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	<title>Alternative Film Guide &#187; Danny Fortune</title>
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		<title>NOAH&#8217;S ARK &#8211; George O&#8217;Brien, Dolores Costello</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:20:03 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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Noah&#8217;s Ark  (1928)
Direction: Michael Curtiz
Screenplay: Anthony Coldeway; from Darryl F. Zanuck&#8217;s original story
Cast: George O&#8217;Brien, Dolores Costello, Guinn &#8216;Big Boy&#8217; Williams, Noah Beery, Louise Fazenda, Malcolm Waite, Paul McAllister
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Of all the films from that magical moment when silent movies merged into sound, nothing is as effective as Michael Curtiz&#8217;s Noah&#8217;s Ark: it has a romantic story, splashy scenes, and plenty of disasters.  Add to that some Biblical babble and you have what can be best described as an &#34;epic.&#34;
In Noah&#8217;s Ark, two American chums bumming around Europe on the eve of WWI get personally involved in the drama when their country enters the conflict. Travis, played by handsome male lead George O&#8217;Brien, and his best friend, Al (Gwynn [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE KILLING KIND &#8211; Ann Sothern &#8211; d: Curtis Harrington</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 04 Aug 2009 20:12:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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The Killing Kind (1973)
Direction: Curtis Harrington
Screenplay: Tony Crechales and George Edwards
Cast: Ann Sothern, John Savage, Ruth Roman, Cindy Williams, Luana Anders, Sue Bernard, Marjorie Eaton, Peter Brocco
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When I read that The Psychotronic Encyclopedia of Film described Curtis Harrington&#8217;s The Killing Kind as &#34;a seldom-seen sickie&#34; I just knew I had to see it.  And it was well worth my time.
After a young man, Terry Lambert (John Savage), is released from prison for a rape he was &#34;forced&#34; to commit, strange things begin to happen.  He returns home to live in his mother&#8217;s boarding-house and spies on one of her tenants (Cindy Williams).  But spying is not the only perversion on Terry&#8217;s mind.  He strives to get [...]]]></description>
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		<title>A LADY TO LOVE &#8211; Edward G. Robinson, Vilma Banky</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/classics/a-lady-to-love-vilma-banky-edward-g-robinson/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 21 Jul 2009 20:17:29 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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A Lady to Love (1930)
Direction: Victor Sjöström
Screenplay: Sidney Howard; based on his play They Knew What They Wanted
Cast: Vilma Banky, Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Richard Carle, Lloyd Ingraham, Anderson Lawler
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Edward G. Robinson, Robert Ames, Vilma Banky in A Lady to Love
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Edward G. Robinson was only 37 years old when he gave this hammy, scene-stealing, over-the-top performance as Tony, a middle-aged Italian grape grower in Napa Valley, California, in Victor Sjöström&#8217;s A Lady to Love.  Robinson is loud, peripatetic, hyperkinetic, and his accent sometimes sounds a bit too much like Chico Marx&#8217;s.  But it all works.  It&#8217;s believable and true, even if not always sympathetic. 
When Tony notices a pretty blonde waitress, Lena (Vilma Banky), at a [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WILD WOMEN OF WONGO d: James L. Wolcott</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 17 Oct 2008 05:24:47 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Wild Women of Wongo (1958)
Direction: James L. Wolcott. Screenplay: Cedric Rutherford. Cast: Jean Hawkshaw, Adrienne Borbeau, Ed Fury, Mary Ann Webb, Cande Gerrard, Johnny Walsh, Zuni Dyer
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At first, these  women in The Wild Women of Wongo don&#8217;t look so &#34;wild.&#34; They are compliant and obedient to their  Wongo male counterparts, sporting perfectly coiffed hair and donning  custom-made summer wear. (I guess beauticians and tailors were plentiful  around 1,000 BCE.) But when a handsome male member of the neighboring Goona  tribe washes ashore to negotiate for a Wongo bride, the women are so  smitten by him that they rise up against their men to prevent them  from killing the Goona guy, knocking over an [...]]]></description>
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		<title>COBRA &#8211; Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/cobra-rudolph-valentino-naldi-henabery/</link>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 04 Aug 2008 00:38:18 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Cobra (1925)
Direction: Joseph Henabery. Screenplay: Anthony Coldeway; from Martin Brown&#8217;s play. Cast: Rudolph Valentino, Nita Naldi, Casson Ferguson, Gertrude Olmstead, Eileen Percy, Lillian Langdon, Hector Sarno
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Cobra is my favorite Rudolph Valentino film. Directed by Joseph Henabery, with a screenplay by Anthony Coldewey from a play by Martin Brown, this was Valentino&#8217;s finest moment. He is at the height of his beauty, impeccably shot by J. D. Hennings and Harry Fischbeck &#8212; despite the glare from the gallon of pomade in his hair.
