Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

Links
 

(Click to Visit)
 

(Click to Visit)
 
Wikipedia: Go to Wiki
Rotten Tomatoes: Go to RT

Streaming Platforms
Disney
 
Stream Now

(Click to Watch)

 

Coming soon…
 

 
Production Company(ies)
The Directors Company, Saticoy Productions, Paramount Pictures,
 
Distributor
United Artists
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
2300 E Olympic Blvd, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1950
 

 
Genre(s)
Crime/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring John Dall, Peggy Cummins, Berry Kroeger, Morris Carnovsky, Anabel Shaw, Harry Lewis, directed by Joseph H Lewis, written by MacKinlay Kantor, Dalton Trumbo, Crime, Drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Marion Aitchison, Mildred Martin, Mae Tinee, Marjory Adams, Helen Bower, Wanda Hale, Josephine O’Neill, Elsa Branden, Hortense Morton, P.S Harrison, Harold V Cohen, Peggy Cummins as Annie Laurie Starr, John Dall as Bart Tare, Berry Kroeger as Packett, Morris Carnovsky as Judge Willoughby, Anabel Shaw as Ruby Tare Flagler, Harry Lewis as Deputy Clyde Boston, produced by Frank King, Maurice King, MPAA rating, United Artists, Mono, 35mm
 

Cast & Crew

Peggy Cummins

John Dall

Berry Kroeger

Morris Carnovsky

Anabel Shaw

Annie Laurie Starr

Bart Tare

Packett

Judge Willoughby

Ruby Tare Flagler

Peggy Cummins – Annie Laurie Starr
John Dall – Bart Tare
Berry Kroeger – Packett
Morris Carnovsky – Judge Willoughby
Anabel Shaw – Ruby Tare Flagler
Harry Lewis – Deputy Clyde Boston

 

Joseph H. Lewis

MacKinlay Kantor

Frank King

Maurice King

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Joseph H. Lewis
 
Writer(s)
MacKinlay Kantor, MacKinlay Kantor, Dalton Trumbo
 
Producer(s)
Frank King, Maurice King

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
1 win
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Marion Aitchison

Mildred Martin

Mae Tinee

Marjory Adams

Helen Bower

Miami Herald

Philadelphia Inquirer

Chicago Tribune

Boston Globe

Detroit Free Press

GUN CRAZY
  All Critics (63) | Top Critics (23) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (6)
  Tightly knit suspense and deft character drawing make [Gun Crazy] one of the surprise thrillers of the season. You can fairly hear the audience holding its breath as events build up to the crashing climax.
 
  September 15, 2021
 
  Marion Aitchison
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Dall is particularly good as the boy who only feels important with a gun in his hands, and Miss Cummins, a pleasant surprise histrionically as the girl who doesn’t give a hoot about anything except John, money and not getting caught.
 
  September 15, 2021
 
  Mildred Martin
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  John Dall docs fine acting in this crime melodrama, which is frequently better than many of the more elaborate and expensive films on the same subject.
 
  September 15, 2021
 
  Mae Tinee
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  For the most part, the film seems to be one that you’ve seen before.
 
  September 14, 2021
 
  Marjory Adams
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  Dall is good in the role, Miss Cummins sulkily pretty. Berry Kroeger and Morris Carnowsky have support roles as carny owner and a judge, respectively. But a juvenile-delinquent opening slows and lengthens the picture unnecessarily.
 
  September 14, 2021
 
  Helen Bower
  Detroit Free Press
  TOP CRITIC
  Lately there have been a number of these pictures about young couples that go in for this type crime. Gun Crazy is slightly different in introduction but after the story gets under way, the action is the same.
 
  September 14, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
  Wanda Hale
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  [This] little melodrama, as lurid in sex and action as they come, contains the best chase-stuff of the year.
 
  September 15, 2021
 
  Josephine O’Neill
  Daily Telegraph (Australia)
  Whether you find this movie thrilling or depressing, depends on your capacity for violence. It’s exciting in a sordid sort of way.
 
  September 15, 2021
 
  Elsa Branden
  Photoplay
  [Gun Crazy] is one of those terrifically swell suspense dramas, which should prove a comeback trail for two excellent screen players.
 
  September 14, 2021
 
  Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
  San Francisco Examiner
  Although the story is unpleasant because it deals with crime, the acting is so realistic that one feels as if present in real-life occurrences. The scenes that show where John Dall and Peggy Cummins are being hunted hold one in tense suspense.
 
