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If the words were not spoken but subtitled this film would rate an 8 as the sets are magnificent, the scenes excitement building on excitement. But the words were spoken as if uncle Bob or aunt Frenchie were reading a health related item out of the morning paper over coffee and toast. I know Indiana is known for his cool under fire yet at times that cool seems disinterest instead. Kate Capshaw has been mercilessly pounded for her acting ,completely deserved, but it's so bad I can't ignore it nor how it affected the storytelling. If you were to ask a 19-29 year old woman to play the part, someone attending college or working in an office with no acting experience, I believe the novice could give her lines more naturally than Ms Capshaw was capable of doing. It's a fine, exciting film building on the first "Indy" spectacular made mediocre by careless casting in Capshaw's case.

The film is based on simple stereotypes there is little character development. I found it a sincere challenge to determine where the funny parts were, this just isn't a comedy, I can't think of a single line that had me giggling inside or laughing outright. Debbie Reynolds acts as if she is reading from a script, very wooden. No wonder she was known for her roles in musicals. In some ways this reminds me of the Bob Hope films of the 60's minus the jokes.

Long before pregnancy test kits could be found in every drug, discount or department store, it was apparently possible to become pregnant and know you were pregnant mere hours after coitus. That "fact" forms the basis for a silly vehicle putting the two Curtis' together. The character parts from wine makers to soldiers, assistants, etc keep the film moving, but a backslapping laughfest, it ain't.

The acting is weak, the script is clumsy, the women are beautiful. This film is about titillation not to be appreciated for its acting.

Soldier boy meets local Italian girl falls in love, he suffers shell shock, they marry. The trials of the War Bride forms the basis of this emotional drama. Pier Angeli, plays the young woman starving in war torn Italy. She is excellent having the audience viewer wrapped around her finger, John Ericson plays the mentally fragile, returned soldier. This is their love story. Ericson's character is a classic case of a son being overly mothered by a woman who refuses to let him leave the family nest. Angeli's character is as committed to her marriage, as her mother in law commits to breaking it up. That forms the conflict, which woman wins? I'm sure that the war in Europe produced thousands of similar stories

The first time I watched the film as a young kid at the Saturday kids matinee I was spellbound wanting to know more, to see more adventures of the Time Machine. I have hoped that a "more of" or Part 2 might be created, this time with journeys into the past maybe having a plot to changing the circumstances of disasterous events. The Time Machine by HG Wells was one of my very favorite books the film became a favorite, I've owned the VHS and DVD videos coming close to wearing them out. The Time Machine along with When Worlds Collide, Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The Day The Earth Stood Still and the War of the Worlds are the best Sci-Fi Films made they shouldn't be missed. The Time Machine's special effects were created without the aid of a computer making it all that more amazing.

All Fall Down isn't a story, loose ends are never tied up, no one overcomes their self destructive behaviors. You are a fly on the wall watching troubled people interact. Karl Malden is at his finest on par with playing the priest in On The Waterfront, Eva Marie Saint is as effective in AFD as she was in North by Northwest playing another mysterious woman. We see this world through the eyes of a teenager played by Brandon De Wilde whose career was too short, killed in a Denver traffic accident at 30 in 1972. You saw him in Shane, Hud and a personal favorite Denim. Warren Beatty is the family rock star the child Angela Lansbury' playing the mother, obsesses about. Beatty as Berry-Berry is a sociopathic woman hater who draws women to him like a flower does to bees. I love the film the characters are well developed and fascinating.

The very worse Japanese language movie ever made. I'm sure everyone involved faced years of harassment for putting out this plucked turkey. So bad that they repeated it seven more times.

Glenn Ford is at his best in a terrific love story, Geraldine Page is the quirky Postmistress, Angela Lansbury is the faience who plans on filling her dreams with Ford's character as the vehicle for escaping Altoona. It's a sweet love triangle involving middle aged folks wishing for a new life or an end to their loneliness. See it on TCM, I've tried to find a DVD without success. TCM has "Dear Heart" on its schedule with regularity. "Dear Heart" represents the greatest era of Hollywood and it does so quite well.