In Cobra, Valentino plays Rodrigo Torriani, a dissolute, debt-ridden playboy living in a mansion inherited from his likewise randy ancestors. Rodrigo&#8217;s problem is that he is an irresistible magnet for women. They stick to him like white on rice, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>TARGETS &#8211; Boris Karloff &#8211; d: Peter Bogdanovich</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/targets-peter-bogdanovich-boris-karloff/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 21 Jun 2008 20:42:08 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Targets (1968)
Direction: Peter Bogdanovich. Screenplay: Peter Bogdanovich; from a story by Bogdanovich and Polly Platt. Cast: Boris Karloff, Tim O&#8217;Kelly, Arthur Peterson, Monte Landis, Peter Bogdanovich
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Peter Bogdanovich&#8217;s thriller Targets asks the question, &#34;Does life imitate art or does art imitate life?&#34; The film&#8217;s answer is &#34;both.&#34;
Elderly horror star Boris Karloff plays elderly horror star Byron Orlak, tired and uninterested in a world that has changed beyond recognition. Byron shakes his head in disgust over society&#8217;s preoccupation with real violence, so unlike the make-believe movie plots of the past. He grumbles about retiring and considers himself a &#34;museum piece,&#34; while watching an old 1931 Boris Karloff movie, The Criminal Code, on The Late Show.
Meanwhile, there is Bobby (Tim O&#8217;Kelly) across town. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>NABONGA &#8211; Julie London, Buster Crabbe</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/nabonga-julie-london-buster-crabbe/</link>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 06 Jun 2008 06:02:57 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Nabonga (1944)
Direction: Sam Newfield. Screenplay: Fred Myton. Cast: Julie London, Buster Crabbe, Fifi D&#8217;Orsay, Barton MacLane, Bryant Washburn, Herbert Rawlinson, Prince Modupe
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Nabonga is one of those average girl-and-her-gorilla love stories. Although it may not be on the artistic caliber of King Kong or have the gloss of Mighty Joe Young, it never pretends to be high art. It is a Poverty Row production all the way, directed by Sam Newfield, written by Fred Myton, and starring an interesting cast.
Long before she became a sultry 1950s torch singer, Julie London was a young actress. Here she plays Doreen aka The White Witch. As a little girl, she was in an airplane crash in the African jungle. Also on the plane was [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE HONEYMOON KILLERS d: Leonard Kastle</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 29 May 2008 22:19:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Honeymoon Killers (1970)
Direction and Screenplay: Leonard Kastle. Cast: Shirley Stoler, Tony Lo Bianco, Mary Jane Higby, Doris Roberts
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From the moment we hear Gustave Mahler&#8217;s highly dramatic music in the opening scene of The Honeymoon Killers, Leonard Kastle&#8217;s imaginative thriller and its cast of little-known players take off. 
Shirley Stoler plays a corpulent hospital nurse who finds love &#8212; of a sort &#8212; by joining a lonely-hearts correspondence club. Her ad is answered by a Spanish gigolo (Tony Lo Bianco) in the business of marrying lonely women, taking their money, and abandoning them. However, the two miscreant creatures fall in love. Stoler instantly sticks her senile mother in a nursing home so she can accompany her new lover in his [...]]]></description>
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		<title>RAIN &#8211; Joan Crawford, Walter Huston</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 28 May 2008 21:53:04 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rain (1932)
Direction: Lewis Milestone. Screenplay: Maxwell Anderson; from John Colton and Clemence Randolph&#8217;s play, adapted from W. Somerset Maugham&#8217;s short story &#8220;Miss Thompson.&#8221; Cast: Joan Crawford, Walter Huston, William Gargan, Beulah Bondi, Guy Kibbee, Matt Moore, Walter Catlett
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The first thing you notice in the credits of the 1932 United Artists version of Rain is that Joan Crawford&#8217;s name is above the title (by courtesy of MGM). Then there&#8217;s that moody score by Alfred Newman. A perfect beginning for a perfect movie.