  September 14, 2021
 
  P.S. Harrison
  Harrison’s Reports
  Gun Crazy has its share of the normal excitements that accrue from hold-up, chase and escape, but the whole design of the picture is bankrupt from use and exploitation.
 
  September 14, 2021
 
  Harold V. Cohen
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  In its classification as a nerve-tingling melodrama, the picture is superb, for it sets a relentless pace and is continuously absorbing.
 
  September 14, 2021
 
  Mandel Herbstman
  Motion Picture Daily…

 

Plot
Since he was a child, Bart Tare has always loved guns. After leaving the army, his friends take him to a carnival, where he meets the perfect girl; Annie, a sharp-shooting sideshow performer who loves guns as much as he. The 2 run off and marry, but Annie isn’t happy with their financial situation, so at her behest the couple begins a cross-country string of daring robberies. Never one to use guns for killing, Bart’s dragged down into oblivion by the greedy and violent nature of the woman he loves.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Peggy Cummins’ portrayal of Annie Laurie Starr is described as a “sinister and psychopathic” femme fatale.
 

 
Joseph-H.-Lewis.jpg

 
Production Company(ies)
Universal Pictures, Studio Canal, Sidney Kimmel Entertainment,
 
Distributor
Criterion Collection, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Hotel de Paris, Place du Casino, Monte Carlo, Monaco
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1948
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama/Romance
 
Keyword(s)
starring Moira Shearer, Anton Walbrook, Marius Goring, Robert Helpmann, Leonide Massine, Albert Basserman, directed by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, written by Hans Christian Andersen, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter, Marius Goring, drama, romance, box office performance, budget, reviewed by George Campbell Dixon, Joe Morgenstern, Melissa Anderson, Jonathan F Richards, Anthony Lane, Derek Malcolm, Victor Pineyro, Michael Barrett, Brian Eggert, Matt Brunson, Jeff Beck, Christopher Kane, produced by Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, MPAA rating, ballet, ballerina, composer, ballet company, producer, art direction, cinematography, Technicolor, Faustian bargain, Svengali relationship, instructor, tension, behind the scenes, supporting characters, dreamy, visual spectacle, theater stage, magical proportions, editing, Black Swan
 

Cast & Crew

Moira Shearer

Anton Walbrook

Marius Goring

Robert Helpmann

Leonide Massine

Victoria Page

Boris Lermontov

Julian Craster

Ivan Boleslawsky

Grischa Ljubov

Moira Shearer – Victoria Page
Anton Walbrook – Boris Lermontov
Marius Goring – Julian Craster
Robert Helpmann – Ivan Boleslawsky
Leonide Massine – Grischa Ljubov
Albert Basserman – Sergei Ratov
Michael Powell – Producer, Writer, Director
Emeric Pressburger – Producer, Writer, Director
Hans Christian Andersen – Writer
Keith Winter – Writer
Jack Cardiff – Cinematographer
Brian Easdale – Composer
Reginald Mills – Editor
Hein Heckroth – Production Designer
Arthur Lawson – Art Director
Dorothy Sinclair – Set Decorator
Ernest Irving – Musical Director
Gordon K. McCallum – Sound Recordist
A.W. Watkins – Sound Recordist
Harold V. King – Assistant Director
Joyce Broughton – Assistant Editor
Margaret Furse – Costume Designer
Charles E. Parker – Makeup Artist
George Blackler – Hair Stylist
John Cox – Special Effects
W. Percy Day – Special Effects
Les Bowie – Special Effects
Tom Howard – Special Effects Supervisor
George Blackwell – Stunt Coordinator

 

Michael Powell

Hans Christian Andersen

Michael Powell

Emeric Pressburger

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger
 
Writer(s)
Hans Christian Andersen, Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger, Keith Winter, Marius Goring
 
Producer(s)
Michael Powell, Emeric Pressburger

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

George Campbell Dixon

Joe Morgenstern

Melissa Anderson

Jonathan F. Richards

Anthony Lane

Daily Telegraph

Wall Street Journal

L.A. Weekly

Film.com

New Yorker

THE RED SHOES
 All Critics (64) | Top Critics (17) | Fresh (62) | Rotten (2)
 These faults, if faults they be, may well be outweighed by the beauty of the ballet sequences and music, by the skill with which Mr Powell always uses colour, and by Miss Shearer’s endearing charm.
 
