Production Company(ies)
Decla-Bioscop AG,
 
Distributor
Republic Pictures, United Artists, Criterion Collection
 
Release Type
Streaming, Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Sierra Railroad, Jamestown, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG for some western violence, and smoking
 
Year of Release
1952
 

 
Genre(s)
Western
 
Keyword(s)
starring Gary Cooper, Grace Kelly, Katy Jurado, Thomas Mitchell, Lloyd Bridges, Otto Kruger, directed by Fred Zinnemann, written by John W Cunningham, Carl Foreman, Western, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Ed Potton, David Parkinson, Nell Minow, William Brogdon, Jonathan Rosenbaum, Derek Adams, Don Shanahan, Manny Farber, Matt Neal, Mike Massie, Tom Beasley, Clyde Gilmour, PG rating, Stanley Kramer produced, former marshal, revenge, showdown, real time, moral dilemmas, relationships, heroine, individualism, duty, pessimistic setting, realism, suspenseful moments, Oscar-winning performance, deconstruction, genre tropes
 

Cast & Crew

Gary Cooper

Grace Kelly

Katy Jurado

Thomas Mitchell

Lloyd Bridges

Marshal Will Kane

Amy Fowler Kane

Helen Ramirez

Mayor Jonas Henderson

Deputy Sheriff Harvey Pell

Gary Cooper – Marshal Will Kane
Grace Kelly – Amy Fowler Kane
Katy Jurado – Helen Ramirez
Thomas Mitchell – Mayor Jonas Henderson
Lloyd Bridges – Deputy Sheriff Harvey Pell
Otto Kruger – Judge Percy Mettrick

 

Fred Zinnemann

John W. Cunningham

Stanley Kramer

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Fred Zinnemann
 
Writer(s)
John W. Cunningham, Carl Foreman
 
Producer(s)
Stanley Kramer

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 4 Oscars
17 wins & 11 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Nominees
 

Top Reviews

Ed Potton

David Parkinson

Nell Minow

William Brogdon

Jonathan Rosenbaum

Times

Empire Magazine

Common Sense Media

Variety

Chicago Reader

HIGH NOON
  All Critics (60) | Top Critics (15) | Fresh (57) | Rotten (3)
  Few westerns have conveyed fear so potently as Kane tries to persuade the townsfolk to stand against Miller and his gang, while the clock runs down in real time.
 
  September 20, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Ed Potton
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Deserving of its label as a true classic, and essential viewing.
 
  July 26, 2011 | Rating: 5/5
 
  David Parkinson
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Tense 1950s Western is still a cinema classic.
 
  December 24, 2010 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Nell Minow
  Common Sense Media
  TOP CRITIC
  Zinnemann carefully and deliberately makes the most of the mood cast by the threat of impending violence.
 
  October 18, 2008
 
  William Brogdon
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  Some of the results ring false, but the memorable theme song and some equally memorable character acting (by Thomas Mitchell and Lon Chaney Jr. more than Lloyd Bridges and Katy Jurado) help things along.
 
  September 4, 2007
 
  Jonathan Rosenbaum
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  High Noon won a fistful of Oscars, but in these days of pasteboard screen machismo, it’s worth seeing simply as the anatomy of what it took to make a man before the myth turned sour.
 
  February 9, 2006
 
  Derek Adams
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  Still powerful and influential after all these years and political waves.
 
  October 31, 2021
 
  Don Shanahan
  Cinephile Hissy Fit Podcast
  A movie which does take you into every part of the town and features features Cooper’s beautiful rolling gait, but which reveals that someone spent too much time over the drawing board conceiving dramatic camera shots to cover up the lack of story.
 
  September 15, 2021
 
  Manny Farber
  The Nation
  The film’s assessments of violence and responsibility continue to see High Noon so deliciously open to discussion almost 70 years on.
 
  September 26, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Matt Neal
  ABC Radio (Australia)
  An unforgettable, powerful Western of unequaled quality that boasts one of the greatest of all movie endings.
 
  August 22, 2020 | Rating: 10/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  It’s the epitome of an underdog hero fighting back against the odds.
 
  August 16, 2020 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Tom Beasley
  VultureHound
  …something fresh and mature and honest by dint of superior treatment all along the line.
 
