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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

John Ford’s Stagecoach (1939) Starring John Wayne and Claire Trevor

July 31, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti 10 Comments

John Wayne in Stagecoach

The classic John Ford western Stagecoach (1939) is a movie for everybody. Forget genre prejudices and thrill to John Wayne, Claire Trevor and all of the rest of one of the richest supporting casts you’ll ever encounter.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1939, Andy Devine, berton churchill, claire trevor, Donald Meek, ernest haycox, George Bancroft, John Carradine, John Ford, John Wayne, louise platt, stagecoach, Thomas Mitchell, tim holt, tom tyler, Westerns

The Adventures of Mark Twain (1944) Starring Fredric March

March 31, 2012 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Fredric March as Mark Twain

A review of Warner Brothers 1944 biopic The Adventures of Mark Twain starring Fredric March whose performance rises above an uneven though interesting story.

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1944, Alan Hale, Alexis Smith, biographical films, C Aubrey Smith, chester conklin, Donald Crisp, Fredric March, Historical, irving rapper, Jesse L. Lasky, John Carradine, Joyce Reynolds, Mark Twain, Max Steiner, perc westmore, percy kilbride, Robert Barrat, samuel clemens, walter hampden, Warner Archive, Warner Bros., William Henry

Cheela the Ape stars in Captive Wild Woman with John Carradine

October 28, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti 2 Comments

John Carradine

John Carradine’s first horror lead, “Captive Wild Woman” (1943) from Universal has definite roots in one of that company’s staples, the classic “Frankenstein” …

Filed Under: Movie Reviews Tagged With: 1943, Brief Notes, Frankenstein, Horror, John Carradine, Movie Reviews, Murders in the Rue Morgue, Universal, Universal Horror

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

July 16, 2009 By Cliff Aliperti Leave a Comment

Tyrone Power

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

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