 March 9, 2015
 
 George Campbell Dixon
 Daily Telegraph (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 The Red Shoes was shot in three-strip Technicolor, a process that’s no longer used because of expense and technical complexity, but one that yielded some of the most spectacular images in cinema history.
 
 October 23, 2010
 
 Joe Morgenstern
 Wall Street Journal
 TOP CRITIC
 The greatest film about ballet ever made.
 
 May 13, 2010
 
 Melissa Anderson
 L.A. Weekly
 TOP CRITIC
 The shoes have never been redder. The color of passion that drenches the Technicolor world of The Red Shoes has been restored to its original luster.
 
 March 2, 2010
 
 Jonathan F. Richards
 Film.com
 TOP CRITIC
 No wonder Britain, still rationed in color, food, and feeling in the wake of an exhausting war, could not cope with what the movie proposed. Catch it here now, and you will not just be seeing an old film made new; you will have your vision restored.
 
 February 1, 2010
 
 Anthony Lane
 New Yorker
 TOP CRITIC
 What a cast, and what superbly florid but controlled direction. Unequalled Technicolor photography from Jack Cardiff. too.
 
 December 11, 2009 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Derek Malcolm
 London Evening Standard
 TOP CRITIC
 Black Swan wouldn’t exist without The Red Shoes, a film about the most primitive human emotions, through the most exquisite forms of art. Powell-Pressburger were absolute masters of their craft. Incredible film. Full review in Spanish
 
 April 8, 2022 | Rating: 9/10
 
 Victor Pineyro
 Seventh Art Studio
 Andersen himself achieved a dizzying worldwide success by pouring out his anguish in charming characters and, if we are to believe what we hear, it didn’t free him from his unhappy isolation.
 
 March 23, 2022 | Rating: 10/10
 
 Michael Barrett
 PopMatters
 Even the most cynical viewer cannot help but find themselves dazzled by the beauty of the production and the haunting nature of the narrative
 
 March 20, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
 Brian Eggert
 Deep Focus Review
 One of the premier films to ever examine the personal sacrifices an individual must make to excel at their art.
 
 December 26, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
 Matt Brunson
 Film Frenzy
 The Red Shoes stands out as a remarkable artistic experience, made even more memorable by the layers of art that went into telling this portrait of artists in pursuit of their passions.
 
 December 13, 2021 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
 Jeff Beck
 The Blu Spot
 The picture’s two and a half hours long, contains a full-length ballet, exquisite Technicolor, and superb performances by everyone concerned, including the great dancer Leonide Massine.
 
 June 29, 2021
 
 Christopher Kane
 Modern Screen…

 

Plot
Under the authoritarian rule of charismatic ballet impressario Boris Lermontov, his proteges realize the full promise of their talents, but at a price: utter devotion to their art and complete loyalty to Lermontov himself. Under his near-obsessive guidance, young ballerina Victoria Page is poised for superstardom, but earns Lermontov’s scorn when she falls in love with Julian Craster, composer of “The Red Shoes,” the ballet Lermontov is staging to showcase her talents. Vicky leaves the company and marries Craster, but still finds herself torn between Lermontov’s demands and those of her heart.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The Red Shoes features the great dancer Leonide Massine in a superb performance.
 

 
Michael-Powell.jpg

 
Production Company(ies)
Amazon Studios, Stay Gold Features, Kindred Spirit
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Buffalo, New York, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated R for strong/bloody violence, some sexual content, nudity and language
 
Year of Release
1947
 

 
Genre(s)
Crime/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
Nightmare Alley, Tyrone Power, Edmund Goulding, Joan Blondell, Coleen Gray, Ian Keith, Crime, Drama, Box Office, Budget, Critic Reviews, Pauline Kael, Mildred Martin, Helen Bower, Mae Tinee, Thomas M Pryor, Philip K Scheuer, Los Angeles Times, Matt Brunson, Rob Aldam, Mike Massie, Linda Cook, Kevin Carr, Hortense Morton, San Francisco Examiner, MPAA Rating, Fresh Kernels, Audience Score, Director, Written by, Produced by, Reviewed by, Noir, Carnival, Mind-Reading, Chicago, Stanton Carlisle, Zeena Krumbein, Molly, Pete Krumbein, The Great Stanton, Traveling Carny, High-Class Audiences, Philadelphia Inquirer, Detroit Free Press, Chicago Tribune, New York Times, Film Frenzy, Backseat Mafia, Gone With The Twins, OurQuadCities, Fat Guys at the Movies, Screen Scout, Alec B, Kevin M W, Clintus M, Aj V
 

