http://filmweviews.com We like movies! Sun, 05 Jul 2009 20:54:34 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en The Marx Brothers go to college in "Horse Feathers," but not with honors. This movie is more like a series of sketches rather than an evolving plot. Prof. Quincy Adams Wagstaff (Groucho Marx) becomes head of Huxtable College which his son Frank (Zeppo Marx) attends. The new president decides ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/horse-feathers/ Bogey and Bacall made cinematic history. Every fan of classic movies knows Lauren Bacall's line to Humphrey Bogart's character: "You know how to whistle, don't you, Steve?" http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/lauren-bacalls-famous-line-from-to-have-and-have-not/ Of the 10 Astaire-Rogers movie pairings, "Swing Time" has the best of the duo's dance numbers and this film, "Shall We Dance," has the best songs. Not surprising since it features tunes that George and Ira Gershwin wrote specifically for long-time friend Fred Astaire. Highlights include "Let's Call the Whole ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/shall-we-dance-2/ It's the classic Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers movie plot, this time spanning from Paris to New York with a cruise ship in between. "Shall We Dance" includes two of my favorite Astaire and Rogers dance scenes. In the first scene, the two are unexpectedly brought together for a dance ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/shall-we-dance/ A classic from the famous "Chinese" detective, "Charlie Chan at the Opera" is one of the best of the series. Boris Karloff's character is an excellent foil to Chan played by Warner Oland. If you watch it late at night, you'll want to stay awake to the end. That won't take ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/charlie-chan-at-the-opera-2/ In this taut 1954 thriller, the leader of the Rat Pack plays a real rat. Cold-blooded killer Johnny Baron (Frank Sinatra) and his band of guns for hire take a household hostage in the sleepy town of Suddenly, Calif., so they can use the hilltop residence as a vantage point ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/suddenly-2/ Frank Sinatra plays a thug who proves that a gun doesn’t make a man a man. Sterling Hayden plays a sheriff who shows that it’s the character of the man behind a gun that makes him a man – especially when protecting others. “Suddenly” has suspense, action and about all ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/suddenly/ They don’t come much stranger than Orson Welles, who is well-cast as a creepy Nazi war criminal hiding out in small-town America. He has managed to blend in seamlessly with the locals until he’s ferreted out by Nazi hunter Edward G. Robinson, who’s playing the good guy for a change. ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/the-stranger-2/ A Nazi gets his clock cleaned in this post-war classic of suspense and noir. Although it drags a bit and there’s a lot more suspense than action, “The Stranger” offers a good evening’s worth of diversion. Edward G. Robinson and Orson Welles are at the top of their game. As ... http://filmweviews.com/groovymovieguy/the-stranger/ There's no Fred Astaire in this Ginger Rogers movie. There's also no dancing and none of Roger's usual grace in this clunky whodunit. In a twist on the murder of dinner guests at a spooky old mansion, guests at a dinner party held 13 years earlier start turning up dead ... http://filmweviews.com/moviemoll/the-thirteenth-guest-2/