By GroovyMovieGuy on March 24, 2009
Hackenbush! Hackenbush!
Calling Dr. Hackenbush, aka Groucho Marx, and his brothers Chico and Harpo who led the wild hijinks in this comedy classic set in both a sanatorium and at a horse racing track. Highlights include Groucho entertaining a young lady at a table with a centerpiece so big he has to stand on his chair [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Musical, Screwball | Tagged Chico, Classic, Comedy, Groucho, Harpo, Marx brothers |
By movieMoll on March 24, 2009
This Marx Brothers’ follow-up to “A Night at the Opera,” completes the double feature of what most critics — and fans — consider to be the comedy team’s two best films. When Dr. Hugo Hackenbush (Groucho) comes on staff at Standish Sanitarium, owner Judy Standish (Maureen O’Sullivan) hopes he can save the business from bankruptcy. [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Musical, Screwball | Tagged Chico, Classic, Comedy, Groucho, Harpo, Marx brothers |
By movieMoll on May 30, 2009
The second in the movie series, “After the Thin Man” finds Nick (William Powell) and Nora (Myrna Loy) fresh off train from New York and back home in San Francisco after Nick’s success in solving the celebrated Thin Man murder mystery. Although it’s New Year’s Eve, all the sophisticated, cocktail-swigging couple really wants is a [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Mystery, Romance | Tagged Comedy, Crime, Dashiell Hammett, Myrna Loy, Mystery, Nick and Nora, Nick Charles, Romance, William Powell |
By GroovyMovieGuy on February 23, 2009
Waking up from a mid-movie nap, I thought for a moment I was watching a Shriners’ documentary, but it was just Hollywood actors wearing fezzes. The nap was great, the movie okay. Save it for late night fall-to-sleep fare. (96 minutes)
Not rated - 1938
Starring:
Charles Boyer
Sigrid Gurie
Hedy Lamarr
Joseph Calleia
Alan Hale
Gene Lockhart
Walter Kingsford
Paul Harvey
Stanley Fields
Johnny Downs
Charles D. [...]
Posted in Classic, Drama, Index, Mystery | Tagged Classic, crimes, Drama, Mystery |
By movieMoll on February 23, 2009
For viewers who only remember Charles Boyer as the old guy in “Around the World in 80 Days,” seeing him as the hot and handsome lead in Algiers will be an eye-opener. Boyer, as jewel thief Pepe Le Moko wanted by police across Europe, is hiding out in the Casbah. A sly local cop is [...]
Posted in Classic, Drama, Index, Mystery | Tagged Classic, crimes, Drama, Mystery |
By GroovyMovieGuy on February 13, 2009
Third in the “Thin Man” series, “Another Thin Man” plays it straighter with more dry wit and less alcohol-fueled humor than other movies in the series. One of the great silver screen couples, Nick and Nora Charles (William Powell and Myrna Loy) add Nicky Charles Jr. (William A. Poulsen) to the family and solve the [...]
Posted in Classic, Comedy, Index, Mystery | Tagged Asta, Classic, Comedy, detective, Myrna Loy, Mystery, Nick and Nora, Nick Charles, William Powell, wire hair terrier |
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