Cast & Crew

Tyrone Power

Stanton Carlisle

Joan Blondell

Zeena Krumbein

Coleen Gray

Stanton Carlisle

Zeena Krumbein

Molly

Pete Krumbein

Director

Tyrone Power – Stanton Carlisle
Joan Blondell – Zeena Krumbein
Coleen Gray – Molly
Ian Keith – Pete Krumbein
Edmund Goulding – Director

 

Edmund Goulding

NA

NA

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Edmund Goulding
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
NA

 

Film Festivals
Toronto
 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 4 Oscars
20 wins & 100 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Pauline Kael

Mildred Martin

Helen Bower

Mae Tinee

Thomas M. Pryor

The New Republic

Philadelphia Inquirer

Detroit Free Press

Chicago Tribune

New York Times

NIGHTMARE ALLEY
  All Critics (61) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (53) | Rotten (8)
  The material… is unusual and the cast first-rate.
 
  July 6, 2022
 
  Pauline Kael
  The New Republic
  TOP CRITIC
  If Nightmare Alley isn’t precisely tasty entertainment, at least it has been colorfully and harshly set forth with better than average character sketches lending it a certain unsavory interest and morbid fascination.
 
  December 7, 2021
 
  Mildred Martin
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  All together the film has a great deal of accumulative impact. It is a thoroughly unpleasant, but salutary picture. It should pull both potential dupes and the potentially ruthless up good and short.
 
  December 7, 2021
 
  Helen Bower
  Detroit Free Press
  TOP CRITIC
  The dialogue has plenty of punch, and the photography, especially in the tawdry tent world, is expert. If you like your movies rough and realistic, you’ll find this one entertaining for the most part.
 
  December 7, 2021
 
  Mae Tinee
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  Despite some fine and intense acting by Mr. Power and others, this film traverses distasteful dramatic ground and only rarely does it achieve any substance as entertainment.
 
  December 7, 2021
 
  Thomas M. Pryor
  New York Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Edmund Goulding is a director who knows how to squeeze emotions out of players; and his production, repellent as its theme may be, develops considerable fascination up to the closing reel or so.
 
  December 7, 2021
 
  Philip K. Scheuer
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  One of the bleakest of all ’40s flicks.
 
  March 27, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  An entertaining drama which explores the perils of flying too close to the sun.
 
  January 13, 2022
 
  Rob Aldam
  Backseat Mafia
  Although this story is unexpectedly macabre and sinister, the finale is easily guessable and better fit for a “Twilight Zone” episode than a feature-length production.
 
  January 2, 2022 | Rating: 5/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  I can’t figure out whether “Nightmare Alley” or “Nightmare Alley” is my favorite film noir.
 
  December 12, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Linda Cook
  OurQuadCities / WHBF-TV (Illinois)
  It deals with some unpleasant things… but it’s an interesting movie.
 
  December 11, 2021 | Rating: 2.5/4
 
  Kevin Carr
  Fat Guys at the Movies
  If the picture serves to expose racketeers in human emotions, it has accomplished something important. Certainly it is well done. But we hope Mr. Jessel goes back to his giddy musicals.
 
  December 7, 2021
 
  Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
  San Francisco Examiner…

 

Plot
In Nightmare Alley, a carnival worker named Stanton Carlisle becomes a successful mind-reader, but his ambition leads him down a dark path of deceit and betrayal.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Tyrone Power delivers some of his best work in Nightmare Alley, playing against type as the conniving Stanton Carlisle.
 

 
Edmund-Goulding.jpg

 
Production Company(ies)
Producers Sales Organization R S L Entertainment, Moviecorp V III
 
Distributor
NA
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Limited)
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate
TV-MA
 
Year of Release
1945
 

 
Genre(s)
Crime/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
Detour, Crime, Drama, 1h 9m, Tom Neal, Ann Savage, Claudia Drake, Edmund MacDonald, directed by Edgar G Ulmer, written by Martin Goldsmith, produced by Leon Fromkess, reviewed by Mildred Martin, Wanda Hale, LA Times Staff, Richard Brody, Dave Kehr, Josh Larsen, Sara Hamilton, Herbert Cohn, Mandel Herbstman, Tony Sloman, starring Tom Neal as Al Roberts, Ann Savage as Vera, Claudia Drake as Sue Harvey, Edmund MacDonald as Charles Haskell Jr, genre, box office performance, budget, MPAA rating
 

