Friday 3 April 2020

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Numbered Men (1930 - b/w) - First National prison mobile.

Doorway to Hell (1930 - b/w)/Blonde Crazy (1931 - b/w)/Smart Money (1931 - b/w)/Lady Killer (1933 - b/w)/Taxi (1934 - b/w)/Picture Snatcher (1933 - b/w) /He Was Her man (1934 - b/w)/Jimmy the Gent (1934 - b/w)- Lesser Cagney. Though in Lady Killer, he does dress up as a stereotyped "Red Indian" (sic), because it's actually more of a comedy about making films.
Also watched Humphrey Bogart in cheapies Two Against the World (1936 - b/w) - not to be confused with the (1932) Commissioner Gordon/Constance Bennett film, King of the Underworld (1936 - b/w) and Kid Galahad (1937 - b/w).
Also watched Edward G. Robinson in gangster fare The Little Giant (1933 - b/w - with some polo), The Man With Two Faces (1934 - b/w), Two Seconds (1932 - b/w) and The Hatchet Man (1932 - b/w) where he plays an unconvincing "Chinaman" and everything's terrible and not-very-Chinese.

A Very Honorable Guy (1931 - b/w) - Probably my last Joe E. Brown for a while.

The New Adventures of Get Rick Quick Wallingford (1931 - b/w) - Basic class comedy with Jimmy Durante.
Susan Lenox (1931 - b/w) - Garbo/Gable romance.

The Ruling Voice (1931 - b/w) - Tiring drama with Loretta Young.


Barnacle Bill (1931 - b/w)  -Rote maritime drama with Wallace Beery
O'Shaughnessy's Boy (1935 - b/w)  - Wallace Beery and Jackie Cooper do the Champ again in a circus.
Treasure Island (1934 - b/w) - Cooper and Beery again in a typical glossy, atmospheric if inauthentic feeling Hollywood take. Young Jackie Cooper I find whiny. Older Jackie Cooper I find appealingly Eamonn Andrews-esque. But he and Beery have chemistry.

A Fool's Advice (1932 - b/w) - Eejitry with Frank Fay.

3 ON A MATCH (1932 - b/w) - Joan Blondell ,Ann Dvorak and Bette Davis in juvenile melodrama.
See also Blondie Johnson (1933 -b/w).

Hoopla (1933 - b/w) - Clara Bow on a train.


Private Detective 62 (1933 - b/w) - William Powell investigates, yadda yadda.

The Silk Express (1933 - b/w) - Forgettable train intrigue with Neil "Comm. Gordon" Hamilton.
See also  Jewel Robbery (1932 - b/w, with William Powell), Frisco Jenny (1932 - b/w - what begins as a comedy ends with an execution of the heroine), and The Big Shakedown (1934- b/w), The Firebird (1934 - b/w), I Am A Thief (1934 - b/w), Mandalay (1934 - b/w), The White Cockatoo (1935 - b/w), The Murder of Dr. Harrigan (1936 - b/w), Perry Mason and The Case of the Black Cat (1936 - b/w)- all with Ricardo Cortez, plus the non-Cortez Masons, The Case of the Stuttering Bishop (1937 - b/w) with Donald Woods and The Case of the Lucky Legs (1935 - b/w) with Mid-Atlantic toff Warren William ludicrously cast, from a modern perspective, as someone raised on Big Raymond before the accident.
Also saw these  rote, serviceable Warner crime films - Man to Man (1930 - b/w), The Finger Points (1931 - b/w) with Richard Barthlemess, Fay Wray and Clark Gable, Safe in Hell (1931 - b/w), Miss Pinkerton (1932 - b/w) with Joan Blondell, Love is a Racket (1932 - b/w) with Douglas Fairbanks Jr and a ref to a George White, From Headquarters (1933 - b/w), Gambling Lady (1934 - b/w), Night Nurse (1931 - b/w), and the prison flick Ladies They Talk About (1933 - b/w), with Barbara Stanwyck, Fog over Frisco with Bette Davis (1934 - b/w), The Strange Love of Molly Louvain (1934 - b/w), While the Patient Slept (1935 - b/w), The Payoff (1935 - b/w), Public Enemy's Wife (1936 - b/w), the self-parodic John Garfield prison vehicle Blackwell's Island (1939 - b/w), Espionage Agent (1939 - b/w) - A dry run for Foreign Correspondent for Joel McCrea, not to be confused with Special Agent (1935 - b/w) with Bette Davis.