As W. Somerset Maugham&#8217;s short-story heroine Sadie Thompson, Crawford makes her grand entrance eight minutes into the picture. She emerges from behind a beaded curtain, one limb at a time, all tarted up in cheap costume jewelry, a cigarette dangling [...]]]></description>
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		<title>POSSESSED &#8211; Joan Crawford, Van Heflin</title>
		<link>http://www.altfg.com/blog/film-reviews/possessed-joan-crawford-van-heflin/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 20:13:33 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Possessed (1947)
Direction: Curtis Bernhardt. Screenplay: Silvia Richards and Ranald MacDougall; from a story by Rita Weiman. Cast: Joan Crawford, Van Heflin, Raymond Massey, Geraldine Brooks, Stanley Ridges, John Ridgely, Moroni Olsen
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From the moment we see her shuffling across town in a comatose stupor to the homicidal climax, Possessed is Joan Crawford&#8217;s picture all the way. And once you get past some of its contrived psychobabble, this Curtis Bernhardt-directed melodrama is also one of her best. (Note: This is not to be confused with a totally unrelated 1931 Crawford vehicle of the same name.)
 In the 1947 film, Crawford plays Louise Howell, a private-duty nurse inexplicably obsessed with David Sutton, a cynical, hard-drinking mechanical engineer played by Van Heflin. That brings [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THIS WOMAN IS DANGEROUS &#8211; Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 May 2008 04:40:54 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[This Woman Is Dangerous (1952)
Direction: Felix E. Feist. Screenplay: Daniel Mainwaring (as Geoffrey Homes) and George Worthing Yates; from Bernard Girard&#8217;s story &#8220;Stab of Pain.&#8221; Cast: Joan Crawford, Dennis Morgan, David Brian, Mari Aldon, Richard Webb, Philip Carey, Ian MacDonald, George Chandler
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Despite the fact that it has one of my favorite movie titles, the first time I saw This Woman Is Dangerous I dismissed it as a total waste of time. But on second viewing, it wasn&#8217;t so bad. The film, in fact, is quite watchable as long as you accept it for what it is: a cheap knock-off of Joan Crawford&#8217;s previous Warner Bros. melodramas of love and crime. For although This Woman Is Dangerous lacks the punch of [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE DAMNED DON&#8217;T CRY &#8211; Joan Crawford</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 23 May 2008 20:23:26 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Damned Don&#8217;t Cry (1950)
Direction: Vincent Sherman. Screenplay: Harold Medford and Jerome Weidman; from Gertrude Walker&#8217;s story &#34;Case History&#34;. Cast: Joan Crawford, David Brian, Steve Cochran, Kent Smith, Richard Egan, Hugh Sanders, Selena Royle, Jacqueline deWit
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Directed by Vincent Sherman, the torrid 1950 potboiler The Damned Don&#8217;t Cry is my favorite post-Mildred Pierce Joan Crawford vehicle at Warner Bros. 
In the early part of the picture we see a flashback to Ethel Whitehead&#8217;s (Crawford) humble beginnings, married to a poor factory worker (Richard Egan). The closeup she gets when she watches her only child being run over by a car is pure gold. From then on, The Damned Don&#8217;t Cry is quintessential suffering-in-mink melodrama, running the gamut from motherhood to murder [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HUMORESQUE &#8211; Joan Crawford, John Garfield</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 22 May 2008 20:20:59 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Humoresque (1946)
Direction: Jean Negulesco. Screenplay: Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold; from Fannie Hurst&#8217;s short story. Cast: Joan Crawford, John Garfield, Oscar Levant, J. Carrol Naish, Joan Chandler, Ruth Nelson, Tom D&#8217;Andrea, Craig Stevens
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Directed by Jean Negulesco from a screenplay by Clifford Odets and Zachary Gold (based on a Fanny Hurst short story), Humoresque always frustrates me because its first 25 minutes are excruciatingly boring &#8212; until Joan Crawford finally makes her appearance during a party scene.
