Production Company(ies)
Santana Pictures, Corporation,
 
Distributor
Columbia Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
City Hall – 455 N. Rexford Drive, Beverly Hills, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1950
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
starring Humphrey Bogart, Gloria Grahame, Frank Lovejoy, Carl Benton Reid, Art Smith, Jeff Donnell, directed by Nicholas Ray, written by Dorothy B Hughes, Edmund H North, Andrew Solt, drama, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Ela Bittencourt, Peter Bradshaw, Richard Brody, Keith Uhlich, J Hoberman, Dave Kehr, Roger Moore, Matt Brunson, MPAA rating, produced by Robert Lord, Columbia Pictures, mono sound mix, flat aspect ratio, Hollywood, screenwriter, murder, police, psychological study, film noir, romance, neighbor, alibi, hothead, big heart, authenticity, character study, murder-mystery, scathing critique of Hollywood, aging, fighting the system, fighting himself, Oscar nomination, revised ending, misunderstood artist, creative persona, emotional stability, film and TV guides, horror movies, MCU movies, Netflix series, TV premiere dates, Fresh Kernels
 

Cast & Crew

Humphrey Bogart

Gloria Grahame

Frank Lovejoy

Carl Benton Reid

Art Smith

Dixon Steele

Laurel Gray

Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai

Capt. Lochner

Mel Lippman

Humphrey Bogart – Dixon Steele
Gloria Grahame – Laurel Gray
Frank Lovejoy – Det. Sgt. Brub Nicolai
Carl Benton Reid – Capt. Lochner
Art Smith – Mel Lippman
Jeff Donnell – Sylvia Nicolai

 

Nicholas Ray

Dorothy B. Hughes

Robert Lord

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Nicholas Ray
 
Writer(s)
Dorothy B. Hughes, Edmund H. North, Andrew Solt
 
Producer(s)
Robert Lord

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Ela Bittencourt

Peter Bradshaw

Richard Brody

Keith Uhlich

J. Hoberman

Hyperallergic

Guardian

New Yorker

Time Out

Village Voice

IN A LONELY PLACE
  All Critics (48) | Top Critics (12) | Fresh (47) | Rotten (1)
  In a Lonely Place isn’t so much a straightforward thriller as it is a poignant psychological study of a person and a milieu, veiled as an atmospheric noir.
 
  February 25, 2020
 
  Ela Bittencourt
  Hyperallergic
  TOP CRITIC
  Humphrey Bogart’s world-weariness and romanticism take on something brutal and misogynist in this 1950 noir masterpiece directed by Nicholas Ray – and it’s a marvellous performance by Gloria Grahame.
 
  November 22, 2017 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  Few movies suggest such a forthright flaying of their director’s soul.
 
  November 24, 2014
 
  Richard Brody
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  The genre trappings of this noir masterpiece don’t matter a whit. There’s a murder and a mystery, but whodunnit? is just the punch line to the gut.
 
  November 17, 2011 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Keith Uhlich
  Time Out
  TOP CRITIC
  The grayest, most morally ambiguous of film noirs — and arguably the most self-reflexive.
 
  July 15, 2009
 
  J. Hoberman
  Village Voice
  TOP CRITIC
  It’s a breathtaking work, and a key citation in the case for confession as suitable material for art.
 
  October 23, 2007
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  A classic noir that stands among Bogart’s best.
 
  May 6, 2022 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Roger Moore
  Movie Nation
  A beautiful yet devastating piece of cinema that operates as a bleak film noir, a compelling murder-mystery, a scathing critique of Hollywood, and a character study of penetrating depth.
 
  October 13, 2020 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  What matters isn’t whether or not he’s innocent, but that he could have committed the crime just the same.
 
  August 23, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  Bogart, always brilliant at playing bitter, adds a frightening aspect of fury to Dix, casting his impulses as well beyond his control — he manages to make cutting a grapefruit seem like an act of vengeance.
 
