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King Kong (1933) in New York, March 1933

April 14, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

King Kong 1933

A look at the very specific time and place of King Kong’s March 2, 1933 premiere at Radio City Music Hall and the Roxy in New York City.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Adventures, Bruce Cabot, Ernest B. Schoedsack, Fay Wray, Frank Reicher, Horror, Max Steiner, Merian C. Cooper, Noble Johnson, pre-Code, RKO (Pathe), Robert Armstrong, Sam Hardy, Willis O'Brien

Captains Courageous (1937) Starring Freddie Bartholomew and Spencer Tracy

February 9, 2015 By Cliff Aliperti 1 Comment

Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew

MGM Golden Age classic Captains Courageous is highlighted by a heavily modernized and modified adaptation of Kipling’s novel that provides opportunity for Spencer Tracy and Freddie Bartholomew to shine in the leading roles.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1937, action, Adventures, at sea, Charley Grapewin, Freddie Bartholomew, John Carradine, Lionel Barrymore, Melvyn Douglas, MGM, Mickey Rooney, Rudyard Kipling, Spencer Tracy, Victor Fleming

Somerset Maugham’s The Narrow Corner (1933) Starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr.

August 19, 2011 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

A personal look at this Somerset Maugham fan’s discovery of The Narrow Corner (1933) from Warner Brothers starring Douglas Fairbanks, Jr., Patricia Ellis, and Ralph Bellamy. A Maugham tale of the South Seas on film with all the sex and sin of the pre-code era.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1933, Adventures, Alfred E. Green, Arthur Hohl, Crime, Douglas Fairbanks Jr., Dudley Digges, Henry Kolker, Patricia Ellis, Ralph Bellamy, Reginald Owen, Romance, Sidney Toler, somerset maugham, south seas, Warner Bros., William V. Mong, willie fung

Captain Blood (1935) Action Energized by Errol Flynn and Korngold’s Score

August 12, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 5 Comments

Ross Alexander in Captain Blood

A look at my own favorite action adventure movie of all time, Captain Blood starring Errol Flynn and Olivia de Havilland, both in breakout roles. A tale of piracy, slavery, patriotism and romance, Korngold’s score keeps you cheering for Blood throughout.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, action, Adventures, Basil Rathbone, Captain Blood, Erich Wolfgang Korngold, Errol Flynn, Guy Kibbee, J. Carroll Naish, J. Warren Kerrigan, Michael Curtiz, Olivia de Havilland, pirates, Rafael Sabatini, Robert Barrat, Ross Alexander

China Seas (1935) starring Clark Gable and Jean Harlow

March 3, 2010 By Cliff Aliperti 4 Comments

The Clark Gable and Jean Harlow teaming peaks in China Seas, the 4th of their 6 MGM pairings, a tale of love and piracy at sea also starring Wallace Beery and Rosalind Russell.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, Adventures, C Aubrey Smith, China Seas, Clark Gable, Dudley Digges, Edward Brophy, Jean Harlow, Lewis Stone, MGM, Movie Reviews, pirates, Robert Benchley, Romance, Rosalind Russell, Wallace Beery

Robert Donat stars in Alfred Hitchcock’s The 39 Steps (1935)

July 28, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Hitchcock brings action and adventure, mystery and romance to The 39 Steps (1935) starring Robert Donat and Madeleine Carroll.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1935, action, Adventures, Alfred Hitchcock, Madeleine Carroll, Mysteries, Robert Donat, the 39 steps

Tyrone Power in Son of Fury: The Story of Benjamin Blake (1942)

July 16, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Tyrone Power and Gene Tierney

Twentieth Century-Fox’s “Son of Fury” plays as a 98 minute epic tale of redemption which opens with a fight, leads to an escape, turns into a brief tale at sea, then an island romance and adventure, a return for vengeance, even a spectacle of a courtroom trial, before, of course, culminating in yet another big fight with the intervening years leading to a different outcome.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1942, 20th Century-Fox, action, Adventures, Benjamin Blake, Dudley Digges, Elsa Lanchester, Frances Farmer, Gene Tierney, George Sanders, Harry Davenport, John Carradine, Kay Johnson, Movie Reviews, Roddy McDowall, son of fury, Tyrone Power

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




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