No sci-fi film from the 50s-60s is as spoken about quite as much as Forbidden Planet and the 50 Foot Woman. 5O-foot was second billing consistently at the drive-ins during the summer, Forbidden was as slick, well acted, polished with great art work as 50 foot isn't. It's a sloppily made, poorly cut and edited 1 1/2 Star production. I'm not down on B&Ws. or films made with unknowns on a limited budget. Good grief The Blob was made for nothing with unknowns, but it was produced with care 50 foot was slapped together, especially in the scenes where the photographer and director were trying to put the 50 foot woman in the same image with the conventional characters. At times she's 20 feet, then 30 feet followed by 20 feet once more. Compared with other objects in the scene she was very elastic. Go see it and get it out of your system, then take in the Earth vs The Flying Saucers, When Worlds Collide, and the Blob of course.

Tim Considine was truly outstanding playing the son of a down and out physical comedy performer. Red is the king of vices, he's a drunk, undependable who gambles away any money he makes down to his sons treasured pocket watch. Considine is the adult encouraging, sometimes chastising his dad. Into the story comes the long list mother and her next husband. Of course they want Dink (Considine) to live with them. At the same time Red's character gets an offer of a 1 hour weekly TV show "The Clown" The story line isn't new, other writers have taken on divided parentage fighting for custody. What sets The Clown apart is the individual preformacers.

OK you need a new vehicle for your swimming star Esther Williams plot, story or not, doesn't matter, after all its Esther Williams the swimmer. Van Johnson plays a very animated bandleader playing one song that hit "Choo Choo Choo for Idaho over and over zzzzzz I've got all of Williams films and find that her gawd damn swimming is way out of place in 80% of them. Duchess of Idaho is another glaring example.

Not a joyful film, you won't walk away with a big smile on your face, but you'll admire the reality, pure and raw. We will either find ourselves with the unpleasant task of making life decisions for a aged parent or dealing with your own "golden years". Peggy, the fiancé is the bright spot, she is the sunshine the father's world is dark and smothering. "I'm only saying this for your own good" says the father. "From now on consider me dead" "I put clothes on your back, you had everything I had nothing" Good ole dad doesn't miss a controlling trick

I enjoyed this film, most of the action is set along the Belgium-Bermany border, although the story begins during the Blitz, the nightly terror bombing of London. Clark Gable plays a Colonel serving as a surgeon, :Lana Turner plays the indispensable nurse, Ann Baxter is back home kept up to date by her husbands daily letters. The three characters experience the many emotions associated with a complicated love story set inside a war. The Invasion of the Continent takes place followed by the Battle of the Bulge this is where everything winds down. Lana Turner drives me nuts when she plays the deadpan, "I don't give a rats pudinker about anything" characters, who is a different animal under the skin. This is one of the reasons, I favor Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Myrna Loy, or Greer Garson in the wartime wives parts. Nevertheless, it's well done, the lesser roles were played by fine actors including John Hodial, Ray Collins, and Gladys Cooper. A very good wartime love triangle.

I'm a moon kid, my 18th birthday was July, 22, 1969, Neil Armstrong stepped on the surface of the moon July 18th I was two months removed from my high school graduation. I was destined to love "Countdown" in the same way I loved "Apollo 13" and so many other moonshot films. Unfortunately, this film built around the tension between James Caan's character, a NASA scientist and Robert Duvall's character a NASA astronaut to the bone, results in more than an hour or verbal combat that gets very old. The US is going to place a man on the moon, likely a day or two after the Russians, who will that man be? The astronaut Chiz was the first pick before the Russians sent up a citizen scientist, Chiz was scrubbed and NASA picks a citizen scientist of their own, James Caan's character. The net results: the astronaut is doing all he can ridicule the scientist's abilities and chances for a safe and successful mission.

