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Orson Welles, The Immortal Story (1968), and Television
To view The Immortal Story click here. In his conversations with Peter Bogdanovich, Orson Welles was often derisive towards television, or at least he was in the 1960s. Back then, television hadn’t...
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Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight!
To view A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum click here. During the late 1950s, film adaptations of Broadway productions began to dominate the musical genre. Film historians such as Rick...
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The End of the Affair: Cynara (1932)
To view Cynara click here. Ronald Colman signed as a contract player with the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1924, cranking out heart-tugging romances all the way through the transition to sound, as in the...
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A Chilly Early Christmas: L’assassinat du Père Noël (1941)
To view L’assassinat du Père Noël click here First of all, let it be said that this film has one of my all-time favorite opening credit sequences. It’s almost a lost art these days how much impact you...
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Boris Karloff is The Body Snatcher (1945)
To view The Body Snatcher click here. Director Robert Wise is widely regarded as a journeyman filmmaker with no defining traits or distinct talents. In The American Cinema: Directors And Directions...
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Beware The Blob (1958)!
To view The Blob click here. The credits are Saul Bass lite. Different red shapes, blobby outlines, move forward on the screen while one of the great movie theme songs plays behind them. The song,...
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An Unusual Western: William Wyler’s The Westerner (’40)
To view The Westerner click here. In 1940, immediately following his adaptation of Wuthering Heights (1939), William Wyler directed his first major full-length Western, The Westerner, starring Gary...
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Mario Bava Wouldn’t Hurt a Fly
To view A Bay of Blood click here. A Bay of Blood (1971) shares something in common with Friday the 13th (1980), E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982) and Brazil (1985). The first commonality is obvious...
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Murnau and the Phantoms of Germany
To view Phantom click here. It’s that time of year when Nosferatu (1922), F.W. Murnau’s interpretation of Dracula, appears on lists of recommended horror films. The oldest, existing film version of...
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Affairs of the Heart: The Wedding Night (1935)
To view The Wedding Night click here. The Wedding Night was doomed from the start. It was producer Samuel Goldwyn’s final attempt at making the Ukrainian actress Anna Sten into a Garbo-level star, and...
View ArticleStreamLine Has Moved to Tumblr!
On November 1, 2017 FilmStruck’s blog, StreamLine, moved to Tumblr. This archive will remain active for anyone looking to access older content, but going forward our daily posts dedicated to cinema...
View ArticleHow’s It Going, Everybody?
Every now and then I stop back in to look at some of the updated comments and I’m surprised, and gladdened, to see that there still are comments! Now, I no longer get paid to post here so this is just...
View ArticleMan’s Castle 1933
Embarrassed to say but I just watched Frank Borzage’s Man’s Castle for the first time this week. Wow, what a movie! Spencer Tracy and Loretta Young are both excellent but the way the movie plows...
View ArticleJean Harlow, Mary Dees, and SARATOGA
I watched SARATOGA again last night for the first time in years and still found it very depressing. It is so sad to watch Harlow, clearly weak and listless, playing each scene when you know how sick...
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Tragedy Tomorrow, Comedy Tonight!
To view A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum click here. During the late 1950s, film adaptations of Broadway productions began to dominate the musical genre. Film historians such as Rick...
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The End of the Affair: Cynara (1932)
To view Cynara click here. Ronald Colman signed as a contract player with the Samuel Goldwyn Company in 1924, cranking out heart-tugging romances all the way through the transition to sound, as in the...
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A Chilly Early Christmas: L’assassinat du Père Noël (1941)
To view L’assassinat du Père Noël click here First of all, let it be said that this film has one of my all-time favorite opening credit sequences. It’s almost a lost art these days how much impact you...
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