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Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

The Happiest, Dopiest, Grumpiest, Sneeziest movie of the year.

Filmmaker(s): David Hand, Ben Sharpsteen, William Cottrell, Larry Morey, Perce Pearce, Wilfred Jackson

A beautiful girl, Snow White, takes refuge in the forest in the house of seven dwarfs to hide from her stepmother, the wicked Queen. The Queen is jealous because she wants to be known as "the fairest in the land," and Snow White's beauty surpasses her own.

10 Dec Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

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Stained Glass have a lot of complaints about Disney; what he made personally and the lumbering beast his studio has become. In particular, he murdered one of the most precious literary structures we have in Alice. But in his first big project, he did well enough...

Published December 10, 2024

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A Night of Terror (1937)

Caught in the web of a madman!

Filmmaker(s): Rowland V. Lee

Mystery

Thriller

Romance

Ann Harding plays a lovely but somewhat naive young woman who goes on a European vacation after winning a lottery. Swept off her feet by charming Basil Rathbone, Harding finds herself married before she is fully able to grasp the situation. Slowly but surely, Rathbone's loving veneer crumbles; when he casually asks Harding to sign a document turning her entire fortune over to him, she deduces that her days are numbered.

27 Feb A Night of Terror (1937)

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Talking while Leaving Theater I heard that 3D would be going mainstream a few years ago, I hoped for a revolution in what we think films are. I believe we are seeing some radical rethinking, because with 3D and CGI, we get a less encumbered...

Published February 27, 2023

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Tagged: 1930s, f1937, p2015

I Cover the War! (1937)

DRAMA FOR HIS NEWSREEL CAMERA!

Filmmaker(s): Arthur Lubin

War

Bob Adams, ace newsreel cameraman, is told by his boss, "Get the picture---we can't screen alibis." He heads for Samari, a desert hot-bed of tribal unrest in Africa, to do just that, which includes getting footage of El Kadar, bandit and rebel leader. He gets his pictures but only after a romance with the Colonel's daughter Pamela, saving his wimpy, hacked-off brother Don from being a dupe of the gun-runners, and run-ins with spies and throat-cutting tribesman. For a finale, he saves the British Army.

28 Nov I Cover the War! (1937)

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Picture Snatcher ‘Stagecoach’ turned John Wayne into a celebrated wooden actor, he was a an ordinary uncelebrated one in a series of odd projects. Probably the most interesting of these odd deals is this movie. It doesn’t seem to be rentable. In terms of the actual...

Published November 28, 2022

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Tagged: 1930s, f1937, p2006

Alibi Mark (1937)

Filmmaker(s): Joseph Henabery

Crime

Drama

When an out-of-work Chicagoan travels west as a hobo on a freight train, he finds himself falsely accused of murder.

02 Oct Alibi Mark (1937)

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Signs of Trauma, Film as Meal what a strange film. My interest in these comments is in the qualities of introspection: where the viewer is placed in the narrative and how different layers of that stance are manipulated. The CCC, as duly described in this...

Published October 2, 2022

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Jim Hanvey Detective (1937)

Sly but not slick - Jim Hanvey tops them all! Guy Kibbee ....his most loveable role!

Filmmaker(s): Phil Rosen

Jim Hanvey is a genial but top-notch detective who has retired to his country home. An insurance company hires him to find a missing emerald so they won't have to pay out the $100,000 for which the jewel is insured. It doesn't take him long to find the emerald, but he discovers that finding it was the easy part; the difficult part is getting it back to its rightful owner, and he winds up involved in a murder in which an innocent man is framed.

13 May Jim Hanvey Detective (1937)

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Straw Dogs can do better than watching most current movies by noodling around with old detective movies from the 30’s. They are generally not very good, but collectively they defined the base for our most common idiom. This one, thankfully, has no racist comedy player....

Published May 13, 2022

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Tagged: 1930s, f1937, p2022