Only Old Movies - ultimate source of old, good classics from 1930`s to 1980`s: 2009-08-16

Saturday, August 22, 2009

A matter of life or death (1946) - David Niven and Kim Hunter in a war romance

Rating 8.0/10
Runtime: 100 min
Language: English
Country: UK
Directed by: Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0038733/

Cast

David Niven ... Peter Carter
Kim Hunter ... June
Robert Coote ... Bob Trubshawe
Kathleen Byron ... An Angel
Richard Attenborough ... An English Pilot
Bonar Colleano ... An American Pilot
Joan Maude ... Chief Recorder
Marius Goring ... Conductor 71
Roger Livesey ... Doctor Frank Reeves

Description: Returning to England from a bombing run in May 1945, flyer Peter Carter's plane is damaged and his parachute ripped to shreds. He has his crew bail out safely, but figures it is curtains for himself. He gets on the radio, and talks to June, a young American woman working for the RAF, and they are quite moved by each other's voices. Then he jumps, preferring this to burning up with his plane. He wakes up in the surf. It was his time to die, but there was a mixup in heaven. They couldn't find him in all that fog. By the time his "Conductor" catches up with him 20 hours later, Peter and June have met and fallen in love. This changes everything, and since it happened through no fault of his own, Peter figures that heaven owes him a second chance. Heaven agrees to a trial to decide his fate.

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Friday, August 21, 2009

The blue gardenia (1953) - Anne Baxter and Richard Conte

Rating 6.8/10
Runtime: 90 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Fritz Lang
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045564/

Cast

Anne Baxter ... Norah Larkin
Richard Conte ... Casey Mayo
Ann Sothern ... Crystal Carpenter
Raymond Burr ... Harry Prebble
Jeff Donnell ... Sally Ellis
Richard Erdman ... Al
George Reeves ... Police Capt Haynes

Description: In Los Angeles, on the day of her birthday, the telephone operator Norah Larkin decides to celebrate dining alone at home, with the picture of his beloved fiancé, a soldier overseas, and reading his last letter for her. In the letter he tells that he met a Japanese nurse and he wanted to get married with her. Norah, completely upset, accepts to blind date the Don Juan and photographer of calendar girls Harry Prebble. They go to the Blue Gardenia Club, and Norah drinks six strong cocktails Polynesian Pearl Divers and gets completely drunk. Harry takes her to his apartment and tries to force Norah to have sex, and she uses a poker to hit Harry on the head. On the next morning, she wakes-up in her apartment with her two roommates, but she can not remember what happened. When she reads the newspaper, she finds that Harry is dead and the police has her handkerchief, her high heels and her blue gardenia and is chasing the woman that killed the famous wolf Harry. When she reads in the newspaper that the journalist Casey Mayo is offering his support, exchanging per an exclusive interview, Norah decides to call him.

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Guest in the house (1944) - Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy

Rating 6.3/10
Runtime: 121 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John Brahm
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0036886/

Cast

Anne Baxter ... Evelyn Heath
Ralph Bellamy ... Douglas Proctor
Aline MacMahon ... Aunt Martha
Ruth Warrick ... Ann Proctor
Scott McKay ... Doctor Dan Proctor

Description: A Guest in the House is an involving psychological film noir melodrama, well directed and acted, concerning a young woman's obsessive love. Evelyn (Anne Baxter), an emotionally vulnerable and unstable woman, stays at the home of her doctor Dan Proctor (Scott McKay). There she meets and falls in love with his brother, Douglas (Ralph Bellamy), who is happily married to Ann (Ruth Warrick). Evelyn then sets forth to break up the happy marriage and win the love of Douglas -- with tragic results. A Guest in the House directed by John Brahm, aided by Andre De Toth and Lewis Milestone, who are uncredited, is a sensitive, well-acted melodrama. Baxter gives a fine performance as the unstable young woman, who cannot overcome her obsessions. The fine musical score, composed by Werner Janssen, was nominated for an Academy Award.

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Wednesday, August 19, 2009

I wake up screaming (1941) - Betty Grable and Victor mature in a classic film noir

Rating 7.4/10
Runtime: 82 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: H. Bruce Humberstone
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0033740/

Cast

Betty Grable ... Jill Lynn
Victor Mature ... Frankie Christopher (Botticelli)
Carole Landis ... Vicky Lynn
Laird Cregar ... Police Insp. Ed Cornell
William Gargan ... Jerry 'Mac' MacDonald
Alan Mowbray ... Robin Ray
Allyn Joslyn ... Larry Evans

Description: "Big Ed" Cornell, a police inspector/detective, with an unmatched record of convictions and a man who believes 'in justice, deliberately allows the murderer of Vicky Lynn, former-waitress turned aspiring-Hollywood-starlet, his freedom, while "Big Ed" leaves no stone unturned in trying to pin the killing on Frankie Christopher, a sports promoter who has more than one business going at all times, usually self-promotion. "Big Ed" stalks his victim like a bird-of-prey, and makes no secret that he will put Frankie on the 'hot spot", the electric chair.

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Video : 1.34 GB, 2336 Kbps, 23.976 fps, 656*480 (1.37:1), XviD 1.2.0.dev47 (UTC 2006-11-01)
Audio : 113 MB, 192 Kbps, 48000 Hz, 2 channels, 0x55 = AC3, CBR

Subtitles (English, Spanish, Portuguese) with theatrical trailer and separate commentary by film noir journalist, Eddie Muller included

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

City that never sleeps (1953) - Gig Young, Mala Powers

Rating 6.5/10
Runtime: 91 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: John H. Auer
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0045631/

Cast

Gig Young ... Johnny Kelly
Mala Powers ... Sally 'Angel Face' Connors
William Talman ... Hayes Stewart
Edward Arnold ... Penrod Biddel
Chill Wills ... Sgt. Joe, the 'Voice of Chicago'
Marie Windsor ... Lydia Biddel
Paula Raymond ... Kathy Kelly

Description: Chicago cop Johnny Kelly, dissatisfied with his job and marriage, would like to run away with his stripper girlfriend Angel Face, but keeps getting cold feet. During one crowded night, Angel Face decides she's had enough vacillation, and crooked lawyer Biddel has an illegal mission for Johnny that could put him in a financial position to act. But other, conflicting schemes are also in progress...

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Monday, August 17, 2009

Manpower (1941) - Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft

Rating 7.0/10
Runtime: 103 min
Language: English
Country: USA
Directed by: Raoul Walsh
IMDb Link: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0035034/

Cast

Edward G. Robinson ... Hank 'Gimpy' McHenry
Marlene Dietrich ... Fay Duval
George Raft ... Johnny Marshall
Alan Hale ... Jumbo Wells
Frank McHugh ... Omaha

Description: Hank McHenry and Johnny Marshall work on a road crew for the power company. In a freak accident Hank is injured and is promoted to foreman of the gang. One night Hank and Johnny meet Fay Duval in a clip joint, but tensions start to show in the road crew as rivally between Hank and Johnny increases.

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Saturday, August 22, 2009

A matter of life or death (1946) - David Niven and Kim Hunter in a war romance

Friday, August 21, 2009

The blue gardenia (1953) - Anne Baxter and Richard Conte

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Thursday, August 20, 2009

Guest in the house (1944) - Anne Baxter, Ralph Bellamy

Wednesday, August 19, 2009

I wake up screaming (1941) - Betty Grable and Victor mature in a classic film noir

Tuesday, August 18, 2009

City that never sleeps (1953) - Gig Young, Mala Powers

Monday, August 17, 2009

Manpower (1941) - Marlene Dietrich, Edward G. Robinson, George Raft

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