Crawford plays Helen Wright, a rich society lush in love with a tough-guy violin player, Paul Boray (John Garfield), who is in love with his music. Fine support is offered by Paul&#8217;s parents, played by Ruth Nelson and the fabulous chameleon-like J. Carroll Naish. Oscar [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE BEAST WITH 1,000,000 EYES d: David Kramarsky and Lou Place</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 21 May 2008 20:17:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beast with 1,000,000 Eyes (1955)
Direction: David Kramarsky and Lou Place. Screenplay: Tom Filer. Cast: Paul Birch, Lorna Thayer, Dona Cole, Leonard Tarver, Dick Sargent, Chester Conklin
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 Despite the confusing voice-over introduction, David Kramarsky and Lou Place&#8217;s The Beast with a Million Eyes is one of my favorite 1950s alien-invasion films.
Set in an ugly, desolate landscape, Tom Filer&#8217;s screenplay focuses on a dysfunctional family whose members become the first victims of a strange force from another galaxy after a spaceship lands nearby emitting sound vibrations that turn domestic animals into aggressive killers.
First, the lady-of-the-house is pecked by a flock of chickens and, scariest of all, by the family dog. Then the teenage daughter is practically stampeded by a (single) bull. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>WAY OUT WEST &#8211; William Haines</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 20 May 2008 20:57:10 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Way Out West (1930)
Direction: Fred Niblo. Screenplay: Byron Morgan and Alfred Block; dialogue by Alfred Block, Joe Farnham, Ralph Spence, and Henry Sharp. Cast: William Haines, Leila Hyams, Cliff Edwards, Polly Moran, Francis X. Bushman Jr. (aka Ralph Bushman), Charles Middleton, Vera Marsh
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When a crooked carnival barker cheats a gang of tough cowboys in a roulette game, he is forced to work off the money by becoming a personal slave on their ranch. The joke is that the dandy city slicker, Windy (short for Windermere &#8212; as in &#34;Fan&#34;?), is played by William Haines.
Out of all Haines&#8217; talkies, Way Out West is the one that allows him to camp up to the highest degree his screen persona as an effete, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MR. WU &#8211; Lon Chaney, Renée Adorée</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 20:14:18 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Mr. Wu (1927)
Direction: William Nigh. Screenplay: Lorna Moon; from Henry Maurice Vernon and Harold Owen&#8217;s play. Titles: Lotta Woods. Cast: Lon Chaney, Louise Dresser, Renée Adorée, Ralph Forbes, Gertrude Olmstead, Holmes Herbert, Mrs. Wong Wing, Claude King, Anna May Wong
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&#34;A maiden defiled must be put to death by the hand of her father,&#34; so reads the &#34;ancient Chinese law&#34; that is the basis for Mr. Wu, a stylish tale about miscegenation, fornication, and filicide. In the title role, Lon Chaney, with his usual genius for makeup and characterization, uses at least four of his 1,000 faces to portray two Wu&#8217;s through three generations. 
Old Wu arranges for his grandson to be brought up around Western ways. Years later, that leads [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SHADOWS &#8211; Lon Chaney</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 19 May 2008 06:10:28 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Shadows (1922)
Direction: Tom Forman. Screenplay: Hope Loring, Harry Perry, and Eve Unsell; from Wilbur Daniel Steele&#8217;s story &#34;Ching, Ching, Chinaman.&#34; Cast: Lon Chaney, Marguerite De La Motte, Harrison Ford, John St. Polis, Walter Long, Buddy Messinger, Priscilla Bonner, Frances Raymond
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In the 1922 melodrama Shadows, the shipwrecked Chinese cook Yen Sin (Lon Chaney) washes up onto a coastal English village where he is shunned by the local Christian town folk. They refer to him as a &#34;chink&#34; and a &#34;heathen&#34; when he does not join them in prayer.