  August 11, 2020 | Rating: 7.5/10
 
  Piers Marchant
  Arkansas Democrat-Gazette
  One of the most acidic looks at Hollywood – and one of the best.
 
  July 14, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Michael J. Casey
  Boulder Weekly
  Bogey has got himself a pretty good picture here, the best he has had of the last several.
 
  June 19, 2020 | Rating: 2/4
 
  Dudley Early
  Austin American-Statesman…

 

Plot
Screenwriter Dixon Steele, faced with the odious task of scripting a trashy bestseller, has hat-check girl Mildred Atkinson tell him the story in her own words. Later that night, Mildred is murdered and Steele is a prime suspect; his record of belligerence when angry and his macabre sense of humor tell against him. Fortunately, lovely neighbor Laurel Gray gives him an alibi. Laurel proves to be just what Steele needed, and their friendship ripens into love. Will suspicion, doubt, and Steele’s inner demons come between them?
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Humphrey Bogart’s performance in In a Lonely Place is considered one of his best.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Paramount Pictures,
 
Distributor
Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)
Bellevue Hospital – 462 First Avenue, Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1946
 

 
Genre(s)
Drama
 
Keyword(s)
Drama, alcoholism, Billy Wilder, Charles Brackett, Charles R Jackson, Ray Milland, Jane Wyman, Howard da Silva, Phillip Terry, Don Birnam, Helen St James, Wick Birnam, Gloria, Bim Nolan, Male Nurse, Neptune Frost, The Best Years of Our Lives, Ace in the Hole, Divided We Fall, Giant, Black Narcissus, reviewed by Marjory Adams, Ida Belle Hicks, Mildred Martin, Mae Tinee, Len G Shaw, George Bourke, Jane Corby, Hortense Morton, Marcy Townsley, Sara Hamilton, Dick Pitts, P.S Harrison, box office performance, budget, MPAA rating, directed by Billy Wilder, produced by Charles Brackett, written by Charles R Jackson, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Paramount Pictures, Mono, Flat (1.37:1)
 

Cast & Crew

Ray Milland

Jane Wyman

Howard Da Silva

Phillip Terry

Doris Dowling

Don Birnam

Helen St. James

Nat the Bartender

Wick Birnam

Gloria

Ray Milland – Don Birnam
Jane Wyman – Helen St. James
Howard Da Silva – Nat the Bartender
Phillip Terry – Wick Birnam
Doris Dowling – Gloria
Frank Faylen – `Bim” Nolan, Male Nurse

 

Billy Wilder

Charles R. Jackson

Charles Brackett

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Billy Wilder
 
Writer(s)
Charles R. Jackson, Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder
 
Producer(s)
Charles Brackett

 

Film Festivals

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

Top Reviews

Marjory Adams

Ida Belle Hicks

Mildred Martin

Mae Tinee

Len G. Shaw

Boston Globe

Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com

Philadelphia Inquirer

Chicago Tribune

Detroit Free Press

THE LOST WEEKEND
  All Critics (70) | Top Critics (20) | Fresh (68) | Rotten (2)
  The Lost Week End is magnificent melodrama, a serious study into a disease which too often is delineated in ridiculous guise, and an absorbing attempt to show the misery of drink.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Marjory Adams
  Boston Globe
  TOP CRITIC
  If Ray Milland doesn’t get the Academy Award for his work in The Lost Week-end it will be a miscarriage of justice.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Ida Belle Hicks
  Fort Worth Star-Telegram/DFW.com
  TOP CRITIC
  Jane Wyman, who plays Don’s troubled sweetheart, is a revelation in her first dramatic role after her unbroken succession of featherweight comedy parts.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Mildred Martin
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  Ray Milland makes the central figure hateful, likable, and somehow understandable. His portrayal is a masterpiece of superb control, versatility, and sensitivity.
 
  February 1, 2022
 
  Mae Tinee
  Chicago Tribune
  TOP CRITIC
  Whatever may be one’s individual reaction to this sordid story of a dipsomaniac’s five-day debauch, there is no gainsaying that The Lost Weekend… is a movie masterpiece when considered both as to its daring story and technical treatment.
 
