This is one of those odd instances where both the book and the movie are equally good. I do however have to give the edge to the movie version simply from the silent fury of Henry Fonda’s piercing eyes. The Ox-Bow Incident is part-Western movie, part racial drama. The story focuses on two drifters who … Continue reading
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100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 33 – Casablanca (1942)
I was tempted to watch my grandfather’s favorite movie ever, Yankee Doodle Dandy starring James Cagney, but decided to go with the more mainstream classic, Casablanca. Watching this movie again, it’s funny how many great one-liners there are. There’s even a YouTube video for them. That been said, while it remains an American classic, it’s … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 32 – Citizen Kane (1941)
If there were ever a movie that was mandatory for film students to watch, it’s this one. Citizen Kane is the film student equivalent of having to read 1984 the Weekly Reader in grade school. Honestly though, I didn’t know what the big deal was about this movie. Even when I watched it the first time in … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 31 – His Girl Friday (1940)
I’m going to keep this entry short. I didn’t want to watch Pinocchio for a second time in three months so I switched over to His Girl Friday, for the simple reason that I had a copy of the movie sitting in my DVD library. I would have watched The Grapes of Wrath or Fantasia, … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 30 – The Wizard of Oz (1939)
I freakin’ love this movie. I love the sepia colored beginning and the switch to vibrant color part-way thru. Back when I first saw The Wizard of Oz, about a couple decades or so ago, I had a bit of a crush on Dorothy (Judy Garland) and the flying monkeys freaked the hell out of … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 29 – Bringing Up Baby (1938)
When I watched this movie for the first time a couple years ago, it was one of the funniest things I’d ever seen. After today’s second viewing, I still like it, but it wasn’t as funny. Bringing Up Baby features a rat-ta-tat-tat machine gun dialogue exchange between Cary Grant and Katherine Hepburn as they transport a … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 28 – The Awful Truth (1937)
The problem I had watching The Awful Truth was that I already knew how it was going to end. So immediately, I started looking for a subplot, but there really isn’t one that jumps out. Ultimately, what got me thru this movie was the easy-charm of Cary Grant, who I will be seeing again as … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 27 – Sabotage (1936)
To be honest with you, I have no idea what was going on in this movie. I do remember there is a Disney cartoon that suddenly appears and seems oddly fit into a Hitchcock movie. But back to the reasons why I didn’t know what the heck was going on… For one, every copy I … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – First 25 Days Video Review
Click the link below for a brief two-minute video review of the past 25 Days of this journey. First 25 Days Video Review Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 26 – Scrooge (1935)
Wow, talk about having to go into the vault. My original plan was to watch Mutiny on the Bounty but unable to find a copy of that movie, I ended going to my back-up – 39 Steps by Alfred Hitchcock. Unfortunately, every copy I viewed had really low volume and I couldn’t hear what was … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 25 – The Man Who Knew Too Much (1934)
Well, here we are, a quarter of the way thru. I knew this was going to be an exhausting time-consuming endeavor and I also knew that the first 25 years were probably going to be the toughest to get through being that silent film s simply not my forte. But I’ve made it and in … Continue reading
100 Years of Movies in 100 Days – Day 24 – King Kong (1933)
Long before Peter Jackson gave us a bloated re-telling of King Kong or John Guillerman of The Towering Inferno fame offered his take on the famed story (with Jeff Bridges and Jessica Lange no less), there was the original Merian Cooper/Ernest Schoedsack version. In the early 1980’s, this classic movie was colorized and it’s one … Continue reading
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