Since Yen Sin has nowhere else to go, he sets up business on a houseboat, washing clothes for the whole village. At first, the local kids play tricks on him and taunt him cruelly, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GANG&#8217;S ALL HERE &#8211; Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 15 May 2008 19:55:27 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Gang&#8217;s All Here (1943)
Direction: Busby Berkeley. Screenplay: Walter Bullock; from a story by Nancy Wintner, George Root Jr., and Tom Bridges. Cast: Alice Faye, Carmen Miranda, James Ellison, Phil Baker, Benny Goodman, Charlotte Greenwood, Edward Everett Horton, Sheila Ryan, Eugene Pallette, Tony De Marco, Bando da Lua
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From the moment The Gang&#8217;s All Here opens with a nightclub production number presented on a stage as big as a football field, Busby Berkeley&#8217;s fast-paced Technicolor musical delivers the goods. 
There is dreamy-eyed Alice Faye, handsome eye-candy James Ellison, craggy-voiced Eugene Pallette, fussbudget Edward Everett Horton, Carmen Miranda at her daffiest, Benny Goodman singing &#34;Minnie&#8217;s in the Money,&#34; and the high-kicking Charlotte Greenwood, whose opening scene is hilarious: the phone rings and [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE KID &#8211; Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 14 May 2008 20:28:07 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Kid (1921)
Direction and Screenplay: Charles Chaplin. Cast: Charles Chaplin, Jackie Coogan, Edna Purviance, Carl Miller
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Although I have never been much of a Charles Chaplin fan, The Kid is one sweet picture. In fact, it is the only Chaplin vehicle I would want to see over again.
The story, also penned by Chaplin, is simple: a poor, unwed mother (frequent Chaplin leading lady Edna Purviance) abandons her newborn son in an expensive car parked in front of a mansion, thinking some rich person will find and adopt him. Instead, the car is stolen by thieves and the baby is abandoned in an alley. Along comes Chaplin&#8217;s tramp, who takes him in after a few failed attempts to give him away.
Five years [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE GREAT GABBO &#8211; Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 13 May 2008 20:36:23 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Great Gabbo (1929)
Direction: James Cruze. Screenplay: Story by Ben Hecht; Continuity and Dialogue by Hugh Herbert. Cast: Erich von Stroheim, Betty Compson, Donald Douglas, Marjorie Kane
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The Great Gabbo is one terrific early talkie. Sure, the film is old and creaky, while its technical aspects are cheap and primitive. But the story, the music, and the performances always keep me hooked.
Directed by James Cruze, a top name in the silent era, from a story by Ben Hecht (continuity and dialogue by Hugh Herbert), The Great Gabbo follows an arrogant ventriloquist, that&#8217;s the Gabbo of the title (Erich von Stroheim), who abuses his girlfriend-cum-assistant (Cruze&#8217;s then wife, Betty Compson) one too many times. After his beloved finally walks out on him, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>BEN-HUR &#8211; Ramon Novarro</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 12 May 2008 19:35:21 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925)
Direction: Fred Niblo. Directorial Associates: Alfred L. Raboch and B. Reeves Eason (and Christy Cabanne, uncredited). Screenplay: Carey Wilson and Bess Meredyth, based on June Mathis&#8217;s adaptation of General Lew Wallace’s 1880 novel. Titles: Katherine Hilliker and H. H. Caldwell. Cast: Ramon Novarro, May McAvoy, Francis X. Bushman, Betty Bronson, Carmel Myers, Claire McDowell, Frank Currier, Nigel De Brulier, Kathleen Key, Mitchell Lewis
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Although I am not a fan of action-adventure pictures, the 1925 version of Ben-Hur (aka Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ) is an exception because it stars Ramon Novarro in the title role. As a plus, Horace Jackson&#8217;s art direction and Edwin B. Willis&#8216; sets are superb. In the opening outdoor scenes [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE PENALTY &#8211; Lon Chaney</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 11 May 2008 21:45:46 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Penalty (1920)
Direction: Wallace Worsley. Screenplay: Charles Kenyon and Philip Lonergan; from Gouverneur Morris&#8217; novel. Cast: Lon Chaney, Kenneth Harlan, Ethel Grey Terry, Doris Pawn, Charles Clary, Jim Mason, Milton Ross, Claire Adams
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Lon Chaney was more than just an actor. He was a magician. Like a chameleon, he could morph into a character.