  February 1, 2022
 
  Len G. Shaw
  Detroit Free Press
  TOP CRITIC
  Be sure to see Lost Week End. It is a film that will be discussed for years. It is a technical masterpiece and Ray Milland’s performance WILL win him an Academy Award.
 
  February 1, 2022
 
  George Bourke
  Miami Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  As a subject for discussion, it’s the film of the year. It is cinematically speaking, a brilliant achievement, with two sequences standing out as high points of film horror, on a strict realistic basis.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Jane Corby
  Brooklyn Daily Eagle
  Worthwhile films are many. Merely passable ones too many. But extraordinarily fine films produced in a year can be counted on the fingers of one hand. Lost Weekend would take up three fingers In any given annum. It’s that good.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Hortense Morton (Screen Scout)
  San Francisco Examiner
  Something rare and wonderful happened when they made this picture. It’s extraordinary, to say the least, when Hollywood drops its rose colored glasses for honest story treatment. It’s the first time that Hollywood ever produced a drunk who isn’t funny.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Marcy Townsley
  Austin American-Statesman
  [Ray Milland] has imbued the very soul of the agonized man and in his portrayal Milland hits his peak. This is by far his best performance to date and one by which he’ll undoubtedly measure his future roles.
 
  February 3, 2022 | Rating: 2/3
 
  Sara Hamilton
  Photoplay
  Much credit is due the Wilder-Brackett team for their skillful handling of the drama. There is sledge-hammer directness and ugly simplicity that make it outstanding.
 
  February 3, 2022
 
  Dick Pitts
  Charlotte Observer
  From an artistic point of view, this drama is impressive, for the direction and the acting are of the highest order. But it is hardly the type of entertainment that motion picture-goers want to see today, for it is grim and depressing.
 
  February 1, 2022
 
  P.S. Harrison
  Harrison’s Reports…

 

Plot
Don Birnam, long-time alcoholic, has been “on the wagon” for ten days and seems to be over the worst; but his craving has just become more insidious. Evading a country weekend planned by his brother Wick and girlfriend Helen, he begins a four-day bender. In flashbacks we see past events, all gone wrong because of the bottle. But this bout looks like being his last…one way or the other.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Ray Milland won the Academy Award for Best Actor for his portrayal of Don Birnam in The Lost Weekend.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Paramount Pictures,
 
Distributor
Criterion Collection, Paramount Pictures
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden – 301 N. Baldwin Avenue, Arcadia, California, USA
 
MPAA / Certificate
Passed
 
Year of Release
1941
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy/Romance
 
Keyword(s)
starring Barbara Stanwyck, Henry Fonda, Charles Coburn, Eugene Pallette, William Demarest, Eric Blore, directed by Preston Sturges, written by Monckton Hoffe, Paul Jones, genre: Comedy, Romance, box office performance, budget, reviewed by Sydney Morning Herald, The Age (Australia), Guardian, TIME Magazine, Wall Street Journal, Variety, Deep Focus Review, Common Sense Media, Gone With The Twins, Backseat Mafia, The MacGuffin, MPAA rating: N/A, produced by Paul Jones, distributed by Criterion Collection, Paramount Pictures, runtime: 1h 37m, original language: English, release date (theaters): Feb 25, 1941, release date (streaming): Oct 16, 2001, sound mix: Mono, aspect ratio: 35mm, Flat (1.37:1)
 

Cast & Crew

Barbara Stanwyck

Jean Harrington

Lady Eve Sidwich

Henry Fonda

Charles Pike

Jean Harrington

Lady Eve Sidwich

Charles Pike

“Colonel” Harrington

Horace Pike

Barbara Stanwyck – Jean Harrington, Lady Eve Sidwich
Henry Fonda – Charles Pike
Charles Coburn – “Colonel” Harrington
Eugene Pallette – Horace Pike
William Demarest – Muggsy (Ambrose Murgatroyd)
Eric Blore – Sir Alfred McGlennan Keith (“Pearlie”)

