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Meet John Doe (1941)

George — Sun, 05 Apr 2026 13:11:53 +0000

2h 2min. // As a parting shot, fired reporter Ann Mitchell prints a fake letter from unemployed “John Doe,” who threatens suicide in protest of social ills. The paper is forced to rehire Ann and hires John Willoughby to impersonate “Doe.” Ann and her bosses cynically milk the story for all it’s worth, until the made-up “John Doe” philosophy starts a whole political movement. At last everyone, even Ann, takes her creation seriously…but publisher D.B. Norton has a secret plan.

Directed by: Frank Capra

Writing Credits: Richard Connell (based on a story by), Robert Presnell Sr. (based on a story by) and Robert Riskin (screenplay)

Starring: Gary Cooper (as John Doe), Barbara Stanwyck (as Ann Mitchell), Edward Arnold (as D. B. Norton) and Walter Brennan (as The ‘Colonel’)

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1941. Best Acting. James Gleason.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1942. Best Writing, Original Story. Richard Connell and Robert Presnell Sr..

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Rebecca (1940)

George — Tue, 23 Sep 2025 12:55:01 +0000

1h 23min. // A shy ladies’ companion, staying in Monte Carlo with her stuffy employer, meets the wealthy Maxim de Winter. She and Max fall in love, marry and return to Manderley, his large country estate in Cornwall. Max is still troubled by the death of his first wife, Rebecca, in a boating accident the year before. The second Mrs. de Winter clashes with the housekeeper, Mrs. Danvers, and discovers that Rebecca still has a strange hold on everyone at Manderley.

Directed by: Alfred Hitchcock

Writing Credits: Daphne Du Maurier (novel), Robert E. Sherwood (screenplay) and Joan Harrison (screenplay)

Starring: Laurence Olivier (as “Maxim” de Winter), Joan Fontaine (as Mrs. de Winter), George Sanders (as Jack Favell) and Judith Anderson (as Mrs. Danvers)

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Awards:

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Top Ten Films.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Best Acting. Joan Fontaine.

WON. National Board of Review, USA 1940. Best Acting. George Sanders.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Picture.

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Cinematography, Black and White. George Barnes.

WON. Online Film & Television Association 2009. Motion Picture.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actor in a Leading Role. Laurence Olivier.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actress in a Leading Role. Joan Fontaine.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Actress in a Supporting Role. Judith Anderson.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Director. Alfred Hitchcock.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Writing, Screenplay. Robert E. Sherwood and Joan Harrison.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Art Direction, Black and White. Lyle R. Wheeler.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Film Editing. Hal C. Kern.

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Effects, Special Effects. Jack Cosgrove (photographic)
Arthur Johns (sound).

NOMINATED. Academy Awards, USA 1941. Best Music, Original Score. Franz Waxman.

NOMINATED. New York Film Critics Circle Awards 1940. Best Actress. Joan Fontaine.

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The Joker Is Wild (1957)

George — Wed, 06 Aug 2025 12:53:01 +0000

2h 6min. // Set in Chicago in the late 1920s, during the days of Prohibition, the film tells the story of Joe E. Lewis (played by Frank Sinatra), a rising singer of the Club 777, a speakeasy owned by Georgie Parker, known for his ties with the mob.

Lewis’ life turns upside down when he leaves Georgie and accepts the offer of another club owner who gives him more money. His decision almost cost his life as a couple of Parker’s men attack him badly, fracturing his skull and cutting his throat. Miraculously, he survives the aggression, but the wounds end his career as a singer.

Bleak, he starts working as a clown in low rated vaudeville acts. But suddenly, he returns to the spotlight when his old friend Sophie Tucker makes him sing on stage with her. With his voice damaged, he can’t hit the high notes, so he uses his acerbic and sharp sense of humor to disarm the audience and he realizes his talent for comedy. Soon, Lewis makes a great career as a comedian, but his drinking problems and his self-destructive behaviour lead him to question his life.

Based on Art Cohn’s biography The Life of Joe. E. Lewis, The Joker is Wild is one of the most memorable Frank Sinatra’s films.

Directed by: Charles Vidor

Writing Credits: Oscar Saul (screenplay), Art Cohn (book)

Starring: Frank Sinatra (as Joe E. Lewis), Mitzi Gaynor (as Martha Stewart), Jeanne Crain (as Letty Page) and Eddie Albert (as Austin Mack)

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Awards:

WON. Academy Awards, USA 1958. Best Music, Original Song for “All the Way”. Jimmy Van Heusen (music) and Sammy Cahn (lyrics).