  October 7, 2019
 
  Clyde Gilmour
  Maclean’s Magazine…

 

Plot
On the day he gets married and hangs up his badge, Marshal Will Kane is told that a man he sent to prison years before, Frank Miller, is returning on the noon train to exact his revenge. Having initially decided to leave with his new spouse, Will decides he must go back and face Miller. However, when he seeks the help of the townspeople he has protected for so long, they turn their backs on him. It seems Kane may have to face Miller alone, as well as the rest of Miller’s gang, who are waiting for him at the station.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Gary Cooper won an Oscar for his performance in High Noon.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Atticus Group Vision Quest Productions,
 
Distributor
Warner Bros., Universal Home Entertainment, MCA/Universal Pictures [us]
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Warner Brothers Burbank Studios – 4000 Warner Boulevard, Burbank, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Approved
 
Year of Release
1948
 

 
Genre(s)
Crime/Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring James Stewart, John Dall, Farley Granger, Joan Chandler, Cedric Hardwicke, Constance Collier, directed by Alfred Hitchcock, written by Patrick Hamilton, Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurent
 

Cast & Crew

James Stewart

John Dall

Farley Granger

Joan Chandler

Cedric Hardwicke

Rupert Cadell

Brandon Shaw

Phillip Morgan

Janet Walker

Mr. Kentley

CAST & CREW
James Stewart – Rupert Cadell
John Dall – Brandon Shaw
Farley Granger – Phillip Morgan
Joan Chandler – Janet Walker
Cedric Hardwicke – Mr. Kentley (as Sir Cedric Hardwicke)
Constance Collier – Mrs. Atwater

 

Alfred Hitchcock

Patrick Hamilton

Sidney Bernstein

Alfred Hitchcock

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Alfred Hitchcock
 
Writer(s)
Patrick Hamilton, Hume Cronyn, Arthur Laurents, Ben Hecht
 
Producer(s)
Sidney Bernstein, Alfred Hitchcock

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins & 4 nominations
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Michael Joshua Rowin

Keith Uhlich

TIME Staff

David Parkinson

Dave Kehr

Keith Uhlich

TIME Staff

David Parkinson

Dave Kehr

Bob Thomas

ROPE
  All Critics (51) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (3)
  Hitchcock examines his and his audience’s participatory roles in a centuries-old circuit of art production and reception. —Guest post by Michael Joshua Rowin
 
  June 10, 2022
 
  Keith Uhlich
  (All (Parentheses))
  TOP CRITIC
  In photographing the action, Director Hitchcock brought off a tour de force.
 
  February 9, 2019
 
  TIME Staff
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  The trickery is still distracting, but there are hints in this 1948 film of the perversity that will yield Psycho, Strangers On A Train, Vertigo and Rear Window, so it’s a must for Hitch collectors.
 
  February 9, 2019 | Rating: 4/5
 
  David Parkinson
  Empire Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Hitchcock liked to pretend that the film was an empty technical exercise, but it introduces the principal themes and motifs of the major period that would begin with Rear Window.
 
  February 9, 2019
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Rope is an interesting experiment which largely succeeds.
 
  February 9, 2019
 
  Bob Thomas
  Associated Press
  TOP CRITIC
  This still underrated masterpiece is both a brilliant technical experiment and a perverse manifesto, with James Stewart in typically ambiguous form as the lads’ intellectual mentor.
 
  October 19, 2018
 
  Jake Wilson
  The Age (Australia)
  TOP CRITIC
  An entertaining exercise in technical prowess, if not exactly suspense. The queer undertones alone make it worth a watch, though.
 
  August 16, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/5
 
  Trace Thurman
  Horror Queers Podcast
  “Rope” is a wonderful exercise in technique and the party guest characters are performed deliciously. Pay attention to the spectacular panorama of Manhattan’s gleaming skyline.
 
  November 11, 2020
 
  Michael Calleri
  Niagara Gazette
  Hitchcock manages to keep everything light and humorous, but not without taking a couple of shots at a callous society actively choosing not to hear what they don’t like.
 
  July 30, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/5
 
  Michael J. Casey
  Boulder Weekly
  The resultant study of high class homicide is revolutionary, which, spectacular though the word may sound, does not mean that Rope is Hitchcock’s best screenplay.
 