 

Preston Sturges

Monckton Hoffe

Paul Jones

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Preston Sturges
 
Writer(s)
Monckton Hoffe, Preston Sturges
 
Producer(s)
Paul Jones

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Nominated for 1 Oscar
2 wins & 1 nomination total
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

SMH Staff

Age Staff

Peter Bradshaw

TIME Staff

Joe Morgenstern

SMH Staff

Age Staff

Peter Bradshaw

TIME Staff

Joe Morgenstern

THE LADY EVE
  All Critics (49) | Top Critics (13) | Fresh (49)
  Written and directed by Preston Sturges, the film will please many and disappoint some.
 
  May 2, 2020
 
  SMH Staff
  Sydney Morning Herald
  TOP CRITIC
  Fine comedy in an exciting tempo, but with slapstick that should give it popular.
 
  May 1, 2020
 
  Age Staff
  The Age (Australia)
  TOP CRITIC
  Stanwyck completely upstages Fonda who looks as delicate as a Lalique vase. Her chemistry is more with the dads: with Coburn and Pallette. She is the real thoroughbred.
 
  February 14, 2019 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Peter Bradshaw
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  The picture returns the lately heavily dramatic Barbara Stanwyck to glamor.
 
  February 10, 2014
 
  TIME Staff
  TIME Magazine
  TOP CRITIC
  Barbara Stanwyck is the sexiest con woman ever captured on film.
 
  June 16, 2012
 
  Joe Morgenstern
  Wall Street Journal
  TOP CRITIC
  Third writer-director effort of Preston Sturges [from a story by Monckton Hoffe] is laugh entertainment of top proportions with its combo of slick situations, spontaneous dialog and a few slapstick falls tossed in for good measure.
 
  November 13, 2007
 
  Variety Staff
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  By the year of its release in 1941, romantic comedy convention had been well established; however, the film serves as a grand lesson to any filmmaker posed with the question of how to approach the genre’s formulas.
 
  March 20, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  With its snappy dialogue, frantic pace, and characters that appear oblivious to the absurdity of their situation, it’s easy to see why The Lady Eve is fondly remembered by fans of the genre.
 
  December 8, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Alistair Lawrence
  Common Sense Media
  Innuendo and hilariously wry love banter supplement signature slapstick, along with Eugene Pallette’s familiar role as the patriarch of a family driven batty by affluence.
 
  August 13, 2020 | Rating: 9/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  A sparkling and effervescent romantic comedy.
 
  August 10, 2020
 
  Rob Aldam
  Backseat Mafia
  It has a style and wit rarely seen today, while having all the slapstick you could ask for in a screwball comedy.
 
  August 6, 2020
 
  Allen Almachar
  The MacGuffin
  A riotous screwball classic.
 
  July 27, 2020 | Rating: 3.5/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy…

 

Plot
Returning from a year up the Amazon studying snakes, the rich but unsophisticated Charles Pike meets con-artist Jean Harrington on a ship. They fall in love, but a misunderstanding causes them to split on bad terms. To get back at him, Jean disguises herself as an English lady, and comes back to tease and torment him.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Barbara Stanwyck is hailed as “the sexiest con woman ever captured on film” by Wall Street Journal critic Joe Morgenstern.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Universal Pictures, Wing Nut Films, Big Primate Pictures,
 
Distributor
RKO Radio Pictures
 
Release Type
Theatrical, Theatrical (Wide)
 
Filming Location(s)
Shelly Bay, Wellington, New Zealand
 
MPAA / Certificate
Rated PG-13 for frightening adventure violence and some disturbing images
 
