2024-10-22
Post-Civil War yarn about captured outlaws forced to help round up their former saddle pals. Audie Murphy, Gloria Talbott. Brady: Michael Dante. Willie: Ben Cooper. Andrews: Buster Crabbe. Danny: Ray Stricklyn. Directed by William Witney.
Frank Capra satire about a Thoreau-quoting, tuba-playing small-town poet who inherits $20 million and, disillusioned with wealth, decides to give it all away, prompting his lawyer to have him declared insane. Capra's direction won an Oscar for this Best Picture nominee, and nominations also went to titular star Gary Cooper and screenwriter Robert Riskin.
A boozy, unkempt apple seller in Depression-era New York learns her long-overseas daughter, who believes her to be a wealthy dowager, is returning with her fiancé to visit, so the old gal gets help from a gangster in transforming into a society matron. Frank Capra retooled his own 1933 hit "Lady for a Day" for this Runyonesque yarn. The film's title tune was nominated for a Best Song Oscar.
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
The national park is the setting for a quest for buried loot---and murder. Henry Hunter, Judith Barrett, Alan Hale, Andy Devine, Ralph Morgan, Monroe Owsley, Paul Fix. Interesting whodunit with a novel locale. Arthur Lubin directed.
The Singing Cowboy, Gene Autry, warbles nicely and rides heroically to the rescue of ranchers being hornswoggled by land barons in this standard oater. Gene performs "Love, Burning Love," which he co-wrote, and sidekick Smiley Burnette, as Frog, croaks the witty ditty "She Works Third Tub at the Laundry.".
The Range Busters (John King, David Sharpe, Max Terhune), Evelyn Finley, Forrest Taylor. Robert Emmett Tansey directed.
Religious Programming.
An alcoholic lawyer battles the local sheriff over voting procedures. Davis: Edgar Stehli. Sheriff: Robert Lowery. Longley: Rory Calhoun. Carlin: Charles Cooper.
Frank Capra satire about a Thoreau-quoting, tuba-playing small-town poet who inherits $20 million and, disillusioned with wealth, decides to give it all away, prompting his lawyer to have him declared insane. Capra's direction won an Oscar for this Best Picture nominee, and nominations also went to titular star Gary Cooper and screenwriter Robert Riskin.
A boozy, unkempt apple seller in Depression-era New York learns her long-overseas daughter, who believes her to be a wealthy dowager, is returning with her fiancé to visit, so the old gal gets help from a gangster in transforming into a society matron. Frank Capra retooled his own 1933 hit "Lady for a Day" for this Runyonesque yarn. The film's title tune was nominated for a Best Song Oscar.
Based partially on the story of Bonnie and Clyde, Eddie Taylor is an ex-convict who cannot get a break after being released from prison. When he is framed for murder, Taylor is forced to flee with his wife Joan Graham and baby. While escaping prison after being sentenced to death, Taylor becomes a real murderer, condemning himself and Joan to a life of crime and death on the road.
Post-Civil War yarn about captured outlaws forced to help round up their former saddle pals. Audie Murphy, Gloria Talbott. Brady: Michael Dante. Willie: Ben Cooper. Andrews: Buster Crabbe. Danny: Ray Stricklyn. Directed by William Witney.