1940: Movies Seen
Submitted by Imposter on Thu, 08/12/2004 - 01:47
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Oy, is this good
- His Girl Friday - dir: Howard Hawks; st: Cary Grant, Rosalind Russell, Ralph Bellamy, Gene Lockhart, Roscoe Karns
*****
- Fantasia - dir: far too many to list here; st: Leopold Stokowski, Deems Taylor, Walt Disney
- The Grapes of Wrath - dir: John Ford; st: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowdon
- The Great Dictator - dir: Charles Chaplin; st: Charles Chaplin, Paulette Goddard, Jack Oakie, Reginald Gardiner, Billy Gilbert
- Rebecca - dir: Alfred Hitchcock; st: Laurence Olivier, Joan Fontaine, Judith Anderson, George Sanders, Gladys Cooper
****½
- The Bank Dick - dir: Edward F. Cline; st: W.C. Fields, Cora Witherspoon, Una Merkel, Shemp Howard, Grady Sutton
- Christmas In July - dir: Preston Sturges; st: Dick Powell, Ellen Drew, Raymond Walburn, William Demarest, Franklin Pangborn
- The Great McGinty - dir: Preston Sturges; st: Brian Donlevy, Muriel Angelus, Akim Tamiroff, William Demarest, Allyn Joslyn
- The Mark Of Zorro - dir: Rouben Mamoulian; st: Tyrone Power, Linda Darnell, Basil Rathbone, Gale Sondergaard
- The Philadelphia Story - dir: George Cukor; st: Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, James Stewart, Ruth Hussey, John Howard
- Pinocchio - dir: Hamilton Luske, Ben Sharpsteen; st: Cliff Edwards, Dickie Jones, Christian Rub, Frankie Darro
- The Shop Around The Corner - dir: Ernst Lubitsch; st: Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, Joseph Schildkraut
- The Thief Of Bagdad - dir: Ludwig Berger, Michael Powell, Tim Whelan; st: Conrad Veidt, Sabu, June Duprez, John Justin, Rex Ingram
****
- A Chump At Oxford - dir: Alfred J. Goudling; st: Stan Laurel, Oliver Hardy, Wilfred Lucas, Frank Baker, James Finlayson, Peter Cushing
- City For Conquest - dir: Anatole Litvak; st: James Cagney, Ann Sheridan, Arthur Kennedy, Donald Crisp, Anthony Quinn
- Foreign Correspondent - dir: Alfred Hitchcock; st: Joel McCrea, George Sanders, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall
- Gaslight - dir: Thorold Dickinson; st: Anton Walbrook, Diana Wynyard, Frank Pettingell, Cathleen Cordell
- The Letter - dir: William Wyler; st: Bette Davis, Herbert Marshall, James Stephenson, Gale Sondergaard, Frieda Inescort
- The Long Voyage Home - dir: John Ford; st: Thomas Mitchell, John Wayne, John Qualen, Ian Hunter, Barry Fitzgerald, Arthur Shields
- My Little Chickadee - dir: Edward F. Cline; st: Mae West, W.C. Fields, Margaret Hamilton, Joseph Calleia, Dick Foran
- Remember The Night - dir: Mitchell Leisen; st: Barbara Stanwyck, Fred MacMurray, Beulah Bondi, Elizabeth Patterson, Sterling Holloway
- The Sea Hawk - dir: Michael Curtiz; st: Errol Flynn, Brenda Marshall, Claude Rains, Flora Robson, Alan Hale, Donald Crisp
- The Westerner - dir: William Wyler; st: Gary Cooper, Walter Brennan, Doris Davenport, Fred Stone, Forrest Tucker
***½
- Arizona - dir: Wesley Ruggles; st: Jean Arthur, William Holden, Warren William, Porter Hall, Edgar Buchanan
- Brother Orchid - dir: Lloyd Bacon; st: Edward G. Robinson, Ann Sothern, Humphrey Bogart, Ralph Bellamy, Donald Crisp
- Too Many Husbands - dir: Wesley Ruggles; st: Jean Arthur, Fred MacMurray, Melvyn Douglas, Harry Davenport, Dorothy Peterson
***
- Dark Command - dir: Raoul Walsh; st: Claire Trevor, John Wayne, Walter Pidgeon, George "Gabby" Hayes, Roy Rogers
- They Drive By Night - dir: Raoul Walsh; George Raft, Ann Sheridan, Ida Lupino, Humphrey Bogart, Roscoe Karns
**½
- My Favorite Wife - dir: Garson Kanin; st: Irene Dunne, Cary Grant, Randolph Scott, Gail Patrick
**
- The Howards Of Virginia - dir: Frank Lloyd; st: Cary Grant, Martha Scott, Cedric Hardwicke, Alan Marshal, Richard Carlson
What was wrong with My Favorite Wife? I thought it was a good idea, well-executed (though, not quite what I would call a *great* film)
For me the pacing was off, the dialog lacked spark, and there was just more suspension of disbelief asked of me than I was willing to hand over. The other Grant/Dunne movies were far easier to swallow and much more entertaining.