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My further investigation into the films of Anna Sten brought me to “The Wedding Night,” the picture she made in 1935 with Gary Cooper.  Cooper plays a fiction writer in New York City, Tony Barrett, whose latest novel is rejected … Continue reading →

In 1944, RKO Radio Pictures made a Fibber McGee and Molly vehicle called “Heavenly Days.”  Jim (Fibber) and Marian (Molly) Jordan play a daffy couple who decide to take a trip to Washington to tell the Senate how to run … Continue reading →

Watch “The Tree of Wooden Clogs,” an Italian movie from 1978, and you can learn a lot of things just by observing.  For instance, it’s very bad when a cow won’t eat and can’t get up, and chicken manure might … Continue reading →

Everybody should see the 1935 film called “La Kermesse Héroïque (Carnival in Flanders),” which stars the wonderful and gifted Françoise Rosay as the wife of the Burgomaster in a Flemish village.  When Spanish invaders take over the town, the men flee but … Continue reading →

Peter Lorre and Sidney Greenstreet team up once again in “The Mask of Dimitrios,” released in 1944 by Warner Brothers and directed by Jean Negulesco.  Lorre plays a Dutch detective story writer named Cornelius Leyden who becomes obsessed with a Greek … Continue reading →

An Indian film directed by Jean Renoir called “Le Fleuve (The River)” came out in 1951.  Its glorious color photography by Claude Renoir captures the sites along the Ganges River.  The story involves a  British family that runs a jute … Continue reading →

“The Savage Girl,” an interesting pre-code film made by Monarch Film Corporation in 1932, tells the story of an eccentric and drunk millionaire (Amos P. Stitch) who hires a professor to travel to Africa, catch wild animals, and stock Stitch’s private zoo. … Continue reading →

The remarkable Richard Widmark and Jules Dassin team up in the 1950 thriller called “Night and the City,” which also stars Gene Tierney and Googie Withers.  Widmark plays Harry Fabian, a con man who always looks for a bigger score. … Continue reading →

Norma Shearer, Clark Gable and Lionel Barrymore star in “A Free Soul,” a 1931 film directed by Clarence Brown.  Shearer plays Jan Ashe, a modern and free-spirited woman who carries on an open affair with Ace Wilfong, a notorious gambler. … Continue reading →