Category: Film Reviews
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Review: The Great Lie (1941)
The Great Lie Rating Director Edmund Goulding Screenplay Lenore J. Coffee (Novel: Polan Banks) Length 108 min. Starring Bette Davis, George Brent, Mary Astor, Lucile Watson, Hattie McDaniel, Grant Mitchell, Jerome Cowan, Charles Trowbridge, Thurston Hall, Russell Hicks, Virginia Brissac, J. Farrell MacDonald, Addison Richards, Sam McDaniel MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: She Wore a Yellow Ribbon (1949)
She Wore a Yellow Ribbon Rating Director John Ford Screenplay Frank Nugent, Laurence Stallings (Story: James Warner Bellah) Length 103 min. Starring John Wayne, Joanne Dru, John Agar, Ben Johnson, Harry Carey Jr., Victor McLaglen, Mildred Natwick, George O’Brien, Arthur Shields, Michael Dugan, Chief John Big Tree, Fred Graham, Chief Sky Eagle, TOm Tyler, Noble…
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Review: Elmer Gantry (1960)
ElmerGantry Rating Director Richard Brooks Screenplay Richard Brooks (Novel: Sinclair Lewis) Length 146 min. Starring Burt Lancaster, Jean Simmons, Arthur Kennedy, Dean Jagger, Shirley Jones, Patti Page, Ed Andrews, John McIntire, Hugh Marlowe, Joe Maross, Philip Ober, Barry kelley, Wendell Holmes, Dayton Lummis MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Melvin and Howard (1980)
Melvin and Howard Rating Director Jonathan Demme Screenplay Bo Goldman Length 95 min. Starring Jason Robards, Paul Le Mat, Elizabeth Cheshire, Mary Steenburgen, Chip Taylor, Melvin E. Dummar, Michael J. Pollard, Denise Galik, Gloria Grahame, Pamela Reed, Dabney COleman MPAA Rating R
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Review: They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? (1969)
They Shoot Horses, Don’t They? Rating Director Sydney Pollack Screenplay James Poe, Robert E. Thompson (Novel: Horace McCoy) Length 129 min. Starring Jane Fonda, Michael Sarrazin, Susannah York, Gig Young, Red BUttons, Bonnie Bedelia, Michael Conrad, MPAA Rating M (original); PG-13 (re-rated)
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Review: The Grapes of Wrath (1940)
The Grapes of Wrath Rating Director John Ford Screenplay Nunnally Johnson (Novel: John Steinbeck) Length 128 min. Starring Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon, Russell Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury, Frank Sully, Frank Darien, Darryl Hickman, SHirley Mills, Roger Imhof MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Harvey (1950)
Harvey Rating Director Henry Koster Screenplay Mary Chase, Oscar Brodney (Play: Mary Chase) Length 104 min. Starring James Stewart, Josephine Hull, Peggy Dow, Charles Drake, Cecil Kellaway, Victoria Horne, Jessie White, William H. Lynn, Wallace Ford, Nana Bryant, Grace Mills, Clem Beavans MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Inception (2010)
And now for my first 4-star review of 2010. INCEPTION Rating Director Christopher Nolan Screenplay Christopher Nolan Length 148 min. Starring Leonardo DiCaprio, Joseph Gordon-Levitt, Ellen Page, Tom Hardy, Ken Watanabe, Dileep Rao, Cillian Murphy, Tom Berenger, Marion Cotillard, Pete Postlethwaite, Michael Caine MPAA Rating PG-13 for sequences of violence and action throughout.
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Review: Despicable Me (2010)
I only realized yesterday when I was putting together my belated review of Inception that I had not posted my review of Despicable Me. So, here it is. And, for the curious among you, my Inception review will be up tomorrow. DESPICABLE ME Rating Director Pierre Coffin, Chris Renaud Screenplay Ken Daurio, Cinco Paul, Sergio…
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Review: Separate Tables (1962)
Separate Tables Rating Director Delbert Mann Screenplay Terence Rattigan, John Gay (Play: Terence Rattigan) Length 100 min. Starring Deborah Kerr, Rita Hayworth, David Niven, Wendy Hiller, Burt Lancaster, Gladys Cooper, Cathleen Nesbitt, Felix Aylmer, Rod Taylor, Audrey Dalton, May Hallatt, Priscilla Morgan MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Advise & Consent (1962)
Advise & Consent Rating Director Otto Preminger Screenplay Wendell Mayes (Novel: Allen Drury) Length 139 min. Starring Franchot Tone, Lew Ayres, Henry Fonda, Walter Pidgeon, Charles Laughton, Don Murray, Peter Lawford, Gene Tierney, Burgess Meredith, Eddie Hodges, Paul Ford, George Grizzard, Inga Swenson, Paul McGrath, Will Geer, Edward Andrews, Betty WHite, Malcolm Atterbury, J. Edward…
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Review: My Left Foot (1989)
My Left Foot Rating Director Jim Sheridan Screenplay Shane Connaughton, Jim Sheridan (Book: Christy Brown) Length 103 min. Starring Daniel Day-Lewis, Brenda Fricker, Alison Whelan, Kirsten Sheridan, Declan Croghan, Eanna MacLiam, Marie Conmee, Cyril Cusack, Phelim Drew, Ruth McCabe, Fiona Shaw, Ray McAnally MPAA Rating R
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Review: Cactus Flower (1969)
Cactus Flower Rating Director Gene Saks Screenplay I.A.L. Diamond (Play: Abe Burrows; Play “Fleur de cactus”: Pierre Barillet & Jean-Pierre Gredy) Length 103 min. Starring Walter Matthau, Ingrid Bergman, Goldie Hawn, Jack Weston, Rick Lenz, Vito Scotti, Irene Hervey, Eve Bruce MPAA Rating PG
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Review: Foreign Correspondent (1940)
Foreign Correspondent Rating Director Alfred Hitchcock Screenplay Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, James Hilton, Robert Benchley Length 120 min. Starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, Edmund Gwenn, Eduardo Cianelli, Harry Davenport, Martin Kosleck, Frances Carson, Ian Wolfe MPAA Rating Approved
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Review: Salt (2010)
Salt Rating Director Phillip Noyce Screenplay Kurt Wimmer Length PG-13 for intense sequences of violence and action Starring Angelina Jolie, Liev Schreiber, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Daniel Olbrychski, August Diehl, Daniel Pearce, Hunt Block, Andre Braugher, Olek Krupa, Cassidy Hinkle MPAA Rating 100 min.