NOMINATED. Writers Guild of America (WGA), USA 1958. Best Written American Musical. Oscar Saul.

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Journey Into Light (1951)

George — Wed, 11 Sep 2024 08:00:46 +0000

1h 27min. // A sermon by Rev. John Burrows (Sterling Hayden), is interrupted as his wife, Jane (Peggy Webber), walks down the center aisle of the church. She feels she can not keep up with her husband’s ambition and sense of importance, and she commits suicide. In a grave-side rejection of religion, John blames his parishioners rather than himself. He runs of and wanders around the country. After being jailed as a vagrant, he ends up in the Bowery section of New York City. The head of a skid-row mission, “Doc’ Thorssen (Ludwig Donath’) and his blind daughter, Christine (Viveca Lindfors), take care of him and give him a job as a janitor.

Directed by: Stuart Heisler

Writing Credits: Stephanie Nordli (screenplay), Irving Shulman (screenplay) and Anson Bond (story)

Starring: Sterling Hayden (as Reverend John Burrows), Viveca Lindfors (as Christine Thorssen) and Thomas Mitchell (as Gandy)

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Lonely Wives (1931)

George — Fri, 24 May 2024 08:00:53 +0000

1h 25min. // Complicated situations arise when a lawyer employs an actor to be his double and fool his mother-in-law while he plays around with his secretary and his new sexy client.

Directed by: Russell Mack

Writing Credits: Walter DeLeon and A.H. Woods

Starring: Edward Everett Horton (as Richard ‘Dickie’ Smith / Felix, the Great Zero), Esther Ralston (as Madeline Smith) and Laura La Plante (as Diane O’Dare)

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Take Me To Town (1953)

George — Sun, 19 May 2024 08:00:48 +0000

1h 21min. // Vermilion O’Toole, a pretty saloon entertainer escapes from prison and hides in Timberline town where she unexpectedly becomes surrogate mother to three motherless boys who wish to see her as a bride for their widowed father.

Directed by: Douglas Sirk

Writing Credits: Richard Morris (screenplay and story “Flame of the Timberline”)

Starring: Ann Sheridan (as Vermilion O’Toole aka Mae Madison), Sterling Hayden (as Will Hall) and Phillip Reed (as Newton Cole)

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Young Widow (1946)

George — Wed, 06 Mar 2024 09:10:10 +0000

1h 40min. // After Joan’s (Jane Russell) husband dies in the war, Joan feels she will never love again. Until she meets Lt. Jim Cameron (Louis Hayward). She shrugs him off as a man trying too hard to win her affection, but will she give him a second chance when they meet again?

This is a lovely film and one of Jane Russell’s first. Louis and Jane have such lovely chemistry together and the supporting cast is wonderful as well. Fun fact: Jane developed a crush on Louis while filming!

Directed by: Edwin L. Marin

Writing Credits: Clarissa Fairchild Cushman (novel) and Richard Macaulay

Starring: Jane Russell (as Joan Kenwood), Louis Hayward (as Lt. Jim Cameron) and Faith Domergue (as Gerry Taylor)

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Born To The Saddle (1953)

George — Fri, 24 Aug 2018 08:00:44 +0000

1h 17min. // Bent on revenge for the death of his father and the theft of their ranch, young Bill Walton rides into town seeking the aid of his uncle. As he rides into town, he takes a bullet meant for gambler Matt Daggett and across the street lies his uncle, victim of the gambler’s gun. Dagget looks on Bill as ‘good luck’ and nurses him back to health and gives him the job of training “Blue Chip”, the fastest quarter horse in the west, for a big race. Bill doesn’t know that Dagget plans to fix the race and put his own money on another horse at heavy odds. Quartered at the nearby ranch of John Grant, Bill meets Jerri Marshall, daughter of Bob Marshall, who lost “Blue Chip” to Daggett in a crooked gambling deal. Grant gets mixed up in a stage coach robbery and killing and rides back to the ranch with Daggett henchman Red Roper. When Roper tries to molest a woman, Bill bluffs him with an empty gun and forces him back to town. Roper is arrested for the killing and implicates Grant.

Directed by: William Beaudine

Writing Credits: Gordon Ray Young (novel) and Adele Buffington (screenplay)

Starring: Leif Erickson (as Bob Marshall), Donald Woods (as Matt Daggett), Rand Brooks (as John Grant) and Chuck Courtney (as Bill Walton)

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