan Hale, Claude Rains, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Errol Flynn, Eugene Pallette, howard hill, Michael Curtiz, movie cards, movie collectibles, Movie Reviews, Olivia de Havilland, patric knowles, technicolor, the adventures of robin hood, Warner Bros., William Keighley

Merrily We Go to Hell starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney

April 22, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

“Merrily We Go to Hell,” a 1932 Paramount production starring Fredric March and Sylvia Sidney, is one of 6 movies featured in the Pre-Code Hollywood Collection released earlier this month by Universal.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Adrianne Allen, Brief Notes, Cary Grant, Dorothy Arzner, dvd, Fredric March, Merrily We Go to Hell, Movie Reviews, pre-Code, Robert Greig, Skeets Gallagher, Sylvia Sidney

Search for Beauty (1934) starring Ida Lupino and Buster Crabbe

April 13, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

A review of Paramount’s Search for Beauty (1934) starring Buster Crabbe and Ida Lupino. One of six films featured in the Pre-Code Hollywood Collection, and the first one I chose to watch … a mistake.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, buster crabbe, Gertrude Michael, Ida Lupino, James Gleason, Paramount, pre-Code, Robert Armstrong, Toby Wing

Viewing The Scarlet Pimpernel (1934) for Leslie Howard’s Birthday

April 3, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 7 Comments

Happy birthday to Leslie Howard (1893-1943) today. I celebrate with a viewing The Scarlet Pimpernel and sharing my thoughts on both the film and Howard in this space today, all illustrated by movie cards and collectibles.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, amazon, gone with the wind, joan gardner, Leslie Howard, Merle Oberon, Movie Reviews, netflix, pygmalion, Raymond Massey, roku, the petrified forest, the scarlet pimpernel, video on demand

Larceny, Inc. (1942) starring Edward G. Robinson and Jane Wyman

March 19, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

Previewing Larceny, Inc. (1942) which airs on TCM tonight at 6:15 EST. Star-studded gangster comedy stars Edward G. Robinson and Broderick Crawford with Jane Wyman.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1942, Anthony Quinn, Broadway, Broderick Crawford, Comedies, Edward Brophy, Edward G. Robinson, Fred Kelsey, Gangsters, Grant Mitchell, Harry Davenport, Jack Carson, jackie gleason, Jane Wyman, joe downing, Lloyd Bacon, sj perelman, TCM, Warner Bros.

The Beast of the City (1932) starring Walter Huston and Wallace Ford

February 27, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Jean Harlow in The Beast of the City

A review of an under appreciated 1932 pre-Code classic, The Beast of the City, starring Walter Huston and with Jean Harlow.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, charles brabin, cops and robbers, Gangsters, herbert hoover, Jean Harlow, Jean Hersholt, MGM, Mickey Rooney, movie collectibles, pre-Code, W.R. Burnett, Wallace Ford, Walter Huston, Warner Archive

Twentieth Century (1934) starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard

February 18, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

A review of the 1934 Howard Hawks screwball classic Twentieth Century starring John Barrymore and Carole Lombard. Illustrated with movie cards and collectibles.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1934, Ben Hecht, Carole Lombard, Charles Lane, charles macarthur, Comedies, Etienne Girardot, Herman Bing, Howard Hawks, John Barrymore, Movie Reviews, Ralph Forbes, Roscoe Karns, screwball comedies, Walter Connolly

Three on a Match (1932) starring Warren William and Ann Dvorak

February 11, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 3 Comments

A review of the Depression era pre-code classic Three on a Match starring Ann Dvorak and a host of familiar faces including young Bette Davis and Humphrey Bogart. Illustrated with movie collectibles.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1932, Allen Jenkins, Ann Dvorak, Anne Shirley, Bette Davis, Buster Phelps, child abuse, Drugs, Edward Arnold, Glenda Farrell, Grant Mitchell, Great Depression, Humphrey Bogart, Jack La Rue, jack webb, Joan Blondell, Lyle Talbot, Mary Doran, Patricia Ellis, pre-Code, sex, Warren William

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