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Entries Tagged as 'James Stewart'

Shenandoah (1965, Andrew V. McLaglen)

May 20th, 2006 · No Comments

In addition to being the first film of Andrew V. McLaglen’s I’ve seen (which is quite an achievement, considering how much he directed), Shenendoah is the first film I’ve seen where James Stewart plays the patriarch. Unless Mr. Hobbs Takes a Vacation counts and I don’t think it does, not like Shenendoah. The film sets […]

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Tagged: Andrew V. McLaglen· Doug McClure· James Lee Barrett· James Stewart· Patrick Wayne· Universal Pictures· ★★★

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

The Philadelphia Story (1940, George Cukor)

November 9th, 2005 · No Comments

George Cukor must have cheated on his wife at every opportunity, given The Philadelphia Story’s (and The Women before it) rewarding of unfaithful husbands. I watched Philadelphia Story on a lark–I’d never seen it, but had heard of it, and it came up this week. Holy shit–Cukor was gay! I just read it. Huh.…
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Tagged: Cary Grant· Donald Ogden Stewart· George Cukor· James Stewart· Katharine Hepburn· Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer· Philip Barry· ★★½

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