The Undersea Kingdom (1936)

The Undersea Kingdom (1936)

Agustus 13, 2007
Crash Corrigan, Lon Chaney Jr, Monte Blue, movie serials, Smiley Burnette, The Undersea Kingdom

“The Undersea Kingdom” (1936) - Chapter 10, to be precise, is a sliver of a serial produced by Republic in the days when kids would have to ...

What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

What's Opera, Doc? (1957)

Agustus 09, 2007
Arthur Q. Bryan, Baton Bunny, Bugs Bunny, cartoons, Chuck Jones, Elmer Fudd, Franz von Suppe, Gioachino Rossini, Il Barbiere di Siviglia, Mel Blanc, Michael Maltese, Richard Wagner, What's Opera Doc

“What’s Opera Doc?” (1957) achieved what few parodies can do, and that is to create something original on its own, a genius apart from the p...

Harry Davenport

Harry Davenport

Agustus 08, 2007
Gone With the Wind, Harry Davenport, Judy Garland, Meet Me In St. Louis, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), The Ox-Bow Incident

Harry Davenport was born in 1866, the year after the American Civil War ended, and his last film was made in 1950, when television had alrea...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Part 2

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Part 2

Agustus 07, 2007
Charles Laughton, Production Code, superstition, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Walter Hampden

We have stories within stories, where Esmeralda is loved by the poet Gringoire, but loves the soldier Phoebus instead. When Phoebus is kille...

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Part 1

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939) - Part 1

Agustus 06, 2007
Cedric Hardwicke, Charles Laughton, Harry Davenport, Maureen O'Hara, The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1939), Victor Hugo

“The Hunchback of Notre Dame” (1939) has a very literate script as a foundation and from this beginning, taken from the Victor Hugo novel, s...

Sabrina (1954) - Part 2

Sabrina (1954) - Part 2

Agustus 02, 2007
Audrey Hepburn, Emory Parnell, Hubert de Givenchy, Humphrey Bogart, Sabrina, Samuel Taylor, Walter Hampden, William Holden

When Sabrina attends the party in probably the most fantastic gown ever created for the movies, the butler, played by Emory Parnell, gushing...

Sabrina (1954) - Part 1

Sabrina (1954) - Part 1

Agustus 01, 2007
Audrey Hepburn, Billy Wilder, Humphrey Bogart, John Williams, Sabrina, The African Queen, William Holden

“Sabrina” (1954) is deceptively a watershed film. Deceptively because it is simply a Cinderella story, nothing unusual about that, but one ...