In the gruesome shocker The Penalty (directed by the all-but-forgotten Wallace Worsley), Chaney plays Blizzard, the victim of a botched operation that had left him as a kid with two amputated legs. Later in life, Blizzard becomes a professional criminal and tries to blackmail the doctor who had performed the surgery by posing for his artist daughter&#8217;s study of &#34;the face of evil.&#34;
 When a female undercover agent [...]]]></description>
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		<title>MY LITTLE CHICKADEE &#8211; Mae West, W. C. Fields</title>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 10 May 2008 21:41:05 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[My Little Chickadee (1940)
Direction: Edward Cline. Screenplay: Mae West, W. C. Fields. Cast: Mae West, W. C. Fields, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran, Ruth Donnelly, Margaret Hamilton, Donald Meek, Jackie Searl
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 Mae West and W.C. Fields. The teaming of these two comedy titans in My Little Chickadee must not have been very easy, but director Edward Cline managed to reign them in without too much scene stealing. Both actors had giant egos and were not used to sharing the spotlight with anyone else. And although they are both credited with writing the screenplay, it is evident that they each wrote their own scenes. In fact, they are rarely in the same frame together. There is a lot of cross-cutting going on.
The [...]]]></description>
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		<title>GO WEST YOUNG MAN &#8211; Mae West, Randolph Scott</title>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 09 May 2008 20:05:10 +0000</pubDate>
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Although it gets off to a slow start, Go West Young Man is one of Mae West&#8217;s better Post-Code efforts for Paramount. Directed by Henry Hathaway and written by Mae West herself (from Lawrence Riley&#8217;s play), Go West Young Man stars West (get it?) as temperamental film star Mavis Arden, who is at odds with her press agent, Morgan (Warren William) after falling for suave but boring politician Francis X. Harrigan (Lyle Talbot). 
Things take an unexpected turn when, during an appearance tour, Mavis&#8217; chauffeured limousine breaks down on a country road, landing her at a rural guesthouse. At first, Mavis is annoyed with country life, walking through a pig pen and putting up with small-town inconveniences &#8212; that is, [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SPARROWS &#8211; Mary Pickford</title>
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		<pubDate>Thu, 08 May 2008 18:11:17 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sparrows (1926)
Direction: William Beaudine. Screenplay: C. Gardner Sullivan (adaptation); George Marion Jr. (titles); from a story by Winifred Dunn. Cast: Mary Pickford, Roy Stewart, Gustav von Seyffertitz, Spec O&#8217;Donnell, Billy Butts
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Molly is the role Mary Pickford was born to play. In Sparrows, Molly is the oldest among the ten orphans being kept as slaves on a potato farm. And as most Pickford characters, Molly is a sweet-but-spunky victim who fights back.
Directed by the prolific William Beaudine, and adapted by C. Gardner Sullivan from a story by Winifred Dunn, Sparrows borders on the perverse. The film&#8217;s theme is child trafficking and the filmmakers pull no punches in their depiction of that social ill. Children are either being sold into slavery [...]]]></description>
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		<title>STRAIT-JACKET &#8211; Joan Crawford</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 07 May 2008 18:33:41 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Strait-Jacket (1964)
Direction: William Castle. Screenplay: Robert Bloch. Cast: Joan Crawford, Diane Baker, Leif Erickson, Howard St. John, John Anthony Hayes, Rochelle Hudson, George Kennedy
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&#34;From the director of Homicidal, the author of Psycho, and the co-star of What Ever Happened to Baby Jane&#34; reads the by-line for producer-director William Castle&#8217;s thriller Strait-Jacket. Although I&#8217;ve seen this movie dozens of times, I still go back to it whenever I want a &#34;post-Baby Jane&#34; fix. In that category, Strait-Jacket and Berserk! are the only two that I appreciate.
