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THE LION IN WINTER (1968) Grade: B

Such an interesting movie. Like a coming home for holidays movie but with a royal family. Had some funny light hearted moments and a crazy good cast. Great dialogue.

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The Romance of Rosy Ridge (1947) Roy Rowland

June 18th 2023

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The Grapes of Wrath (John Ford, 1940)

Cast: Henry Fonda, Jane Darwell, John Carradine, Charley Grapewin, Dorris Bowden, Russel Simpson, O.Z. Whitehead, John Qualen, Eddie Quillan, Zeffie Tilbury. Screenplay: Nunnally Johnson, based on a novel by John Steinbeck. Cinematography: Gregg Toland. Art direction: Richard Day, Mark-Lee Kirk. Film editing: Robert L. Simpson. Music: Alfred Newman.

Movies lie to us about matters of politics, history, and social justice (among other things). In The Grapes of Wrath we get a feel-good affirmation of the myth that "we're the people" and that we'll be there "wherever there's a fight, so hungry people can eat." Art is greatest when it immerses us in people's lives, thoughts, and emotions, not when it preaches at us about them. That's what makes William Faulkner's As I Lay Dying a greater novel than John Steinbeck's The Grapes of Wrath. Both are superficially about the odysseys of two poor white families, but Faulkner lets us live in and with the Bundrens while Steinbeck turns the Joads into illustrated sociology. Ford won the second of his record-setting four Oscars for best director for this film, and it displays some of his strengths: direct, unaffected storytelling and a feeling for the way people can be tied to the land. It has some masterly cinematography by Gregg Toland and a documentary-like realism in the use of settings along Route 66. The actors, including such Ford stock-company players as John Carradine, John Qualen, and Ward Bond, never let Hollywood gloss show through their rags and stubble -- although I think the kids are a little too clean. Nunnally Johnson's screenplay mutes Steinbeck's determination to go for the symbolic at every opportunity -- we are spared, probably thanks for once to the censors, the novel's ending, in which Rosasharn breastfeeds an old man. But there's a sort of slackness to the film, a feeling that the kind of exuberance of which Ford was capable in movies like Stagecoach (1939) and The Searchers (1956) has been smothered under producer Darryl F. Zanuck's need to make a Big Important Film. I like Henry Fonda in the movie, but I don't think he's ever allowed to turn Tom Joad into a real character; it's as if he spends the whole movie just hanging around waiting to give his big farewell speech to Ma (Jane Darwell, whose own film-concluding speech won her an Oscar). Still, I can't help feeling that Tom Joad's descendants became Donald Trump's voters.

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Journey Into Light - Holy Joes and Skid Row Bums

I seem to remember a quote from Sterling Hayden, in talking about his own body of work, he remarked, "If you take all the movies I've ever been in, and put them in a pile, they'd make a nice bonfire." But, there’s something I like about this actor. He’s not especially talented, but he does great work with what he is given (a monotone bark of a speaking voice, and a tall imposing presence). This is a very odd one, even by Sterling Hayden standards.

He plays a minister who abandons his calling after his drunk wife kills herself, sinks down into a skid row existence, and is then brought back to God with the help of a street mission preacher and his beautiful blind daughter.

Unfortunately, most of the Inspirational Drama feels kind of flat and phony, and the only time the movie seems to come to life is when portraying the street life and the bums. Thomas Mitchell gives a great spirited performance, and there are also appearances by H.B. Warner, Jane Darwell and especially Billie Bird in a short scene at a Bar and the Drunk Tank.

2.5 stars out of 5

Released 1951, First Viewing April 2017

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Robert Nichols and O.Z. Whitehead in Bonanza - "San Francisco". More pics here.

The Cartwrights rescue two ranch hands who have been shanghaied.

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Lisa Reviews An Oscar Nominee: The Lion in Winter (dir by Anthony Harvey)

(With the Oscars scheduled to be awarded on March 4th, I have decided to review at least one Oscar-nominated film a day.  These films could be nominees or they could be winners.  They could be from this year’s Oscars or they could be a previous year’s nominee!  We’ll see how things play out.  Today, I take a look at the 1968 best picture nominee, The Lion in Winter!) “I don’t much like our…

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A Song is Born

A Song is Born

The back of this publicity still reads SG3200  80

The object of their startled expressions is Virginia Mayo, en deshabile, in this scene from Samuel Goldwyn’s Technicolor comedy, “A Song is Born.”  The somewhat surprised gentlemen are O.Z. Whitehead, slightly en deshabile himself, Hugh Herbert and Felix Bressart.  The film, co-starring Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, is directed by Howard Hawks.

