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Rebecca (1940) and My Du Maurier Kick

May 13, 2020 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Rebecca 1940

Returning to Academy Award winning Best Picture Rebecca (1940) about ten years after I first watched it and immediately after reading the novel by Daphne Du Maurier.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Adaptations, Alfred Hitchcock, David O Selznick, George Sanders, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, Laurence Olivier, Reginald Denny

Remember the Night (1940) Starring Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray

December 21, 2017 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Remember the Night 1940

Background and action in Paramount’s Remember the Night (1940), directed by Michell Leisen from a screenplay by Preston Sturges, featuring a budding romance between Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray during the Christmas season. With special attention given to character actor Willard Robertson, whose loquacious lawyer steals the show out of the gates. Lengthy article, over 5,000 words, that first appeared in Classic Movie Monthly #4.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Barbara Stanwyck, Beulah Bondi, Charles Arnt, Charles Waldron, Christmas, christmas movies, Elizabeth Patterson, Fred MacMurray, Fred Toones, Georgia Caine, John Wray, Mitchell Leisen, Paramount, Paul Guilfoyle, Preston Sturges, Spencer Charters, Sterling Holloway, Thomas W. Ross, Tom Kennedy, Virginia Brissac, Willard Robertson

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Lightning Review: Dr. Cyclops (1940) Starring Albert Dekker

July 30, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

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Brief look at Dr. Cyclops (1940) a sci-fi/horror blend from Paramount. Plays like ’50s science fiction, but a little slow in doing so. Albert Dekker stars.

Filed Under: Lightning Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Albert Dekker, Charles Halton, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Frank Reicher, Frank Yaconelli, Horror, Janice Logan, Merian C. Cooper, Paramount, Paul Fix, Science Fiction, Thomas Coley, victor kilian

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Lightning Review: Curtain Call (1940) Starring Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray

July 7, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

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Brief look at RKO “B” movie CURTAIN CALL. Naive playwright set loose in New York when producers use her terrible play with hopes of taming their only star. Stars Barbara Read, Alan Mowbray, Helen Vinson. Directed by Frank Woodruff.

Filed Under: Lightning Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Alan Mowbray, Barbara Read, Comedies, Dalton Trumbo, Donald MacBride, Frank Woodruff, Helen Vinson, John Archer, Leona Maricle, RKO (Pathe)

Men Against the Sky (1940) – Richard Dix’s Ace of Aces Goes Modern

October 15, 2014 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Men Against the Sky 1940

The public was air-minded when RKO released Men Against the Sky (1940), an exciting “B” film starring former “Ace of Aces” Richard Dix, with Kent Taylor, Wendy Barrie, and Edmund Lowe. A look at why the public was so fascinated by flying at that time, and how the four stars and other elements of the film worked so well together.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, aviation, Business, Edmund Lowe, Granville Bates, Kent Taylor, Leslie Goodwins, Richard Dix, RKO (Pathe), Warner Archive, Wendy Barrie

Brief Impressions: No Other Woman – Side Streets – Evelyn Prentice – Millionaires in Prison

March 27, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

William Powell and Myrna Loy 1935 Gallaher Famous Film Stars Tobacco Card

A quick peek at four movies I’ve watched recently: No Other Woman (1933); Side Streets and Evelyn Prentice (both 1934); and Millionaires in Prison (1940).

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, 1934, 1940, Aline MacMahon, Ann Dvorak, Charles Bickford, Eric Linden, Evelyn Prentice, gwili andre, Irene Dunne, Isabel Jewell, Lee Tracy, Millionaires in Prison, Myrna Loy, No Other Woman, Paul Kelly, Rosalind Russell, Side Streets, Warner Archive, William K. Howard, William Powell

First Impressions: Little Men (1940) Starring Kay Francis

January 19, 2013 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Kay Francis in Little Men

The RKO released Little Men (1940) starring Kay Francis as Jo is inferior sequel to Little Women (1933) but enjoyable tale of swindlers George Bancroft and Jack Oakie.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Adaptations, ann gillis, Carl Esmond, elsie the cow, George Bancroft, Jack Oakie, Jimmy Lydon, Kay Francis, little men, little women, louisa may alcott, norman z mcleod, RKO (Pathe), The Plays the Thing

Gallant Sons (1940) Starring Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville and Gene Reynolds

December 29, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Gallant Sons cast

MGM gives Hardy director George B. Seitz a different group of kids for GALLANT SONS, a 1940 murder mystery starring Jackie Cooper, Bonita Granville and Gene Reynolds.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, Bonita Granville, edward ashley, El Brendel, Gail Patrick, gallant sons, Gene Reynolds, George B Seitz, Ian Hunter, Jackie Cooper, joe yule, June Preisser, leo gorcey, MGM, Minor Watson, Murder, Mysteries, tommy kelly, Warner Archive, william tracy

Johnny Apollo (1940) starring Tyrone Power and Dorothy Lamour

August 25, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 6 Comments

Summer Under the Stars blogathon - Tyrone Power

Tyrone Power stars as Johnny Apollo (1940) for Henry Hathaway at 20th Century Fox. The film fits nicely between the 1930’s gangster cycle and later film noir. With Dorothy Lamour and Lloyd Nolan.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, 20th Century-Fox, Charley Grapewin, Crime, Darryl F Zanuck, Dorothy Lamour, Edward Arnold, Film Noir, Henry Hathaway, johnny apollo, Lionel Atwill, Lloyd Nolan, Prison Films, Tyrone Power

A Dispatch from Reuters (1940) – Plus the Real Reuter vs. Edward G. Robinson

July 18, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

Paul Julius Reuter by Rudolf Lehmann

Edward G. Robinson stars as the entrepreneur behind A Dispatch from Reuters (1940), a Warner Brothers’ biopic whose message is progress and knowledge through a smaller world. Plus a look at the real Reuter compared to the Edward G. Robinson character of the movie.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1940, albert bassermann, Biopics, Dickie Moore, eddie albert, Edna Best, Edward G. Robinson, Entreprenuers, Gene Lockhart, Historical, james stephenson, Montagu Love, Nigel Bruce, Otto Kruger, paul julius reuter, Warner Bros., William Dieterle

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