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Entries Tagged as 'W.S. Van Dyke'

The Prizefighter and the Lady (1933, W.S. Van Dyke)

January 14th, 2009 · No Comments

The Prizefighter and the Lady mixes a couple genres–the philandering husband whose wife can’t stop loving him standard and, additionally, stunt casting. Heavyweight contender Max Baer stars as a heavyweight contender, who fights the champ, played by champ Primo Carnera. Myrna Loy plays the suffering wife, while Walter Huston and Otto Kruger finish the supporting […]

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Tagged: Frances Marion· John Lee Mahin· John Meehan· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Myrna Loy· W.S. Van Dyke· Walter Huston·

I Love You Again (1940, W.S. Van Dyke)

October 1st, 2008 · No Comments

I Love You Again is such a confident success–the whole thing rests on William Powell and everything he does in the entire picture is fantastic–it’s hard to think of anything wrong with it. It moves beautifully, its ninety-nine minutes sailing by, the supporting cast is all excellent and every one of its big comic scenes […]

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Tagged: Charles Lederer· Edmund Lowe· Frank McHugh· George Oppenheimer· Harry Kurnitz· Leon Gordon· Maurine Dallas Watkins· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Myrna Loy· Octavus Roy Cohen· W.S. Van Dyke· William Powell· ★★★½

Tarzan the Ape Man (1932, W.S. Van Dyke)

September 16th, 2008 · No Comments

It’s hard to believe a movie called Tarzan the Ape Man is going to be boring, but this one drags on and on. After a solid opening twenty minutes, the movie stumbles and never regains its footing. The problem is with Tarzan. Johnny Weissmuller’s Tarzan obviously doesn’t speak English but he also doesn’t communicate. He […]

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Tagged: Cyril Hume· Edgar Rice Burroughs· Ivor Novello· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· W.S. Van Dyke·

The Feminine Touch (1941, W.S. Van Dyke)

October 30th, 2007 · No Comments

Don Ameche is a university professor working on his book revealing jealousy as an outdated concept. Rosalind Russell is his wife, who wishes Ameche would get jealous over her. Enter Kay Francis and Van Heflin as their extra-martial temptations (though, not really, because Ameche’s not interested in Francis and he’s right about Russell too). Actually, […]

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Tagged: Don Ameche· Edmund L. Hartmann· George Oppenheimer· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Ogden Nash· Van Heflin· W.S. Van Dyke· ★★

Manhattan Melodrama (1934, W.S. Van Dyke)

September 14th, 2007 · No Comments

It’s funny how obvious writers’ contributions can be in certain films. For instance, Joseph L. Mankiewicz very likely wrote some of the best scenes in Manhattan Melodrama and Oliver H.P. Garrett wrote some of the worst. The clue is the dialogue. Mankiewicz has distinctive dialogue, even in a film relatively early in his career, and […]

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Tagged: Arthur Caesar· Clark Gable· Joseph L. Mankiewicz· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Mickey Rooney· Myrna Loy· Nat Pendleton· Oliver H.P. Garrett· W.S. Van Dyke· William Powell· ★★

After the Thin Man (1936, W.S. Van Dyke)

December 3rd, 2005 · No Comments

The last time I had a Thin Man marathon–which must have been five years ago, maybe more (I had the LaserDisc set, so I’m trying to remember when I started concentrating more on DVD), I thought After the Thin Man, the second film in the series, was disappointing. Now I’m not having a marathon, just […]

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Tagged: Albert Hackett· Dashiell Hammett· Frances Goodrich· James Stewart· Joseph Calleia· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Myrna Loy· Penny Singleton· Sam Levene· W.S. Van Dyke· William Powell· ★★★½

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