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Casablanca (1942, Michael Curtiz)

October 3rd, 2008 · 3 Comments

Every time I watch Casablanca–and I think it’s been a while since the last time, over ten years ago, when I saw it at Radio City–I marvel at the pacing. The film runs an hour and forty minutes and it doesn’t even seem like any time has passed until Bergman is in Bogart’s apartment. I […]

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Tagged: Claude Rains· Howard Koch· Humphrey Bogart· Ingrid Bergman· Joan Alison· Julius J. Epstein· Michael Curtiz· Murray Burnett· Paul Henreid· Peter Lorre· Philip G. Epstein· Sydney Greenstreet· Warner Bros.· ★★★★

Private Detective 62 (1933, Michael Curtiz)

November 1st, 2007 · No Comments

Private Detective 62 is not much of a mystery. Except perhaps the title, which has nothing to do with the film so far as I could tell. Instead, it’s an interesting drama taking place at a detective agency. William Powell plays a diplomatic agent who gets busted by the French while on assignment and gets […]

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Tagged: Michael Curtiz· Raoul Whitfield· Rian James· Warner Bros.· William Powell· ★★

Mission to Moscow (1943, Michael Curtiz)

March 2nd, 2006 · No Comments

Mission to Moscow is straight propaganda. There’s a lot of Hollywood propaganda in the early 1940s, even the late 1930s, but usually, with those films, there’s at least the pretense of dramatic storytelling. There’s a love story attached, maybe a love triangle, something. There’s nothing attached to Mission to Moscow. It’s essentially a long advertisement […]

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Tagged: Eleanor Parker· Howard Koch· Joseph E. Davies· Michael Curtiz· Walter Huston· Warner Bros.· ★★

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