Idiots Delight from 1939. Harry Van vaudevillian returns home from WW I in Europe, just off the boat he envisions putting the old gang back together. That vision becomes Harry and 6 dancing and singing girls on tour. Jump to 1939, the year Germany invades Poland, England and France declare war on Germany who has already absorbed Austria and a portion of Czechoslovakia. Despite all the chaos Harry decides to take his 6 dancing and singing girls to smoldering Europe. Harry and the girls share a hotel with Edward Arnold playing Achille Weber an arm's dealer, Norma Shearer his wife and Russian countess, Burgess Meredith is Quillery professional peacenik. While the guests are enjoying a performance of Harry and the girls war breaks out, the hotel is bombed. The story seems to key on the Countess and Harry, is there a budding relationship going on here? Shearer plays the countess in high camp style, speaking loudly and constantly her claims dubious at best. Her act really gets tiring too much of a good thing is not a good thing. I don't have this film in My DVD collection and I probably wouldn't spend time looking for a copy. It was interesting in the light of WW II beginning at the same time (1939). One viewing may be enough since there are many far better films telling the background stories to WW I or II.. Pairing Gable *again with Claudette Colbert rather than Shearer would have been a possible improvement.

*starred in "It Happened One Night" winner of 5 Oscars including Best Picture, Best Actor (Gable), Best Actress (Colbert), Best Director (Frank Capra).

A fine 1938 telling of the Robin Hood tale stays close to the narrative we all know by heart. Basil Rathbone plays Robin's Chief prosecutor backed by illegitimate candidate for the crown rightly held by Richard the Lionhearted. Brother imposter, Sir Guy, played by Claude Rains grew around a foot to stand toe to toe with Rathbone, that in and of itself should have given him a special Oscar. There are no surprises, if you liked the story, you've enjoy the film presented in color with amazing costumes, sword fights, and archery. Errol Flynn is up to his fine swashbuclering, Maid Marianne layer by Gloria deHavilland heats up the set locking lips with our hero. Did you ever wonder when seeing a period piece if Hollywood's version of the dress of that day was remotely correct.

If you can file away your hypercritical eye to sit back and view It Came From Otter Space, you'll enjoy it. This era the 50's through the early 60's gave birth to the best Sci-Fi storytelling since "talkies" came to be. Film Noir came of age in that same decade and a half as well as the greatest of the Musicals. If you haven't seen "This Island Earth", "When World's Collide", "THEM", "Earth vs The Flying Saucers", key a eye out for them on local late TV, or the movie channels. Without Computer Aided Graphics the backgrounds look a little cheesy by comparison but the stories and acting are superb. My one complaint, "Would it have been all that difficult to have actually filmed ICFOS in Arizona?"

There are no human actors, no plots or stories to tell, merely scenes from the bombed-out bankruptcy period in the life of New York City. The Artsy crowd or college students on Acid May have been the target audience back in 1977, they likely loved the film, today amusement and entertainment are what film goers seek. Mom, back in France is writing to her to essentially berate her NYC dwelling child for not writing enough and for simply staying away from her loving/choking arms. That's everything friends

I watched this film while a user of Netflix and loved it. This was 10 or more years ago, I was hoping it would come out as a DVD so I could own a copy and share the enjoyable experience I had with friends and my kids, but I forgot the title and no search was specific enough to find it. Stolen Summer really got under my skin and I'd try another search but nothing. Today I hit gold a bought a streaming copy off Amazon. The best way to view religion is through a child's eyes with no bias, bigotry or prejudice, just the nuts and bolts as a child would understand. In a gentle and kindly way a young Catholic boy is fearful his terminally ill Jewish pal won't go to Heaven so he starts a personal crusade to insure that this doesn't happen.