Cast & Crew

Tom Neal

Ann Savage

Claudia Drake

Edmund MacDonald

Tim Ryan

Al Roberts

Vera

Sue Harvey

Charles Haskell Jr

Nevada Diner Proprietor

Tom Neal – Al Roberts
Ann Savage – Vera
Claudia Drake – Sue Harvey
Edmund MacDonald – Charles Haskell Jr
Tim Ryan – Nevada Diner Proprietor
Esther Howard – Holly, Diner Waitress

 

Edgar G. Ulmer

NA

Leon Fromkess

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Edgar G. Ulmer
 
Writer(s)
NA
 
Producer(s)
Leon Fromkess

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Mildred Martin

Wanda Hale

LA Times Staff

Richard Brody

Variety Staff

Philadelphia Inquirer

New York Daily News

Los Angeles Times

New Yorker

Variety

DETOUR
 All Critics (41) | Top Critics (9) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (1)
 Tom Neal does extremely well in the long, difficult role of the petrified pianist whose misadventures are told in flashback; while Ann Savage all but blisters the screen with her venoemous, snarling performance as the vicious Vera.
 
 December 29, 2020
 
 Mildred Martin
 Philadelphia Inquirer
 TOP CRITIC
 [Detour] is a morbid melodrama, depressing and uninteresting.
 
 December 29, 2020 | Rating: 2/4
 
 Wanda Hale
 New York Daily News
 TOP CRITIC
 One of the most poignant and disturbing stories to reach the screen in any year is this one. You’re not just looking at a picture; you’re right in it and suffering along with the man whose troubles are being told.
 
 December 29, 2020
 
 LA Times Staff
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 The film, told in flashbacks, is held together by a poetically lurid interior monologue and directed, by Edgar G. Ulmer, with harrowingly expressive effects of light and shadow.
 
 November 26, 2018
 
 Richard Brody
 New Yorker
 TOP CRITIC
 Uniformly good performances and some equally good direction and dialog keep the meller moving.
 
 October 16, 2007
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 One of the most daring and thoroughly perverse works of art ever to come out of Hollywood.
 
 October 16, 2007
 
 Dave Kehr
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 …a quick, grimy, and above all else guilty picture.
 
 April 6, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
 Josh Larsen
 LarsenOnFilm
 Ann Savage, who plays a no-good, does a beauty of a job… We feel you will have a bond of sympathy for Neal, both in person and story and that always makes for a good show.
 
 December 29, 2020
 
 Sara Hamilton
 Photoplay
 How fate can play tricks on a man is satisfactorily demonstrated in a melodrama with enough bite to command the attention closely throughout.
 
 December 29, 2020
 
 Film Daily Staff
 The Film Daily
 It Is a not-too-late-believable story of a piano player who ruined his life by hitch-hiking from New York to Los Angeles to marry his girl — but it is told bluntly and briskly Local Vaudeville by Director Edgar Ulmer.
 
 December 29, 2020
 
 Herbert Cohn
 Brooklyn Daily Eagle
 Venturing far from the familiar melodramatic pattern, director Edgar G. Ulmer has turned out an adroit, albeit unpretentious production about a man who stumbles into a series of circumstances which seal his doom.
 
 December 29, 2020
 
 Mandel Herbstman
 Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)
 A remarkably pacey and stylish B-movie thriller that’s now rightly recognised as a minor classic.
 
 December 29, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Tony Sloman
 Radio Times…

 

Plot
A contemporary father takes his family on a road trip across America, but a set of crazy, unforeseen circumstances causes them to end up on the run from the FBI.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Ann Savage’s performance as the vicious Vera is described as “blistering” and “venomous.”
 

 
Edgar-G.-Ulmer.jpg

 
Production Company(ies)
Jigsaw Productions, Wider Film Projects Below The Radar Entertainment,
 
Distributor
20th Century Fox
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1943
 

 
Genre(s)
Musical
 
Keyword(s)
starring Lena Horne, Bill Robinson, Cab Calloway, Katherine Dunham, Fats Waller, directed by Andrew L Stone, written by Jerry Horwin, Frederick J Jackson, Ted Koehler, H.S Kraft, Seymour B Robinson, musical, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Mildred Martin, Wanda Hale, John W Riley, John L Scott, Colvin McPherson, Bob Fredericks, Evelena D Jackson, Herman Hill, Pittsburgh Courier, NY Age Staff, Jane Corby, Harold V Cohen, B.M Phillips, MPAA rating, produced by William LeBaron
 