Year of Release
1933
 

 
Genre(s)
Adventure/Fantasy
 
Keyword(s)
starring Fay Wray, Robert Armstrong, Bruce Cabot, Frank Reicher, Sam Hardy, Noble Johnson, directed by Merian C Cooper, Ernest B Schoedsack, written by James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose, adventure, fantasy, box office success, budget, reviewed by Adam Kempenaar, THR Staff, Mark Chalon Smith, Irene Thirer, Joe Bigelow, Willis O’Brien, Dave Kehr, Brian Eggert, Matt Neal, Matt Brunson, Allen Almachar, Mike Massie, MPAA rating, produced by Merian C Cooper, Ernest B Schoedsack
 

Cast & Crew

Fay Wray

Ann Darrow

Bruce Cabot

John Driscoll

Robert Armstrong

Ann Darrow

John Driscoll

Carl Denham

Captain Englehorn

Charles Weston

Fay Wray – Ann Darrow
Bruce Cabot – John Driscoll
Robert Armstrong – Carl Denham
Frank Reicher – Captain Englehorn
Sam Hardy – Charles Weston
Noble Johnson – Native Chief

 

Merian C. Cooper

James Ashmore Creelman

Merian C. Cooper

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack
 
Writer(s)
James Ashmore Creelman, Ruth Rose
 
Producer(s)
Merian C. Cooper, Ernest B. Schoedsack

 

Film Festivals

 
Awards & Nominations
Won 3 Oscars
46 wins & 104 nominations total
 
Academy Awards
Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Editing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Sound Mixing Winners, Oscar Best Achievement in Visual Effects Winners, Oscar Nominees, Oscar Winners
 

Top Reviews

Adam Kempenaar

THR Staff

Mark Chalon Smith

Irene Thirer

Joe Bigelow

Filmspotting

Hollywood Reporter

Los Angeles Times

New York Daily News

Variety

KING KONG
  All Critics (67) | Top Critics (16) | Fresh (66) | Rotten (1)
  Kong’s imaginativeness is inarguably one of the reasons it was such a hit and why it has endured.
 
  April 3, 2021 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Adam Kempenaar
  Filmspotting
  TOP CRITIC
  [Fay] Wray has never been more beautiful before the camera, nor acted as well as she does in this production.
 
  March 2, 2018
 
  THR Staff
  Hollywood Reporter
  TOP CRITIC
  The story, like Frankenstein and Dracula, has taken on the significance of a modern folk tale, layered with obvious moralizing and as familiar as personal history.
 
  October 5, 2013
 
  Mark Chalon Smith
  Los Angeles Times
  TOP CRITIC
  “King Kong,” as spectacular a bolt of celluloid as has thrilled audiences in a couple of sophisticated seasons, is the product of a number of vivid imaginations.
 
  March 7, 2013
 
  Irene Thirer
  New York Daily News
  TOP CRITIC
  Kong mystifies as well as it horrifies, and may open up a new medium for scaring babies via the screen.
 
  July 2, 2007
 
  Joe Bigelow
  Variety
  TOP CRITIC
  Willis O’Brien did the stop-action animation for this 1933 feature, which is richer in character than most of the human cast.
 
  July 2, 2007
 
  Dave Kehr
  Chicago Reader
  TOP CRITIC
  Hailed for out-thrilling the wildest thrills, Merian C. Cooper and Ernest B. Schoedsack’s 1933 classic King Kong delivers an essential component of Hollywood cinema: escape.
 
  February 12, 2022 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Brian Eggert
  Deep Focus Review
  It’s effects are transporting and dazzling, but they are merely means to end, which is to tell a tale of humanity’s (and Hollywood’s) hubris.
 
  August 10, 2021 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Matt Neal
  ABC Radio (Australia)
  In much the same manner as The Wizard of Oz and It’s a Wonderful Life, this masterpiece long ago entered into the national consciousness as an enduring part of our heritage.
 
  March 26, 2021 | Rating: 4/4
 
  Matt Brunson
  Film Frenzy
  This film is one of the great achievements of the action-adventure genre.
 
  August 6, 2020
 
  Allen Almachar
  The MacGuffin
  Despite its many storytelling flaws, the real attraction here is the ‘Eighth Wonder of the World,’ Kong himself.
 
