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    A Great Movie Alert!

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    May I add some suggestions Path?

     

    For Pre-Code Lovers there are scheduled on Tuesday 27th July, three films in a row, of which I've read some positive feedback:

     

    6:00AM TWO AGAINST THE WORLD (1932) starring Connie Bennett and Neil Hamilton. Constance Bennett was one the most popular & highest paid female stars of the early thirties.

     

    7:30AM THEY CALL IT SIN (1932) starring Loretta Young, George Brent and a young Louis Calhern. Pre-Code beautiful Loretta is a must, and being a Warner Bros., this one must be swiftly paced at 69 minutes.

     

    8:45AM GRAND SLAM (1933) Another W.Bros. starring Loretta again opposite suave and debonair Paul Lukas. Directed by the great William Dieterle (who happens to be the director of "Portrait of Jennie").

     

    Then, on July 28th, at 9:30 PM, it is scheduled "Gaslight" the first, british, (and many say the best version) of the story later re-vamped by MGM (in 1944) with Boyer, Bergman and Cotten. This one stars the great Anton Walbrook (star of "The Red Shoes") and Diana Wynyard. I think it's a must-see!

     

    On July 29th, besides the GRREATT!! "Love Me Tonight" (thanks for the credit Path)...at 8:00 AM it's scheduled, the lovely "The Cat and the Fiddle" (1934), if I'm not wrong, the first film made by Jeanette MacDonald, at her "new house" MGM, starring opposite the romantic Ramon Novarro. It has some pre-code situations and it's highly amusing; Operetta fans will enjoy!

     

    An last but not least, for Sci-Fi Cult movie lovers, on July 30th, at 8:00 PM, TCM will air the 1956 "Forbidden Planet", one of the science fiction gems from the 1950's, starring Walter Pidgeon who lives with his daughter Anne Francis (lovely) in the Planet of the title...to which Leslie Nielsen, arrives (from the Earth)...entertaining stuff!!

    A Great Movie Alert!

    in Your Favorites

    Posted

    May I add some suggestions Path?

     

    For Pre-Code Lovers there are scheduled on Tuesday 27th July, three films in a row, of which I've read some positive feedback:

     

    6:00AM TWO AGAINST THE WORLD (1932) starring Connie Bennett and Neil Hamilton. Constance Bennett was one the most popular & highest paid female stars of the early thirties.

     

    7:30AM THEY CALL IT SIN (1932) starring Loretta Young, George Brent and a young Louis Calhern. Pre-Code beautiful Loretta is a must, and being a Warner Bros., this one must be swiftly paced at 69 minutes.

     

    8:45AM GRAND SLAM (1933) Another W.Bros. starring Loretta again opposite suave and debonair Paul Lukas. Directed by the great William Dieterle (who happens to be the director of "Portrait of Jennie").

     

    Then, on July 28th, at 9:30 PM, it is scheduled "Gaslight" the first, british, (and many say the best version) of the story later re-vamped by MGM (in 1944) with Boyer, Bergman and Cotten. This one stars the great Anton Walbrook (star of "The Red Shoes") and Diana Wynyard. I think it's a must-see!

     

    On July 29th, besides the GRREATT!! "Love Me Tonight" (thanks for the credit Path)...at 8:00 AM it's scheduled, the lovely "The Cat and the Fiddle" (1934), if I'm not wrong, the first film made by Jeanette MacDonald, at her "new house" MGM, starring opposite the romantic Ramon Novarro. It has some pre-code situations and it's highly amusing; Operetta fans will enjoy!

     

    An last but not least, for Sci-Fi Cult movie lovers, on July 30th, at 8:00 PM, TCM will air the 1956 "Forbidden Planet", one of the science fiction gems from the 1950's, starring Walter Pidgeon who lives with his daughter Anne Francis (lovely) in the Planet of the title...to which Leslie Nielsen, arrives (from the Earth)...entertaining stuff!!

    Anthony Adverse (1936)

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    I've just watched this highly amusing film, which I bought second-hand, and the print TCM owns is excellent, I urge you all, when it's scheduled again to tape/watch it (it belongs to the TCM Library, since its a Warner Bros.)...I want to share the review I recently wrote at another site:

     

    "Entertaining Adventure Film"

     

    Engrossing tale of an orphaned boy who grows into manhood, played by Fredric March (Anthony Adverse), without knowing his real origins, and all the adventures he has to go through, before finding "himself", what truly matters in life and what is worth fighting for...one's morals, which cannot be "traded" for power or money...all this he learns thanks to two priests: Father Xavier (Henry O'Neill) who raises him from a baby until he turns 10 years old; Father Francois (Pedro de C?rdoba), a clergyman who saves March from "himself"; and his sweetheart, Angela (a lovely, beautiful, young, luminous Olivia de Havilland).

     

    Great score by masterful Erich Wolfgang Korngold, great scenarios, clothes, settings (the film spans from 1773, when Louis XV of France was King until the reign of Napoleon Bonaparte). The film is set in France, Spain, the Alps, Northern Italy, Cuba, Africa...and the period detail and the sets are awesome, thanks to master Anton Grot.

     

    An uniformly great cast headed by one of my all time fave actors: Fredric March. Also in it , talented Olivia de Havilland, at the beginning of her career, the great Claude Rains as an evil Marquis, the equally evil Gale Sondergaard (who won the first Supporting Actress Academy Award for her nasty characterization of Gwenn's ambitious housekeeper, kind of roles she would repeat later in such films as Tyrone Power's "The Mark of Zorro"), lovely Anita Louise as our hero's mother "in distress", a young Louis Hayward as the hero's father, Edmund Gwenn as the hero's grandfather, Donald Woods as the hero's pal, Akim Tamiroff as a florid Cuban, Steffi Duna as a sultry native, and O'Neill and de C?rdoba as the two "guiding" priests in March's life etc.

     

    One can see that Warner Brothers spent a lot of money in this lavish costume epic, that lasts around 2 hours 15 minutes. Nevertheless, in spite of its length it's highly entertaining and enjoyable.

     

    Although not perfect and certainly not as good as "The Sea Hawk", "Captain Blood" or "The Adventures of Robin Hood"...still on the greatest rousing adventure films of the 1930's, a blockbuster that deserves five stars. The quality of the print is excellent.

     

    A must for adventure films fans!

     

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