  August 13, 2019
 
  Jay Carmody
  Washington Star
  Although the story of this verbose film is intriguing, it’s not top-drawer Hitchcock.
 
  February 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
  TV Guide Staff
  TV Guide
  A disappointing addition to the great director’s canon of work.
 
  February 9, 2019 | Rating: 3/5
 
  Robin Karney
  Radio Times…

 

Plot
Brandon and Philip are two young men who share a New York City apartment. They consider themselves intellectually superior to their friend David Kentley, and as a consequence, decide to murder him. Together they strangle David with a rope and placing the body in an old chest, they proceed to hold a small party. The guests include David’s father, his fiancée Janet, and their old schoolteacher Rupert, from whom they mistakenly took their ideas. As Brandon becomes increasingly more daring, Rupert begins to suspect.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
There is no goofy or funny or odd comment about the film Rope on Fresh Kernels.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Gruskoff, Venture Films, Crossbow Productions, Jouer Limited
 
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate
Approved
 
Year of Release
1946
 

 
Genre(s)
Romance/Lgbtq+
 
Keyword(s)
starring Rita Hayworth, Glenn Ford, George Macready, Joseph Calleia, Steven Geray, Joe Sawyer, directed by Charles Vidor, written by Marion Parsonnet, romance, LGBTQ+, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Helen Bower, Kate Cameron, Eleanor Wilson, Mildred Martin, Mae Tinee, George Bourke, Virginia Wright, Mary Gilchrist, James B Roe, C.A Lejeune, Hortense Morton, William R Weaver, produced by Virginia Van Upp, MPAA rating, Buenos Aires, Argentina, casino, cheating, ex-lover, lusty battle, victim, femme fatale, post-war greed, seductive, cartel, newly betrothed, torrid history, passionate love/hate relationship, noir, mènage a trois
 

Cast & Crew

Rita Hayworth

Glenn Ford

George Macready

Joseph Calleia

Steven Geray

Gilda

Johnny Farrell

Narrator

Ballin Mundson

Detective Maurice Obregon

Rita Hayworth – Gilda
Glenn Ford – Johnny Farrell, Narrator
George Macready – Ballin Mundson
Joseph Calleia – Detective Maurice Obregon
Steven Geray – Uncle Pio, Mundson’s Butler
Joe Sawyer – Casey

 

Charles Vidor

Marion Parsonnet

Virginia Van Upp

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Charles Vidor
 
Writer(s)
Marion Parsonnet
 
Producer(s)
Virginia Van Upp

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Helen Bower

Kate Cameron

Eleanor Wilson

Mildred Martin

Mae Tinee

Detroit Free Press

New York Daily News

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Philadelphia Inquirer

Chicago Tribune

GILDA
  All Critics (70) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (63) | Rotten (7)
  Heralded as a new team in motion pictures, Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford are off to a flying start in Gilda.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  Helen Bower
  Detroit Free Press
  TOP CRITIC
  If it’s escape you want in a movie, you will find surcease from the worry of today’s scary headlines at the Music Hall, where Rita Hayworth and Glenn Ford are pitted against each other in a lusty battle of hate and love.
 
  November 19, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Kate Cameron
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  The captivating Miss Hayworth turns in what is perhaps her best performance as the reckless Gilda.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  Eleanor Wilson
  Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
  TOP CRITIC
  Not since the archaic days of Theda Bara and her brazen ilk has sex appeal been set forth in so rampant a fashion on the screen.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  Mildred Martin
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  Staggering around with this plot on their shoulders, the players, all of them competent, have a lot of trouble being convincing, particularly with the dialogue provided.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  Mae Tinee
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s really good pulse-tingling cinema presented in good adult taste but there are sequences from which adolescents might draw the conclusion that all that shimmers is not heavenly light.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  George Bourke
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Overlook the confusion of plot, and the loose ends and you’ll find diversions to keep you awake. Chief among these, of course, is Rita Hayworth.
 
  July 9, 2021
 
  Virginia Wright
  Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
  Chock full of action and plenty of torrid feelings.
 
  March 31, 2021
 
  Mary Gilchrist
  Tampa Bay Times
  The photography is excellent, and shows an improvement in this Hollywood department which is be coming increasingly noticeable.
 
