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Entries Tagged as 'Republic Pictures'

Spoilers of the North (1947, Richard Sale)

February 26th, 2007 No Comments

Spoilers of the North takes a hard look at the seedy underbelly of salmon poaching in Alaska. I just had to write that sentence. Spoilers is a non-studio B-picture from the mid-1940s and, though I may never have seen anything equitable, it’s probably as good as it can be for what it’s got. The direction […]

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Three Secrets (1950, Robert Wise)

July 26th, 2006 No Comments

Three Secrets plays like a knock-off of A Letter to Three Wives, only without the writing. Secrets’s problem is mostly with the writing. There are the three women–all of whom have secrets, except actually only two of them–played by Eleanor Parker, Patricia Neal, and Ruth Roman. The secret is each put a child up for […]

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