Cast & Crew

Lena Horne

Selina Rogers

Bill Robinson

Bill Williamson

Cab Calloway

Selina Rogers

Bill Williamson

Self

Self

Self

Lena Horne – Selina Rogers
Bill Robinson – Bill Williamson
Cab Calloway – Self
Katherine Dunham – Self
Fats Waller – Self
The Nicholas Brothers – Nicholas Brothers

 

Andrew L. Stone

Jerry Horwin

William LeBaron

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Andrew L. Stone
 
Writer(s)
Jerry Horwin, Frederick J. Jackson, Ted Koehler, H.S. Kraft, Seymour B. Robinson
 
Producer(s)
William LeBaron

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Mildred Martin

Wanda Hale

John W. Riley

John L. Scott

Colvin McPherson

Philadelphia Inquirer

New York Daily News

Boston Globe

Los Angeles Times

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

STORMY WEATHER
  All Critics (41) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (39) | Rotten (2)
  Plot doesn’t matter a hoot in this lively, likable picture.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Mildred Martin
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  The hottest thing in town.
 
  January 28, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Wanda Hale
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  Really, the only thing to do is to sit back and enjoy yourself. The cast of Stormy Weather will see to that.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  John W. Riley
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  Nicholas Brothers, whose prodigious leaps ending in splits are almost incredible, prove real show-stoppers.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  John L. Scott
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  The Nicholas Brothers have done astonishing work in earlier pictures, but even at that, their stair-step, leap-frog splits brought gasps and a round of applause at the preview.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Colvin McPherson
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  TOP CRITIC
  The outstanding performance of this or any other film of its kind is the sensational dance act of the Nicholas Brothers. I won’t attempt to describe it; but is worth the price of admission in itself.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Bob Fredericks
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  The acting, costumes, and scenery are superb.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Evelena D. Jackson
  Baltimore Afro-American
  All in all, [Stormy Weather] is excellent entertainment, and calculated to chase the war blues away.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Herman Hill
  Pittsburgh Courier
  The Nicholas Brothers outdo themselves in a breath-taking number.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  NY Age Staff
  New York Age
  Something new In musicals, Stormy Weather, with an array of entertainment headliners to keep it right on the beam, has a film story that is a cavalcade of rhythm.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Jane Corby
  Brooklyn Daily Eagle
  Stormy Weather moves briskly in the manner of a high-class revue and also be haves like one.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  Harold V. Cohen
  Pittsburgh Post-Gazette
  All in all, the movie is a step in the right direction. Let’s hope that there will be more and that they will improve.
 
  January 28, 2021
 
  B.M. Phillips
  Baltimore Afro-American…

 

Plot
Dancing great Bill ‘Williamson’ sees his face on the cover of Theatre World magazine and reminisces: just back from World War I, he meets lovely singer Selina Rogers at a soldiers’ ball and promises to come back to her when he “gets to be somebody.” Years go by, and Bill and Selina’s rising careers intersect only briefly, since Selina is unwilling to “settle down.” Will she ever change her mind? Concludes with a big all-star show hosted by Cab Calloway.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The film features popular entertainers of the 1940s, including Fats Waller and Cab Calloway, who perform as themselves in the movie.
 

 
Andrew-L.-Stone.jpg

 
Production Company(ies)
Walter Shenson Films, Proscenium Films,
 
Distributor
RKO Radio Pictures, Criterion Collection
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Ice & Cold Storage Company – 400 S. Central Avenue, Los Angeles, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1942
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, Agnes Moorehead, Richard Bennett, directed by Orson Welles, written by Orson Welles, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Kevin Maher, Pauline Kael, Kevin Thomas, Manny Farber, André Bazin, Nicholas Bell, MPAA rating, RKO Radio Pictures, Criterion Collection, Indianapolis, family, love, tragedy, spoiled heir, turn-of-the-century, automobile, generational talent, Citizen Kane, Albert S D’Agostino, set designs, heart-rending stories, comeuppance, tragedy, remembrance, doomed romance, forgiveness, closure
 

Cast & Crew

Joseph Cotten

Eugene

Tim Holt

George

Dolores Costello

Eugene

George

Isabel

Lucy

Fanny

Joseph Cotten – Eugene
Tim Holt – George
Dolores Costello – Isabel
Anne Baxter – Lucy
Agnes Moorehead – Fanny
Richard Bennett – Maj. Amberson
Orson Welles – Director, Producer, Writer