  March 31, 2021
 
  James B. Roe
  Ottawa Citizen
  For an hour or so the spectator has been sufficiently beguiled by the prevailing air of mystery… But about this time he may begin to have a nasty suspicion, subsequently confirmed, that nothing is going to happen except Miss Hayworth.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  C.A. Lejeune
  Observer (UK)
  Completely disregarding the very obvious and eye-appealing fact, that Rita Hayworth is one of the world’s most beautiful women, we are going to award her our personal accolade for also being one of the most dynamic and distinguished actresses.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
  San Francisco Examiner
  A sumptuously sordid story about crime, major and minor, in Buenos Aires.
 
  November 19, 2020
 
  William R. Weaver
  Motion Picture Herald (Exhibitors Herald)…

 

Plot
Just arrived in Argentina, small-time crooked gambler Johnny Farrell is saved from a gunman by sinister Ballin Mundson, who later makes Johnny his right-hand man. But their friendship based on mutual lack of scruples is strained when Mundson returns from a trip with a wife: the supremely desirable Gilda, whom Johnny once knew and learned to hate. The relationship of Johnny and Gilda, a battlefield of warring emotions, becomes even more bizarre after Mundson disappears…
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Rita Hayworth’s performance in Gilda is hailed as one of her best, carrying the film on the sheer strength of her screen presence.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Pakula-Mulligan Brentwood Productions,
 
Distributor
Warner Bros. Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
26652 Latigo Shore Drive, Malibu, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Approved
 
Year of Release
1945
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Joan Crawford, Ann Blyth, Jack Carson, Zachary Scott, Eve Arden, Bruce Bennett, directed by Michael Curtiz, written by James M Cain, Ranald MacDougall, William Faulkner, Catherine Turney, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Ed Potton, David Jenkins, Manny Farber, Don Druker, Variety Staff, Nick Schager, Dennis Harvey, Loren King, Mattie Lucas, Rosalie Kicks, Sean Mulvihill, MFB Critics, producer Jerry Wald, MPAA rating, Warner Bros Pictures, Mildred Pierce Beragon, Wally Fay, Veda Pierce Forrester, Monte Beragon, Ida Corwin, Bert Pierce, film noir, social drama, soap opera, police investigation, murder mystery, complicated mother-daughter relationship, independent woman, successful businesswoman, financial struggles, social status, patriarchal view, class struggles, upper class decay, strong female lead, multilayered characters, compelling leading character, psychological astute work, splendid cinematography, mise-en-scène, structure, melodrama, noir, black-and-white photography, sweeping theme, uplifting pieces, iconic performance, unsympathetic character, strong additive, fabulous starring role, strong story characters
 

Cast & Crew

Joan Crawford

Jack Carson

Ann Blyth

Zachary Scott

Eve Arden

Mildred Pierce Beragon

Wally Fay

Veda Pierce Forrester

Monte Beragon

Ida Corwin

Joan Crawford – Mildred Pierce Beragon
Jack Carson – Wally Fay
Ann Blyth – Veda Pierce Forrester
Zachary Scott – Monte Beragon
Eve Arden – Ida Corwin
Bruce Bennett – Bert Pierce

 

Michael Curtiz

James M. Cain

Jerry Wald

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Michael Curtiz
 
Writer(s)
James M. Cain, Ranald MacDougall, William Faulkner, Catherine Turney
 
Producer(s)
Jerry Wald

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 1 Oscar
3 wins & 6 nominations total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Ed Potton

David Jenkins

Manny Farber

Don Druker

Variety Staff

Times

Little White Lies

The New Republic

Chicago Reader

Variety

MILDRED PIERCE
  All Critics (44) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (38) | Rotten (6)
  Crawford is always mesmerizing, steely and teary as she is manipulated, accused of murder and circled by men who are stolid…crass…or emollient.
 
  August 17, 2018 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Ed Potton
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  This great film is a more subtle, nuanced beast than expected.
 
  August 13, 2018 | Rating: 5/5
 
  David Jenkins
  Little White Lies
  TOP CRITIC
  The production, mainly because of Michael Curtiz’s direction, is unimaginative and badly hoked-up.
 
  August 31, 2012
 
  Manny Farber
  The New Republic
  TOP CRITIC
  The archetypal Joan Crawford movie.
 
