Category Archives: Older Films

Two Prototypes: What Price Hollywood? (1932) and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Posted on September 25, 2018 by Mark DuPré

Prototype: a first, typical or preliminary model of something. I’ve seen a boatload of old and foreign films recently but haven’t had the time to write about them. Yet when I notice a similarity between two films that don’t seem … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Star is Born, Bill Murray, Cat People, Citizen Kane, Clint Morgan, Constance Bennett, Dali, David O. Selznick, Double Indemnity, film noir, George Cukor, German Expressionist, Hitchcock, IMDB, Lowell Sherman, M, Neil Hamilton, Nicholas Musuraca, Out of the Past, Peter Lorre, prototype, Spellbound, Stranger on the Third Floor, The Maltese Falcon, Val Lewton, What Price Hollywood? | Leave a comment

Two French Classics: Lola Montès (1955) and Pépé le Moko (1937)

Posted on August 6, 2018 by Mark DuPré

My new FilmStruck subscription (thank you, children) is giving me access to many older films that help fill in my cinematic gaps. Recently, I saw two French classics that couldn’t be more different from one another—Lola Montès (1955) and Pépé … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Algiers, Andrew Sarris, Anton Walbrook, Barry Lyndon, Charles Boyer, Clark Gable, Forrest Gump, Franz Liszt, Graham Greene, Hedy Lamarr, Jean Gabin, King Ludwig I of Bavaria, La Regle du Jeu, Lola Montes, Marine Carol, Max Ophuls, Oscar Werner, Pépé le Moko, Pepé le Pew, Peter Ustinov, Renoir, Rules of the Game, Ryan O'Neal, Technicolor, The Earrings of Madame de... | Leave a comment

Two Audrey Hepburn Films: Roman Holiday and The Nun’s Story

Posted on June 5, 2018 by Mark DuPré

Enough time has passed that many filmgoers today have only barely heard of one of the biggest starts of the middle of the last century, and one of the most sparkling and engaging presences in all film history. There was … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Man for All Seasons, Audrey Hepburn, Beatrice Straight, Charade, Dalton Trumbo, Dean Jagger, Eddie Albert, Edith Evans, Fred Zinnemann, From Here to Eternity, Gregory Peck, High Noon, Julia Roberts, Marilyn Monroe, Mildred Dunnock, My Fair Lady, New York Film Critics Circle, Patricia Collinge, Peggy Ashcroft, Peter Finch, Pretty Woman, Production Code, Richard Gere, Roman Holiday, Sabrina, Sister Luke, stardom, The Nun's Story, Two for the Road, Wait Until Dark, War and Peace, William Wyler | Leave a comment

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and A Night to Remember (1958)

Posted on April 3, 2018 by Mark DuPré

All Quiet on the Western Front All Quiet on the Western Front was a Best Picture Oscar winner (and Best Director winner for Lewis Milestone as well) way back in 1930. The version I saw was a restoration with sound … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged A Night to Remember, All Quiet on the Western Front, Atlantic, Cabaret, Californian, Geoffrey Unsworth, Johnny Belinda, Kenneth More, Lawrence of Arabia, Lew Ayres, Lewis Milestone, Lord of the Rings, Tess, The Front Page, The Third Man, Titanic | Leave a comment

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

Posted on March 19, 2018 by Mark DuPré

I’ve heard over the years that Foreign Correspondent is “minor Hitchcock,” which of course begs an understanding of what “minor” means here. In more recent years, however, I kept hearing that it’s not so much minor as simply half-forgotten and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Alfred Basserman, Alfred Hitchcock, Alma, Barbara Stanwyck, Cary Grant, Clark Gable, David O. Selznick, Foreign Correspondent, Gary Cooper, George Sanders, Gone with the Wind, Herbert Marshall, Hitchcock, Jimmy Stewart, Joan Fontaine, Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Laurence Olivier, Lifeboat, Rear Window, Rebecca, Robert Donat, Sullivan’s Travels, The 39 Steps, The Lady Vanishes, The Locket, The More the Merrier, The Palm Beach Story, Walter Wanger, World War Two | Leave a comment

A Classic Performance, Revisited

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Mark DuPré

Luise Rainer is a name long forgotten in the film world, except by historians and major film nerds, of which I am one. Even so-called “film buffs” have never heard of the actress who won the first two … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Film-Related Articles, Older Films | Tagged Anna Held, Billie Burke, Glinda, Luise Rainer, Myrna Loy, The Good Earth, The Great Ziegfeld, The Wizard of Oz, William Powell | Leave a comment

All the King’s Men

Posted on February 26, 2018 by Mark DuPré

All the King’s Men is an “old film,” according to most of my students, having been made in 1949 and shot in (oh, my) black-and-white. However, the near-documentary look, the stellar performances, and the themes (corruption in politics and politicians) … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged All the King's Men, Broderick Crawford, Eve Arden, His Girl Friday, Huey Long, Joanne Dru, John Ireland, Mercedes McCambridle, Rosalind Russell, The Exorcist | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Older Films

Two Prototypes: What Price Hollywood? (1932) and Stranger on the Third Floor (1940)

Two French Classics: Lola Montès (1955) and Pépé le Moko (1937)

Two Audrey Hepburn Films: Roman Holiday and The Nun’s Story

All Quiet on the Western Front (1930) and A Night to Remember (1958)

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

All the King’s Men

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