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Directed by Anthony Quinn, who was married to Katherine DeMille at the time, therefore old C.B.'s son-in-law, at least while the marriage lasted. He created a stage bound but luxuriantly colorful and atmospheric film, with Brynner going against the typecasting that kept him in the public eye as ...

Did you notice that Jim Broadbent, consummate actor that he is, actually contracts one eye slightly? Gilbert himself had a "lazy" left eye, a detail that marks this actor as one who does his research. Great movie!

Lady Catherine (that great old dragon Edna May Oliver) is far more comic and harmless in this version, but MGM broadened everything in this adaptation. Animated and bouncy, Austen comes across more like Dickens. Once one adjusts to this, it's a happy and carefree experience, and certainly the m...

Just released as a Criterion Collection BluRay AWESOME!!!

Delightful, the whole movie is Fred and Ginger at their most buoyant, and the opening number sets the tone. Great show, and Fred is the greatest!

Prime fun with Price and Rathbone, and that great "melting" scene at the end; it haunted my dreams when I saw it as a child (I lied and told my Mom I was going to see a Davy Crockett movie; she had no idea why that would give me nightmares). Thanks for posting--this is an awesome classic!

Total fun. Lovecraft actually got more fidelity from Corman than Poe in most of his filmed adaptations, and the offspring of Yog-Sothoth in the well was not bad for a 1963 special effect. Considering the jokey tone and music of previous films like "The Raven" and "Tales of Terror", the refreshin...

There's a great story about the filming of Duke Wayne's scene; he did it just as in the film here, and director George Stevens wanted another take, saying, "Duke, you're looking at the death of Christ Himself, put more awe into that line." Next take, Wayne said "Awwww, truly this man was the son...

Superlative western "tragedy" and one of Douglas' finest portrayals. Thanks so much for giving us this masterpiece!!

An almost forgotten masterpiece--and Olivier as Burgoyne is irresistible; he out-classes Lancaster and Douglas so beautifully that it is as if the real General Burgoyne's military defeats were to be triumphantly avenged. Despite Olivier's ascendance throughout, Lancaster's minister has one grea...

What a beautiful, high spirited and elegant adaptation of a terrific play-Olivier is obviously having a ripsnorting good time, and Caine matches him every step of the way. A marvelous experience--thanks so much for posting it!

It's one of the few episodes in which the Prisoner got a small victory over the Village, and especially the sadistically monstrous Number Two (done to perfection by a fine character actor, Patrick Cargill, who specialized in playing rotters). I love the way Number 6 uses the naturally suspicious...

Totally love this! I grew up with these awesome records, and this gives me such a lovely glow! Thanks for posting!!

Totally loved this album--and especially this song--when I was a kid. Thanks for the glistening memories!

Best time of my life ever. I had just turned 40 and met a Keno girl named Candice and we had a fling. Wow, to do it with a girl half your age named Candy . . .

I love the fact that the bumbler Watson comes up with a plan that saves both of them, at least temporarily--

Magic Carpet Ride--totally perfect tune for this.

George Sanders is at his best in this; Herbert Marshall and Albert Basserman are very fine as well. It's probably director Albert Lewin's best film along with "Picture of Dorian Gray." Note the opening titles that obliquely condemn Strickland before we even know him--these were studio insertion...

Superlative acting by George Sanders and Albert Basserman. Originally (or so I've read) the fiery destruction of his paintings was in color, but the color negative was lost, ironically, in a studio fire. Also, the final titles that rip the poor artist apart were put in against the director's wi...

They're not executing anyone after this--two of the men in the Stalag, Edmund Trzcinski and Donald Bevan, later went on to write this screenplay! Great movie, great whistle, great ending!

Holden's hair-trigger performance is the greatest (and he's playing the star-making kind of bad/good guy that made Bogart a legend); dunno if Spacey's got the moxie but it would be fun to see him try. Meanwhile, this is Holden's Oscar-winner, and I'm loving every minute. Thanks for posting!

A wonderful "reply" to the Army-McCarthy hearings, where they ruined lives over small and ridiculous secrets--like Mr. Shunderson's past, for example. A classic trial scene, with Grant at his most humorously understated. Notice that the director relies on the dialog to carry the story, rather t...

One of John Ford's most memorable films, and not at all the tedious bummer that the title suggests. Fonda is funny and poignant as the drawling, awkward young lawyer, and this scene is one of the best in the film. I rather think Harper Lee borrowed the idea for Atticus Finch's jailhouse standof...

"Fairy tale"? Why such contempt prior to investigation? Throw away the Bible if you want--the real Jesus, including his miracles and resurrection, is mentioned by Josephus, a Jewish/Roman historian. This guy would have no reason to "front" Christ, and his account helps explain the swift spread ...

When we did this show, our high school choral director made us change the line to "never whirl with a three toed girl or a discontented -- TERrible example", instead of HORrible, so there would be no jokes with the word "whore." I mentioned it to my English teacher who said the director was a no...

Lon Chaney's bizarre and cadaverous makeup will never be matched, but Rains is indeed a fine phantom. Even masked, he's more expressive than anyone else in the cast, and he's far more sympathetic than Chaney (which inevitably reduces the horror). No matter what version it is, people get hooked ...

In addition to the wonderful performance of Joan Fontaine and the elegant underplaying of Olivier, and Hitchcock's astounding no-wasted-shots direction, this classic has George Sanders and Judith Anderson (and earlier on, Florence cigarette-in-the-egg Bates), all showing their flair for playing r...

The most romantic, suspenseful movie ending ever. Bergman is ravishing, Grant is at his most masculine, and then there's that heart-stopping walk down the stairs. When Grant dooms Claude Rains by locking the car door on him, it's a stunning moment--I hate the little Nazi and pity him at the sam...

That superb ending, the last moment after the credits run, when you realize Ehtar is alive--and WHO he has become--absolutely brrilliant, old fellow!

I guess director John Huston tried to finance this for twenty-some years--his original casting for the "pair of Englishmen" was Clark Gable and Spencer Tracy--but this film as he did it is matchlessly superb. I agree that Connery and Caine are the epitome of masculinity, revealing both its glory ...