  October 17, 2007
 
  Don Druker
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  A class feature, showmanly produced by Jerry Wald and tellingly directed by Michael Curtiz.
 
  October 17, 2007
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  A hearty genre pic fraught with tense social/sexual anxieties.
 
  August 7, 2006 | Rating: B+
 
  Nick Schager
  Lessons of Darkness
  TOP CRITIC
  …this B&W classic retains its own strengths as deluxe vintage melodrama.
 
  October 19, 2020
 
  Dennis Harvey
  48 Hills
  Sacrificial motherhood meets film noir to result in one of the most memorable screen mothers in “Mildred Pierce.”
 
  May 7, 2020
 
  Loren King
  Newport This Week (RI)
  Remains one of Hollywood’s great melodramas, a rich and psychologically astute work whose power still resonates today.
 
  June 4, 2019 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Mattie Lucas
  From the Front Row
  Joan Crawford shines in the role of Mildred; a hard-working, pie making, shoulder pad wearing and determined mother.
 
  February 6, 2019 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Rosalie Kicks
  MovieJawn
  Mildred Pierce is a film that defies typical genre classification for its era.
 
  November 1, 2018 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Sean Mulvihill
  FanboyNation.com
  Joan Crawford presents a consistent and sustained characterisation of the harassed Mrs. Pierce fighting against relentless spiritual degradation.
 
  January 8, 2018
 
  MFB Critics
  Monthly Film Bulletin…

 

Plot
When Mildred Pierce’s out-of-work husband leaves her for another woman, Mildred decides to raise her two daughters on her own. Despite Mildred’s financial successes in the restaurant business, her oldest daughter, Veda, resents her mother for degrading their social status. In the midst of a police investigation after the death of her second husband, Mildred must evaluate her own freedom and her complicated relationship with her daughter.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Joan Crawford’s performance in Mildred Pierce is described as “mesmerizing, steely and teary” by one critic.
 

 
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Awards & Nominations
NA
 

Synopsis (Warning: Spoilers!)

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Production Company(ies)
Strike Entertainment, New Amsterdam Entertainment, Metropolitan Filmexport
 
Distributor
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Studios – 10202 W. Washington Blvd., Culver City, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1942
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, Dame May Whitty, Teresa Wright, Reginald Owen, Henry Travers, directed by William Wyler, written by George Froeschel, James Hilton, Jan Struther, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Mildred Martin, Patricia Ward, Mae Tinee, Colvin McPherson, Bob Fredericks, Frank P Gill, T.C Kemp, Reg Whitley, Ruth Lewis, Virginia Wright, Nell Battle Lewis, produced by Sidney Franklin, William Wyler, MPAA rating, World War II, propaganda, family, war, Dunkirk, Nazi pilot, air raid, Royal Air Force, ensemble cast, British society, feminism, sentimental, emotional, powerful performance, human qualities, tragedy, comedy, courage, heroism, Hollywood, war effort
 

Cast & Crew

Greer Garson

Kay Miniver

Walter Pidgeon

Clem Miniver

Dame May Whitty

Kay Miniver

Clem Miniver

Lady Beldon

Carol Beldon

Foley

Greer Garson – Kay Miniver
Walter Pidgeon – Clem Miniver
Dame May Whitty – Lady Beldon
Teresa Wright – Carol Beldon
Reginald Owen – Foley, Storekeeper and Air-raid Warden
Henry Travers – Mr. Ballard, Station-master and Bell-ringer

 

William Wyler

George Froeschel

Sidney Franklin

William Wyler

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
William Wyler
 
Writer(s)
George Froeschel, James Hilton, Jan Struther, Claudine West, Arthur Wimperis
 
Producer(s)
Sidney Franklin, William Wyler

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Picture Winners, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Mildred Martin

Patricia Ward

Mae Tinee

Colvin McPherson

Bob Fredericks

Philadelphia Inquirer

London Evening Standard

Chicago Tribune

St. Louis Post-Dispatch

Miami Herald

MRS. MINIVER
  All Critics (62) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (59) | Rotten (3)
  Balancing pathos with gentle comedy, humor with stark tragedy, Mrs. Miniver is rich in those human qualities that give a drama life and real humanity.
 