 For Strait-Jacket, Castle jumped at the chance to lure a real movie star into one of his commercial exploitations. As everyone knows (or should know), Joan Crawford plays Lucy Harbin, an ax-murderess released from [...]]]></description>
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		<title>THE NAKED KISS &#8211; Constance Towers &#8211; d: Samuel Fuller</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:27:08 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Naked Kiss (1964)
Direction and Screenplay: Samuel Fuller. Cast: Constance Towers, Anthony Eisley, Michael Dante, Virginia Grey, Patsy Kelly, Betty Bronson, Marie Devereux, Karen Conrad, Linda Francis
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 In the opening scene of Samuel Fuller&#8217;s The Naked Kiss, we see a bald-headed prostitute using her bare hands to beat the crap out of her pimp. It&#8217;s not that she&#8217;s mean; she just wants the $75.00 he cheated her out of.
Next, we see our girl, Kelly (Constance Towers), three years later &#8212; hair fully grown back &#8212; stepping down from a Greyhound bus into the small town of Grantville. She is carrying a suitcase of champagne called &#34;Angel Foam&#34; (which sounds like the name of a douche) that she intends to sell. [...]]]></description>
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		<title>SING AND LIKE IT &#8211; ZaSu Pitts</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 29 Apr 2008 18:19:47 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sing and Like It (1934)
Direction: William A. Seiter. Screenplay: Marion Dix and Laird Doyle; from a story by Aben Kandel. Cast: ZaSu Pitts, Nat Pendleton, Edward Everett Horton, Pert Kelton, Ned Sparks, Richard Carle, John Qualen
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When a tough but simple-minded gangster &#8212; while in the middle of a bank heist &#8212; overhears an off-key singer rehearsing a &#34;mother song&#34; for an amateur group, a hilarious comedy ensues.
 In William A. Seiter&#8217;s Sing and Like It, handsome, muscular, but oh-so-dumb Nat Pendleton plays gang leader Fenny Sylvester, who suffers from a type of Mommy Complex. Zasu Pitts (right) is the squawky singer Annie Snodgrass, Edward Everett Horton is the high-strung stage director Adam Frink, and Pert Kelton is Ruby, Pendleton&#8217;s showgirl [...]]]></description>
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		<title>HELLO, EVERYBODY! &#8211; Kate Smith, Randolph Scott</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Apr 2008 19:21:56 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Hello, Everybody! (1933)
Direction: William A. Seiter. Screenplay: Lawrence Hazard and Dorothy Yost; from a story by Fannie Hurst. Cast: Kate Smith, Randolph Scott, Sally Blane, Charley Grapewin, George Barbier, Julia Swayne Gordon
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In 1933, radio and stage performer Kate Smith was a force to be reckoned with when Paramount tapped her talents for the absurd romantic musical Hello, Everybody!. But how do you harness such a big talent as hers?
The answer was to cast Smith as an innocent farm girl who falls in love with handsome Randolph Scott. The Power and Water Company had sent him out to convince her to sell her land so the county could build a dam project to provide water for the city folk. 
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		<title>NIGHT OF THE QUARTER MOON &#8211; Julie London</title>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 27 Apr 2008 20:20:32 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Danny Fortune</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[Night of the Quarter Moon / Flesh and Flame (1959)
Direction: Hugo Haas. Screenplay: Frank Davis and Franklin Coen. Cast: John Drew Barrymore, Julie London, Anna Kashfi, Dean Jones, Agnes Moorehead, Nat King Cole, Jackie Coogan, Charles Chaplin Jr., Cathy Crosby, Billy Daniels, Ray Anthony, Edward Andrews, Arthur Shields, Robert Warwick
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 Julie London looks just like Bette Davis in Beyond the Forest in the opening scene of Hugo Haas&#8216; 1959 overwrought melodrama Night of the Quarter Moon (aka Flesh and Flame). All London needed was a peasant blouse and a cigarette, and she&#8217;d be Rosa Moline.
That&#8217;s not the only thing that struck me as curious during the film&#8217;s first few minutes. London, for instance, has no dialogue while her property is [...]]]></description>
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