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Henry O'Neill Movies
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Genres:
Comedy
Musical
Romance
Starring:
Frank Sinatra,
Kathryn Grayson,
Gene Kelly,
José Iturbi,
Dean Stockwell,
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Released some months before the end of the war, "Anchors Aweigh" is one
of Gene Kelly's major musical triumphs of the forties… Under the direction of George Sidney, it had the benefits of a pleasant
score, and—best of all—the services of Gene Kelly in his first true
starring role at MGM… The year before, in Columbia's "Cover Girl," he
had revealed an innovative ...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
War
Fantasy
Starring:
Spencer Tracy,
Irene Dunne,
Van Johnson,
Ward Bond,
James Gleason,
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Some reviewers have complained that certain parts of the movie are
unbelievable--agreed. However, "A Guy Named Joe" isn't a documentary.
It's a riff on the nature of love and loss. I've seen many Spencer Tracey movies, but none in which he is so
subtle, charming, and heartbreaking. I won't give away his final line
at the end, but it is a very simple line, delivered simply. But in h...
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Genres:
Biography
Drama
Western
Starring:
Robert Taylor,
Brian Donlevy,
Ian Hunter,
Mary Howard,
Gene Lockhart,
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Billy the Kid is the first of many westerns that Robert Taylor starred
in, and boy did he find his nitch in the entertainment field. The film
was loosely based on the book The Saga of Billy the Kid, by Walter
Noble Burns. Although the real Kid was ruthless and a cold blooded
killer, it is known that he did find some peace with a rancher who took
him in and tried to help reform ...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Merle Oberon,
George Brent,
Pat O'Brien,
Geraldine Fitzgerald,
Binnie Barnes,
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my ex was a truck driver. The night that I was watching this movie, he
called just as they were arriving in Hawaii. I missed the rest of the
movie and was extremely disappointed. I tried to find it again on TV
and only once that I know, was it shown. I imagined scenarios for many
years trying to figure out what the ending would be. I finally found a
company that had access to m...
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Genres:
Romance
Western
Starring:
Errol Flynn,
Olivia de Havilland,
Ann Sheridan,
Bruce Cabot,
Frank McHugh,
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Michael Curtiz directed this large-scale western. Colour is used to
great effect in this early experiment with the new process. For the first
half of the film, while characters and storyline are being established, the
Technicolor palette is restrained, keeping mostly to browns and ochres. As
Errol Flynn's character, Wade Hatton, emerges as the hero, colour begins to
reinforc...
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Genres:
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Bette Davis,
Henry Fonda,
George Brent,
Margaret Lindsay,
Donald Crisp,
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After winning the Oscar for best actress in 1936 for `Dangerous', Bette
Davis began to complain that Warner Brothers was not giving her scripts that
were worthy of her talent. In 1936, Warner suspended her without pay for
turning down a role. She then went to England, in violation of her
contract, with the intention of starring in a movie without Warner Brothers'
approval. T...
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Genres:
Adventure
Drama
Romance
Starring:
Fredric March,
Olivia de Havilland,
Donald Woods,
Anita Louise,
Edmund Gwenn,
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Fredric March, usually such a fine actor, was unable to give more than a
wooden performance in the title role of 'Anthony Adverse'. Warner Bros.
would have been better off using their up-and-coming new star, Errol Flynn,
for this one--giving us the chance to see him paired once again with Olivia
de Havilland. There are no sparks between March and de Havilland--he seems
too old ...
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Genres:
Thriller
Mystery
Starring:
Bette Davis,
Donald Woods,
Margaret Lindsay,
Lyle Talbot,
Hugh Herbert,
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Bette Davis gets top billing even though she isn't in two thirds of the
movie? Well, considering how boring the leads were, she deserved it.
This
films crams a lot into 68 minutes. Red herrings, wild car chases, a
butler
with a secret and of course Bette Davis as the one who sets it all off,
it's
all in the film. Davis as Arlene Bradford, seems always in command, tha...
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Genres:
Comedy
Drama
Musical
Starring:
William Powell,
Bette Davis,
Frank McHugh,
Hugh Herbert,
Verree Teasdale,
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FASHIONS OF 1934 (Warner Brothers, 1934), directed by William Dieterle,
is a light comedy that pairs debonair William Powell for the one and
only time opposite the very young but unrecognizable Bette Davis.
Although an unlikely pair, there isn't much chemistry between them. It
is also surprising for a first time viewer to find Bette in platinum
blonde shoulder length hair suppo...
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