This wagon just about rolls along on one wheel…but an engaging plot and prototype superhero are not enough to save Cimarron from its director’s terminal lack of imagination Director: Wesley Ruggles Producer: William LeBaron, Wesley Ruggles Studio: RKO Radio Pictures Written by: Howard Estabrook, from the novel by Edna Ferber Starring: Richard Dix, Irene Dunne, […]
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This post is intended neither as an accusation nor as a confession… Well okay, maybe a bit of a confession… Director: Lewis Milestone Producer: Carl Laemmle Jr Studio: Universal Written by: George Abbott (screenplay), Maxwell Anderson (adaptation), Del Andrews (Adaption and dialogue), from the novel by Erich Maria Remarque Starring: Lew Ayres, Louis Wolheim Happy […]
Well, I’ve waded through the primordial slime of Wings – which turned out not to be so primordial – and arrived at my second post! Director: Harry Beaumont Producer: Irving Thalberg Studio: MGM Written by: Norman Houston and James Gleason, from a story by Edmund Goulding Songs: Nacio Herb Brown (music), Arthur Freed (lyrics) Choreography: […]
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