Tag Archives: Max Steiner

Dark Victory (1939)

Posted on March 27, 2026 by Mark DuPré

Melodramas have a bad reputation, as if this were a lesser genre than say, the musical, action/adventure, the biopic, the suspenseful thriller, and horror. But Gone with the Wind was a melodrama, as was Titanic. More recently, Manchester by the … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Academy Awards, All This and Heaven Too, awards, Bette Davis, Beyond the Forest, Casablanca, Dangerous, Dark Victory, Edmund Goulding, Emilia Perez, film, George Brent, Geraldine Fitzgerald, Gone with the Wind, Grand Hotel, High Sierra, Humphrey Bogart, In This Our Life, Jezebel, Johnny Belinda, King's Row, Knute Rockne All American, Life with Father, Manchester by the Sea, Max Steiner, MGM, Mildred Pierce, movies, Now Voyager, Of Human Bondage, Oscars, Petrified Forest, Ronald Reagan, Scarlett O'Hara, Since You Went Away, The Caine Mutiny, The Garden of Allah, The Great Lie, The Informer, The Iron Claw, The Maltese Falcon, The Old Maid, The Rich are Always With Us, The Roaring Twenties, The Whale, Vivien Leigh, Warner Brothers, Wuthering Heights | Leave a comment

Tough Films, Great Performances: The Informer (1935) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

Posted on August 20, 2020 by Mark DuPré

I’m not sure exactly what I imagined The Informer to be, but it wasn’t what I expected. This is the film that gave John Ford his first of four Best Director Oscars (still unmatched) and gave an Oscar to lead … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Older Films | Tagged Battle Cry, Birdman or the Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance, Caged, Casablanca, Charles Laughton, Clark Cable, Dark Victory, Detective Story, Eleanor Powell, Elmer Bernstein, Ernest Borgnine, Franchot Tone, Frank Sinatra, From Here to Eternity, Gone with the Wind, Interrupted Melody, Jezebel, John Ford, Johnny Belinda, Kim Novak, Life with Father, Marlon Brando, Marty, Max Steiner, Mutiny on the County, Now Voyager, Otto Preminger, Sergeant York, Since You Went Away, The Caine Mutiny, The Garden of Allah, The Gay Divorcee, The Informer, The Letter, The Man with the Golden Arm, The Moon is Blue, The Sound of Music, Victor McLaughlin | Leave a comment

The Three to See: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years a Slave

Posted on July 2, 2020 by Mark DuPré

The Three to See: Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years Slave As I wade into where angels fear to tread, I want to make it clear that I am stepping outside the current social discussion … Continue reading →

Posted in Film Reviews, Newer films, Older Films | Tagged 12 Years a Slave, Benedict Cumberbatch, Broken Blossoms, Butterfly McQueen, Chiwetel Ejiofor, Civil War, D.W. Griffith, Dark Victory, Dodge City, Gigi, Gone with the Wind, Green Book, Gunga Din, Hattie McDaniel, HBO Max, Hollywood, Intolerance, Jacqueline Stewart, Ku Klux Klan, Lillian Gish, Love Affair, Lupita Nyong'o, Max Steiner, Michael Fassbender, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, NAACP, Netflix, Ninotcha, Of Mice and Men, Olivia De Havilland, Once Upon a Time ... in Hollywood, Oscars, Prissy, Reconstructionists, Sarah Paulson, Solomon Northup, Stagecoach, TCM, The Birth of a Nation, The Cheat, The Clansman, The Wizard of Oz, The Women, Viven Leigh, William Cameron Menzies, Woodrow Wilson, Wuthering Heights, YouTube | 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: Max Steiner

Dark Victory (1939)

Tough Films, Great Performances: The Informer (1935) and The Man with the Golden Arm (1955)

The Three to See: The Birth of a Nation, Gone with the Wind, and 12 Years a Slave

The Garden of Allah (1936)

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