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1.Min & Bill starring: Marie Dressler, Wallace Beery, Dorothy Jordan, Marjorie Rambeau, Don Dillaway directed by: George W. Hill December 21, 1994
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Marie Dressler and Wallace Beery star in one of the earliest great "talkies" entitled Min & Bill. Min (Marie Dressler) runs a waterfront hotel and saloon and she has a special although platonic bond with one of the people who rent a room there, the good natured but not very smart drunkard Bill (Wallace Beery). The plot begins when we see that for many years Min has taken care of Nancy (Dorothy Jordan), a young girl who was essentially left on Min's doorstep when she was just a baby. Min cares deeply for Nancy and Bill too; despite her rough exterior Min has a heart of gold and good common sense. Unfortunately, trouble starts when the truant officer threatens to close down Min's hotel unless Min allows Nancy to go to school; and Min must agree to cooperate with the truant officer. ... Read More

2.I'm No Angel starring: Mae West, Cary Grant, Gregory Ratoff, Edward Arnold, Ralf Harolde directed by: Wesley Ruggles January 01, 1998
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Perhaps her best film, "I'm No Angel" (1933) finds Mae West at full suggestive power before the Production Code reared its ugly head. Immortal one-liners abound in this fascinating social satire, with romantic support from a young Cary Grant and Mae's inimitable rendition of "They Call Me Sister Honky Tonk." A Depression-era classic directed with stylish flair by Wesley Ruggles.

3.Dance, Fools, Dance (Forbidden Hollywood) starring: Joan Crawford, Cliff Edwards, Lester Vail, William Bakewell, William Holden directed by: Harry Beaumont September 01, 1998
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This film is actually about 3.5/5. Not great, but good enough to keep your interest. As others have already mentioned it is historical for being the initial teaming of Joan Crawford and Clark Gable, although Gable is sixth or seventh billed at this point. Don't expect Gable the gallant cad in this one - here he is pure cad. The film is an unremarkable morality tale about the follies of the very wealthy spoiling their children even into adulthood to the point where they complain about having to "get up in the middle of the night (9 AM) to eat breakfast." When Wall Street crashes, dad dies from the shock and Bonnie Jordan (Joan Crawford) and her brother are left penniless. Bonnie chooses to break into newspaper reporting, but her brother chooses a less honest option which brings him into contact with Gable ... Read More

4.The Miracle Woman (Restored) starring: Barbara Stanwyck, David Manners, Sam Hardy, Beryl Mercer, Russell Hopton directed by: Frank Capra June 03, 1997
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That's Barbara Stanwyck, very young & desirable in this 1931 forgotten little movie that I understand costs quite bit for its day. She's the daughter of a preacher who has just been fired & immediately dies. She gives the hypocrites in the congregation a firery sermon in his place. She leaves town, vowing vengence with a shady manager in tow. Soon she is famous & wealthy as Florence "Faith" Fallon an evagelist & healer. She has become what she had cursed the congregation for. She's knows she's a phony. But then she has a success of sorts. A young avaitor, (David Manners) blinded by the war, is despondent & on the verge of suicide. He hears her broadcast & doesn't follow through. He seeks her out & they develop a friendship. In a series of meetings, mostly in his apartment, they fall in love. Now ... Read More

5.The Saint: In New York/Strikes Back starring: George Sanders, Wendy Barrie, Jonathan Hale, Jerome Cowan, Barry Fitzgerald directed by: Ben Holmes, John Farrow March 18, 1997
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Hayward did New York. A nice double feature with "Strikes Back" starring George Sanders on the same tape. Robert Osborne even does an intro. for TCM. Mr. Hayward is pretty good & I admit he puts me in mind of James Bond more than Mr. Sanders. He's cruel & charming, kills with cool dispatch, yet he is still one of the good guys. The Law is ambivalent about The Saint/Simon Templar. He is somewhat of a Robin Hood in that he steals from criminals, helps law enforcement but takes a cut for himself. In dispair New York City hires him (in secret) to rid itself of criminal gangs that control the city & are corrupting the courts. He has a list of gang bosses & goes to work. Some die easy some not so. He falls in love with the moll(Kay Sutton) who saves his life (twice). Mr Sanders takes over in the second movie "...Strikes ... Read More