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Nominees announced for 14th ZeBBie Awards

Nominees announced for 14th ZeBBie Awards, the Writers Guild of Ireland's annual awards recognising the best scripts produced in 2020.

Now in their 14th year, the Writers’ Guild of Ireland ZeBBie Awards are always the high point of the year, celebrating the best in writing talent across stage and screen. Named in honour of O.Z (Zebby) Whitehead, and presented each year by Senator David Norris, the awards are voted for by members of the Guild. The 2021 awards recognise the best scripts that were produced in 2020. This year’s…

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Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo in A Song Is Born (Howard Hawks, 1948) Cast: Danny Kaye, Virginia Mayo, Benny Goodman, Hugh Herbert, Steve Cochran, J. Edward Bromberg, Felix Bressart, Ludwig Stössel, O.Z. Whitehead, Esther Dale, Mary Field, Ford Washington Lee, John William Sublett. Screenplay: Harry Tugend, Helen McSweeney, based on a story and screenplay by Charles Brackett, Billy Wilder, Thomas Monroe. Cinematography: Gregg Toland. Art direction: Perry Ferguson, George Jenkins. Film editing: Daniel Mandell. Music: Hugo Friedhofer, Emil Newman. If you've seen Howard Hawks's Ball of Fire (1941), there's really only one reason to see Hawks's A Song Is Born, a musical version of the earlier film that retains its rather silly plot and a large part of the dialogue. But that one reason is a good one: the music is provided by the likes of Benny Goodman, Louis Armstrong, Tommy Dorsey, Lionel Hampton, Charlie Barnet, and a host of other stars of the big band swing era. Otherwise, Hawks's direction is mostly a carbon copy of the first film, except that instead of Gary Cooper and Barbara Stanwyck, he's working with Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo, neither of whom Hawks liked. I happen to like Mayo, but I have a low tolerance for Kaye's shtick, his mugging and his patter songs. Fortunately, he's more subdued than usual in A Song Is Born, reportedly because he was going through marital problems and was under heavy psychoanalysis. Still, to hear Kaye repeating some of the dialogue carried over word for word from A Song Is Born makes me appreciate how good Cooper was in screwball comedy. The chief switch in the plot is that the encyclopedia Kaye's Prof. Frisbee is working on with six other professors has become a musical one, so that instead of rushing to compile a volume on slang, as Cooper's Prof. Potts was tasked to do, Prof. Frisbee has to cobble up a volume on jazz -- of which he has somehow remained ignorant. There is less emphasis on the other cute little professors in A Song Is Born than there is in Ball of Fire, which was inspired in part by Walt Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937). One of them, however, is played rather amusingly by Benny Goodman, who is invited by the other musicians to join in a jam session and of course distinguishes himself. The gangster plot, featuring Steve Cochran in the role played by Dana Andrews in the earlier film, is also trimmed down. Mayo's singing voice was dubbed by Jeri Sullavan.

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A Movie A Day #328: Panic in Year Zero! (1962, directed by Ray Milland)

The year is 1962.  Lights flash over California and the news on the radio is bad.  What everyone feared has happened.  Atomic war has broken out and the world is about to end.  Refugees clog the highways as a mushroom cloud sprouts over Los Angeles.  This is year zero, the year that humanity will either cease to exist or try to begin again. Harry Baldwin (Ray Milland) and his family were among…

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A Song is Born

A Song is Born

The back of this publicity still reads Assisted by Danny Kaye the professors of classical music and a book of jazz. Benny Goodman tires to learn the intricacies of jazz in this scene from Samuel Goldwyn’s Technicolor comedy “A Song Is Born. ”  Seen are O.Z. Whitehead,  Danny, Hugh Hubert, J. Edward Bromber. Ludwig Stossel and Benny.  The film, which co-stars Danny and Virginia Mayo, is directed…

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A Song is Born

A Song is Born

The back of this publicity still reads

SG3200  S13

A study of O.Z. Whitehead, who portrays one of the professors of musicology in Samuel Goldwyn’s Technicolor comedy “A Song is Born.”  The film co-stars Danny Kaye and Virginia Mayo.

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George Beranger Celeste Holm Robert Karnes Richard Widmark Cornel Wilde O.Z. Whitehead Ida Lupino

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