 

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Orson Welles

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Orson Welles
 
Writer(s)
Orson Welles
 
Producer(s)
Orson Welles

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 4 Oscars
4 wins & 4 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Kevin Maher

Pauline Kael

Kevin Thomas

Manny Farber

Variety Staff

Times

New Yorker

Los Angeles Times

The New Republic

Variety

THE MAGNIFICENT AMBERSONS
 All Critics (45) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (40) | Rotten (5)
 Film snobs like to say that this, the second feature from Orson Welles, is even better than Citizen Kane. That’s a stretch, but it’s certainly exquisitely beautiful film-making – there are frames in there to die for.
 
 December 13, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Kevin Maher
 Times (UK)
 TOP CRITIC
 Even in this truncated form it’s amazing and memorable.
 
 January 5, 2015
 
 Pauline Kael
 New Yorker
 TOP CRITIC
 Although reams have been written about the mutilation of Orson Welles’ second feature, what remains of it is nevertheless a major accomplishment.
 
 August 30, 2012 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Kevin Thomas
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 While telling this story, haltingly and clumsily, the movie runs from burdensome through heavy and dull to bad. It stutters and stumbles as Welles submerges Tarkington’s story in a mess of radio and stage technique.
 
 August 30, 2012
 
 Manny Farber
 The New Republic
 TOP CRITIC
 Orson Welles devotes 9,000 feet of film to a spoiled brat who grows up as a spoiled, spiteful young man. This film hasn’t a single moment of contrast; it piles on and on a tale of woe, but without once striking at least a true chord of sentimentality.
 
 July 6, 2010
 
 Variety Staff
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 The emotional sense of America in the late 19th and early 20th centuries is so palpable you can taste it.
 
 April 6, 2007
 
 Jonathan Rosenbaum
 Chicago Reader
 TOP CRITIC
 After the neorealistic revolution of Citizen Kane’s cinematographic achievement, then, The Magnificent Ambersons becomes the consecration, in some sort of stripped-down and ultimately classical way, of a new mode of screen narration.
 
 December 8, 2021
 
 André Bazin
 L’Écran Français
 The Magnificent Ambersons is a deliciously photographed time capsule, with Albert S. D’Agostino’s impressive set designs belying the craftsmanship and detail which went into recreating turn-of-the-century Indianapolis.
 
 August 18, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
 Nicholas Bell
 IONCINEMA.com
 Welles has a knack for heart-rending stories rife with comeuppance, tragedy, remembrance, doomed romance, and, most superbly, the pleasures of forgiveness and closure.
 
 August 13, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
 Mike Massie
 Gone With The Twins
 True, there are wonderful authentic period touches, excellent dramatic photographic work and fine direction of a wonderful cast. Welles has employed so much subtlety, however… that the resultant effect is vague and even meaninglessly depressing.
 
 July 24, 2020
 
 Film Daily Staff
 The Film Daily
 Orson Welles continues to be incredible, super original, and an unsurpassable artist from the beginning to the end of the movie. [Full Review in Spanish]
 
 September 17, 2019
 
 Elena de la Torre
 Cine-Mundial
 In trying so feverishly to be realistic, Welles has drained the life pretty much out of the Indiana family of whom Tarkington once wrote so straight-forwardly that he won a Pulitzer prize for his efforts.
 
 August 9, 2019
 
 Jay Carmody
 Washington Star…

 

Plot
The young, handsome, but somewhat wild Eugene Morgan wants to marry Isabel Amberson, daughter of a rich upper-class family, but she instead marries dull and steady Wilbur Minafer. Their only child, George, grows up a spoiled brat. Years later, Eugene comes back, now a mature widower and a successful automobile maker. After Wilbur dies, Eugene again asks Isabel to marry him, and she is receptive. But George resents the attentions paid to his mother, and he and his whacko aunt Fanny manage to sabotage the romance. A series of disasters befall the Ambersons and George, and he gets his come-uppance in the end.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast includes Joseph Cotten, Tim Holt, Dolores Costello, Anne Baxter, and Agnes Moorehead.
 