Midnight Court (1934 - b/w) - Dreary Ann Dvorak courtroom drama.

Red Hot Tires (1935 - b/w) - Racial stereotypes, car racing and Lyle Talbot and Mary Astor.

Bordertown (1935 - b/w) - Inaccurate Latino baloney with Paul Muni and Bette Davis.
Dr. Socrates (1935 -b/w) - Another Muni melodrama. See also the lighter Hi, Nellie (1934 - b/w, with with Glenda Farrell).

Satan Met A Lady (1936 - b/w) - Comedy bastardisation of the Maltese Falcon, with Warren William and Bette Davis.

Confession (1937 - b/w) - Melodrama with Kay Francis, ballet, opera and Basil Rathbone.

The Cowboy Quarterback (1938 - b/w) - Idiotic comedy with Eddie Foy and Bert Wheeler.

Accidents will Happen (1938 - b/w) - Ronald Reagan tosh.

When You Were Born (1938 - b/w) - Cheap astrology mystery with Anna May Wong.

Conspiracy (1939 - b/w) - Forgettable war-B with Allan Lane.

Escape to Paradise (1939 - b/w) - RKO vehicle for Krankiesque boy soprano Bobby Breen.
Also saw other RKO bs. Night Waitress (1936 - b/w), Secrets of the French Police (1932 - b/w), Smartest Girl in Town (1936 - b/w), No Other Woman (1933 -b/w), Hideaway (1937 - b/w), Behind the Headlines (1937 - b/w), Sailor Be Good (1937 - b/w), Quick Money (1937 - b/w), Racing Lady (1937 - b/w).  Married and in Love (1940 - b/w),  B-noir Follow Me Quietly (1949 - b/w), Vacation in Reno (1946 - b/w), Windjammer (1937 - b/w), Saturday's Heroes (1937 B/W football nonsense), Criminal Court (1946 - b/w), Meet the Missus (1937 - b/w)

Love Affair (1939 - b/w) - I am easily bored by romances.

The Ghost Comes Home (1940 - b/w) - Otherwise average comedy with Frank Morgan and Billie Burke, but it does have the erstwhile Wizard dressed as a mother of the bride.

Street of Chance (1942 - b/w) - Dreary drama with Burgess Meredith.

Keeper of the Flame (1942)/Without Love (1945 - b/w) - One's a rather dud thriller, the other's a typical outing for Spencer and Kate.

She Wouldn't Say Yes (1945 - b/w) - Rosalind Russell comedy. Arthur Q. Bryan, voice of Elmuh Fudd appears doing that voice. Apparently, he was a bit of a slot badger.

A Letter for Evie (1945 - b/w) - Duff Jules Dassin comedy.

Young Widow (1946 - b/w) - Average Jane Russel drama.

Alias A Gentleman (1948 - b/w) - Wallace Beery comedy. Generic "lady for a day"-type fare.

Pitfall (1948 - b/w)- Ropey noir.

Captain Kidd and the Slave Girl (1954 - b/w) - Dreadful pirate schlock.

Operation Amsterdam (1959 - b/w) - Actually quite energetic wartime espionage with Peter Finch, Eva Bartok and Tony Britton. Finch almost proves a potential Bond.

Full Metal Jacket (1987) - It feels like a British film. And not just because Bruce Boa gets solo starring billing at the end.

Kickboxer (1989) - Gash.

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