  July 27, 2020 | Rating: 7/10
 
  Mike Massie
  Gone With The Twins
  A spectacle…what’s impressive is that even though Kong looks a little wonky now, you’re still able to latch onto the character.
 
  March 22, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Luke Parker
  VoiceBoxOffice…

 

Plot
Carl Denham needs to finish his movie and has the perfect location; Skull Island. But he still needs to find a leading lady. This ‘soon-to-be-unfortunate’ soul is Ann Darrow. No one knows what they will encounter on this island and why it is so mysterious, but once they reach it, they will soon find out. Living on this hidden island is a giant gorilla and this beast now has Ann is its grasps. Carl and Ann’s new love, Jack Driscoll must travel through the jungle looking for Kong and Ann, whilst avoiding all sorts of creatures and beasts. But Carl has another plan in mind.
 
Trivia

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

 
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Production Company(ies)
DUST
 
Distributor
Pathé Exchange Inc., Continental Home Vídeo [br]
 
Release Type
Theatrical
 
Filming Location(s)

 
MPAA / Certificate

 
Year of Release
1923
 

 
Genre(s)
Comedy
 
Keyword(s)
silent film, comedy, Harold Lloyd, Mildred Davis, Bill Strother, Noah Young, Westcott Clarke, Mickey Daniels, Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor, Jeffrey Vance, Hal Roach, Kevin Brownlow, Sam Taylor, H M Walker, Tim Whelan, Pathé Exchange Inc., Continental Home Vídeo [br], Pathé, Hal Roach Studios Inc., box office, budget, critic reviews, MPAA rating, visual effects, slapstick comedy, New York City, store manager, human fly, crazy stunt, acrophobia, laughter, danger, inventiveness, twisty narrative, hilarious, iconic scene, stunt work, spectacle, likable, charming, climbing stunt, mattress, comedy method, photocomic entertainment, physical logic, silent films, hair-raising stunts, modern comedy, mirthful screen triumphs, brilliant comedy success, tricks, friends, fabric sale, perilously, pigeons, wooden beam, ledge, likable, charming, danger, climbing stunt, mattress, safety last
 

Cast & Crew

Harold Lloyd

Mildred Davis

Bill Strother

Noah Young

Westcott Clarke

The Boy

The Girl

The Pal

The Law

The Floorwalker

Harold Lloyd – The Boy
Mildred Davis – The Girl
Bill Strother – The Pal
Noah Young – The Law
Westcott Clarke – The Floorwalker
Mickey Daniels – Newsboy (uncredited)
Director – Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
Producer – Jeffrey Vance, Hal Roach, Kevin Brownlow
Writer – Sam Taylor, H. M. Walker, Hal Roach, Tim Whelan

 

Fred Newmeyer

Sam Taylor

Jeffrey Vance

Hal Roach

Kevin Brownlow

Director

Writer

Producer

Producer

Producer

Director(s)
Fred Newmeyer, Sam Taylor
 
Writer(s)
Sam Taylor, H. M. Walker, Hal Roach, Tim Whelan
 
Producer(s)
Jeffrey Vance, Hal Roach, Kevin Brownlow

 

