Tag Archives: David O. Selznick

Two and a Half Flicks: The Narrow Margin, Manhattan Melodrama, and Return to Glennascaul

Posted on January 29, 2025 by Mark DuPré

Narrow Margin, 1952 Manhattan Melodrama (1934) Return to Glennascaaul (1952, a short with Orson Welles) Having spent the long weekend with best friend Clint Morgan and his wife, I knew that I would be treated to a series of classic … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged 20000 Leagues Under the Sea, Barabbas, Charles McGraw, Clark Gable, Conan the Barbarian, David O. Selznick, Design for Death, Donald Ogden Stewart, Fantastic Voyage, George Cukor, Hilton Edwards, Jack Conway, James Wong Howe, John Dillinger, Joseph L. Mankiewicz, Manhattan Melodrama, Marie Windson, Mickey Rooney, Myrna Loy, Orson Welles, Return to Glennascaul, Slavko Vorkapich, Soylent Green, William Powell | 1 Comment

Since You Went Away (1944)

Posted on October 21, 2023 by Mark DuPré

I thought for years that I had been missing a “must see” film, one produced by Gone with the Wind producer David O. Selznick, nominated for nine Oscars, and featuring, as the trailer tells us, “The Most Distinguished Cast of … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Claudette Colbert, David O. Selznick, deep focus, Duel in the Son, Gone with the Wind, Hattie McDaniel, It Happened One Night, It's a Wonderful Life, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Lee Garmes, Lionel Barrymore, Monty Woolley, Mr. Potter, Mrs. Miniver, Portrait of Jennie, Rebecca, Robert Walker, Scarface, Shanghai Express, Shirley Temple, Since You Went Away, Stanley Cortez, Strangers on a Train, The Magnificent Ambersons, The Paradine Case, The Song of Bernadette | Leave a comment

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

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

The Garden of Allah (1936)

Posted on July 13, 2015 by Mark DuPré

Such a curiosity! The film is visually stunning, stolid, lumpy and howlingly unbelievable. But it’s worth a look for several reasons. The story is so out of our time as to be worthy of archeological study. A young woman who … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Algiers, Charles Boyer, David O. Selznick, Gone with the Wind, H.G. Wells, Marlene Dietrich, Max Steiner, Oscar, Richard Boleslawski, Technicolor, The Garden of Allah, The Method, The Red Shoes, Things to Come, William Cameron Menzies | Leave a comment

Tag Archives: David O. Selznick

Two and a Half Flicks: The Narrow Margin, Manhattan Melodrama, and Return to Glennascaul

Since You Went Away (1944)

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

Foreign Correspondent (1940)

The Garden of Allah (1936)

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