I am very fond of Aussie productions as a whole, William Kelly would be the exception, gratuitous violence was strike 1, two stories are being told as if the director/producer fell in love with and bought two books. Unable to make up his mind on which to go with he tried to work them into one, it didn't work. Strike 3 Playing "Whose the enemy.", Could it be the English soldiers who treat the Aussies like last week's fish, the Turk's for certain, they are on the Axis's side, and here at home we have the criminal cattle/wife rustlers. The film prey's on the watchers basic emotions playing the crowd like a bass drum. *Yes, I know it's a war film, in part, I have 2500 War films, documentaries, and battle films. Not one seems to stress blood and guts as William Kelly. "Less is More" should be tattooed on the forehead of every film student.

I bought the movie a decade or so ago, I've probably viewed "Bad" 10 or 12 times, the cast in top notch , Christabell Fontaine's character wears on on you to the point you can wait for the story to end. I can't think of a more tedious character, Christabel as played by Fontaine. She plays an innocent while being rotten and manipulative to her very core. If I hear that name again, i'd probably commit some horrible act, but no jury would convict me. Zachary Scott and Robert Ryan play the solid citizen types one rich the other a sometimes successful writer. Our Christabel is in love with Robert Ryan when she's married to Zachary Scott's character, you know she would pull the same trick if she were married to Scoot's character. If you have to have a devil, you need an angel to complete the circle, the angel is Joan Leslie. Her character is secondary to Joan Fontaine's Christabel, but don't sell her short.

Lee J. Cobb, Tony Perkins, Audrey Hepburn directed by Jose Farrer combine for the most dreadful story I've seen in many years. The characters simply don't fit the roles, their spoken words seem canned and insincere. The adventurer Perkins character is exploring the Venezuelan jungle when he meets headhunters, a very odd character, white woman Audrey Hepburn and her crazy grandfather Lee J. Cobb. Cobb is Mr Solid, no nonsense kind of guy he is overly dramatic in the role that doesn't fit to begin with. Hepburn is beautiful with that willowy fragile look that ordinarily grabs you in Sabrina, or the Nun's Story. In Mansions her character is confusing at best. A dreadful movie, so much talent wasted. The directed is poor the story clumsy.

I enjoyed this film, most of the action is set along the Belgium-Bermany border, although the story begins during the Blitz, the nightly terror bombing of London. Clark Gable plays a Colonel serving as a surgeon, :Lana Turner plays the indispensable nurse, Ann Baxter is back home kept up to date by her husbands daily letters. The three characters experience the many emotions associated with a complicated love story set inside a war. The Invasion of the Continent takes place followed by the Battle of the Bulge this is where everything winds down. Lana Turner drives me nuts when she plays the deadpan, "I don't give a rats pudinker about anything" characters, who is a different animal under the skin. This is one of the reasons, I favor Ava Gardner, Grace Kelly, Myrna Loy, or Greer Garson in the wartime wives parts. Nevertheless, it's well done, the lesser roles were played by fine actors including John Hodial, Ray Collins, and Gladys Cooper. A very good wartime love triangle.

Lucy has made a few musical stinkers, The Big Street, Du Barry was a Lady, Best Foot Forward, Meet the People is just one more to add to the list of forgettable classics. Yup partner, the old gang Virginia O'Brian, and June Allyson are there to support Lucy, Dick Powell takes over the position formerly held by Red Skelton, or Henry Fonda. As for the music, I'm not saying June Allyson and Virginia O'Brian can't sing, but after the 4th or 5th song you long for the pleasant and comforting sound of a dentist drill. The best part of the music comes from the ever entertaining Spike Jones. The plot centers on a WW II shipyard, in a Stage Door Canteen-ish way. However it's not all that important in this collection of dated gags, and unrelated songs. Lucy is the starlet visiting war industry locations to encourage the folks, Dick Powell ace riveter and unknown playwright, schemes his way to a date with Lucy wherein he presents his play. Will Lucy be impressed by the work of our riveter and bring in backers to actually get it staged? You need to see Meet the People to find out. Personally, I'm going to view The Harvey Girls one more time.