Film Festivals
Cannes
 
Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Inez Cunningham

Grace Kingsley

P.W. Gallico

Sime Silverman

New York Post Staff

Chicago Tribune

Los Angeles Times

New York Daily News

Variety

New York Post

SAFETY LAST
 All Critics (73) | Top Critics (22) | Fresh (71) | Rotten (2)
 Why [people] should be supposed to find entertainment and not torture in seeing another human on the point of falling to certain death is a mystery to what intelligence I possess. However, there are six reels of it, and it proved vastly entertaining.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 Inez Cunningham
 Chicago Tribune
 TOP CRITIC
 As for Lloyd, we always knew he was funny, but we never realized how funny until this one. It isn’t only that he does funny stunts; his comedy method Itself is perfect of its own original kind.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 Grace Kingsley
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 As photocomic entertainment it is in a class by itself. We have rarely heard people laugh and shriek in a theatre as they did yesterday.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 P.W. Gallico
 New York Daily News
 TOP CRITIC
 This Harold Lloyd high-class low comedy has thrills as well as guffaws.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 Sime Silverman
 Variety
 TOP CRITIC
 Strong nerves are essential while viewing the hair-raising stunts of Harold Lloyd in his latest release, Safety Last.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 New York Post Staff
 New York Post
 TOP CRITIC
 It is a breathless thill picture, perfectly made, as [Lloyd’s] pictures always are, but lacking the spark of originality he usually endows his work with.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 Helen Klumph
 Los Angeles Times
 TOP CRITIC
 … apart from the long shots featuring a stuntman, that’s Lloyd himself scrambling up the bricks and cornices, thanks to a mix of nervy stuntsmanship and ingenious location shooting….
 
 April 14, 2023
 
 Sean Axmaker
 Stream on Demand
 It goes like lightning and seems supercharged by creativity and by the comedy of physical logic particular to silent films.
 
 April 5, 2023 | Rating: A
 
 Rob Gonsalves
 Rob’s Movie Vault
 A distinctively modern comedy in 1923; 100 years on it remains so. More than ever, we’re all hanging from that clock, trying not to panic as a disinterested, preoccupied world scurries below us, indifferent to our passions and pain.
 
 April 1, 2023 | Rating: 5/5
 
 Bill Newcott
 The Saturday Evening Post
 In Safety Last the inimitable Harold Lloyd adds another brilliant comedy success to his long list of mirthful screen triumphs.
 
 March 16, 2023
 
 George T. Pardy
 Exhibitor’s Trade Review
 The large and growing number of Harold Lloyd fans will enjoy Safety Last. It is full of the tricks which have earned him his friends, and in some scenes he is probably funnier than in any previous picture.
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 Carl Sandburg
 Chicago Daily News
 The technique of this production… [is] truly marvelous. [Full review in Spanish]
 
 February 22, 2023
 
 María Luz Morales (Felipe Centeno)
 La Vanguardia (Spain)…

 

Plot
A man moves to New York City to support his girlfriend, but when he hears of a store manager offering $1,000 to anyone who can draw people to his store, he convinces his friend to climb the building and split the profit with him, leading to a crazy stunt.
 
Trivia

 
Goofs / Tidbits
Fresh Kernels doesn’t provide any goofy or funny comments about the film Safety Last.
 

 
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Production Company(ies)
Decla-Bioscop AG,
 
Distributor
Grapevine Video, Kino Video
 
Release Type

 
Filming Location(s)
Lixie-Atelier, Weißensee, Berlin, Germany
 
MPAA / Certificate
Not Rated
 
Year of Release
1920
 

 
Genre(s)
Horror/Fantasy
 
Keyword(s)

Cast & Crew

Werner Krauss

Conrad Veidt

Lil Dagover

Friedrich Feher

Rudolf Lettinger

Dr. Caligari

Cesare

Jane

Francis

Dr. Olson

Werner Krauss – Dr. Caligari
Conrad Veidt – Cesare
Lil Dagover – Jane
Friedrich Feher – Francis
Rudolf Lettinger – Dr. Olson
Hans Heinrich von Twardowski – Alan

 

Robert Wiene

Hans Janowitz

Rudolf Meinert

Erich Pommer

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Writer

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Producer

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Director(s)
Robert Wiene
 
Writer(s)
Hans Janowitz, Carl Mayer
 
Producer(s)
Rudolf Meinert, Erich Pommer

 

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Awards & Nominations
NA
 
Academy Awards

Top Reviews

Perceval F. Reniers

NYT Staff

Inquirer Staff

Times (UK) Staff

Pauline Kael

New York Post

New York Times

Philadelphia Inquirer

Times (UK)

New Yorker

THE CABINET OF DR. CALIGARI
  All Critics (68) | Top Critics (21) | Fresh (67) | Rotten (1)
  The two main elements — story and setting — are completely attuned in mood, and therein the artists have succeed in their experiment.
 
