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Classic Film Review: Reckless Pilot Peck makes a WWII Trek across “The Purple Plain” (1954)
By the time he made “The Purple Plain,” Gregory Peck had already made a film that touched on the fear and emotional toll of air combat in World War II — 1949’s “Twelve O’Clock High.” But the text of that … Continue reading
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Tagged classic-film, combat-film, gregory-peck, movie-review, ptsd, sri-lanka, world-war-ii
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Classic Film Review: Carney, Tomlin, Killings and a Missing Cat — “The Late Show” (1977)
The golden age of film noir — cynical, sinister and shadowy thrillers about crime and the unchanging nature of human criminality — was the 1940s and ’50s, when black and white cinema still ruled. The genre never really went away, … Continue reading
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Tagged art-carney, classic-film, joanna-cassidy, lily-tomlin, movie-review, private-eye, Reviews, the-late-show
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Classic Film Review: Hitchcock becomes “Hitch” — “The 39 Steps” (1935)
While he was alive, critics had little trouble finding ways to discount Alfred Hitchcock’s genius and underrate his later decades of entertaining, bubbly and even chilling thrillers. Because that generation of reviewers remembered “The 39 Steps.” This 1935 romp of … Continue reading
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Tagged alfred-hitchcock, classic-film, donat, hitchcock-blonde, movie-review, thriller
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