Category Archives: Older Films

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

Three by Boyer: Liliom (1934), Algiers (1938), and Love Affair (1939)

Posted on January 12, 2018 by Mark DuPré

Charles Boyer was thought of as retro and a subject of satire when I was young. He was somewhere between the worlds of my parents and grandparents, and most of us knew that he was the model for Pepé Le … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Algiers, An Affair to Remember, Carousel, Cary Grant, Casablanca, Charles Boyer, Charles Farrell, Deborah Kerr, Ecstacy, Ekstase, Fritz Lang, Gene Lockhart, Hedy Lamarr, Hungary, Irene Dunne, James Wong Howe, Jean Gabin, June Lockhart, Liliom, Michael Curtiz, One Way Passage, Pépé le Moko, Pepé le Pew, Rita Wilson, Rogers and Hammerstein, Sleepless in Seattle, Tom Hanks, Victor Garber, Walter Wanger | Leave a comment

Two Women (1960/1961)

Posted on December 31, 2017 by Mark DuPré

Two Women is fascinating for two reasons. One, it is the film that brought Sophia Loren her Academy Award for Best Actress, the first for a foreign-language performance. (Since then, there have been awards for Roberto Benigni for Life is … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Angelina Jolie, Benicio Del Toro, Bicycle Thieves, Breathless, Catherine Zeta Jones, Cesare Zavattini, Charlize Theron, dubbing, Elizabeth Taylor, French New Wave, Godfather Part Two, Ingrid Bergman Grace Kelly, Jean-Paul Belmondo, La Vie en Rose, Life is Beautiful, Marion Cotillard, Miracle in Milan, Natalie Portman, neorealism, neorealist, New Wave, Penelope Cruz, Rachel Weisz, Robert De Niro, Roberto Benigni, Scarlet Johansson, Shoeshine, Sophia Loren, Traffic, Two Women, Umberto D., Vittorio de Sica, Vivien Leigh | Leave a comment

When Knighthood was in Flower, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and The Crowd

Posted on November 12, 2017 by Mark DuPré

My voyages back into the cinema of yesterday have brought me to a few fascinating places lately. In chronological order of their initial release, I saw: When Knighthood Was in Flower (1922), Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ (1925) and … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Ben-Hur: a Tale of the Christ, Charlton Heston, Citizen Kane, Eleanor Boardman, Henry VIII, Intolerance, James Murray, Jean-Luc Godard, King Vidor, Mae Marsh, Marion Davies, Mary Tudor, Ramon Navarro, Susan Alexander Kane, The Big Parade, The Crowd, The Jazz Singer, The Thin Man, two-strip Technicolor, When Knighthood Was in Flower, William Powell | Leave a comment

Category Archives: Older Films

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

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

All the King’s Men

Three by Boyer: Liliom (1934), Algiers (1938), and Love Affair (1939)

Two Women (1960/1961)

When Knighthood was in Flower, Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ, and The Crowd

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