American Empire 1942  N/R, 82 min.
Genre: Western
aka: My Son Alone
Director: William C. McGann
Cast: Richard Dix, Leo Carrillo, Preston Foster, Frances Gifford, Robert Barrat, Jack La Rue, Guinn "Big Boy" Williams, Cliff Edwards, Merrill Rodin, Chris-Pin Martin, Richard Webb, William Farnum
After the Civil War, pals Dan and Paxton (Richard Dix and Preston Foster) head West to Texas and start a cattle business, which thrives. But when Dominique (Leo Carrillo) steals cattle, he also talks Paxton into being his partner. Now Dan, with the help of his sister Abby (Frances Gifford), must fend for himself until Paxton sees the folly of his decision. Good Western fare.
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Dance, Fools, Dance 1931 N/R, 80 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell, William(2) Holden, Clark Gable, Earle Foxe, Purnell Pratt, Hale Hamilton, Natalie Moorhead
Ex-socialite Bonnie (Joan Crawford) is a newspaperwoman who is assigned an undercover job to get to the bottom of a murder.
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 Dumbo 1941  N/R, 64 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical / Drama / Fantasy
Director: Otto Englander
Cast: Sterling Holloway, Edward Brophy, Cliff Edwards, Verna Felton, Herman Bing, John McLeish, Eddie Holden, Malcolm Hutton, Sarah Selby, Margaret Wright, Chuck Stubbs, Dorothy Scott, Harold Manley, Billy Bletcher, Jim Carmichael
Dumbo is an elephant born with very large ears. Because of his physical deformity, he is teased by the other circus animals. Adversity is turned into a plus when Dumbo's mouse friend, Timothy, teaches him to use his ears to fly in this classic Disney children's animated film. The film won an Academy Award for Best Musical Score, and the song "Baby Mine" was nominated for Best Song.
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The Falcon Strikes Back 1943 N/R, 63 min.
Genre: Mystery
Director: Edward Dmytryk
Cast: Tom Conway, Harriet Hilliard, Jane Randolph, Edgar Kennedy, Cliff Edwards, Rita Corday, Frank Faylen, Cliff Clark, Richard Loo, Edward Gargan
A war-bond robbery plot and a murdered banker are investigated by our hero, the Falcon (Tom Conway).
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Fun and Fancy Free 1947 N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Musical
Director: Bill Roberts, Jack Kinney, Hamilton Luske, William Morgan
Cast: Cliff Edwards, Walt Disney, Billy Gilbert, Clarence Nash, Luana Patten, Dinah Shore, Anita Gordon, Edgar Bergen, Pinto Colvig
Two Disney animated movies are represented in this 1947 film: (1) "Mickey and the Beanstalk"–Mickey, Donald, and Goofy (voices of Walt Disney, Clarence Nash, and Pinto Colvig) bring their version of the famous tale. Edgar Bergen and his dummies Charlie McCarthy and Mortimer Snerd tell the story to a young girl (Luana Patten) (2) Bongo the circus bear is not happy with his current "job," so escapes into the forest. He finds that life on the outside is tough, but eventually finds his true love. Dinah Shore provides the narration and songs. Jiminy Cricket (voice of Cliff Edwards) provides the transition between the two stories.
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 His Girl Friday 1940  N/R, 92 min.
Genre: Comedy / Drama / Romance
Director: Howard Hawks
Cast: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Helen Mack, Porter Hall, Cliff Edwards, Clarence Kolb, Roscoe Karns, Regis Toomey, Ernest Truex, Frank Jenks, Abner Biberman, Frank Orth, John Qualen
Newspaper editor Walter Burns (Cary Grant) pulls out all stops to prevent the marriage of his star reporter–and ex-wife–Hildy Johnson (Rosalind Russell) to insurance agent Bruce Baldwin (Ralph Bellamy). Walter convinces Hildy to cover one last story about the execution of anarchist Earl Williams (John Qualen). When Williams escapes, with help from Walter and Hildy he hides in the prison press room. Hildy is set to write her big story, while Walter uses their time together to woo her back. A Grant classic, along with great cast and script. 1 User Review
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| | Verbal Comedy Doesn't Get Better Than This | 1fatts 07/23/2007 | Menjou and O'Brian did it in '31. Mathau and Lemmon in '74. Robert Ryan and George Grizzard did it on TV in 1970. And somebody even did it once somewhere as a musical. But this is the one. This one: 1940 with Cary Grant and Roz Russell.
A fast-paced play by McArthur and Hecht called "The Front Page" got kicked up several notches when someone decided to turn Hildy Johnson, the bitter, frustrated reporter looking for an escape from the newspaper game into a normal life, into a woman, ex-wife of fast-talking, vicious-but-lovable editor Walter Burns. Cary Grant as burns was never faster or funnier, but his pairing with Roz Russell as Hildy is nothing short of magic. The dialogue zings along, and every second line is a zinger.
But there is more to this than the very real verbal jousting. There is a glimpse into the world of newspapers which is illuminating and more than a little frightening. Anything for the story; it is never about fact, but about the lead, the scoop. Russell's scene with John Qualen's Earl Williams is sharp and tough and cold. The scenes with the veterans in the jailhouse newsroom captures an earlier time and speech pattern, but, one suspects, it has more to say about what media news is really about than All the President's Men could every have hoped to show.
There is an edge to the script that raises it about great comedy into something more important than that.
One of the best things Howard Hawks ever did. Not to be missed. |
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 International Squadron 1941 N/R, 85 min.
Genre: Adventure
Director: Lewis Seiler
Cast: Ronald Reagan, Olympe Bradna, James Stephenson, William Lundigan, Joan Perry, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards, Julie Bishop, John Ridgely, Selmer Jackson
A young American becomes a hero when he flies with the Royal Air Force in the days before America entered World War II.