6.Last Outlaw starring: Harry Carey, Hoot Gibson, Tom Tyler, Henry B. Walthall, Margaret Callahan directed by: Christy Cabanne February 14, 1994
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This is a charming and humorous western starring Harry Carey. Among the cast is my favorite actor who was the star of 1915's Birth of a Nation, Henry B. Walthall (one of his last roles). He plays the part of former sheriff Cal Yates who has become a victim of modernization. The new sherrif, a young go-getter, has taken over the reigns and Yates is relegated to listening to complaints from old ladies. Famed bank robber Dean Payton (Harry Carey) is released from prison and seeks his old pal Yates, only to be disheartened by the many changes to the town. The best scene is where Payton and Yates are in a movie theatre and Payton encounters the talkies for the first time "Oh, they talk now." After the town bank is hit again by a modern band of robbers, Payton and Yates set out to capture the crooks by recreating Payton's capture 25 years earlier. Oh ... Read More

7.G-Men (1935) starring: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane directed by: William Keighley July 05, 2000
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When the production code came around, movies got cleaned up, and that included gangster movies. In consequence, gangsters could not be glorified, so James Cagney went from hoodlum to the side of the law in G-Men. This is the story of the beginning of the FBI. Cagney plays Brick Davis, a former lawyer who turns to police work after his friend (Lloyd Nolan) is murdered in the line of duty. Brick grew up in the slums and was given his break by a gangster so he knows how the underworld works. That makes him a great cop. It is up to him to round up the top ten most wanted men in America and with the help of menotor Jeff McCord (Robert Armstrong), he can do it. An entertaining movie, G-Men is nothing too significant. It seems more like a Warners programmer than anything with plenty of stock actors. Ann Dvorak appears as a gangster's wife, ... Read More

8.Lady Killer (1933) starring: James Cagney, Mae Clarke, Margaret Lindsay, Leslie Fenton, Douglass Dumbrille directed by: Roy Del Ruth July 05, 2000
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"Lady Killer" is now available on DVD and what an entertaining film it is. This film was released just before the imposition of the Hays Code and we can be grateful. The film stars the magnetic Jimmy Cagney as a bellhop who becomes a con man, flees the police and winds up in Hollywood as a film star. This gives the script the opportunity to satirise a number of genres and the swipes at the studio system are hilarious. Mae Clarke, of the grapefruit from "Public Enemy", stars opposite Cagney as a moll and she is terrific. The film is very well directed by Roy del Ruth and the pace never lets up. The print is excellent and the DVD comes with some entertaining extras. Drew Casper's commentary centres fully on Cagney and rightly so but he also makes some enlightening remarks about the filming techniques, illustrating how the Warner's ... Read More

9.G-Men starring: James Cagney, Margaret Lindsay, Ann Dvorak, Robert Armstrong, Barton MacLane directed by: William Keighley September 01, 1998
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When the production code came around, movies got cleaned up, and that included gangster movies. In consequence, gangsters could not be glorified, so James Cagney went from hoodlum to the side of the law in G-Men. This is the story of the beginning of the FBI. Cagney plays Brick Davis, a former lawyer who turns to police work after his friend (Lloyd Nolan) is murdered in the line of duty. Brick grew up in the slums and was given his break by a gangster so he knows how the underworld works. That makes him a great cop. It is up to him to round up the top ten most wanted men in America and with the help of menotor Jeff McCord (Robert Armstrong), he can do it. An entertaining movie, G-Men is nothing too significant. It seems more like a Warners programmer than anything with plenty of stock actors. Ann Dvorak appears as a gangster's wife, Margaret Lindsay as Cagney's ... Read More

10.Zombies on Broadway starring: Wally Brown, Alan Carney, Bela Lugosi, Anne Jeffreys, Sheldon Leonard directed by: Gordon Douglas May 29, 1991
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This scared the pants off me (figuratively) when I was a little kid. And it did the same for my daughter when she saw it some years ago, when she herself was 7 (child abuse? no: she's a sane 21-year-old now). As reviewers below note, it's a pretty sappy comedy, but amusing for all that. And if you're a kid, the zombies are SCARY! And the hypos full of zombie juice are REALLY SCARY! So: watch this for mindless fun if you're an adult, or show it to an impressionable kid for a creepy thrill. This gets 5 stars for nostalgia value (for me)-- your mileage may vary....

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