Tag: 1940s
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A Love Triangle Among the Ruins in ‘A Foreign Affair’
Billy Wilder’s 1948 romantic comedy has much more than love on the brain.
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The Startling Empathy of ‘The Accused’
Loretta Young is tremendous in an unexpectedly progressive movie about the nightmares of rape culture.
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Snow White, Remixed, in ‘Ball of Fire’
In which Barbara Stanwyck stands in for the princess as a fast-talking lounge singer named Sugarpuss and seven stuffy professors do the dwarves.
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Death and Desire in ‘The Kneeling Goddess’
Roberto Gavaldón’s ‘The Kneeling Goddess’ is about people who not only won’t get what they most desire — the pursuit of it will bring them to their ruin.
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More Movies to Fall in Love with This February
Last February, I recommended some underappreciated movies worth checking out to ring in the year’s most romantic month for 425. Here are a few more.
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‘Cover Girl’ Doesn’t Quite Know What to Do with Its Stars
There are a handful of moments in this hit 1944 musical where Rita Hayworth and Gene Kelly remind you of their greatness, but they’re largely underserved by Charles Vidor’s static direction.
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More Scary Movies to Watch in the Dark
What I’m watching to get in the Halloween spirit.
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‘The Devil and Miss Jones’ Did ‘Undercover Boss’ First
Like how the film offers the unrealistic fantasy of a for-the-people mogul, we can only fantasize about a smarter, bolder version of ‘The Devil and Miss Jones.’
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‘A Stolen Life’ is a Fun Good-Twin-Bad-Twin Melodrama
Evil twins: you can’t live with them, and you can’t live without them.
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‘Road to Morocco’ Has You Had-to-Be-There-Itis
This is a movie whose comedy feels distinctly 1942.
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‘The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek’ is as Nightmarish as it is Goofy
The action in the screwball comedy ‘The Miracle of Morgan’s Creek’ is so unfalteringly goofy that we sometimes forget that its premise is fundamentally nightmarish.
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‘Nightmare Alley’ is a Creepy Rise-and-Fall Story
The movie is so rousingly cynical, the possibility of instantaneous death comes off as sort of merciful.
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