  October 14, 2020
 
  Perceval F. Reniers
  New York Post
  TOP CRITIC
  The picture is significant, though… because it is expressionistic in the general sense that all of its elements, its settings, its plot, its people, are expressive, eloquent, and, for the most part, harmoniously so.
 
  October 14, 2020
 
  NYT Staff
  New York Times
  TOP CRITIC
  [The film brings] out more clearly than ever before the close relationship between the art of painting and the art of the screen. It further suggests the future possibilities of the development of the cinema.
 
  October 14, 2020
 
  Inquirer Staff
  Philadelphia Inquirer
  TOP CRITIC
  The story of Dr Caligari, converted into a hair-raising film melodrama, produced with rich cubist backgrounds instead of the more orthodox settings of perpendicular house walls, and trees that look like trees.
 
  July 8, 2020
 
  Times (UK) Staff
  Times (UK)
  TOP CRITIC
  Caligari, the most complete essay in the décor of delirium, is one of the most famous films of all time, and it was considered a radical advance in film technique, yet it is rarely imitated — and you’ll know why.
 
  January 3, 2018
 
  Pauline Kael
  New Yorker
  TOP CRITIC
  [That Wiene], this outsider, with no knowledge of studio customs, no reverence for studio traditions, should have turned out The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari seems a thing almost too strange for belief.
 
  October 30, 2015
 
  C.A. Lejeune
  Guardian
  TOP CRITIC
  We could not help viewing The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari — which represents artistic radicalism in its most rabid form — with intense satisfaction.
 
  October 5, 2021
 
  Robert E. Sherwood
  LIFE
  It is important to remember the influence The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari has, its place permanently cemented within the dawn of film. A historical classic that may not retain the quality, but still retains the importance.
 
  March 31, 2021
 
  Stephanie Archer
  Film Inquiry
  the film’s deep shadows & distortions of perspective introduced to cinema the psychedelic techniques of German expressionist painting & architecture, launching a homegrown film movement and inspiring the stylisations of American horror and film noir
 
  January 3, 2021
 
  Anton Bitel
  Projected Figures
  Every intention is achieved. Caligari remains Germany’s greatest gift to cinema.
 
  December 5, 2020 | Rating: 5/5
 
  Tom Watson
  CineVue
  To today’s audiences, the title surely seems simplistic and even banal, yet it evokes a strangeness with its bizarre visuals that still manages to lodge in one’s mind.
 
  November 3, 2020 | Rating: 4/5
 
  Nicholas Bell
  IONCINEMA.com
  At the present time the world needs sane and helpful fiction; not allopathic doses of the morbid and the grotesque.
 
  October 14, 2020
 
  Edward Weitzel
  Moving Picture World…

 

Plot
Francis, a young man, recalls in his memory the horrible experiences he and his fiancée Jane recently went through. It is the annual fair in Holstenwall. Francis and his friend Alan visit The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, an exhibit where the mysterious doctor shows the somnambulist Cesare, and awakens him for some moments from his death-like sleep. When Alan asks Cesare about his future, Cesare answers that he will die before dawn. The next morning Alan is found dead. Francis suspects Cesare of being the murderer, and starts spying on him and Dr. Caligari. The following night Cesare is going to stab Jane in her bed, but softens when he sees the beautiful woman, and instead of committing another murder, he abducts her. Jane’s father awakens because of the noise, and he and some servants follow the fleeing Cesare. When Cesare cannot outrun his pursuers anymore, he gently places Jane down on the ground, and runs away. Francis and the police investigate the caravan of Dr. Caligari, but the doctor succeeds in slipping away. Francis pursues the fleeing Dr. Caligari, and sees him disappear into a madhouse. Francis enters the madhouse, where he is sure he will find the truth behind all these mysterious events.
 
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