  January 5, 2022
 
  Mildred Martin
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  By all means see this film, but don’t expect to escape emotion.
 
  January 5, 2022
 
  Patricia Ward
  London Evening Standard
  TOP CRITIC
  I don’t know when a movie has stirred me so, and I thank Greer Garson, Walter Pidgeon, and everybody connected with the film for two hours I shall never want to forget.
 
  January 4, 2022
 
  Mae Tinee
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  It is truly one of the prouder movie efforts of all time, and it was contrived that way, intentionally, by a set of creators who know how to create.
 
  January 4, 2022
 
  Colvin McPherson
  St. Louis Post-Dispatch
  TOP CRITIC
  It is one of those rare pictures in which every insignificant little scene or sequence is so embellished with touches of mirth, warmth and beauty as to make every inch of film entertaining.
 
  January 4, 2022
 
  Bob Fredericks
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  This drama, an eloquent sermon on war and the part civilians play in it, is truly one of the greatest and most emotionally stirring films in the long history of movies.
 
  January 4, 2022
 
  Frank P. Gill
  Detroit Free Press
  TOP CRITIC
  The choice acting of Greer Garson as Mrs. Miniver is marked by delicate stresses, intelligently placed. Bright and brave as Mrs. Miniver is, there are moments when anxiety and heartache are evident in the serene and steady eyes.
 
  February 17, 2022
 
  T.C. Kemp
  Birmingham Post
  On no account miss this inspiring tribute to the courage of our women under conditions of total war.
 
  February 17, 2022
 
  Reg Whitley
  Daily Mirror (UK)
  Greer Garson, whose playing is superb, is the central character, but this is more nearly a picture of ensemble playing than one of stars.
 
  January 5, 2022
 
  Ruth Lewis
  Austin American-Statesman
  Here, at last, is a film which doesn’t fumble its great and simple message, a deeply humane and humorous film more stirring than any drama of vast spectacle.
 
  January 5, 2022
 
  Virginia Wright
  Illustrated Daily News (Los Angeles)
  The drama is real, the humor human, the romance tender, the war cruel, the courage invincible.
 
  January 4, 2022
 
  Mercury Staff
  The Mercury (Australia)
  You may do some weeping at Mrs Miniver. I did. We have had no pIcture which has shown so well the British spirit at its most heroic during this war. And that’s a pretty moving thing I tell you.
 
  January 4, 2022
 
  Nell Battle Lewis
  News & Observer (Raleigh, NC)…

 

Plot
The Minivers, an English “middle-class” family experience life in the first months of World War II. While dodging bombs, the Minivers’ son courts Lady Beldon’s granddaughter. A rose is named after Mrs. Miniver and entered in the competition against Lady Beldon’s rose.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Greer Garson’s performance in Mrs. Miniver is described as “powerful” by Fresh Kernels critics.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)

 
Distributor
RKO Radio Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Arthur Ranch, Malibu, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1938
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
Comedy, Cary Grant, Katharine Hepburn, Howard Hawks, Hagar Wilde, Dudley Nichols, May Robson, RKO Radio Pictures, box office, budget, reviewed by Norbert Lusk, Richard Brody, Joshua Rothkopf, Nell Minow, Dave Kehr, Jason Best, Mattie Lucas, Danielle Solzman, MPAA rating, Harried paleontologist, society matron, madcap adventuress, missing dinosaur bone, pet leopard, enduring appeal, screwball comedy, original language, producer Howard Hawks, release date, distributor RKO Radio Pictures, sound mix Mono, Charlie Ruggles, Major Horace Applegate, Barry Fitzgerald, Mr Gogarty, Walter Catlett, Constable Slocum
 

Cast & Crew

Katharine Hepburn

Susan Vance

Cary Grant

Dr. David Huxley

Charlie Ruggles

Susan Vance

Dr. David Huxley

Major Horace Applegate

Aunt Elizabeth Random

Mr. Gogarty

Katharine Hepburn – Susan Vance
Cary Grant – Dr. David Huxley
Charlie Ruggles – Major Horace Applegate
May Robson – Aunt Elizabeth Random
Barry Fitzgerald – Mr. Gogarty
Walter Catlett – Constable Slocum

 

