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MGM Studios assembles a top-notch cast for director Tay Garnett’s great 1935 adventure yarn of piracy and romance on the high seas. Aboard ship Hong Kong to Singapore are dynamic, hard-drinking captain Alan Gaskell (Clark Gable), his […]
Director James Whale’s 1936 movie is the superb second version of the classic Jerome Kern-Oscar Hammerstein II musical, based on Edna Ferber’s novel about the lives and loves of Mississippi river folk at the turn-of-the-last-century. […]
Director Mark Sandrich’s 1938 romantic comedy musical movie is Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers’s eighth film together and, though there is a lot of fun to be found here, sadly the high standard is now […]
John Huston’s 1942 drama film In this Our Life stars Bette Davis, who is on the rampage again as an unscrupulous and devilish minx called Stanley Timberlake, who keeps stealing her sister’s men. Director John […]
Producer-director George Stevens’s expert and delightful 1938 comedy pairs James Stewart and Rogers effectively. The stars are perfectly cast and on their best form. Stewart plays young university professor Peter Morgan who takes a quick […]
The delightful 1937 screwball comedy film Nothing Sacred stars Carole Lombard as the supposedly sick Hazel Flagg of Warsaw, Vermont, and Fredric March as a sleazy New York reporter creating sob stories out of her […]
Set against a powerfully etched, turbulent American Civil War background, producer David O Selznick’s wonderful, searing, soaring 1939 romantic epic Gone with the Wind sees Clark Gable and Vivien Leigh at their most attractive and charismatic […]
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