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Knockout 1941 N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: William Clemens
Cast: Arthur Kennedy, Olympe Bradna, Virginia Field, Anthony Quinn, Cornel Wilde, John Ridgely, Cliff Edwards, William Edmunds, Frank Wilcox, Ben Welden
Johnny Rocket (Arthur Kennedy) is a young boxer who runs into trouble both in and out of the ring.
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Laughing Sinners 1931  N/R, 71 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Harry Beaumont
Cast: Joan Crawford, Clark Gable, Neil Hamilton, Marjorie Rambeau, Guy Kibbee, Cliff Edwards, Roscoe Karns, Johnny Mack Brown
Nightclub performer Ivy (Joan Crawford) is saved from a near suicide by Salvation Army worker Carl (Clark Gable), who convinces her to start life anew–until her past lover, Howard Palmer (Neil Hamilton), appears back on the scene.
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Parlor, Bedroom and Bath 1931  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Romeo in Pyjamas
Director: Edward Sedgwick
Cast: Buster Keaton, Charlotte Greenwood, Reginald Denny, Cliff Edwards, Dorothy Christy, Joan Peers, Sally Eilers, Natalie Moorhead, Edward Brophy, Walter Merrill, Sidney Bracey, Eugene Pallette
Jeff (Reginald Denny) wants to marry Ginny (Sally Eilers), but she will not consider a marriage proposal until after her sister, Angie (Dorothy Christy), gets married. So, Jeff schemes to get Angie interested in shy Reggie (Buster Keaton) who he passes off as a great lover.
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 Pinocchio 1940 N/R, 88 min.
Genre: Animation / Family / Fantasy / Musical
Director: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen
Cast: Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Cliff Edwards, Evelyn Venable, Walter Catlett, Frankie Darro, Charles Judels, Don Brodie, Mel Blanc, Jack Mercer, Marion Darlington, Patricia Page
This is an early Disney masterpiece of animation. It tells the story of Pinocchio (voice of Dickie Jones), a wooden puppet crafted by Gepetto (voice of Christian Rub). Gipetto wishes that Pinocchio could be his real son, and the Blue Fairy (voice of Evelyn Venable) grants his wish. Jimminy Cricket (voice of Cliff Edwards) is appointed to be Pinocchio's "conscience." This proves a difficult task when Pinocchio lies, skips school, and heads to Pleasure Island. But, when Pinocchio learns that Gepetto has been swallowed by a whale, he risks his life and saves Gepetto–proving that he deserves to be Gepetto's son. "When You Wish Upon a Star" won an Academy Award for Best Song.
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Red Salute 1935 N/R, 77 min.
Genre: Comedy
aka: Her Enlisted Man
Runaway Daughter
Her Uncle Sam
Director: Sidney Lanfield
Cast: Barbara Stanwyck, Robert Young, Hardie Albright, Cliff Edwards, Ruth Donnelly, Gordon Jones, Purnell Pratt, Paul Stanton, Nella Walker, Arthur Vinton
Drue Van Allen (Barbara Stanwyck) is a college student and daughter of an Army general (Purnell Pratt). She is swayed in the liberal direction by one suitor and in the conservative direction by another.
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 Saratoga 1937 N/R, 90 min.
Genre: Comedy
Director: Jack Conway
Cast: Jean Harlow, Clark Gable, Lionel Barrymore, Frank Morgan, Walter Pidgeon, Una Merkel, Cliff Edwards, Hattie McDaniel, George Zucco, Jonathan Hale
The racetrack at Saratoga Springs, New York is the setting for this comedy about sly gambler Duke Bradley (Clark Gable) falling in love with the beautiful Carol Clayton (Jean Harlow) whose grandfather (Lionel Barrymore) is a horse breeder. Harlow died during filming at the age of 26.
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The Sin of Madelon Claudet 1931  N/R, 73 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: Edgar Selwyn
Cast: Helen Hayes, Lewis Stone, Neil Hamilton, Robert Young, Cliff Edwards, Jean Hersholt, Charles Winninger, Alan Hale, Marie Prevost, Karen Morley
Helen Hayes won the Academy Award as Best Actress for this film in which she portrayed Madelon Claudet, a poor woman who pays friends to rear her son born out of wedlock. Her mother's love drives her to resort to prostitution to gain money needed for her son's welfare–a son who does not suspect she is his mother.
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They Gave Him a Gun 1937 N/R, 93 min.
Genre: Drama
Director: W.S. Van Dyke
Cast: Spencer Tracy, Franchot Tone, Gladys George, Edgar Dearing, Mary Treen, Cliff Edwards, Charles Trowbridge, Joe Sawyer, George Chandler, Gavin Gordon
Returning home after duty in World War I, Jimmy (Franchot Tone), has trouble adapting to civilian life and becomes involved with gangsters until his friend, Fred (Spencer Tracy), finally convinces him to turn his life around.
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| 1. American Empire (1942)
aka: My Son Alone
2. Dance, Fools, Dance (1931)
3. Dumbo (1941)
4. The Falcon Strikes Back (1943)
5. Fun and Fancy Free (1947)
6. The Great Lover (1931)
7. Hell Divers (1932)
8. His Girl Friday (1940)
9. International Squadron (1941)
10. Knockout (1941)
11. Laughing Sinners (1931)
12. Montana Moon (1930)
13. Parlor, Bedroom and Bath (1931)
aka: Romeo in Pyjamas
14. Pinocchio (1940)
15. Red Salute (1935)
aka: Her Enlisted Man
aka: Runaway Daughter
aka: Her Uncle Sam
16. Saratoga (1937)
17. The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1931)
18. They Gave Him a Gun (1937)
19. Way Out West (1930)
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