I got together with friends to watch a few movies tonight. After watching Five-Star Final a while back, we are all ardent Edward G. Robinson fans, and we all jumped at the chance to see him in Key Largo. Robinson found one of his greatest roles in Johnny Rocco, a hardened gangster who holds an [...]
I never thought I would see a Frank Capra film that I didn’t love. It is not that I hated You Can’t Take It with You or even disliked it, but with a cast including James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur, I was expecting a lot and was slightly disappointed. Capra’s usual writer Robert [...]
After seeing Jean Harlow in a role that was all too small in The Public Enemy, I wanted to see more of her as soon as possible. Harlow is great as the whining, spoiled wife of a brash, power-mad businessman (Wallace Beery). “Doctor Talbot says yer a extravurt an I’m a intravurt, and intravurt you [...]
Actor: Lionel Barrymore
Key Largo (1948)
I got together with friends to watch a few movies tonight. After watching Five-Star Final a while back, we are all ardent Edward G. Robinson fans, and we all jumped at the chance to see him in Key Largo. Robinson found one of his greatest roles in Johnny Rocco, a hardened gangster who holds an [...]
You Can’t Take It with You (1938)
I never thought I would see a Frank Capra film that I didn’t love. It is not that I hated You Can’t Take It with You or even disliked it, but with a cast including James Stewart, Lionel Barrymore and Jean Arthur, I was expecting a lot and was slightly disappointed. Capra’s usual writer Robert [...]
Dinner At Eight (1933)
After seeing Jean Harlow in a role that was all too small in The Public Enemy, I wanted to see more of her as soon as possible. Harlow is great as the whining, spoiled wife of a brash, power-mad businessman (Wallace Beery). “Doctor Talbot says yer a extravurt an I’m a intravurt, and intravurt you [...]