Dillinger - 1945

Dillinger - 1945

Juni 13, 2011
Anne Jeffreys, Clark Gable, Dillinger, Edmund Lowe, Eduardo Ciannelli, Elisha Cook Jr., Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Lawrence Tierney, Manhattan Melodrama, Marc Lawrence, William Powell

“Dillinger” (1945) is a fast-paced “B” movie that stands out as the first dramatization on the life of real-life gangster John Dillinger, an...

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

A Midsummer Night's Dream (1935)

Juli 26, 2007
A Midsummer Night's Dream, Dick Powell, Felix Mendelssohn, Frank McHugh, James Cagney, Joe E. Brown, Mickey Rooney, Olivia de Havilland, Victor Jory, William Shakespeare

A Midsummer Nights Dream (1935) is almost startlingly good. I’m not sure if its being good is unexpected because Warner Bros. was more n...

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Part 2

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Part 2

Juli 04, 2007
Betsy Ross, Clinton Rosewood, Fay Templeton, Franklin Roosevelt, George M. Cohan, James Cagney, racism, Rosemary DeCamp, Theodore Roosevelt, Walter Huston, World War II, Yankee Doodle Dandy

The Fay Templeton number of “So, Long Mary” in the “Forty-Five Minutes from Broadway” scene is an excellent parody of small town American am...

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Part 1

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942) - Part 1

Juli 03, 2007
Fay Templeton, Franklin Roosevelt, George M. Cohan, Independence Day, James Cagney, Jeanne Cagney, Michael Curtiz, Rosemary DeCamp, vaudeville, Walter Huston, William Cagney, Yankee Doodle Dandy

For Independence Day here in the U.S., today and tomorrow will be a nod to “Yankee Doodle Dandy” (1942) a fast-paced film that captures thre...

The Production Code

The Production Code

Juni 19, 2007
censorship, drug use, Fatty Arbuckle, Hearst newspapers, Humphrey Bogart, James Cagney, Pride and Prejudice, Production Code

The Production Code, established in 1930 but not really enforced until 1934, gave us a world on screen that did not always mirror real life....