Howard Hawks

Hagar Wilde

Howard Hawks

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Howard Hawks
 
Writer(s)
Hagar Wilde, Dudley Nichols, Hagar Wilde
 
Producer(s)
Howard Hawks

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
2 wins
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Norbert Lusk

Richard Brody

Joshua Rothkopf

Nell Minow

Variety Staff

Los Angeles Times

New Yorker

Time Out

Common Sense Media

Variety

BRINGING UP BABY
  All Critics (51) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (48) | Rotten (3)
  It seems that almost any star, including Irene Dunne, Carole Lombard and Myrna Loy, may attempt antic comedy and make a go of it, but that medium is not for Miss Hepburn in the theater where she is accepted as an important dramatic actress.
 
  April 20, 2019
 
  Norbert Lusk
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  The enduring fascination of this 1938 screwball comedy is due to much more than its uproarious gags.
 
  September 23, 2013
 
  Richard Brody
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  A perfect example of why directors (and even us brilliant professional critics) can often be completely in the dark about what works.
 
  June 15, 2011 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Joshua Rothkopf
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  Classic screwball comedy stars Hepburn, Grant.
 
  December 22, 2010 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Nell Minow
  Common Sense Media
  TOP CRITIC
  There is little rhyme or reason to most of the action, but it’s all highly palatable.
 
  April 2, 2008
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  Though it’s almost impossible, try to sit back sometime and enjoy this 1938 Howard Hawks masterpiece not only for its gags, but for the grace of its construction, the assurance of its style, and the richness of its themes.
 
  June 26, 2007
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Grant… sails through the film’s slapstick with breathtaking panache – only a supremely graceful actor could perform clumsiness so skilfully or amusingly.
 
  September 1, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Jason Best
  Movie Talk
  It is, to put it bluntly, the perfect screwball comedy, a rapid-fire barrage of ludicrous mayhem whose absurdity only gets funnier as it goes along, thanks in huge part to the game dedication of its cast.
 
  August 26, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Mattie Lucas
  From the Front Row
  Thanks to the efforts of both Hepburn and Grant, Bringing Up Baby is one of the best screwball comedies of all time.
 
  August 20, 2021
 
  Danielle Solzman
  Solzy at the Movies
  One of those movies that seems to improve upon repeat viewings.
 
  July 24, 2021 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  Indeed, it’s her chemistry with Grant which makes for such a wonderful spectacle. Hawks ensures that the pair lurch from one debacle to another.
 
  July 23, 2021
 
  Rob Aldam
  Backseat Mafia
  The story is twisty and plenty silly, but the comic chemistry, between the leads, and also the side players, many of whom from the Vaudeville circuit, makes even the most tumultuous encounters run smooth as a gear box.
 
  July 16, 2021
 
  Piers Marchant
  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette…

 

Plot
Mild mannered paleontology professor Dr. David Huxley is excited by the news that an intercostal clavicle bone has been found to complete his brontosaurus skeleton, a project four years in the construction. He is equally excited about his imminent marriage to his assistant, the officious Alice Swallow, who is interested in him more for his work than for him as a person. David needs the $1 million endowment of wealthy dowager Mrs. Carleton Random to complete the project. Her lawyer, Alexander Peabody, will make the decision on her behalf, so David needs to get in his favor. However, whenever David tries to make a good impression on Peabody, the same young woman always seems to do something to make him look bad. She is the flighty heiress Susan Vance. The more David wants Susan to go away, the more Susan seems not to want or be able to. But David eventually learns that Alexander Peabody is her good friend, who she calls Boopy, and Susan’s Aunt Elizabeth, with whom David has also made a bad impression without her knowing who he is, is Mrs. Carleton Random. However getting in Aunt Elizabeth and Boopy’s good graces is not as easy as Susan smoothing the waters with them. Throw into the mix a tame pet leopard named Baby that Susan’s brother Mark inexplicably sends her from Brazil, Aunt Elizabeth’s big game hunting friend Major Horace Applegate, Aunt Elizabeth’s pet terrier George who has a penchant for burying bones and other things, and a traveling circus passing through town and David may never be able to finish his project or make it to his wedding. But David may come to the realization that there is something more important in his life.
 
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Goofs / Tidbits
The cast of Bringing Up Baby includes a pet leopard, who adds to the chaos and hilarity of the film.
 

 
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