I start balling about halfway through the original Waterloo Bridge\ , the scene where Mae Clarke puts on her make-up kills me. From then on I am a wreck the rest of the way. Stand By Me gets me too. Boyz 'N the Hood , why does Ricky have to die??? Ooh Field of Dreams , when Costner plays catch with ...

I think Sadie Thompson is the better film, though it's been a while since I've seen it. I actually just won the Kino disc off ebay, so I'll be re-watching it soon. I remember liking Rain too, and perhaps the one edge it has over Sadie Thompson, is that the transformation of Crawford's Sadie from sin...

I'm not sure why City Streets has been neglected for so long, I mean it has a big star in Gary Cooper, it's a gangster film, and it's directed by Rouben Mamoulian, throw in Sylvia Sidney, and the pre-code element and the DVD would surely have an audience. But then Island of Lost Souls is even better...

Great news, though the absence of Island of Lost Souls and City Streets is an oversight.

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This is easily the set of the year for me, well unless the Vidor silents get released. Finally Wellman is getting some DVD love.

Just cut and pasted what I'd seen from the website, here's my thoughts: ACE IN THE HOLE - Indispensable in my books, unrelentingly bleak portrayal of the media circus, with Douglas at his smarmy, intense, charismatic best. Great great stuff THE HARDER THEY FALL - I watched this maybe 10 years ago, w...

I'm working my way through some of my backlog of William Wellman films, and I've watched a couple this week. First up was 1926's The Boob which is Wellman's oldest existing film, and it's also the first of his silents I've seen. I'd read a quote from him where he described it as the worst film ever ...

Put me down as a fan. It took a me a little while, but I've come around fully on her. I mean I had seen some of her classics like Mildred Pierce and Johnny Guitar, and was impressed, but I think seeing her in Grand Hotel made me really how pretty she was, and kind of changed my perception of her. I ...

More pre-coders, as I'm trying to clear up space on my hardrive: I watched Wellman's Stingaree , and enjoyed it. A western with an opera subplot? Weird. Anyway the film is pretty fun to watch, with Richard Dix as the outlaw Stingaree, and Irene Dunne as a servant/opera singer who needs a break. It's...

Continuing on my Dieterle kick, I checked out 1932's The Crash , starring Ruth Chatterton and George Brent. They play a well off couple who end up loosing it all in the stock market crash of 1929. Chatterton can't take being poor, so she flees to a tropical island and ends up falling in love with a ...

drednm, I'm very impressed by Variete as well. Jannings was an incredible actor, it's remarkable that he could play obese doorman in Der letze Mann and then just a year later play a virile, strong trapeze artist in Variete, and he's utterly convincing in both roles. I believe I first saw him in Der ...

I checked out Clarence Brown's Possessed (1931) last night and was quite impressed again with Brown's direction. Very cinematic, and I think it improved the film quite a bit. The story concerns factory girl Joan Crawford moving to New York, and becoming Clark Gable's mistress. Complications arise th...

1. Katharine Hepburn - Holiday, Stage Door, Bringing Up Baby...need I say more? 2. Myrna Loy - Master of subtlety, and comedic timing, and her early work shows she could handle heavier roles too 3. Joan Blondell - One of the funnest people to watch, she brought something good to every part she playe...

Oooh I love lists: 1. Cary Grant - simply the best, could do just about everything, and with seemingly no effort. 2. Henry Fonda - For 12 Angry Men alone, but then there's The Lady Eve, Young Mr. Lincoln etc etc. 3. Kirk Douglas - I have no idea if he can do anything other than be intense, but I fin...

Gary Cooper...though he's pretty great in Man of the West and the final 30 minutes of Pride of the Yankees.