THE POWER AND THE PRIZE is a film about corporate warfare mixed with romance, in the tradition of other mid-'50s business-themed films such as EXECUTIVE SUITE (1954) and WOMAN'S WORLD (1954). Cliff Barton (Robert Taylor) is the righthand man of George Salt (Burl Ives), chairman of Amalgamated World Metals. Cliff, as Salt's heir apparent, is also engaged to marry Salt's young niece Joanie (Nicola Michaels)....
Ossessione (1943, Italy) - A hobo arrives at a café, and starts seducing the wife of the owner. He succeeds, and now there's a fat, opera-loving husband to get rid off. Based on The Postman Always Rings Twice . Watched it all. The More the Merrier (1943, USA) - The Odd Couple , wartime edition, with Jean Arthur as Jack Lemmon, Charles Coburn as Walter Matthau, and Washington D.C. as New York....
Anne Crandall (Irene Dunne) is a widowed smalltown mayor who lives with her father-in-law (Charles Coburn) and high-strung teenage stepdaughter Diana (Mona Freeman). Anne lives a very circumscribed life, always conscious of the townspeople's watchful eyes, as well as how her choices will affect the dramatically inclined Diana. When a lightning bolt knocks the head off the town statue of Anne's late...
By Blanca Snow For a long time we have used the video store as one of our main ways to access movies. These days you can stay at home and get movies from a movie download site. Below is a sample of some of the movies you can find using movie download sites. The Last Run: Average story of aging gangland driver who has to make one more run for his self image. Incredible photography shot by Sven Nykvist....
Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell - Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953) - Bye Bye Baby Marilyn Monroe and Jane Russell, co-stars in the 1953 film Gentlemen Prefer Blondes (1953), sing Bye Bye Baby. Gentlemen Prefer Blondes is a 1953 film adaptation of the 1949 stage musical, released by 20th Century Fox, directed by Howard Hawks and starring Jane Russell and Marilyn Monroe, with Charles Coburn, Elliott Reid,...
A G.I. and a girl who have known each other three days marry in San Francisco on the eve of the new husband's deployment to serve in WWII. While the husband is overseas, his bride has their baby. THE IMPATIENT YEARS depicts what happens when the family of near-strangers reunite 18 months later. Lee Bowman plays Andy, the soldier, and Jean Arthur is his wife. Charles Coburn plays Arthur's father. This...
Click here now to download! 1. You’re The Top – Porter. COLE PORTER. 2. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA – Rossini. Largo Al Factotum. LAWRENCE TIBBETT. 3. Bob White. BING CROSBY & CONNEE BOSWELL. 4. You’re The Top – Porter. ETHEL MERMAN. 5. Two Lovely Black Eyes – Coburn. CHARLES COBURN. 6. IL BARBIERE DI SIVIGLIA – Rossini. Una Voce Poco Fa. AMELITA GALLI-CURCI....
Go away. Why am I not yet alone? Why do you still stand here before me? Did I not make myself clear that I prefer you leave? So, why do you stay were nobody makes you welcome? Are you lost? The exit is right over there, next to the abrupt drop-off. Now, run along. Why are you still here, then? Oh, you want something from me, do you? I see, said the seer. Permit me to pretend I know nothing about what...
Lakin A special prosecutor said a criminal investigation involving Tom Lakin is still open. Lakin was sentenced to six years in federal prison in October 2008 after pleading guilty to drug charges. In exchange for pleading guilty to possessing and distributing cocaine to a person under 21 and maintaining a drug-involved premises, federal prosecutors dropped sex charges that carried a sentence of life...
The annual Summer Under the Stars festival starts today on Turner Classic Movies. TCM has added even more visually stunning new film posters to the set first described here a couple weeks ago. Click the title of this post to visit TCM's Summer Under the Stars page and take a look. I particularly adore the poster of Ida Lupino sprawled in front of a truck for THEY DRIVE BY NIGHT and the spin on SLEEPLESS...
Two employees from a department store who were spending a day with friends at the beach find themselves falsely accused of some minor, pettifogging violations of the law, and one of their smooth-talking pals talks them out of the police station with a rousing speech: Starting about the 7:45 mark- "Let a man say you were spitting on the sidewalk when you weren't and the next thing you know he'll...
What else? My list has one perfect dad (Gregory Peck as Atticus Finch, To Kill a Mockingbird), one father figure (Charles Coburn as John P. Merrick in The Devil and Miss Jones), and a few flawed guys guys who deliver big-time by movie’s end (Greg Kinnear as Richard Hoover in Little Miss Sunshine, Steve Martin as Gil [...]
Made for Each Other, 1939, b&w. John Cromwell (dir.), James Stewart, Carole Lombard, Charles Coburn, Lucile Watson, Eddie Quillan. 1:32. At times, this movie seems like a comedy in the classical sense—a play in which some people survive until the end. There’s more drama than light-hearted humor, although there are a few funny scenes. James Stewart’s [...]
Today, I’m talking about an old movie, “The Devil and Miss Jones.” No, not the X rated movie - the old, black and white one with Jean Arthur and Charles Coburn made in 1941. Hang in there with me, it’s got a moral for us Human Resource types. So, here is the story… Charles Coburn is [...]
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