 
Orson-Welles.jpg

 
Production Company(ies)
Spinal Tap Prod. Goldcrest Films, International,
 
Distributor
United Artists
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Amsterdam, Netherlands
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1940
 

 
Genre(s)
Mystery & thriller
 
Keyword(s)
starring Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, Albert Basserman, Robert Benchley, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, Robert Benchley, James Hilton, mystery, thriller, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Kim Newman, Keith Phipps, Dave Kehr, Bosley Crowther, Geoff Andrew, Brian Eggert, Nicholas Bell, Tony Sloman, Mike Massie, Danielle Solzman, James T Hamada, MPAA rating, United Artists, crime reporter, spy ring, international intrigue, political thriller, propaganda, Battle of Britain, love story, cinematography, set pieces, windmill, Westminster Cathedral Tower, airplane, conference, patriotism, anti-Nazi statement
 

Cast & Crew

Joel McCrea

John Jones

Laraine Day

Carol Fisher

Herbert Marshall

John Jones

Carol Fisher

Stephen Fisher

Scott Ffolliott

Van Meer

Joel McCrea – John Jones
Laraine Day – Carol Fisher
Herbert Marshall – Stephen Fisher
George Sanders – Scott Ffolliott
Albert Basserman – Van Meer
Robert Benchley – Stebbins

 

Alfred Hitchcock

Charles Bennett

NA

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Alfred Hitchcock
 
Writer(s)
Charles Bennett, Joan Harrison, Ben Hecht, Robert Benchley, James Hilton
 
Producer(s)
NA

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 6 Oscars
1 win & 6 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Kim Newman

Keith Phipps

Dave Kehr

Variety Staff

Bosley Crowther

Empire Magazine

The Dissolve

Chicago Reader

Variety

New York Times

FOREIGN CORRESPONDENT
  All Critics (43) | Top Critics (8) | Fresh (41) | Rotten (2)
  Heavy-handed but still poignant patriotism in this Hitchcock thriller.
 
  November 3, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Kim Newman
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s such an entertaining film that it’s almost possible to forget its didactic agenda, which is certainly part of the point.
 
  February 20, 2014 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Keith Phipps
  The Dissolve
  TOP CRITIC
  This film contains one of Hitchcock’s most famous set pieces — an assassination in the rain — but otherwise remains a second-rate effort, as immensely enjoyable as it is.
 
  March 27, 2009
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Story is essentially the old cops-and-robbers. But it has been set in a background of international political intrigue of the largest order.
 
  March 26, 2009
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  Into it Director Alfred Hitchcock, whose unmistakable stamp the picture bears, has packed about as much romantic action, melodramatic hullabaloo, comical diversion and illusion of momentous consequence as the liveliest imagination could conceive.
 
  January 28, 2006 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Bosley Crowther
  New York Times
  TOP CRITIC
  Hitchcock’s espionage thriller is a thoroughly enjoyable affair, complete with some of his most memorable set pieces.
 
  January 26, 2006
 
  Geoff Andrew
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  The film can be seen as more than simply escapism but an entrenched anti-Nazi statement by a seemingly apolitical filmmaker.
 
  March 5, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  Though suffering from the effect of too many cooks in the writing kitchen, it’s a title as filled with plot twists as it is wit, as well as Hitchcock’s signature elaborate set pieces.
 
  November 12, 2020 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Nicholas Bell
  IONCINEMA.com
  The plot’s twists and turns are cleverly and wittily maintained, and the supporting cast is impeccably chosen…
 
  November 3, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Tony Sloman
  Radio Times
  The extreme coincidences are slightly more than average for Hitchcock’s typically heavily-scrutinized storytelling design.
 
  August 5, 2020 | Rating: 6/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  One of two films directed by Hitchcock in 1940, Foreign Correspondent was just the beginning of his rise in American cinema.
 
  April 28, 2020 | Rating: 4.5/5
 
  Danielle Solzman
  Solzy at the Movies
  Alfred Hitchcock has directed another smash hit.
 
  April 14, 2020
 
  James T. Hamada
  The Nippu Jiji (Honolulu)…

 

Plot
Johnny Jones is an action reporter on a New York newspaper. The editor appoints him European correspondent because he is fed up with the dry, reports he currently gets. Jones’ first assignment is to get the inside story on a secret treaty agreed between two European countries by the famous diplomat, Mr. Van Meer. However things don’t go to plan and Jones enlists the help of a young woman to help track down a group of spies.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of Foreign Correspondent includes Joel McCrea, Laraine Day, Herbert Marshall, George Sanders, and Robert Benchley.
 

 
Alfred-Hitchcock.jpg